One step closer.
Koei Tecmo unveiled its new Musou game Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment earlier this year for the Switch 2.
If you’re wondering how development is tracking, the latest update is the Switch 2 title has just been rated by the classification board in Brazil.
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Following the LEGO Game Boy teaser earlier this year, this new model building set has now been officially revealed.
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It looks like discounts are back on the menu (I need to watch the Lord of the Rings again). Alienware’s top-tier laptops are seeing price drops up to $1,200, with RTX 5090 and 4080 options going for less than you’d expect. Looking for a cracking desktop deal instead? The iBUYPOWER Element Pro is still one of the best 4K‑ready desktop deals around, and we’ve pulled in a couple of high-capacity Anker power banks for anyone lugging around their Steam Decks and ROG Allys (Allies?). On top of that, we’ve got some of the best GPU deals going right now — including PNY’s 5060 Ti and other fresh drops still in stock. Let’s get into it:
Double Fine Productions has made heavy metal video game Brütal Legend free for 666 minutes only to honor heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne, who died this week aged 76.
The Black Sabbath frontman passed away on July 22 just a few weeks after he performed at the Back to the Beginning farewell concert.
Osbourne voiced the character The Guardian of Metal in Brütal Legend. The character’s appearance and personality was based on Osbourne himself.
In a post on social media, the Microsoft-owned Double Fine said it had made Brütal Legend free on Itch.io. “But this incredible deal will only last for 666 minutes, as the prophecy foretold,” the studio continued. “So get yourself clicking, before it disappears like a demon in the night…”
Brütal Legend is Double Fine’s 2009 heavy metal-themed action adventure real-time strategy hybrid, which stars Jack Black as roadie Eddie Riggs. Brütal Legend was published by EA after Activision dropped the game, and Double Fine and Activision ended up in a legal battle over the publishing issues.
Ozzy Osbourne starred in the game itself alongside fellow metal icons Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, and Lita Ford. Double Fine boss Tim Schafer selected over 100 metal songs to be included in the game.
Double Fine, which is busy developing Keeper for PC and Xbox, announced the deal at 4pm PT, which means it ends at 3am on Thursday, July 24.
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Back in March we got to reveal Magic: The Gathering’s very first Spider-man cards as part of a special Scene Box outside of the main set. Well today, as part of San Diego Comic-Con 2025, we’re back with an exclusive look at some of the first cards that will actually be a part of that Standard-legal set – and this cast of five spideys will surely look familiar to any Spider-Verse fans out there.
Flip through the slideshow below to see all five Spider-Man cards, as well as an alternate comic book art style for the titular webslinger himself.
Magic: The Gathering developer Wizards of the Coast previously told IGN that it wasn’t limiting this set to a single comic run, and that’s made quite clear with this early look. All five cards are different versions of Spider-Man depicted as legendary creatures: at Uncommon you have Spider-Man Noir and the robotic SP//dr piloted by Peni Parker, at Rare are Spider-Man 2099 and the delightfully goofy Spider-Ham, and finally at Mythic Rare is the man himself, Peter Parker, who flips over to become the Amazing Spider-Man.
That last card is especially interesting as it is double-sided. The front is simply Peter Parker, while the back is his Amazing Spider-Man alter ego, and you have some flexibility in how to cast him. Magic has had what are called “modal double-faced cards” before that allow you to cast either side from your hand, but this is the first I know of that also allows you to pay a cost to flip it while the front side is already in play – in this case, you can play Peter Parker for two mana, and then pay four more on a later turn to have him transform.
If you do, you get access to his very flavorful ability called web-slinging, which allows you to pay just three mana to cast Legendary spells if you also return a tapped creature to your hand. This card is sure to be a popular leader in Magic’s most popular format, Commander, as it will let you cheat all sorts of big and expensive legendary creatures into play far earlier than expected. And because this card will also be legal across Magic’s regular competitive formats, giant dinosaurs and terrifying demons alike could be swinging onto the table.
