Zach Cregger's Resident Evil movie could be a fresh break from its source material, as the Weapons director has been given "carte blanche" to do whatever he wanted with the IP. According to Constantin Film CEO Oliver Berben--the company is the primary rights holder and producer of live-action Resident Evil movies--explained that the movie is "far away from everything that is connected to Resident Evil," as the company is aiming to tap into Cregger's unique style for this project.

"With Resident Evil, we have had an incredible journey with one of the most successful international IPs of more than a billion dollars in box office for many years and now we are creating something new, not just a new story idea, but to allow a new generation to take the IP into their own hands and form something different," Berben said to Deadline.

Usually, video game adaptations cherry-pick from the source material to create something that looks and sounds familiar, but still tells an original story. There are exceptions to the rule--like HBO's The Last of Us TV series, which is mostly faithful to the video games--but most of these projects deviate from the video game IP.

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A God of War 2D action platformer probably wasn't on anyone's bingo card for the recent State of Play livestream, but not only is the game real, but it's also out right now for PS5. God of War: Sons of Sparta is a new project from Mega Cat Studios, a developer with a very cool name and a storied history since its founding in 2015--as well as a heartwarming story behind how it settled on its studio name.

On the PlayStation Blog, Mega Cat Studios founder and CEO James Deighan revealed that a real feline helped inspire the identity of the studio.

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The ongoing shortage of memory chips--which has been primarily attributed to AI companies buying up available stock--could push the launch of the PS6 console toward the end of the current decade, analysts believe.

Speaking to Bloomberg, experts who claim to be familiar with Sony's strategies say that the current demand and rising costs of RAM have led to a "major upset" to Sony's plans, as it is now considering pushing the PS6 launch to 2028 or even 2029. This lines up with a January report where a senior analyst claimed that there is a "high likelihood that the PS6 launch will occur after 2028."

Recently, Sony confirmed that it has enough memory to meet demand for PS5 consoles throughout 2026, but it is planning to negotiate with various suppliers to secure a reliable supply going forward. "As for securing a supply of memory, we are already in a position to secure the minimum quantity necessary to manage the year-end selling season of next fiscal year--October to December 2026," Sony CFO Lin Tao said.

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Jason Blum and James Wan's Blumhouse and Atomic Monster lined up a film adaptation of Dead by Daylight in 2023. Nearly three years later, the movie is finally going forward with two screenwriters attached, David Leslie Johnston-McGoldrick and Alexandre Aja. According to Blum, these scribes are bringing the intensity.

"What David and Alexandre bring to Dead by Daylight is a rare balance of character driven storytelling and relentless genre intensity," said Blum in a statement via The Hollywood Reporter. "Drawing from survival horror and psychological terror, their work establishes a world where fear is not just experienced, but earned. It is a cinematic blueprint designed to attract a director who can elevate that vision through performance and scale."

As alluded to by Blum, the project doesn't currently have a director even though Aja has two decades of experience behind the camera. Aja previously wrote and directed Crawl, Piranha 3D, and the 2003 remake of The Hills Have Eyes. He is unavailable to direct Dead by Daylight due to his commitment to helm Under Paris 2 for Netflix. Johnston-McGoldrick has written or co-written three of the Conjuring movies, both Aquaman films, and the upcoming sequel, Insidious: The Bleeding World.

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The console wars may not be as heated as they used to be, but it doesn't mean Sony is going to let key franchises like Spider-Man go to Xbox Series X|S. When asked about the possibility about bringing the Spider-Man games to Xbox, Insomniac--the studio behind all three of Sony's Spider-Man titles to date--had a blunt response: "Not likely."

Although the original post posing the question was deleted from X, Insomniac's reply is still online.

Insomniac Games say it is “not likely” that Marvel’s Spider-Man will come to Xbox https://t.co/bH09zK7CIf pic.twitter.com/6eDV85Pytj

— Genki✨ (@Genki_JPN) February 14, 2026

An Xbox port may not be in the cards, but the Spider-Man games have come to PC. As demonstrated last year, Sony's PC games are playable on the ROG Xbox Ally handheld console. If the next Xbox console is also able to play PC games, then that may allow Sony's titles to come to the system without getting a direct port.

