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• Control Resonant – 7 Things We Wish We Knew Before Playing

  23-09-2026 20:00 via gamespot.com
  
  It can be pretty overwhelming after you take your first steps out of the Oldest House, so here are seven things we wish we knew about the game before playing.The Rabbit Haul is available now.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2514330/The_Rabbit_HaulPresented by The Rabbit Haul. The Rabbit Haul is co-published by Fandom, GameSpot's parent company.
  
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• Fallout's iconic Vault Boy exists because the devs struggled to solve an old-school RPG problem

  23-09-2026 22:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Even as Fallout has evolved into a mega-franchise with massively popular open-world games and TV show spin-offs, certain elements of the original 1997 RPG remain – things like the SPECIAL stat system and the iconic Vault Boy mascot. As it turns out, these two creations were very closely related.Fallout was originally meant to use the Generic Universal Role-Playing System (GURPS), a tabletop RPG system published by Steve Jackson Games. In this iteration, Fallout had a bunch of different cha
  
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• Halo Stopped Being Relevant A Long Time Ago

  23-09-2026 22:25 via gamespot.com
  Halo: the flagship game of the Xbox brand. The #1 reason to buy an Xbox. The game that inspired countless clones and purported "Halo killers." All of this was true once upon a time. But the reality is that Halo's place in gaming today is not what its legacy would suggest.Consider this--Halo has been irrelevant for longer than it was ever relevant. This realization dawned on me amid the Xbox "reset" news, and while it felt surprising to think about in those terms initially, it's true. Halo's peak
  
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• CD Projekt Red releases new Witcher 3 Remastered footage side-by-side, and oh no, it looks worse

  23-09-2026 22:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Witcher 3 Remastered is coming to all players as a free update on September 29, and new footage from developer CD Projekt Red suggests you'll want to take a close look at what settings you have enabled, because I fear some details and atmosphere may be lost in translation. CDPR posted a new side-by-side comparison for The Witcher 3 and its upcoming remaster on its channels, and boy has it stoked some conversation. The clip sees Geralt torching a group of Drowners in a swamp with a flame spel
  
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• Skyler Gisondo feels "more prepared" for his DCU return as Jimmy Olsen after starring in Primetime

  23-09-2026 22:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Skyler Gisondo says starring in the true crime drama Primetime helped him prepare for his return to the DCU in the much less intense The People v. Gorilla Grodd."It's quite a change-up," Gisondo tells GamesRadar+ when asked about making the switch from his Primetime character Dan back to the effortlessly cool, but equally plucky, Jimmy Olsen. "I actually went straight from – not straight, [after Primetime] the next thing was Focker-in-Law... which is just, tonally, a very different movie."
  
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• Play History: Stella Chuu Spent How Many Hours Romancing Astarion?

  23-09-2026 21:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Cosplay Queen Stella Chuu has been gaming for her entire life - so long, in fact, she is surprised to recall Duck Hunt was NOT a Super Nintendo Game. Take a trip through Stella’s Steam Library as we uncover her love for romance, efficiency, and spending too much money on Gacha Games.
  
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• Rainbow Six Siege Dev On Competing With GTA 6 And Why There Are No Plans For Siege 2

  23-09-2026 20:57 via gamespot.com
  
  Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 6 releases this November, and it's expected to take up a lot of time and attention, leading some to worry how other games may fare in its wake. Ubisoft's Joshua Mills, the creative director for Rainbow Six Siege, said it's unquestionable that "you're going to take a hit when that drops."
  "All of us are going to play it," Mills told The Game Business.So what can Ubisoft do for Siege when GTA 6 comes out? He said, "It's about being smart and with your expectations so yo
  
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• 30 Years Later, Collecting Pokemon Cards Hits A Little Different

  23-09-2026 20:36 via gamespot.com
  
  Let me sound like an old for a second.I remember in the late '90s and early '00s, collecting Pokemon cards was a casual hobby. You'd go to your local brick-and-mortar store with the money you made from mowing the lawn or whatever, drop maybe $10 on a couple of packs, rip them open, then go to your middle school to trade cards with your friends. No one knew how to actually play the game; the cards just looked cool, and everyone wanted something. Me? I wanted a holographic Charizard, and I would'v
  
