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Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls will continue its Year 1 DLC roadmap with Thor (Jane Foster) this winter, with two more characters coming in 2027. Developer Arc System Works confirmed the lineup alongside Evo France 2026. The Jane Foster version of Asgard's God of Thunder is now officially set to follow Phoenix Cyclops after he releases November 2, 2026, with today's announcement coming with both a sneak peek at her Marvel Tokon model in Odin's Vault on Asgard. The clip doesn't show too much, only teasing that we'll probably see Jane fight off Loki while wielding Mjolnir when a proper gameplay trailer premieres at a later date. Arc System Works said she's scheduled to launch in Marvel Tokon "winter 2027," so expect to see her arrival sometime before March of next year. Despite some concerns from players that poor sales could jeopardize the Marvel fighting game's future, at least two more characters will arrive in spring and summer 2027, too. Yes, Spi...

The new Arc Raiders 2.0 update has triggered a seven-month high for its concurrent player count on Steam as fans show up for its "Spider-Man" grappling hook, a new map, a free weekend, and more. Embark's once-viral extraction experience has had a rough few months. As the studio slowed down updates and vowed to rework its divisive Expedition prestige system , Arc Raiders players have largely left it behind, hoping to one day return to Speranza should more enticing updates arrive. After reaching an all-time peak of nearly 500,000 players on Steam (via SteamDB ), it's consistently struggled to reach more than 35,000 players on PC since July. It was a fall from grace that's left fans missing the honeymoon phase, but the Frozen Trail update, which launched two days ago, October 8, across PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, has almost immediately brought back some of that hype. In September, Arc Raiders reached a player count low of just 10,000 on Steam. As of th...

Blumhouse Productions has partnered with YouTube star Matthew ‘MatPat’ Patrick to create a series of movies based on viral indie horror games, and Amanda the Adventurer is first on the docket. Representatives from Blumhouse and MatPat confirmed this partnership at New York Comic Con 2026, where they said the YouTuber has “a few projects in the works” with the studio. “I am proud to announce that I’m working with Blumhouse to launch some new movies. I am taking some of my all-time favorite indie games and horror channels from the interwebs and partnering with Blumhouse to bring them to the big screen,” MatPat said at the panel. The first of these is Amanda the Adventurer, a first-person, puzzle-solving indie horror game that sees the player character unravel an unsettling mystery involving a low-budget animated children’s show of the same name. MatPat announced that he and Blumhouse are currently in talks with writers and directors, saying they’re “actually moving fast” to get this pro...

Xbox console exclusive Gears of War: E-Day is reportedly off to a soft start after reaching an estimated 230,000 copies sold in its first week. The alleged sales update arrived from Alinea Analytics' head of marketing analysis, Rhys Elliott, who shared early data for the Gears prequel on X/Twitter. After arriving via early access last week (its full launch arrived this past Tuesday), Gears of War: E-Day has reportedly moved just 230,000 copies across PC and Xbox devices. Steam sales account for 168,000 of that number, with Xbox sales, including both console and PC, totaling just 62,000. These numbers, which are unofficial figures that have not been backed by Microsoft in any official capacity and should be taken with a grain of salt, are low for the game leading the charge on Xbox's refocus toward exclusive games, as players shift their attention from purchasing the base experience to dipping their toes in with Game Pass. Game Pass is seemingly to blame for its performance re...

Smile 2 star Kyle Gallner is making it known that he’s ready and willing to play V in Paramount’s live-action film adaptation of Cyberpunk 2077. Cyberpunk 2077 has come a long way from its roots as a tabletop RPG. Thanks to CD Projekt Red’s video game and its standout expansion, as well as the critically-acclaimed Edgerunners spinoff anime from Studio Trigger, fans of the gritty sci-fi series are eating well. They’re about to get fed even more, as Paramount revealed that it is developing a live-action movie based on the franchise. Thus far, we’re not sure of any plot details, so it’s possible that we could follow V’s adventures with Johnny Silverhand, or Idris Elba’s Solomon Reed before he meets V — or heck, maybe even Edgerunner 2’s Weak Kingsley, for all we know! What we do know is that there’s no shortage of possibilities for this film, and that’s what has fans so excited. One of these fans is none other than actor Kyle Gallner, who is raring to step into Night City as the male v...

Ben Affleck has revealed he plays shooters like Fortnite and sometimes ends up getting into arguments with kids in voice chat. When speaking on the New Heights podcast , Affleck was asked about the inspiration for some of the costumes in his latest film, Animals. The new Netflix thriller features a character wearing a fuzzy bunny mask, and Affleck stated that he took inspiration from Fortnite for that particular costume. He noted that his son was taking an interest in Fortnite skins and kept calling them "tough." Affleck joked that he didn't quite understand what was "tough" about a character wearing a bunny mask, but utilized it as an inspiration. "I thought these costumes are so kind of random and unusual, that's what I based the costumes on," said Affleck. "I thought he'd be getting them off games." The actor also noted that he plays quite a few games himself, including sports titles like Madden and 2K, as well as shooters. Affleck...