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• FC 27 Tactics – Best Formations and Codes

  23-09-2026 00:05 via gamespot.com
  
  If you’ve juiced up your Ultimate Team in EA Sports FC 27, but are still struggling to rack up those wins in FUT Champs, then it might not be your star-studded squad that’s letting you down. The modern game is defined by systems, and ramming your CAMs into a good ol’ fashioned 4-4-2 is likely doing more harm than good. In This Article 4-4-1-14-2-1-34-2-3-1 Wide4-4-2How to import tactics codes in FC 27
  Setting your team up for success requires finding the right formations, both
  
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• Disney's Dreamlight Valley Switch 2 Cozy Edition is up for pre-order, but it's cheaper to stick with the magic of the OG

  23-09-2026 12:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Disney Dreamlight Valley Cozy Edition pre-orders are available on the Nintendo Switch 2, but unless you're desperate to add that red-bordered box to your gaming shelf, I'd recommend sticking with the original.The new $49.99 (via Best Buy) Switch 2 Cozy Edition is not even a game-key card release, and remains a download code in a box like the version before it. Disney has also packed in the exact same extras this time around, from the 14,500 Moonstones, cottage house cosmetic, and exclusive racco
  
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• Clayface star promises you will see the villain's final form, but you'll have to wait until release: "It's f***ing sick"

  23-09-2026 12:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Although we are yet to see Clayface's full gloopy transformation in any of the trailers so far, star Tom Rhys Harries and director James Watkins promise that fans will witness the villain's final form in the DCU's first all-out horror movie. "It’s fucking sick!" teased Harries in an interview with Empire, although he couldn't reveal any details. Director Watkins, best known for Eden Lake and his Speak No Evil remake, added, "When we were at San Diego Comic-Con, people were like, 'I hope yo
  
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• Control’s Story And Lore Gets Weird, So Here’s What You Need To Know Before Control Resonant

  23-09-2026 11:49 via gamespot.com
  
  Control Resonant is almost here, and if you're looking to jump into Remedy Entertainment's new release--which is really good--but you're a bit lost when it comes to the story of this Control sequel, fret not; we've got you covered with a story recap in the video below. It has been quite some time since Jesse Faden first paid a visit to the Oldest House, and in the years since Control was first released, its world of paranormal threats and enigmatic entities has continued to steadily expand.Here'
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 dev worries for Fallout: New Vegas studio Obsidian as Bethesda takes over management

  23-09-2026 11:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Just yesterday, we learned that Bethesda is taking control of Obsidian Entertainment amid all of the Xbox reshuffles – but not everyone is sure it's a good move.Baldur's Gate 3 and Larian Studios publishing director Michael "Cromwelp" Douse is one such person, stepping forward to share his concerns of the management handover on Twitter.
  "I can't imagine what it must feel like to have independent agency and then, suddenly enough, find yourself working *under* a competitor," he writes. "I ca
  
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• Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave Gifts Guide

  23-09-2026 11:39 via gamespot.com
  
  Gift-giving in Fire Emblem games is a core staple, letting party members connect and giving tangible perks. While Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave removes the romantic aspect of support levels, it doesn't change the fact that boosting support levels is vital for recruiting new roster members and boosting stats for allies standing next to each other in combat.Where things get tricky with Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave is deciding which gift to give and when the best time is to do so. If you want to unlo
  
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• The new Avengers: Endgame Encore footage has leaked, revealing how the Marvel re-release connects to Avengers: Doomsday

  23-09-2026 10:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avengers: Endgame Encore releases this week, and it seems like all the new footage has already leaked. The film is already out in Korea, where early audiences have been treated to new post-credits scenes and details that directly set up Avengers: Doomsday.Now, before we get into what happens, take this as your spoiler warning. If you don't want to know what the extra footage is, come back after you've seen the movie. It seems the extra footage is split into two sections: in-film additions and po
  
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• Overwatch Actors Talk Gaming Inspirations, Community Building & Role Playing Characters in Character

  23-09-2026 01:45 via gamespot.com
  
  We chat with the Voice Actors of Questwatch an Overwatch-themed tabletop roleplaying game experience that originated as a limited-time game mode in Overwatch 2 Season 5 and expanded into a live-play event at BlizzCon 2026. Learn more about Matt Mercer, Anjali Bhimani, Darin De Paul, Chiara Preziosi, and Carolina Ravassa's early gaming inspiration, role playing other characters and more!
  
