The Mortal Kombat 2 movie doesn’t come out until next year, but Mortal Kombat 3 is already confirmed because the studios are ‘convinced there’s a giant fanbase waiting for it’

As reported by Eurogamer and Deadline, a third entry in the new trilogy of Mortal Kombat movies has been announced at the New York Comic-Con. The second film, originally scheduled to release this month, is now slated for May 15, 2026. “Our friends at New Line and Warner Bros. are so happy with this movie,”…

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Despite declining sales and the latest ‘Xbox’ being a handheld PC, Microsoft says it’s still making a next-gen console: ‘We are actively investing in our future first-party consoles and devices’

As reported by Windows Central, Microsoft has stated it has no plans to exit the hardware market, despite poor sales of the Series X and S. There have been rumors that it would eschew traditional home consoles in favor of cloud gaming and more PC-like hardware, such as the imminent Xbox ROG Allies. “We are…

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Preview users have noticed OneDrive’s AI-driven face recognition setting is opt-out, and can only be turned off ‘three times a year’

Is AI the future, or just an ecologically ruinous, dangerously huge financial bubble? That’s hard to say, but it’s certainly a part of Microsoft’s future; on top of pushing Copilot as a non-negotiable part of the Microsoft 365 suite and reportedly mandating its employees put AI to work, the tech giant is reportedly rolling out…

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After learning his cult ’90s RPG influenced Undertale, this Japanese developer finally got ‘the courage’ to make another RPG decades later thanks to Toby Fox

You may not know Japanese developer Yoshiro Kimura by name, but you likely do know of someone who does: Toby Fox, who credited Kimura’s 1997 Moon: Remix RPG Adventure as an inspiration for Undertale. For as much obvious Earthbound DNA there is in the massively popular Undertale, there’s also a critical bit of Moon in…

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Abiotic Factor gets new roadmap featuring a mystery crossover, DLC plans, and new difficulty modes alongside dev Q&A: ‘We’re terrified of our obligations to the community so be nice, we love you’

Abiotic Factor might seem like a goofy sendup of Half-Life with its balding science guys and story centered around an iconic disaster ending in the word “cascade,” but behind the silly facade is one of the best, most atmospheric survival games in recent memory. If you’re ready for a whole lot more of it, get…

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Battlefield 6 hits a peak of 747k players on Steam, hot on the heels of Baldur’s Gate 3’s record and in the platform’s all-time top 20

Battlefield 6 is proving a remarkable milestone for the venerable military shooter series. It’s not just a great game—as PC Gamer staff writer Morgan Park put it in last week’s review-in-progress, “a bullseye where it matters most”—it’s also very popular, as evidenced by its recent eye-watering concurrent player count of over 747,000. That number comes…

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