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• Diablo 4 update fixes problem preventing players from completing the Season 15 questline properly

  15-10-2026 13:15 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  As it turns out, there was a bug in Diablo 4 Season 15 that prevented players from finishing the main questline. Mercifully, the issue has been rectified in the latest patch, though there are other problems players hope Blizzard will look into.The topline change in the update focuses on players getting access to a Splinter of Prime Evil before they're supposed to. Doing so stops you from finishing the central quest, because the Prime Evil powers are meant to be part of your reward.The glitch has
  
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• Karate Kid: Legends star in talks to play Iceman in MCU X-Men movie

  02-11-2026 23:01 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  Ben Wang is reportedly entering talks to play Bobby Drake, aka Iceman, in the MCU's upcoming X-Men movie.Per Deadline, nothing is set in stone yet, but actors Gabriel LaBelle (The Fablemans), Jackson Kelly (The Body), and Rhenzy Feliz (The Penguin) also auditioned for the role. Iceman made his comic book appearance in The X-Men #1, circa 1963, as one of the founding members of the supergroup. His mutant abilities include thermokinesis, hydrokinesis, and cryokinesis. In the live-action Fox movies
  
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• Former Xbox COO doesn't want her "departure reduced to an inaccurate story about incompetence"

  02-11-2026 22:40 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  Helen Chiang, the Microsoft veteran and former Xbox COO who left the company in October, is pushing back on reports claiming she was fired for violating company policy.In an impassioned rebuttal posted on LinkedIn, Chiang directly refutes a recent report from Eurogamer that claimed she had been fired from Microsoft for policy violations. "That’s not accurate and while I won’t turn this into a play-by-play, silence should not be mistaken for agreement," says Chiang."What has been said about m
  
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• Super Mario Bros speedrunner accidentally sets world record after promising to stream as Mario

  02-11-2026 22:32 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  Super Mario Bros. players have spent years trying to build the perfect speedrun. The race to be the first to achieve the perfect run has escalated dramatically over the past year, and the now-legendary Niftski has just set a new record that's just two frames away from the entire community's ultimate goal. The catch? He didn't actually want to do it – at least not when he did."My supporters donated $1,000 for me to do a Mario impression" for an entire Halloween stream, as Niftski explains in th
  
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• How to Rob a Bank star Nicholas Hoult says his vigilante and Lex Luthor have a lot in common

  02-11-2026 21:54 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  Nicholas Hoult says his How to Rob a Bank vigilante character and DC villain Lex Luthor have a lot more in common than you'd think."For both of them, I think there's this element of, like, the end goal," Hoult tells GamesRadar+, when asked how Ryan and Lex Luthor compare. "They got so fixated on it. And that was what was really interesting about playing Luthor in Man of Tomorrow – I don't want to give too much away about the movie – but how James Gunn has written the character. There's a lot
  
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• Super Smash Bros. Was The Best Thing To Ever Happen To Fire Emblem

  02-11-2026 21:37 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  Booting up Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave had me feeling nostalgic. Fire Emblem as it is now would’ve been surreal to six-year-old me, who only knew “Marth and Roy from Smash.” Back then, Fire Emblem was still a niche series in the west and many of us had no idea who they were. Little did I know, these swordsmen would just be two of many Fire Emblem heroes to join the fighting game series, and Fire Emblem games would reach mainstream popularity.I discovered Fire Emblem in the early 2000s w
  
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• Former Xbox Exec Shares Her Side Of The Story After Mysterious Depature

  02-11-2026 21:16 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  Helen Chiang, the veteran Xbox staffer who got promoted in July and left the company amid mysterious circumstances just recently, has shared her side of the story--but her response doesn't close the book on this saga.In a LinkedIn post titled "Clarity is Kindess," which itself is a reference to her former boss (and Xbox CEO) Asha Sharma's much-ridiculed and cringey mantra, said it's "not accurate" that she was "fired for a policy violation" as multiple reports said.Chiang said she will not "turn
  
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• GTA 6 lead says Rockstar president Sam Houser is involved in every aspect of creative development

