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• Former Valve writer says "giant teams" don't work in video game dev, unless you're making GTA 6

  21-09-2026 22:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Left 4 Dead writer and Valve veteran Chet Faliszek doubts the company would really benefit from going on a hiring spree. His 12 years at Valve taught him that great, timely games aren't made by giant teams. "I just think games aren't made to be made by 10,000-person teams. These giant teams just don't work," Faliszek says in a new YouTube video responding to the question, "Why doesn't valve hire more people?" The developer acknowledges that certain two billion-dollar exercises like GTA 6 may req
  
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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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• Resident Evil Movie Director Reveals His Four Favorite Games

  23-09-2026 17:38 via gamespot.com
  
  Zach Cregger, the director of the newly released Resident Evil movie, has revealed his top four favorite video games, and he made some solid choices.Before he listed off his top four to Regal, Cregger said they came "off the top of my head," so if he had more time, he might have chosen other games. Or he may not have. In any event, here are the games that Cregger singled out as his four faves:
  The Binding Of IsaacDark Souls 3Resident Evil 4The Last of Us 2https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Xdpkc_h1k
  
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• RTS legend laid off after 16 years at Microsoft as Xbox guts Age of Empires studio World's Edge

  23-09-2026 17:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  The massive Xbox "reset," as the brand's leadership calls it, continues. Yesterday, the company announced another 268 jobs eliminated along its quest to lay off 3,200 employees throughout the fiscal year. We also learned that several Xbox studios and franchises were coming under the Activision Blizzard banner, including Age of Empires developer World's Edge.Studio creative director Adam Isgreen says there have been substantial layoffs at World's Edge alongside that transition. "I am of course di
  
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• Resident Evil Blu-ray pre-orders are now live after less than a week in theatres

  23-09-2026 17:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Resident Evil is already available to pre-order on Blu-ray, which are words I love to type as a horror movie fan. It's still in movie theatres the world over, and I've not even had the chance to drag my frightened fiancé to see it. But physical copies are now available, should you want to avoid the horrors of a loud and phone-lit theatre screening.Starting from $36.99 at Amazon, you can secure your copy of the 4K release, a standard Blu-ray, or even a DVD copy. Amazon US and UK have all t
  
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• After less than a week in theatres, physical film fans can pre-order the Resident Evil Blu-ray

  23-09-2026 17:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Resident Evil is already available to pre-order on Blu-ray, which are words I love to type as a horror movie fan. It's still in movie theatres the world over, and I've not even had the chance to drag my frightened fiancé to see it. But physical copies are now available, should you want to avoid the horrors of a loud and phone-lit theatre screening.Starting from $36.99 at Amazon, you can secure your copy of the 4K release, a standard Blu-ray, or even a DVD copy. Amazon US and UK have all t
  
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• Looks like Xbox is adding its own version of PlayStation's Platinum Trophy: the Mythic Achievement

  23-09-2026 17:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Xbox PC app has seemingly unveiled Mythic Achievements, the Xbox equivalent of a PlayStation Platinum Trophy. Earlier this year, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma confirmed that Xbox would be getting its own version of the PlayStation Platinum Trophy for Xbox's Achievement system. For those unaware, on PlayStation, when you unlock all of the Trophies for a game, you're then given a Platinum trophy as a stamp of "I've done everything," whereas over on Xbox you simply have the 1,000 Gamerscore to show off.
  
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• "The Robloxification of Steam": Creator of viral game apologizes after rip-offs flood Valve's store

  23-09-2026 16:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Needle In A Haystack Simulator, a co-op sim game on PC that's exactly what it sounds like, went viral on social media over the summer – which, of course, means clones galore.In case you missed it, Needle In A Haystack Simulator made the rounds for its amusing premise: you and your friends work to dig a singular needle out of a massive haystack (we're talking like five million pieces of hay, y'all), much like the old saying.
  Unsurprisingly, it spurred a plethora of clones shortly after it w
  
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• GTA 6 Will Make Pro Athletes Perform Worse, NBA Star Says

  23-09-2026 16:57 via gamespot.com
  
  Steven Adams of the NBA's Houston Rockets has predicted that all the major professional sports leagues will experience a dip in quality this November because top athletes will be too focused on GTA 6.Speaking to press, Adams said, "Look at the NFL, look at all the leagues, and watch them plummet. Just for the month of November, performance is gonna go down."He went on to say things should get back to normal after athletes finish the game. "It should come back up though; most of the boys will get
  
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• CRKD is finally shipping the upgrade to my favorite teeny tiny controller, and I can't wait to get my hands on the Atom+

