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• Star Wars Zero Company Developer Sees Portion Of Furloughed Workers Return

  07-10-2026 19:56 via gamespot.com
  
  Star Wars Zero Company released in late August to great reviews, but its launch was bittersweet, as a large chunk of developer Bit Reactor's staff was furloughed, unsure if they would be returning to work. For at least a portion of them, however, that uncertainty is over, as they're back at the studio.
  Speaking to Game File, Bit Reactor CEO Greg Foertsch said the studio had "started the process of returning more of our team back to work" but stopped short of giving specific percentages or figure
  
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• Doom creator among the developers paying tribute to legendary FPS dev Richard 'Levelord' Gray

  14-10-2026 14:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tributes are pouring in for Duke Nukem and Sin level designer Richard 'Levelord' Gray, who passed away on October 12, 2026, aged 68.Gray got his start making modded levels for Doom, making his official game development debut as a designer for fellow FPS Duke Nukem 3D, before going on to design levels for the likes of Quake, Half-Life: Opposing Force, and Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, as well as being a primary designer on Sin. His talent for level design had him dubbed 'Levelord,' with him bei
  
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• Crystal Lake creator already has ideas for future seasons and more Pamela kills: "There's so much life for her to have"

  14-10-2026 13:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  New Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake focuses on the franchise's original killer Pamela Voorhees' early days, but creator Brad Caleb Kane can see the series lasting beyond the first season, and even has ideas for new kill scenes in the next installment. "There are ideas we have potentially for a second season that maybe we were playing around with as part of the first season, says writer-director Kane to GamesRadar+. "But it felt like it needed to be compact to tell one story. So we'll
  
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• PS5 pirate store with over 1,600 games taken down before being immediately replaced by a clone

  14-10-2026 13:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  An unofficial store with over 1,600 free game downloads for jailbroken PS5s was taken down this week, but – please, pretend to be shocked – it's already been reinstated by someone else, with Pandora's box well and truly open.The store, known as Overdrive, went viral a few days ago – it arrived following a new PS5 jailbreak, which, as reported by Tom's Hardware, was compatible with all consoles except those that'd been very recently updated. Obviously, Sony was never going to be
  
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• Rockstar Says GTA 6 Didn’t Cost $1.5 Billion To Make, But Won’t Reveal The Real Number

  14-10-2026 13:42 via gamespot.com
  
  It's no secret that video game development is more expensive than ever before, and in a hit-driven industry, Grand Theft Auto VI is rumored to be the most expensive game ever made. Various numbers have been thrown around, with one report even claiming that $1.5 billion was spent--around the budget of Dubai's iconic Burj Khalifa skyscraper.Speaking to Bloomberg, Rockstar shot down that claim, but it hasn't confirmed just how much investment it has taken to get the game over the finish line for it
  
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• MTG Darkhold Destiny just went up for pre-order, and it's the first Marvel Magic set I've felt excited for

  14-10-2026 13:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pre-orders for Magic: The Gathering's latest expansion have emerged like a sorcerer from a sling ring portal, and to be frank, MTG Darkhold Destiny is the first time I've felt excited about a Marvel set. Following its surprise announcement at New York Comic Con 2026, the supernatural range (which promises to explore darker corners of the Marvel universe) is now up for grabs at Amazon ahead of its 2027 release. I've been looking through the set's array of goodies – from four Commander decks
  
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• All Undertale Adventures X codes (October 2026) and how to redeem them for Souls and rerolls

  14-10-2026 13:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  These Undertale Adventures X codes can help boost your Soul and reroll stock allowing you to summon new units or upgrade your existing ones. Soul Fragments can be combined into Souls, which are required to summon units, while you'll need to head to the upgrades area to use rerolls and buff your team's stats.This Undertale-inspired Roblox game is a tower defense game, so your units are your most important asset, and making sure that your squad is the best it can be will prevent you having to repl
  
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• Avatar: Seven Havens co-creator confirms there was no "secret Avatar" between Korra and twin Avatars Pavi and Nisha

