David Harbour (Stranger Things, Hellboy) has been cast in director Neill Blomkamp's Gran Turismo movie.

Harbour will play a retired racecar driver who teaches the teenage protagonist how to drive, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film tells the tale of a real-life teenage Gran Turismo player who transcended video games to become an actual pro driver.

Gran Turismo was written by Jason Hall (American Sniper) and Zach Baylin (King Richard). It's due to hit theaters on August 11, 2023.

The Blomkamp film follows Sony's successful big-screen adaptation of Uncharted, which grossed over $400 USD globally. Future PlayStation Productions projects include a Twisted Metal series at Peacock, a The Last of Us series at HBO, a God of War series at Amazon, a Horizon series at Netflix, and a Ghost of Tsushima movie directed by Chad Stahleski (John Wick).

The latest game in Sony's long-running racing franchise, Gran Turismo 7, was released earlier this year. Our review said it's "the best the series has been since its dominant PlayStation 2 era."

Jordan is a freelance writer for IGN.

Microsoft has released a new update for its Xbox app on Windows, which includes faster launch times and will now tell you how long it takes to beat a game.

As part of a partnership with IGN's sister site, HowLongToBeat, the Xbox app for Windows computers includes some information on most of the games available on PC Game Pass, such as how long it takes to beat a game or get 100 percent completion.

HowLongToBeat is a community-driven based site, so you will be able to submit your own times, as well as check things like forums and community reviews.

The Xbox Wire post also notes that Microsoft has made some improvements to the Game Details pages, allowing PC users to now view things like trailers, screenshots, and game descriptions, all of which are available at the top of a game's page.

Additionally, Microsoft also confirmed the latest update for the Xbox app for PC now launches 15 percent faster. "We're committed to continuing to improve the performance and reliability of the app," Xbox's Partner Director of Product Management, Player Experiences, and Platform notes in the latest XboxWire post.

Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.

Microsoft has released a new update for its Xbox app on Windows, which includes faster launch times and will now tell you how long it takes to beat a game.

As part of a partnership with IGN's sister site, HowLongToBeat, the Xbox app for Windows computers includes some information on most of the games available on PC Game Pass, such as how long it takes to beat a game or get 100 percent completion.

HowLongToBeat is a community-driven based site, so you will be able to submit your own times, as well as check things like forums and community reviews.

The Xbox Wire post also notes that Microsoft has made some improvements to the Game Details pages, allowing PC users to now view things like trailers, screenshots, and game descriptions, all of which are available at the top of a game's page.

Additionally, Microsoft also confirmed the latest update for the Xbox app for PC now launches 15 percent faster. "We're committed to continuing to improve the performance and reliability of the app," Xbox's Partner Director of Product Management, Player Experiences, and Platform notes in the latest XboxWire post.

Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.

Microsoft's ID@Xbox Fall Showcase has now concluded, following appearances from a ton of Xbox games including Valheim, Moonscars, Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, and more.

IGN has you covered right here with everything shown during the event, which included trailers, new Game Pass additions, and interviews with developers.

Eville Arrives on Xbox and PC This October

Social deduction game Eville is officially coming to Xbox Series X/S and One, and developer VestGames has also announced an October 11 release date for both the console and PC versions of the game. It's also coming to Xbox Game Pass on day one, making it easier for friends to get together and play this murder mystery multiplayer title when it's released.

WildArts Studio Gives Deep Dive Into Born of Bread

Developers from Born of Bread took to the stage to give a deep dive into their upcoming turn-based exploration game Born of Bread. The game is coming to Xbox when it's released but a launch date, or even a launch window, has yet to be announced.

Magical Farming Game Homestead Arcana Announced for Xbox and PC

Skybound Games has announced Homestead Arcana, an upcoming farming game featuring a magical protagonist. Adding a witch's abilities to the usual farming formula, players can craft spells and plough fields to revitalise a corrupted realm.

Resting Relic Announces Song of Iron 2

A sequel to last year's Song of Iron is officially in development at Resting Relic. Though the upcoming Xbox and PC title doesn't have a release date, the developer did share a brief plot synopsis: "The Imperium’s veil is shaken, and old magics are slipping through the cracks. Use the gift of foresight to unite the region’s clans by either convincing them of the looming threat or forcing them to follow your cause."

