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• Fortnite Week 5 Secret Battle Star Location Guide (Season 7 Snowfall Challenge)

  03-01-2019 22:05 via gamespot.com
  
  We're partway through Season 7 of Epic's hit battle royale game, Fortnite, and there's a new batch of challenges to complete on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices. Clearing these missions earns you Battle Stars that, in turn, level up your Battle Pass and unlock the new Season 7 rewards. There's an added incentive to complete all of the challenges from a given week, however: you'll also clear a related Snowfall challenge, which will net you a special loading screen that featu
  
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• Spider-Man filmmaker will direct first movie of new Star Wars trilogy in the Skywalker Saga

  28-09-2026 12:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Following a years-long break between movies, Star Wars is officially back in its cinematic flow. Following The Mandalorian and Grogu hitting screens this year, and with Shawn Levvy's Star Wars: Starfighter on the way, LucasFilm is moving forward with yet another feature, and it has already found its director. Jon Watts has been tapped to direct the first movie out of a new trilogy that will next chapter of the Skywalker Saga. The mystery trilogy is penned by Simon Kinberg, who has been working o
  
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• An unofficial Super Mario Galaxy PC port is in the works, with devs proudly claiming it's "100% coded by humans"

  28-09-2026 12:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo Wii classic Super Mario Galaxy has been 100% decompiled, with members of the game's community announcing an unofficial PC port is on the way. Game decompilation has been one of the highlights of the 2020's PC gaming scene, as it has allowed developers to create PC ports of games that never came to the platform and letting them be played natively and enhanced, offering greater utility over simply emulating them. It's allowed PC players to finally experience classics like Castlevania: Sym
  
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• Avengers: Endgame will overtake Avatar as the highest-grossing movie very soon after Encore's bumper box office numbers

  28-09-2026 11:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avengers: Endgame will almost certainly become the highest-grossing movie again – after Encore's re-release proved to be a smash hit at this weekend's box office.As per Variety, Encore grossed $86 million worldwide, bringing Endgame's overall gross to $2.88 billion, some $40 million shy of Avatar's record. If the numbers keep up, Avengers: Endgame will regain its crown (after Avatar and Endgame traded number one slots thanks to a series of prior re-releases) in just a few weeks.All told, t
  
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• "Having a hand in the game etches you in history": How Grand Theft Auto became a musical tastemaker

  28-09-2026 10:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  After years of waiting, we finally got a glimpse of the crime-ridden and hedonistic Vice City and fictional state of Leonida during 2023's hotly anticipated reveal trailer for GTA 6. The trailer soon made a Guinness World Record as the most-viewed video game reveal on YouTube in 24 hours, with over 90 million views.Alongside the chaos and carnage, 'Love Is a Long Road' by Tom Petty played in the background, with the fast-paced tempo of the rock song mirroring the high-octane action in the traile
  
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• 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Valheim

  28-09-2026 09:54 via gamespot.com
  
  After more than five years in early access, Valheim 1.0 is finally here, and can be played from start to finish for the very first time. While Valheim’s gameplay will feel familiar to fans of the survival crafting genre--and has influenced other games released in the years since--the viking-themed game has a few unique mechanics that take some getting used to. If you’re headed to the tenth world for the very first time, here are some important tips that will make your Valheim ex
  
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• It's somehow possible to beat Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave while ignoring the entire point

  27-09-2026 17:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Somehow, it's possible to beat the entirety of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave without recruiting its four central characters, The Flame Lords.Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave doesn't follow the familiar structure laid out in most other games from Nintendo's SRPG series. In this one, players create their own character who exists in an apocalyptic present day and needs to travel back in time to recruit The Flame Lords - each of them has their own full-fat, completely unique route and storyline that can
  
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• Gabe Newell had a "room full of knives and blades and swords," says Counter-Strike co-creator

