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• Low-effort AI slop sends a major community decompilation tool shutting down

  15-10-2026 23:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  With the burgeoning decomp and recomp scene now inundated with low-effort AI slop, a notable community tool is shutting down. Developer Luke "encounter" Street is closing decomp.dev, a site that once tracked decompilations of classic games, citing the negative effects AI has had on the community.Decomp.dev tracks – or, rather, tracked – the painstaking, human-driven process of decompilation across dozens of games. As each line of code was recreated and matched with functions from the
  
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• Every Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA 6) Trailer

  17-10-2026 17:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Watch trailer 1, 2 and the launch trailer for GTA 6 coming on November 19th, 2026!Timestamps:
  0:00 Intro
  0:01 GTA 6 Trailer 1
  1:28 GTA 6 Trailer 2
  4:10 GTA 6 Launch Trailer
  
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• Castlevania: Belmont's Curse devs are "proud" of the game's hot characters

  17-10-2026 15:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  The developers behind Castlevania: Belmont's Curse know their characters are hot, they've seen your thirsty fan art, and they agree - there should be some kind of award honoring the sexiest dad in games.When asked if he's seen the "horny" fan art that's already been inspired by their newest game - in an interview with Fall Damage - lead designer Sandro Bordier acknowledges that "it has started, it has started already - like, man, have we seen some things."Developer Evil Empire isn't totally surp
  
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• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners director combed through Cyberpunk 2077 with a "virtual camera" to find the best Night City spots

  17-10-2026 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cyberpunk: Edgerunners animation team Studio Trigger went through Night City with a "virtual camera" in Cyberpunk 2077 to find "great spots to fit into the story" for season 2."That's the great thing about Studio Trigger. They're huge fans of the game," Edgerunners showrunner and creator Bartosz Sztybor explains to GamesRadar+ on how certain Night City locales are chosen to crop up on-screen.Sztybor admits, "They know the city much better than I do," adding that he never mentions specific place
  
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• Marvel Rivals has "further escalated our penalties for speech violations," promises more moderation

  17-10-2026 14:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel Rivals has long suffered with bad actors throwing around hate speech in online matches, but in an effort to clean up the hero shooter, developer NetEase is now promising "significantly harsher penalties" for severe or repeat offenders.Like many competitive multiplayer games, unfortunately, Marvel Rivals has a problem with toxic speech being used more frequently than one would expect. In a recent online post, NetEase says it's doubling down on moderating the game."A positive communication
  
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• Silver Pines Is A 2D Silent Hill Meets Alan Wake, And It Even Scares Me At Its Lowest Price

  17-10-2026 14:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Starting in an empty diner, with no other people in sight, Silver Pines immediately grips you with an atmosphere reminiscent of Silent Hill and a sense of dread that Alan Wake would write about in one of his books. Especially during this spookily festive time of year, I sometimes find atmospheric tension more enjoyable than jump scares. Silver Pines delivers that fear in droves. Don’t believe me? Well, give it a try now that it’s cheaper than ever.Taking beloved horror experiences an
  
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• It’s Time For Epic Games And Its CEO To Touch Grass

  17-10-2026 14:00 via gamespot.com
  Epic Games is under fire once again this week for its stance on AI, as the company is apparently pivoting to "AI-accelerated development"--and supreme overlord Tim Sweeney has been trying to make it seem as though he and his company are not bothered by the backlash even a little bit. But everything that Sweeney and his spokespeople have said this week makes them look like they're embarrassingly out of touch with the reality of our present moment.
  Maybe it's time for Sweeney to go outside and get
  
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• Ray Liotta saved GTA: Vice City's "awful" writing, Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says

  17-10-2026 13:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rockstar Games' co-founder and former lead writer Dan Houser doesn't think his writing in GTA: Vice City was the best, but he reckons acting legend Ray Liotta is what really made the classic game's script shine. Grand Theft Auto is no stranger to celebrity talent nowadays - just take a look at GTA 6's star-studded soundtrack - but Ray Liotta playing the main protagonist of GTA: Vice City was a big deal more than two decades ago.In an interview with IGN, Houser was asked about what it was like wo
  
