As family-friendly video game movie adaptations go, 2020’s Sonic the Hedgehog was better than most, but there was certainly plenty of room for improvement. Despite its mostly forgettable plot, Ben Schwartz’s performance as the energetic hedgehog, coupled with Jim Carrey’s most enjoyable on-screen slapstick in years, made for mostly entertaining viewing for both fans and newcomers. It’s when Sonic and Robotnik weren’t on screen that the movie fell flat, as the rest of the human cast ultimately failed to carry the humour and excitement generated by the hero and villain....

Rockstar has released another update for the Rockstar Games Launcher in a bid to address issues experienced by Red Dead Redemption 2 players. Users have encountered a host of issues since the game launched forPCon Tuesday, leading to the release of two previous launcher updates and aRed Dead Redemption 2 title updatedesigned to ease the problems. In the latest post on the Rockstar SupportTwitteraccount, players are advised to restart the launcher to apply the most recent update, which was released on November 7 and is said to include “additional improvements”....

Rockstar was planning remasters of Grand Theft Auto IV and Red Dead Redemption but decided to scrap them, it’s been claimed. Rockstarinsider Tez2, who’s accurately leaked information about the company’s games in the past including GTA Online content, claimed on Twitter that both games were in the works but are no longer going concerns. “As per a reliable source with clear accuracy on Rockstar plans, remasters of GTA IV and RDR1 were on the table a few years ago, but Rockstar chose not to proceed with the projects in mind,” they said....

The next batch of ‘free’ titles due to be offered to Amazon Prime members has been revealed. Prime Gaming, which is part of an Amazon Prime subscription, offers membersPCtitles to keep plus exclusive in-game content each month. Players will be able to claim seven free titles in September, which are listed in full below and include Football Manager 2023 (not available in Brazil), Absolute Tactics: Daughters of Mercy, and Dexter Stardust: Adventures in Outer Space....

A new store listing for Shadow Man Remastered suggests it will be coming to Xbox this week. The remaster of the critically acclaimed 1999 Acclaim title was already confirmed to be coming to thePS4on January 13 and theNintendo Switchon January 17, but anXboxrelease date has still yet to be announced. However,a new listingon the Xbox store and achievement list have been spotted byTrue Achievements, with the game’s release date listed as January 13, the same as that of the PS4 version....

Shenmue 3 reviews have started to go live following the game’s long-awaited release on Tuesday. The title’s arrival marks the end of a near-20-year wait for the third instalment in the series, following the release of Shenmue 2 for Dreamcast in 2001. Available on PS4 and PC, the RPG is the highest funded video game in Kickstarter history, having raised over $6.3 million from 69,320 backers to help bring the project to life....

Super Mario and Legend of Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto has said he’s confident little will change at Nintendo when he eventually leaves the company. Miyamoto – who joined the Japanese company from college in 1977 – is best known as the creator of some ofNintendo’s best-selling game franchises, including Super Mario, Donkey Kong,Legend of Zelda, F-Zero, Pikmin and Star Fox. At70-years-old, Miyamoto is now in retirement age. However, he haspreviously insistedhe’s not considering ending his career in the near future....

Sonic Team’s boss has suggested he isn’t keen to bring elements from the recent Sonic the Hedgehog movies and put them into future video games. With rare exceptions (such as character Tails), the Sonic movies feature a new cast of actors and altered designs to the video games, and also give Sonic and Knuckles new origin stories. Speaking to VGC in a recentSonic Frontiers interview, studio headTakashi Iizukasaid he would rather keep ‘game Sonic’ as the core of the video games, and attempt to expand on the series in order to appeal to a broader audience....

Firewalk Studios has revealed details about the post-launch roadmap for Concord. Sony’s upcoming live service game, which is priced at $40 / £35 ahead of itsPS5 and PC release on August 23, will launch with 16 playable Freegunners and unlockable variants, 12 maps and six modes. As previously reported, Concord won’t have a battle pass, but an in-game store will be introduced in October as part of the game’s first major content drop, Season 1: The Tempest....

In total, there are twoSpider-Bots in Central Park in Spider-Man 2; Iron Spider and Spider-Man 1602. Here are their locations. When you’re close to a Spider-Bot inSpider-Man 2, you can scan the area by using the R3 button. If you’re close enough, it will emit a pink ball around the Spider-Bot. Head over to ourSpider-Bot locationsguide for the others. Collect them all to unlockthe Spider-Man 2 Spider-Bots ending. Central Park Spider-Bot 1 – Iron Spider The first Central Park Spider-Bot is hidden in an awkward location, that isn’t entirely clear, even when pinging the area on the map....

What is the best Starfield background? If you’ve just startedStarfieldand you’re building your character, you may want to know what the bestStarfield backgroundis, and what each of theStarfield backgroundsactually do. Well, thankfully this guide explains every single one of theStarfield backgroundsso that you’re able to begin your journey on the right foot. Starfield Guides: Starfield New Game Plus|Starfield Contraband|Crimson Fleet quests|Ryujin Industries quests|Freestar Collective quests|Starfield fast XP gain|Starfield boost pack|Starfield console commands...

Grasshopper Manufacture’s Nintendo Switch exclusive, Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes is coming to PS4 and PC, it’s announced. The company did not specify any release timing and said fans should expect more news “soon”. Travis Strikes Again is the latest instalment inGoichi Suda’s cult action series and represents a significant departure for the franchise, with a move to a top-down perspective and a focus on retro-inspired mini-games. Currently, itsMetacritic averagesits at 67, with reviews spanning nearly the full breadth of the ten-point scale....

Nintendo will make “a small amount” of additional Switch SNES controllers available to buy in Europe soon, it’s said. Update, October 8:Switch SNES controllers are once again available to buy in Europe, although Nintendo says stock is “very limited”. Original story continues:Nintendoof Europeopened online orders for SNES controllers on MondaySeptember 30, two weeks after the product went on sale in the US. But shortly after online orders launched in Europe, some users reported having trouble successfully completing orders,leading to an apology from Nintendo, which said it was “looking into” the problem....