  27-09-2026 15:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Gabe Newell - billionaire yacht enthusiast, daily Dota 2 player, Valve co-founder. Now, you can also add bladed weapon maestro to his resume, according to Counter Strike co-creator Minh 'Gooseman' Le.The co-developer of the Half-Life mod that spawned the ultra popular Counter-Strike series, Le recently talked to Indie Game Joe about his experience working at Valve and with its president Gabe Newell, a figure who leads quite a colorful, side-quest-filled life when he's not arguing in court about
  
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• Uncharted 2's brilliance isn't just about guns and trains, it's about people

  27-09-2026 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The PS3's legacy may very well be the perfection of the tightly focused 10-hour story campaign. If you define it that way, then Uncharted 2: Among Thieves could claim to be the game of that generation; not the best game, but the one that is emblematic of tightly bound adventures built on the thrills of big worlds and bombastic set-pieces. Naughty Dog's matinée revival has moments of technically astounding action; a lead character capable of carrying an almost unheard-of tonal range of ten
  
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• CD Projekt Red worked backwards from Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty's brutal final choice

  27-09-2026 14:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cyberpunk 2077's excellent spy thriller expansion, Phantom Liberty, is three years old now. To mark the anniversary, Cyberpunk 2 associate game director and the expansion's lead quest designer Pawel Sasko looked back on the project with a few new details. First up, it's pretty hard to ignore the stomping elephant in the room of Cyberpunk 2077's disastrous launch when talking about Phantom Liberty's impressive turnaround. To make sure Phantom Liberty dodged the base game's launch woes, developer
  
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• Minecraft sells over 425 million copies and gets its first new dimension in 14 years

  27-09-2026 11:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Minecraft's reign as the blocky king of the sandbox genre has lasted for well over a decade, but the crafty survival game is still as popular as ever. This year's Minecraft Live event revealed the game's getting its first new dimension in nearly 15 years, after selling a whopping 425 million copies altogether. Lots to mine. That new dimension is called the Sift, a vibrant and otherworldly plane - and you'll be able to check it out in next week's ARPG, Minecraft Dungeons 2, before it eventually c
  
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• Godzilla Minus Zero review: "Easily one of the best films of the year"

  27-09-2026 02:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Godzilla is back. Three years after Godzilla Minus One rampaged onto screens and blew the world away, writer/director Takashi Yamazaki returns with a follow-up that's bigger, bolder, and more ambitious than its predecessor. Minus Zero picks up two years after the events of the first film, in a Tokyo that is now plagued by a new threat: Ghidorah. This monster is even scarier than Godzilla, thanks to its ability to assimilate other creatures' DNA, its sizzling lightning-breath, and – most te
  
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• Minecraft Is Getting Its First New Dimension In Over 15 Years

  26-09-2026 20:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Announced today during Minecraft Live, Mojang is adding the first new dimension to the blocky sandbox game in more than a decade and a half.The Sift is an ethereal-looking fourth dimension that was first marketed for Minecraft Dungeons 2, and it's now been confirmed that it's coming to the base game in 2027.The Sift is a major new addition for Minecraft, marking the first new dimension since 2011's The End, where players go to fight the Ender Dragon in the end game. Speaking to GameSpot, Minecra
  
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• The Next Minecraft Update Adds Ice Caves, A New Mob, And More

  26-09-2026 19:30 via gamespot.com
  
  Minecraft's next game drop will add a new underground environment to the sandbox game, along with a new hostile mob, and items that bring frosty mechanics to exploration and combat.Announced during Minecraft Live on September 26, the upcoming game drop is expected to follow the usual drop cadence of once per quarter, releasing in December 2026. Its biggest addition is ice caves--a rare underground extension of Minecraft's existing cold biomes.Ice caves are a new underground biome coming to Minec
  
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  Nier: Automata director Yoko Taro has a reputation for being weird and esoteric – not that the giant, moon-faced Emil mask he always wears in public has anything to do with it. The idiosyncratic dev's games have a reputation for dark, twisted narratives that care more for their philosophical underpinnings than offering happy conclusions for their characters.With the first Nier, released in 2010, the game featured two different protagonists, with a gruff older character on Xbox 360 and a bo
  

