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• Aniimo – How To Get Unbroken Flameruff Spirits And Inferlupa

  21-09-2026 17:21 via gamespot.com
  
  Aniimo is filled with hidden questlines and special materials needed to evolve various creatures in the game. In this guide, we'll explain how to get the Unbroken Flameruff Spirits material needed to evolve a Flameruff into Inferlupa.What are Unbroken Flameruff Spirits?Unbroken Flameruff Spirits are a rare evolution material type needed to evolve Flameruff into Inferlupa, which serves as one of the powerful Fire and Dark-type elements in Aniimo.How to get Unbroken Flameruff SpiritsIn order to ob
  
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• Diablo 5 tells "three stories" across the past, present, and future, and biomes will change shape depending on which of Diablo's minions is in charge

  21-09-2026 23:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 5 takes place in a world where the titular Lord of Terror has already won, taking over Sanctuary and reshaping the world in his own image. For Blizzard, telling this dark chapter of the story means telling multiple stories in parallel: the past, the present, and the future.That's according to game director Joe Shely, who tells our friends at TechRadar Gaming that there are "three stories that we're telling" within the world of Diablo 5. The past story is the tale of how Diablo took over S
  
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• A developer with no games on Steam now has the store's third-most-wishlisted game, behind Light No Fire and Valve's Deadlock

  21-09-2026 23:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  After some high-profile releases in 2026, the most-wishlisted games on Steam have shifted. The king is Valve's PvP shooter Deadlock, followed by Hello Games' next survival game epic Light No Fire. The third-most-wishlisted game on Steam is probably the biggest surprise in the top 10. Ahead of Fable, Phantom Blade Zero, Resident Evil Veronica, and Witchbrook, airline comedy co-op game Dear Passengers sits as one of the most-wanted games on Steam. Its developer, Flexus, has never released a game o
  
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• Daredevil: Born Again reportedly ending with season 3

  21-09-2026 23:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  After weeks of cancellation rumors, Daredevil: Born Again season 3 will reportedly be the show's last.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel also quietly parted ways with showrunner Dario Scardapane, "whose contract was up and was not renewed." This means someone else will have to oversee the show during post-production, which is reportedly already in the final stages.Scardapane served as showrunner for all three seasons and made a heartfelt post following the completion of season 3: "Sorry
  
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• Former Valve writer says "giant teams just don't work" in video game development, unless you're making GTA 6

  21-09-2026 22:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Left 4 Dead writer and Valve veteran Chet Faliszek doubts the company would really benefit from going on a hiring spree. His 12 years at Valve taught him that great, timely games aren't made by giant teams. "I just think games aren't made to be made by 10,000-person teams. These giant teams just don't work," Faliszek says in a new YouTube video responding to the question, "Why doesn't valve hire more people?" The developer acknowledges that certain two billion-dollar exercises like GTA 6 may req
  
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• The best Elden Ring mod is coming to the worst Dark Souls game tomorrow, and the new seamless co-op also has prox chat and quality-of-life fixes

  21-09-2026 22:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Modder Yui has become a legend in the FromSoftware community after developing seamless co-op mods for Elden Ring, Dark Souls, and Dark Souls 3. But don't think the middle entry in the series is dodging a similar treatment, even with its controversial reputation among the fandom. Dark Souls 2 seamless co-op is coming very soon, complete with proximity chat and an array of quality-of-life tweaks.Dark Souls 2 seamless co-op is set to be released on Tuesday, September 22, as Yui explains in a Patreo
  
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• New Street Fighter trailer compiles all of the video game moves featured in the upcoming live-action movie

  21-09-2026 22:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new Street Fighter trailer has arrived, and it gives us an exciting look at all the special fighting moves from the video games that feature in the upcoming movie.In the brief clip, which you can view above, we see a plethora of moves including Shoryuken, Dhalsim's aerial attack Yoga Mummy, Chun-Li's Hundred Lightning Kicks, Balrog's Buffalo Headbutt, Dragonlash Kick (from Street Fighter 7), and Hundred Hand Slaps. A previous trailer also recreated the loading screen from 1991's Street Fighter
  
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• Here’s Why A Nightmare On Elm Street Game Hasn’t Happened In Decades

