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• PS4 Stays Ahead With Excellent Exclusives | 2018 Year In Review

  06-12-2018 23:31 via gamespot.com
  
  Sony had some great games come to PS4 in 2018, but how good--or bad--a year has it been for the PlayStation platform more broadly?
  
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• Late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata never wanted tons of Mario and Zelda sequels because that's "not the kind of company I want Nintendo to be"

  19-09-2026 19:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  When a game like Super Mario Odyssey or The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild arrives, it feels monumental, and Nintendo has made a point of not oversaturating us with sequels in its biggest series. That's been the company's approach for decades, and late president Satoru Iwata described it succinctly back in 2006."If all we were to ever do is just continue to make sequels and not do anything new or different," Iwata told Stephen Totilo at MTV News, "people would view us as a very conservative
  
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• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Is At A Royally Great Discount, So What Art Thou Waiting For?

  19-09-2026 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  When I first booted up Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, I wasn’t too sure what to expect. I hadn’t played the first game (I know, I know, put down the pitchforks!), and, as someone who prefers fantasy over medieval settings, it wasn’t my usual cup of tea. However, it quickly became one of my favorite RPGs ever, as I watched Henry go from a ragtag blacksmith’s son to a strong knight once again. Now, you can grab it at its lowest price ever.Like many of the best RPGs ever made,
  
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• 30 years of Diablo with Diablo IV Devs Owen Leach and Dan Tanguay | Play History at Blizzcon 2026

  19-09-2026 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  In this developer version of Play History we take a look back at Diablo IV Lead Encounter Designer Owen Leach, and Design Director Dan Tanguay's gaming history that shaped how they are working on Diablo IV's Season of Hell's Legacy and the upcoming Amazon class.
  
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• My least favorite Blood of Dawnwalker mission has the best writing in the whole RPG, and I never want to play it again

  19-09-2026 17:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  If life is but a dream, then The Blood of Dawnwalker's Home Sweet Home mission must be a nightmare. I stumble into it as a bit of an afterthought, having fought my way into the alchemist's tower while investigating the clay-baked gargoyles plaguing the city of Svartrau. But instead of leaving to show Marat the alchemist's notes, as per my next objective, I head up the spiral staircase and ascend further into the tower.A short cutscene plays out when I reach the landing and interact with a closed
  
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• The Frustrating Mystery Of Who Makes Nintendo Games

  19-09-2026 17:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Whenever a Nintendo game gets a splashy reveal in a Direct, my immediate hype takes on a few forms. I’ll replay the trailer at least once, then I’ll start going frame by frame. I scour Nintendo’s websites for concrete information, then I read up on Reddit comments and theories to see what other people noticed that I might have missed. And then, I watch the trailer yet again. But almost every single time, my brain lands on the same question: Who the hell made this thing?The most
  
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• Here's how to watch this year's PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct

  19-09-2026 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct is returning once again, with announcements direct from this year's Tokyo Gaming Show.Hosted once again by Frankie Ward, this year's show will run for 90 minutes and host more than 35 trailers, developer deep dives, and exclusive announcements. There'll be world premiere announcements, and news direct from the TGS show floor.Already confirmed for this year's show are; a new trailer for Stronghold 4, the latest entry in the legendary RTS series; a selection of game
  
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• With "11 kills, 12 kills at a time," battle royale hybrid Project Zeta is not your daddy's MOBA (or your brother's hero shooter)

  19-09-2026 16:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Project Zeta has a lot stacked against it. The MOBA genre is not exactly one that's wanting for competition, with many well-established competitors already throwing hands in the arena that Korean developer Nirvanana seeks to enter. Your average League of Legends or DOTA player isn't usually one to venture too far out of their comfort zones, and to the uninitiated, the genre as a whole has a huge barrier to entry that wouldn't necessarily attract new players.But that hasn't shaken Nirvanana's amb
  
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• Wardogs studio checks the Steam accounts of their hires to make sure they're "passionate about FPS games" as "you wouldn't let me go and make Final Fantasy"

