David Beckham Skipping FIFA 21 on Switch

WithFIFA 21still to release on the new PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles, EA has confirmed that not only willfootball legend David Beckhambe the cover star of the new releases, players will be able to add him to their squads for free once he releases for the game. However, according to the small print in the announcement trailer, Beckham will be available for every version ofFIFA 21except for the Nintendo Switch version, which has unsurprisingly not gone down well with players who own that one....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 324 words · Kimberly Rodriguez

Destiny 2 Changes Prestige Raid Lair Release Times

Destiny 2developer Bungie is changing its plans for the Prestige Raid Lair rollout to accommodateWorld’s First speed runners. Originally, both Prestige Eater of Worlds and Spire of Stars were set to release at reset on July 17th but now Spire will be delayed 24 hours. Bungie announced the staggered release during its weekly blog post. In it, theDestiny 2developer called specific attention player feedback and a decision was apparently made to help give those raid teams a chance at immortality....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 346 words · Sarah Smith

Destiny 2 Season of Opulence Patch Notes Revealed by Bungie

With the next season ofDestiny 2, Season of Opulence, kicking off today, developer Bungie has revealed the patch notes that will accompany this new addition of content to the game. Anyone paying attention the last few weeks toBungie’s detailed previews of the patch notesshould not be very surprised by the newly published list of changes. But there are more details about the known changes and a handful of previously unknown points of interest....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 316 words · Brittany Bowen

Destiny 2 Season of the Dawn Reveal Stream Set

Destiny 2developer Bungie plans to reveal its plans for the game’s upcoming Season 9 with a stream on its Twitch, Mixer, and YouTube channels early next month. With the titleSeason of the Dawn, the new content will pick up where the game’sShadowkeepexpansion and Season 8 left off. Additionally, Season 9 is set to bring some long-awaited changes toDestiny 2’s sandbox. Updates forDestiny 2have periodically released since the loot shooter launched in 2017, with a regular seasonal schedule being put in place with last year’sForsakenexpansion and the accompanying Annual Pass....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 385 words · Daniel Myers

Destiny Guide: How to Get All the New Raid Loot

Looking to get every weapon and piece of raid armor available from Wrath of the Machine? Don’t miss thisDestinybreakdown of exactly where to find each one of them. Destiny’sWrath of the Machine raidhas only a few secrets left withHeroic Mode now out in the wild and conquered. Those trying to collect all the weapons and armor exclusive toDestiny’s Wrath of the Machine will need to look in specific chests or complete certain encounters to get each piece of loot they are looking for....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 338 words · Eric Mullins

Disney won’t reinstate James Gunn for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Mr. Feige, I don’t feel so good… It’s over, folks. After a month of wondering whether Disney would reinstate James Gunn, the company has reaffirmed that Gunn would not be returning to directGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. This news comes after a meeting between Gunn and Alan Horn, chairman of Walt Disney Studios. According toVariety, the meeting was civil, but the consensus remained the same: Gunn would not be back to helm the finalGuardiansmovie....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 296 words · Eddie Harper

Dungeon Keeper makes it harder to rate it lower than a 5

Haha, no Dungeon Keeperis not good. It’s a sleazy release that has been mostly skewered. It has ahigh ratingin the Apple (4/5) and Android (4.5/5) app stores, however. On the Android side, trying to rateDungeon Keeperany less than a 5 stops you from doing so and sends you to a feedback form, which plenty users undoubtedly don’t want to bother with and end up not rating it at all. EA explained this design decision toGamasutra....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 194 words · Monica Byrd

FBC: Firebreak Roadmap Revealed Ahead Of Game Pass & PS Plus Launch

A roadmap has been revealed forFBC: Firebreak, Remedy Entertainment’s upcoming co-op first-person shooter.Firebreakis set in the same universe asControl(and, by extension,Alan Wake), pittingteams of three against the anomalous Hissinvading the Federal Bureau of Control’s Oldest House. PerRemedy Entertainment’s Bluesky account,FBC: Firebreakalready has two major updates planned to carry the game with new content through 2025. Each update – coming in the fall and the winter respectively – will add a new job and job site (mission and map), enemies, and both free and paid rewards....

August 6, 2025 · 3 min · 479 words · Tiffany Garcia

Final Fantasy 7 Movie Found on Osama Bin Laden Hard Drive

On May 2nd, 2011,Osama bin Laden was killedby a United States military special operations unit at his compound in Pakistan. During the raid, code-named Operation Neptune Spear, a number of bin Laden’s assets were seized, including a hard drive that had hundreds of thousands of files stored on it. Yesterday, the CIA released 470,000 of these files to the public, which may reveal that Osama bin Laden was a gamer....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 299 words · Isabella Walton

G.I. Joe Movie Future Gets Disappointing Update As Snake Eyes Star Remains Open To Returning

The future ofG.I. Joegets a disappointing update, butSnake Eyes: G.I. Joe Originsstar Henry Golding remains open to returning. Based on the popular action figures,Snake Eyespremiered in 2021 and marked the firstG.I. Joeinstallment sinceRetaliation, which featured Bruce Willis and Dwayne Johnson and was released eight years prior. The newerG.I. Joemovie, directed by Robert Schwentke, explores a drifter (Golding) who learns from the Arashikage while seeking vengeance for the murder of his father....

August 6, 2025 · 3 min · 466 words · Debbie Jenkins

Godzilla X Kong: Supernova Needs To Continue An Underused Monsterverse Trend With Its Titans

Speculation surroundingGodzilla X Kong: Supernovaandits clever title reveal and first teaser footagehas mostly been related to introducing Toho kaiju to the Monsterverse, but I’m just as interested in how they continue a Titan trend that has developed over the last few movies. There have been no details revealed about the upcoming movie, which will be Kong and Godzilla’s third time sharing a screen in the Monsterverse, aside from the title and the human cast for the film....

August 6, 2025 · 6 min · 1158 words · Eric Brady

Gunvein is a new shmup headed to PC and consoles in 2022

Just hook it to my gunveins NGDEV, the independent studio behind ballistic ’90s classicsRazionandGunlord, has announced that it is currently working on a dazzling new shmup,Gunvein, which is currently in production for PC and console platforms. Gunveinwill represent the team’s first foray into HD shmup territory — its previous releases having been originally designed for the Neo Geo platform. A very earlywork-in-progress teasercertainly ticks all of the boxes for the modern shmup market, including wild palettes of colors, bullet-hell action, an array of weapons and power-ups, screen-filling boss battles, and a pulse-pounding, bass-heavy soundtrack — all set against a sci-fi, interstellar backdrop....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 121 words · Kimberly Vasquez

How Rick & Morty Season 8's Surprising New Variants Differ From Previous Pairings, Explained By Stars

The lead voice actors explain howRick and Morty’s new variants differ from the many versions seen before. Since the departure of series co-creator and main voice actor Justin Roiland, Rick has been played by Ian Cardoni, and Morty by Harry Belden.Rick and Mortyseason 8continues to follow the titular characters through their various adventures, but season 8, episode 3, “The Rick, The Mort & The Ugly” took the show in a different direction by following two variants, Homesteader Rick and Arcade Morty....

August 6, 2025 · 6 min · 1122 words · Lori Johnson