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A third mainline game in the Layers of Fear series, Layers of Fear 3, has been announced by developer Bloober Team.

The sequel was announced in a video celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the original Layers of Fear. It contains a lot of tone-setting footage, set to a spooky rendition of "You Are My Sunshine" - there's nothing particularly scary in the video, but it's a little unsettling.

Bloober Team CEO Piotr Babieno promises in the video that the Layers of Fear series is "still alive, still evolving, and still finding new ways to haunt". The video closes out with another live-action video, this time serving as a trailer for the third game. You can watch it below (but don't expect a lot of specific details).

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Just like with human beings, there are a lot of different things a Sim can be good at. These things are known as skills, and The Sims 4 has amassed more than four dozen of them over the past decade, with new expansions and game packs gradually adding in new ones. At this point, the options are legion--there are more skills than most of us probably even remember. And each new expansion adds more of them--the new fairy-focused expansion, Enchanted by Nature, even added two surprisingly novel new skills for your Sims to train in. Even without adding more using The Sims 4 mods, we're practically drowning in skills these days.

Every skill in The Sims 4 has related activities that your Sims can do to improve that skill, but there are also things a Sim can do that will increase their gains in any skill. There are several aspiration rewards you can take that will make your sim gain skills faster--Night Owl and Morning Sim will increase your skill gains at night and in the morning, respectively, and Savant will give you a 25% boost to all skill gains permanently. Taking these perks is always recommended.

Likewise, there are skill books that will help you Sim learn a skill by reading about it. But your Sim won't max out any skills that way. Theory is good, but it can't beat actually doing it. So if you want your Sims to master a skill, they'll need to get their hands dirty.

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Solid Snake is coming to Rainbow Six Siege.

Not as a skin for an already-existing character, but a fully-fledged operator with his own unique loadout and play style. When GameSpot talked to Ubisoft Montreal about the future of Siege for our 10th anniversary documentary, we didn't quite imagine a crossover of this magnitude.

Although Ubisoft's Siege team has done crossovers in the past, this is the first time a character outside of Ubisoft's Tom Clancy universe has joined Team Rainbow. I sat down with key developers from Ubisoft and Konami to learn how a collaboration like this comes about and why Solid Snake is a perfect fit for Rainbow Six Siege.

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David Hayter, the actor who originated the voice of Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid franchise, will reprise his role for the character's upcoming appearance in Rainbow Six Siege. Appropriately enough, Snake is arriving in the game just in time to come face-to-face with Zero aka Sam Fisher, the star of the Splinter Cell video games.

"For us, it was really a core objective to get Hayter for the English VO," creative director Joshua Mills told GameSpot. "Because it's just, again, very iconic, and we really wanted to be able to deliver that as far as the English VO."

Mills and content director Christopher Budgen confirmed that the team tried to incorporate Snake's signature cardboard box into the game. It just didn't quite work very well in the world of Rainbow Six Siege.

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The murder mystery in High on Life 2 is a surprisingly complex sequence in the main story. As you slowly make your way through the ranks of the evil corporation you're hunting down, you'll come across Larry Pinkstock. This target, however, is a peculiar one--by the time you finally get to his location and prepare for the kill, he announces that you and four other guests are about to be part of a murder mystery.

This sequence is part of the main story, and it involves multiple steps as well as a keen eye for gathering evidence and asking follow-up questions to get to the correct final verdict. This guide explains how to solve the murder mystery in High on Life 2, as well as who the killer is, in case you want to skip this section fast.

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• How to Solve the Murder Mystery in High on Life 2

How to Solve the Murder Mystery in High on Life 2

The structure of the murder mystery in High on Life 2 goes like this. You're given a list with all four main guests: Admiral Sessions, O.B. Oberon, Richard Twelfth the Eighth, and Edeline Moss. Alongside each suspect, there are three columns with boxes to tick.

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Earning cash in High on Life 2 can be a tough endeavor. Even if you're focusing on the main story as much as possible, those missions can take a significant time to complete. Sadly, the sheer act of killing enemies won't net money (called "pesos" in-game), otherwise you'd probably be rich within the hour.

Considering there are quite a few upgrades that can prove beneficial, especially if you can get them early on in the game, locating as many sources to gather money as possible is key. As such, we've listed the best methods to get cash in High on Life 2, as well as recommendations on which the best upgrades to get first are.

