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• Apple TV sensation Widow's Bay breaks a big Emmys record with 14 wins

  15-09-2026 11:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Apple TV's sensation Widow's Bay has broken an Emmys record to win the most awards for a comedy show in a single year. The show picked up 14 wins at the Emmys, with eight won at the Creative Arts ceremony and another six coming during the ceremony on September 14. That means Widow's Bay beat The Studio's 13 Emmys to set the new record. Altogether, Widow's Bay won awards for:Best Comedy SeriesLead Actor in a Comedy Series – Matthew RhysSupporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Stephen Roo
  
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• Steam is shoveling RPGs at people right now, and I think it's the perfect time to get Divinity: Original Sin for 90% off ahead of Larian's post-Baldur's Gate 3 Divinity

  17-09-2026 23:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Opportunity is not only knocking, it's about to punch down your door – Steam is discounting a whole bunch of RPGs like it always is, and Larian Studios' Divinity: Original Sin is currently available for its lowest price ever, at 90% off. That makes the now-standard Enhanced edition of the hardcore fantasy game $3.99, or two packs of gum, and its coinciding Collector's Edition is $6.99, or three packs of gum… This is making me realize how much inflation has impacted packs of gum, but
  
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• Zack Snyder says that Walking Dead star Jeffrey Dean Morgan wants to play Snake Plissken in Escape from New York reboot: “He’s literally been hitting me up”

  17-09-2026 23:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Zack Snyder says Jeffrey Dean Morgan has been lovingly bugging him about playing Snake Plissken in his upcoming Escape from New York reboot."He's been literally hitting me up," Snyder said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. "He's the best. I love him. He's great."It was announced back in June that Snyder would write and direct a new version of John Carpenter's Escape From New York. The remake was announced in 2022 with Radio Silence attached to direct and Leigh Whannell set to write the script.
  
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• Palworld Palfarm is less like Stardew Valley than you might expect, lead says, but it "is more on the cozier side" than Pocketpair's survival game

  17-09-2026 23:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  When Pocketpair announces a farming game featuring its colorful crew of Pals, it's only reasonable for people to start calling it Palworld Stardew Valley. But that's not quite what Palworld: Palfarm actually is, according to studio publishing and communications lead John "Bucky" Buckley. It is cozier and less violent than the survival game itself, but the farming sim is still going to defy expectations.Pocketpair has only provided a scant few details on what to expect from Palfarm, and Buckley w
  
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• "One of the biggest mistakes game developers make," Valve's Gabe Newell warns in an unearthed clip, is treating "genuinely entertaining" player actions as hacking

  17-09-2026 23:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  An old university lecture from Valve boss Gabe Newell is making the rounds online, with clip merchant WebKnower racking up millions of views on YouTube sharing snippets of Newell's advice. The talk is still interesting today, and in one especially popular clip, Newell examines "the biggest mistakes game developers make." The video circulating, "Gabe Newell Explains Game Developers [sic] Biggest Mistake," might be a bit of a reach, but Newell's argument is reasonable. You're better off watching t
  
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• GTA 6’s Robberies NEED To Be Unpredictable

  17-09-2026 23:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Grand Theft Auto 6 is all about robberies. Here's a breakdown of everything we know about them, and how they could kick the doors open for exciting emergent moments.
  
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• Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave’s First Hour Is Wild

  17-09-2026 22:33 via gamespot.com
  
  Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is an epic intertwining story set in an Age of Antiquity that most closely resembles Ancient Greece. But! It is also a guns-blazing shiny metal futuristic sci-fi story, and judging by the social media reactions, a lot of people weren't exactly prepared for how hard it leans into that element right from the start. In the interest of not spoiling the game and abiding by certain embargo restrictions, we had to say mum about the first hour of Fortune's Weave when pr
  
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• Here’s The Great New Tactics Game You Should Be Playing–And I Don’t Mean Fire Emblem Or Zero Company