  02-11-2026 20:25 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  Rockstar's notoriously private co-founder and president, Sam Houser, hasn't said a whole lot in public about his involvement in the studio's forthcoming behemoth, GTA 6, leading to a fair degree of rumor and speculation that he's taken a backseat in the actual day-to-day creative decision-making. That is not true in the slightest, according to Rockstar North co-studio head and head of development, Rob Nelson.Talking to Edge for its big GTA 6 cover story, Nelson put the idea of Houser being littl
  
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• CoD: Modern Warfare 4 Arrives To Warzone With New Maps, Movement, And Features

  02-11-2026 19:35 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  Season 1 of Modern Warfare 4 and Warzone arrives on November 6, and this fully integrates the new Call of Duty into battle royale. The season update replaces Black Ops 7's maps with two Modern Warfare-themed maps, overhauls Warzone's movement, introduces new game mechanics, and adds an operator-skin toggle feature. Here is everything you need to know when Season 1 of Modern Warfare 4 goes live in Warzone.Additionally, Season 1 of Modern Warfare 4 adds a new battle pass, more multiplayer maps an
  
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• Ocarina of Time began remake so young devs would understand "how significant" the N64 classic was

  02-11-2026 19:16 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  It's impossible to overstate just how influential The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has been since it launched on the Nintendo 64 back in 1998. It defined what 3D action-adventure games would look and play like for decades – not just in the Zelda series, but across all video games. As it turns out, this was part of the reason series producer Eiji Aonuma wanted to create the upcoming Ocarina of Time remake: he wanted to be sure the younger developers on the Zelda team understood just how imp
  
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• Slay the Spire 2 devs declare the "perfect card," and of course it's one I thought was bad

  02-11-2026 19:11 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  It may not be the best card in Slay the Spire 2, but developer Mega Crit has declared that Ironald's starter card Bash is at least the "perfect card."This wisdom comes from studio co-founder Casey Yano, who responded to several questions in the latest Spire newsletter-bundled Q&A session. A player named Jeremy praised Mega Crit's willingness to take big swings with class identity and balance in Slay the Spire 2, and asked if the team thinks "dang we really nailed that the first time around"
  
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• Valve "played capitalism so well they broke it" and now Steam can never be beat, ex-Epic dev says

  02-11-2026 18:47 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  A former Epic Games developer is calling out Steam users, saying that they wouldn't move on from Valve's store even if a better alternative emerged.Kiaran Ritchie, former principal animation engineer at Epic Games kicked off discussions surrounding Steam's 30% sales cut last week (with the assertion that "you could vibe code a Steam alternative in a week"). Which in-turn led noted Steam hater Epic CEO Tim Sweeney to assert that "Valve has held gaming back for years" – because the person whose
  
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• Avengers: Doomsday star Hayley Atwell shot several "different storylines," but some "dropped away"

  02-11-2026 18:45 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  Hayley Atwell says Marvel explored a few different storylines for Avengers: Doomsday, and only a few made the cut."We tried different things, we shot different things, there were different storylines, some picked up, some developed, some dropped away," Atwell told The Playlist, careful to not reveal specifics.Despite being absent from the initial cast reveal (which, if you recall, involved a livestream and several chairs), she made a surprise appearance during Marvel's big Hall H panel at SDCC 2
  
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• If Sam Altman thinks gaming PCs only use RAM 5% of the time, he knows less than I thought

  02-11-2026 18:40 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  Sam Altman made headlines over the weekend by ruffling the feathers of the very consumer market he's already been pissing off for the last year: PC gamers. In an interview, the CEO of OpenAI seemed to be pleading for sympathy as he said it was "quite terrible" that RAM for gaming exists, and suggested that we as humans should all be for funneling more supply toward training AI models in data centers.For full context, Altman said: "From a global allocation perspective, actually, it's quite terrib
  
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• Palworld lead says what makes an indie game has become "so blurred" but "creative control is king"

  02-11-2026 18:29 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  There are some blurred lines in the industry around what counts as indie or AAA nowadays. Is it about funding? Or scale? It's a discussion that frequently ripples up, and now someone involved in Palworld has weighed in.John 'Bucky' Buckley, the head of publishing and communications at Palworld studio Pocketpair, gives his two cents on Twitter, going into how the economics have become "so blurred." He points out, for instance, that Palworld is fully self-funded. Pocketpair has no outside financia
  