  14-10-2026 13:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avatar: Seven Havens is a show loaded with mysteries: how can there be twin Avatars? Did Korra really cause the cataclysm that destroyed the world? And why was there no Avatar in the two centuries between The Legend of Korra and Seven Havens?The latter question has led to a popular theory that maybe, secretly, there were other Avatars during this 200-year period. But speaking to GamesRadar+, Avatar co-creator Michael Dante DiMartino confirms that the line of Avatar succession leads directly from
  
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• Rockstar vowed GTA 6 wouldn't be finished "by crunching" after Red Dead Redemption 2's development

  14-10-2026 13:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  After Red Dead Redemption 2's crunchy development, Rockstar decided "'we're not doing it again like this'" for GTA 6, the studio's head of publishing says, and she's "proud" that the studio changed things for its latest title.In an interview with Bloomberg, head of publishing Jennifer Kolbe says that the development of Red Dead Redemption 2 was "a real moment for Rockstar to look at itself," even before the company began receiving backlash over reports of crunch for the staffers bringing the 201
  
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• Palworld isn't following Fortnite because making money "as quickly as possible" isn't the mission

  14-10-2026 13:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Palworld universe is expanding quite a bit in the coming months. Developer and publisher Pocketpair has got a dating sim, a farming sim, and an MMO on the slate, and while you might think elements of these would make more sense as expansions of the main game, the team isn't keen on simply replicating Fortnite's metaverse-type model."I can certainly understand why some people might expect us to take Palworld in that direction," John 'Bucky' Buckley, the head of publishing and communications a
  
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• Rockstar Built An Entire Studio Just To Create GTA 6 NPCs

  14-10-2026 13:07 via gamespot.com
  
  Rockstar Games reportedly established an entire studio in Los Angeles dedicated to creating NPCs for Grand Theft Auto 6 after realizing the game's ambitious world would need far more production resources than initially expected.
  Speaking to Bloomberg, Rockstar development lead Rob Nelson explained that the team had struggled to meet its targets for the number of NPCs that needed to be written and animated. That makes sense when you consider how much more interactive they're reported to be, even
  
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• Zelda: Link's Awakening's Nintendo Switch remake now has a PC port if you can stomach an "almost exclusive use of AI"

  14-10-2026 13:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  A recompilation PC port of the Nintendo Switch remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening has emerged online, made "with almost exclusive use of AI."PC ports of classic games through the act of decompilation and recompilation have been one of the best things to happen to PC gaming in the 2020s while everything else falls apart around it. Thanks to AI slop causing ballooning prices, a sheer amount of shovelware flooding steam, and just generally being all over the place, some have taken to c
  
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• Rockstar’s GTA 6 Realism Experiment Started With Beer And Sandwiches

  14-10-2026 13:02 via gamespot.com
  
  Compared to previous games in the series, Grand Theft Auto 6 is aiming to add new layers of realism to the franchise. As the criminal couple Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos, players will explore a city where actions have consequences, and it's not easy to shake the long arm of the law when you cause chaos. It continues ideas that developer Rockstar Games began experimenting with in Red Dead Redemption 2, but the studio says it initially struggled to figure out how realistic it wanted GTA 6 to be w
  
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• "Please tell me you're kidding": GTA 6's two delays flabbergasted Take-Two CEO

  14-10-2026 12:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  The two GTA 6 delays might have been frustrating for you, but they were definitely worse for Strauss Zelnick, CEO of the game's publisher, Take-Two Interactive, who reportedly asked the unfortunate Rockstar dev who told him about them if they were "kidding."Speaking to Bloomberg, Rockstar's head of publishing, Jennifer Kolbe, said she had to call up Zelnick twice - once when GTA 6 was delayed out of Fall 2025 to a May 2026 date, and then again to say that it needed a second delay, this time from
  
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• DC Studios co-CEO gives the first Swamp Thing update in over a year – and it sounds promising

  14-10-2026 12:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Several DC Studios projects have fallen by the wayside – but not Swamp Thing.James Mangold's horror project has largely been on the backburner since it was first unveiled back in 2023.Speaking to Deadline at the Clayface premiere, DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran has confirmed that work is still ongoing on the film."We're working on it, absolutely," Safran said. "The script is being written as we speak. But it's something we're excited about. All these things take time – when you've al
  
