The new Dune Awakening trailer, debuted at Gamescom Opening Night Live, showed off its survival gameplay and announced a release window of early 2025. The trailer offers a peak into the general arc of the game. You’ll start Dune: Awakening by creating your character and choosing their background, before crashing into the middle of the planet. Staying out in the desert is perilous. You can get sun stroke and heat exhaustion from standing in the sun, and sandworms will detect you if you run on open ground. The trailer then showcases taking out an NPC encampment. The game offers multiple strategies and approaches: You can get in close with a blade, attack with guns, block ranged fire with a shield, and even deploy a hunter seeker drone to kill from afar. After the battle ends, you wi…

Funko Fusion, the upcoming pop culture-mashup from developer 10:10 Games, now has a playable demo, and it’s one where fans can experience the horrors of John Carpenter’s 1982 film The Thing as extremely out-of-place characters who definitely don’t belong there.One of those characters is none other than Mega Man. It’s been revealed that Capcom’s Blue Bomber will be playable in Funko Fusion, and fans can play as him in the free demo now available on Steam. Of course, players can also play as actual characters from The Thing, but why do that when you could be Freddy Fazbear of Five Nights at Freddy’s fame or He-Man instead? “We’ve been working on this game for three years, and this is the first time we’re inviting the public to experience it outside of recent timed convention demos,”…

Almost 40 years after he first appeared in the pages of Swamp Thing, John Constantine’s early years are getting reprinted in a deluxe hardcover compendium. This massive first volume collects Constantine’s solo adventures, and it’s currently priced at $139.50 (normally $150) on Amazon ahead of its October 15 release. At almost 1,600 pages in length, this is a gigantic tour across the seedy supernatural underbelly of London, and it comes with a ton of extra content as well.

John Constantine, Hellblazer Omnibus Vol. 1

$139.50 (was $150)

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Creator Ginny Di and publisher Media Lab Books are releasing a third-party product for Dungeons & Dragons called The Game Master’s Deck of Boons and Banes. As my friend group’s resident Dungeon Master, I could not be more excited about this 40-card deck and accompanying guidebook. Unlike The Deck of Many Things’ instantaneous chaos, the Deck of Boons and Banes introduces narrative-driven blessings and curses that can have long-standing consequences and lead to compelling roleplaying moments. Best of all, this deck oftentimes subverts the mechanics of D&D–even some that haven’t changed in a decade and continue to remain unchanged in the new edition–by adding the potential for danger and excitement to traditionally safe activities (like sleeping!).The Deck of Boons and Banes is bot…

Oftentimes, when people die in Warzone, it’s easy to assume that the other person that is cheating, rather than admit they were simply bested by an enemy player. That was the case for Expel, a Call of Duty streamer who was accused of hacking by a player they had eliminated. Instead of letting the other player believe they were hacking, they gave them a step-by-step breakdown of how they were able to kill them.Expel posted a clip to their official X/Twitter account. The clip showcases them using a heartbeat sensor to help determine where the other player is. Once they got a beat on their general location, they shot through a wall and went in for the kill.

hacking pic.twitter.com/4mHL0qULrk — Expel (…

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Update: Though the wrap party has occurred, filming continues on Season 2 of The Last of Us, according to executive producer Jacqueline Lesko in an Instagram post. This isn’t as uncommon as it might sound, as wrap parties are often scheduled ahead of the season wrap, allowing everyone to take part. Whatever the case, the cast and crew are clearly in the home stretch of filming. The original version of the story can be found below.Filming has wrapped on The Last of Us Season 2, but there remains extensive post-production work to go ahead of the sophomore season’s debut in 2025. Images from the HBO show’s Season 2 wrap party have emerged online, showing that the network held a pretty epic event to celebrate filming coming to a close.”Congratulations to the incredible production crew…