Following a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the Hollywood puppetry wizard and director of Mad God is selling over 40 years of movie magic

Two decades ago, Robert Downey Jr. was who you hired if you wanted a memorably weird performance. Before his career renaissance in 2008 as the face of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Downey was a quirky character actor with a history of idiosyncratic roles. It can be fun to go back and reexperience some of his performances from his pre-MCU "weird little freak" era, like Two Girls and a Guy, Weird Science, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, or Chaplin.

Historically, middle-of-the-season DLC in Anno games tends to be weaker than what you'd get at the start or end. It's something for later expansions to build on, not necessarily an exciting addition in itself. So I had measured expectations for Anno 117: Pax Romana's Hippodrome DLC, and that was shortsighted of me. Sure, it's just one monument-class building. But this thing's great.

A few months ago, I warned readers that a tidal wave of new video games was coming in September. That came off the heels of a loaded State of Play showcase that put release dates for games like Marvel’s Wolverine and Silent Hill Townfall on the map. It looked like just about every video game was sticking to September to get a safe buffer from Grand Theft Auto 6 in November.

A leak at a multi-billion dollar company like Valve is a huge deal in itself. What happened on Aug. 29 was not merely a leak for the company, however: it was an information breach that affects most, if not all, major video game companies that published a game within a specific timeframe on the popular PC gaming platform, Steam.

A leaked archive said to contain around 12TB of old Valve development files, dated between 2003 and 2013, has surfaced online, and fans are already combing through it for any trace of the long-cancelled Half-Life 2: Episode Three.

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