Ghost Recon Breakpoint officially drops on October 4, but there’s a new gameplay launch trailer to keep you hyped for the next few days. We learned in our campaign gameplay preview that you crash land on Auroa without the typical Ghost Recon gear and must hobble your way, injured, through the forest. The gameplay trailer also references the revamped PvP mode, Ghost War, which lets you team up in groups of four to take on others in “a new hostile world.” We got a chance to preview Ghost War , and

With the impending release of the Joker movie later this week, actor Joaquin Phoenix has revealed that his favourite scene featuring his turn as the Clown Prince of Crime didn’t make it into the finished product. Speaking to AP News, Phoenix revealed his “favourite scene, what both [himself and director Todd Phillips] thought was my best scene because of a particular take, that scene is not in the movie.”Phoenix didn’t say what the scene in question was – perhaps we could see it on a future home

Bruce Straley, co-director of the The Last of Us, is promising fans that the studio’s multiplayer plans are “extremely ambitious”. Naughty Dog confirmed last week that its upcoming sequel would not include the series’ celebrated Factions multiplayer mode, later clarifying that it’s now being developed as a separate spin-off beyond The Last of Us 2’s release date of February 21, 2020. The veteran Naughty Dog alumni (who left the studio in 2018 and is largely responsible for creating the story and

LG make some of the best gaming TVs, period. While their OLED TVs are right at the top of the pile – battling it out with Samsung’s QLED TVs to be top dog – their ‘regular’ 4K TVs are truly excellent as well. The price for the 55-inch model makes it easily one of the best 4K TVs for under $500 you can get right now. Cheap gaming TV deals todayFor fans of Naughty Dog’s wonderful games, these TVs offer a fine companion to your Last of Us 2 preorder. Don’t forget to round off that 4K experience wit

Naughty Dog games are famous for pairing up their protagonists with allies of all sorts – Joel has Ellie, Nathan Drake has Elena and Sully, and Jak has Daxter. The Last of Us 2 will certainly be no exception, with Ellie seemingly taking charge this time around. However, unlike before, allies in The Last of Us 2 will apparently be competent, effective fighters instead of wandering feckless imbeciles. And I think it’s great that players can now count on that and make those kinds of plans interacti

Shawn Layden, PlayStation Worldwide Studios boss, is leaving the company, Sony announced. Layden had been serving as Chairman of SIE Worldwide Studios since April of 2016 and worked for Sony since 1987. Today, Sony announced via Twitter he would be leaving his role heading up Sony’s first-party PlayStation studios. The tweet reads, “It is with great emotion that we announce that Worldwide Studios Chairman Shawn Layden will be departing SIE. SIE Worldwide Studios oversees studios responsible for

The popular Brain Age game is heading to the console for the first time, bringing with it simple puzzles (like sudoku) that keep your noggin firing on all cylinders. Check out the Japanese trailer below. The series famously featured an avatar of real-life Japanese neuroscientist Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, and the original Nintendo DS game was called Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! This new game has so far only been officially announced in Japan – it’ll be released on December 27 and is t

It’s great that Steve Downes is reprising his role as Master Chief for the upcoming sixth installment in the Halo series, Halo Infinite , but he’s not the most important actor lending his voice to the game. Enter Gyoza the pug, who was recently in 343 Industries’ recording studio providing snarfles and burps for what may be a new alien species we’ll meet in 2020. The second time around, Gyoza’s sounds seem far more sinister – what could this mysterious alien be eating? It’s definitely not a trea

By 2025, Parsons says Bungie wants to establish itself as “one of the world’s best entertainment companies.” Moreover, Parson’s comments echo the Destiny 2 Year 3 ViDoc, in which countless designers outlined a united and evolving Destiny purposefully built as an action-MMO. Parsons said that “by 2025 we have a pretty specific path to make sure we transform Destiny and that we have other franchises within the marketplace.” What “other franchises” Bungie has in the pipes is anyone’s guess. How Des

During last year’s Minecon, Mojang announced it was working on another Minecraft game, an action-RPG, Diablo-esque dungeon crawler called Minecraft Dungeons. This year’s Minecon gave us a closer look at what that game will entail, as Mojang dropped around four minutes of gameplay footage. While the original Minecraft is a plotless building and farming romp, Minecraft Dungeons has a fully fleshed out story, complete with draconian rulers and magical orbs. A gameplay trailer that also debuted at M