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• Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Tips For Beginners And Veterans Alike

  23-09-2026 00:06 via gamespot.com
  
  Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is the latest in the long-running series to garner critical acclaim and a welcome return to form for Nintendo's premier strategy series as one of the best RPGs in 2026. Now you’re probably thinking that these tips will only be for combat, but thanks to the rather robust tutorial, understanding how to fight is actually relatively simple.
  No matter if you decided to begin with Casual or Classic settings enabled, the real complexity of Fortune’s Weave actual
  
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• Aniimo – How To Get And Use Radiant Dreamshadow

  23-09-2026 00:05 via gamespot.com
  
  Aniimo is a creature-catching game with plenty of in-game currencies and resources, and acquiring Radiant Dreamshadow in the game will allow you to to change the appearance of specific Aniimo. This guide will explain how to get Radiant Dreamshadow in Aniimo as well as what it is used for.AniimoWhat is Radiant Dreamshadow in AniimoRadiant Dreamshadow is a very rare in-game currency that allows you to re-roll a legendary Aniimo's appearance to give it a new look. Radiant Dreamshadow does not alter
  
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• GTA 6's $1 million billboard goes up despite protests from local police

  22-09-2026 23:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  GTA 6 is just two months away, and Rockstar is spinning up the marketing machine in a big way. The studio's proposition for a big money takeover of Miami, the real-life inspiration for the fictional Vice City, recently passed muster with local officials despite protests from some police members in the area. Now, fans are looking on as a $1 million billboard gets the marketing stunts underway.A massive "welcome to Vice City" sign has been going up on the Kaseya Center, home of the Miami Heat bask
  
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• The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time’s Sheik Is Nothing Without Their Androgyny

  22-09-2026 23:43 via gamespot.com
  
  As a transgender woman and someone who doesn’t conform to their birth gender, there are a handful of characters throughout video games who I treat with a certain level of reverence. During my "firmly still in the closet" teen years, I found myself fascinated with Guilty Gear’s Bridget, as they blurred the lines between masculine and feminine long before their queer identity would be cemented into canon. Vivian from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door proved equally impactful tha
  
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• I’m Tired Of Acting Like The Old Resident Evil Movies Aren’t Good

  22-09-2026 23:24 via gamespot.com
  Did you guys hear? There's a new Resident Evil movie. Yeah! They got the guy who made the fantastic horror films Barbarian and Weapons to make it! Zach Cregger is a huge fan of the games, so there’s a solid chance it's a great movie. But you know what else was pretty good? The old Resident Evil movies. Were they faithful to the games? Not in the slightest. Were they kickass Y2K/nu-metal-drenched action films inspired by Hong Kong actioners? You bet, and I’m tired of acting like
  
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• Blizzard confirms StarCraft "won't be exclusive" to Xbox and refuses to elaborate

  22-09-2026 23:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  By the time StarCraft launches in 2030, it will have been nearly 15 years since developer Blizzard released a new game in the long-running science fiction series – so it deserves a big welcome rather than a small splash as an Xbox exclusive. Thankfully, Blizzard just confirmed it won't be.Before Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard in a historic 2023 deal, StarCraft was mostly a computer man's game, anyway. From the first StarCraft in 1998, to the franchise's most recent installment, Sta
  
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• Halo cinematic director "promoted and laid off in the same week" amid sweeping Xbox layoffs

  22-09-2026 23:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Amid ongoing layoff chaos at Xbox, now-former Halo Studios cinematic director Josh Daniels says he was promoted and then immediately lost his job."Promoted and laid off in the same week is pretty wild," Daniels says in a LinkedIn post. "I’m one of the many hit by the Halo Studios layoffs. I’ll be taking some offline time today but very much would love to talk to anyone looking for Cinematic Direction or Production roles.Feel free to get in touch if anything looks like I might be a fi
  