  17-09-2026 22:20 via gamespot.com
  
  I've been loving Star Wars Zero Company, especially for how it builds on my favorite story arc from The Clone Wars animated series. But whereas I was positive that Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave would be the title to finally pull me away from Zero Company, it's another tactics game that has captured my attention: Ex Sanguis.It's no real surprise why I'm enjoying Lightbulb Crew's Ex Sanguis. While it's not a direct sequel to the studio's debut title, Othercide (one of my favorite games of 2020), Ex
  
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• 007 First Light Just Got Its Biggest Update Yet, And You Can Get It At Its Lowest Price Ever Right Now

  17-09-2026 22:00 via gamespot.com
  
  The history of James Bond games is a little wonky. GoldenEye 007 remains a landmark in gaming history, marking one of the best FPS games of all time almost 30 years ago. Everything or Nothing was a solid classic, but for every good game featuring the MI6 agent, there are some bad ones. Now, I’m not naming names, but I’m specifically looking at 007 Legends and 007 Racing—which, despite the name, isn’t a racing game. Fortunately, IO Interactive’s 007 First Light is fi
  
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• GTA 6 Will Feature The “Next Evolution Of In-Game Radio,” Rockstar Says

  17-09-2026 21:17 via gamespot.com
  
  Tucked away at the bottom of Rockstar's blog post today announcing GTA 6: The Album was a line about other updates to come for the game regarding its sound and music.
  Rockstar said fans should "stay tuned for more details about the music of GTA 6," and specifically the game's "dynamic score." Additionally, Rockstar teased that GTA 6 will feature the "next evolution of in-game radio, and more."This does not tell us a whole lot. However, it was previously rumored that GTA 6 will feature people lik
  
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• Diablo 5 is Blizzard's darkest ARPG yet, and that's the best way to honor the game that changed my life 30 years ago

  17-09-2026 20:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Blizzard made the surprise announcement during BlizzCon 2026 that Diablo 5 is officially in the works, with its 2029 release set for six years after Diablo 4. That may seem like a long way off, but it's a huge reduction in the time between entries; Diablo 3 launched 12 years after Diablo 2, and Diablo 4 followed 11 years after.You might expect that stunted development cycle to result in a sequel that's narrower in scope compared to previous entries. Actually, Diablo 5 sounds like the biggest dep
  
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• Scientists Discovered A New Cat Before Rockstar Could Finish GTA 6

  17-09-2026 20:53 via gamespot.com
  
  Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 6 has been in development since 2015, and a lot of things have happened since then, including the recent discovery a new species of cat.
  The scientific journal Current Biology disclosed the discovery of Leopardus tilcayo--known as the tilcayo tiger cat--this week. The adorable little creature is smaller than your typical housecat, featuring spots and round ears. According to the discovery, the cat species was found in the Bolivian Yungas forest.
  The tilcayo tiger cat
  
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• Roblox Movie 99 Nights In The Forest Brings On Oscar-Winning Toy Story 4 Director

  17-09-2026 20:22 via gamespot.com
  
  The upcoming 99 Nights in the Forest movie, based on the super-popular Roblox survival-horror game, has reportedly brought on a very big name.
  According to The Hollywood Reporter, 20th Century Studios--which is owned by Disney--has hired Josh Cooley to write the script. Cooley directed the Oscar-winning Pixar movie Toy Story 4. He also earned an Academy Award nomination for Inside Out. Beyond Disney movies, Cooley directed Transformers One.99 Nights in the Forest is coming to the big screen.99 N
  
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• Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Tones Down The Romance

  17-09-2026 20:16 via gamespot.com
  
  Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is a masterpiece of a Fire Emblem game, but one beloved element that fans of the series have grown attached to is missing in action this time around--or at least, very downplayed.
  Romance has been a staple of the Fire Emblem series for years, especially since Fire Emblem Awakening lets you couple up characters and then access the next generation of their children. Three Houses and Engage continued this tradition to a more limited degree, letting your player-character
  
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• The 6 best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV, and more (September 18-20)

  17-09-2026 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Well, here we are again. Another week and another bucket load of brilliant movies and television shows to catch up on, which promises to be a great bit of binging. Sure, you can go out and see Resident Evil, or maybe spend some time slicing and dicing bad guys as Wolverine, but sometimes, time must be spent just chilling out on the sofa and taking another trip back to Hawkins, or maybe see an unfiltered Gary Oldman fart like he owns the place.So what have we got for you? Well, firstly there&rsqu
  
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• Street Fighter Movie’s Popcorn Bucket Is Absolutely Perfect. No Notes.