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• How Bloober Team's "Japanese approach" to business revived its image to land it a Switch 2 exclusive

  17-10-2026 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Broken Mirror Games is barely a year old, but the Bloober Team publishing division has already managed the once unthinkable. Onyx: The Dark Grip is set to be one of the first Nintendo-exclusive horror games in over a decade, proving that the Nintendo Switch 2 really is a console for all - even us horror hounds.Sitting down with Bloober Team CEO Piotr Babieno and Broken Mirror's new executive director Tymon Smektała, I have just one question. How on Earth did they pull off getting a game lik
  
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• Star Wars: KOTOR remasterers are bringing back the Shrek 2 video game, according to the Xbox Store

  17-10-2026 12:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  According to a now-deleted listing on the Xbox Store, a remaster of 2004's Shrek 2: The Game is coming to modern platforms soon. Frequent remaster maestros Aspyr are behind this one, but now there's only really one question left: is it actually as ogrewhelmingly good as I remember?Shrek 2: The Game originally swamped out on the PS2, Xbox, and GameCube, mixing beat 'em up action with some light puzzles, mini-games and button-prompt QTEs entirely playable in co-op. You could also control more than
  
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• I adore the new dwarf Khazlite Holds army for Warhammer Age of Sigmar, but I worry about what they mean for the future

  17-10-2026 11:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  I feel at odds with myself over the Warhammer Age of Sigmar Khazalite Holds army. This new duardin faction brings us back to classic fantasy dwarves in all their grudge-holding glory, and on the one hand, they look incredible. Actually, they feel like the best versions of that trope rolled into one heavily-armored force. But on the other, they seem safer and more familiar than the outrageously creative designs this game is known for.Don't take that as an insult worthy of putting in your own book
  
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• After a few hours with the pre-painted Warhammer 40K terrain, I'm already convinced it's an essential purchase

  17-10-2026 11:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Whoever came up with pre-painted Warhammer terrain, take a bow; you're a goddamn hero. After going hands on with the set, I think it's going to make a lot of gamers very happy. Yes, it looks amazing… but the time it'll save you is so much more valuable, and this is one hell of a time-consuming hobby. No matter whether you're putting together a 10-man Kill Team or forging an entire Warhammer 40K army from scratch, it's a marathon. While I think most of us would love to create a battlefield
  
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• Konami president says AI won't change game dev much and people will always be more important

  17-10-2026 01:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  At a time when it seems like everyone everywhere is either excited or afraid by how much AI is going to shake up all sorts of industries, it's refreshing when you hear someone say, essentially, 'eh,' but that seems to be the sentiment being expressed by Konami president Hideki Hayakawa in the company's latest earnings report.The financial report, as spotted by Dengeki and translated by Automaton, details Konami's current approach to the rapid proliferation of AI and its thinking on the technolog
  
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• FF7 Revelation’s Opening Invites Deeply Intriguing Questions About The Trilogy’s Conclusion – Preview

  17-10-2026 01:00 via gamespot.com
  
  A recent hands-on demo of Final Fantasy 7 Revelation has left us with more questions than answers.
  
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• Former Valve writer says Gabe Newell has been pretty clear about Steam: "It's an MMO"

  16-10-2026 23:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  What is Steam? Well, sure, the obvious answer is that it's an online store where you can buy and download digital games, but that doesn't explain why players are so thoroughly devoted to it above other platforms like the Epic Games Store. Apparently, Gabe Newell has a much broader vision for the platform. Steam is, really, an MMO.That's according to former Valve writer Chet Faliszek, speaking in a YouTube video about Epic's latest updates to its own platform. Faliszek doesn't really see a clear
  
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• Diablo 4 players spent weeks searching for missing armor only to find it hiding in the new update

