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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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• Apothecary Diaries is making a comeback and I'm preparing the only way I know how, buying all this merch

  29-09-2026 14:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Apothecary Diaries is returning. When I first heard that season 3 was kicking off on October 2, I was elated, as I've been waiting patiently to see what Maomao and Jinshi have been up to for months. However, as much as I love the series (Hyakka Ryouran by Lilas Ikuta is always on repeat in this house), the show's return has reminded me that I don't yet own any merch.As it stands, there's no Maomao representation amongst the best toys in my collection, and that simply cannot stand. To rectify
  
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• Metal Gear Solid 2's first ever boss skip has been discovered after 25 years

  29-09-2026 14:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  In a massive moment for the Metal Gear Solid 2 speedrunning community, a way to skip the game's first boss fight entirely has been uncovered. Metal Gear Solid 2 is split into two parts: the Tanker and the Plant chapters, with Tanker serving as a short prologue featuring Snake. Famously, this is the only time you get to play as Solid Snake throughout the game, with Raiden being in charge for a majority of the game's runtime. Through this, Snake only gets one proper boss fight against Olga Gurluko
  
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• Sony Makes Japanese Players Prove They’re Gamers To Get A PS5 Pro

  29-09-2026 14:05 via gamespot.com
  
  The demand for PlayStation 5 Pro consoles is currently outpacing supply in Japan, due to ongoing memory shortages that have yet to be resolved. Now, Sony is offering Japanese players a unique way to earn their way into a PS5 Pro lottery system, but only if they can demonstrate that they've already been gaming at a certain level.Sony's Japanese PlayStation blog notes that players who want to enter the PS5 Pro lottery must have 60 hours of gameplay time on their PlayStation accounts between Septem
  
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• 25 years later, The Mummy 4 set photos reveal first look at Brendan Fraser's and Rachel Weisz' return as Rick and Evelyn

  29-09-2026 14:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz have reprised their roles as Rick and Evelyn O'Connell for The Mummy 4. Filming on the legacy sequel has now kicked off, 25 years on from their last time on screen together in the roles. Directed by Radio Silence's Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, the new movie follows on from The Mummy Returns, ignoring the events of the third movie. Weisz didn't reprise her role as Evelyn in 2008's The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, and was recast with Maria Bello. T
  
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• How to complete the Urban Survival quest in Control Resonant

  29-09-2026 13:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Urban Survival quest in Control Resonant occurs in the Evacuation Zone, where players have to follow a trail of unauthorized mines through a parking lot and back towards the lone survivalist who's somehow still plugging along, despite the extradimensional horrors stalking the streets. There's a few strange elements to this quest, as once you find the survivalist, they're happy to send you out on missions around the city before they'll consent to evacuate, but I'll lay out the particulars of
  
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• Oppenheimer actor asked Christopher Nolan to settle a Tenet debate and was "embarrassed" by the "obvious" answer

  29-09-2026 13:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Oppenheimer actor Casey Affleck has revealed he contacted Christopher Nolan for help settling a debate about the director's twisty sci-fi film Tenet. Affleck played Col. Boris Pash in Oppenheimer, in a very brief but memorable role that saw him share a scene with Cillian Murphy. He also appeared in Interstellar as the adult Tom Cooper. "I was driving back from school with my son. We were talking about Tenet and disagreeing. I said: 'Let's settle that,'" Affleck shared onstage at the Zurich Film
  
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• Marvel’s Wolverine Is Holding Its Own Against PlayStation’s Live-Service Giants

  29-09-2026 13:49 via gamespot.com
  
  Marvel's Wolverine might not be a critical hit, but it's doing surprisingly well commercially. The new superhero adventure from Insomniac Games faced stiff opposition from new releases and established live-service titles at launch, but according to the analytics firm Circana and its engagement tracker, Marvel's Wolverine broke a live-service stranglehold on the PlayStation charts.For the week ending September 19, Marvel's Wolverine ranked seventh on Circana's Top 10 Titles by weekly ac
  