• Rockstar reportedly reminded GTA 6's voice cast they're still under NDA

  26-09-2026 16:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rockstar Games has supposedly reminded the GTA 6 voice cast to keep quiet about their involvement in the upcoming open-world epic - shortly after actor Stephen Root let slip that he's in the game.The Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption maker has slowly been revealing bits and pieces about its next crime romp. The developer recently unveiled the GTA 6 soundtrack featuring 34 original songs from popular, real-world artists, as well as a $400 Collector's Edition that doesn't actually include t
  
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• Final Fantasy 7 Revelation lead says the original RPG "is very much enshrined within the story"

  26-09-2026 15:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Asked about whether newcomers should play the original classic before starting its epic trilogy of remakes, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's director says there's no "clear cut" answer. In some ways, knowing what happened in the 1997 RPG is crucial in understanding the Remake trilogy's story, but at the same time, newbies who don't know what a Materia is can still have a great time.Speaking to GamesRadar+, lead developer Naoki Hamaguchi says fans aren't "mistaken at all" for recommending that new pl
  
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• Major League Baseball Is Headed For A Lockout: What Happens To The Video Games?

  26-09-2026 15:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Major League Baseball's collective bargaining agreement with the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) ends on December 1, 2026. A new agreement has to be reached prior to the start of the 2027 season the following spring, and as it stands, there are some very big sticking points in negotiations, particularly around the topic of a salary cap. Should a new agreement not be made prior to the season, we're looking at a lockout, with owners refusing to give players access to their facili
  
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• Crimson Desert Has Kept Me Trapped In Its Opening Area, And You Could Join Me For $1

  26-09-2026 15:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Crimson Desert is an action-RPG. It’s also a medieval fantasy game. It’s kinda sci-fi, kinda like Dragon’s Dogma 2, with a sprinkle of The Witcher 3, and there are even some Breath of the Wild and Assassin’s Creed comparisons to throw into the increasingly ridiculous pot. It’s completely overwhelming, completely wild, and completely fun, and if you’ve been waiting for an excuse to finally give it a shot—especially with its countless updates and new Enhan
  
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• Manor Lords publisher isn't worried about launching a game on GTA 6's release date

  26-09-2026 14:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Plenty of developers have shuffled around their release dates to avoid brushing shoulders with GTA 6, which is shaping up to be the biggest video game launch of all time. But publisher Hooded Horse isn't worried about releasing its medieval management sim Blacksmith Master into 1.0 on November 19 - in fact, it's apparently a deliberate strategy.The Manor Lords publisher is gearing up to push Blacksmith Master out of the early access fire on the same day as Rockstar Games' mammoth open-world romp
  
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• Marvel's Wolverine finally lets you turn off overbearing Scent Trails for side content

  26-09-2026 14:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Some of Marvel's Wolverine's more hand-holdy, overbearing guardrails can be removed thanks to Insomniac Games' latest update, but the superhero romp will still keep the game's infamous Scent Trails turned on for "story-critical" moments.The loudest conversation around Marvel's Wolverine has been fixated on the game's perceived unwillingness to let players off the leash. Unbeatable quick time events and on-rails motorcycle sections caught some flack on social media, but most players also found is
  
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• I'm too stubborn to wait for The Blood of Dawnwalker devs to fix a gamebreaking bug

  26-09-2026 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  My eyes glaze over as I fight Bakir for the 13th time in The Blood of Dawnwalker. The crazed Genghis Khan wannabe puts his fingers to his lips. I can't actually hear the whistle as he summons five blood-birds to swan dive at me – I always, always mute games when I need to focus – but I've memorized Bakir's attack pattern so well that I now have dreams about it.A bird shoots toward me, an arrow loosed from an invisible bow. I dash left at the last moment. Another follows suit; I dash
  
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• GameSir Tarantula 8K review: "Responds to every twitchy movement and instinctive press"

