Fallout creator Tim Cain has returned to Obsidian, but what is he working on? He's not allowed to say, and says you shouldn't even try to guess. Cain also shared an update about his personal life and a new friendship with a squirrel.

In a YouTube video, Cain said he recently relocated from Seattle to southern California, and one of the first things that happened was a squirrel ran up to him with no fear. "She just sat there and looked at me, and I shrugged and I'm like, 'What do you want from me? I don't know you.'" Cain fed the critter some walnuts and continues to feed the creature every day when he leaves and comes back home.

This is how Cain started the video, before getting into his return to Obsidian. He said he's now back at the studio, in-person and full-time. While he has returned to Obsidian, you'll also see his name appear in the credits of an upcoming unspecified game that he did contract work for before coming back to Obsidian, he said.

Path of Exile 2 is playable now in early access, but the game's 1.0 release isn't ready yet--and it won't be here soon, it seems. Grinding Gear game director Jonathan Rogers said in an interview that the Tencent-owned studio will likely not hit the previously hinted March 2026 window.

"I'm fairly confident that we won't be out of 2026," Rogers told Eurogamer. "But as I said, I never want to really completely promise anything. But I don't think it'll end up being March; we'll have to see."

There is no "specific timeline" for when Path of Exile 2's 1.0 release will arrive, but Rogers said he "certainly" hopes it won't be any later than the end of 2026.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, the actor who portrayed Shang Tsung in the original Mortal Kombat movie, has passed away at the age of 75. Acorrding to Tagawa's family, he died in the morning of December 4 due to complications from a stroke.

Tagawa's cinematic career spanned nearly four decades and began with a small part in Big Trouble in Little China in 1986 before taking off in 1987 with his role as Chang in The Last Emperor. Some of his other notable films included Licence to Kill, Snow Falling on Cedars, Memoirs of a Geisha, Pearl Harbour, Kubo and the Two Strings, 47 Ronin, and the 2001 reboot of Planet of the Apes.

However, Tagawa was best known to video game fans for his sinister portrayal of the sorcerer Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat. Tagawa reprised his role years later in the web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy before lending his voice and his likeness to the character again in Mortal Kombat 11 and Mortal Kombat: Onslaught.

After a lengthy bidding war with Paramount, Netflix has announced it has agreed to a deal to purchase Warner Bros. and many of its subsidiaries--including Warner Bros. Games, HBO, and HBO Max--for $82.7 billion dollars, with the deal scheduled to close in 2026.

The announcement comes just hours after Netflix announced its bid had been accepted by Warner Bros. Discovery. Notably, Discovery is not included in the deal, as it will be spun off into a new company, Discovery Global, which will include CNN, TNT, Bleacher Report, and more.

If the deal does close as scheduled, Netflix will acquire the following properties: