No Man's Sky is almost a decade old, and developer Hello Games is still dropping free expansions for it every couple of months, including today's one, Update 6.2, AKA the Remnant update. The Remnant update is themed around interstellar environmentalism--and most importantly--harnessing the power of gravity to help you clean up your messes.

The Gravitino Coil is a new anti-gravity module that can be slotted into your multi-tool, allowing you to grab chunks of stuff and responsibly deposit them in recycling receptacles--or yeet them into the horizon if you're feeling irresponsible. Other new additions to the game include Waste Processing Plants, where materials can be recycled into rare resources. Salvageable scrap and industrial waste can be found on several planets, and you'll need to gather the debris with your new Gravitino Coil so that you can earn rewards.

Of course, there's a limit to how much you can carry, so it's a good thing that aspiring scrap-hunters can install a tippable flatbed on the Colossus Exocraft. An electromagnetic containment field minimizes cargo loss, but you'll still need to be careful when you're driving on rough terrain or up steep slopes. New super-elastic wheels, tracked treads, and off-road running gear should help with navigation, and a time-limited expedition will start soon for the No Man's Sky community. Colossus vehicles can also be equipped with a furnace for immediate disposal of industrial waste, as well as a new obstacle-demolition attachment for collecting a small number of resources from minerals and vegetation.

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In addition to her role as Xbox President, Sarah Bond serves on the board of meat company Tyson. It's now been revealed that Bond was recently awarded 2,911.431 more shares of the company at a price of $65.26 each. That works out to about $190,000.

This new stock award adds on to Bond's previous allotment of shares, bringing her total to 4,606.008, according to a recent regulatory filing. Tyson also pays its directors an annual retainer of $125,000.

The value of Bond's shares depend on Tyson's stock price. The company is currently trading at around $64.74, which is up 11.5% so far this year, but down from an all-time high of close to $100 in 2022.

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Convicted sex criminal and alleged human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein had extensive reach in the worlds of politics and entertainment. As indicated in newly released portions of the millions of emails colloquially known as the Epstein files, his reach extended into the gaming realm as well.

Although associations with Epstein are not proof of criminal activity, they carry over to the court of public opinion, regardless of guilt or innocence.

According to the newly released files, Epstein's connection to the gaming industry allegedly begins in 2012. More than a dozen emails sent in 2012 and 2013, allegedly between Epstein and former Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, suggest the two had a relationship. These show the former attempting to set up meetings, and inviting Kotick to his private island.

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The Super Bowl and The Game Awards are, quite obviously, very different events, but looking at the reported numbers for both side-by-side raises some curiosities, with Geoff Keighley's presentation last December appearing to trounce Sunday's showdown between the Patriots and Seahawks.

NBC Sports shared that the network's telecast of Super Bowl LX (or 60, for those innumerate with Roman digits) was the most-watched show in NBC's history, averaging 124.9 million viewers. That makes it the second-most-watched television program in United States history, behind last year's Super Bowl on Fox. Additionally, this year's big game reached a high of 137.8 million viewers during the second quarter, which is the highest viewership peak ever in American television.

Meanwhile, The Game Awards 2025, during which Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 took the top prize, is said to have reached over 171 million global livestreams, an 11% increase from last year's ceremony/barrage of reveal trailers.

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The Walt Disney Company's incoming CEO, Josh D'Amaro, is reportedly planning to focus on "gaming and interactivity" as one of his top priorities when he takes over for Bob Iger in March.

Multiple sources told The Hollywood Reporter that gaming will be one of his "key strategic priorities" running the show at Disney, building on what the entertainment giant is already doing with its $1.5 billion deal with Fortnite maker Epic.

"He sees the digital realm--and Epic is a manifestation of that--as a very important place for fans to interact with their favorite characters, franchises, and brands in a comprehensive way that you can monetize and that will serve fan interest in a way that, other than a theme park, it's really impossible to do," former Disney executive Kevin Mayer said.

