If there’s one key thing that PlayStation’s Insomniac Games wants you to take away from the new gameplay footage for its upcoming “Marvel’s Wolverine,” it’s that this video game will be as bloody as promised. “It’s planting our flag that this is a mature game,” Insomniac Games’ creative director Marcus Smith told Variety. “There was […]

“Final Fantasy VII: Revelation” has been revealed as the third and final title in Square Enix’s “Final Fantasy VII” remake trilogy. The game will launch in Spring 2027 across PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X and S and PC in connection with the 30th anniversary of the original game. Watch the trailer for […]

The first new “Spyro” game in nearly two decades will release next spring from developer Toys for Bob in collaboration with Microsoft’s Activision. Tom Kenny, the original voice of Spyro, will be reprising his role as the iconic purple dragon for the project. Titled “Spyro: A Real Beyond,” is described as “a completely original adventure […]

Paramount Skydance chief David Ellison — a self-professed gamer — has finally hit the restart button on Paramount’s gaming ambitions: His company unveiled Paramount Games Studio and splashy AAA title “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin” as its first project on June 5 during Summer Game Fest in L.A. The new division, led by […]

Vincent Cassel, who will star in the fourth season of HBO’s “The White Lotus,” is set to play Napoleon Bonaparte in the upcoming first-person Soulslike video game “Valor Mortis.” Per the game’s description, “Set in a supernatural reimagining of 19th-century Europe, Valor Mortis casts players as William, a resurrected soldier of the Grande Armée who […]

“This looks crazy that that’s in the background, sorry,” Chase Infiniti says as she sits in front of a “One Battle After Another” poster featuring herself. She’s trying to find a place in her Los Angeles home to prop up her phone for our Zoom interview on an April afternoon, and she’s had to settle […]

New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma outlined several “surprising and even frustrating” realities facing the Microsoft-owned gaming business in a memo to staff Wednesday, which included forward looking statements about reshaping the company. The note, which was published by Xbox on Xbox Wire, does not address potential layoffs but instead focuses on specific weaknesses within the […]

“Resident Evil: Veronica,” a remake of the 2000 “Resident Evil” game “Code: Veronica,” will be released by Capcom next year. The original “Resident Evil – Code Veronica” took place three months after the events of 1998’s “Resident Evil 2” and concurrently with 1999’s “Resident Evil 3: Nemesis.” The story follows “Resident Evil” characters Claire Redfield […]

The “Candy Crush All Stars” competition has named Luana from Bahia, Brazil as its 2026 champion. After weeks of remote competition among millions of “Candy Crush” players across 25 countries, art student Luana secured a spot in the Live Final. Last week, she came out victorious in the closing game of the tournament’s biggest-ever Live […]

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the Season 1 finale of “The Handmaid’s Tale” sequel series, “The Testaments,” now streaming on Hulu. The first season of “The Testaments” came to an end Wednesday with its Season 1 finale. And blessed be the fruit, because Variety has the answer to what is sure to be your […]

Spirits were running high at this year’s Summer Game Fest amid the gaming industry’s excitement for the upcoming release of “Grand Theft Auto VI” — despite the fact the Rockstar Games title had no presence during the four-day event. No, “GTA 6” wasn’t formally part of host Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest Live presentation or […]

“Toy Story 5” star Tim Allen says a “Home Improvement” reboot is not likely at the moment due to “personality problems” with the actors who played his on-screen sons on the classic ABC sitcom. “They keep talking about how it could move forward, but they get stuck [because] there are some personality problems right now […]