This week, our tips and recommendations hodgepodge will point you toward a 4K Blu-ray sale at Amazon that you don’t want to miss, help you get the most out of your PlayStation Portal, and suggest which of Marvel Rivals’ Vanguards will most effectively give you the edge over the competition. Click on for all this and…

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Welcome to CES 2025, where tech companies are showing off their latest innovations — some more practical than others. From $60,000 transparent TVs to RGB-lit RAM sticks, this year’s show is all about pushing boundaries (and price tags). Let’s take a look at some of the most eye-catching announcements and one fashion…

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“Wicked” actress Cynthia Erivo clearly has a thing for playing characters who fly. In an interview at the National Board of Review Awards Gala, Erivo was asked what “dream role” she’s manifesting for her future. And now, she said she’s ready to tackle one of the most iconic superheroes in history.

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Starbucks is looking to reignite consumer interest by teaming up with Disney for a limited-edition Minnie Mouse-themed collection.

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When Daniel Craig stepped down as James Bond after the release of the 2021 film, “No Time to Die,” fans everywhere have been searching for the next actor worthy to be 007.

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This week, we took the opportunity to look ahead to what 2025 has in store, and reminded ourselves (and you!) of the many, many exciting games coming our way in the next 12 months. Also, the steady drumbeat of Switch 2 leaks seems to be speeding up, Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been hit with another delay, and at CES,…

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I’m nearly dead. Health is basically zero. I need help. So I step past a demonic dog and enter a dark, ominous bathroom. I quickly knock on the lone stall inside. It creaks open, I hear...something inside and then a single soda can rolls out. Instead of drinking it, however, I gamble, and knock again. And once again…

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We’re two weekends into January. How’s everyone’s 2025 going? Have you kept up with your New Year’s resolutions? I’m ten days without soda, but less than 30 minutes without an existential crisis about the state of the world. So it’s been a “mixed bag,” as they say. But another one of my resolutions is to play more…

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If you’re anything like me, your PS5 is probably constantly running out of space. A cool new game comes out, a huge download arrives, or you suddenly have a hankering to revisit an old gem from your backlog and then immediately hit the “not enough space” error when you try to download and install it. All of a sudden…

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Sony’s PlayStation 2 had a long lifecycle. It launched in 2000 and the final game released for it arrived in 2013. But the PlayStation 4 might be on track to beat this impressive record. In fact, it might demolish it.

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Every Severance fan has Ben Stiller to thank for saving Apple from themselves by preventing them from ruining our favorite show. In the second episode of The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott, the co-hosts reveal the story of how Apple didn’t want Scott to play the lead role of Mark Scout, in part…

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Remember when Activision was publishing other games besides Call of Duty? Recall how, for a brief period of time, some of those other Activision games included Transformers: War for Cybertron and its sequel, Fall of Cybertron? I do, and it’s shame that in 2025 these cool sci-fi shooters aren’t easy to play anymore.

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A hero shooter’s tank is often harder to define compared to the more obvious damage dealers and support characters. Tanks are typically expected to be defensive bullet sponges that pull aggro from their squishier teammates. But the role splits into two: some are main tank protectors, others are off-tank supporters,…

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Microsoft has made no secret of wanting to bring more of its Xbox exclusives to other platforms, and it sounds like Halo might finally be making the leap. The platfor- defining franchise will see its Halo: The Master Chief Collection come to PlayStation 5 and Switch 2 in 2025, according to gaming insider NateTheHate.

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Looking for the best settings to maximize performance and frame rate in Marvel Rivals? The new hero shooter makes crossplay refreshingly simple, but optimizing your settings is a bit more of a complex task. Getting the best performance that you can out of the game on PC will take a little more legwork than getting…

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Looking to wicked the evil ways of the symbiote with Venom, the best dive tank in Marvel Rivals? With so many players jumping into what is arguably the hottest hero shooter right now, it can be hard to rise above the rest of the pack in Marvel’s new hero shooter. However, learning this character is a great way to…

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Somewhere in the world, CM Punk is smiling at another Seth Rollins failure. During a recent appearance on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet, the wrestling starrevealed that he will not be part the upcoming Captain America: Brave New World, and he’s not sure why.