  23-09-2026 16:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  The CRKD Atom+ controller has begun to ship globally. That means if you pre-ordered your tiny, retro-style pad in March earlier this year, you should expect it to arrive at your door sooner rather than later.The $29.99 (Amazon) pad, much like CRKD's Nitro Deck 2, was subject to delays and was originally expected to begin shipping from late June 2026, but as you're likely well aware, the summer is officially over and June it is not. The shipping window was then moved to August 17-31 2026, but it
  
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• Nintendo Turns 137 Today, Making It Older (And Better) Than Sliced Bread

  23-09-2026 16:37 via gamespot.com
  
  Nintendo is officially 137 years old today, and while that's an odd number to celebrate, it's certainly an impressive one. While it's a leading producer of video games and gaming hardware, the company originally started life as a maker of hanafuda playing cards in 1889, evolving with the times to eventually become a gaming powerhouse. But to put its age into perspective, it's worth looking at things that Nintendo predates.That makes for a long list, but the biggest surprise, as pointed
  
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• Counter-Strike 2 update adds 3v3 mode, music, and chicken eggs, but fans want "better anti-cheat"

  23-09-2026 16:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new Counter-Strike 2 update is here with a plethora of exciting features, from a 3v3 mode to, erm, chicken eggs – but the anti-cheat fix folks have long been hoping for isn't part of the patch, much to their dismay.Valve unveiled its big update over on Steam earlier today, a patch aptly dubbed "Rush Hour" after the new game mode it boasts, unveiling various additions and tweaks.
  First, of course, is Rush, "a new fast-paced 3v3 queued mode" for Counter-Strike 2. In it, players run a gaunt
  
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• Wardogs boss admits Bulkhead is "failing on getting Infantry servers to you guys"

  23-09-2026 16:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  All systems are firing are Wardogs HQ at the moment. The FPS managed to bring in hundreds of thousands of players from the jump when it launched into early access a couple of weeks ago, putting developer Bulkhead on the backfoot in terms of maintenance and updates. Leadership admits there are some shortcomings, but the studio's gradually getting up to speed.On Twitter, Joe Brammers, Bulkhead CEO and executive producer of Wardogs, comments on the availability of infantry-only servers and the team
  
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• Resident Evil storyboard artist hits back at AI rumors, confirming the artwork is hand-drawn: "Not an ounce of AI here"

  23-09-2026 16:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Zach Cregger's new Resident Evil movie is the latest project to come under fire for allegedly using AI in its early stages of development. However, storyboard artist Simeon Wilkins has come forward to set the record straight. "A small sampling of the storyboard work I did with Zach for Resident Evil. Not an ounce of AI here- all hand-drawn!," said Wilkins on Twitter, sharing a snippet of early drawings for the new video game movie. Check out the post below. Rumors started to swirl after a bunch
  
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• Activision’s Halo Game: Everything We Know So Far

  23-09-2026 16:04 via gamespot.com
  
  Microsoft is overhauling its Xbox business in a big--and painful--way. Part of the effort to "reset" Xbox involves enlisting Call of Duty publisher Activision to make the next Halo game. This isn't a spin-off or some kind of other extension of the iconic sci-fi series, but instead the next entry in the main series following 2021's disappointing Halo Infinite. Here's what we know about Activision's Halo game, and what comes next for Halo Studios.What's the new game?The biggest question is wh
  
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• I've played 1007 hours of Warhammer 3, and its new update is essential for Total War fans

  23-09-2026 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  I've waited a long time to play as Nagash in Total War: Warhammer 3, but no amount of dreaming could prepare me for the real thing. To begin with, (un)life as Warhammer's first lich is surprisingly hard. Nagash's starting position is sandwiched between two greater daemons of Chaos, an angry French crusader, and Settra – fellow bone-man and Nagash's biggest hater. Most of the necromancer's nine books of power are scattered across the world, his Mortarch lieutenants are still infuriatingly i
  
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• Diablo 5 Wants You To Feel Your Power, Not Just See A Bigger Number

  23-09-2026 15:50 via gamespot.com
  
  Diablo 5 won't be out until 2029, but Blizzard is already sharing plenty of details on the game following its reveal at BlizzCon earlier this month. The power fantasy of being a demon-slaying warrior is one aspect of the Diablo experience that Blizzard wants to overhaul. Compared to Diablo 4, the developer wants you to feel the might of your newly earned power on the battlefield.Speaking to PC Gamer, game director Joe Shely explained how players should feel and look more powerful as they level u
  
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