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• Arc Raiders devs know PvE has been "polarizing"

  20-10-2026 18:24 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  Now that Arc Raiders PvE playtest has come to an end, Embark Studios has acknowledged some of the early feedback and knows it hasn't been a win in everyone's eyes. In a post on the Arc Raiders website, Embark noted that the PvE matchmaking toggle test has ended, thanking players who completed over 30 million PvE rounds during the testing period. This post then urged players to join the Arc Raiders Discord and complete a survey coming out soon to make their voices heard on how they felt about the
  
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• Nintendo’s Indie World Presentation Was Pretty Packed For A Short Show

  28-10-2026 17:12 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  The latest Indie World Showcase only lasted for a bit longer than 15 minutes, but that small time window didn't stop Nintendo from featuring some truly cool-looking games. The Witchbrook release date announcement kicked things off for the presentation. While definitely exciting, that's not what enthralled me the most.That's because the next unveiling was Winds of Viridia, an action-adventure game from developer Shark Jump that appears inspired by The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. You play
  
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• CD Projekt Red says Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 2 originally didn't have best boy Roman

  28-10-2026 16:59 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 2 standout Roman wasn't initially planned to be part of the CD Projekt Red/Studio Trigger anime.As showrunner and franchise VP Bartosz Sztybor tells it on a recent REDStreams talk, impassioned discussions about film with series director Kai Ikarashi – Magnolia and A Clockwork Orange among them – led to the creation of Roman, the Night City boy obsessed with analog film over braindances."Roman was not in the original pitch of Edgerunners 2. He was born out of pas
  
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• PlayStation sees those transparent anniversary Xbox controllers and says "yes please"

  28-10-2026 16:55 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  PlayStation has announced a new range of DualSense colorways and PS5 console faceplates, and if you've been enjoying the recent trend of transparent gaming tech, you're in luck. The Prism collection gives you the chance to stylize your setup with some colorful translucence in your PS5 controller or console aesthetic in either black, red, or green. This niche of gaming hardware has been seeing a resurgence of late as Xbox revived it to celebrate the anniversary of the original Microsoft console.
  
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• If GTA 6 Beats Football On Thanksgiving, That’s A Win, EA Founder Says

  28-10-2026 16:42 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  Rockstar's GTA 6 is expected to be a giant success commercially, but just how big does the game need to be to actually be successful following a decade of development and perhaps one of the biggest development budgets ever? We don't know, because Take-Two doesn't disclose that kind of information, but EA founder Bing Gordon has his own thoughts.On the Sozzi Unleashed show, Gordon said it would be "mind-blowing" if GTA 6 can reach 75 million copies sold. How did he arrive at that number? Gordon s
  
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• PlayStation Plus Free Games For November 2026 Revealed

  28-10-2026 16:38 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  PlayStation has revealed this month's batch of free games for PlayStation Plus subscribers. All PS Plus members will be able to claim a trio of freebies starting November 3: Dead Island 2, Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered, and Monster Train 2. If you haven't claimed October's PlayStation Plus free games yet, make sure to do so before next Tuesday.This story is developing
  
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• Every October 2026 Nintendo Indie World Game You Can Play Right Now

  28-10-2026 16:28 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  The latest Nintendo Indie World Showcase highlighted several independent games arriving on Switch and Switch 2 in the coming months, and you can try some of them starting today. Four demos and a full game shadow-dropped on the Nintendo eShop, including a fantastical action-adventure and a coin machine roguelike that's sure to hook you.Winds of Viridia demo
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Ldq6eq0nQ
  It's hard to deny that Winds of Viridia is giving off some light Breath of the Wild vibes, with a
  
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• Nintendo Indie World’s Weirdest Game Got Me To Relax

  28-10-2026 16:24 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  I often feel compelled to beeline my way through games--I'll do plenty of optional quests, but rarely do I find myself slowing down to take in the sights or just goof around. It's pedal to the metal at all times. My Arms Are Longer Now, which was featured in today's Nintendo Indie World stream, is the rare game to break me out of that compulsion.A demo was recently released for My Arms Are Longer Now, and despite consisting of just the game's opening level, I spent much longer with it than I wou
  
