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• Arc Raiders Prioritized The Game And Its Devs’ Health. It Could Cost Them Dearly.

  02-09-2026 22:27 via gamespot.com
  Arc Raiders' next big update, Frozen Trail, is set to arrive sometime in October. For Embark Studios, it means more than it probably should. The team announced back in the spring that it would move to semi-annual major updates, pivoting away from the monthly content cadence that Arc Raiders' executive producer Aleksander Grøndal told me wasn't good enough for players or developers. That leaves a lot riding on Frozen Trail, and it will serve as a litmus test for what's really expected--or
  
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• Before HBO’s The Last Of Us, An Entirely Different Adaptation Was Proposed

  05-09-2026 10:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Naughty Dog's first effort to adapt The Last of Us for the screen was not as an HBO TV show, but a movie, a fact that recently began doing the rounds again on social media. Like with many Hollywood productions, The Last of Us had a tumultuous, long development period as a movie before it was ultimately abandoned in favor of what is now a hit series. While not everyone agrees with the creative departures from the source material for the TV series on HBO, it's undeniably a success and one of
  
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• Onimusha WOTS – High Level Gameplay On Hardest Difficulty

  05-09-2026 09:00 via gamespot.com
  
  We take on Enhanced Byakue on Carnage Difficulty, a harder version of the secret demo boss while taking no damage in Onimusha: Way Of The Sword. Carnage difficulty is only available after completing the game on normal difficulty.Music: Onimusha 2: Oda's Army Attack
  
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• You Can Extend The Blood Of Dawnwalker’s Time Limit By Finding Sanzhani Fairies

  05-09-2026 02:51 via gamespot.com
  
  Are you intrigued by the existence of Sanzhani in The Blood of Dawnwalker? These beings, a cross between a moth and a pixie, are fairies who live in small burrows underground. Don’t let their diminutive size fool you, because they’re quite tricky and mischievous, too. However, if you can help them out, you might just receive the most important resource in the game: Time.Our guide has all the information that you need. We discuss the Good Home quest and Letters to Lunka quest. In This
  
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• How To Complete The Cycle Of Love In The Blood Of Dawnwalker – Xanthe Boss Guide

  05-09-2026 02:51 via gamespot.com
  
  Are you befuddled by the tasks in The Cycle of Love in The Blood of Dawnwalker? This quest, which is the conclusion of your battles against Xanthe, takes place in a keep. Along the way, you have to illuminate your surroundings to access new pathways. Oh, and you also have to consider Xanthe’s offer at the end. Our guide has all the info that you need, but be ready for some minor spoilers, too. In This Article Xanthe’s demise - The Cycle of LoveHowling Keep puzzle - Xanthe’s Lan
  
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• NBA 2K’s Best Mode Is Even Better This Year

  05-09-2026 02:12 via gamespot.com
  
  NBA 2K has long been the standard-bearer for high-quality sports games. It's the pinnacle that other series like Madden, FC, and even the oft-beloved MLB The Show aspire to emulate in whatever ways their respective sports allow. That's not to say it gets everything right, but it often feels like the team at Visual Concepts is competing against itself. It creates trends; it doesn't chase them.
  That's always been most obvious in The City, the series' social PvPvE hub and the lifeblood of the game'
  
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• Iconic Silent Hill artist Masahiro Ito says he "probably would have been happier" if he hadn't "sacrificed" his love life for Pyramid Head

  05-09-2026 01:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  "The 8 years I spent developing Silent Hill 1, 2 & 3 at Konami, I gave up on getting a girlfriend," reads a new tweet from Masahiro Ito, the legendary Team Silent artist best known for designing Silent Hill 2 antagonist Pyramid Head. The tweet largely echoes something Ito said back in 2024 about not having the time for a girlfriend when he was working at Konami, but now he straight-up suggests he regrets sacrificing his love life for the his work."Never even went on a single date w/ a lady,"
  
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• PlayStation's Peter Parker actor has pushed Insomniac to put Deadpool in Spider-Man 3: "I would like to believe that they got the idea from me"

