Marvel Snap‘s meta has gone through quite a few slumps. We’ve been plagued by Galactus, Alioth, and now Blob, and there’s always one particular card that’s at the center of it all: Professor X.

With this week’s OTA update, Professor X is finally getting a small slap on the wrist, though it’s worth noting that his core ability remains the same. Aside from X, a few other cards have also gotten small nerfs, including Viper, Werewolf by Night, Black Widow, and more.

Ever since Second Dinner announced the flexible Series drop system for Marvel Snap, things have felt dire, to say the least. We’ve not seen any Series drops in nearly a year, and the studio only spoke up about it a couple months back to state that there would be more news coming before the end of 2023.

Well, the news is finally here, and we’ll be getting some downgrades with the patch coming in early January. Here are all the Series drops that are happening on Jan. 9, 2024:

Mobile games typically get a bad rep for being pay-to-win and riddled with microtransactions, and look, we’re not here to dispute that. It’s absolutely true. If you want to have any hope of breaking into the top 1% of the leaderboard rankings for any mobile game, you’ll need to shell out some cash.

However, that’s not to say that there aren’t a few good ones out there that are actually very friendly to free-to-play players or light spenders. With that in mind, here’s a rundown of the best F2P-friendly mobile gacha games you can play in 2023.

A24 has risen in prominence in the last few years, putting out quality films like Hereditary, Midsommar, Lady Bird, and Uncut Gems, just to name a few. On the other side of the coin, video game developer and industry auteur Hideo Kojima is a huge film buff, and it’s widely known that he enjoys A24’s works as well. With all that in mind, the A24 adaptation of Death Stranding seems like a happy marriage.

Kojima Productions and A24 announced today that the studio would be adapting Death Stranding into a live-action movie.

The Last of Us came with a pretty fun and unique multiplayer mode in the form of Factions, and when The Last of Us Part II released, much of the player base was excited to see how Naughty Dog would iterate on an existing formula. We’d gotten a few updates over the past couple years, but as of today, the studio has officially decided to stop development on The Last of Us Online.

Essentially, while Naughty Dog was happy with the way things were progressing with the game, the vision for The Last of Us Online had become so massively ambitious that would require a lot of time and resources for the years to come. Things had gotten to a point where the company had to decide to either continue focusing their efforts on creating single-player games, or become a live service studio that focused on The Last of Us Online.

Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto franchise is one of the most popular and most profitable video game series in the year, and for good reason. They’re fun, they’re a real power fantasy, and they’re also the embodiment of the sandbox game that lets you do anything. Here’s our ranking of all 12 GTA games, from worst to best.

12. Grand Theft Auto

Let’s make one thing clear, none of the games on this list are bad. They not only helped to crate a whole new way of playing, but they have been influential in everything from design to tone. The game that started it off may be ‘last’ on this list, but that’s only because each of the games that followed it up were so incredible.

It’s no secret that The Day Before has had a tumultuous development cycle long before its early access launch on Steam. The game suffered from multiple delays and hiccups, but it finally made it to its early access release date last week. However, less than a week after its official launch, developing studio Fntastic has announced the studio’s closure.

You can read the statement for yourself down below:

Without a doubt, Baldur’s Gate 3 has been the talk of the town at least as far as the video game industry is concerned this year. Developed by Larian Studios, best known for making Divinity: Original Sin, Baldur’s Gate 3 is a DND-style RPG and it’s been lauded by critics across the board for its fantastic story and characterization.

The RPG swept up a whole ton of awards at The Game Awards 2023, and as you might’ve already guessed, it won the award of the night as well, the much coveted Game of the Year award. As usual, the announcement was preceded by a fantastic medley by the TGA orchestra, and the award was presented by actor Timothee Chalamet, who appeared in Dune, and is set to star in the upcoming Willy Wonka movie as well.

After working on No Man’s Sky for years, it seems Hello Games is finally ready to start on a new adventure and a new project. At The Game Awards today, Sean Murray took the stage to announce their new game, titled Light No Fire. You can check out the trailer for yourself down below.

Unlike No Man’s Sky, Light No Fire is a fantasy game set on Earth, and will feature multiplayer elements where players get to team up to explore the world and fight off various monsters. The game will also feature multiple biomes. It’s clear that Light No Fire uses the same engine as No Man’s Sky, and some of the environments might look a little familiar, but it’s clear that the vibe is going to be completely different.