Turnip Boy Is Back, This Time Robbing Banks

Graffiti Games has announced Turnip Boy Robs a Bank, a sequel to 2021's Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion. Confirmed to be coming to Xbox Game Pass and PC, this top-down action sequel sees Turnip Boy team up with the Pickled Gang to plan and execute the weirdest heist of all time.

Let's Cook Together 2 Is Coming to Xbox

Let's Cook Together 2 is officially coming to Xbox. Developer Yellow Dot appeared at the ID@Xbox Fall Showcase to announce that its chaotic, cooking, co-op game set amid an apocalyptic narrative is also coming to console.

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Gets New Gameplay

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, the upcoming four versus one game from Friday the 13th and Predator: Hunting Grounds developer IllFonic, got brand new gameplay during the ID@Xbox Showcase. Fans eagerly awaiting the game can check out the new gameplay featuring plenty of multiplayer, ghost busting, proton blasting action.

Xbox Shares Gameplay From a Ton of Upcoming Games

The showcase closed with the Let's Play section that showed new gameplay from a ton of upcoming Xbox and PC games. Headlined by the aforementioned Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, the stream also showed off Amazing Cultivation Simulator, Metal: Hellsinger, You Suck at Parking, Big Con, Moonscars, Rainbow Billy, and Valheim.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

Microsoft's ID@Xbox Fall Showcase has now concluded, following appearances from a ton of Xbox games including Valheim, Moonscars, Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, and more.

IGN has you covered right here with everything shown during the event, which included trailers, new Game Pass additions, and interviews with developers.

Eville Arrives on Xbox and PC This October

Social deduction game Eville is officially coming to Xbox Series X/S and One, and developer VestGames has also announced an October 11 release date for both the console and PC versions of the game. It's also coming to Xbox Game Pass on day one, making it easier for friends to get together and play this murder mystery multiplayer title when it's released.

WildArts Studio Gives Deep Dive Into Born of Bread

Developers from Born of Bread took to the stage to give a deep dive into their upcoming turn-based exploration game Born of Bread. The game is coming to Xbox when it's released but a launch date, or even a launch window, has yet to be announced.

Magical Farming Game Homestead Arcana Announced for Xbox and PC

Skybound Games has announced Homestead Arcana, an upcoming farming game featuring a magical protagonist. Adding a witch's abilities to the usual farming formula, players can craft spells and plough fields to revitalise a corrupted realm.

Resting Relic Announces Song of Iron 2

A sequel to last year's Song of Iron is officially in development at Resting Relic. Though the upcoming Xbox and PC title doesn't have a release date, the developer did share a brief plot synopsis: "The Imperium’s veil is shaken, and old magics are slipping through the cracks. Use the gift of foresight to unite the region’s clans by either convincing them of the looming threat or forcing them to follow your cause."

Turnip Boy Is Back, This Time Robbing Banks

Graffiti Games has announced Turnip Boy Robs a Bank, a sequel to 2021's Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion. Confirmed to be coming to Xbox Game Pass and PC, this top-down action sequel sees Turnip Boy team up with the Pickled Gang to plan and execute the weirdest heist of all time.

Let's Cook Together 2 Is Coming to Xbox

Let's Cook Together 2 is officially coming to Xbox. Developer Yellow Dot appeared at the ID@Xbox Fall Showcase to announce that its chaotic, cooking, co-op game set amid an apocalyptic narrative is also coming to console.

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Gets New Gameplay

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, the upcoming four versus one game from Friday the 13th and Predator: Hunting Grounds developer IllFonic, got brand new gameplay during the ID@Xbox Showcase. Fans eagerly awaiting the game can check out the new gameplay featuring plenty of multiplayer, ghost busting, proton blasting action.

Xbox Shares Gameplay From a Ton of Upcoming Games

The showcase closed with the Let's Play section that showed new gameplay from a ton of upcoming Xbox and PC games. Headlined by the aforementioned Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, the stream also showed off Amazing Cultivation Simulator, Metal: Hellsinger, You Suck at Parking, Big Con, Moonscars, Rainbow Billy, and Valheim.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

Netflix's virtual fan event, Tudum, is set to return on September 24.

