PlayStation Plus Free Game for February Could Be Critically-Acclaimed PS4 Game

Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate have lost one the highest-rated games available through the subscription service and what is widely considered one of the best games of all time. Over the years, Rockstar Games has delivered some of the best games the industry has ever seen. GTA 5 is the second best-selling game of all time for a reason. What makes Rockstar impressive though is that it's been doing this consistently for a while. For example, in 2004 it released one of the best games of that generation, GTA San Andreas, which was originally a PS2 exclusive when it was released. The classic GTA game has been available via Xbox Game Pass since December, but no more.

A popular Xbox 360 game is now free for a limited time, courtesy of Xbox Live Gold. The Xbox 360 is the best generation for Xbox so far. Not only is it the best-selling Xbox console to date by some margin, but it's the only Xbox console to give its PlayStation counterpart -- in this case, the PS3 -- a run for its money. The Xbox Series X|S look poised to replicate this success this generation against the PS5, but right now it's too early to make any calls. If the pair of Xbox Series consoles are going to be as popular as the Xbox 360, they will need great exclusive games like the Xbox 360 had.

Following its announcement from earlier in the year that Nintendo eShop support on the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS systems would end in March 2023, Nintendo has begun winding down some of the eShop's associated features. One of those features will be retired on May 23rd and marks the first stage of the shutdown plans outlined by Nintendo whenever it made its announcement. On that day, Wii U and 3DS owners will no longer be able to add funds to their accounts on those platforms via credit card payments.

There's a new game on Steam as of this week that's called V Rising, and if you haven't already heard of it, perhaps now is the time to give it a look. Plenty of people apparently already have even though the game only just now entered early access with developer and publisher Stunlock Studios announcing this week that the survival game already has over 500,000 total players with its concurrent peak already hitting 130,000. It's only available on Steam, however, so you'll need a PC to play, but the system requirements are fortunately forgiving enough to accommodate different setups even if yours is a bit dated.

Nintendo Switch Online recently expanded with the addition of GameCube and Sega Genesis games. According to a plethora of rumors, the next console the subscription service will expand courtesy of will be the Game Boy. As you would expect, Nintendo isn't commenting on these rumors, but it did recently tease further expansion of the subscription service coming later this year, which in turn has ignited speculation that Game Boy expansion will happen at some point this year.

Dragon Ball Super fans love a good fight, so their biggest wish became clear when Ultra Ego Vegeta hit the series. The epic power boost left netizens salivating, and they wanted nothing more than to see Vegeta fight alongside Ultra Instinct Goku with the godly form. And now, well – the manga is delivering on the big wish!

A new Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake update has Star Wars fans looking forward to the PC and PS5 game excited. For one, it's confirmed that more news about the remake is coming in the next few months. Meanwhile, it has also confirmed that developer Aspyr Media is well aware of the gravity of the remake, which should put to bed any concerns the remake will be nothing more than a quick cash grab.

The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of 20th Century Fox meant bringing a lot of iconic franchises into the realm of Disney, which also means that Marvel Comics is able to dive deep into all corners of a variety of franchises, including the iconic Alien series. Coming this summer is an all-new Alien comic series from writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson and artist Julius Ohta, which will depict the deadly xenomorph serving as a treacherous threat, but also as potentially being the key to humanity's salvation. Learn more about the new Alien series below before it hits shelves on August 10th.

May 20th is National Streaming Day – an unofficial holiday that Roku conjured up in 2014 to celebrate the technology that allows us to stream movies, music, and more just about anywhere. Naturally, these events are the perfect opportunity to offer up a deal, which is exactly what Hulu is doing with their $1 for the first 3 months subscription offer.

Netflix is bringing out a "Mystery Box" feature to help kids start watching something new. All the parents of small children just breathed a sigh of release. Comfort shows have become a normal part of the streaming landscape. But kids can have trouble breaking out of the favorite programs to try other cartoons. Mystery Box helps younger viewers discover other Netflix Kids content by encouraging them to select a show at random. Like most content curation at Netflix, individual viewers have only their personalized results put into the Mystery Box's content. From there, fans are encouraged to peek and see what's inside. It's not mandatory and more like a nudge to broaden your viewing habits. (Netflix may have inadvertently just thrown parents tired of watching the Boss Baby for 3 straight weeks a bit of a life raft.) Check out what TJ Marston, Netflix's director of product innovation for kids and family had to say.

