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The 76th Emmy Awards have arrived and they celebrated the best of the best in the world of television from the past year. Shogun, The Bear, and Baby Reindeer led the night with four wins each, but there were a ton of winners from a wide range of shows.Shogun entered tonight as the leader in nominations with 25, and, when counting the Creative Arts Emmys, ended with 18. During the main show, Shogun walked away with the Emmys for Drama Series, Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Hiroyuki Sanada), Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Anna Sawai), and Directing for a Drama Series (Frederick E.O. Toye). With its 18 wins, Shogun set a record for the most wins by a show in a single season.Which Emmy Winners Should You Stream Right Now?The Bear broke its own record from last year by winning 11 Emmys during t…

Ubisoft is adding offline modes to both The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest but isn't bringing back the original game following its shutdown in March.The publisher said on X/Twitter that it heard fans' concerns about the two currently active The Crew games eventually being pulled too, and would add the offline modes as a result. The Crew first launched in December 2014 but, almost a decade later, was pulled from storefronts and taken offline, meaning even those who paid full price for the open world racer could no longer play it.Fans responded with frustration and anger at the decision, but also worry what the policy meant for the two games still available.…

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has revealed the PC and PlayStation 5 co-op shooter's next Premium Warbond, dubbed Chemical Agents, alongside a September 19 release date.While Chemical Agents does not include any new weapons, it adds two stratagem variants — the TX-41 Sterilizer, which lets you spray a gas at the Terminids and Automatons, and the Guard Dog's ‘Dog Breath,’ which is a corrosive gas sprayer — and, in keeping with the alien exterminator theme, the G-4 Gas grenade, which covers the whole area in a cloud of noxious fumes.Explaining the decision to include new stratagem variants but no new weapons, Katherine Baskin, social media and community manager at Arrowhead, said in a post on the PlayStation Blog: “Adding stratagem variants to Warbonds is new with Chemi…

Annapurna Interactive's entire gaming staff has resigned from the company following a leadership dispute, according to a Bloomberg report.The report, which IGN can confirm based on conversations with our own sources, states that Annapurna Interactive president Nathan Gary had recently been in negotiations with Annapurna founder and billionaire Megan Ellison to spin the gaming segment off as its own company. However, Ellison eventually pulled out of negotiations, at which point Gary resigned. Almost 30 other individuals, including division co-heads Deborah Mars and Nathan Vella, as well as the entire remaining staff of Annapurna Interactive, joined him.“All 25 members of the Annapurna Interactive team collectively resigned,’’ Gary and the resigned staff said in a joint statement …

Sony has revealed the full line-up of PlayStation Plus Games Catalog additions for September 2024, which includes The Plucky Squire, Far Cry 5, and more.Announced on the PlayStation Blog, a total of 13 games are joining the library, nine on the PlayStation Plus Extra tier and four on the PlayStation Plus Premium Tier through the Classic Games Catalog and PSVR2 offerings. They're available September 17.September perhaps doesn't have as many heavy hitters as last month, which included The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Wild Hearts, Ride 5, Watch Dogs 2, Cult of the Lamb, and more.…

Sony has finally announced the worst-kept secret in video games: the PlayStation 5 Pro. It costs $700, doesn't come with a disc drive, and launches this November.PS5 lead architect Mark Cerny confirmed the mid-gen refresh during a PS5 Technical Presentation in which he said the new console lets Sony give players the high frame-rates they prefer. The GPU is much larger, ray tracing is improved, and there's custom hardware for machine learning (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution).Design wise, the PS5 Pro lines up with the leaked information and images that recently hit the internet. It looks a lot like a PS5 Slim, but with stripes along either side. Check out how the PS5 Pro looks in the slideshow of images below.…

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse series producer Christopher Miller has swung in to squash rumors suggesting Sony recently scrapped much of its work on Beyond the Spider-Verse.Gossip started following a report posted via Jeff Sneider’s The InSneider website. According to its sources, most of the work made on the project was scrapped for "creative reasons" at some point during its development. With progress lost and Disney/Marvel seemingly planning to release a live-action Spider-Man 4 in 2026, the film was said to likely not arrive until 2027. It’s news that’s had audiences concerned that it could be several years before more Spider-Verse comes their way, but now the team behind the movie is saying there’s nothing to fear.Christopher Miller says Spider-Man: Beyond the Sp…

Konami has confirmed that Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 is in the works, but getting it on store shelves will be easier said than done.Metal Gear series promotions director Jiro Oishi and production producer Noriaki Okamura touched on plans for its tactical espionage action franchise in a recent Production Hotline episode posted by Konami. During a Q&A segment, Okamura acknowledged the fans eagerly waiting to learn which games will be included in Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2. However, bringing some of the newer titles to modern audiences comes with a unique set of issues, including a desire to dodge the problems Vol. 1 faced at launch.Konami wants to make sure it gets Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 right.While Okamura assures that an additional en…

At Apple's September iPhone 16 reveal event, the tech giant also revealed the new AirPods 4. The latest version of Apple's signature earbuds now come in two variants, one with and one without active noise cancellation. …

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton is reportedly in talks to return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) to helm Spider-Man 4.First details on what could be the comic book veteran’s next Marvel movie come a The Hollywood Reporter report. It’s said that the filmmaker is only in negotiations to direct what will become the fourth Tom Holland Spidey flick, meaning he’s not officially signed on quite yet.Destin Daniel Cretton is reportedly in talks to direct Spider-Man 4.The first three Spider-Man MCU movies – Homecoming, Far From Home, and No Way Home – were directed by Jon Watts. With Cretton stepping in, it shows Marvel’s continued interested in bringing his expertise from Shang-Chi to other areas of its superhero universe. He’s also been…