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• Wardogs price will increase in early access: "If you don't agree with that, please don't buy it"

  22-09-2026 23:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Wardogs has become a breakout hit on Steam even at a relatively steep $40 for early access. According to Joe Brammer, the outspoken CEO of developer Bulkhead and executive producer on the game, the developer is charging what the FPS is worth, and the price is going to continue to increase as the game improves during early access."We have scaling pricing," Brammer tells GamesRadar+ in a Gamescom interview. In 12 months, which is around the time they plan to reach "0.5," the price will increase to
  
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• First Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 2 teases a bloodbath ahead of another action-packed season

  22-09-2026 22:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Netflix has revealed a sneak peek at Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 2 ahead of the season's October release.The brief clip, which can be viewed above, sees our new crop of heroes, including the much older Weak Kingsley (excitingly voiced in the English dub by none other than Clancy Brown), as they find themselves surrounded by foes in the middle of what appears to be a job gone wrong.Per the official tagline, the second season "presents a new standalone 10-episode story from the world of Cyberpun
  
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• First Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 2 footage teases a Night City bloodbath

  22-09-2026 22:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Netflix has revealed a sneak peek at Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 2 ahead of the season's October release.The brief clip, which can be viewed above, sees our new crop of heroes, including the much older Weak Kingsley (excitingly voiced in the English dub by none other than Clancy Brown), as they find themselves surrounded by foes in the middle of what appears to be a job gone wrong.Per the official tagline, the second season "presents a new standalone 10-episode story from the world of Cyberpun
  
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• Resident Evil director Zach Cregger says an Oscar-nominated war movie was an unlikely inspiration

  22-09-2026 22:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Zach Cregger says the 2019 Oscar-nominated war movie 1917 was an unlikely inspiration for his take on Resident Evil."1917. But like it's completely different in tone. But that is structurally maybe the closest," Cregger told Rotten Tomatoes, when asked if any movies specifically inspired Resident Evil. "It's like if Evil Dead 2 and 1917 were its parents, but that doesn't feel right... like if those movies loved each other very much."Written and directed by Sam Mendes, 1917 follows two British so
  
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• KPop Demon Hunters And Ghostbusters Come To Monopoly Go For Spooky Season

  22-09-2026 21:57 via gamespot.com
  
  It is officially the fall season in the northern hemisphere, and that means that Halloween is approaching. Mobile game giant Scopely has announced how it's celebrating, and that includes crossovers with KPop Demon Hunters and Ghostbusters in the uber-popular mobile game Monopoly Go.The "Monster Mash" season, as it's called, runs September 23-November 25. During the event, players can take part in themed minigames and "immersive adventures" featuring Huntr/X and the Saja Boys from KPop Demon Hunt
  
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• StarCraft Doesn’t Sound Like An Xbox Exclusive

  22-09-2026 21:54 via gamespot.com
  
  StarCraft won't be an Xbox exclusive, though Blizzard isn't exactly making it clear what platforms the newly announced shooter will launch on.Announced during BlizzCon 2026 with a 2030 release date, Blizzard's StarCraft reboot won't "be exclusive," according to Kotaku, who received a comment from a Blizzard spokesperson. What exactly that means, however, is still up for debate. When asked for clarification on whether that means StarCraft would be coming to PlayStation as well as Xbox and PC
  
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• More than half of Steam's top 10 best-rated 2026 releases are early access graduates

  22-09-2026 21:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Some players might be cynical about the whole early access process here in 2026, but it's still produced some of the best games in recent memory. Case in point? Just look at the top Steam releases for 2026, where six of the top 10 games are early access escapees that finally got their 1.0 update.That's according to Steam250, which shows Palworld and Valheim as the year's top-rated new releases following each game's respective 1.0 launches. Other 1.0 launches in the top 10 include shopkeeping gam
  
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• WoW: Forever Aspires To Have A “Mandela Effect” On Players