  21-09-2026 21:32 via gamespot.com
  
  With Friday the 13th, Halloween, and other horror franchises getting video game adaptations in recent years, you might wonder when it'll be Freddy Krueger's turn, but according to Illfonic, the team behind those games, the task is harder than you might think. To do it right, one aspect of the films creates a big roadblock."There are plenty of IPs that people are like, 'Why aren't you doing this?' and 'Why aren't you doing that?' As much as I love Elm Street, [those movies are] about these big ov
  
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• Comparing Games Like Halloween To Dead By Daylight Doesn’t Make Sense, Illfonic Says

  21-09-2026 21:30 via gamespot.com
  
  Halloween is the latest in a long line of asymmetrical multiplayer horror games to release over the past decade, and like all the others, it's faced lots of comparisons to Dead by Daylight (DBD), the decade-long leader in the genre. It's an "easy" comparison to draw, Illfonic chief creative officer Jared Gerritzen said, but ultimately it's inherently flawed."It's literally cricket versus baseball. It's so easy to see an image of cricket and say it's exactly like baseball; it's like, really, is i
  
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• Stellar Blade boss offers to help PlatinumGames make Bayonetta 4

  21-09-2026 21:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stellar Blade and Shift Up boss Hyung-tae Kim says he'd love to collaborate with Bayonetta developer PlatinumGames again after working together on Bayonetta-themed skins for Stellar Blade's upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 release. Kim joined PlatinumGames CEO Atsushi Inaba in a wide-ranging interview with Famitsu. Inaba, who became company president and CEO in 2022, calls Stellar Blade (per machine translation) a "model for game development," praising the variety of enjoyable features and elements be
  
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• Resident Evil Director Reacts To People Who Didn’t Like The Controversial Ending, Says It Was Almost Completely Different

  21-09-2026 20:29 via gamespot.com
  
  The new Resident Evil movie from director Zach Cregger hit theaters on September 18, and it had a scary-good first weekend at the box office. The movie got great reviews but some people didn't like the ending specifically.
  Cregger said in new interviews that he respects that, but doesn't agree--and the ending was almost totally different.
  This story contains major spoilers.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNd1gb19A-c
  The Resident Evil movie ends by revealing that Austin Abrams' character, Bryan,
  
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• Jupiter & Mars Definitive Edition Launch Trailer – Nintendo Switch

  21-09-2026 20:10 via gamespot.com
  
  Tigertron's groundbreaking oceanic adventure game -- a dolphivania -- comes to Nintendo Switch for the first time bearing a wealth of new additions and improvements: A new default 3rd-person perspective, graphical improvements, QoL upgrades, and a new ending theme song 'Blue Life' by Japanese electronic music legend, Ken Ishii.Jupiter & Mars: Definitive Edition launches for Nintendo Switch on September 10, 2026! The game even features Ecco the Dolphin creator, Ed Annunziata, in a special gue
  
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• The Blood Of Dawnwalker Wants You To Eat The Rich–Literally

  21-09-2026 19:41 via gamespot.com
  
  The Blood of Dawnwalker’s hero, Coen, begins with a predictably humble origin story common to many fantasy heroes. Outside the small matter of a looming blood mass, where villagers feed on their vampiric overlords’ blood to ward off the plague, you meet him on just another day in the unremarkable life of an impoverished former-sellsword’s son. He starts out chopping wood, checking traps for hares, playing tag with his energetic siblings, and haggling with the local herbalist ov
  
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• New Bungie leaders insist they are fixing the studio despite Destiny 2 layoffs, tell players to "keep us accountable"

  21-09-2026 19:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  After laying off "most" of the Destiny team, Bungie is coming to players, hat in hand, with open acknowledgements of Marathon's failures and new plans to keep Destiny 2's legacy alive. Studio head Poria Torkan and head of product Josh Deane have penned a contrite message about the studio's future while asking players to hold Bungie "accountable" to its goals."This is an important time for Bungie," Torkan and Deane say in a joint blog post. "Our future depends on making clear choices about where
  
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• With $3 million in Steam pre-orders, publisher says its horror-themed Stardew Valley-like "might be massive"

  21-09-2026 18:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pre-orders for Graveyard Keeper 2 are reaching some big, big numbers for an indie release. So much so that publisher tinyBuild is anticipating a huge launch for the horror-themed Stardew Valley-like.On Twitter, tinyBuild CEO Alex Nichiporchik posted about where Graveyard Keeper 2 is currently sitting on Steam. The sequel's been wishlisted over 1 million times in total and has over 147,000 pre-orders, generating more than $2,500,000 in gross revenue. In a more recent post, this figure is inches o
  