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• High On Life Is Helping Make The Case For Bigger Games On Quest

  23-09-2026 19:40 via gamespot.com
  
  High on Life has been a big hit since it first launched in 2022, thanks to its bizarre sense of humor, motor-mouthed guns, and polished gameplay. But can it succeed as a virtual reality port? That's the question Flat2VR is aiming to answer, as the team behind several VR games is now working with Squanch Games to bring High on Life to Meta Quest 3 and 3S headsets. While it's still early days for the project, I took the time to chat to High on Life VR game director Emily O'Neal and Eric Mashe
  
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• Arc Raiders is adding a battle pass with a paid tier, Embark says don't panic

  23-09-2026 19:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  The battle pass reaper has come for Arc Raiders. In the Frozen Trail update out October 8, developer Embark's hit extraction shooter will introduce a new "rewards pass" with free and paid tiers of loot."The Frozen Trail Reward Pass consists of 60 levels of in-game rewards, and two tracks: the Free Pass, available to all players who own the base game, and the Premium Pass," Embark explains in a press release. If you complete the full pass and unlock every reward, you'll earn more than enough raid
  
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• Arc Raiders is adding "weapon amplification" in Frozen Trail to customize weapons for PvP or PvE

  23-09-2026 19:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arc Raiders' big Frozen Trail update, out October 8, includes a new endgame crafting grind called "weapon amplification," and it sounds like a game-changer.Tied to a new research bench found in your expanded raider outpost, weapon amplification lets you add unique functions and attachments to, for now, 15 different weapons. You can upgrade a Renegade rifle with a scope (!), make the Burletta pistol fully automatic, or build a Rattler rifle that shoots incendiary rounds, for example. In the absen
  
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• Everything coming in the Arc Raiders Frozen Trail update

  23-09-2026 19:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Arc Raiders Frozen Trail update has been announced, bringing new weapons, a new map, new Arc enemies, and plenty more besides. It's been a long time since the last major update for Arc Raiders after an intentional choice was made to slow down the rate of content updates, but now it looks as though Embark is making the most of that pause to bring back what is arguably the largest update for the game that we've ever seen.Below, I'll take you through everything you need to know about the Frozen
  
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• Grab Resident Evil 4 Remake For Less Than $10 Right Now, Making It Cheaper Than Ever

  23-09-2026 19:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Leon Kennedy might be one of the coolest horror game protagonists. With that iconic curtain hairstyle with layered length, blocking chainsaws with a knife, and doing completely unnecessary backflips out of danger, he’s an action hero in the wrong genre, and that’s exactly why he remains a fan-favorite main character. While the second game introduced us to Mr. Kennedy, Resident Evil 4 made him who he is today, and now you can play one of the best Resident Evil games for less than $10,
  
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• Frozen Trail is a "2.0" moment for Arc Raiders: "Almost feels like we're shipping the game again"

  23-09-2026 19:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arc Raiders Frozen Trail is the biggest update yet and a "2.0" milestone for the game, developer Embark Studios says. Embark buries the lede in a press release covering today's Frozen Trail reveal. "ARC Raiders’ Frozen Trail 2.0 update will be available on October 8," it reads.Arc Raiders only just released update 1.47.0. The jump to 2.0 is significant, marking a new era for the game with implications of a soft relaunch. Many players were hoping for a major shift after several quiet months
  
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• Arc Raiders’ Battle Pass Won’t Be Totally Free Anymore, But It’ll Pay For Itself

  23-09-2026 19:00 via gamespot.com
  
  When Arc Raiders' next major update, Frozen Trail, goes live on October 8, it'll introduce lots of changes and additions, and while the update itself will be free, the new battle pass system that comes with it won't be--at least not entirely.To date, Arc Raiders has featured three battle pass-like Raider Decks in the game. Players could complete dailies to unlock Creds that then got them rewards like new cosmetics and in-game items. With Frozen Trail, Embark Studios' new Reward Pass is replacing
  
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• Obsidian will keep its "creative identity" under Bethesda, Fallout and Elder Scrolls boss says

