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• GTA 6 Will Reportedly Come To PC Much Earlier Than Expected

  13-10-2026 16:24 via gamespot.com
  
  The November launch of Grand Theft Auto 6 will leave PC gamers sitting out in the cold, but the wait for the yet-to-be-announced PC port might be surprisingly short this time. According to a new report, GTA 6 will launch on PC "within the first three months" of 2027.Speaking to GamesBeat, industry sources claim that Rockstar Games plans to launch the game just a few months after its console release. If the reports are accurate, this would mark a major departure for Rockstar Games, as previous PC
  
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• This year's Pokemon Center Christmas decorations already have me feeling festive

  15-10-2026 12:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  I appreciate that it's not even Halloween yet, but the Pokemon Center Christmas decorations just dropped – and they're threatening some major festive cheer up in here.I'm the sort of guy who normally prefers to get spooky season out of the way before thinking about tinsel and jingle bells, but even my willpower is being sorely tested by this collection. Ornaments, cozy clothing, pins, and knick-knacks of all sorts have just dropped, and they're so Christmassy it's got me practically hummin
  
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• Riot calls time on League of Legends Classic after almost 3 months

  15-10-2026 12:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Not even three months have passed since Riot Games launched League of Legends Classic, but the developers are already planning to end support for the MOBA spin-off.League of Legends Classic launched as an alternative to Riot's 17-year-old game – a version that allows players to "relive the early days of the 5v5 MOBA that defined the genre," as per its official website for the title.
  It boasted all the original champions, items, and systems that longtime fans once knew and loved, but it see
  
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• How to beat the Arc Raiders Bullies

  15-10-2026 12:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Bullies in Arc Raiders were added as part of the Frozen Trail update, and quickly became one of the most perniciously persistent foes that players can expect to go up against. The Bully is somewhere between the Bombardier and the Leaper, a fast-moving enemy that rapidly sprints in the player's direction, keeping up a constant barrage of shotgun blasts and grenade attacks that give little chance for retaliation or recovery. Defeating one isn't easy, even if you're well-equipped for it, but below
  
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• Quick! Legend of Zelda Switch 2 stock just returned to the shelves

  15-10-2026 12:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Legend of Zelda Nintendo Switch 2 has just magically reappeared on the shelves, with Smyths Toys dropping fresh stock this morning. This is one of the biggest console releases of the year so far, with its original pre-order run lasting mere moments before being swept off the shelves. Needless to say, if you're still hunting the shelves for last minute special editions this is where you need to be right now. The special edition handheld will run you £429.99 at Smyths Toys right now, &po
  
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• Xbox is reportedly asking fans how they feel about greater console exclusivity

  15-10-2026 12:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new Xbox survey is asking players how they would feel about future titles being console-exclusive to Xbox, with Fallout, Hideo Kojima's Physint, and Minecraft name-dropped. Since its massive spending spree on the likes of Activision Blizzard and Bethesda, Xbox has been a bit all over the place when it comes to exclusives. Aside from honoring exclusive deals with the likes of Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo, Microsoft went all-in on being a third-party publisher for a bit there, bringing almost
  
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• Vision star Paul Bettany says Robert Downey Jr. should have won an Oscar for playing Iron Man

  15-10-2026 12:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  VisionQuest actor Paul Bettany thinks "snobbery" stopped fellow MCU star Robert Downey Jr. from winning an Oscar for Iron Man."Robert Downey, in my opinion, should have won an Oscar for that role [in Avengers: Endgame]," Bettany said in an interview with Buzzfeed Australia."It's extraordinarily hard to do. It's only some sort of snobbery regarding superhero movies that I think stopped that from happening. Because anybody who has ever had anything to do with making a movie knows that it looks har
  
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• Valve beats Epic to the punch, updates Steam launcher 1 day before its rival claims to be "faster"

