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The official Doom: The Dark Ages Xbox Wireless Controller is now available for six bucks less than its $80 MSRP at select retailers. Amazon and Walmart are the only retailers offering this deal, so check it out while you can. There's no telling when the price will return to $80.Alternatively, you can check out Walmart's bundle deal that packages the controller with either the standard or Premium physical version of Doom: The Dark Ages for Xbox Series X. The bundle deal will save you $11 compared to buying the game and controller separately at retail price. The Limited Edition Controller...

EA and DICE recently conducted the latest Battlefield Labs testing period for Battlefield 6, and despite participants agreeing to not share footage online, that's exactly what's happened. Lots of new gameplay videos from the alpha test recently made their way online, and the footage looks pretty impressive.Among other things, the videos show off Battlefield 6's new destruction elements, while we also see player piloting a jet, zipping across a massive map. Other videos show off some of the game's numerous ground-based vehicles. You can check out the footage in some of the social media clips below.Here’s our first look at...

Later this year, the Predator franchise will return to the big screen for the first time since 2018 in Predator: Badlands. Prey director and writer Dan Trachtenberg is returning to the franchise with a new story that puts a young Predator named Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) into the leading role. That alone is a first for the franchise, and Trachtenberg also recently revealed that a classic PlayStation 2 game inspired his story for Badlands.The film will also introduce Elle Fanning as Thia, a character who is rumored to be an android with links to the Alien franchise's Weyland-Yutan corporation. According to...

Another weekend and another strong showing for A Minecraft Movie at the worldwide box office, as the Warner Bros. film has now topped $800 million. That makes the video game adaptation the biggest Hollywood movie of the year so far, and it's not particularly close. Captain America: A Brave New World sits in second place with $414.8 million, according to BoxOfficeMojo.Variety reports A Minecraft Movie pulled in $22.7 million domestically over the weekend, good enough for fourth place. Keep in mind, though, this was the video game film's fourth weekend at the box office. It also wasn't the only video...

Hyper Light Breaker's first major content update arrives on April 29 and will bring with it major changes to the core gameplay loop, as well as brand-new content including a new Breaker and new Crown.Lead producer Michael Clark introduced the update in a new trailer, leading with the fearsome new Crown called Maw. Maw has already been teased in the game, and her arena is available pre-update, but this will be the first time players can take her on in combat.The new Breaker is called Rondo, who has a new SyCom with two new perks: Bladedancer and Reaper. The content...

Blizzard has released the patch notes for Diablo 4 Patch 2.2.0, set to drop at the start of Season 8 on April 29. The patch includes a huge number of minor balance changes for player characters, items, and bosses, as part of Blizzard's ongoing plan to improve the core gameplay experience throughout 2025. Here's what's new.While there aren't many surprises in the patch notes, as Blizzard has spoken fairly extensively about the Season 8 changes, as well as letting players get hands-on with the new seasonal content in the PTR, a few changes will be made based on PTR feedback....

Fantasy fans are eating well right now, as last week saw the release of not one but two highly anticipated games in that genre. After a few brief leaks, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion remaster was shadow-dropped onto PC and console, and just two days later, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was officially released on the same platforms. Could both games co-exist in this swords and sorcery space together? It turns out that they could indeed, as both titles experienced solid weekends on PC, particularly.While we don't know what their performance metrics were like on Xbox Series X|S--where both Oblivion and...

The immersive sim is arguably gaming's worst-named genre, as it really doesn't tell you much. Aren't most video games designed to immerse you, and aren't they all, in a sense, simulating something? Trying to define what makes an "immersive sim" has long been a running bit among creators and players. I've previously joked that it's a game in which you can flush the toilets, due to how oddly ubiquitous that feature is in games like Prey, BioShock, and other genre standouts. Sincerely, though, I think of immersive sims as games that give you a puzzle box with a multitude of...

HBO has released a trailer for this coming Sunday's episode of The Last of Us, and it looks like a significant character from the game is going to be introduced. Spoilers for The Last of Us follow below.The Episode 4 trailer (below) shows that Jeffrey Wright's character, Isaac, will finally show up. Isaac is a supporting character in The Last of Us: Part II the game, but it looks like the show will dig more into his backstory. Wright also played Isaac in the game.Additionally, the Episode 4 trailer shows off a big battle against infected, while we also see...