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• Idle Breakout codes (September 2026) and how to use them for infinite money, level skips, and more

  29-09-2026 13:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Idle Breakout codes can be used to achieve incredible high scores, and get to levels that would otherwise take many hours of playing (or idling) to reach. This game combines classic Breakout block-busting with an idle incremental approach, so you can actively click on blocks to earn cash or sit back and let your balls do the work. If you want to see the later levels without putting in the work, then here are the codes for Idle Breakout and how to use them.All Idle Breakout codes(Image credit: Ko
  
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• The upcoming C64 and ZX Spectrum handheld just got hit with a six-month delay due to quality issues

  29-09-2026 13:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sorry, '80s microcomputer crowd, the clamshell C64 and ZX Spectrum handhelds have been delayed until April 2027. The Retro Games Ltd and Blaze collab portables were originally meant to launch in just over two weeks' time, on October 15, but the duo of devices has been pushed back by six months due to production not meeting "high standards."In a statement shared on Blaze's HyperMegaTech website, the Evercade and Super Pocket creators say The C64 and The Spectrum handhelds now won't land until Apr
  
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• Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida's highlights of Tokyo Game Show include a game about removing hair

  29-09-2026 13:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida's big Tokyo Game Show recommendation is a game about removing hair. During his time at PlayStation, Yoshida produced some of the most iconic games for the original PS1 console, but in his later years, he was known for very much being a champion of indie games at the publisher. While still at Sony, Yoshida would tweet out indie recommendations constantly, which led to him being added as a playable character in Capybara Games' Super Time Force Ultra. And sinc
  
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• Tom Holland used Batman as an inspiration for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but not in the way you're expecting

  29-09-2026 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  It must be great to be Spider-Man, right? As Brand New Day showed, Peter Parker's life was anything but – isolated from friends, grieving lost family, and operating in a city where the criminals want you dead and no one knows who you really are.According to Tom Holland, that fairly depressing throughline was inspired largely by a joke from 2017's The LEGO Batman Movie."Something that I always really loved from a superhero movie is the LEGO Batman Movie when they talk about how he must be h
  
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• The Witcher 3 Remastered Metacritic score makes it the best version yet and 2026's top-scoring game

  29-09-2026 12:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered is finally here, and in very positive but perhaps wholly expected news, its early reviews place it as the best version of The Witcher 3 yet, based on its Metascore. Even better, it's currently 2026's best-rated game of the year on the site, too.11 years on, I'm sure I don't need to tell you that The Witcher 3 is a very good game. With a Metacritic Metascore of 92, the 2015 RPG is labelled as one of the site's must-play titles, and for good reason. The
  
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• Massive bit of Elder Scrolls lore from Morrowind is actually because of "a typo"

  29-09-2026 12:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  There are multiple possible endings in The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall, and rather than focus on a fixed conclusion for Morrowind, Bethesda decided to simply make all of them canon due to magic and whatnot. While this may seem like a savvy way to dodge committing to a single timeline, it actually stems from a typo, says an ex-writer on the series.During an appearance on the FRVR podcast, Kurt Kuhlmann, a writer and designer at Bethesda from 2003 to 2023, explains that Dragon Breaks - incidents of
  
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• GTA 5 modder behind Switch 1 port says it's "shutting down" following action from the devs

  29-09-2026 12:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  As the wait for GTA 6 presses on, fans of Rockstar Games' beloved franchise are finding new ways to breathe life into older entries like GTA 5 – for instance by, uh, unofficially porting it to Nintendo's original Switch console.Or, at least, attempting to. Paralympics Productions, a self-described "very serious game development studio" (yes, heavy on the sarcasm), has been working on a Switch port of GTA 5 for some time now, officially unveiling its release back in August on X.
  Things have
  
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• Ayaneo launches its Pocket Block for $79, and I'm glad the Game Boy clone has ditched the AI pitch