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• Witchbrook Is Stardew Valley Meets Kiki’s Delivery Service, And It Finally Has A Release Date

  28-10-2026 16:17 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  Eight years after its reveal, magical cozy game Witchbrook finally has a release date. We’ve been waiting a painfully long time for this Kiki’s Delivery Service-inspired pixel-art experience to break cover, and now we finally know it will be coming to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2 on January 28, 2027. So you’ll have plenty of time to complete GTA 6 before diving into this severe tonal shift. At first glance, Witchbrook seems like yet another comfortable
  
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• After 10 years, cozy RPG Witchbrook finally gets a release date – and PS5 fans will no longer be missing out at launch

  28-10-2026 16:14 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  There's some good news and some bad news for Witchbrook fans today. Chucklefish's long-awaited magical school RPG finally has a release date set for next January… but that's also a delay from what was previously announced. Witchbrook – a cozy life sim with Stardew Valley-esque visuals set in a seaside town with a magical college – was first teased over 10 years ago, if you can believe it, but it's felt tantalizingly close for the last couple of years thanks to some unfortunate delays. It w
  
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• With WoW: Forever days away, its devs give us 7 reasons to get excited: "We don't know what's going to happen"

  28-10-2026 16:11 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  There's a new World of Warcraft launching next week, and it's not just another expansion. World of Warcraft: Forever is a new pillar for the universe that proves why the series always remains one of the best MMORPGs in the packed genre. Returning to the culture of collaboration and connection that helped define the earliest years of the epic online RPG, it's built with innovation at its heart to make the old feel new again – new graphics, better UI, an expansion's worth of new content includin
  
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• Mass Effect 5 studio was reportedly told to tone down inclusivity by EA after Saudi Arabia buyout

  28-10-2026 16:09 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  Following the closure of BioWare and cancellation of Mass Effect 5 after the EA buyout, the RPG that never came to be has been heavy on fans' minds – and former developers' own, too.Behind the scenes, though, things with the next Mass Effect were on shaky ground for some time, reportedly, as the massive $55 billion EA buyout by Saudi Arabia's private investment fund, Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners, and private equity fund Silver Lake fell into place.
  The acquisition allegedly spurred variou
  
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• Sony Is Bringing The Best Trend Of ’90s Console Design To PS5

  28-10-2026 16:00 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  Sony is embracing one of the best trends of the late '90s and early 2000s, revealing a new line of DualSense controllers and PlayStation 5 console covers with transparent materials. Dubbed the Prism Collection, it will come in three distinct glossy colors: Flare Orange, Emerald Green, and Graphite Gray.  Preorders will open on November 10 through the PlayStation Direct store ahead of a February 4, 2027 rollout.Sony says the design was inspired by the PS5 design team's interest in giving the co
  
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• Obsession director's mysterious new short film to premiere on YouTube just in time for Halloween

  28-10-2026 15:50 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  Curry Barker has teamed up with Windows to release his next short film just in time for the end of spooky season.Mama Bear is set to premiere October 29 at 11:30 AM EST on Barker's personal That's a Bad Idea YouTube channel. We don't know the premise or the runtime, but we do know it was written, directed, and edited by Barker and is being "sponsored" by Windows.The cast includes Jon Lee Richardson as Floyd, Katie Sarife (Annabelle Comes Home) as Lacey, Ericka Kreuz as Ms. Wilson, and Joshua Sny
  
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• Here’s Why State Of Decay 3 Has Taken 6 Years To Develop So Far

  28-10-2026 15:44 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  State of Decay 3 made an impact at the 2020 Xbox Games Showcase with a slick trailer that teased features that wouldn't make the final cut, like undead deer and frigid landscapes. Six years later, things have changed at developer Undead Labs as it navigates life after Xbox and a shift in gameplay design that led the studio to ditch ideas to make State of Decay 3 an MMO.Undead Labs founder Jeff Strain planned to make the threequel far bigger than its predecessors, and after his departure in 2019,
  
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• New Hunger Games Movie Comes Out The Day After GTA 6, But Is The Director Scared?

