The video game industry layoff trend continues as Ubisoft has cut 45 jobs across its teams in San Francisco, California and Cary, North Carolina this week. A spokesperson for Ubisoft confirmed to Bloomberg that the company made the “difficult yet necessary decision” to lay off staffers in an effort to …

Season 2 of HBO’s The Last of Us introduces characters from The Last of Us: Part II the game, including Abby. The character generated a lot of heated discussion when the game came out in 2020, and the expectation is that the cycle will repeat itself with Abby on the …

Deadpool & Wolverine has a multiverse storyline and numerous characters appear in the film in small cameo roles, but Halle Berry did not come back to play her X-Men character, Storm. The Oscar-winner said in an interview that she would have considered it–but she was never asked. This story contains …

Andor Season 2 will forever change how Star Wars fans feel about the movie Rogue One, according to Andor lead Diego Luna. He said in a new interview that people will experience Rogue One in a new light after Andor Season 2 because they’ll finally see and understand what the …

Prime Video’s superhero TV show The Boys crushed it in terms of ratings for the end of its fourth season. Nielsen has released its latest top 10 streaming list for the week of July 15-21–a period that covers when the Season 4 finale arrived on July 18–and The Boys took …

Activision has shut down a highly anticipated Call of Duty mod, just hours before it was due to release. The mod, H2M, was billed as a remastering of the original Modern Warfare II multiplayer experience, delivering what Activision itself did not. But it’s not going to happen. As fans feared, …

Following a leak that spilled the beans ahead of schedule, EA and BioWare have officially announced that Dragon Age: The Veilguard will launch on October 31, 2024. BioWare made the announcement in a press release and new trailer that showed off more of Veilguard’s world and characters. Players take on …

For the first time, Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings TV show, The Rings of Power, will be available to stream for free. Amazon and Samsung have partnered up to make Season 1 of the fantasy series free on Samsung TV Plus, but only for a limited time. Samsung …

Multiple new Lord of the Rings games are in the early stages of development, Embracer Group–the company that owns Middle-earth Enterprises–has confirmed. As part of Embracer’s latest earnings briefing, the company said it is “actively testing and prototyping multiple new game concepts.” Embracer said its efforts in this area include …

[Update] Embracer and developer Warhorse have confirmed that Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is now set for release on February 11, 2025. While fans have to wait a while longer to play the game, Warhorse will show off 20+ minutes of footage at Gamescom next week and make various other announcements. …