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It was a relatively safe bet that Marvel's Wolverine, the PlayStation 5-exclusive action game expected to launch this year, would make an appearance at this week's State of Play presentation, but developer Insomniac Games pumped the brakes on the hype.

Replying to an X post asking when more information for the game is coming, Insomniac tersely responded: "Spring 2026." February 12, the date of the next State of Play, is decidedly not in the spring, so unless Insomniac is straight-up lying, Logan might be a no-show this Thursday.

Spring 2026.

— Insomniac Games (@insomniacgames) February 10, 2026

At the very least, Sony and Insomniac could show a glimpse of the bloody violence in Marvel's Wolverine while stopping short of sharing story or gameplay loop details and a release date. But should this be the case, it would be a frustrating affair for PlayStation fans who still know little about the upcoming game.

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A new report contains the first images of a reportedly canceled The Lord of the Rings game that was said to be in development at Eidos-Montreal. The game was apparently being designed to be a card-based title with a "Telltale story spin on it," according to Insider Gaming's Tom Henderson.

MP1st found images of the game, which reportedly did not get far into development before being axed. The images are from the portfolio of someone who used to work at Eidos-Montreal, and show off a variety of fantastical environments. The file names for the images contain references to "Umbar," which is a port city on the coast if Gondor. A video from the portfolio also shows the Bay of Umbar prior to the fall of the city and after the fall of the city.

The images and video do not reveal anything definitive, as video games--like all creative endeavors--go through phases of iteration and ideation before culminating in a finished product. There is no telling if the details in the images are representative of what Eidos-Montreal wanted to eventually release.

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One week from today, Battlefield 6 Season 2 will go live. That means changes are coming to the game, and veteran players may appreciate some of the upcoming adjustments that are being introduced to make their experience more enjoyable.

Battlefield Studios has revealed it's making changes to Challenges, by doing away with highly mode-specific challenges and eliminating the daily sidearm challenge from the regular rotation. Instead, a number of additional factors will count toward Daily Challenges, including assists. Battlefield Studios promised to keep an eye on players' experiences with these challenges and notes that it will make further changes if needed.

Season 2's Battle Pass progression will also be undergoing some changes. As part of those adjustments, players will be able to earn more Battle Pass Tokens from Career XP, which will let them complete Weekly Challenges and the regular gameplay faster than before.

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Wings of Bluestar (PS5)

$35 | Releases May 27

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Wings of Bluestar: Extra Edition (PS5)

$70 | Releases Q2 2026

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Released for PC back in 2020, Wings of Bluestar earned positive reviews from shoot-'em-up fans thanks to its retro art style, classic side-scrolling action, and heaps of unlockables. It would eventually get digital ports to consoles--and on May 27, Wings of Bluestar is finally getting a physical edition for PS5. If you're eager to add the indie gem to your catalog, preorders are now open at Amazon. Only 2,000 copies are being produced, so this might be one of your few chances to snag it for cheap. There's also an Extra Edition packed with collectibles, and it's even more exclusive, with only 500 copies produced.

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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - Switch 2 Edition

$50 | Releases June 3

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The Unknown Journey of the Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy continues on Switch 2, as preorders for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth are now live. The middle chapter in the trilogy heads to the Nintendo console on June 3, and you can pick up the physical Switch 2 edition for $50. Not only is that a full $20 cheaper than the game's launch price on PS5 and PC, but this new version also comes with some exclusive extras--including a unique Magic: The Gathering card featuring one of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth's best characters.

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As you might expect, the Fallout TV series on Prime Video has sent a lot of new and returning players to Fallout 76. But not even Bethesda could have predicted the warm welcome that these newcomers received from the preexisting players in the game.

While speaking with The Game Business, Fallout 76 creative director John Rush expressed his shock at the cooperative spirit and sense of camaraderie that's emerged in the game.