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• Final Fantasy Resonance lead had to fight Square Enix execs for more than a basic port for the JRPG

  02-11-2026 18:27 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  Final Fantasy Resonance has been an undeniable hit for Square Enix, but it turns out that its producer's pitch initially faced some pushback from executives at the company who would have preferred the game to be a basic port.Resonance is sort of like what Octopath Traveler 0 is to Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent, except for Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. Both titles have taken mobile games that came before them and adapted parts of their stories – in Octopath's case, also adding mor
  
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• When Is Resident Evil Coming To Home Video? It Could Be Very Soon

  02-11-2026 18:26 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  Zach Cregger's Resident Evil movie crushed it at the box office, banking more than $400 million globally to become the most successful entry in the series ever. When will the film be available to watch at home, though?
  According to Fandango, the home video release is set for November 3. That's apparently when people can buy the movie outright or rent it digitally, with a physical edition for Blu-ray coming at some point later. It will also presumably come to streaming at some point, and it shoul
  
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• Publisher shakes fist at Valve for delaying their game as it reaches just 15 players on Steam

  02-11-2026 18:23 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  Wheel Make It publisher 2 Left Thumbs aired frustrations with Valve after its new co-op game hit just 15 peak concurrent players amid a launch delayed by apparent complications with Steam's approval pipeline. "We were assured by Steam that missing our launch - as a result of the tidal wave of AI-slop that destroyed their review queue - would not affect the usual mechanisms of launch visibility," the publisher wrote on Sunday. "I beg to differ... 11,000+ wishlists and this is what our launch turn
  
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• This KPop Demon Hunters Derpy Tiger plush already feels like a shoe-in Christmas gift

  02-11-2026 18:20 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  Sometimes you see a toy and go "uh oh, that's gonna be popular," and I'm getting that feeling with a new KPop Demon Hunters plush.This animatronic toy has 'easy Christmas gift' written all over it; besides being thoroughly adorable, KPop Demon Hunters Delivery Derpy Tiger is crammed with cool features (like sound and motion effects) at a pretty reasonable $44.99. It comes out at some point in November as well, so it's in prime position for that Holiday season rush. I've not seen it on shelves ye
  
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• The best Oris 8.6 builds in MW4

  02-11-2026 18:20 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  The best Oris 8.6 build in MW4 is usually based around versatile mid-combat use, allowing you to quick-scope and drop opponents either in multiplayer or in DMZ. If you bought the deluxe edition of Modern Warfare 4 you'll have access to the Volt Edge blueprint for this powerful marksman rifle, and if you build it up further it can raise to the level of one of the best MW4 guns. Below I'll take you through all the best Oris builds so you can create a strong loadout, both for general sniping and fo
  
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• GTA 6 sounds like an RPG – so why deny it any more?

  02-11-2026 18:00 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  PATCH NOTES 2.11.2026 – GTA 6 is launching this month, and Edge Magazine's exclusive special unearthed loads of fresh dirt on it. Jason and Lucia's player-defined relationship is the most earth-shattering revelation of all to me, and it's making me look at GTA 6 a whole other way. Namely, as an RPG.What's happening with GTA 6 this week?Edge Magazine's GTA 6 exclusive has given us plenty of fresh insights about the game's characters and open world.GTA 6's Jason and Lucia can be allies instead o
  
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• Valve's canceled Portal follow-up F-Stop is now fully playable thanks to that 12TB Steam leak and some dedicated fans

  02-11-2026 17:43 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  F-Stop – the canceled Valve project that was the original Portal follow-up – has leaked online and is fully playable after being found in the massive Steam leak earlier this year. Back in August 12TB of Steam data from 2003 and 2013 dropped online which featured a ton of builds of Valve titles like Portal 2, Left 4 Dead, and Counter Strike: Global Offensive. This data was apparently "hidden in plain sight, but with no protection whatsoever," and was easily accessible without hacking the whol
  
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• Phantom Blade Zero Put Up Some Massive Sales Numbers

