A good sequel builds on what came before while retaining what worked the first time around. So with Cyberpunk 2, the upcoming sequel to Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt Red will likely want to retain the open-world William Gibson-esque fun of its 2020 RPG while giving players something new.

Update 52 and Season Three aren't scheduled to arrive in The Elder Scrolls Online until January, but you can get a taste of both in the newly-opened PTS cycle. 

World of Warcraft: Forever's character creation and name reservations are now live, letting you save some time on launch day by making your characters now rather than on launch day.

To access name reservations, you'll need to have Forever preinstalled on Battle.net and have purchased at least the $30 Skyborne Heroic Pack, which grants access to the game's new optional playable race, the Skyborne elves. Once you've done that, you can simply log into the game, select the ruleset you want to play on, and create your characters.

You can create and name up to three characters ahead of launch day. Unlike in other versions of developer Blizzard's MMORPG, Forever requires both a first name and last name for characters, giving you more options and creative freedom when it comes to names. 

When making a character, make sure you create them on the server ruleset you intend to play on. Once the game is live, Blizzard said there won't be a way to transfer characters to different rulesets. It's also worth noting that on player vs. player rulesets, you will only be able to create characters of a single faction on that specific ruleset, so make your choice of Alliance or Horde wisely. 

One might think with the game's beta over and around a week to go until Forever's release that Blizzard is slowing down its communication. Instead, Blizzard is releasing all kinds of Forever news and updates, including major changes to racial abilities, promises to improve its controversial layering system, and the last-minute addition of another server option. 

In case you weren't excited enough, Blizzard additionally just dropped a Forever PvP-focused animated music video to hype you up even more. The trailer shows a battle between the Horde and Alliance amidst a nu-metal soundtrack performed by vocalists Amy Lee, Poppy, and Courtney LaPlante.

Forever launches November 4 on PC and for the first time in WoW history will be fully playable on a controller.  

New details have come to light about A24's Elden Ring movie, including how Amazon could be involved and its beefy runtime.

According to Deadline, Amazon MGM is buying up the Elden Ring movie's Pay-1 streaming rights for numerous international markets in a deal potentially worth "tens of millions of dollars." The site reported that there could be "interesting activations" on Amazon's Twitch platform as part of the deal. A Pay-1 rights deal means the company gets exclusive rights to broadcast a movie after it ends its theatrical run and comes to home video.

Netflix, for example, paid Sony billions of dollars for a Pay-1 deal that includes the live-action Zelda movie. That was a global deal for many movies, though, and the report said Amazon MGM is booking an international deal specifically for the Elden Ring movie. It remains to be seen where the Elden Ring movie could stream after it wraps up in theaters.

The Elden Ring movie finished filming earlier this year and Industrial Light & Magic is now working on post-production efforts ahead of the movie's March 2028 release in theaters.

The film is based on From Software's game and was written and directed by Alex Garland, but the story details are being kept secret. Kit Connor is playing the lead, and the movie will apparently feature "battles between his character and impressive monsters and dragons."

The script is so secretive that A24 is reportedly booking flights for its staffers to potential international rights-buyers instead of sending the script digitally to ensure an A24 staffer is in the room as the script is being read. Additionally, the report said the script is at least 180 pages, meaning the film could stretch to a mighty three hours.

It was also reported that Elden Ring could become a movie franchise if the film does well, but no sequel plans are officially set yet.

In addition to Connor, the Elden Ring movie will star Cailee Spaeny, Ben Whishaw, Tom Burke, Jonathan Pryce, and Nick Offerman.

Finally, the Deadline report backed up the earlier rumor that the Elden Ring movie cost as much as $200 million to produce, making it A24's most expensive film ever.