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Nathan Fillion’s Big Firefly Tease Is a Canon Animated Series With the Original Actors Reprising Their Roles — but It Needs a Home
Nathan Fillion’s big Firefly tease has been revealed as a new animated series set between the original live-action TV show and the Serenity movie — but there’s a catch. Fillion and members of the original cast announced the series during…
Chris Perkins reflects on Curse of Strahd’s influence on D&D a decade later
Ask any D&D fan who has played during the fifth edition era what the best adventure module is, and they’re likely to answer Curse of Strahd. Published in 2016 and designed by Chris Perkins, along with Richard Whithers, Adam Lee,…
GTA roleplay’s latest craze has players risking their cars in tense bouts of high-stakes hide and seek
My newest obsession in GTA 5 roleplay is playing hide-and-seek with other players, and allowing the winner to smash up the other’s vehicle because, well, having nice things in this game has never really been the done thing. And so…
Skyblivion project lead says the massive Oblivion remake mod is “in a great place” during its first proper showcase of 2026
The team behind Skyblivion, the massive mod remake of Oblivion in Skyrim‘s engine, have shown off a few late-stage Mages Guild quests in the project’s first proper showcase livestream since its release was delayed to 2026 late last year. According…
The future of JRPGs means leaving the genre’s classic combat design behind
During a talk at the Korean gaming conference G-Star 2025, Katsura Hashino — director of Metaphor: ReFantazio and the last three mainline Persona games — expressed his vision for the future of JRPGs. For Hashino, the genre is heading toward…
Silent Hill, Gravity Rush creator Keiichi Toyama is recruiting for a “new large-scale project”
Silent Hill, Siren, and Gravity Rush creator Keiichi Toyama is recruiting for a “new large-scale project”. Read more
Why Invincible keeps outdoing itself in season 4: ‘Everything has to be an escalation’
Four seasons later, the animated spin on Robert Kirkman’s Image Comics series still delivers that delightfully disturbing combo with each new episode. But the team behind Invincible says the only reason it all works is because, at the center of…
Beaver-themed city-builder Timberborn has gnawed its way out of early access, and surprise! It has Factorio-style automation now
I thought Timberborn’s early access journey was more or less done and (saw)dusted when I last checked in on it in February. The city-builder that has you oversee a colony of industrious beavers had confirmed its release date for March,…
Video: How To Build A ‘Real’ House In Pokémon Pokopia
Get building with this quick tutorial. Pokémon Pokopia has been available on the Switch 2 for over a week now, and if you’re still getting your head around the basics (or haven’t got the game just yet), this quick tutorial…