Stranger Things season 4 is on the way… probably. Netflix is seemingly getting ready to turn our world Upside Down with a series of not-so-cryptic tweets that hint at a big Stranger Things announcement arriving imminently. The countdown to a new season seems to be on, despite Stranger Things season 3 having only premiered on July 4 earlier this year. Netflix France, Netflix UK, and Netflix Middle East all replied, each indicating in their own ways that we should keep an eye on social media chann

Even though the Nintendo Switch Lite only released a little over a week ago, players are already reporting that one of the issues that plagued the handheld’s sibling hybrid system, Nintendo Switch, is back: the dreaded Joy-Con drift. As Connor explained when the class-action lawsuit first surfaced back in July , Joy-Con drift means the controllers detect a directional input when none is being applied. Now it seems early adopters of the Nintendo Switch Lite are also being affected and, as Polygon

It’s almost here: Minecraft Earth rolls out in early access next month. Soon you’ll be able to decide for yourself, because we’re rolling out the Early Access version of the game next month! The developers will continue to draw on user feedback as the early access game opens up to more and more players across the world. There’s even new content for those already privy to early access Minecraft Earth; according to Shacknews , we can expect “new mob variants, crafting, and smelting”. “Minecraft Ea

It may have taken five years, but Valve has finally patched an issue which prevented Half-Life 2’s non-playable characters from blinking. Since then, a number of players have periodically popped onto the GitHub hoping for an update, but to no avail. Consequently, a number of fan-made patches sought to address the problem, but now – a little out of the blue – Valve has rolled out a patch to Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, and Half-Life: So

To keep making new pinnacle weapons, Bungie had to continually up the ante with special perks, which led to egregious power creep. To prevent further balance issues, pinnacle weapons as a system are straight-up going away. “The decision to stop creating extremely powerful pinnacle weapons was made for a variety of reasons,” Bungie explained. Another issue is that they cause problems in the player ecosystem, particularly in the case of the Crucible pinnacle weapons. There won’t be any pinnacle we

Looks like we’ll get a chance to see some new Galar region Pokemon ahead of Pokemon Sword and Shield ‘s debut on November 15. On Friday, October 4 at 6am PT / 9am ET / 2pm BST, a livestream called The Pokemon Live Camera will seemingly unveil some forest-dwelling critters. The livestream won’t be hosted on the official Pokemon Sword and Shield site, but on Twitch. We’ve already met some very interesting Galar Pokemon, including a ghost-type Pokemon made of team named Polteageist, a seagull-looki

Sony and Marvel have jointly announced that Tom Holland’s iteration of the character is back under the Marvel Studios banner. The two companies also confirmed that the third Spider-Man movie will reach cinemas July 2021 and form part of Marvel Phase 4. All we know for sure is that the third Spider-Man movie will release on July 16, 2021 and that Holland’s Peter Parker will appear in a “future Marvel Studios film.” So, what exactly happened between Sony and Marvel that led to Spider-Man temporari

We still don’t have a release date for Dying Light 2 beyond its vague Spring 2020 launch window, but that may be for good reason. According to developer Techland, the upcoming open world action game is as time-consuming as some of the biggest and best RPG games out there. The fresh info comes from a new interview with Dying Light 2’s lead game designer Tymon Smektala (via Prankster101 Productions), who confirmed previous reports that the sequel’s main story campaign comes in at around 15 hours l

The Emmy Award-winning 1994 mini-series of Stephen King’s classic post-apocalyptic novel The Stand is coming to Blu-ray, restored in high definition with enhanced visual effects. It follows a group of survivors after a weaponised strain of flu is accidentally released, wiping out most of the population. The Stand will be available to buy on Blu-ray from 7 October. Special features include audio commentary by Stephen King and director Mick Grass and a behind-the-scenes featurette. To put your nam

BoJack Horseman season 6 will be the final hurrah for the long-running Netflix animated comedy. To coincide with the announcement, we’ve got a snazzy new BoJack Horseman trailer. Could we be seeing a happy BoJack ride off into the sunset? But, most of all, we’re just sad that BoJack Horseman is ending. Check out the new trailer below and be sure to pencil in the final season’s two-part return.