  15-10-2026 11:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Epic Games has just overhauled its launcher using generative AI, unveiling a new "vibe coded" version meant to be faster than Valve's Steam – but, spoiler alert… it's seemingly not so quick, after all.Although Epic publicly called out Steam, claiming its launcher is now "faster than the other guy" (with Valve's launcher being the other guy here, if that's not obvious), fans are proving the company wrong – and, hey, why not?
  After all, Epic Games did also instruct us to "test i
  
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• DC Studios boss says Lanterns season 2 will happen if they find "a worthy successor to a beloved and great first season"

  15-10-2026 11:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran has addressed the future of Lanterns. Season 1 of the DCU detective show recently wrapped up on HBO, and while it works well as a standalone season of TV, it also leaves the door open for future instalments. "This was one great season of television based on a property that had been somewhat irradiated since 2011, right?" Safran told Collider, when asked his takeaway from season 1's reception. "The thing that's most gratifying about this show and this season on HBO
  
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• Marvel TV head still hopes that Wonder Man season 2 might happen by "some miracle"

  15-10-2026 11:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel TV head Brad Winderbaum has opened up about Wonder Man's cancelation, calling the situation "complicated". Speaking in a new interview, he said that he still hopes something could happen in the future with the show. "I fought for it, I don't know what to say. It's complicated," he replied when asked about it on The Brandon Davis Show. "Sometimes you feel like you're invincible and can make whatever you want, sometimes, you don't have leverage, it's subject to market forces that I like bar
  
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• Everything New In Wardogs Season 2

  15-10-2026 11:04 via gamespot.com
  
  Wardogs is about to get shaken up with the arrival of Season 2. The tactical shooter will get a fresh arsenal, new vehicles, a round of balance changes, and more ways to fortify the battlefield.The update will be available at 9:30 AM UTC on October 15, with the community already discussing its potential impact. Some players have been enthusiastic about the scale of the changes, although the new economy and logistics adjustments have seen concerns from players who rely more heavily on those syste
  
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• Marvel TV boss says "save Daredevil" is great but so is "watch Daredevil"

  15-10-2026 10:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Daredevil: Born Again season 3 will be the final season of the Marvel TV show, and according to Marvel TV boss Brad Winderbaum that was always the plan. However, in a new interview, he did also make some interesting comments about TV show cancelations, making reference to Daredevil: Born Again.Speaking about Wonder Man's axing earlier this year, presenter Brandon Davis suggested that the series could make a return down the line, akin to Daredevil's resurgence. However, Winderbaum had a pretty in
  
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• After avoiding GTA 5 for 13 years, Trevor actor says he's excited for GTA 6 and might even stream it

  15-10-2026 02:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Steven Ogg, the actor best known for playing Trevor in GTA 5, spent many years pretending the game didn't exist, but 13 years later, he's fully embracing his role in making it so special. For a few weeks now, Ogg has been participating in a series of GTA 5 livestreams hosted by his co-star, Michael actor Ned Luke, and in the latest episode, Ogg not only acknowledges GTA 6's existence – he expresses vague excitement for the sequel and even floats the idea of streaming it alongside Luke. Pro
  
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• Wardogs is getting loadouts, CEO confirms, but the devs want you to "keep trying" new builds

  14-10-2026 23:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Wardogs players, your wishes have been answered: you're getting your precious loadouts, even if the developers really don't like what you're probably going to do with them.In a detailed reply to a Reddit user imploring developer Bulkhead to add custom loadouts to Wardogs, the company's CEO, Joe Brammer, confirms that the feature is coming and explains why it's taking so long. The TLDR is that the developers specifically opted out of loadouts to force players to experiment with their kits, which
  
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• A Sentient Snowman Is (Surprisingly) My Favorite Part Of This RPG Remake

  14-10-2026 23:11 via gamespot.com
  
  At this year's New York Comic Con, I met with Square Enix to check out two of its upcoming RPG projects. One was Final Fantasy VII Revelation, a game firmly planted in the modern era of video games with top-of-the-line visuals and all the trimmings of a AAA, big-budget game. The other was Romancing Saga 3: Destinies United, a remake of a classic turn-based RPG from the mid-1990s. At first glance, the remake's updated visuals and faster gameplay are easily apparent draws for newer players, b
  