  28-10-2026 15:36 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  GTA 6 launches on November 19, and one day later, the new Hunger Games movie, Sunrise on the Reaping, comes to theaters. GTA 6 is expected to be an unprecedented hit that captures people's time and attention, especially right at launch. Will this impact Sunrise on the Reaping? That remains to be seen, but director Francis Lawrence hopes people can find time for both."Unfortunately, I think it comes out right around the same time our movie does. Hopefully, people find time for both. Play GTA, go
  
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• Legend of Zelda Nintendo Switch 2 stock live: where to buy the special edition handheld ahead of launch

  28-10-2026 15:27 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  Menu(Image credit: Future)1. Stock check2. US stock3. UK stock4. Live updatesThe Legend of Zelda Nintendo Switch 2 special edition launches in just one day, but stock hasn't exactly been silent in the lead up. This week we've seen a number of retailers dropping the special edition handheld onto the shelves after early orders sold out in September. The 40th Anniversary handheld has been restocked across both the US and UK in the last week (and is even still available at Amazon, albeit at a higher
  
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• Come Visit Greece in Titan Quest II!

  28-10-2026 15:00 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  As the colder months approach, the wanderlust within us begins to show its first symptoms: an ache for picturesque locations where we can relax in the sun among white sandy beaches and sky-blue oceans. If you're planning a trip, perhaps we can suggest the idyllic islands of Titan Quest II's Ancient Greece? It's beautiful, clean, and hosts wonders the likes of what you've never seen. If you're worried about the logistics of going back in time, don't! There are SO many other things you should be w
  
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• Nintendo Indie World October 2026 Showcase: All The Biggest Announcements

  28-10-2026 14:45 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  Nintendo has a new broadcast that's set to kick off soon, and this time, the spotlight is on indie games. An Indie World Showcase took place in March, and because you can never have too much of a good thing, we're getting a second dose of the short-and-sweet event today. Scheduled to run for roughly 15 minutes, expect a rapid-fire look at upcoming Switch games from a variety of third-party partners.As usual, we'll keep tabs on the show and round up the announcements and individual trailers below
  
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• Just in time for GTA 6, GameSir is launching two Vice City-inspired versions of the G7 Pro

  28-10-2026 14:42 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  As we're now less than a month out from the launch of GTA 6, you may have noticed that a number of controller brands are selling you peripherals that are adorned with palm trees and quietly purple colorways. You might also notice that not many of these PS5 controllers and Xbox controllers will officially state anything about Grand Theft Auto. The second they do, they'll have Rockstar knocking on the door asking for licensing fees.Thankfully, it's easy to make something look Vice City-inspired wi
  
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• Celebrate Halloween By Getting Five Spooky Mystery Games For Under $7

  28-10-2026 14:34 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  Whether you’ve got that spooky playlist set up with some frightening tunes or you’re preparing for a horror game marathon, I’ve got a great bundle for you. In celebration of Halloween, Fanatical’s Haunted Mystery Bundle comes with five Steam keys that are made for the scariest event of the year, and fortunately, there are no tricks here—although you could be treated to a massive triple-A prize with games like Silent Hill: Townfall or The Blood of Dawnwalker.If you’re like me, chances
  
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• GTA 6 Breaks A Record, And It’s Not Even Out Yet

  28-10-2026 14:31 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  Rockstar's GTA 6 is expected to be an enormous, unprecedented success when it releases on November 19, and new data only backs that up further.
  Circana has released new data that shows that GTA 6 holds 29% purchase intent among US console and PC gamers. That means nearly 1 in 3 console and PC gamers in the US plan to buy GTA 6--this is the highest purchase intent that Circana has ever measured for any game.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILXsBB3UwSQ
  Circana's Mat Piscatella said GTA 6 is a "rar
  
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• Dwayne Johnson gets snapped up by a hippo and falls in love with Jack Black in new trailer for final Jumanji movie

  28-10-2026 14:21 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  With less than two months to wait until we see Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Karen Gillan in the world of Jumanji one final time, Sony Pictures has released another trailer for the upcoming threequel Jumanji: Open World.The new clip, which you can watch below, opens with what looks like the Northern Lights circling over a snowy, festive Boston. But what is really happening is that Jumanji is colliding with the real world, releasing fierce prehistoric beasts onto the streets. To mak
  
