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The new Lord of the Rings movie The Hunt for Gollum has a lot riding on it, with Gollum actor Andy Serkis directing the film as well as starring in it. But Frodo actor Elijah Wood says that, despite the pressure to deliver something special, the new movie doesn’t have to stand in the shadow of its predecessors.”I don’t think it has to, because it doesn’t bear the weight of the trilogy,” Wood tells the HappySadConfused podcast (around the 46 minute mark) when asked how The Hunt for Gollum will live up to the original Lord of the Rings movies.…
PlayStation’s PS PC unit earned only a total of $300 million between 2021 and 2023, former PC planner and insights manager Jerry Liu reveals.Liu added the detail to his LinkedIn profile, spotted by industry sleuth Timur222 on Bluesky. Liu’s profile now explains he helped PS PC “grow from $0-300M in Net Revenue for Sony in 3 years” by, among other things, convincing “leadership to pursue more aggressive pricing strategy that helped to increase gross revenue of the business unit by 25%+.” But while PlayStation continues to use – let’s say it politely – asseritve pricing with console sales, it’s reportedly…
Surprise, Friday WAP attack! No, I’ve (hopefully) not mucked up the time the WAPs are posted, as I did last time this particular RPSponsibility was trusted to me. It’s a long weekend here in the UK thanks to the bank holidays around Easter. More time for playing games, in theory. Assuming you don’t get trapped in a giant chocolate egg or something equally terrifying.
The new Build Your Own Bethesda Bundle from Fanatical isn’t just a collection of games; it’s a time capsule. At roughly $3 per game, depending on how you build your bundle, it’s also a wonderfully affordable way to experience some of the most influential games from Bethesda’s expansive stable for the first time, like The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, Fallout 3, or The Evil Within. The most appealing game of the lot is Oblivion, as far as I’m concerned. Despite its legacy, it somehow still lives in the shadow of Skyrim, but it’s a personal favorite of mine, and if…
Elijah Wood may or may not have confirmed that Viggo Mortensen will not be reprising his role as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum.In a new interview with the Happy Sad Confused Podcast, host Josh Horowitz brought up the forthcoming film and said, “Tough act to follow for someone to play Aragorn… Leo Woodall, that’s true.”Wood replied, “Right, that is true. That’s gonna be tough… Those are tough boots [to fill]… but that’s gonna be great.”Article continues below You may like The film was officially announced in May 2024, with none other than Andy Serkis…
Sony is investing in AI-powered machine learning technology to help advance visual fidelity in PlayStation games, the company has announced.In a news release, Sony says it’s reached an agreement to acquire UK-based machine learning company Cinemersive Labs as part of its mission to continually explore “new ways to push the boundaries of visual computing and deliver richer, more immersive gameplay experiences.”Sony says Cinemersive Labs employees will be a part of SIE’s Visual Computing Group, which was formed in 2024 following Sony’s acquisition of London-based AI company iSIZE, and will “contribute to our broader efforts in advancing state of the art…
Elijah Wood is world famous for playing Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but that doesn’t stop him from getting mistaken for another ’00s genre movie icon, Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire.”Most recently I think it was actually Tobey Maguire. Which does still happen, and it’s always for Spider-Man. It’s not for any of Tobey’s other work,” Wood tells the HappySadConfused podcast. “It’s just ‘Hey, Spider-Man!’ Nope. Nope. Nope. I won’t correct people.”The case of mistaken identity goes both ways, with Maguire himself telling a story about meeting a very confused Lord of the Rings fan.Article continues below…
Before Valve cemented Steam as a go-to PC gaming destination, way back in the primordial days of digital distribution, GameStop was among the companies trying to finagle a sustainable platform for selling games digitally. Larry Kuperman, a newly retired games veteran best known for his work at retro specialist Nightdive, was part of the team behind the GameStop-acquired online store Impulse, and he suggests Steam’s golden ticket to PC gaming dominance was fairly simple in theory but hard to foresee or accomplish.Speaking with PC Gamer at GDC, Kuperman says the whole idea of third-party digital distribution “didn’t seem intuitive at…
Rumors regarding a PS6 handheld abound, but there’s one thing I figure is pretty much set in stone: you won’t be playing PS3 games on it. Sony cut off backwards compatibility with that notorious hardware the instant the PS4 launched, and it seems unlikely that the PS6 will change that – much less a companion handheld. But you can still enjoy PS3 games on the go, especially now that RPCS3 has gotten a massive update making the handheld experience much better.”For the past few weeks,” the folks behind RPCS3 explain in a new video, “our developers have been working on…
Thick as Thieves, the new stealth game from OtherSide Entertainment, a studio founded by immersive sim legend Warren Spector, is dropping the previously confirmed PvPvE elements in favor of single-player and co-op gameplay.I’ve been cautiously optimistic – heavy on the cautiously – about Thick as Thieves since it was announced back in December 2024. Spector is a titan of the industry largely credited as one of the pioneers of the immersive sim genre, having produced the foundational 1992 action-RPG Ultima Underworld, created the original Deus Ex, and coined the term immersive sim.As chief creative officer of OtherSide Entertainment, Spector looked…