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Larian has put out Baldur’s Gate 3‘s last big community update of 2024, and it brings some nice news. Registration’s now open for the stress test of Patch 8 that’s set to take place early next year, so you you can throw your username in the hat if you wish. As the studio revealed late last month, Patch 8 is the final major update for BG3, it swears. What’ll be in it? Well, a heap...

On TV and in films and games, Star Wars has the same problem. The original trilogy was an unprecedented mix of grizzled Western, brooding Samurai film and pioneering Science Fiction which made for transformative popcorn entertainment, a true pop-cultural event. Most things they do make lots of money, but in a cultural impact sense, in the Disney-era particularly, Lucasfilm has only managed to repeat anything close to that level of success a couple of times,...

Image: Warner Bros Pictures The line between success and failure can get blurred under a deluge of criticism, especially when it starts affecting your real life. That appears to be what Jesse Eisenberg has been secretly dealing with for nearly a decade. Deadline reports that in a recent chat on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, Eisenberg revealed that he feels his role as Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice might’ve harmed his...

Well, here’s something I wasn’t expecting to see: Valve has finally revealed what Team Fortress 2‘s Spy looks like under his mask. And it turns out he looks pretty dang handsome! The Week In Games: A Star Wars Classic Returns & More New Releases Valve’s still-popular class-based team shooter launched back in 2007, which feels like three lifetimes ago at this point. Since then, Valve has slowly built up a ton of lore and history...

With Sonic the Hedgehog 3, the live-action adaptation of Sega’s speedy platformer is entering a new era. With each subsequent movie, the Sonic films have sought to shed the generic “family” movie image for one that was more honest to the anime-inspired twists and turns of the long-running platformer series. And this latest film succeeds. Sonic 3 is a loose adaptation of one of the most beloved stories in all of the series’ 30 years....

Sony’s PlayStation Portal began its life with a lot of limitations and skepticism. But after a much-appreciated update added the ability to stream PS5 games directly from the cloud, Sony’s PS5 companion has finally secured itself as a worthwhile accessory Sony’s current gen console. It still isn’t a perfect device, but it’s one with potential that continues to grow, and that means you’re likely to be spending more and more time with yours. As such,...

Image: Mineralblu / Kotaku The biggest pop-culture convention isn’t San Diego Comic Con, nor New York Comic Con—it is in fact CCXP, an international event that mostly takes place in Brazil, but sometimes pops up in Germany too! This year’s was in its main home of the São Paulo Expo, with a raft of big-name celebs and hundreds of thousands of visitors. And some absolutely stellar cosplay, too. This year’s CCXP saw the likes of...

If you’re a Support player in a shooters like Overwatch 2, you’re probably on the hunt for the best Strategist in Marvel Rivals. Despite the different name, Strategists serve the same role as a Support: Keep your team healed, use utility effects like revival, damage boosting, and other augmentations. At launch, there are seven Strategists on the Marvel Rivals roster. Live Forever in the Universe of ‘New World: Aeternum’ Read More: 5 Marvel Rivals Characters...

Screenshot: MachineGames / Claire Jackson / Kotaku It’s hard to say what’s more of a bummer, folks. Was it the dark days where every single big blockbuster movie got a shitty tie-in video game crunched out by some poor dev team in six months to launch alongside the film? Or is it the present, where new movies rarely get tie-in games at all outside of the occasional throwaway mobile game? Yes, of course there are...

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is out in theaters now, and like the first two films, it has a post-credits stinger that gives us an idea of what’s to come in the next movie, which, it seems, is coming in 2027. However, Sonic 3’s isn’t quite as self-explanatory as those in the first two movies if you’re not already familiar with the blue blur and all his friends (and enemies). The first two movies’ post-credits scenes...