The rest of the cast here is a clear nod to Sony’s excellent Into the Spider-Verse animated films, only missing a take on Peter B. Parker and Spider-Gwen to complete the first movie’s main cast (though there’s plenty of time for those to potentially be revealed themselves before the set launches in September). But before you get too excited, this was almost definitely just a nod to their reveal as part of this year’s Comic-Con, as these cards and this set in general are not actually tied to that series in any direct way.
And while we may not have a second version of Peter to show here, we do have an alternate art treatment for this one – one that is sure to excite any comic book fans out there. This secondary version shows off what’s called the “Iconic Moments” Booster Fun treatment for this set, and all of the cards that use it will feature art from the pages of Spider-Man’s adventures. This first one is taken straight from the cover of 1963’s The Amazing Spider-Man #1, complete with artist credits for Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko.
If you happen to be in the San Diego area yourself, Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Spider-Man event at the Hard Rock Hotel where fans will be able to go hands-on with the set’s Welcome Decks – smaller preconstructed decks themed around Spider-man that are meant to be an intro point for new players as they learn the ropes. WOTC has previously stated that its Universes Beyond crossovers have brought a huge amount of new players through the door, and just today Hasbro revealed that the recent Final Fantasy set made a whopping $200 million on its first day.
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Bethesda has broken its silence on the future of Starfield, insisting it’s still working on updates and will share details on the “exciting things” it has planned in the coming months.
Starfield players have for some time now expressed their dissatisfaction at the level of communication coming out of Bethesda on the future of the game, with its no-show at June’s Xbox Games Showcase considered the final straw for some.
The Starfield community had hoped Bethesda would announce something to do with the game at its show, but while The Elder Scrolls Online and Fallout 76 both got their moment in the spotlight, Starfield skipped proceedings entirely. No DLC, no expansion, no PlayStation 5 release… nothing.
Now, ahead of Gamescom in August, Bethesda has piped up with a statement on Steam that is as brief as it is vague, but at least addresses Starfield’s future and promises more content is in the works.
“Looking ahead, we’re continuing work on future updates and will share more about the exciting things we have planned for Starfield in the coming months,” Bethesda said in a post accompanying Starfield Update 1.15.222, which is in beta form on Steam. Patch notes are below.
Starfield players are hoping this means the promised second Starfield expansion is still coming, and that Starfield may follow the likes of Forza Horizon 5 and make the jump to PlayStation 5.
Starfield launched in September 2023 as Bethesda’s first brand new IP in 25 years, but it was not as well received as the studio’s previous games in the Fallout and The Elder Scrolls franchises, and the Shattered Space expansion, released a year later in September 2024, has a ‘mostly negative’ user review rating on Steam.
Starfield went on to reach 15 million players, but the question of whether Bethesda might walk away from the game to focus on its other franchises has been a running theme since release. In June 2024, Bethesda insisted it remained committed to supporting Starfield, and confirmed at least one other story expansion would release following Shattered Space. And in an interview with YouTube channel MrMattyPlays, Bethesda Game Studios’ Todd Howard said the developer was aiming to release an annual story expansion for “hopefully a very long time.”
Bethesda was seriously affected by Microsoft’s latest round of layoffs, with cuts to its London office and ZeniMax Online Studios. Its unannounced MMORPG was canceled, and its veteran studio head stepped down.
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Pro sales.
We know the Switch 2 has sold incredibly well worldwide, with the console shifting 1.6 million units in June 2025 in the US alone. Now we have an idea of just how well the pricey, but excellent, new Pro Controller has done, too.
Game File’s Stephen Totilo has shared Circana’s estimated Switch 2 Pro Controller sales, and it’s around 512,000 in the United States — that means around one in three people picking up a Switch 2 have also grabbed a shiny new controller to go with. That’s around a 32% attach rate.
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Look, I love the Steam Deck. In fact, we’re such big fans of it in our home that I have an OLED and my wife has the LCD model I had before it.
While we have put together lists recommending the best DC board games and Marvel board games on the market, there are still plenty of great titles out there that don’t fall under either of those banners and instead highlight the “superhero” motif itself. These are games that pit players against one another as heroes and villains, and those that let you work together to stop some dastardly villains. This list takes a look at some of those games that will appeal to fans of capes and spandex, regardless of publisher.