  05-09-2026 01:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  If we end up seeing Deadpool in Marvel's Spider-Man 3, it would seem we have Peter Parker actor Yuri Lowenthal to thank, at least partly.Talking to The Movie Dweeb on Instagram, Lowenthal was asked to comment on a potential Wolverine and Spider-Man collab in Insomniac's next open-world Spider-Man game. Insomniac is currently hard at work prepping for the release of Marvel's Wolverine, out September 15, but considering the success of Spider-Man, the standalone Miles Morales game, and Spider-Man 2
  
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• Who Should Receive Farkas’ Ring In The Blood Of Dawnwalker – The Ring Guide

  05-09-2026 01:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Are you having doubts as to who should receive Farkas' Ring in The Blood of Dawnwalker? Farkas, the jester for Mad Khan Bakir, has a deal for you. Of course, it's up to you if you want to push through with the idea or if you feel like you should renege on it. But if you change your mind, you'll have to find someone who'll take the item. In This Article The Ring quest - Should Farkas or someone else get the ring?What happens if you give the ring to Farkas?Who else can take the ring?AncaBakr-Erga,
  
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• How To Complete The Gilded Gauntlet In The Blood Of Dawnwalker – Ambrus Boss Guide

  05-09-2026 00:59 via gamespot.com
  
  Are you planning to complete The Gilded Gauntlet in The Blood of Dawnwalker? This quest is the culmination of your efforts to stymy Ambrus, the arrogant vampire boyar who’s also one of Brencis’ lieutenants. Our guide has all the details that you need, but be ready for a few spoilers. We tackle not just The Gilded Gauntlet, but also a related mission called The Bittersweet Toast. In This Article Ambrus’ end - The Gilded Gauntlet and The Bittersweet ToastThe Bittersweet Toast: Ti
  
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• How To Complete The Lunar Game In The Blood Of Dawnwalker – Bakir Boss Guide

  05-09-2026 00:51 via gamespot.com
  
  The Lunar Game in The Blood of Dawnwalker is a major quest that you eventually receive if you’ve been targeting Bakir’s operations in the region. If you keep at it with certain activities, such as freeing prisoners from pillories, ransacking distilleries, and eliminating headhunters, Bakir will become so irate. Shortly thereafter, his jester, Farkas, will approach you with a plan to join a contest. Our guide has several tips to help you survive the night. In This Article Bakir’
  
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• All Endings In The Blood Of Dawnwalker, Including Both Secret Endings

  05-09-2026 00:51 via gamespot.com
  
  Are you curious about all the endings in The Blood of Dawnwalker? Your journey across the fields, bogs, and castles of Vale Sangora has to come to a close some time, whether you manage to do it in 30 days or not. Our guide has all the information that you could ever want but, due to the topic that we’ll discuss, do expect several major spoilers. In This Article The Blood of Dawnwalker endings, epilogues, and extrasSecret ending: The Hero They DeserveSecret ending: Together ForeverBad endin
  
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• Pokemon Go Fest Mega Finale: Armored Mewtwo Raids, Rotating Habitats, Bonuses, And More

  05-09-2026 00:47 via gamespot.com
  
  Pokemon Go is formally closing out this year's Go Fest with one final event dubbed the Mega Finale, and true to its name, it focuses almost entirely on Mega-Evolved Pokemon.Like Go Fest proper, the Mega Finale takes place across two days, with different wild Pokemon and Raid bosses appearing throughout the weekend as part of rotating habitats. Moreover, the game will offer various bonuses for catching Pokemon and completing challenges, including the first chance to Mega Evolve the Kalos starting
  
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• Ananta Hands On Impressions

  05-09-2026 00:45 via gamespot.com
  
  Anime GTA-Style Game Ananta's Massive Open World Could Be Its Greatest Strength Or Its Biggest Problem.
  