  23-09-2026 18:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Storied RPG studio Obsidian is now a part of Bethesda. That news came alongside Xbox's latest round of layoffs and reshuffling, and it's not entirely clear what it means for the studio's future. Apparently, it'll be little more than "a change in reporting structure" – according to a leaked memo from Bethesda president Jill Braff, anyway."The creative identity and strengths that make Obsidian distinct will remain at the core of their studio and work," Braff says in an email to employees, ob
  
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• Steam rewards iconic indie dev with 98% Very Positive reviews on his unhinged golf game

  23-09-2026 18:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  You may not know the name Luke Muscat, but you've almost definitely played his games before. He was a team lead and designer on Fruit Ninja – you know, the one where you swipe at various fruits on the screen for hours on end – and he designed Jetpack Joyride, among other zany releases. His latest is a solo venture, and it's a completely ridiculous spin on golf.It's called Normal Golf Game, because, well, it's a normal golf game, right? You hop onto the course for a nice, relaxing 18
  
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• WoW: Forever is "for the millions of people who have had their accounts lapse" in Classic, dev says

  23-09-2026 18:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  When Blizzard first unveiled World of Warcraft: Forever during BlizzCon 2026, many fans saw it as the MMO developer's answer to their Classic+ prayers – and, according to world builder Matthew Armstrong, it sounds like it basically is just that.The dev goes into detail on who Forever is truly "for" in a lengthy new thread on Twitter, saying that he had a very particular type of player in mind while helping design Blizzard's revamped take on its 2004 gem: the hardened Classic fan who didn't
  
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• Marvel’s Wolverine Claws Are Real Now, And Your Groceries Don’t Stand A Chance

  23-09-2026 18:20 via gamespot.com
  
  Contrary to comic book science, you don't need to enroll in a shadowy Canadian black-ops program and undergo excruciating pain to get a set of Wolverine's signature claws. Instead, it's much easier--and less traumatic--to simply hire some blacksmiths to craft you a set, which is exactly what PlayStation did to celebrate the launch of Marvel's Wolverine. Choosing Fiedlero Knives for the job, PlayStation tasked the blacksmith with creating a custom set of Wolverine-inspired claws, and unsurprising
  
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• After co-founder apology, Discord rolls out "rightfully" controversial age verification system anyway

  23-09-2026 18:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  As of now, messaging platform Discord operates under an age "assurance" system that automatically sorts you in either an adult, teen, or unconfirmed age group based on context, like how long you've had your account and what servers you're a part of. It's the best co-founder and chief technology officer Stanislav Vishnevskiy could do after apologizing in February for the whole thing. Now, most of what Discord is incorporating in its age assurance policy is what Vishnevskiy outlined in his Februar
  
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• More Lord Of The Rings Game Re-Releases Revealed, And They’re Great

  23-09-2026 18:13 via gamespot.com
  
  Aspyr Media is on a mission to re-release more The Lord of the Rings games, and now the latest titles have been revealed.The publisher announced on September 22--the shared birthday of Frodo and Bilbo--that Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor's Game of the Year edition and Middle-earth: Shadow of War's definitive edition are coming to Switch 2 soon.The games are releasing on Switch 2 in what's called the Middle-earth: Shadow Bundle, which releases on September 30 for $70. However, the bundle is half
  
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• The Poco F9 Ultra closes in on mainstream flagships, at a far lower price

  23-09-2026 18:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Poco has been producing anti-flagship phones for quite some time now, and while its latest F9 Ultra bumps up the price it's still a seriously competitive alternative to your go-to high-end Ultra Android devices. The Poco F9 Ultra starts at $799 for a 12GB / 256GB configuration, moving up to $949 for 16GB / 512GB and $1,199 for 16GB / 1TB. That's $500 less than the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra at the bottom end of the spec list and $600 less if you're going for the full 1TB. Considering it's packing
  
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• Star Wars Zero Company Reportedly Hits 1 Million Sales, But Will It Be Enough?