The streaming company is promising a full day of reveals and trailers for titles like The Witcher, Stranger Things, Squid Game, Extraction 2, and more.

Tudum will kick off at 11 am KST (7 pm PT/10 pm ET on September 23) with the announcement of a new show from Korea. At 10 am PT/1 pm ET on September 24, Netflix will share information about new titles from the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Tudum will close out with new announcements from Japan at 1 pm JST on September 25 (9 pm PT/12 am ET, September 24).

In past years, Tudum was where Netflix revealed the first trailers for shows like The Witcher and Umbrella Academy. You can also expect special guests such as Henry Cavill, Charlize Theron, Gal Gadot, Lee Jung-Jae, and over 200 Netflix stars.

While we'll have to wait until September 24 for the full list of reveals, Netflix is promising a lineup that will include Shadow and Bone, Squid Game, Stranger Things, The Witcher, Extraction 2, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, and more.

Be sure to check IGN on September 24 where we'll cover all the latest news, trailers, and announcements from Tudum.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

Netflix's virtual fan event, Tudum, is set to return on September 24.

The streaming company is promising a full day of reveals and trailers for titles like The Witcher, Stranger Things, Squid Game, Extraction 2, and more.

Tudum will kick off at 11 am KST (7 pm PT/10 pm ET on September 23) with the announcement of a new show from Korea. At 10 am PT/1 pm ET on September 24, Netflix will share information about new titles from the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Tudum will close out with new announcements from Japan at 1 pm JST on September 25 (9 pm PT/12 am ET, September 24).

In past years, Tudum was where Netflix revealed the first trailers for shows like The Witcher and Umbrella Academy. You can also expect special guests such as Henry Cavill, Charlize Theron, Gal Gadot, Lee Jung-Jae, and over 200 Netflix stars.

While we'll have to wait until September 24 for the full list of reveals, Netflix is promising a lineup that will include Shadow and Bone, Squid Game, Stranger Things, The Witcher, Extraction 2, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, and more.

Be sure to check IGN on September 24 where we'll cover all the latest news, trailers, and announcements from Tudum.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

We're back with another exclusive Magic: The Gathering reveal, this time a card from one of the upcoming Warhammer 40,000 Commander precons: Aspiring Champion.

Aspiring Champion is a 4-mana 3/3 Astartes Warrior with Menace, which isn't the most impressive creature in the world, but its ability (flavorfully titled "Ruinous Ascension") helps you find one that is. When it hits an opponent, you sacrifice Aspiring Champion and flip cards from the top of your deck until you find another creature, then you put that creature directly onto the battlefield in its place.

What's more, if that creature is a demon, it deals damage equal to its power to all of your opponents. Aspiring Champion is part of The Ruinous Powers precon, a blue-black-red deck that Wizards of the Coast tells me is built around the concept of chaos. It's also full of Space Marines and has plenty of beefy demons to make full use of Aspiring Champion's ability.

It's a pretty flavorful card, if not necesarilly the most wildly powerful one we've seen revealed this week. Transmogrify is already a card with a similar ability in red, and "Polymorph" decks that turn weaker creatures into unexpectedly powerful ones is a fun strategy that could take advantage of this. Of course, while having the creature and the polymorph on a single card is nice, you do actually have to deal damage to a player with it to trigger the ability, which slows it down considerably. It may also be harder to justify running Aspiring Champion in full polymorph decks as it's not exactly a creature you're excited to randomly hit with other effects like it, but decks with lots of big demons could be very happy to play it.

Regardless, the Warhammer 40,000 Commander decks have been making quite a splash, with lots of other powerful cards already shown off. All four decks will be available starting on October 7, with both regular versions of them and special "Deluxe Editions" that feature unique foil treatments.

This is also the latest in Magic's evergrowing Universes Beyond product line, which features characters from games and pop culture outside of Magic. That has already included things like Stranger Things and Fortnite, and it will even extend to Doctor Who next year. I spoke to Wizards of the Coast about Universes Beyond last year and was told it's part of them "taking more shots on goal."

