According to GamesIndustry.biz, an EA spokesperson revealed that the company has decided to shut down Project CARS to focus on games that are “socially-led with long-term live services.” On a similar note, a different employee revealed that EA is also canceling the Dirt franchise. The cancelation of both Project CARS and DIRT franchises makes for unfortunate news but it’s far from unexpected. You could say that the writing was already on the proverbial wall as soon as Electronic Arts bought Codemasters for $1....

Just weeks after multiple sources claimed that an Iron Man game by Electronic Arts was in the works, the publisher finally confirmed the project. EA and Marvel announced their joint collaboration with minimal fanfare. Motive published a press release that contained more details about the Iron Man game. But, the gist of it is not to expect the Iron Man game to come out anytime soon. Here’s an excerpt of the announcement: Despite the publisher’s efforts to try and change public perception, most still associate EA with microtransaction-filled games....

So, we’ve decided to round up all the video game series coming to Netflix in 2021. All the Confirmed Video Game Series Coming to Netflix Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness Premiere date: July 8, 2021 Back in September 2020, Netflix announced that they are working on an animated series that will be canon to the Capcom games. The upcoming series is going to feature the protagonists of Resident Evil 2, Leon S....

Unfortunately, keeping up with all that was announced during the two-hour run can be difficult if not impossible for the casual viewer. By now, most of you have probably heard of Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Elden Ring, and Death Stranding: Director’s Cut. These three titles were the biggest draws of Summer Game Fest 2021. However, Summer Game Fest 2021 saw more than 30+ games featured and showcased, which is a lot and why you might have missed out on some of them....

Scroll down below to find out everything there is to know about the next Super Smash Bros Ultimate DLC fighter. When is the next Super Smash Bros Ultimate DLC fighter going to be announced? There’s no clear date when Nintendo will announce the next (and possibly final) fighter to appear in its hit brawler. However, many fans believe that it will happen soon. The main reason for this is that Nintendo has held a Nintendo Direct showcase every September for the past few years....

What are the free DLCs coming to Far Cry 6? According to Ubisoft’s latest video, it’s going to launch at least three free DLCs for Far Cry 6. This includes two that certainly fit in with the game’s story and setting. However, one stands out as a blatant advertisement for a popular TV series. In case you haven’t watched the video yet, we’re talking about Netflix’s Stranger Things, the fourth season of which is coming next year....

Now, FX Entertainment President Eric Schrier just confirmed that season 5 of Fargo is on its way with an official synopsis that reads: “Set in 2019, when is a kidnapping not a kidnapping, and what if your wife isn’t yours?” It’s not exactly telling of what to expect from the Emmy-nominated show in its fifth season, but it’s more than enough to go on for fans to start speculating about what the season could revolve around....

Is Sony going to hold a State of Play event next month? Tom Henderson recently talked about a potential State of Play event in February 2022. Back then, he didn’t mention any games that Sony and PlayStation might show off. However, in a recent video, Henderson shed more light about when the next State of Play event might happen and what might be featured. According to him, the February State of Play event could happen on February 3 and open with trailers for Sifu and Horizon Forbidden West....

Players trying to log into Final Fantasy 14 since the release of the expansion have been dealing with extreme queues and wait times, keeping a lot of paying customers from being able to access the content. In order to decrease wait times and the burden on the servers, Square Enix has pulled the plug on not just free trials, but also paid versions of the game. Basically, if you want to jump into FF14 now, you’re out of luck - pre-existing paid players are getting the chance to actually experience the new content and play the MMO first before the developers are letting in new people....

Retailer GameStop has reportedly ordered employees to destroy physical copies of Overwatch 1. Stores can no longer sell Overwatch 1 as the game files will be overwritten when the sequel is installed, in a move similar to other games moving to digital-only ecosystems such as Destiny. A GameStop employee and TikTok user ksihinata recently uploaded a video showing an email directive from the retailer to destroy copies of the game....

Players have posted footage from all three games online, though the video from San Andreas that’s been making the rounds is sadly of the point-phone-camera-at-tv variety. GTA 3 and Vice City actually have captured footage though. Seeing the games in motion, complete with the updated UI, really drives home the visual improvements that the games have received. Initial responses to the decision to keep the original aesthetic with upgrade lighting, textures and particle effects were mixed to say the least, but we feel like seeing the games in motion will convert most critics....

Months after Rockstar Games finally acknowledged that GTA 6 is in development, Take-Two Interactive just gave GTA fans the worst possible piece of news. In a recent earnings call, Rockstar’s parent company just revealed several projects that its subsidiaries and partner studios are all working on and that might come out by FY2025, at the latest. Unfortunately, the sixth mainline GTA installment is nowhere in sight. Naturally, some worry that this means that Rockstar won’t release GTA VI in the next two years....

Fans have been bashing the remasters on other platforms aplenty, with r/GTA being inundated with gifs and videos showcasing the numerous bugs and shortcomings of The Definitive Edition - the big Burger Shot burger doesn’t spin! - and plenty of memes riffing on the new releases. However, no platform has had it as bad as PC. Seemingly moments after release, Rockstar took down both the game and the entire Rockstar Games Launcher for “maintenance”....

One of the most prevailing issues throughout the three games that has been addressed by the latest patch is rain. To be fair, the rain problem encompassed a handful of issues and dozens of individual bugs where the weather effect would appear at times and in places where to really shouldn’t alongside the fact that it looked atrocious and made it nearly impossible to see what you are doing. It seems as though all of the rain problems have been solved thankfully, and they’d have better - there definitely is enough room for it in a patch that allegedly fixed over 100 bugs according to Rockstar Games....

Ford, the star of iconic movies like Indiana Jones and Star Wars, will debut as the character in the upcoming Captain America: New World Order, where he will join actors like Anthony Mackie, Carl Lumbly, Shira Haas, and Danny Ramirez, among others. General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross is a United States military officer and the head of the gamma bomb project that transformed Bruce Banner into the Hulk. He is also the father of Betty Ross, Bruce Banner’s love interest....

According to Cavill, the scene was shot in a Warner Bros. studio in the UK on a secret set sometime in September, only a few weeks before the movie’s premiere. The shoot was very secretive and neither Cavill nor the people involved could discuss it with anybody. At the time he got the call for the role, he was working on the third season of Netflix’s The Witcher series. As a result, he had to seek permission from the producers....

Selick made this revelation during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. According to Selick, Pixar screened his first stop-motion film, Coraline, which led to an offer to work on a stop-motion film. Pixar announced they had hired Selick to develop The Shadow King in 2009 for the studio’s first fantasy stop-motion film. The film was about a boy who could craft shadows to fight monsters with his very long fingers....

What can Potterheads expect from the upcoming Harry Potter reunion special? The mainline Harry Potter films might have ended a decade or so ago, but Warner Bros. continues to push through with several new projects set within the same magical universe. Case in point, the franchise’s prequel series, Fantastic Beasts, is already in its third film, with The Secrets of Dumbledore just getting its first official trailer. However, the Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts special episode has got to be the most exciting in a long while....

Now, Kojima has gone out of his way to dismiss the rumors. Here’s what Kojima said to Geoff Keighley on the Brain Structure podcast: The timeline matches up to when Abandoned was first revealed. At the time, most fans had believed that the cryptic horror game was a Silent Hill project in disguise. It also didn’t help that Hasan Kahraman shared the same initials as Hideo Kojima, which only fueled all of the rumors....