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Every year is a good year for cosplay, but there’s definitely a sense of things returning to full blossom after the difficulty of the covid years. 2024 has shone with some of the most extraordinary, imaginative, and fantastically strange costumes worn at shows all around the world—here are some of our favorites from…

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Baylan Skoll, the nihilistic Jedi fallen to the dark side in Ahsoka season 1, has officially been recast following the death of original actor Ray Stevenson in 2023. Rory McCann, who played The Hound in Game of Thrones, will be stepping into the role for season 2 of the Star Wars show.

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Elden Ring: Nightreign still doesn’t have a release date, but its first online playtests do. FromSoftware has revealed times for when players can get their hands on the upcoming multiplayer spin-off, and signups for the free network tests on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S are now underway.

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Articles saying Switch 2 leaks and rumors are appearing like a torrent are appearing like a torrent, as CES 2025 produced a new round of speculation, hope, confusion and possible visions of the unrevealed device. All the while, Nintendo has sat silently, presumably watching our frenetic rushing about with arch…

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There isn’t an award for this (although there should be), but the best TV shows of the year are typically the ones that leave our minds disoriented and shocked, but always entertained. Whether it was the shifting alliances and weaponized duplicity of Shōgun, Gambit’s shocking death in X-Men ‘97, or Baby Reindeer’s…

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Happy New Year! Did you walk away from Christmas with more games to play and a backlog that seems impossible to chop through? Well, get ready to possibly add even more games to it, as Amazon has announced 16 free games are coming to Prime members in January.

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Riot Games is temporarily closing its headquarters in Los Angeles County as dangerous fires continue to burn in the Palisades and elsewhere. The League of Legends maker, which is situated just a few miles from the current edge of the Santa Monica evacuation warning zone, will only allow staff associated with “critical…

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In 2025, the idea of releasing a paid, online-only multiplayer shooter seems very risky, as we’ve seen plenty of them fail. But Remedy, the developers behind Control and Alan Wake, have a plan to make sure their first multiplayer game—FBC: Firebreak—succeeds and doesn’t flop like Concord or XDefiant.

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Here we go again. The Last Of Us Part 2 Remastered, a single-player video game with no multiplayer modes or features, will for some reason require players to login into a PlayStation Network account on Steam when it arrives in April.

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Nintendo just announced a new console and it’s still not the Switch 2. The console maker is teaming up with Lego to release a Game Boy made of plastic bricks. It follows after a previous collaboration in which the two companies released a Lego NES together, complete with retro TV that displayed the first level of the…

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Marvel Rivals’ new season begins tomorrow, January 10, and there’s plenty to be excited about. Four new heroes are joining the roster, three maps are entering the rotation, and there’s a new battle pass of cosmetics. All that is well and good, but the most important addition to the game isn’t a new map, mode, or…

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The PlayStation Portal is one hell of a handheld device, capable of streaming games from your PlayStation 5 and directly from Sony’s servers if you’re a PlayStation Plus member). But you probably already know that if you’ve grabbed one for yourself. Instead, you’re probably here to learn the step-by-step process of…

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Ubisoft has announced that Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been delayed again. The open-world stealth game was set to arrive in February following its initial delay in September 2024, but now it won’t launch until March 20.

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We’ll probably never get a true sequel to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided or experience just how it and its predecessor would have connected up with the original Deus Ex, released all the way back in 2000. But there was a plan to wrap things up and connect all the dots, and it sounds like it would have been pretty dang cool.

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Marvel Rivals’ Fantastic Four-centric season officially begins tomorrow, January 10. However, some streamers and content creators have early access to the new heroes and maps, so breakdowns of Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman’s kits, as well as footage of the upcoming New York-based maps, are already out there.…

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The PlayStation Portal is quite a striking device, with its massive screen nestled between two halves of a DualSense controller. It’s comfortable and familiar enough to use for anyone who has spent time with Sony’s popular PlayStation 5 console, and it’s extremely rare to run into any major controller compatibility…

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Transformers: Reactivate was originally teased at The Game Awards 2022, only to never be heard from again. Yesterday, Splash Damage announced the sci-fi multiplayer shooter had been canceled, potentially resulting in cuts to the studio after Hasbro pulled out of the project. Now, in-development footage of the…

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With Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, the last major Wii U exclusive will find a new home on Switch. But it’s not just a spiffy port of a cult classic. A new trailer shows the 2025 version will add new characters to fight with, mechs to pilot, zones to explore, and a much-improved UI.