  16-10-2026 23:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 4's deeply nostalgic season 15 is loaded with all sorts of neat references to the series' history, including a whole quest recreating OG Diablo's critical path and an entire armor set themed around the notoriously elusive cow level first introduced in Diablo 2. Players were pretty quick to find out how to get all of the pieces of the Bovine armor set except one: the gloves, or the Foreshanks, sending the community into a weeks-long treasure hunt that, until now, has come up empty. As it t
  
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• Nicolas Cage and Antonio Banderas to star in True Detective season 5

  16-10-2026 23:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  After he prematurely broke the news at NYCC, Nicolas Cage is officially set to star alongside Antonio Banderas in True Detective season 5.Per The Hollywood Reporter, Cage will play Henry Logan, with Banderas as Rai Garcia. Plot details are being kept under wraps for now, though we know that it's set in Jamaica Bay, New York, and that True Detective: Night Country showrunner Issa Lopez will return as showrunner... and that the new season will share some connective tissue with season 4.“Ther
  
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• Zelda Ocarina of Time remake has new sidequests, harder minigames, and subtle dungeon tweaks

  16-10-2026 23:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  I can't help but feel Nintendo is being a little too faithful with its upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake. I know I'm pretty isolated in that opinion, but with new info coming out of recent hands-on previews of the game, I've suddenly got reason to believe that Nintendo is looking out for my tastes, too.The Ocarina of Time remake will feature some new side quests, as demonstrated by longtime Zelda YouTube Zeltik. In Hyrule Castle Town, the guy at the potion shop will now be fre
  
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• Arc Raiders TV and movie adaptations can do what the game doesn't: "All kinds of different stories"

  16-10-2026 23:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  What should an Arc Raiders TV series or movie look like? Following the slightly opaque announcement of adaptations in the works at external partner Chernin Entertainment, executive producer Aleksander Grøndal of Arc Raiders studio Embark suggests there's interest in something a little more character-driven, whereas the game is mostly about absorbing the world around you. I spoke to Grøndal briefly about the ambitions around the adaptations of Embark's IP, which will also include Th
  
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• "Our industry is rotting" and AI made it worse, so DayZ creator wants to change how games are made

  16-10-2026 22:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  DayZ creator Dean Hall reckons "our industry is rotting from its core, outwards in every direction, and it has been for some time," and that rot has only been accelerated by the rise of AI agent-led development, reverse-engineering, and recompilation. "These have pushed things over the edge," he says, so he and studio RocketWerkz have prepared and shared a new, open source game engine alternative meant to help developers "break free of Unity" and mainstream offerings like Unreal Engine as provid
  
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• James Gunn shares list of body horror movies to watch ahead of Clayface premiere

  16-10-2026 22:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  The DCU's next movie, Clayface, is almost upon us, and DC co-CEO James Gunn has released a list of body horror movies to get us in the mood for everyone's favorite goopy supervillain.Gunn took to Threads to share the list after a fan asked what they should watch, if anything, to prepare for a fleshy, goopy nightmare of a horror movie like Clayface. The list leans David Cronenberg-heavy, with Shivers, The Brood, The Fly, and Videodrome all making the list. However, Gunn also included Invasion of
  
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• All The Records GTA 6 Will Break, We Think

  16-10-2026 22:27 via gamespot.com
  
  After years of development and perhaps more hype than for any game, GTA 6 is set for release on November 19 for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Predicting that it will be an enormous success commercially is perhaps one of the safest bets anyone could make.
  But just how big will the launch be? And what records could GTA 6 beat if it delivers?
  Lucia and Jason in GTA 6.The recordsThe last GTA game, 2013's GTA 5, was a huge hit right out of the gate. It brought in $800 million in revenue over its first 24
  
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• You Can Play WoW: Forever For Free Next Week (But There’s A Catch)

  16-10-2026 20:45 via gamespot.com
  
  World of Warcraft: Forever's beta will be free for a limited time next week, giving players who want to check out the new version of Blizzard's old-school MMORPG but don't want to pay $60 for beta access a chance to see what all the hype is about. Blizzard announced a WoW: Forever stress test will begin October 19 at 2 PM PT/ 5 PM ET, with no WoW subscription or beta access needed to play. The goal is to put the game's servers through their paces ahead of launch."This is a highly valuable e
  