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• Pokemon lead is making an "original" RPG where you wash your outfits and let them dry in real time

  14-10-2026 23:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Shigeru Ohmori has been working on Pokemon games since the original Ruby and Sapphire in 2002, and has been directing the series since Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire over a decade later. Now, still at Game Freak, he's working on something all-new in the form of a magical girl RPG that relies on real-life weather.Ohmori wants to build "forms of expression that can only be achieved in a completely original game," as he tells Famitsu (translated by Automaton). The result is Ame Nochi Hare Onna, a fr
  
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• After Valve was criticized, devs back Steam's refund policy by creating 2-hour game Refund This Game

  14-10-2026 23:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Over the summer, a bubble of discourse centered around one developer – Mateo Covic of Paddle Paddle Paddle fame – and his frustrations with Steam's two-hour refund window saw countless players and developers interrogate Valve's policy. Lots of people, including Covic himself, said they remain "100% pro refund" despite some potential for exploits. In a delayed response to that whole incident, two developers have made and released Refund This Game, a first-person platformer designed to
  
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• Arc Raiders devs had the same debates as players over PvE, but "dad gamers" pushed them to try it

  14-10-2026 22:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arc Raiders is finally trying out a PvE-only mode, and it's gone exactly as you'd expect. After the limited-time release of a PvE toggle, fierce opinions have hit the game's community faster than Bastion bullets to my temple after I misclick my photoelectric cloak, and the test has only just begun. Executive producer Aleksander Grøndal tells me that, inside developer Embark Studios, similar debates about a PvE mode raged, but the team decided the "dad gamers" deserve a fair shot. At the r
  
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• Epic Is Overhauling Its Anti-Cheat So That Fortnite Can Finally Come To A New Platform

  14-10-2026 21:43 via gamespot.com
  
  Thanks to devices such as the Steam Deck and Steam Machine, as well as the ongoing issues with Windows, gaming on Linux looks a lot more attractive over the last few years. Its biggest hurdle is still multiplayer games and their anti-cheat systems, but Epic Games is committed to bringing one of the biggest around to the operating system soon.Epic Games has announced that it is working on a Linux version for Fortnite. It's going to act as a test for Epic's overhaul of EAC (Easy Anti-Cheat), its s
  
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• Xbox Survey About Exclusives Includes A Nuclear Strategy, But Wait Just A Minute

  14-10-2026 21:26 via gamespot.com
  
  Microsoft is reportedly surveying a subset of Xbox users about changing its plans for exclusive games going forward--possibly in a big way--and that's no surprise given Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has alluded to changes to the exclusivity strategy in the future.
  At the same time, a survey like this is not necessarily indicative of anything beyond Microsoft conducting research. After all, there is an entire team at Xbox called Xbox Research that ... researches all manner of things, and the results of th
  
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• Fallout co-creator worries RPGs are ditching secrets because "nobody thinks people will find things"

  14-10-2026 21:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fallout co-creator Timothy Cain has released another fairly depressing video about the state of RPG game development today compared to his heyday in the late '90s to early '00s. According to Cain, RPG developers aren't bothering as much with hidden and optional content because the people with the money aren't as willing to shell out for stuff that most people won't see. Broadly speaking, Cain even argues the industry is trending away from non-linear game design altogether."Things are really goin
  
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• GTA 6 Reviews: When They Could Be Released

  14-10-2026 20:53 via gamespot.com
  
  Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 6 releases on November 19, but when will you be able to read reviews? According to historical precedent and a new report, reviews for the open-world crime game should be available before launch.Insider Gaming reported that reviews for GTA 6 will be posted at some point before November 19, but the exact timing is unknown for now.A scene from GTA 6.What history tells usThe last GTA game, GTA 5, was released on September 17, 2013, and reviews for the game were published
  
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• Paul Bettany says it was "really fun" to tap into a more ruthless version of Vision in VisionQuest