How to Earn Cash Quickly in High on Life 2

Money is surprisingly hard to come by in the world of High on Life 2. Even worse is the fact that the main story introduces you to cool, tantalizing upgrades that you likely won't be able to afford for a while. But don't fret, as there are a few methods to make this easier.

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There are a lot of different jobs to choose from in The Sims 4, including a pretty robust group of careers included with the base game and plenty more that have been added via DLC over the decade-plus that The Sims 4 has been out. What jobs you have your sims sign up for is totally up to you, but there are a lot of factors that can affect your performance, like whether your sim's skills are appropriate for the job you want. If you want your sims to be successful, some knowledge and effort are required--just like it is with a real job. And that goes triple for the new Noble career in The Sims 4: Royalty & Legacy, which works differently than any previous Sims 4 career.

While there are specific things you'll need to know about each individual career that can help you get ahead, there are also some universal tips that can help your sims climb their corporate ladders.

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  • Pick an active, self-employment, or rabbit hole job
  General tips for any Sims 4 careerPick an active, self-employment, or rabbit hole job

  There are three main types of careers in The Sims 4. Most of them are rabbit hole-type jobs, where your sims just go offscreen and do their thing without any meaningful input from the player. But there are also "active" careers, where you follow your sim to their place of business and you'll have to make them do various tasks (though you can also play these as rabbit hole jobs if you'd prefer), and self-employment and freelance careers where your sim will complete individual gigs from the comfort of their homes, like writing a book, painting a picture, or building furniture.

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Capcom has announced that its plan for the Capcom Cup finals and Street Fighter League World Championship as a $40 pay-per-view have been reworked to include a cheaper price and a free viewing option following a backlash from Street Fighter 6 fans.

Prior to this year, the Capcom Cup finals and Street Fighter League World Championship were free-to-watch events. However, Capcom's decision to move the event to pay-per-view only triggered an angry response from fans. In the face of that response, Capcom backed down.

Capcom's eSports business department manager Tetsuya Tabuchi made the announcement on X (via GamesRadar) that the pay-per-view price is now $10. Players who own Street Fighter 6 will also be able to stream the Capcom Cup finals and Street Fighter League World Championship in-game. But the free option won't include the commentary from the pay-per-view.

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The Wandering Village Premium Edition

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The Wandering Village is a city-building simulator set upon the back of a behemoth strolling endlessly across a destroyed landscape. Officially released in 2025, it quickly garnered a "Very Positive" score on Steam with nearly 4,000 reviews. It's now gearing up to launch a physical Premium Edition and Collector's Edition for PS5 and Switch--both of which feature a fun assortment of collectible goodies. The Premium Edition is $50, while the Collector's Edition is $150 (it includes unique gear, including an Onbu succulent pot). Preorders are now open ahead of the May 8 release date.

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The newest expansion for The Sims 4, Royalty and Legacy, introduces some major new wrinkles to the way this digital world works. The main one is that your Sims can now become ruler of the city they live in and start a dynasty that can solidify the family's power for generations.

Since the Royalty and Legacy expansion is fueled by pretty much entirely new mechanics, it's not actually that obvious how to get started on the road to power. But that's what we're here for.

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• It's all about the nobles

It's all about the nobles

A Sim who wants to rule must be a noble, and unless your Sim is literally a dynasty's heir to the throne, that means partaking in the Noble career. Being a professional noble is very different from any other career in The Sims 4, because it's a 24/7 gig. Everything your Sim does can hypothetically affect their status. And this career isn't one you can join with a phone call. To start things off, you'll need to one of three options: request a knighthood from a noble who likes your Sim; choose the Research Nobility option on the book The Duchess Diaries: A History of Nobility, which is stocked on every bookshelf; or buy a throne in build mode and simply declare your Sim a noble.

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Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and nothing says, "I love you," like a batch of affordable horror games. Fanatical is currently offering the Love You To Death Bundle for $12, which pulls together nine Steam games valued at $134. A portion of your purchase goes to charity (Coral Guardian), and if you want to further support their cause, you can choose to pay extra. Coral Guardian works to restore coral ecosystems around the world, a crucial service as more and more reefs are succumbing to the effects of climate change. In other words, you'll get a bunch of spooky games for cheap while feeling good about helping your planet's most fragile ecosystems. The bundle ends on March 4, and keys must be redeemed before March 7, 2027.