  19-09-2026 15:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Bulkhead, the studio behind recent breakout hit Wardogs, makes sure its prospective developers are FPS fans before hiring them. As executive director Joe Brammer says, "You wouldn't let me go and make Final Fantasy" because he apparently wouldn't know where to start on a genre he's unfamiliar with. Speaking to GamesRadar+ about the studio's sudden success, Brammer explains the "anti-cheat stuff" that Bulkhead is implementing is "expensive and there's risk we're taking on there." As such, to him,
  
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• New Marvel's Wolverine update makes the game's infamous scent trails "less intense," while Insomniac explores "toggleable options"

  19-09-2026 14:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel's Wolverine has been the subject of intense fan mockery in the days since its release (and even before), largely thanks to the game's overbearing Scent Trail - dubbed a 'fart trail' in some online circles. Developer Insomniac Games has now nerfedthe glowing line that often points Logan to his next objective.Look in most corners of the gaming internet, and you'll probably find players making fun out of Marvel's Wolverine for a few different reasons. Chief among them is the game's tendency
  
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• "Cloud is still the main character" of Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, but the developers know you "want to see more of the other characters"

  19-09-2026 13:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cloud Strife lovers might have noticed a distinct lack of the iconic, spike-headed hero in all the Final Fantasy 7 Revelation trailers we've seen so far. While players of the original certainly know the why of it all, series director and game lead Naoki Hamaguchi says it gives players a chance to "see more" of the RPG's colorful party members.Speaking to GamesRadar+, Final Fantasy 7 Remake's Hamaguchi assured folks that "Cloud is still the main character" of the upcoming game, even if he's not a
  
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• The disc is dying, but the box isn’t – what will a "physical game" actually mean in 2030?

  19-09-2026 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Without getting too misty-eyed, a "physical game" used to be easy to define. You bought a box and the game was sitting inside on a disc or cartridge. Fast-forward to today and things are more complicated. The box might hold a download code or a Game-Key Card that still needs software from a server, while some expensive collector’s editions don’t even include a physical copy at all. So, with Sony steering full-steam toward Playstation's digital-only future, what exactly are we going t
  
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• Palworld lead thought one of Pocketpair's most iconic Pals would "fade into the background" before it unexpectedly became the survival game's "mascot"

  19-09-2026 12:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Palworld is full of wildly popular but oddly-designed creatures to tame and train, but the popularity of one of the game's biggest mascots actually came as a surprise to Pockpair's head of communications and publishing, John 'Bucky' Buckley."For the record, this is my opinion," Buckley makes clear while chatting to Gaming World Interviews about the Pals who surprised him the most. "It's not the company's opinion. It's the opinion of me and me only. I never really thought Cattiva would be popular
  
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• I've been hands on with all the new Warhammer 40K Space Marine models, these are the ones you should buy

  19-09-2026 11:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  As the poster children for Warhammer 40K, Space Marines usually get the best toys. I mean that both literally and metaphorically; besides having some of the coolest-looking models, they've got an extensive army list with tremendous variety. That army list just got a facelift for the game's 11th edition, and I've been hands-on with every new model in the range.So, how do they hold up? After the faction was overshadowed in the Armageddon box set by those gorgeous Ork models, 11th-ed Space Marines
  
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• After Forza Horizon, Fable devs wanted to prove "we could cut it in a different genre," lead says: "There was a little bit of pride"

  19-09-2026 01:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Next year's big Fable revival is being handled by Playground Games, the Xbox-owned studio behind the Forza Horizon series, taking over from Lionhead Studios. The developer just launched Forza Horizon 6 to near universal acclaim this year, but now it's set to release Fable on February 23, 2027, and everyone's eager to see what a fantasy RPG from a beloved franchise looks and plays like when it's designed by a team that's only ever made racing games. The choice of Playground Games as Fable's devel
  
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• Indie Dev Says “AI” Voice In His Game Was Actually His Wife

  19-09-2026 01:41 via gamespot.com
  
  Someone playing Refractive Entertainment's recently released action-RPG Luminary for less than an hour accused the team of using AI for the game's only voiced character. The player said the voice "killed it" for them. There was just one problem: It wasn't AI. It was actually the developer's wife doing her first-ever voice acting gig.Refractive Entertainment launched Luminary into Steam Early Access on August 11. It's a resource-gathering action-adventure sandbox with an art style that's giving F
  