  02-11-2026 17:41 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  Developer S-Game's action-RPG Phantom Blade Zero launched on October 29 and had a massive start across PC and PS5.
  The game sold more than 4 million copies over its first 72 hours. That works out to 926 units sold per minute or about 15.4 per second over the first three days.
  "Thank you everyone from the bottom of our hearts for all the love and support," the studio said in a social media post.
  https://twitter.com/pbzero_official/status/2117074929594298758
  The 4 million figure counts copies sold
  
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• CD Projekt Red is building the Avengers of RPGs, adds 3 former Kingdom Come: Deliverance leads

  02-11-2026 17:36 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  There was already considerable RPG pedigree at CD Projekt Red, but now it's gotten even stronger. Three lead devs from the company behind the Kingdom Come: Deliverance games were recently hired, making the available roster for Cyberpunk 2 and The Witcher 4 truly spectacular.The first of the triumvirate of devs from Warhorse Studios actually made the jump over to Geralt of Rivia's domain back in November 2025, per LinkedIn. Karel Kolmann, a lead gameplay designer who worked on both Kingdom Come i
  
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• Xbox Game Pass Has A Busy November Ahead With Several Day-One Launches

  02-11-2026 17:17 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  The start of the month is a good time to be an Xbox Game Pass subscriber, as that's when Microsoft reveals the next batch of games coming to the service. November is frontloaded with new game releases before November 19--we can't imagine why--and several of them are day-one releases. Once more games are revealed, we'll update this post.A few games have already been revealed for November, and usually, the first wave is the biggest one for Game Pass. Kicking things off is the online horror co-op g
  
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• GTA 6 Buying Guide: Get Ready For Sticker Shock

  02-11-2026 17:10 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  Rockstar's GTA 6 finally releases on November 19, and if you're looking to play the game, you'll also need a console--and those are more expensive than ever. Here's a quick buying guide to help you understand what you need and how much the items will cost. A consoleFirst, you'll need a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X|S console. The least expensive option for buying a new system outright is the Xbox Series S, which costs $500. Unfortunately, that's $200 more expensive than the system cost at laun
  
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• Resident Evil Requiem Drops To Lowest Price, But For One Day Only

  02-11-2026 17:00 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  Resident Evil Requiem is brilliant. I don’t need to tell you that—the critical scores across the board, feedback from both fans and newcomers, and the fact that Leon Kennedy returns are enough evidence to support my opinion. Halloween may be dead until next year, but what hasn’t died is the need to defeat hordes of infected. With the latest Resident Evil game cheaper than ever, there’s no better time to buy it. You only have one day to get it at this price, though.What makes Resident Evi
  
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• Entire Games Are Being Ripped Off By AI, And Things Are Only Going To Get Worse

  02-11-2026 17:00 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  Popular video games have always attracted copycats, but the barrier--and timeline--for creating them has recently and suddenly been significantly lowered. The advent of generative AI and vibe-coding has made it nearly trivial for individuals with even light coding experience to pump out a fully formed copy of a popular game, or even an upcoming one. As a result, developers can have their ideas taken out from under them, siphoning money or enthusiasm for their own original ideas. The problem of
  
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• This sim racing bundle from PXN proves that direct drive doesn't need to cost a premium, but F1-style wheels are a different story

  02-11-2026 16:59 via Latest from GamesRadar+
  
  Anyone who’s followed Formula 1 in the last few years knows that a lot of the most interesting action happens in the midfield. There may not be as much attention or fanfare given to it, but look away from the leader, and there’s fierce battling going on all over the place. Sim racing has a similar situation brewing. Direct drive racing wheels for PC were previously reserved for the championship leaders, but in the last couple of years we’ve seen that technology filter quickly down the fiel
  
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• Claude Code Just Got A New Rule: Stop Copying Other People’s Games

  02-11-2026 16:36 via GameSpot - All Content
  
  AI clones and vibe-coded copycat games have become a huge headache for developers recently, but it looks like an update to Anthropic's Claude Code's "rules" has been pushed out. Listed under "tengu_heron_brook," the tweak to the AI now directs it not to copy games and assets, and users cannot disable this setting.Spotted by Chasm on X (via Game Developer), the full rule reads, "Do build original games, games in a genre, and games from the user’s own designs and assets. Don't build a recreat
  
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