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During today's Nintendo Direct, fans were surprised to learn that Eidos Montreal's Guardians of the Galaxy game is coming back. It's getting a new "Encore Edition," exclusive to Nintendo Switch 2, which not only brings the game to a new platform, but also adds new content like special outfits for the cosmic heroes. This news came as a bit of a shock, since the game missed sales expectations despite having great reviews, so fans assumed that we'd never see this iteration of the Guardians ever again.

Now, this new release has some hoping that the Guardians may live on. Over on social media, excited fans are pleading to Marvel and Eidos Montreal to produce a sequel. Maybe a Switch 2 version could be used to test the waters, but it's hard to say. Either way, it's great to see such a beloved game finding its way back into the market, and hopefully, it can create some demand for another entry in the series.

"Don’t sleep on this game, Switch players. It’s fu**ing dope," said one fan. "Do yourself a favor and pick this up! It’s a GREAT game! I hate the fact that this gem got overlooked (and Midnight Suns as well btw)," noted another.

"Can we just get a sequel? The people have been asking for years," asked another fan. "Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy 2, please," another pleaded.

These are far from the only people asking for a sequel or begging new players to check it out; the comments under the announcement posts from Marvel Games and the game's official account are flooded with similar responses.

Guardians of the Galaxy has seemingly had legs over the years. A year after its release, the team behind the game announced it had reached 8 million players, partially thanks to the game's inclusion on services like Xbox Game Pass. It's unclear how many people have played it since then, but it's frequently deeply discounted, so the numbers have likely only grown a fair bit in the last four years. Eidos Montreal also stated that it had no regrets over the game, despite it not being a big seller.

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: Encore Edition will hit Nintendo Switch 2 on November 5. Whether it gets overshadowed by the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remains to be seen, but hopefully it can find a new audience on the platform.

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Elon Musk is ranting on X in response to the upcoming documentary, Musk. “He has ZERO integrity,” he said. “Horrible human.” As it turns out, he’s not talking about the subject of the film (himself), but rather its creator, Alex Gibney.

The four-hour documentary premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday, and while it’s unclear whether Musk has actually watched it, he walked away with some strong feelings towards its director. “Dogshit is worth more respect than Gibney,” Musk wrote on X, later adding, “Gibney has zero integrity. Zero. Fortunately, his movies are boring af.”

Musk’s bigger gripe seems to be with the sources Gibney assembled to help paint a portrait of Musk in the documentary. The film features appearances from Justine Musk, his first wife; Ashley St. Clair, who has a child with Musk; Tesla co-founder Martin Eberhard; his father, Errol Musk; journalists Kara Swisher and Zoë Schiffer; and more. “Gibney just assembled a hit list of people who either have an axe to grind or don’t even know me (but still have an axe to grind),” Musk said.

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Musk arrives in theaters in the U.S. on Oct. 16 and HBO will air the documentary later this year. Gibney spent years chipping away at the film. In 2023, he told Rolling Stone, “There was a background thing for me going, ‘Should I do it?’ ‘Should I not do it?’ But more intensely for some months now. And that kind of thing is more exploratory — talking to people, that sort of stuff. I make a lot of films, and each one of them takes quite a bit of time. I’m noodling on Musk.”

At the time, Gibney said it was “too early to tell what the film is going to be.” But as Musk’s entanglement with the restructuring of Twitter in X evolved alongside his escapades with Donald Trump’s White House, the film began to shape itself. Still, Musk sees it as nothing more than “a hit piece that misses, and makes the fatal sin of being boring for 4 hours.” %!s()

No, I don't mean cooking and crafting minigames. I mean literally ingesting creatures and items as food.

Nintendo fans are (literally) eating good in 2027

Kirby's brand of gluttony needs no introduction. He's a pink puffball who eats other creatures to obtain their powers. No, he does not kill the creatures he ingests, because he's friendly. Back in 2023, HAL Laboratory executive director Shinya Kumazaki told Polygon, "Because the base world is a fantasy world, it’s not like they get swallowed and digested inside of Kirby. Because that might be jarring, and because we made the game to be approachable, having that kind of extreme or violent expression might negate making the game so approachable. Instead, we have this comical, funny depiction where the enemies poof. When an enemy or creature gets swallowed by Kirby, they may disappear but they do resurface somewhere else in the world." Though there's some major Truman Show vibes coming from the Kirby and the World Beyond trailer, we'd expect that our rotund hero will still find plenty of time for snacks amid all that existential angst.

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Meanwhile, Metroid Ravenous finds Samus stranded on an unfamiliar moon, where it's kill or be killed. The game looks to integrate crunchy 2D platforming with splashy 3D cutscenes, and our intrepid bounty hunter must ingest her grody, tentacular opponents in order to escape. According to the game's official site, "To survive this hostile environment, Samus must use her latent Metroid powers to regain energy by feeding on her prey. Stun enemies by countering their attacks, then act fast to drain their energy." She is, quite literally, ravenous. Hope she kept a bottle of ranch dressing or sriracha in her ship for these kinds of emergencies!

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The third feeding frenzy of the Sept. 9 Nintendo Direct came in the form of Bandai Namco's Ondeh Ondeh: Kaya's Tasty Tale. Inspired by the cultures of Southeast Asia, this colorful puzzle-adventure game follows a girl who wields a magical spoon. At a glance, it's a little bit Katamari Damacy, a little bit Dosa Divas. At various points in the trailer, we see a cheerful chef dancing and another character holding a "report card" listing flavor categories like spicy, sweet, and bitter. We don't actually see Kaya eat anything — or anyone — in this trailer. But ondeh ondeh are a type of Malaysian sweet treat, similar to Japanese mochi. I think it's safe to assume you will be eating quite often in this game.

