March 4, 2025

A little over three years after being added to the game, Pinhead is leaving Dead by Daylight. Developer Behaviour Interactive announced today that the game’s Hellraiser chapter, which includes the infamous Cenobite, will be unavailable for purchase on April 4. “He came,” Behaviour Interactive wrote. “And now he must go.” And sure, we’ve all been…

Civilization 7‘s “first major update” dropped for PC and consoles today, and for one thing it brings those two versions back into alignment, which has allowed Firaxis to re-enable crossplay. The biggest feature change in the 1.1.0 update is a rebalancing of the Geographic Society legacy path that makes it “harder for players to breeze…

Capcom says Monster Hunter Wilds sold more than eight million copies in its first three days of release, making it the fastest game in Capcom history to reach that oddly specific milestone. Credit for the big number, according to Capcom, goes to Capcom’s “continuous global initiatives” to promote the game, including online showcases and an…

If you’re a gamer of a certain age, the name Acclaim will ring some pretty loud bells. It was a big-time videogame publisher through the late 1980s and ’90s, with a number of major sports and entertainment partnerships to its name. Flagging sales forced the company to declare bankruptcy in 2004 but now it’s back,…

Monster Hunter Wilds was awash in difficulty discourse before it even launched. Prerelease reviews drove the Monster Hunter subreddit into a panic, as critics forced excited hunters to ask that most terrible of questions: What if the new Monster Hunter was too easy? Before jumping into Wilds’ highest strength hunts, I carted a single time…

Two weeks after a surprise tease in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, it’s now official: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 is being “remade from the ground up” and will ollie into a 360 backside half-pipe faceplant boogaloo (or whatever) on July 8. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 is being developed by Iron Galaxy Studios…

Three female Twitch streamers midway through a weeklong marathon stream were followed, harassed and then threatened by a man calling himself “Russell” live from Santa Monica’s Pacific Park. Content creators Cinna, Valkyrae and Emiru had just listened to the man sing when he asked for Emiru’s phone number. After she refused, and refused to enter…

Next-gen game upgrades never seem to go as flawlessly as you’d hope, so I was not at all surprised to find some potholes to avoid in transferring your GTA 5 save file to GTA 5 Enhanced edition on PC. I nearly hydroplaned trying to figure out how to agree to Rockstar’s darn online policies, which…