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• Xbox Is Getting Into AI Gaming, Even If It Won’t Say So

  14-10-2026 12:50 via gamespot.com
  
  Vibe-coded games playable in web browsers have exploded in popularity recently, and amid a deluge of ports and remasters created with generative AI, Xbox is responding by creating Xbox Labs. The new branch of Xbox is described as an initiative designed to get more people playing games--especially on web browsers--but curiously, there's no mention of AI at all in the announcement."In recent weeks, we've seen games rapidly decompiled and rebuilt to run on hardware they were never originally d
  
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• GTA 6 was delayed for years after Rockstar scaled back "Project Americas"

  14-10-2026 12:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rockstar North co-studio head and GTA 6 lead developer Rob Nelson explains that the open-world game has taken so long to come out, in part, due to a scrapped version dubbed "Project Americas."I don't know if anyone really noticed, but Rockstar Games has taken quite a while to follow up GTA 5 and release GTA 6. While we've had the massive Red Dead Redemption 2 in the meantime, the 13-year wait for GTA 6 has made fans quite feverish to play the next game in Rockstar's iconic crime series. Many ass
  
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• Crystal Lake creator and star Linda Cardellini reveal the Friday the 13th scene that "forms the basis of the series"

  14-10-2026 12:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Even though Pamela Voorhees is the original villain in the Friday the 13th franchise, she is often forgotten. The mix-up is so ingrained in horror culture that in Wes Craven's Scream, Ghostface asks his first victim who the original Camp Crystal Lake killer is, to which she says Jason. Throughout time, Jason Voorhees has become a horror icon, while his mother faded into the background. That's why Crystal Lake creator Brad Caleb Kane wanted the new prequel series to focus on Pam. "Well, we only s
  
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• VisionQuest fans think Ultron is "the highlight" of the new MCU show

  14-10-2026 12:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  VisionQuest has finally landed on Disney Plus, and the first two episodes bring back James Spader's fearsome Ultron – only now, he has a human guise, and he lives inside of Vision's head (along with the rest of the MCU AIs). Despite his new roommates, though, Ultron is still his villainous self, and MCU fans are loving seeing him again. The following contains spoilers for episode 1 and 2. In the second episode of the series, Paladin the bounty hunter takes Vision's son, Tommy Shepherd, hos
  
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• GTA 6 took 13 years, but Rockstar says GTA 7 won't

  14-10-2026 12:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Although GTA 6 has taken a whopping 13 years to come to fruition following Grand Theft Auto 5, Rockstar promises that shouldn't be the case with GTA 7 or any other future projects, as it's got everything it needs to get 'em out more quickly.Phil Hooker, technical director at Rockstar, tells Bloomberg as much during a new interview, explaining that the foundation developers have built while creating GTA 6 – an entry that's arriving over a decade after predecessor GTA 5 launched back in 2013
  
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• Rockstar Says You Won’t Have To Wait Another 8 Years After GTA 6 For Its Next Game

  14-10-2026 12:43 via gamespot.com
  
  Rockstar has spent more than eight years developing Grand Theft Auto 6, but the studio hopes its next project will arrive considerably faster. Speaking to Bloomberg, Rockstar's head of development Phil Hooker explained how the company expanded its team and developed its technology for the hotly anticipated upcoming game, and how that'll make it easier to build future releases.
  Hooker said the studio expects to benefit from the foundations established during the lengthy production of GTA 6. "The
  
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• World of Warcraft: Forever aims to "aggressively shut down the flow of suspicious gold"

  14-10-2026 12:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Although World of Warcraft: Forever is still only available to play via its Beta – a Beta which won't see any player progress carry over to Blizzard's full release, mind you – it's not enough to deter folks from purchasing in-game gold with real money.You know, real money trading. If you've played any MMO at all, whether that be retail World of Warcraft or something like Final Fantasy 14, you know it's a problem. And even though it doesn't really make sense financially, the WoW: Fore
  
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• Arc Raiders Wires Crossed guide and walkthrough

