Ubisoft rolled out a massive update for Star Wars Outlaws on Thursday, addressing a long list of complaints about the open-world Star Wars game as the first step in its previously announced roadmap to improve the game. If you haven’t finished Star Wars Outlaws yet — maybe because you were annoyed by the game’s wonky stealth and speeder mechanics...

The Sims 4’s next expansion is set to arrive on Halloween and, as is appropriate for such a spooky season, the expansion is all about the specter of death. On Thursday, Electronic Arts released some more information on what players can expect from Life and Death, a new expansion that includes the town of Ravenwood, new mortality-related gameplay...

The Lord of the Rings Deluxe Illustrated Box Set is perhaps the most decadent version of Tolkien’s trilogy ever brought to print, and it’s currently discounted to its lowest price ever on Amazon. Typically priced at $325, the massive box set is on sale for just $246.41, just in time for October Prime Day. The three-volume, leatherbound...

Ciarán Hinds as the “Dark Wizard” | Photo: Ben Rothstein/Prime Video The first season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power loved its mysteries — a secret Sauron, a spooky sword, and an amnesiac meteor man. And while we had a pretty good idea of who that meteor man was at the end of season 1, the finale of season 2 finally gives him...

Developer Ballistic Moon’s “rebuilt and enhanced” version of horror game Until Dawn — out this Friday — goes beyond just a visual upgrade for PlayStation 5 and Windows PC. The remastered re-release of the 2015 original also includes a little something more, in the form of a new ending that points toward a possible future for the franchise....

When I’m playing board games, I have a habit of photographing the table at the very end, just before we put everything up. There’s something intrinsically rewarding about capturing how a game went from box to setup and then from setup to a full game — to capture how busy and frenetic everything got, as seen through token-laden boards and...