  26-09-2026 10:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The GameSir Tarantula Pro is one of my all-time favorite controllers, and that's some of the highest praise someone like me, who reviews a new one almost weekly, can give. I'm still not sure why it was discontinued, but I loved it for its DualShock 4-reminiscent feel that made it incredibly comfortable and very versatile across so many genres of gaming. It was like the enhanced, pro model of the PS4 controller I had always yearned for. So as you can probably tell, I was very excited to report ea
  
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• Here’s Why Fortnite Sucks This Season

  26-09-2026 03:52 via gamespot.com
  
  There's way too much going on in Fortnite's core Battle Royale mode in Chapter 7 Season 4. With sprites giving everybody a bonus ability, and Overrides fundamentally changing the way the game works in the middle of matches, we've got kind of a large pile of gimmicks that show up in matches at random, if they show up at all. It's made for a disorienting and inconsistent experience that's difficult to strategize for, because there's no real status quo to get used to. It's a big mess, and it seems
  
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• Mr. Hytale is offering $15,000 to the first person to beat a new challenge in next month's update

  26-09-2026 01:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Simon Collins-Laflamme, the founder of Hytale studio Hypixel, is offering a massive monetary reward for whoever becomes the first person to complete a challenge in next month's massive Hytale update.Hytale's big Chapter 1 update is coming to Hytale early access on October 12, and in advance of that, Hypixel dropped a teaser trailer previewing some of what's to come. The video, which you can watch below, showcases some new areas including a huge underground cave environment with acid rivers and w
  
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• Microsoft CEO Attempts To Kill Remaining Xbox Goodwill

  26-09-2026 01:06 via gamespot.com
  
  After Xbox laid off 1,600 employees over the summer, Microsoft's gaming division followed up with more layoffs and studio closures this week. In the wake of these events, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is taking a look at the bright side and praising Xbox CEO Asha Sharma's actions as a necessary step."There's some amount of streamlining the team is doing, and Asha is doing, which is great to see," said Nadella during his appearance on the Sources Podcast. He also noted that he feels "fantastic abou
  
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• Blizzard says "sorry" for Diablo 4 season 15 woes by giving away the game's rarest crafting material

  25-09-2026 23:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  I've been thoroughly enjoying my time with Diablo 4 Season of Hell's Legacy even if it just makes me really, really want a Diablo 1 remake, but I'm not alone in experiencing some pretty bad server wobbles, not to mention the launch-day delay of the new seasonal realm and Solo Self Found mode. As a token of appreciation to players who continue logging in despite these problems, Blizzard is giving away one of the game's rarest and most valuable crafting resources for free.As reported by Icy Veins
  
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• PlayStation is "hearing the feedback from customers" on discs, says JRPG boss

  25-09-2026 23:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite a very vocal backlash, Sony has no apparent plans to backtrack on its decision to end physical PlayStation discs in 2028. But maybe things aren't quite as set in stone as they seem – at least, that's what I want to tell myself as I read recent quotes from Kenzo Saruhashi, president of Nippon Ichi Software, who offers a bit of hope that Sony's decision isn't final."In our discussions with Sony so far," Saruhashi tells Kotaku, "I think that they're hearing a lot of the feedback from
  
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• Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is too massive for How Long To Beat to have any useful results

  25-09-2026 23:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is an astonishingly large, whale belly of an RPG. At least, that's what my intuition tells me – I haven't personally finished playing publisher Nintendo's latest installment to its tactical fantasy since it launched on September 17, and it seems no one else has, either. The Nintendo Switch 2 game's listing on the usually reliable How Long To Beat website is unusually empty; at the moment, there are only two respondents, who report taking anywhere between 74 and
  
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• Black Friday Warhammer deals 2026

  25-09-2026 22:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Menu(Image credit: Games Workshop)1. Quick links
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  3. FAQBlack Friday Warhammer deals will be arriving like drop pods onto a battlefield before we know it. Price cuts on miniatures, army sets, rulebooks, and more typically enact a pincer movement on our wallets throughout Fall, so now's the time to prepare. If you're looking to score some pricey plastic at the best possible price, the GamesRadar+ team and I are here to help. We've been tracking sales like this for years so ha
  
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