Multiple new Lord of the Rings games are in the early stages of development, Embracer Group–the company that owns Middle-earth Enterprises–has confirmed. As part of Embracer’s latest earnings briefing, the company said it is “actively testing and prototyping multiple new game concepts.”Embracer said its efforts in this area include “exploring a wide range of immersive and authentic gameplay within the Middle-earth world.”The publisher went on to say it will take an “honest and tactical approach” to making these games with an aim of creating “authentic storytelling.””We believe that engaging deeply and early with the community is essential to creating experiences that truly resonate,” Embracer said. “We have been diligently working with our own creative teams, other world-class creators, …

Bill Lawrence, the creator of Scrubs, Cougar Town, and recent hit Shrinking, as well as megahit Ted Lasso, has been busy with his new show for Apple TV+, Bad Monkey, starring Vince Vaughn. The show focuses on Vaughn as a former Miami cop who’s now a Florida Keys health inspector but trying to get back on the force.Even when promoting Bad Monkey the conversation goes back to Scrubs, the second show he co-created and one of the biggest hits of the early aughts. Scrubs ran for nine seasons total, seven with NBC and two with ABC, and is the subject of a constant conversation of a reunion, possibly a revival like Frasier and Will & Grace.Talking to Variety, Lawrence believes there’s some “real momentum” to make something like that happen, but it boils down to simple business standing in t…

Grand Theft Auto is one of the most popular and best-known franchises in gaming and expectations are high for the next entry in the series. The first and only GTA 6 trailer was released in December 2023, and the game itself is slated for sometime in Fall 2025. As rumored, the game returns to Vice City. Table of Contents [hide]

• First trailer is out now
• Who’s developing GTA 6?
• GTA 6 release date
• Impact of SAG-AFTRA strike
• Setting and Story
• Details from the trailer
• No Troy Baker
• Expect it to be $70
• The big leak
• “Something you’ve never seen before”
• What happens to GTA Online?

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 arrives on October 25, but you can get hands-on with the game’s beta as early as August 30. Activision has revealed the preload information ahead of the early-access period, and here is everything you need to know to make sure you have the beta installed for day one.Black Ops 6’s beta preload begins on August 28. Activision says the fastest way to jump into the beta immediately is to download the Season 5 Reloaded update for Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone that arrives on August 21. You’ll want to make sure this update is complete before August 30, as Activision says players with this update installed will automatically receive the beta files as an update to their existing game.

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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 looks to be one of the most exciting upcoming video game releases, but fans can already get their Tyranid-slaying fix thanks to the Space Marine board game adaptation, which is exclusive to Target and 20% off along with a long list of other tabletop games. The deal drops the Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine: The Board Game to $32 (was $40), and is eligible for free shipping. To get the lower price, you will need to make a free Target Circle account and sign in before adding the game to your cart. The discount will then automatically apply during checkout. See at Target Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine takes the basic conceit of the Space Marine video games–a lone Space Marine facing down overwhelming hordes of Tyranid aliens–and turns it into a two…

Sony and Ballistic Moon have confirmed that the remake of Until Dawn will officially launch on October 4 for PS5 and PC. A remake of the 2015 horror game that Supermassive Games originally developed, Until Dawn tells the story of a group of friends stuck on Blackwood Mountain and forced to make tough decisions as they attempt to survive a terrible night.If you’re looking to see just how much of a difference there is between the game, you can check out the trailer below showing off a comparison between the gamess. For the remake, Ballistic Moon said that its intention has not been to alter the events of the game, but to give it instead a “cinematic update” while also offering players a “more intimate experience” through the enhanced visuals. Remade entirely in Unreal Engine 5, Unti…

It’s no secret that a large number of Helldivers 2 players were unhappy with the game’s latest update. Fan-favorite weapons like the flamethrower were nerfed, among other unpopular changes. In response, players protested by allowing Helldiver 2’s world, Super Earth, to be nearly overrun by enemy forces. Now, the game’s developer, Arrowhead Game Studios, is sharing a message to Helldivers 2 fans with a roadmap to fix the title in 60 days.”We’ve spent the last week listening to feedback, reflecting about the path ahead for Helldivers 2 and how we want to continue developing the game,” said game director Mikael Eriksson on the Helldivers 2 Reddit page. “In short, we didn’t hit our target with the latest update. Some things we just didn’t get right–and other more fundamental inconsistencies i…

At D23 recently, Disney officially announced the title of the third Avatar movie–Avatar: Fire and Ash. But what is the significance of that title? Director James Cameron said in an interview that it took a while to find the right name for the film, and in the end, he hopes the title conveys that the film is focused on anger and violence, as well as the aftermath of that being grief and loss.”It took a long time to come up with a title that I felt resonated with what’s in the film,” Cameron told Entertainment Weekly. “I don’t think I could say too much about it until you actually see the film and you see what it means, but if you think of fire as hatred, anger, violence, that sort of thing, and ash is the aftermath. So what’s the aftermath? Grief, loss, right? And then what does that cause…

EA’s next big American football game, Madden NFL 25, releases on August 16. But fans can actually start playing much sooner, beginning this week. The early access start-date was announced as August 13, but, as was also the case with College Football 25 before it, you can actually begin playing earlier, starting today, August 12. Here’s everything you need to know about playing Madden NFL 25 early.

How to get early access

The Madden NFL 25 Deluxe ($100) and MVP ($150) editions unlock today, August 12. In addition to early access, the Deluxe edition includes in-game bonuses like 4600 Madden Points, the Christian McCaffrey elite player item, and XP boosts. The MVP edition includes all of that, plus a copy of College Football 25.

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This year marks the 70th anniversary of Creature from the Black Lagoon, a film that introduced one of the few Universal Monsters who hasn’t been endlessly remade. But the Gill-man may finally be getting a chance for a comeback, with reports that horror veteran James Wan is in negotiations to direct and produce a new Creature from the Black Lagoon remake.Via Deadline, Wan’s take on Creature from the Black Lagoon will be “a grounded modernized retelling that leans into visceral horror while paying respect to the original classic.” In the 1954 original, Ben Chapman and Ricou Browning played the Gill-man, a creature of unknown origin who ran afoul of an expedition in the Amazon. The creature also displayed a very obvious infatuation with a young woman named Kay Lawrence (Julia Adams), who did …