Obsidian is reportedly making a new Fallout game headed by Josh Sawyer after Microsoft pulled the plug on an Avowed sequel

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A Bloomberg report says Obsidian Entertainment, which was recently hit hard by mass layoffs at Xbox, has cancelled projects including a sequel to Avowed and will instead begin working on a new Fallout game.

Marvel Rivals' fans discover who's behind season 9's big murder mystery

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Published Jul 8, 2026, 3:09 PM EDT

The identity of Apocalypse's killer isn't all that mysterious after all

Marvel Rivals fans think they've already solved the game's god-killing murder mystery

Apocalypse is stabbed through the back by a mysterious killer during the Marvel Rivals Season 9 trailer Image: NetEase Games / Marvel Games

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Pragmata god beats the game in 77 minutes with some wild game-breaking tricks

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Published Jul 8, 2026, 3:00 PM EDT

Pragmata's Games Done Quick debut did not disappoint

Pragmata god beats the game in less than 80 minutes

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Stephen King's iconic take on zombies is finally free to stream — and it's wonderfully weird

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Published Jul 8, 2026, 3:00 PM EDT

It's that perfect blend of corny and scary

This free-to-stream zombie horror classic is creepy, cheesy, and totally worth revisiting

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When I was a kid, Tim Curry’s Pennywise the Clown scared the Hell out of me. With that cackling, gravelly voice, that bizarre, bulbous head, and the way he would just appear out of nowhere, Pennywise gave me nightmares at an age where I was definitely too young to watch. But when I revisited the movie decades later, I realized that, while Curry’s performance was still terrifying, the 1990 ABC TV movie that contained it was kind of terrible. The acting was often hokey and melodramatic while the non-Pennywise scares were all very lame — not boring, just corny.

Netflix's best fighting anime has the worst fights and the most interesting character

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Published Jul 7, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT

The inclusion of Musashi Miyamoto pushed the over-the-top fighting series to new heights

Baki’s latest season delivers the show's most interesting character and its most disappointing fights

Musashi from the Baki Dou Netflix poster Image: Netflix via Polygon

Martial arts manga and anime have been in decline for the past 40 years, ever since Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama realized that the more energy beams and other supernatural feats one added to the template, the more people seemed to like it. While there have been “traditional” martial arts series that reached moderate levels of success (such as Holyland by Kouji Mori, the artist who took over Berserk after Kentaro Miura’s passing, or All Rounder Meguru by Hiroki Endo), they’re nowhere near as popular as supernatural battle series like Jujutsu Kaisen or Naruto.

Cyberpunk Edgerunners' Lucy finds herself in yet another crossover, this time in an upcoming Apex Legends event

Girl's making moves

Apex Legends' Axle wearing a Cyberpunk Edgerunners Lucy skin.
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Crikey, they sure do love putting Miss Lucy Cyberpunk in other games, don't they? First Guilty Gear Strive, then Wuthering Waves, and now the Cyberpunk Edgerunners characters is finding a facsimile of her visage transposed onto another's body as a skin in Apex Legends. In fact, there's a whole Cyberpunk crossover coming, in a move from the battle royale that brings it closer and closer to Fortnite.

Terminator 2 is coming back to theaters for its 35th anniversary

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Published Jul 7, 2026, 1:35 PM EDT

Catch Terminator 2 on the big screen, and even in 3D

(L-R) Edward Furlong and Arnold Schwarzenegger as John Conner and a reprogrammed T-800 Terminator holding a shotgun atop a motorcycle idling in a ravine in Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Image: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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My first 40 days in Moonlight Peaks started off with juicy feuds, but its anemic character writing is starting to show through

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A new farm sim has launched today and, as is tradition, cozy game enjoyers gather round to ask each other: Is Moonlight Peaks worth it? I'm about 40 days (nights, actually) into my playthrough, so it'll be just a bit longer before I can deliver our scored review, but I want to give some early impressions to help all my fellow farm simmers figure out if this month's flavor is one to take a bite out of.

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The games industry reacts to Xbox layoffs: 'We are clearly at a turning point'

Asha Sharma, chief executive officer of Xbox,, during the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, June 4, 2026. The event brings together the leading CEOs, investors and innovators who are harnessing technology to change the world around us. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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The latest mass layoff at Xbox will see roughly 3,200 people lose their jobs—1,600 today, and 1,600 more over the next fiscal year—and four game studios turned loose into the forest: Compulsion and Double Fine as independents, Ninja Theory and Undead Labs under new ownership. It's bad no matter how you look at it, a reflection of flailing leadership at Microsoft and a dreadful state of affairs for the game industry as a whole.