  29-09-2026 12:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Less than a month after its last launch, Ayaneo's Konkr Pocket Block is now available. The good news is that the Game Boy clone starts at just $79, and the arguably even better news is that it seems to have ditched all the AI marketing that haunted its unveiling back in May.In an announcement post marking the launch, Ayaneo describes the Konkr Pocket Block as "a premium vertical pocket Android handheld for gamers." (shock, horror). It also adds a nod to its "retro cyber design," a reference I ca
  
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• The Russos "toyed" with showing Captain America returning the Infinity Stones in Avengers: Endgame

  29-09-2026 12:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Russos have revealed they thought about including a sequence involving Steve Rogers returning the Infinity Stones in Avengers: Endgame. At the end of Endgame, Steve Rogers goes on a mission through time to return the Stones to their rightful places – which would have involved encountering the Red Skull on Vormir. As Joe Russo told CBR, the directors did contemplate showing the mission. "We did have that conversation. There might have even been… I think we toyed around with an id
  
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• Reacher season 6 confirmed as the Alan Ritchson-led show brings in huge streaming figures for its latest episodes

  29-09-2026 12:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Reacher season 6 has already been announced, just 12 days after the season 4 finale hit Prime Video. The show was only renewed for a fifth season earlier this year, but it seems the strong showing from the latest episodes has been enough to convince Prime Video to keep investing. Per Deadline, Reacher season 4 brought in 66 million viewers during its first 28 days on Prime Video, which is higher than season 3. It also means that season 4 ranks among the five most-viewed seasons of any original s
  
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• Fans think leaked Lego Dragon Ball is so good it makes an earlier set look bad by comparison

  29-09-2026 12:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  The upcoming Lego Dragon Ball set has been leaked, and fans approve… even if they think it makes an earlier set look worse by comparison.Reliable source BrickTap shared our first look at Lego Shenron & Goku via reddit, and supposed box art shows off the dragon (which was teased by Lego last week) in all its glory. Depicting the mythical creature curling around Dragon Balls while Goku hovers nearby on a cloud, the model seems to be an 18+ display model with over 1,700 pieces. According
  
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• All Chicken Farm codes (September 2026) and how to redeem them for Lucky Blocks and Cash

  29-09-2026 12:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  With these permanent Chicken Farm codes, you can boost your egg drops, get your hands on some cash, and even pick up a few extra lucky blocks. The aim of the game here is to get as many chickens as possible, the higher quality the better, so they can lay thousands of eggs and earn you a quick buck.With that in mind, these Chicken Farm codes come in handy, especially those that boost your egg rate and cash rate in the Roblox simulator - and there's even one here for a whopping 200,000 cash, so ma
  
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• Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet needs "to cook for just a little bit longer," Neil Druckmann says

  29-09-2026 12:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nearly two years have passed since Naughty Dog lifted the veil on its ambitious new sci-fi project, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet – but we've not seen much of it since then.So, when will we? Well, according to studio lead Neil Druckmann, we've still got a while to go before the developers are ready to show the mysterious game off some more.
  He reveals as much in a new post on Naughty Dog's official blog, explaining, "The team is heads down on what is shaping up to be Naughty Dog&rsquo
  
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• Avengers: Doomsday directors confirm Doctor Doom is collecting more MCU heroes than just Banner

  29-09-2026 12:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Following Bruce Banner being kidnapped by Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom in the added Avengers: Endgame Encore footage, the Russo brothers have confirmed that the villain is indeed collecting Marvel heroes ahead of Avengers: Doomsday."I mean, look, his interest may extend beyond just Banner. So, that's what we'll say about that," said Joe Russo to Empire. Fans were already starting to wonder what Doom might be up to, with one wondering that, in addition to the Hulk, Doctor Doom has already kidn
  
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• How to solve the Laundry puzzle in Control Resonant

