The multiplayer fantasy survival game Valheim is off to a very good start. After reaching a peak of over 360,000 concurrent players on Steam, publisher Coffee Stain has now confirmed the Norse-inspired game reached more than 2 million copies sold in under two weeks. [Update: the game has grown even …

Avengers: Endgame’s record for biggest opening weekend at the box office in a single market has just fallen. Detective Chinatown 3 opened in China this weekend and it made a gargantuan $397.2 million USD over the weekend, which crushes Avengers: Endgame ($357 million USD) to set a new record for …

[UPDATE] The issues affecting EA’s servers have now been resolved. The original story is below. Gaming giant Electronic Arts is experiencing some issues with a number of its services, with at least one giant game–the battle royale title Apex Legends–currently impacted by the outages. The official EA Help Twitter account …

Actor Viggo Mortensen played Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings movie series, and he’d be up for returning to Middle-earth someday if the opportunity came along. Speaking to Collider, Mortensen said he is fascinated by the world that J.R.R. Tolkien created and he believes there are “endless amounts” of …

US President Joe Biden is among the many millions of Mario Kart fans, recently playing the arcade version of the hit kart racing series at Camp David to unwind with his granddaughter. Naomi Biden captured the moment in an Instagram story that has since expired, but not before the internet …

The Verge has the first details, including images, of the UI for the web-based version of its game-streaming service, xCloud. Sources told the site that Microsoft employees are testing this right now before it rolls out to more people in a preview program. “The service allows Xbox players to access …

Billionaire Elon Musk recently got weirded out after playing Cyberpunk 2077 due to how the game depicts human augmentation. This hits quite close to home for him, Musk said recently in an interview, because while Cyberpunk 2077 is fiction, he’s working on similar technology in real life with his Neuralink …

IKEA has spent years working on a line of gaming furniture, and now it’s finally ready. The Swedish furniture giant has announced its gaming range that it developed in partnership with Republic of Gamers, and it includes everything you need to deck out your gaming room and potentially some stuff …

Take-Two, the parent company of Rockstar Games and 2K Games, fundamentally believes in the single-player experience, despite a rise in live services both at Take-Two and across the industry. During an earnings call this week, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said its Rockstar Games label has always been known for its …

Actress Mila Kunis has been voicing Meg on Family Guy since she was 15 years old. In a new interview she said it’s the best job she’s ever had and she hopes it never ends, going on to playfully state that she believes Family Guy will eventually overtake The Simpsons …