  23-09-2026 18:06 via gamespot.com
  
  Star Wars Zero Company released in late August, and the game has evidently found an audience, as market-data firm Alinea Analytics estimates that the game has sold 1 million units.
  Writing on Twitter, analyst Rhys Elliott shared the estimate, which heavily favors PC. Roughly 70% of sales were on PC--unsurprising given the turn-based-tactics genre--with PlayStation following at roughly 20% and Xbox at about 10%. Elliott called its performance thus far "respectable for the genre and during such a
  
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• NBA star warns GTA 6 will ruin November sports because players and coaches will be too busy playing to train

  23-09-2026 18:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  NBA star Steven Adams has warned that sports performance will take a major hit in November because everyone's going to be too busy playing GTA 6.I don't think it's too hyperbolic to say GTA 6 is perhaps the most-anticipated game of all-time within the general public. Rockstar Games titles are always very popular, obviously, but the 13-year wait since GTA 5 released and went on to become one of the best-selling games ever made has made that anticipation a bit more feral. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zeln
  
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• Diablo 4's nostalgic new season has convinced me that we need a Diablo 1 remake more than Diablo 5

  23-09-2026 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The success of Diablo 2 Resurrected proves there is hunger for updated versions of Blizzard's original genre-defining ARPGs, and the next remake should be 1996's Diablo. It's one of my favorite games ever and probably the most formative to my career in games. It's aged incredibly well for a 30-year-old game, or at least I thought it did until I saw parts of it beautifully reimagined in Diablo 4's latest update, Season of Hell's Legacy.In case you missed it, which is understandable in the wake of
  
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• Build and Kill Zombies codes (September 2026) and how to redeem them for Cash, Hacker Tokens, Parts, and Weapons

  23-09-2026 17:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Build and Kill Zombies codes will give you a helpful head start, as you try to construct an undead-slaying vehicle that will carry you as far as possible before it's destroyed or you run out of fuel. Adding weapons and more fuel tanks can help with this, but then you need to make other upgrades to account for the extra weight or you won't get anywhere fast!The promos available here will give your account an injection of Cash, so you can afford to purchase the Parts and Weapons you spin for, as w
  
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• Jane's Shed lock code in Silent Hill Townfall

  23-09-2026 17:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jane's shed in Silent Hill Townfall is a quick garden puzzle you'll need to solve to reach the medical center. It can trip you up if it doesn't click straight away because there's nothing obvious to guide you initially. There's a padlock that needs a code and a gate you can't open, and no clear clue beyond the plaque naming Jane's shed. If it wasn't for the fact that this then gets named on the map as point of interest, you'd wouldn't really have anything to go on. Here's what you're looking for
  
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• George Lucas says he "redid" his Star Wars movies because they weren't finished

  23-09-2026 17:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  George Lucas says he went back and edited the original Star Wars trilogy (with minor tweaks to the prequels) because they simply "weren't finished.""Most movies aren't finished; they're simply yanked out of your hands and put in the theaters," Lucas said via IGN. "So you're always saying 'oh, I wish I could have just finished that one piece of thing.' But it's not that way. You have a deadline; you've got to make the deadline.""But then I went back, after Star Wars, and redid all the movies, in
  
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• Nodusfall looks like Elden Ring but was "designed to be accessible," says Hoyoverse

  23-09-2026 17:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  The makers of Genshin Impact and Zenless Zone Zero are taking a different route for upcoming action game Nodusfall, going for a more of a downtrodden, Elden Ring vibe. Although it seems grim and scary, HoYoverse states the adventure isn't meant to be impenetrably hard.The studio takes to Twitter to answer a few frequently asked questions of the upcoming release. "We don't want difficulty to be a barrier for players entering Nodusfall," the post reads."The game is designed to be accessible even f
  
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• Godzilla Minus Zero is the first ever Godzilla movie to get an R-rating

  23-09-2026 17:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Godzilla Minus Zero is breaking new ground for the kaiju franchise. The film, a sequel to smash hit Godzilla Minus One, is the first ever Godzilla movie ever to earn an R-rating. Per Film Ratings, the movie is "rated R for some violent content/bloody images." That might not come as a huge surprise, considering the film will no doubt see Godzilla rampaging through the civilian population. Still, it does mean we're probably in for some pretty gnarly visuals from writer/director Takashi Yamazaki, w
  
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