  14-10-2026 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The second episode of VisionQuest introduces viewers to a Vision unlike one we've seen before in the MCU. Gone is the measured, logical synthezoid we know so well, as White Vision meets the Paladin in the Edinburgh pub where he'd been working undercover. Trying to manipulate him to turn himself in to save his supposed son, Tommy Shepherd, Vision warns him that he is not the Avenger he assumes he is. "I'm not The Vision," he ominously tells him in a rare show of power and violence.After more than
  
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• I’m Enjoying Fire Emblem More By Not Playing Fire Emblem More

  14-10-2026 19:44 via gamespot.com
  
  Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave has some of the best tactical gameplay in the series to date, but actually digging into the art of seeing units bonk each other on the head in turn-based combat is a massive slog. Between a shift to Persona-like storytelling and a laundry list of chores, the game can feel like the equivalent of the Achilles and the tortoise paradox (via a Jujutsu Kaisen breakdown), because the closer I get to actually moving the story forward, the further I feel I am from actually en
  
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• GTA 6 has a realistic sweat system that makes Jason and Lucia perspire based on how hard they dance

  14-10-2026 19:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jason and Lucia are going to work up a sweat in Grand Theft Auto 6 – literally. Among the many detailed systems Rockstar built for the game is one that sees realistic sweat gather on characters' bodies depending on how much effort they're exerting in physical activities. No wonder GTA 6 has taken so long to make.Earlier today, Bloomberg's Jason Schreier published an extended report on GTA 6's development, confirming that it was once meant to feature a more extensive open world spread acros
  
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• Retro Handhelds Loaded With Unlicensed Games Could Face Government Crackdown

  14-10-2026 19:12 via gamespot.com
  
  The Electronic Software Association (ESA) has a serious bone to pick with retro handhelds that are packaged with tons of unlicensed pre-installed, calling these devices "superfakes" that should face some sort of suppression by the US government.According to an October 6 filing with the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR)--which monitors marketplaces that are accused of engaging in or enabling piracy and counterfeiting--the ESA is urging the government to clamp down on what it
  
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• The History of Vision in Marvel Video Games

  14-10-2026 19:00 via gamespot.com
  
  From classic arcade games to LEGO Marvel and Marvel Snap, Vision has been part of gaming history for decades. We're breaking down his biggest video game appearances ahead of Marvel's VisionQuest.
  
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• The assassination of Bruce Wayne, Absolute Justice, and more reveals from DC's NYCC panels

  14-10-2026 19:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  New York Comic Con is all wrapped up for another year! The event brought the usual slew of comic announcements and reveals from the major publishers. DC in particular had a really strong showing this year, unveiling the next phases of both its DC Next Level and Absolute Universe lines, and teasing the return of classic characters like Swamp Thing, Static, Jonah Hex and Vixen.If you couldn't make the event, fear not! We've rounded up the biggest highlights from DC's various panels below so you ca
  
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• Xbox just announced its brand-new controller, and it's far from the pro pad we all expected

  14-10-2026 18:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Xbox just announced its first new controller in what feels like forever, but the pocket-friendly Xbox Nano Controller isn't coming for any pro gamepad's lunch. Instead, this compact set of clackers seems like the latest step in Xbox's quest to own every screen you look at. The portable model sees the Xbox Wireless Controller squished into a horizontal form factor, with two thumbsticks and a giant floating d-pad taking up the majority of its tiny little face. At $49.99 / £44.99 (pre-orders
  
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• Xbox just announced its brand new controller, and it's far from the pro pad we all expected

  14-10-2026 18:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Xbox just announced its first new controller in what feels like forever, but the pocket-friendly Xbox Nano Controller isn't coming for any pro gamepad's lunch. Instead, this compact set of clackers seems like the latest step in Xbox's quest to own every screen you look at. The portable model sees the Xbox Wireless Controller squished into a horizontal form factor, with two thumbsticks and a giant floating d-pad taking up the majority of its tiny little face. At $49.99 / £44.99 (pre-orders
  
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