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One of the best-rated games in the bundle is Faith: The Unholy Trinity. With over 5,600 Steam reviews, it's holding down a "Very Positive" score. Inspired by the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, it sees you battling against all sorts of horrors as you investigate a demonic possession in Connecticut. The game features a retro, pixelated art style that only adds to its creepy vibes. It alone typically retails for $15--making the Love You To Death Bundle a much better deal than buying the game by itself.

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The Lunar New Year is upon us once again, and Fanatical is celebrating with a gargantuan sale on over 10,000 games, bundles, and DLCs. The Lunar New Year Sale is running from now until February 22, so there's plenty of time to browse the vast catalogue and come away with some of your backlogged games on the cheap. You can even preorder a few upcoming titles with small discounts, and recently released games are even seeing some small price cuts. And if you spend $15 or more, you'll receive a bonus game or coupon with your purchase. With what's on offer here, it'll be pretty easy to hit the $15 threshold.

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Some notable highlights from the sale include many of Bethesda's most recent games, like Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition for just $9 (was $40), which comes with the base game and all DLC. Doom: The Dark Ages is 71% off, currently at $20.64 (was $70), while Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Premium Edition is $53 (was $100) and comes with the Order of the Giants story DLC. For something a bit older, Dishonored 2 is down to a measly $2.84 (was $30).

If you're a fan of survival horror games, Bloober Team's Cronos: The New Dawn is $48 (was $60) for the standard edition. Cronos is a dark, dreary third-person horror shooter akin to titles such as Dead Space and Resident Evil 4, and was one of the best spooky games of 2025. Another notable 2025 release, Silent Hill 2, is down to $52.49 (was $70). It's a modernized, faithful recreation of the PlayStation original that both new and longtime fans can enjoy.

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A new update has arrived to Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Warzone on February 13, and the patch notes detail weapon balancing across both games. These weapon adjustments include changes to sniper rifles and light machine guns, as well as tuning of specific gun attachments.

Season 2 went live in Call of Duty on February 5, but the patch notes didn't include the usual weapon balancing pass typically found in seasonal updates. Instead, Treyarch saved the gun changes for this new update, which focuses on various guns and attachments.

For Black Ops 7's multiplayer and Zombies, the update includes a notable buff for the DS20 Mirage assault rifle. This increases the damage range for the gun, and it also makes improvements to the weapon's 17.1" Abdicator Barrel attachment, allowing for less recoil penalty when it's equipped.

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This year marks the 35th anniversary of Blizzard, and the company already has reason to celebrate the recent Overwatch rebrand that's revitalized the hero shooter. Blizzard President Johanna Faries is very optimistic about the company's future, but she's also fully aware that not every swing at the plate will work out in its favor.

"We've set a lot in motion with respect to [the future of Blizzard], making sure we're clear on it, making sure we’re coordinated on it," said Faries during an appearance on the Official Xbox Podcast. "There's sort of a reliability that players can depend on us to launch in big ways, launch in surprising ways. Maybe take some zags! Not everything's going to hit. That's gaming. But in many ways, let's understand where we are going--not only as a company, but by franchise, by game."

Faries may be referring to some Blizzard games that were in development but never saw the light of day. In 2019, Blizzard reportedly canceled a StarCraft shooter after two years in development in order to focus on Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2.

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Diablo 4's Lord of Hatred expansion is revamping class skill trees, with its most dramatic change being the removal of passive skills entirely.

As revealed during an official Sanctuary Sitdown on Discord with members of the Diablo 4 development team (via Icy Veins), Blizzard is looking to make it so class skill trees are more about offering customization than raw power spikes. As a result, passive skill nodes are being removed.

Each active skill will be receiving new customizations options to help fill some of those power gaps, but overall Blizzard wants to make it so becoming more powerful is more about finding and crafting better gear, leveling up the Paragon Board, and equipping the right Legendary aspects as opposed to ticking flat damage bonus boxes on the skill tree. In total, there are 80 additional new skill options and 40 reworked ones that will be coming to all Diablo 4 players. Lord of Hatred owners will have 20 additional skill choices to choose from.

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