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As updates have poured in throughout the last year or so, the PlayStation Portal has become ever more attractive for on-the-go gaming (at least, as long as you have wi-fi available). It’s also perfect for streaming games while laid up in bed at night—or while taking care of some, uh, natural business if you’re so…

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Nintendo’s ongoing refusal to announce the Switch 2 has reached the point of being downright absurd. As leaks continue apace, we’re piecing together the unacknowledged console like a jigsaw puzzle, rapidly leaving Nintendo with nothing else to say but, “Yup, that.” The latest pieces come from third-party…

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Microsoft has a huge lineup of big games for the Xbox Series X/S and PC (as well as PlayStation 5) this year, and it’s getting the ball rolling early with a January showcase to give players a better look at Doom: The Dark Ages and a bunch of other stuff coming out in 2025.

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There are a lot of unique, one-off trophies to earn in Astro Bot if you’re trying to unlock the game’s platinum trophy. Some of them are worded in a way that makes you stop and think for a bit, which isn’t the most helpful for us digital completionists. For instance, if you’re stuck on the “Deep-Pocket Dragon” trophy,…

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Filming on the next season of Amazon and Bethesda’s popular Fallout TV show has been delayed due to the ongoing and massive fires near Los Angeles, California.

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Reacher is a crime show about a big guy solving big mysteries, usually with his big muscles. It’s won hearts and minds thanks to remaining laser-focused on this simple but laudable premise, and season 3 appears to be doubling down on it in its new trailer as gentle giant Jack Reacher faces off against a dude who’s…

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A realistic PlayStation 2 Lego set with moving parts is one of 50+ fan-created sets that could, maybe, one day be available on a store shelf near you. The catch is that Lego’s designers and team have to approve it. And I really, really hope they do.

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Part of the beauty of Marvel Rivals, NetEase’s hero shooter starring characters from the comic book company’s biggest properties, has been that it doesn’t feel like a super-polished, esports-aspiring competitive game, instead opting for dumb fun and overpowered kits. It’s refreshing after seeing Overwatch 2 sand off…

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In the Lost Lands is a story about a drifter fighting humans and demons to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. It’s based on short story by Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin from long ago, and it’s directed by the eclectic Paul W. S. Anderson, the filmmaker behind such video game movies as Mortal Kombat, Res…

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Valve’s handheld device, the Steam Deck, wasn’t the first portable gaming PC ever created, but it is by the far the most successful. And like Steam becoming the de facto way people play PC games in 2025, SteamOS will soon be the most popular way to play PC titles on the go, which is not great for Microsoft.

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Astro Bot is a gorgeous and thrilling platforming adventure for all ages, and most of the experience is fairly easy. However, if you decide to go for its platinum trophy, you’ll need to put in a bit of extra work completing some difficult challenges and performing a handful of optional tasks.

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Transformers: Reactivate was first teased back at The Game Awards 2022, in a short 60-second trailer set to Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead or Alive.” Just a little over two years later, developers Splash Damage announced the online multiplayer game based on the hit sci-fi action figures is not wanted after all, at least not…

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As the onslaught of Switch 2 leaks continues, and most especially the very convincing appearance of what are likely to be the new console’s Joy-Cons, a weird sense hit me: I’m a bit disappointed. I love the Switch, I think it’s a wonderful piece of tech, and I would really love to have an upgraded version of it that’s…

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When I walked into a Build-a-Bear Workshop last month and they were completely sold out of their Shadow the Hedgehog bears to stuff and dress to your liking, I don’t think I expected it to be a harbinger for a plague of scalpers taking advantage of the Sonic the Hedgehog community. But it turns out that is exactly…

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Astro Bot is a charming and lighthearted platforming romp that is all but certain to keep a smile on your face from beginning to end. And if you love the game as much as many folks do (it did win Game of the Year at the Game Awards last year, after all), you’ll likely have your eye on its platinum trophy, meaning…

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Capcom just announced another Monster Hunter Wilds open beta test next month, giving players a few more chances to checkout the multiplayer action-RPG for free ahead of its February 28 release date.

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