We're back with another exclusive Magic: The Gathering reveal, this time a card from one of the upcoming Warhammer 40,000 Commander precons: Aspiring Champion.

Aspiring Champion is a 4-mana 3/3 Astartes Warrior with Menace, which isn't the most impressive creature in the world, but its ability (flavorfully titled "Ruinous Ascension") helps you find one that is. When it hits an opponent, you sacrifice Aspiring Champion and flip cards from the top of your deck until you find another creature, then you put that creature directly onto the battlefield in its place.

What's more, if that creature is a demon, it deals damage equal to its power to all of your opponents. Aspiring Champion is part of The Ruinous Powers precon, a blue-black-red deck that Wizards of the Coast tells me is built around the concept of chaos. It's also full of Space Marines and has plenty of beefy demons to make full use of Aspiring Champion's ability.

It's a pretty flavorful card, if not necesarilly the most wildly powerful one we've seen revealed this week. Transmogrify is already a card with a similar ability in red, and "Polymorph" decks that turn weaker creatures into unexpectedly powerful ones is a fun strategy that could take advantage of this. Of course, while having the creature and the polymorph on a single card is nice, you do actually have to deal damage to a player with it to trigger the ability, which slows it down considerably. It may also be harder to justify running Aspiring Champion in full polymorph decks as it's not exactly a creature you're excited to randomly hit with other effects like it, but decks with lots of big demons could be very happy to play it.

Regardless, the Warhammer 40,000 Commander decks have been making quite a splash, with lots of other powerful cards already shown off. All four decks will be available starting on October 7, with both regular versions of them and special "Deluxe Editions" that feature unique foil treatments.

This is also the latest in Magic's evergrowing Universes Beyond product line, which features characters from games and pop culture outside of Magic. That has already included things like Stranger Things and Fortnite, and it will even extend to Doctor Who next year. I spoke to Wizards of the Coast about Universes Beyond last year and was told it's part of them "taking more shots on goal."

The Sims 4's base game will soon be free to download and play for everyone.

EA and Maxis have announced that The Sims 4 will be free to download for all new players from October 18, 2022. Better yet, that’s across all platforms, including PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

“EA and Maxis have welcomed millions of The Sims players over the years,” said an official announcement. “With The Sims 4 base game going free, the team is more dedicated than ever to developing new and meaningful experiences for players, and will continue to develop and release packs, Kits and Sims Delivery Express drops into the foreseeable future.”

It sounds as though EA and Maxis have plenty of content lined up for The Sims 4, and that begins with a special-edition stream, Behind The Sims Summit on October 18.

“Players can learn more about what’s in the works during a special-edition stream,” said EA and Maxis. The upcoming stream can be viewed live on The Sims YouTube and Twitch channels at 10 am PDT on October 18.

The Sims 4 was released on September 2, 2014, and has seen 31 million players worldwide since its release. But the game was met with mixed reviews in the early days, with many outlets criticizing a lack of features when compared to The Sims 3. Many, many expansion packs have followed since then.

IGN’s The Sims 4 review gave it 7/10 and said: “The Sims 4 succeeds in being a deep and complex game when it comes to Sim interactions, with lots of entertaining emotional potential. The emotions system and its contextual actions are really strong and added to my investment in my Sims as well as my enjoyment from watching ridiculousness unfold. Plus, excellent building tools make architecture more fun than ever. Overall, it’s a good start to what may eventually be expanded into a great Sims game, but it’s not there yet.”

The Sims 4 going free is likely to inject some more life into the eight-year-old game. Thankfully, existing players won’t miss out, either, as EA and Maxis are giving away the Desert Luxe Kit free to anyone who purchases the game before October 17.

“With the Desert Luxe Kit, Sims can relax in their modern oasis with luxurious indoor and outdoor furniture, inspired by the natural landscape of the Southwestern desert and materials like stone and wood.”

Want to read more about The Sims 4? Check out the hilarious update that aged toddlers into seniors within minutes as well as how The Sims 4 added sexual orientation as a feature.

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.