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• Mobile Suit Gundam: BATTLE OPERATION 3 – Official Announcement Trailer

  28-10-2026 14:20 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  Suit up and sortie in the latest installment in the MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM BATTLE OPERATION series!The epic free-to-play team combat game set in the Mobile Suit Gundam universe. Enlist as a mercenary, pilot legendary mobile suits, and fight together to conquer the battlefield in Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operation 3!Dive into the latest installment of the “Battle Operation” series, the epic free-to-play team combat game set in the Mobile Suit Gundam multiverse. Enlist as a mercenary, pilot legen
  
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• Backrooms Director Wears A Valve Hoodie To Interview And People Think He’s Teasing A Portal Movie

  28-10-2026 14:15 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  Kane Parsons made one of 2026's most highly acclaimed and commercially successful movies in Backrooms, and everyone wants to know what he'll do next. A lot of people think he's going to make a Portal movie, based on Valve's hit series, and his latest appearance has fans convinced that's on tap.Parsons recently appeared on Kyle Buchanan's podcast wearing a Valve hoodie. Parsons is a huge fan of Valve and its work, so he very well may have been wearing the hoodie like anyone wears a piece of cloth
  
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• GTA 6 actors get advice from Grand Theft Auto veterans: "Listen to Rockstar" and "get ready"

  28-10-2026 14:10 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  GTA 5 and San Andreas' leading men have given some advice to the new GTA 6 leads as the game is poised to change their lives forever. In the pantheon of iconic gaming protagonists, there are many superpowered beings, creatures, chosen ones, and heroes. But GTA, as a series, has managed to create a number of gaming icons who are just guys. Sure, they can take a lot of damage, survive massive car crashes, and survive a blimp crash as long as Davey is in the vicinity, but for all intents and purpos
  
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• Final Fantasy Resonance and Clair Obscur success points to Square Enix making a mainline turn-based JRPG, analyst says

  28-10-2026 14:07 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  As Final Fantasy Resonance has a strong start, and, like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, proves what an appetite JRPG fans have for turn-based games, one analyst suggests that Square Enix "knows what it's missed out on" after its "move towards more action-oriented Final Fantasy titles." Square Enix's new turn-based, HD-2D release launched last week and quickly dethroned Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth as the series' single-player games' highest concurrent player peak on Steam. And, as you might expect, tha
  
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• Most horror board games are Scooby Doo-level scary, Nemesis can bring pure terror to your Halloween

  28-10-2026 13:37 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  Boys and girls of every age, wouldn't you like to see something strange? Come with me, and you will see why Nemesis is the best horror board game to be playing this Halloween…That rhyme kinda got away from me there at the end, but the point stands; Nemesis rules, and Halloween is the perfect time for you to grab some friends and dive into its claustrophobic, alien-infested corridors.Horror is a difficult thing to nail for even the best board games. As a setting, it's perfect, and there are loa
  
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• GTA 6 file size revealed at 210GB, but SSD upgrades aren't the answer if you're already running out of space

  28-10-2026 13:34 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  GTA 6 was always expected to be a chonky download, but the actual file size has just hit the airwaves - a full 210GB heading to your PS5 SSD. The information comes from PlayStation Game Size on Twitter, a niche, but very much appreciated source for upcoming file installs across Sony's consoles. 210GB puts GTA 6 in line with some of the greediest PS5 releases of the generation, with Call of Duty being one of the worst offenders. Modern Warfare 3, with all its online garb, can take you up to 240GB
  
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• Valve Knows Steam Next Fest Has An AI Slop Problem, And It’s Looking For Solutions

  28-10-2026 13:30 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  Steam Next Fest has come and gone, and one of the big criticisms of the semi-regular showcase for game demos--aside from there being several thousand of them--was that there was simply too much AI slop floating to the top. Valve has responded to the feedback, and for now, its solution to avoiding hastily vibe-coded game demos is to simply be patient and wait a few days before diving in.Speaking at the Steam Indie Connect developer event (via Inven Global), Tom Giardino and Marc Wilkinson from Va
  
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