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Mark Darrah, executive producer on Dragon Age from Origins through Inquisition, says he cannot see the series returning. His reasoning is less about The Veilguard's sales than about who is left at BioWare to pitch one.
Marvel used its Hall H slot to announce Ghost Rider and Black Panther III, then confirmed it is making four films in three years. Here is the full confirmed slate, the empty dates behind it, and where the X-Men rumour actually stands.
Marvel and Sony kept Sadie Sink's character secret for nearly two years. It survived about an hour of the world premiere before musician Steve Lacy named her as Jean Grey, and called her the villain, three days out from release.
Prideful Sloth's hands-on town builder finally left early access, and it is transformed by a second controller. The opening hours drag and it is a tycoon game rather than the Animal Crossing clone some people want, but the co-op and its host permission controls make it a rare management sim you can genuinely play with your kids.
A twin-stick roguelike where you play the infection, tear organelles out of the cells you kill and bolt them onto your own body. The build system is the most inventive thing I have played all year, and I lost a week of evenings to it. The basic movement rules are the weak link.
Melbourne's Gameclaw Studio built a side-scrolling RPG about rebuilding a dwarven home one rescued kinsman at a time, and I lost a string of evenings to it. Gorgeous pixel art, a compulsive settlement loop and honest jank in the combat. Recommended.
I bounced off Palworld hard in early access. Version 1.0 fixed the jank, killed the worst of the grind and bolted a real endgame onto the catch-shoot-build loop. Two and a half years later, the meme game became one of the best survival crafters on PC.
Season 2 kept my Friday-night tea ritual alive for ten weeks, and I loved being back on the road with Frieren, Fern and Stark. But this season is a bridge, not a destination: gentle, lovely, and clearly saving its biggest feelings for what comes next.
Ubisoft's Black Flag remake is a genuinely lovely rebuild of the best pirate game the series ever made, and a case study in souring your own launch with nine day-one DLC packs. The ship is great. The gift shop can walk the plank.