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• Bungie admits Marathon "did not reach as many players as we had hoped," shares plans to evolve the game for "a sustainable future" while committing to Destiny

  21-09-2026 18:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Bungie has now issued a studio update after Destiny 2 shut down this summer and triggered a massive wave of layoffs, and it requires help from Marathon. The sci-fi shooter saw middling reception despite strong reviews when it launched in March. Bungie knows it, but it deserves to be saved – for the sake of Bungie's live-service games and the developer itself.Acknowledging that the game "did not reach as many players as we had hoped," Bungie insists it will push Marathon through "evolution"
  
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• Destiny Isn’t Dead After All, Bungie Admits It Lost Sight Of What Players Loved

  21-09-2026 18:36 via gamespot.com
  
  Bungie has admitted that it "lost sight" of what players loved about its games over the past few years, acknowledging that a series of broken promises and shifting promises caused the studio to lose the trust of its community. Now, the Destiny developer promises to refocus on its players, with plans to restore removed Destiny 2 content and evolve Marathon beyond its current extraction-shooter format.In a new video accompanied by a blog post on the Bungie website, Bungie studio head Poria Torkan
  
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• Hideo Kojima says Xbox had "never seen" anything like Physint, which is impressive considering it was the only publisher that didn't think his OD pitch was "crazy"

  21-09-2026 18:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hideo Kojima says that Xbox was very enthusiastic about his pitch for Physint, calling it something the publisher had never seen before. The new action espionage game from Kojima Productions has had a busy week, with the news of PlayStation unexpectedly dropping the project before it was picked up by Xbox. This was soon followed by the news that John Wick 4 and Nosferatu actor Bill Skarsgård will be taking on the role of the game's lead. There were also reports that Sony canceled the game
  
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• After 25 years, it looked like the Madden curse was finally dead, but a scary injury for Madden 27 star Caleb Williams is creating a new generation of believers

  21-09-2026 18:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Since the '00s, the cover stars of EA's Madden NFL series have been haunted by a curse – or, at least, a series of unfortunate coincidences, including injuries, poor seasons, and other general bad omens. If there ever was a curse, it seemed to have died in the modern era. Until, that is, the most recent game featuring Chicago Bears quarterback and Madden NFL 27 cover star Caleb Williams.The Chicago Bears had been struggling to find a solid footing for years, until 2025, when Williams led t
  
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• Bungie says "we are not done with Destiny" and promises to restore all that content it deleted: "What's rightfully yours"

  21-09-2026 18:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  After ending development and laying off most of the Destiny 2 team, Bungie says Destiny still has a future, and it starts with undoing the game's biggest mistake. In a new video and blog post explaining "the next chapter for Bungie," studio head Poria Torkan joins product head and Marathon GM Josh Deane to address an understandably worried fan base. "We are not done with Destiny," the post reads, calling the now-calcified MMO "foundational to our future." "We want to return Destiny to its origin
  
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• 2 billion years of Minecraft running in a simulation finds that the game can roll credits all on its own: "The same golem wandered The End for 18 million years"

  21-09-2026 18:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Minecraft world could automatically beat itself – that is, kill the Ender Dragon and trigger the end scene credits – after roughly 2 billion years, according to a fascinating new experiment about the most popular survival game of all time. For quite a while, it's technically been possible for Minecraft to play itself. To beat the game, you just have to go to The End and kill the Ender Dragon, typically by showering it with arrows after first destroying the crystals around The End t
  
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• Final Fantasy 7 Revelation lets you automatically level characters and blast through the campaign after Rebirth players begged director Naoki Hamaguchi for a break from the JRPG grind

  21-09-2026 18:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 7 Revelation overlord Naoki Hamaguchi says players can automatically level up after a certain point in Square Enix's conclusion to its Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy, since some fans were apparently about to pass out from JRPG exhaustion. Video game news update Twitter account Genki shares the sentiment in a translation of a new interview Hamaguchi did with IGN Japan, where the Square Enix lead talks about learning a lot of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth players wanted to trim the fluff o
  
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• Sony is teaming up with Blackpink's Lisa to release a limited edition DualSense controller, and I need it in my area

  21-09-2026 18:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sony has been piling on the limited edition DualSense releases lately, but if the GTA 6 controllers weren't for you, this upcoming Lisa XPlayStation pad might be.Sony is collaborating with rapper and Blackpink superstar Lisa to launch a stunning $84.99 / £74.99 DualSense in limited quantities on October 20. Launching as part of a new Sony merchandise collection, the PS5 controller uses "Lisa's personal favorite" Chrome Pearl colorway as a base and piles on flashy details (including her sig
  
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• What's new in The Witcher 3 Remastered?