  22-09-2026 20:53 via gamespot.com
  
  World of Warcraft: Forever is reinventing the classic version of Azeroth with all kinds of new content, and if Blizzard does its job, players won't be able to tell the difference between what's old and what's new. Announced during BlizzCon 2026, Forever introduces four new zones to Azeroth: the Riverglades, Mount Hjyal, Shen'dralas, and Zephras Isle. In an interview with GameSpot, WoW: Forever senior art director Jeff Parrott and senior game designer Josh Greenfield elaborated on how Blizza
  
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• After Microsoft's latest bloodbath, former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra offers "props to Xbox"

  22-09-2026 20:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Uncertainty circles Halo after a major shakeup at Microsoft that has seen hundreds more Xbox employees laid off, including many developers at Halo Studios, and the Halo IP moved to Activision. Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra, at least, seems thrilled by this, calling the move "the best news in a decade plus" for fans of Xbox's most recognizable series. Ybarra shared a post highlighting key details from the latest chapter of the ongoing Xbox reset. That post, from game news hound Shinobi602
  
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• What Is Xbox Game Studios At This Point?

  22-09-2026 20:04 via gamespot.com
  
  The organizational structure of Xbox has long been complex and unwieldy, and that hasn't changed after the latest wave of changes and layoffs as part of Xbox's "reset." But Microsoft's latest reshuffling of its studios and workforce does prompt the question of what the "Xbox Game Studios" brand even is now, with apparently only four studios left under that banner.The Xbox division (formerly named Microsoft Gaming) consists of Xbox Game Studios, Bethesda parent company ZeniMax Media, and Activisi
  
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• Halo Studios didn't get to launch even one original title before Xbox decided to let Activision try

  22-09-2026 19:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Halo Studios lived a short, utilitarian life – Microsoft used it to create the perfectly serviceable Halo: Campaign Evolved remake, and now the studio is effectively retired after 268 layoffs impacting it and other first-party Xbox developers. But it never had the opportunity to be anything more interesting. Thus is the plight of Western gaming. Big corporations keep being impatient for results, so they move straight to relentless "restructuring." That's what's happened here – Halo:
  
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• Xbox Layoffs Are Not Done Yet

  22-09-2026 19:47 via gamespot.com
  
  Microsoft's "reset" of the Xbox business entered its next chapter this week with the announcement of 268 more layoffs, along with other drastic organizational and operational changes for the gaming giant.
  As part of the announcement, Xbox boss Matt Booty said this latest wave of restructuring, combined with the changes completed in July, brings the company up to "roughly three-quarters of the way through" the planned changes.
  In essence, he’s saying that the Xbox “reset” effort
  
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• WoW: Forever Doesn’t Let Shamans Or Warlocks Tank, But That Could Change

  22-09-2026 19:34 via gamespot.com
  
  World of Warcraft: Forever is bringing big changes to the WoW Classic sandbox, but don't expect to see Shamans or Warlocks tanking, at least at launch.New roles for classes, like the above-mentioned tanks, as well as Rogue tank and Mage healer, were something Blizzard experimented with in WoW: Classic Season of Discovery. It certainly helped solve the game's tank shortage problem, with more classes than ever before able to taunt enemies and effectively hold aggro.In an interview with GameSpot, W
  
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• Pragmata Is A Dad Game Dead Space, And It’s A Must-Play That’s Now Cheaper Than Ever

  22-09-2026 19:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Pragmata has a bit of a storied development history. It was delayed indefinitely, went missing from multiple showcases, before coming to life once again and eventually being released this year. The reveal was bizarre, the idea looked strange, and yet Capcom continues on an unstoppable roll, making hit after hit, and Pragmata was—thankfully—one of them. With a unique twist on the third-person shooter genre and an interesting take on the ‘dad game’ subgenre, Pragmata is one
  
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• Control Story So Far

  22-09-2026 19:00 via gamespot.com
  
  If you’re planning to jump into Control Resonant and want a refresher of the first game’s story, we’ve got you covered. Here is the story so far in Control. Get ready for a lot of proper nouns.
  
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