Marvel's Wolverine has gained a new narrative director in the form of Walt Williams. Insomniac Games has quickly built up a reputation for its as some of the best storytellers in gaming. The team really showed its potential with games like Resistance, but found major critical and commercial acclaim with its Spider-Man games. Although Insomniac is deep into development on Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Insomniac also confirmed that it is working on Marvel's Wolverine. This will be the first AAA Wolverine game since Activision's beloved X-Men Origins: Wolverine, so the bar has been set for the character.

The Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X are reportedly getting a new feature that will be familiar to anyone who owns a PS4, but not a PS5. Microsoft has slowly but surely been improving both the Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X through regular updates that usually come with a new feature or two alongside a variety of improvements. To this end, it looks like a new feature in the works for the pair of Xbox consoles has leaked early.

Call of Duty: Warzone 2 will reportedly feature a much-requested, long-awaited feature. Call of Duty: Warzone is one of the best battle royale games thanks to it using Modern Warfare as a foundation. It has incredibly tight and satisfying gunplay, fun maps that allow for all kinds of strategies, vehicles, and much more. With that said, there are still some kinks that need to be worked out, and that is largely because of that aforementioned foundation. There are some huge issues with things like movement in Warzone, such as the fact your character struggles to climb up some very simple rocks and can't swim. Thankfully, it seems like one of those things will be fixed in the upcoming sequel.

Rent-A-Girlfriend will finally be returning for its second season later this Summer, and the series is getting ready for its new episodes with a new trailer and poster highlighting Ruka Sarashina! The debut anime adaptation for Reiji Miyajima's original Weekly Shonen Magazine manga series was one of the few new anime that were actually able to release during the tumultuous Summer 2022 anime schedule. It managed to make such a hit with fans that it was no surprise to see that after the end of the first season there were already plans in place to continue the anime with a second.

A popular PS3 game is getting a remaster via Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S, and Xbox Series X. Over the course of the PS3 generation, many great PlayStation IPs got their start, such as Uncharted and The Last Us. Many of these series have lived on through the PS4 and PS5, which is great because the lack of PS3 backward compatibility means they would be stranded otherwise. One of the games, Shatter, isn't as well known as the likes of Uncharted and The Last of Us, but many hardcore PlayStation fans will remember when it was released in 2009 as a PSN-only game to an impressive 86 on Metacritic. A remaster of this game was released by Netflix in 2022, and now this remaster is coming to the aforementioned platforms.

A new Call of Duty report has leaked some features that Raven Software is planning to introduce with Call of Duty: Warzone 2. The report comes the way of prominent industry insider and leaker, Tom Henderson, who outlines five distinct features that are being added. The most notable may be a new "interrogation feature" where players can interrogate downed enemies to reveal the locations of their teammates. If this feature sounds familiar, it's because it's stripped straight from Rainbow Six Siege.

On December 9, 2019, 2K Games announced a new studio called Cloud Chamber and announced a new BioShock game, tentatively dubbed BioShock 4. At the time of reveal, we saw nothing of the game and got zero official details about the game. Three years later and this hasn't changed, but according to a new rumor, it may finally change later this year. While Cloud Chamber and 2K Games still aren't talking about the project, and while there's been no suggestion this will change anytime soon, a new rumor claims the game will likely be revealed this year, which isn't too surprising considering several rumors suggested the game was ready to be revealed as early as last year.

A new Tiny Tina's Wonderlands update was released today alongside patch notes that revealed everything Gearbox did to the game, or at least everything it did to the game that was notable. And the update, while fairly large, isn't actually brimming with consequential changes or improvements. That said, it did apparently add a bug that is wiping story progress. Naturally, this was not mentioned in the patch notes.

A popular PS1 game is getting a new feature over 23 years later, courtesy of PlayStation Plus. PS Plus is expanding next month with PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium, the latter of which gives subscribers access to a library of backward compatible games across PS1, PS2, PS3, and PSP. One of the games that's going to be included in this library is 1999's Syphon Filter, one of 1999's highest-rated games and one of the most popular PS1 games across the entire generation. At release, the game garnered a 90 on Metacritic and spawned a series that consists of several games spanning PS1, PS2, and PSP. We haven't seen anything from the series since 2007, but it's going to be included in PS Plus Premium.

A new Mortal Kombat 12 rumor has good news for MK fans. NetherRealm Studio's most recent release came in 2019 when it released Mortal Kombat 11. The well-known and documented release pattern of the Chicago-based studio suggested Injustice 3 was going to release in 2021. Obviously, this didn't happen. In fact, not only did this not happen but we are now half away through 2022, and NetherRealm Studios still hasn't even revealed what it's working on, let alone released anything. A new rumor suggests the former could change this year though.