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• Spider-Noir canceled after one season at Prime Video despite receiving 11 Emmy nominations

  05-09-2026 00:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite critical acclaim and a slew of Emmy nominations, Spider-Noir will not be returning for a second season at Prime Video. Per Deadline, it seems like Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television expected bigger streaming numbers when making their decision. But given recent reports that the first season's budget was somewhere around $400 million, I can see why the studios might've needed the show to become a megahit in order to justify spending that money on a second season.Amazon and Son
  
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• GTA 6 driving is "the best parts" of GTA 4 but with "the accessibility of GTA 5," says Rockstar boss

  04-09-2026 23:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's nearly impossible to nail down any one feature or mechanic that defines a Grand Theft Auto game, but the two specific suggestions from the title are thievery and driving. My memories of the early GTA games from my childhood, Vice City and San Andreas, are largely comprised of stealing stuff, cruising around listening to 2Pac, and mowing down innocent citizens, a horde of cop cars blaring sirens in the rearview. Driving is essential to a GTA game, so it makes sense that it's a huge focus in
  
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• Dungeons and Dragons 2 is still moving forward with a finished script, but it needs a new studio

  04-09-2026 23:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  A sequel to Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is still in the works... but it needs a new home."I think Hasbro is a big believer in it, and if they can figure out a studio partner to make it work, they’ll want to proceed," co-director John Francis Daley said on The Discourse Podcast.The 2023 movie, written and directed by Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, follows a bard named Edgin Darvis (Chris Pine) and barbarian Holga Kilgore (Rodriguez), who enlist a team of unlikely heroes –
  
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• A Lot Of New Games Released On Steam Today, But This One Has Wormed Its Way Into My Heart

  04-09-2026 23:08 via gamespot.com
  
  Would I still love working from home if I was a worm? Turns out the answer is a resounding yes, and I never would have made this crucial discovery if it hadn't been for Worming From Home.What's Worming From Home? Oh I am so glad you asked. In the midst of September's glut of new releases and the constant influx of new games coming to Steam, Worming From Home stands as an unassuming addition to this line-up, releasing earlier today on Steam. Developed by two people, the physics-based simulation g
  
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• Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is "not going to shoot my dog," says now-independent Double Fine boss Tim Schafer, who initially opposed Microsoft ownership because "you guys love closing studios"

  04-09-2026 23:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Double Fine has just regained its independence as a studio after seven years at Microsoft, who founder Tim Schafer initially didn't want as a dad anyway. But things seemed OK until new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma stepped in for Phil Spencer. "No one puts Double Fine out of business except for me," Schafer tells Bloomberg in a new report. "Asha's not going to shoot my dog. I'm going to shoot it. But I'm not going to shoot it because it's going to do great. A lot of people want to walk the dog." It's a g
  
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• "Palworld's not finished": With update 1.1 coming, Pocketpair lead says "we're doing something players have been screaming at us to do" after the "soft prologue" of 1.0

  04-09-2026 22:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Palworld update 1.1 is on the way, and while it won't be another 1.0-sized overhaul, Pocketpair comms and publishing lead John Buckley says the next big patch is doing "something that players have been screaming at us to do."Speaking with GamesRadar+ at Gamescom 2026, Buckley examines the shift in development at Pocketpair following the release of Palworld 1.0. He says the studio's overall process and outlook are "very, very different" today."It was a big sigh of relief that we got it out and it
  
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• Court sentences disgraced Old School RuneScape dev who stole players' gold and "banked more than £364,829 in cash"

  04-09-2026 21:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former Old School RuneScape developer Andrew "Mod Jed" Lakeman has been sentenced for stealing gold from player accounts following several years of investigation and litigation. The Cambridgeshire Constabulary recently published a report covering the sentencing and history of the crime. With his arrest in July 2019, Lakeman was charged with "unauthorised computer access with intent to commit other offences, theft by employee, conceal / disguise / convert / transfer / remove criminal property and
  
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• Silo Season 4 release date revealed with action-packed first trailer

  04-09-2026 21:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for Silo season 4 has arrived, and the final season of the hit Apple TV Plus show is coming sooner than you'd think.In the brief clip, which can be viewed above, we see one of the most important moments of the entire series: Juliette suddenly runs into a strange man, and demands that he reveal his identity. The man, who doesn't seem to remember much of anything, is none other than Congressman Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman), one of the creators of the silo project. Season 3 intr
  
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• Worming from Home Opening Gamplay

  04-09-2026 21:12 via gamespot.com
  Check out the first 14 minutes of Worming from Home.
  