  21-09-2026 18:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  There's a lot of new stuff coming to The Witcher 3 Remastered, and it's not just a graphical or performance overhaul, as there are some gameplay and mechanic changes being introduced to boot, many of which will come as great news to existing fans of the iconic RPG.The best news about the remaster is that it comes as a free upgrade to anyone who already owns the base game, so whether you're wondering what's going to change in one of your favorite games or you're considering buying it now for the
  
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• There's still plenty of time to secure your Silent Hill Townfall pre-order, but its flashy steelbook is disappearing into the fog

  21-09-2026 18:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Straight to the scares(Image credit: Konami, Annapurna Interactive)Quick Pre-orders:
  US: $44.99 at GameStop
  UK: £41.99 at VerySilent Hill Townfall pre-orders are nearing ever closer as this week's September 24 (Thursday) release date is just days away - but that still leaves plenty of time to pick up a copy for your physical horror collection.Pre-orders are available digitally for $49.99 / £44.98 (via Steam) and physically on the PS5 for $49.99 / £49.99, and there's even a coll
  
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• I’ve Become An Awful Jerk Whenever I Play This Haunting Sledgehammer Game, But It’s Not My Fault

  21-09-2026 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  I had only played about an hour of Virtue and a Sledgehammer prior to sitting down to speak with a few of the game's devs. The third-person, narrative-driven exploration game is essentially a walking simulator, in that you methodically explore a space and slowly uncover a story. You learn about what's happening by swinging a sledgehammer, which can shatter buildings, break open painful memories, crush generators, and destroy the androids that each house the digitized ghost of a person who was on
  
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• Wardogs CEO braces for an Arc Raiders situation: "We're not going to have enough content for people"

  21-09-2026 17:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  All developers wish for the kind of reception Wardogs is enjoying right now. The FPS exploded onto Steam early access just shy of two weeks ago, attracting hundreds of thousands of players. Good innings, but they come with the drawback of a lot of pressure and demand on the devs for the game's future.Joe Brammer, the executive director on Wardogs and CEO of developer Bulkhead, spoke to us about the mountain that now lays before his team in sustaining the shooter. "We weren't making it for this s
  
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• Lanterns showrunner says they didn't want to "make a big deal" about the DCU show's Batman mention in episode 6: "There were fewer conversations than you'd think"

  21-09-2026 17:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Lanterns showrunner Chris Mundy says it was fairly easy to include that nod to the DCU's Batman in episode 6."There were shockingly fewer conversations than you would think," Mundy tells GamesRadar+. "It was in [the episode] right before it. John talks about some giant squid in Metropolis. And Kerry is from Gotham, which gets name-checked in episode 2. We wanted to make sure that we were name-checking the world, just because there is a greater world out there, that we wanted to say it was a real
  
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• Wolverine Dev Denies Using GenAI After Weird-Looking In-Game Sign Discovered

  21-09-2026 17:42 via gamespot.com
  
  Fans recently discovered an odd-looking bathroom sign in Marvel's Wolverine, prompting people to wonder if developer Insomniac Games used generative AI.According to Insomniac's community and marketing director James Stevenson, that's a bunch of baloney. The reason the bathroom image looks weird is because of a "UV map bug," he said. A fix is now in the works.
  "There are no AI-generated assets in Marvel’s Wolverine," Stevenson said.
  https://twitter.com/JamesStevenson/status/2101048325067751
  
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• The LiberNovo Omni SE might not have the electronics of its siblings, but this is still one of the best gaming chairs I've ever tested

  21-09-2026 17:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  The original LiberNovo Omni was one of last year's most impressive surprises. Launched as a Kickstarter project that raised over $10 million, it raced to the top of our list of best gaming chairs thanks largely to a dynamic backrest that takes a new approach to ergonomics. Rather than one large piece that’s fixed in place and expects you to conform to its wishes, the LiberNovo approach is a flexible one with multiple panels working together to support your spine as you move around througho
  
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