The shooter space is in a weird place right now. As studios and publishers have scrambled to cash in on the live-service boom, we've been inundated with various multiplayer games that have had soaring highs and devastating lows. As players, it's never been easier to sort the wheat from the chaff, but for developers, cutting through the noise has become a major headache. When Nomion Games co-head Dmitri Ogorodnikov split from Escape From Tarkov maker Battlestate Games to head up the new studio, he knew that its first game, Rush is Real, couldn't follow in the steps of commercial failures like Concord and Highguard. Speaking to PCGamesN, Ogorodnikov explains that Nomion's in-the-works debut cannot hit the same stumbling blocks.

Continuing its consistent streak of delivering a weekly Crimson Desert update, developer Pearl Abyss has scored another big win with its latest set of upgrades. Remember last week, when the developer snatched away the focus dodge flight glitch that was probably a little too powerful? It's now back, albeit in a slightly altered form, courtesy of an all-new skill. Alongside that comes the first implementation of a weapon display toggle, faster fast forwarding, better fast travel, and new additions to Oongka and Damiane that make both much more useful for actually exploring the open-world game.

In a new interview, former Bethesda veteran Pete Hines has explained why he left the company after a quarter of a century.

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In Faces of Death, filmmakers Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei (Cam, How to Blow Up a Pipeline), update the original cult classic "shockumentary" for the Instagram Reels era. John Alan Schwartz’s 1978 Faces of Death presents (mostly) fake footage of death and violence as the real thing, while in the 2026 film, a social-media-platform content moderator named Margot (Barbie Ferreira) becomes obsessed with an anonymous user who's posting violent clips inspired by that infamous '70s VHS tape. Convinced these viral videos are real snuff films, she tracks down the killer, Arthur (Dacre Montgomery), leading to a violent confrontation, as the movie pivots from internet-noir thriller into traditional slasher territory for a bloodsoaked finale.

To anyone who had strict parents that worried too much about video games: Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo sees you. While his friends were logging hours in Call of Duty, he was limited to mastering Wii Sports. Mom preferred “family-oriented” games over first-person shooters.