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• Bungie's studio is up for sublease after heavy Destiny 2 layoffs, which doesn't bode well

  04-09-2026 20:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Destiny 2 and Marathon maker Bungie is "exploring options" to lease out most of its Bellevue, Washington studio following heavy layoffs and a shift to a "digital-first" employment model.Bungie confirmed that it's looking to "sublease its campus" in a statement to The Game Post, which spotted a listing for 210,984 rentable square footage at the studio's building. The lease offer runs through 2035. You should not read this news as a sign that Bungie is imminently closing its doors. In many ways, i
  
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• FromSoftware's first-ever player romance builds on "the maidens in Elden Ring," says Hidetaka Miyazaki: "It's a transient, ephemeral love, which is maybe a motif I'm striving for"

  04-09-2026 19:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  I already think the standard FromSoftware boss fight in which you're more likely to die the closer you get to touching someone is romantic in the way it makes my palms sweat. So I'm eager to learn if director Hidetaka Miyazaki will be able to scrunch my heart until it explodes with The Duskbloods, which will feature the first overt romance between players in a FromSoftware game. Switch 2 multiplayer game The Duskbloods is set against the unnatural Dusk of Humanity, where up to eight players fill
  
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• Some Of The Best Metroidvanias Have Gone Criminally Overlooked

  04-09-2026 19:00 via gamespot.com
  
  The original Metroid and Castlevania both turn 40 years old this fall. As the two series most responsible for creating the “metroidvania,” we’re taking this occasion to take a comprehensive view of the popular genre. This is Metroidvania Week.Metroidvanias are very popular among indie developers, and small studios have produced some of the genre's finest examples. Just one look at Steam presents a dizzying array of search-action games, many of which you probably didn't know exi
  
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• Let’s Stop Saying “Metroidvania”

  04-09-2026 19:00 via gamespot.com
  
  The original Metroid and Castlevania both turn 40 years old this fall. As the two series most responsible for creating the “metroidvania,” we’re taking this occasion to take a comprehensive view of the popular genre. This is Metroidvania Week.When we talk about something, we should talk about it in ways people can understand. You have to be deep in the "gamer" weeds to have any idea what "Metroidvania" means, though. You have to be familiar with not one but two different decade
  
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• StarCraft’s Return: A Timeline Of The Rumors And Clues So Far

  04-09-2026 18:50 via gamespot.com
  
  BlizzCon 2026 is right around the corner, and for Blizzard fans, there's an air of excitement as signs point to a dormant franchise possibly being revived. StarCraft has been largely dormant since the release of StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void in 2015--and a huge update in June--but could the sci-fi series be making a comeback? If recent rumors and other weird stuff are to be believed, we could be in for some sort of an announcement during the BlizzCon opening ceremony--and to paraphrase one gri
  
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• No Man's Sky fans on alert for Cosmos update news as Hello Games boss Sean Murray starts vague posting cocktail emojis

  04-09-2026 18:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  No Man's Sky and Hello Games lead Sean Murray is back on social media with more vague emoji-posting – this time in the form of a cocktail emote that sure looks a whole lot like it might be referencing the upcoming Cosmos update for the survival game.You know, because of the drink, the cosmopolitan? Also known as a "cosmo" – and that's what folks think Murray is teasing here.
  It all started with a post on X that included a single cocktail emoji. Then, the official Hello Games account
  
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• 30 years later, here's how I still play N64 games on the original console, fancy FPGA remakes, and handhelds

  04-09-2026 18:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Nintendo 64 is now 30 years old, and the question of how to actually play N64 games today is more relevant than ever. Yes, the short answer involves simply getting hold of Ninty's first 3D system, but the original retro console is a bit of an oddball. Therefore, it's well worth putting a bit of love into your modern setup, whether you opt for the OG hardware, a fancy HDMI remake, or an emulation-based solution.Jump to:(Image credit: Phil Hayton)Original hardware
  EmulationNo, I'm not dunking
  
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