  17-09-2026 19:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Popcorn buckets for movies are all the rage today. Basically every big movie has one. But they aren't all created equally. One popcorn bucket that looks like it could be the best one yet is for this October's Street Fighter movie.
  Revealed today by Cody Rhodes, the Street Fighter popcorn bucket, which will be exclusive to AMC locations, is modeled after his character Guile's epic hair. The popcorn goes in the bucket, and then you can put it on your head and grab the popcorn from up there. Or you
  
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• Japanese companies like Nintendo, Capcom, and Konami are healthier because they have smaller teams, don't have frequent layoffs, and don't pay executives $30 million, says expert

  17-09-2026 19:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Even as GTA 6 is set to be the biggest entertainment launch of all time and publishers like Activision Blizzard and EA get bought and sold for billions, there are lingering fears that the game industry is heading toward – or perhaps already in the middle of – its biggest crash in decades. But much like the big crash of the '80s, this one seems to be very regional, and Japan is among the game development hubs seeming to make it through intact."Japan is a completely different ballgame"
  
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• 2027 Upcoming Games Release Schedule

  17-09-2026 19:34 via gamespot.com
  
  2027 is shaping up to be another big year for new video games, as the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S continue to get plenty of games despite their massively increased prices, and Nintendo's Switch 2 has been, slowly but surely, getting a great lineup of exclusives. Whether you're waiting for a new soulslike or the big new AAA first-person shooter, 2027 very likely has something you can look forward to playing. To break it all down as we move into 2027, GameSpot has outlined all the upcoming games
  
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• The Last of Us game director says AAA games have gotten "boring," and he's "not excited" looking at God of War Laufey gameplay

  17-09-2026 19:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Last of Us and Uncharted 4 game director Bruce Straley has shipped enough AAA blockbusters to know that triple-A gaming is getting tired."I think the verbs and experiences we're delivering in the triple-A space are…" Straley tells Edge magazine for issue 428, as part of a feature that's now been republished in the Knowledge newsletter, "I wanna say boring." The former Naughty Dog lead has had a hand in shaping multiple major franchises since 1999, and he stopped being impressed at som
  
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• Gears Of War: E-Day On PC Won’t Let You Play Without A Ray Tracing-Capable GPU

  17-09-2026 19:17 via gamespot.com
  
  Ahead of its release next month, the official PC specs for Gears of War: E-Day have been revealed. The next game in the series has looked good in recent previews, and if you're aiming to reach a high level of fidelity, you're going to need some fairly chunky PC hardware for 4K gibs and perfect reloads. The good news is that no matter which graphics preset you choose, you'll only need 16GB of RAM--welcome news considering just how much memory costs in the current tech climate.One thing worth poin
  
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• Capcom is finally removing scummy character customization vouchers from Monster Hunter Wilds, players immediately dance on their grave

  17-09-2026 18:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ahead of Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance, Capcom has announced the removal of the game's widely hated character edit vouchers, which force players to spend real money in order to re-edit their character's appearance. "With the launch of Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance in 2027, all players will be able to re-edit the appearance of their hunter and Palico as many times as they like, free of charge and without the need for a Character Edit Voucher, which will be removed from the game," a post fro
  
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• Wardogs error codes and possible fixes

  17-09-2026 18:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Wardogs error codes are popping up for a lot of players as a result of server issues while players cram in, legitimate errors, or just random bugs. Those that played in the beta might already be aware of some of these and that many of them don't necessarily have definitive fixes, but there are still plenty of things you can try that might help. If error codes are preventing you from playing Wardogs, I've laid out some potential fixes you can try below.Possible fixes for Wardogs error codes(Image
  
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• The Nintendo Switch would have "completely eliminated" the Japanese console market if it became "another flop like the Wii U," expert says