"I'd say a lot of the onboarding was done by our wonderful community who was recognizing all of these fresh vault dwellers emerging from Vault 76 and setting up camps outside of that and giving them free stuff and showing them things and 'look at what I built,'" said Rush. "So it was very much a concerted effort between us and our community welcoming this new influx of brand-new players and returning players alike."

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Mewgenics is out now on PC, and it's crushing it. The game not only scored positive reviews, but is racking up thousands of concurrent players and has already made enough money to recoup its development budget after just 180 minutes of availability. But is the game coming to console?

No official announcements have been made, but developer Edmund McMillen said back in October 2025 that console ports are coming "next year," referring to 2026.

That's all there is to go on at this stage, so it remains to be seen which specific console platforms may be supported. McMillen's most famous game, 2010's Super Meat Boy, was released on console at launch for Xbox 360, before coming to PS4 in 2015, Wii U in 2016, and Switch in 2018.

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Mewgenics, the newly released independent roguelike from Super Meat Boy's Edmund McMillen and Bombernaut's Tyler Glaiel, did not need very long at all to recoup its development costs.

Glaiel said on social media that Mewgenics made back its development budget in just 180 minutes, or three hours, following its launch today, February 10.

The game's budget has not been publicized, but in any event, it certainly seems like Mewgenics is off to a good start. On Steam, the game stands at 61,000+ concurrent users right now. It's close to becoming the most successful launch of McMillen's career, on Steam at least. That record still belongs to The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, a remake of the roguelite original, that peaked at just over 70,000 players concurrent at launch.

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Helldivers 2's Machinery of Oppression update is tasking Super Earth's finest with conquering the "dark heart of socialism" and so far, things are not going well.

The second phase of the invasion of the Automaton homeworld of Cyberstan tasks Helldivers with slaying 700 million Automaton forces in the next day or so in order to clear the way for a full-scale invasion. That part is going well enough, with players as of writing having already defeated well over 270 million Automatons.

It's the other part of the operation that is looking dicey. As part of the invasion, the entire Helldivers 2 community collectively has 200 million lives in order to conquer Cyberstan. Just a few hours after the update went live, the community has already lost more than half of that number, with around 94 million lives remaining currently.

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Players are itching to get back into Overwatch, as evidenced by a lengthy queue that many of them can't get out of. Overwatch's new Season 1 update just launched, acting as a soft reboot that drops the "2" from the title and adds five new heroes. It certainly has fans excited, with the shooter reaching an all-time high for concurrent players on Steam, but many of them can't even get past the title screen.

Firing up Overwatch will put you in line to enter the game, with players reporting that upon reaching the front of the queue, they're given an error message and kicked all the way back.

According to developer Blizzard, Overwatch just had its "biggest weekend in over a year," a claim backed up by recent Steam data. The game reached a concurrent player count of nearly 70,000 over the weekend, but with the Season 1 update, Overwatch has already broken its own record and reached an all-time peak with over 124,000 concurrent players (and counting) as of this writing.

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After being announced in 2012, being cancelled and then revived in 2018, Mewgenics, the latest from Super Meat Boy creator Edmund McMillen and The End Is Nigh creator, Tyler Glaiel, is finally out, and it's a roaring success so far.

Launching today on Steam, the blend of tactical turn-based combat and feline breeding has amassed a large player base already, with SteamDB recording an all-time high of over 60,000 concurrent players. That's one of the largest of the day on Steam, with Mewgenics beating out heavy-hitters such as Overwatch, Battlefield 6, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, and Elden Ring Nightreign.

The launch has been so successful that Glaiel has confirmed that all development costs for the roguelite were recouped within three hours of the game being on sale.

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Despite repeated rejections from Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount continues to pursue a buyout of the company and has now sweetened its bid for the entertainment giant in an attempt to convince WBD shareholders to drop Netflix and go with Paramount instead.

Paramount's revised offer, announced on February 10, includes a $0.25 per share "ticking fee," payable to WBD shareholders for each quarter during the deal process that the buyout is not closed after December 31, 2026. Paramount said such an offer underscores the company's "confidence in the speed and certainty of regulatory approval" for the proposed buyout.