If you don’t have time to peruse the blurbs, you can see all the items on this list in the catalog above. But if you want more info about any of these superhero board games, read on for the info.
With art that looks like it was pulled straight out of a comic book, Kapow! from Wise Wizard Games has players filling the role of either heroes or villains as they duke it out in this dice-battling game, players roll a set of dice and then, by locking in different combinations of faces, trigger their respective hero or villain’s signature skills and attacks. While on the surface this may sound similar to Dice Throne, one of the coolest features of Kapow! is its dice crafting mechanic, where you can create unique dice by inserting different symbols into the dice faces, helping to increase the odds of getting those rolls you want. Currently, there are two volumes of Kapow!, each containing six characters – three heroes and three villains – that can be mixed and matched together.
Sentinels of the Multiverse is a cooperative board game where teams of heroes struggle against a villain in an effort to thwart their dastardly plan of the week. Both the heroes and villains come with unique 40-card decks that show off the characters’ various skills and play styles. One of the things that sets Sentinels apart is how the game also factors in the environment, with each environment also coming with its own deck and effects that further expand the game’s replayability. To keep things manageable, players will only have to worry about their own hero’s deck, with the “game” handling the villain and environment decks. With characters like Citizen Dead or the one-man-army, Militia, Sentinels of the Multiverse feels like a relic of early ’90s comics, in all of the best ways.
Featuring characters from various Image Comics series including Radiant Black, the Massive-verse Fighting Card Game is a fast-paced 1v1 card game where two players choose from a roster of heroes, each with their own unique deck, and then proceed to attack, block, and hurl large ultimates at one another until only one is standing. Built on the backbone of Solis Game Studios’ Pocket Paragon system, gameplay feels like a mix of the classic War card game and rock-paper-scissors, where both players play down their cards for the turn and then reveal them simultaneously, with some card types being able to counter others. The Massive-verse FCG is a great little game to keep in your car or bag to bust out when you have a few minutes of downtime and are in the mood for a quick brawl. If you want a bit more variety or to play with up to two more players, you can snag the game’s Team Up Expansion, which introduces four new character decks and 30 special team-up cards for 2v2 games.
Invincible: The Hero-Building Game puts players in the superhero boots of the characters from the hit comic and animated series, Invincible. You can play as Atom Eve, Rex Splode, or Robot, and you and your friends are tasked with rescuing civilians, beating up minions, and stopping the big-bad of the day. Featuring a handful of scenarios, each with different goals to complete, this is a deck and bag-building game where you can level up and improve your hero as the game progresses. There’s a push-your-luck aspect that comes into play by letting you fire off more of your powers – but draw too many black cubes, and you crash out and end your turn. The included scenarios can be played either as standalone games or strung together in order as a sort of campaign game. And if you’re looking for additional challenge, you can pick from three difficulty levels – Easy, Normal, or Hardcore.
Take up arms as an Astro Knight to defend your home planet in this cooperative deck-builder that has a unique twist – you don’t shuffle your deck. More of a Guardians of the Galaxy approach to superheroes than Spider-Man or Superman, Astro Knights has a science fiction aesthetic, as you and your fellow knights build your decks, playing and equipping cards as you fight against the boss you are going up against. For fans of Aeon’s End, this game will feel familiar, as it is a reimplementation of that game’s systems.
Hellboy: The Board Game is a dungeon-crawling adventure where you and your friends move detailed minis of members of the BRPD like Hellboy, Abe Sapien, or Roger, as you work to solve different cases, taking down any bosses and enemies that get in your way. Each playable character comes with a set of skills and attacks that are unique to them, which you will need to use if you have any hope of succeeding in the game’s included scenarios. Besides simply navigating around the modular board that you set up before each game, players also need to adjust on the fly as the Deck of Doom throws wrenches in your way at every turn, helping keep things exciting. This game can be played both as one-off sessions or as a strung-together campaign, and with a bunch of expansions released, there is plenty of Hellboy goodness out there for fans of the Dark Horse Comics series.
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