It's pretty fascinating to see what kinds of mechanics and themes become little microtrends in games. I'm not talking about the big, exhausting ones, like live-service initiatives, AI slop, and never-ending layoffs. Remember all those sad narrative games set in the Pacific Northwest in the mid 2010s? When everything had a fishing minigame in the late 2010s? Or the resurgence of space horror in the early 2020s? Heck, 2025 was a big year for hole, as well as soccer games where you don't have to play that much soccer. Is 2027 the year of the tasty little treat? My body is ready.

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While Konami seems focused on releasing as many unique takes on Silent Hill as possible, we’ll be getting an unlikely sequel to last year’s entry in the series. A manga spinoff of Silent Hill f is scheduled to begin serialization in Weekly Famitsu at the end of 2026.

The manga's protagonist will be Kotoyuki, “the man with the fox mask,” who serves as Silent Hill f’s nominal villain (sort of). The story will be divided into two parts: the first will focus on Kotoyuki’s childhood and “how he became the man with the fox mask.” Manga artist Ayato will handle the series, while Silent Hill f writer Ryukishi07 and Konami will offer oversight. Ayato released a first key image of protagonist Kotoyuki, who has been fully bishonen-ified, as shown above. This will be Silent Hill f’s second manga. The first adapts the game’s story with a new ending written by Ryukishi07.

Image: Konami, Weekly Famitsu

When did Silent Hill f come out?

Silent Hill f was released on Sept. 25, 2025, to positive reviews, with critics praising its storytelling, atmosphere, and setting. It sold over one million copies on launch day, making it the fastest-selling entry in the series. It was the first Silent Hill game that wasn’t a remake or remaster since 2012’s Silent Hill: Downpour.

The story follows Hinako, a high school student in 1960s Japan, as a mysterious fog covers her town. Before long, she encounters grotesque creatures covered in blood-red spider lilies. Written by When They Cry author Ryukishi07, the storyinterrogates the misogyny and gender expectations of its time period, using layers of visual metaphor to represent a certain form of “death” (which I’ll avoid spoiling the specifics of). The game maintained the series’ iconic touchstones while distancing itself from the creatively bankrupt sequels that followed Team Silent’s first four Silent Hill games.

Silent Hill’s revival is in full swing, and there are several more projects on the way, including the imminent spin-off Silent Hill Townfall, which is out on Sept. 24, as well as a remake of the first game in the series from Bloober Team. %!s()

Benn, 29, faces WBC champion Garcia at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday in the first world title fight of his 10-year professional career.

The Briton must weigh no more than 10st 7lb (67kg) when he steps on the scales in on Friday, having not made the welterweight limit for more than four years.

"It's been extremely difficult," Benn told BBC Sport.

"It feels like I've been dragged down to the pits of hell, had a fight with Satan and God brought me back to life.

"Making weight has been the hardest thing I've done. I haven't made weight for four and a half years so it's going to be hard.

"But I won't moan when I'm getting paid a fortune to headline in Vegas for a world title. I know what I signed up for."

Benn last made the welterweight limit when stopping Chris van Heerden in two rounds in April 2022.

He stepped up to 11st 6lb (73kg) for two lucrative contests with Chris Eubank Jr last year, suffering the first defeat of his professional career in April 2025 before avenging the loss on points seven months later.

Benn's appearance in pictures and videos posted on social media during fight week has prompted concern among some observers over the effects of dropping back to welterweight.

Former world champion Carl Froch and Benn's former opponent Chris Algieri are among those to have questioned whether the weight cut could leave him depleted.

It is particularly pertinent given the contrasting styles on Saturday. Benn is an aggressive, front-foot fighter who likes to apply pressure, while American Garcia, 28, possesses fast hands and is renowned for a dangerous counter left hook.

But Benn dismissed concerns over his condition.

"I'm healthy," he said, adding that he expects to rehydrate significantly and enter the ring at around 12st 7lb (80kg) - two stones heavier than the welterweight limit.

Even if he fulfils a lifelong ambition by winning a maiden world title and following in his father Nigel's footsteps, Benn intends to vacate the belt "straight away" and move back up to middleweight or potentially as high as super-middleweight.

"I love challenges and that's what life is about, otherwise it's boring," he added.

For all the difficulty presented by the weight cut, there was little outward sign of Benn being weighed down by the occasion.

He was relaxed and in good spirits as he made time for the travelling British media at the UFC's Meta Apex, with father and British boxing great Nigel Benn by his side.

The former two-weight world champion has been a prominent presence throughout fight week, despite previously suggesting he would take a step back from his son's career.

One man Conor Benn is yet to see, however, is his opponent.

Garcia did not appear for a scheduled face-off at Mandalay Bay on Tuesday, with Benn told beforehand that the champion would not be attending.

Benn turned up regardless and jokingly squared up to his 62-year-old father instead.

He described Garcia as a "strange geezer" and said the no-show had done the champion "no favours".

"I'm not bothered, I've dealt with worse," Conor Benn added. "If he turns up or not, it makes no difference to me.

"Irrespective of how hard the weight cut is or anything else, we owe it to the public to give the fans what they want. It's a lack of discipline and professionalism." %!s()