Summary Movie adaptations of popular video games struggled for a long time because they couldn’t recapture the magic of the original experience by condensing the journey down to a couple of hours or less. That reputation has begun to shift recently, though, as films inspired bySuper Mario Bros.and Minecraft have dominated the box office and inspired countless memes. Since the beginning, one of the most important aspects of a video game adaptation has been casting....

Summary As always, Amazon has made the month’s first wave of games available alongside its line-up announcement. Since it’s Star Wars Day this weekend, this first drop includes a couple of great Star Wars games.Lego Star Wars - The Complete Saga and Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds Saga are both free to claimthrough GOG if you have Amazon Prime. More free games will become available every Thursday, and the four dropping on May 8 will continue a still relatively new tradition for these Prime drops....

PlayStation and Team Asobi have teamed up with Good Smile, the creators of Nendoroids, to turn some ofAstro Bot’s VIP bots into plushes. The first wave will include five characters based on bots you can find in the game. However, owning all five in real life will potentially be a lot more difficult than it is in Astro Bot. The reveal refers to the set of five plushes as the “first installment”, implying that more of Astro Bot’s VIPs will eventually join the collection....

Beat Games has announced that it will no longer support its hit rhythm gameBeat Saberon PlayStation going forward, with multiplayer to be axed early next year on June 02, 2025. “As we look to the future and plan the next big leap for Beat Saber, we have made the decision to no longer release updates for PS4 and PS5 starting in June 2025,“the announcement reads. “Our passion for VR remains unwavering....

Quick Links I don’t envyMagic: The Gathering’supcoming sci-fi set, Edge of Eternities. It has the impossible task of following up the best-selling set of all time, Final Fantasy, before leading into likely the next gangbuster set of the year, Spider-Man. On top of all that, its outer-space shenanigans are trying to introduce a new setting and a radically different aesthetic at a time when people have mostly just wanted Magic to return to Magic....

Quick Links Whether it’s great burst damage, support skills, or utility, there are huge differences between each class and subclass available for your character inCrystal of Atlan. Of course, despite this, some classes will inevitably be better than others. With 11 classes to choose from, with five being base classes that you’ll eventually level out of, choosing the right class for you’re able to be determined by a number of factors....

Death Stranding 2is easilyone of the best-looking games ever made, there can be no denying that. It looks absolutely stunning, and its screenshots of its world are often mistaken for real-life images, but the one dead giveaway that you’re looking at a Death Stranding 2 screenshot is probably the 50 different ramps and generators in the background. Death Stranding 2 players have had a number of nitpicks with the title ever since it launched,ranging from the ease of using vehiclestothe difficulty of its five-star grind, but one of the biggest is that the game seems to be sharing a lot more player structures this time around....

Summary VeteranDoomfans aren’t happy about a strange change thatThe Dark Ageshas made to the series' iconic difficulty levels, as one of the names has been changed for seemingly no reason. From the moment Doom: The Dark Ages was first revealed, it was clear that id Software was aiming to take the series in a different direction than what it did with 2016 and Eternal. Not only is the setting completely different with a bigger emphasis placed on story than ever before, but the gameplay hasseen some radical tweaks to make it more about standing and fighting than ripping and tearing....

Summary Doom: The Dark Ages' Steam numbershad fans of the series, and the latest game in it, a little worried.The Dark Agesonly managed about a third of the peakDoom Eternalachieved in terms of players on its launch day. It looks like that was probably due to the new Doom game launching onXbox Game Pass, asBethesdahas revealed a lot more people have been playing The Dark Ages than played Eternal in its first week....

Quick Links Magic: The Gathering’sdalliance with science-fiction has reached its endpoint with Edge of Eternities. We’ve left the multiverse and travelled to The Edge, a world of spaceships to crew, aliens to encounter, and star systems to discover. And yet, despite being radically different from any Magic set before it, Edge of Eternities looks like it’s going to fit nicely into the game. There’s returning creatures and powerful new mechanics galore, which make me more than excited for its August 1 launch....

Xbox rolled out its fourth round of mass layoffsin less than two years this week, and this round feels like it has had an even bigger impact on the publisher than any to have come before it. Every time I opened social media on Wednesday, I was met with news of another studio being gutted or a game being canceled. That’s why it was a relief to discover that, for the time being, someXboxprojects are safe....

Summary Now thatOblivion Remasteredis out there, the worst-kept secret in games isSquare Enix’sFinal Fantasy 9remake. The studio still refuses to admit the game even exists, let alone announce a release date, yet the rumor mill is turning again as more updates have been made tothe official Final Fantasy 9 website. Square launched the website earlier this year, ahead of one of the best-loved Final Fantasy games turning 25 this July. The site included a new range of Final Fantasy 9 merch, stocked up with plushes and Form-ism figures based on the designs of the game’s lead characters....

I don’t often go for the viral ‘games of the week’ that have become more prevalent over the last couple of years. You know the ones I’m talking about — relatively simple multiplayer mechanics, goofy aesthetics, a gameplay loop that lends itself well to hijinx, and of course, proximity chat. The caveat with these games is that most people don’t play them for very long; you might get a couple of sessions of side-splitting fun with friends before the novelty wears off....