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It’s been five years since Tobey Maguire slipped back into his red and blue suit as what many deem the OG Spider-Man (we see you, Nicholas Hammond) in Spider-Man: No Way Home. Ever since then, fans have had high hopes that his take on the wall-crawling menace would swing back into action under the direction of Sam Raimi, potentially giving us the fourth chapter from their take on the character that we never ended up getting. Well, now the director himself has finally cleared up just when we can expect to see this happen, and unfortunately, the answer is never.In…
Arc Raiders 2026 roadmap details have been released by developer Embark Studios, outlining the next three months of content for the hit extraction shooter and revealing a January update due in just a few days.Embark has dubbed January through April 2026 the “Escalation” phase of Arc Raiders. In addition to the usual smattering of new quests, feats, trials, events, “gameplay items” (hopefully including some new guns), cosmetics, and quality-of-life updates, each month will see several more significant additions and changes.Here’s what’s coming in each month of Arc Raiders Escalation, with exact timing still to be determined. You may like January…
New Helldivers 2 Commando Missions let you dive deep into enemy territory where Stratagems and reinforcements are severely limited. They’re effectively Helldivers 2’s answer to a hardcore mode, requiring players to pick their fights extremely carefully. At time of writing, these missions are limited to the Automaton front but might be ordered to other parts of the galaxy in time. What with them being quite different to normal missions, and being especially difficult, I’ve laid out everything you need to know about Commando Missions in Helldivers 2 and some tips for overcoming them.How to beat Helldivers 2 Commando Missions (Image…
Details on Mass Effect 5 are still scarce, but BioWare seems to be ramping up production by hiring for a new lead developer.BioWare’s executive producer and Mass Effect 5’s project director Michael Gamble jumped online earlier today to share a job opening at the studio for a production director. “Hi, I’m hiring a very important senior leadership role,” Gamble tweets. “They’ll report to me and it’s gonna be awesome.”Whoever gets the role will be responsible for making sure the studio as a whole is on the same page in regard to high-level concepts, and will already need over 10 years…
Palworld developer Pocketpair requires potential hires to submit screenshots of their Steam profile, saying you won’t make it past the resume stage if you don’t play games on there.On Twitter, Pocketpair’s CEO Takuro Mizobe explains (translated by Automaton): “We ask game designer candidates to submit screenshots of their playtime history on Steam. In fact, if you don’t play games on Steam at all, you won’t make it past the resume screening stage.”While this may seem like a bit of a weird choice, it serves a purpose during the interview, as Mizobe explains applicants are asked to analyze their most played…
If you loved your trip to the Flower Kingdom the first time around, Super Mario Bros Wonder is back yet again, blossoming on the Nintendo Switch 2.Super Mario Bros Wonder Nintendo Switch 2 Edition pre-orders are live for $79.99 (GameStop) / £64.99 (Nintendo) already, and Nintendo has even launched an actual talking Talking Flower toy alongside the new version of the game if you have an extra $34.99 to spare. There’s even a new line of Super Mario Bros Wonder amiibo that unlock power-ups in both the original Switch and Switch 2 versions, yet pre-order bonuses are nowhere to be…
Netflix has unveiled the first images of Beef season 2, which sees “two feuding couples” taking their rage to questionable extremes. After the success of the first season, which received eight Emmy awards including wins for its lead actors Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, the A24 anthology series is back for round two with a whole new cast and a new delicious beef.In the first-look images released this week, we get glimpses at Moon Knight’s Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan as a millennial couple living a wealthy life, from golf games at the country club to invasive beauty procedures. Getting…
I love JRPGs – and RPGs generally – but they’re hard to fit into my life, and I know there are many in a similar position. The director of the Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy is aware of this plight and made sure the latest release of the first installment of the redux of Cloud’s grand adventure had some features to help ease the pressure.On Twitter, Naoki Hamaguchi, the co-director on Final Fantasy 7 Remake and now development lead on the remaining entries, thanked players for picking up the recent Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch 2 versions. Coming out…
Nintendo has released a trailer for the upcoming Super Mario Bros. Wonder Talking Flower figurine, and people are loving how chaotic it seems.Despite fearing that their appearance would be annoying from pre-release footage, Super Mario Bros. Wonder’s Talking Flower character (characters?) ended up being one of the highlights of the game for me, as I found all of the random little interjections super charming. And now that Nintendo is bringing the game back with, ahem, Super Mario Bros. Wonder – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park, merch for the 2023 release is coming back into the fold…
How do teens in IT classes waste their time these days? When I was a young whippersnapper, when my teacher wasn’t looking I’d head to sites like Miniclip, Nitrome, wherever I could get my hands on some Flash games, to play all sorts of little oddities, particularly system heavy ones that were fun to mess around with for 10 minutes once in a while. Games like that feel rare now with the death of Flash, but I think Tower Lab, a physics roguelite tower defence deckbuilder where you attempt to blast enemies off a ledge into an infinite void…