Marvel is immovable, unflinching, it’s not going anywhere as far as the cultural zeitgeist is concerned. And while the video game scene for Marvel has been a little hit or miss in the past few years, this new announcement from Arkane Lyon and Bethesda has us excited. At The Game Awards this week, Arkane Lyon announced that they were currently working on a brand new Blade game.

Check out the trailer for yourself down below:

It wouldn’t be a real Game Awards ceremony without at least a mention of Hideo Kojima himself, who has since put out Death Stranding after leaving Konami and opening his new studio, Kojima Productions. The new game in question is titled OD, and yeah, it’s a weird one as you might expect.

You can check out the reveal trailer for yourself down below:

Supermassive Games is known for creating immersive, cinematic horror games. On the flipside of that, Behaviour Interactive is best known for working on Dead by Daylight, a multiplayer 4v1 horror game where the survivors must work together to outwit a killer. Put these two studios together, and you get a brand new project in the form of a new cinematic horror game set within Dead by Daylight’s universe.

Aforementioned project is titled The Casting of Frank Stone, and you can check out the trailer down below:

The last time we saw Ikumi Nakamura at The Game Awards, she unveiled Ghostwire Tokyo from Bethesda and Tango Gameworks, and made quite the impression on the audience. After departing Tango Gameworks, she founded a new studio called Unseen, and this year, she’s ready to unveil her new project, titled Kemuri.

You can check out the trailer for yourself down below:

Look, it may be a remake of an old PS2 game, but it’s still one of my most highly anticipated video game releases of 2024. Persona 3 Reload got a brand new trailer at The Game Awards 2023, and it still looks good. You can check out the trailer for yourself down below:

The trailer shows off plenty of Tartarus footage, where the characters get to fight Shadows and engage them in turn-based RPG combat. We also catch a glimpse of school life in Gekkoukan High, as well as the social link conversations with Nozomi and Akinari.

Daniel Mullins is perhaps best known for making Inscryption, the indie hit that took the internet by storm two years ago with its fourth wall-breaking shenanigans, and genre-bending gameplay mechanics. What most people may not know is that before Inscryption, he released another metafictional game called Pony Island.

At The Game Awards this week, he unveiled his new project: Pony Island 2: Panda Circus. You can check out the trailer for yourself down below:

This week’s Marvel Snap patch is one of the last sets of balance changes we’re getting in the game for 2023, and it’s a very big one. It comes with plenty of new features like the brand new deck builder feature, more emotes, as well as an album feature that rewards you for collecting variants from various artists.

More importantly, though, it also comes with tons of huge nerfs for some big cards. We’re talking Alioth, America Chavez, and Elsa Bloodstone. Here are the changes:

Starbreeze Entertainment is best known for working on and publishing the Payday series, and it looks like the company is ready to try something new, as they’ve just announced a new game that will be based on Dungeons & Dragons from Wizards of the Coast.

We are excited to unveil Dungeons & Dragons® as the IP for our next game, codename ”Project Baxter”. A co-operative multiplayer title to be released on all major platforms in 2026!

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Rockstar has just dropped their first teaser trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6, and it’s glorious. There’s plenty to pick out and parse through in this short minute-and-a-half video. Here are six little details you might’ve missed in the new GTA 6 trailer.

Dual Protagonists

You probably didn’t miss this one, but we figured we’d start with the most obvious thing first. This GTA 6 trailer was heavily focused on our new protagonist Lucia. But if the leaks are to be believed, and from what we saw in this trailer, we’re getting a dual protagonist setup with Lucia and her partner Jason.

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After over a year of teases and leaks, Rockstar has finally lifted the curtain on Grand Theft Auto 6. We’ve got a brand new trailer showing off the locale and new protagonists. Here’s everything we know about GTA 6 so far.

It’s Set in Vice City

Perhaps the most exciting thing about GTA 6 is its locale. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was originally released in 2002, and while we did get to revisit it briefly in Vice City Stories for the PSP in 2006, this is a city that has so much unrealized potential.

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After a long wait, it’s finally official. Rockstar has just dropped the first official trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, and the rumors are true. The game will be set in Vice City — a fictional version of Miami, USA — and will feature a new female protagonist.

You can check out the trailer for yourself down below:

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