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• This Espresso Machine Can Run Doom

  16-10-2026 20:28 via gamespot.com
  
  Before caffeinating yourself in the morning, the Fellow Espresso Series 1 machine can actually run 1993's Doom on its small, circular screen. Reddit user FullExtraction showed off the classic FPS, utilizing the brew button to run and steam button to shoot. The scroll wheel on the device turns Doomguy either left or right. There's also a wider-angle video of Doom working on the espresso machine, via custom firmware. The game looks pretty smooth in the snippet, showcasing a solid frame rate.
  
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• Shrek 2 Remaster Leaks, Looks Amazing And I Need It Now

  16-10-2026 20:21 via gamespot.com
  
  A remaster of 2004's Shrek 2: The Game is on the way, according to an Xbox.com listing that seems to have been published too soon.The page for the unannounced game--which has since been removed--says the remaster will feature better textures, enhanced UI, and 4K resolution.Like the original PS2, Xbox, and GameCube game, the remaster lets you play solo or in co-op with up to three friends, locally or online. The playable characters include Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey, among others.https://www.youtub
  
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• WoW: Forever Just Changed The Math On What Race To Play In A Big Way

  16-10-2026 20:01 via gamespot.com
  
  World of Warcraft: Forever's beta is set to end in just a few days on October 21, but that hasn't stopped Blizzard from making some major changes to the game's various racial abilities.Unlike in the modern version of WoW, where racial abilities are so minor that they mostly feel cosmetic, racial abilities in WoW Classic (and now in Forever) are a big part of why players choose to play a particular race. Some races synergise better with certain classes or playstyles. Others even benefit more from
  
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• After 18 years, GTA 6 might finally fix a graphical bug that's plagued Rockstar's games since GTA 4

  16-10-2026 19:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  There's a decent chance you've never noticed it, but most of Rockstar's titles – including the likes of Grand Theft Auto 4 and 5 and the Red Dead Redemption games – have a subtle but persistent graphical bug. Based on the early trailers and gameplay footage, it looked like GTA 6 would be no exception, but the game's most recent trailer shows no evidence of the issue at all.The problem? Animation stutter. Both character animations and camera movements are sometimes unevenly paced, lea
  
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• PlayStation creator backs Sony's call to end discs, says backlash is a "mentality issue"

  16-10-2026 19:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  PlayStation's decision to end disc production for games in 2028 has unsurprisingly led to a massive amount of backlash, largely due to the implications an all-digital future holds for entitlements and actual ownership of a library of games. There have been notable voices in the industry expressing support, or at least trying to explain Sony's stance amid ongoing component shortages and related hardware price pressures, and you can key PlayStation architect Ken Kutaragi among them.Kutaragi tells
  
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• Street Fighter star Cody Rhodes seemingly keeps hinting at his involvement in an MCU X-Men project

  16-10-2026 19:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Street Fighter star Cody Rhodes has seemingly (or accidentally) dropped another hint that he's involved with one of Marvel's X-Men projects.“I nerd out… I’m an X-Men, I nerd out about that…" Rhodes told Nerdist, in response to what things he "nerds out about." This could be a simple slip-up, of course, and it's possible that Rhodes meant to say, "I'm into X-Men." However, there have already been a few instances of Rhodes mentioning, or refusing to mention, X-Men specifi
  
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• Devs are canceling their demos to stop AI users from stealing their games

  16-10-2026 19:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  A planned demo for Russian roulette-inspired game Drunken Goddess Reflux, now the 65th most-wishlisted game on Steam according to SteamDB, has been canceled in large part because the developers fear someone using AI will steal their ideas and rush out a copycat. In a Steam post, co-developer and publisher Alliance Arts, already known for anime girlfailure hit Needy Streamer Overload, confirms that the October 19 demo release will be replaced by a closed playtest with stricter rules. Concerns aro
  
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