  29-09-2026 11:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  The washing machine puzzle in Control Resonant is set in a laundry, wherein players are given numerous washing machines to play with, and a note on the wall with a grid of ones and zeros. It's easy to be a bit confused by what's expected of you here, but I'll lay out how to solve it and what you need to know about the washing machine puzzle solution.Did you know that this puzzle might secretly be linked to the lore of the Control Resonant FBC Terminals that ask you questions? Check out the link
  
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• James Gunn just answered a Lanterns finale question that gives us fresh hope for season 2

  29-09-2026 11:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Lanterns is set to bring its season to a close this Sunday, but DC boss James Gunn seemingly isn't ruling out a second season."I've seen Lanterns 500 times and even I'm excited for next week's finale," the DC Studios co-CEO wrote on Threads.When a fan asked for clarification on whether it was a series finale or season finale, Gunn followed up: "Season finale, correct."The first season of Lanterns has followed Kyle Chandler's Hal Jordan and Aaron Pierre's John Stewart as they investigated a myste
  
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• New Last of Us projects have stories "worth telling," Naughty Dog boss Neil Druckmann promises

  29-09-2026 11:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Last of Us and Naughty Dog boss Neil Druckmann has once again teased two "exciting new projects" are in the works for the series, but he's not going to tell you what they are yet.In a statement shared following this year's Last of Us Day (commemorating the in-universe Outbreak Day on September 26), Druckmann reconfirms that we can expect more Last of Us at some point, and promises that whatever Naughty Dog is cooking up will be worth it. "Since Grounded II, we've talked about the possibility
  
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• Spider-Man: Brand New Day might be getting re-released with new footage

  29-09-2026 11:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Spider-Man: Brand New Day is already the third highest-grossing movie worldwide, but it seems Marvel Studios are hoping to push it further. The Sony co-production is reportedly getting a re-release, which will feature new footage and deleted scenes.Per Deadline, the Destin Daniel Cretton-directed movie will feature multiple extras when it returns, including the widely-reported Rosario Dawson cut scene. The actor made a cameo as Claire Temple, her character in Netflix's Defenders saga of shows, i
  
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• Naughty Dog Is Working On Two New The Last Of Us Projects

  29-09-2026 10:05 via gamespot.com
  
  Naughty Dog studio head Neil Druckmann has dropped some tantalizing news for fans of The Last of Us, confirming the studio is currently working on not one, but two new The Last of Us projects. Druckmann also gave an update on Intergalactic, saying Naughty Dog will fully reveal the sci-fi game in 2027.The Last of Us Day is marked on September 26, the day that was the start of the zombie apocalypse in the game's lore, and Naughty Dog celebrated the 2026 event with a charity livestream, fan giveawa
  
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• Should You Play Witcher 3 Remastered On The Switch 2?

  29-09-2026 04:31 via gamespot.com
  
  Jean-Luc Seipke and Jake Dekker breakdown how the latest version of the Witcher 3 played on the Nintendo Switch 2.
  
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• Diablo 4 seasons will continue even after Diablo 5 launches, Blizzard confirms

  29-09-2026 01:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  With the surprise announcement of Diablo 5 at BlizzCon 2026, some fans of the series are left with a bittersweet feeling. Sure, a new game sounds great, and with Diablo 5 looking like the darkest entry in the series since OG Diablo, it does look great. But what does that mean for Diablo 4, which is only three years old? Well, Blizzard itself has confirmed it means no more Diablo 4 expansions, but the developer has made it clear seasonal updates will continue despite Diablo 5 being the apparent m
  
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• Cyberpunk 2077 dev doesn't think Phantom Liberty's success "erases" the launch of the base game

  29-09-2026 01:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cyberpunk 2077's redemption arc is long complete, 2023's acclaimed Phantom Liberty expansion cementing the RPG's legacy as one of this generation's all-time greats. Even as I sit here in 2026 writing this, it's still jarring to talk about Cyberpunk 2077 in such a uniformly positive light, and that's because I was doing this exact same job back in December 2020 when the game finally launched after multiple delays... and got absolutely dragged through the mud. We have a curated list of the best Cy
  
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