  14-10-2026 12:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Wires Crossed quest in Arc Raiders has you go to three different maps and find antennas at key locations for you to attach Arc components to in order to help Celeste. This divides the challenge up into two parts: acquiring the components needed, then hunting down the antenna in Spaceport, Blue Gate, and Buried City respectively. Below I'll take you on a full walkthrough of each step, so you can complete it as easily and painlessly as possible.How to complete Wires Crossed in Arc Raiders(Imag
  
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• DC boss James Gunn says the Clayface movie won't be the last we see of the shapeshifting Batman villain

  14-10-2026 11:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  The DCU's next movie, Clayface, has premiered, and the supervillain body horror is already being called "shockingly gruesome" in early reactions. Good news for all the Clay-heads out there, then: James Gunn has revealed this won't be the last we see of Matt Hagen in the DCU.Speaking to Cinemex on the Clayface red carpet, Gunn confirmed that the gloopy, shapeshifting bad guy will return in a future DCU project. "I think one of the most fun things about creating the DCU is being able to tell stori
  
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• VisionQuest's hidden Wanda Easter egg makes Vision's return even more tragic

  14-10-2026 11:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Last we checked, Wanda was definitely dead in the MCU. Having an entire mountain dropped on you – as shown in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness – will do that to a person.Since then, we've had allusions to her fate in Agatha All Along (yep, still dead) and, now, a touching tribute to Scarlet Witch courtesy of Vision in VisionQuest. But there's almost no chance you spotted it first time around.As unveiled by an eagle-eyed user on Twitter, the moment in the VisionQuest premie
  
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• Clayface star Tom Rhys Harries lets slip that Matt Hagen knows Batman is in Gotham during the movie: "We have footage"

  14-10-2026 11:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Clayface press tour has only just started, but star Tom Rhys Harries may have already let slip that Batman is in Gotham while the new DCU movie takes place.When asked by ComicBook whether Matt or Caitlin are aware of Batman's presence in Gotham, Harries said, "We have footage, and I don't think it's… I don't know how much I can say about this. Yes, we had discussions about that at length."Now, we don't know if Harries is saying that there is or was footage of Batman himself, or if the
  
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• Hideo Kojima gives new Tom Cruise movie Digger a glowing review, despite it being a historic flop

  14-10-2026 11:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  The new Tom Cruise movie from director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Digger, has received a glowing review from Hideo Kojima. The black comedy film follows an oil magnate (Cruise) who must save the world from an environmental disaster he set in motion. "I had been holding off on posting my thoughts until the interview was released," Kojima posted on Twitter, in reference to a conversation between himself and Iñárritu published on Gizmodo. "Director Iñárritu's D
  
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• How To Get Bramblin In Pokemon Go

  14-10-2026 11:25 via gamespot.com
  
  Pokemon Go is celebrating the changing of the seasons with a Fall Marathon, and as part of the event, a ghostly new Pokemon has arrived in time for Halloween. The haunted tumbleweed Bramblin is now appearing for a limited time, making this your first chance to catch one in the mobile game, but tracking one down may not be so straightforward.Unlike most of the event's other featured Pokemon, Bramblin will only appear under certain circumstances, so you'll need to put in a bit of work if you're ho
  
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• Clayface first reactions say the DCU horror movie "holds nothing back" and is "shockingly gruesome"

  14-10-2026 10:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first reactions have landed for Clayface, and it seems the new DCU horror is winning over early viewers. Directed by James Watkins, the movie tells the origin story of the iconic Batman villain, played here by Tom Rhys Harries.With a script from Mike Flanagan, it seems the movie does not hold back on the body horror. Critics have been calling it "disgusting", "brutal", and "unsettling". Rhys Harries has also landed a lot of praise, while others have pointed out that the movie doesn't require
  
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• After 8 years, Ultima creator says his MMO Shroud of the Avatar finally has "zero bugs" thanks to AI

  14-10-2026 01:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ultima creator Richard Garriott is no stranger to controversy. Although he's a foundational progenitor of early computer RPGs, his newer releases haven't had nearly the level of impact as his early work and his stances on stuff like NFTs and AI haven't all been particularly well-received. In a recent appearance on the TechJesse podcast, Garriott wades into the shark-infested waters that is AI discourse in the games industry. The proliferation of AI data centers is one of the main factors driving
  
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