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• Valve devs "can't believe we get away" with such small updates for Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike, ex-writer says

  19-09-2026 01:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you're among the legions of Counter-Strike and Team Fortress 2 players who've ever wondered why those games have historically gotten much smaller updates than other games owned by Valve, you can at least take comfort in knowing that a veteran of the studio who left back in 2017 was equally perplexed.Chet Faliszek, who was a Valve writer from 2004 to 2017 and worked on Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress, Counter-Strike, and Left 4 Dead, for which he was co-project lead, says in a new video that
  
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• "The craziest numbers I've seen in 17 years working at Blizzard": WoW Forever devs seem genuinely shocked the beta is so popular as they explain why their MMO servers keep breaking

  19-09-2026 00:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  World of Warcraft has been running for 22 years, and even now Blizzard sometimes struggles to keep up with demand. Yesterday, the WoW: Forever beta launched and immediately broke under the weight of everyone trying to get in at once. How is this still happening when Blizzard has decades of experience with launching new MMO content? The devs themselves say they were genuinely taken aback by just how popular the Forever beta has been."Man, it was hard to sleep last night, I was so excited," senior
  
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• Brad Pitt to return for World War Z sequel from Conclave director

  18-09-2026 23:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Paramount's previously announced World War Z movie is officially moving ahead with Brad Pitt to return as hero Gerry Lane.According to Deadline, All Quiet on the Western Front and Conclave director Edward Berger is set to helm the pic. British playwright Dennis Kelley will pen the script. Paramount announced the sequel in 2025, citing it as a top priority for the studio.The 2013 sci-fi action thriller, based on the bestselling Max Brooks novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, sees
  
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• As Final Fantasy Resonance drops its gacha baggage, another JRPG dev doing the same thinks it's "wonderful" these live-service games will be preserved

  18-09-2026 23:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Another Eden Begins follows Final Fantasy Resonance and Octopath Traveler 0 in a line of JRPGs based on online mobile games that have been forever preserved through premium-release adaptations, and producer Shinnosuke Hirasawa says it's "wonderful" to see them escape the live-service reaper.Speaking with Automaton, Hirasawa, who oversaw the overhaul of Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space, says it was no surprise to see other developers arrive at the same plan. "Live-service games have th
  
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• Diablo himself is the reason Diablo 5 is coming instead of more Diablo 4 expansions, says project lead: "We needed to give him his own game"

  18-09-2026 22:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  The unveiling of Diablo 5 during BlizzCon 2026 prompted a range of reactions from oohs and aahs to disappointment at the confirmation that the surprise sequel means no more expansions for Diablo 4. Diablo4 currently has two expansions, 2024's Vessel of Hatred and this year's Lord of Hatred, and there won't be any more as Blizzard focuses on getting Diablo 5 out the door by its planned release window of spring 2029. The game will still get regular seasonal updates, like the wonderfully nostalgic
  
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• The Blood of Dawnwalker, one of the year's top RPGs, was made on a budget of $40 million much like Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

  18-09-2026 22:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Blood of Dawnwalker, the newly released vampire RPG from the new studio led by The Witcher 3 director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, was made on a budget of $40 million under NetEase.That's according to a new article from Bloomberg covering the game's development. The budget is the standout: Chinese company NetEase gained a 26% investment in The Blood of Dawnwalker developer Rebel Wolves and set its budget, while Bandai Namco ultimately stepped in as the game's publisher. In 2024, NetEase found a big
  
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• New Pokemon Plane Looks Incredible, Even Includes Themed Cups And Napkins

  18-09-2026 21:52 via gamespot.com
  
  Japanese airline All Nippon Airways (ANA) has unveiled a Pokemon-themed airliner to celebrate the franchise's 30th anniversary this year, and it looks incredible.
  The Green Pokemon Jet, as it's called, made its inaugural flight from Haneda to Honolulu today following a big unveiling event--you can see video and images below. The airplane goes well beyond simply getting a Pokemon wrap, though it does have that, too, featuring famous Pokemon like Bulbasaur, along with Pikachu. Because how can you
  
