Whenever you think the game industry has run out of ideas for weird battle royales, you're going to need to think again. Developer Button Mash is developing Final Sentence, a game about writing where mistakes can mean death.

"You’ve never played anything like this before," reads the game's Steam page. "Type fast and type accurately--your life depends on it. There's a revolver pointed at your head... with one bullet in the chamber."

A demo for Final Sentence is available until October 20 as part of the Steam Next Fest.

Battlefield 6's rollout on publisher Electronic Arts' own PC app didn't go exactly smoothly, with players left unable to play on launch day. Since then, the issue has since been resolved, and EA is giving out free season passes and XP boosts for those who were impacted.

The issue affected players who had pre-ordered Battlefield 6 via the EA App launcher on PC. An outage on the app left those players high and dry for a good chunk of launch day on October 10. To make things right, EA has issued 12 double hardware XP boosts and 12 double career XP boosts to players affected by the outage.

In addition, EA is throwing in a free premium battle pass for Battlefield 6's upcoming Season 1. Those who already own the premium Season 1 battle pass through the game's pricier Phantom Edition will instead receive the Season 2 battle pass for free.

A quietly canceled Avatar: The Last Airbender fighting game has been reincarnated under a new development studio, with a trailer highlighting what fans of the popular animated series can expect from the one-on-one 2D fighter.

Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game (a working title) was revealed during an Avatar: The Last Airbender 20th anniversary panel at New York Comic Con, and is slated for a summer 2026 release. It will feature 12 playable characters at launch, with more to come as part of a seasonal release model.

While it's billed as a 1v1 fighter (and looks that way in the game's debut trailer), its description on Steam lists support characters that will influence a fighter's play style and grant new special moves. Some of the characters highlighted in the trailer include Aang, Korra, Zuko, Toph, Katara, Sokka, and Azula.

Baldur's Gate 3's cast has been widely acclaimed since the game's release, from Neil Newbon's award-winning role as Astarion to Tim Downie (of Paddington fame) as Gale. But how would the characters--no, not the actors--do if they were auditioning for a different role in the game? We thought that sounded like a great idea, so we got some of the fan-favorite cast together and, potentially under duress, had them audition for new roles.

"I'm Gale of Waterdeep, and I am going to be reading for the role of Lae … of Lae'zel," Downie said. "I smell their blood on you, still! I smell your sweat!"Given that Gale is quite polite and a cat dad, it's tough to imagine him ever having Lae'zel's bloodlust, not to mention her sexual forwardness. That being said, we would very much like an entire game where that is exactly what we get.

Neil Newbon's Astarion, meanwhile, read for the role of Shadowheart, with Jennifer English standing by his side and physically forcing him to kneel: Kneel Newbon. Astarion seemed less than thrilled with the situation.

One of the biggest rising Hollywood stars of the past few years wants to help bring one of the most critically acclaimed video games of the year to the silver screen. Top Gun: Maverick and Twisters actor Glen Powell has thrown his beret into the ring to join the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 movie.

Powell, who will next be seen in The Running Man, brought up Clair Obscur during a recent interview with IGN.

"You know, [Clair Obscur: Expedition 33] is one that I've become a fan of. If there's an Expedition 33 movie, I'd be very interested."

The Splinter Cell series has effectively been on ice for well over a decade, and while we are still waiting for the Splinter Cell game remake to release, we do finally get to see Sam Fisher again with the launch of Splinter Cell: Deathwatch on Netflix.

GameSpot's Tom Caswell recently had a chance to sit down with showrunner Derek Kolstad--best known as the creator and writer on the first three John Wick films--to talk all things Splinter Cell, honoring the source material, and living up to the quality standard set by original Sam Fisher voice actor Michael Ironside.

So, first question, Derek, is to do with your familiarity with the franchise and video games. Are you a gamer? How much Splinter Cell did you play before sitting down to write this project?