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It’s a good thing that Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab) is still a lot of fun offline, because its first few days have been plagued with slow servers and extended downtime. Now Konami says on its official status page (opens in new tab) that …

Oh, the woes of a Witcher in love; The Witcher 3 (opens in new tab): Wild Hunt features Yennefer of Vengerberg and Triss Merigold, two beautiful sorceresses chasing after Geralt’s heart. If matters of courtship and passion rank highly on your list of Witcher 3 features, good news: you’re about …

Update: Force Friday is here, and that means lots of Star Wars goodies to start adding to your Christmas list. You can see all the toys revealed thus far below, and once the event is done we’ll pick some of our favorites so we can nerd out together about all …

PlayStation 4’s 3.0 update was already looking like a significant step forward and now it’s getting even better. Sony has confirmed that PS Plus subscriber’s online cloud storage is going to increase from 1GB to 10GB so no more running out of space in that place you always forget exists. …

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab) is the most connected Metal Gear ever made, so you may not be surprised that it’s encountered some of the standard launch day difficulties. Unexpected “server connection issues” have led Konami to deactivate or pare down some of the …

Focus Features has released the first trailer for director Tom Hooper’s real-life drama The Danish Girl starring Eddie Redmayne as artist Einar Wegener, the first person to ever receive gender reassignment surgery, and Alicia Vikander as her wife Gerda. Based on the novel by Tom Eberhart, the film chronicles Wegener’s …

Legendary horror director Wes Craven has died at the age of 76, following a long battle with brain cancer. The filmmaker died at his Los Angeles home on Sunday, with his passing confirmed through his official Twitter feed. Famed for reinventing the teen horror genre with A Nightmare On Elm …

The first trailer for Nicolas Cage’s thriller Pay The Ghost has surfaced online, starring the former bat-eater as a family man whose loses his son at a Halloween parade. The real horror for Cage’s character Mike Cole isn’t the ghouls and ghosts banging on his door demanding candy, but the …

Fallout 4 (opens in new tab) isn’t out until November, but you can start building your character right now this work-in-progress Fallout 4 character creator. Go ahead, meticulously plot out (opens in new tab) your ideal build of stats and perks, I won’t judge (because I’m too busy doing the …

Right, I’ll get straight to the point. Xur has revealed the first set of Exotic weapons and armour for the Taken King expansion, which is landing next month on September 15. He has done so, like a massive, no-filter, breakfast-touting bore, on Instagram. Mercifully none of them come with a …