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• I Guess I’ll Delete Every PS5 Game I Own To Make Room For FF7 Revelation

  18-09-2026 21:10 via gamespot.com
  
  There are quite a few months until Final Fantasy 7 Revelation launches on Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. But you're going to want to get your systems ready now because the download for the final showdown between Cloud and Sephiroth may be big.According to a September 18 VGC Interview with game director Naoki Hamaguchi, the file size for Revelation will "probably" be absolutely massive. So huge, in fact, that Hamaguchi acknowledged that there was no way the game would
  
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• The Last of Us director apologizes for using God of War Laufey as an example of "lack" of innovation in AAA: "This isn't the team's fault"

  18-09-2026 21:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Naughty Dog veteran Bruce Straley has issued a public apology to the God of War Laufey developers at Santa Monica Studio after using the game to illustrate how AAA production has stagnated in an interview with Edge, as part of a feature now available to read in the magazine's Knowledge newsletter. "I want to apologize to the Laufey team for dragging you all into this uninvited & unnecessary negative attention," Straley writes in a September 18 Twitter post. "I was trying to illustrate an ind
  
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• I suck at Overwatch but I was dominating with new hero Doctrine, so I smell a nerf coming

  18-09-2026 21:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Whenever I play Overwatch with my friends and actually contribute to our success, I'm treated like a child who's 'helping' his parents put away groceries and manages to put the cheese in the right fridge drawer for a change. In short, I suck.Even when I'm in the zone as my main man, Reinhardt, I'm not sure I've ever gotten MVP in the hundreds of matches I've played over the years. It was to my great surprise, then, that I found myself dominating as new support hero Doctrine over the weekend at B
  
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• The New Fire Emblem Lets You Skip A Massive Chunk Of Fire Emblem

  18-09-2026 20:22 via gamespot.com
  
  Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is a massive game that can easily last well over 100 hours. But you can actually make it a little less massive with the surprising ability to skip over a whole swath of the game, as players are starting to discover.Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave consists of four story arcs starring separate protagonists, the four Flame Lords: Cai, Dietrich, Theodora, and Leda. You can play these in any order (though we have some recommendations) and by themselves each of these campaign
  
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• Ex-Naughty Dog Dev Apologizes To God Of War Studio For What He Said About Laufey

  18-09-2026 20:15 via gamespot.com
  
  Bruce Straley, best known for his work at Naughty Dog on the Uncharted and The Last of Us franchises, has apologized to God of War: Laufey studio Santa Monica Studio, after he said he was "not excited" about what the game was offering, at least in some respects.Straley told Edge that he thinks "every pixel" in Laufey looks "mindblowing and that he is "blown away" by the lengths Santa Monica Studio went to. However, Straley said he is "not excited" by "what you're doing in the game."Beyond Laufey
  
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• Very Large Man Could Join Helldivers Movie After A Different Very Large (Aqua)Man Dropped Out

  18-09-2026 20:14 via gamespot.com
  
  Sony's upcoming Helldivers movie remains in development, and now a key piece of news has surfaced. According to Deadline, Reacher star Alan Ritchson will replace Jason Momoa as the lead, following Momoa's departure earlier this year.Justin Lin, known for his work on the Fast & Furious and Star Trek franchises, remains attached to the Helldivers movie as director.
  Alan Ritchson in Reacher.The movie is set for release in theaters on November 10, 2027. Ritchson is reportedly going to play one o
  
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• Everything announced at Big Autumn Warhammer Preview 2026, from Legion of the Damned to a brand-new paint range

  18-09-2026 19:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Big Autumn Warhammer Preview wasn't exaggerating with its name; there was a lot of announcements being thrown down throughout the show with the speed and fury of a bolt rifle. The return of a mythical, forgotten Space Marine army, an all-new Age of Sigmar faction, and a D&D-style tabletop RPG set in the 40K universe are just the beginning. Because a lot was shown off during the live stream, I've rounded up everything you need to know about the Big Autumn Warhammer Preview in bite-size fo
  
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