The $0.25 per share works out to about $650 million for each quarter the deal isn't closed after the end of December 2026. What's more, Paramount said it will pay the $2.8 billion termination fee to Netflix that the streaming company would be on the hook for if the deal doesn't materialize. Paramount also said it would offer "solutions to WBD's debt financing costs and obligations."

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Amazon Blu-Ray Sale

Buy One, Get One 50% Off 4K Blu-rays

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Amazon has kicked off a massive Buy One, Get One 50% Off special on its vast library of Blu-rays this week. As usual, all you need to do is add two eligible movies or TV shows to your cart from the eligible 4K Blu-rays, Blu-rays, and DVDs, and you'll receive a discount equal to half the cost of the lower-priced item at checkout. As a reminder, this is a mix-and-match sale, so you don't need to choose just movies to get the discount. You can also choose from books, board games, and more, so long as they're included in the sale.

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For this list, we've gathered together 4K Blu-rays specifically. These are all high-quality editions of movies, and, with the classics chosen below, many are brand-new transfers scanned directly from the original camera negatives and digitized to disc. You're also getting a nice bundle of bonus materials with most of the Blu-rays, allowing you to take a deep dive behind the scenes of your favorite flicks. We've also gathered together several of the 4K steelbooks included in the sale, so if you like your movie collection to have an artistic presentation on your shelf, these are the Blu-rays to grab.

Some of our highlights here include recent 4K releases, like the superb naval film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World starring Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany, a trio of bodacious action films from Arrow Video's remaster of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trilogy, and the ever-popular Galaxy Quest--by Grabthar's Hammer, what a movie.

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Unravel celebrated its 10-year anniversary on February 9, 2025. Below, we look back on the tiny passion project and speak with a developer about how it came together.

During EA's E3 2015 press conference, Coldwood Studios' Martin Sahlin came out on stage and revealed a cute platformer called Unravel. As he revealed Yarny's handcrafted origins and spoke about the heart and passion Coldwood had in creating this new experience, you could hear and see him growing more emotional. It wasn't an E3 flub, but a reminder that the industry is at its best when developers have space to make games they love.

Unravel turned 10 years old on February 9. I still remember the game's impassioned reveal and how I had such a wonderful time playing. Revisiting Unravel at its surprisingly distinct sequel ahead of this anniversary, I was taken aback by how refreshing these yarn-filled adventures were. I was even more excited to learn that some of the team is reuniting to work on a new game launching later this year.

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Firewatch celebrated its 10-year anniversary on February 9, 2025. Below, we examine the origins of the so-called "walking simulator" and why the fire appears to have died out.

When Firewatch launched on February 9th, 2016, it was easy to relate to the game's leads, Henry and Delilah. These characters spent a summer staring down as fire spread, slowly filling the forest around their watchtowers with smoke. Observers of the "walking sim" genre saw a similar blaze burn across the decade. It began with Dear Esther, sparked to scorching flame with the friction of Gone Home's release, and became a towering creative inferno with modern classics like Firewatch and What Remains of Edith Finch. As the 2010s came to a close, fans expected the fire to continue raging through the '20s.

Instead, it burned out. A decade after Campo Santo released this deeply human game about paranoia in a national park, walking sims have fallen from mainstream prominence. It's not that no one is making them anymore--there are tiny indies available on platforms like itch.io. But the teams that made the defining games have spun their wheels, sold their studios, or split. And The Game Awards nominations have dried up, too. Despelote is the only game in the genre to receive recognition this decade with two nods, compared to five for Firewatch, three noms and one win for Edith Finch, a Games for Impact nod for Sunset, and a Best Independent Game nomination for The Vanishing of Ethan Carter--all in a three-year span. In the 2010s, every year or two saw the release of an iconic, widely discussed entry, but we're six years into the 2020s and still waiting.

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