Actor Ian McKellen is known for playing the wise wizard Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movie franchises, but he was not the first choice for the part. Anthony Hopkins and Sean Connery turned it down, and now McKellen has reflected on how he feels about not being the first choice to play a role that he is now synonymous with.

“I don’t think you’re ever the first choice,” he to…

EA Studios boss Laura Miele has shared a new tease about the next Battlefield game, saying in an interview that it’s going to include new modes that give players more opportunities to have “only-in-Battlefield” moments through the franchise’s signature sandbox. [Update: The reveal has arrived, and we’ve gotten a Battlefield 2042 trailer and release date. For more, check out our…

Few things in life are better than Lego or Star Wars, except of course, Lego Star Wars. For Star Wars Day, one of the best games in the long-running series has been discounted to just $20 for the Switch, Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PS4 versions, giving fans an intergalactic toybox of fun and dozens of hours of content to enjoy.

Like previous games in the franchise, Lego Star Wars: The Skywa…

Unexpectedly, Jennifer Lopez released a short 8-bit browser game called Hit Play. It’s not a standalone product like other celebrity games that come to mind–for example, Kim Kardashian’s mobile RPG Hollywood–but is instead part of a marketing campaign for Jennifer Lopez’s footwear collab with DSW.

Reminiscent of old flash games and the golden age of early browser games, J.Lo’s…

Nearly eight months after its original launch, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales is going to look even better, albeit just on the PlayStation 5. The game’s latest update includes improvements to its ray tracing, although just in one of its various graphics modes.

The update, version 1.10, should make the game’s ray tracing in its performance RT mode look even better. It’s not c…

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has deployed a new update, one that makes sweeping changes to virtually every aspect of the game. In the hefty patch notes, Arrowhead describes how it aims to make the game feel intense but less frustrating to play. The patch is part of Arrowhead’s 60-day action plan to whip Helldivers 2 back into shape, and overall, players should feel more empowered whenever t…

The opening cutscene of Loot Rascals, largely narrated by a teapot-headed British spaceman, establishes the game’s strange tone well. Instead of arriving at a holiday-resort planet to restore a medical unit’s antenna as intended, you crash on an alien moon and find yourself battling against the game’s eponymous “rascals” that have stolen the medical unit. To get it back, you�…

In Episode One of Batman: The Enemy Within, the tragic loss of a friend and stalwart ally threatened to undermine Batman’s crusade for justice, while also throwing Bruce Wayne’s personal life into disarray. As someone that loves to see the duality of DC’s Dark Knight used to unravel him I was eager for Telltale Games to pull at this narrative thread, but Episode Two allows i…

How Ubisoft’s Rabbids become intertwined with Nintendo’s Mushroom Kingdom, featuring Mario and friends, is unimportant. Ambivalence towards Rabbid-style toilet humor might cause you to question this dubious marriage, but there’s an admirable and wholehearted commitment in Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle that triumphs in creating a magical game world that is undeniably delightful, and within it,…

Psychological horror is often predicated on a delicate balance of danger, atmosphere, and the willingness of the audience to buy into the premise. Montague’s Mount is some special kind of hell, because it succeeds in crafting such an uneasy atmosphere that despite its problems with the rest of that formula, it compels you to keep playing, thus making you complicit in your own torture.

Mon…