  17-09-2026 18:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  You probably don't need to be reminded that the Nintendo Switch was a remarkable success. The hybrid console is the second-best-selling system ever, behind the almighty PlayStation 2, and one analyst believes that if it hadn't taken off, the Japanese side of the industry would've taken a serious hit.Nintendo wasn't in the strongest position leading into the Switch. The Wii U failed to meet anyone's expectations, especially after the Wii, and the makers of The Legend of Zelda and Kirby needed a w
  
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• It's The Witcher 3 all over again: The Blood of Dawnwalker New Game Plus is "coming," director says as fans beg for more

  17-09-2026 18:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Although The Blood of Dawnwalker only launched this month, fans are already waiting to see what the former CD Projekt Red masterminds behind the vampire RPG have in store – and it looks like it'll be New Game Plus.Now that we know The Blood of Dawnwalker will have sequels of some flavor in the future, fans have been wondering whether the current game itself will perhaps get a New Game Plus – and yes, yes it will... much like The Witcher 3 did after its own launch.Director Konrad Toma
  
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• Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter is such a perfect JRPG remake, it has me wishing for the Final Fantasy 7 Remake I could've had

  17-09-2026 18:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Only last year, around the launch of the fantastic Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, did I say I was drowning in gaming remakes. Now, as Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter releases – also a sublime remake that manages to add extra detail beyond its predecessor – we're more inundated than ever. Even so, developers and players alike can't seem to agree on what they most want from remakes: vast reimaginings, or dedicated faithfulness? Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter offers the best approach by ba
  
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• Upcoming soulslike Valor Mortis costs $40 as it's up against GTA 6 and the Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake: "We want this to be a game that you can pick up alongside these other great games"

  17-09-2026 18:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Ghostrunner developer's upcoming first-person soulslike Valor Mortis is launching for $40 because the release schedule is simply too busy.September going into October 2026 is one of the busiest release windows in recent memory. GTA 6 – which publishers don't want to launch against – being in mid-November meant that before Onimusha: Way of the Sword pushed its release to earlier in September, it would've been launching alongside Control Resonant, Valor Mortis, Harvest Moon: Echoes
  
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• Aniimo codes (September 2026) for Glimmer, Credits, and more

  17-09-2026 18:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Aniimo codes can be used to get the best start in this open-world RPG, as you explore the continent of Idyll, rounding up creatures to add to your collection. As you encounter and capture unique Aniimo you can utilize their abilities to travel further and reach new areas, as well as battling against others in exciting completions. To find out more, here are all of the gift codes for Aniimo and how to claim them.Note that while Aniimo is available now on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X, it doesn't lau
  
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• Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave – Which Flame Lord Should You Pick First?

  17-09-2026 18:21 via gamespot.com
  
  Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is a sprawling tale composed of four different interconnected heroes, each with their own story campaign. These can be played in any order, and the choice might seem daunting. Which hero is the best to start your journey with? The simple answer is that you can begin with any hero you choose, but if you want to make an informed choice about which one might work best for your tastes, we can help.After a brief prologue, you're taken to the Obelisk Chamber, where you'll
  
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• The X-Men assemble in place of the Avengers in Maximum X-Men #1 preview

  17-09-2026 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The X-Men have their work cut out for them in the wake of Avengers: Armageddon. As announced by Marvel Comics back at SDCC 2026, writer Christopher Yost and artist Tony S. Daniel will be getting the team back together, so to speak, while the Avengers pick up the pieces in Maximum X-Men this December – and we've got an exclusive preview of the interior art as well as some answers from Yost about what to expect from the new ongoing series."In the wake of the events of AVENGERS: ARMAGEDDON, E
  
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• I Played WoW: Forever On A Controller, And That’s Big News

  17-09-2026 17:59 via gamespot.com
  
  World of Warcraft: Forever, Blizzard's next evolution of WoW Classic that will see significant changes and content additions, is fully playable on controller.I got to experience WoW: Forever's new Skyborne elf starting zone with the control scheme during a hands-on demo at BlizzCon 2026. A prompt outlining the controls noted controller support was in an "alpha" state, but despite supposedly still being in early development, it worked surprisingly well.That's a first for Blizzard's MMORPG. Though
  
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