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• What is Avatar: Seven Havens? The Last Airbender sequel explained

  04-10-2026 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony, but what about the Seven Havens? Avatar: Seven Havens is almost upon us... but what is it? And do you have to watch other Avatar stories for it to make sense?Below, you'll find a mini guide that explains what the new show is, how it connects to the wider Avatar world, and when new episodes will be released on Paramount+.For more, dive into our previous coverage on the Avatar franchise and our guide for Avatar's Magic: The Gathering set.What i
  
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• Former GTA lead says "there's no greater compliment" than being compared to his Rockstar classics

  04-10-2026 18:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rockstar co-founder and former lead writer Dan Houser thinks, in some ways, there's "no greater compliment" than being compared to his best Grand Theft Auto games. At the same time, he hopes his new projects at Absurd Ventures can hold up on their own. After leaving the famed open-world developer in 2020, Dan Houser opened his own studio called Absurd Ventures that's now working on a number of multimedia projects, alongside a couple of games - at least one of which is another open-world romp. Bu
  
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• Platinum boss teases more Bayonetta games in the future

  04-10-2026 17:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  PlatinumGames boss Atsushi Inaba says the famed action studio wants to make more Bayonetta projects in the future, despite the fact that many of the series' lead developers have moved on. Bayonetta was an iconic release in the genre during the Xbox 360 and PS3 generation, and the monster-spanking witch only solidified her place among the action greats with two direct sequels and a spin-off prequel exclusively on Nintendo consoles - not to mention her many appearances in other games, from Super S
  
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• Fans might not "pull out $1,000" for PS6 and Project Helix, says ex-PlayStation boss

  04-10-2026 16:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  PlayStation's former boss Shawn Layden is sceptical about people buying into expensive next-gen PS6 and Xbox Project Helix consoles if their technical improvements are too minor.As current generation PS5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles keep getting more expensive, many analysts expect that the next-generation machines could potentially cost around $1,000. That's not a price tag Layden thinks will move many units, however."I do think that we are at a point where if all we're going to do is, I don't
  
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• Jagex announces a fourth Runescape MMO, but "RS4 is not a replacement for any of our games"

  04-10-2026 15:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Developer Jagex has announced a fourth Runescape MMO that's planned to sit alongside all the other games in the long-standing fantasy series. Jagex revealed the "entirely new Runescape MMORPG" at RuneFest Birmingham this weekend with the apt working title of RS4. The studio stressed that RS4 won't be the name this MMO launches with, but it makes sense for now considering it's the company's "fourth generation" of Runescape. All we have is a short teaser trailer - take a look below.So, what's diff
  
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• Playing God: The revolutionary AI that made Black & White still unforgettable

  04-10-2026 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Picture it: a suited exec walks onto a stage and announces a new game about influencing and controlling people, about good and evil. And the clincher: it'll all be driven by machine learning. In 2026, that game has to be a dystopia. That's where our imaginations go now when we hear anything about AI and social control. There'd be a grim synthwave drone underpinning scenes of trench-coated cyberpunks. There would be absolutely no apes casting spells. But 2001 was a very different time, and Black
  
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• "Fable's original combat has a legacy of being quite approachable," so the RPG's devs don't want to change that with the new game

  03-10-2026 19:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fable devs say they're aiming to keep the RPG's combat "approachable" in line with the series' legacy.Speaking to Edge magazine, associate director Will Kennedy explained that the combat in the original Fable games "has a legacy of being quite approachable, so that's something we kept in mind while developing our combat system." But while that means you're not in for Dark Souls-style brawls, it doesn't mean there's not different forms of complexity hidden in the combat system.Arrows, for example
  
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• Steam Frame Is VR Gaming’s Swan Song Moment

  03-10-2026 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  The Steam Frame is the best VR headset I've ever used. But despite all the problems it solves, I fear it may not solve the biggest problem of all: VR gaming itself.
  
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• Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser is avoiding GTA 6 so it doesn't "distract or disrupt" his new games

  03-10-2026 17:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rockstar Games co-founder and former lead writer on many a Grand Theft Auto game, Dan Houser is trying his best to avoid GTA 6 so it doesn't distract him from his own projects, including another open-world comedy in development at his new studio Absurd Ventures."I haven't seen it yet," Houser says of the biggest game of the year, in an interview with Variety. "I will try and avoid it because I always try and avoid stuff that's going to distract or disrupt me creatively. And given that I spend a
  
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• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's Hans actor has finally opened his medieval-inspired bar in Prague

  03-10-2026 14:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Luke Daley took his role as everyone's favorite royal so seriously, the Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 actor behind Hans Capon just opened a new medieval-inspired bar called The Nobleman. You'll need to take a trip to the Czech capital of Prague if you want to experience your video game power fantasies (playing dice and getting drunk in a tavern) in real life, however. Months after announcing plans to open The Nobleman - a bar inspired by the types of businesses real noblemen would gather and drink
  
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• Stellar Blade Has Crashed To Its Lowest Price Yet On PC, So Get Ready To Save Humanity

  03-10-2026 14:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Despite some shortcomings, I have Stellar Blade to thank for reigniting my love of action games. I’m getting older with each passing year, and I need a good action fix every now and then to turn my brain off and enjoy slaying a variety of enemies. Stellar Blade delivers exactly that. If you’re like me, well, you won’t want to miss out on this great deal, with Stellar Blade cheaper than ever on PC.You play as Eve, who is sent alongside a group of super-soldier siblings down to a
  
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• From Batman to Wonder Woman, here are the 3 must-read DC Absolute Universe comics

  03-10-2026 14:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  DC made a very interesting decision in late 2024. Following the death of long-term villain Darkseid, the DC universe split in two. In one half was the traditional DC continuity that we've all been following for many years, in the other was a new "Absolute" universe, that saw remixed versions of classic characters.In part this felt like an attempt by DC to ape the success of Marvel's Ultimate universe – an early 2000s comics line that presented revamped versions of the publisher's character
  
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• Final Fantasy 7 Revelation lead says making each game in the trilogy complete was "non-negotiable"

  03-10-2026 13:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Naoki Hamaguchi had one "non-negotiable premise" when he began remaking Final Fantasy 7 as a three-part trilogy: each chapter had to feel like it's own complete, individual experience, despite the fact they were all essentially one third of a larger story. The Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director said as much in an interview with Edge magazine's 429 issue. "Even as a multi-part series, providing a complete experience in each individual game was a non-negotiable premise from the very beginning," H
  
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• Ex-PlayStation lead says it's "impossible" for devs to make a profit on Game Pass

  03-10-2026 13:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Shawn Layden, an ex-executive for PlayStation, doesn't think developers have much luck turning a profit on subscription services like Xbox Game Pass, especially when putting games into those services on launch day."I think I said somewhere that in order for Game Pass to become profitable, you have to have something like 500 million subscribers," Layden explains in an interview with The Expansion Pass podcast (embedded below). "It's a number chosen for hyperbole. But turns out, it wasn't that wro
  
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• After over 8 years, Warhammer 40K finally got the Custodes right

  03-10-2026 11:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  It took them four editions, but Warhammer 40K creators Games Workshop have finally nailed one of their most divisive factions.I was a massive grump when the Adeptus Custodes became a proper faction in 8th edition Warhammer 40K. These were supposed to be demigods on the battlefield — as superior to a Space Marine as they are to regular humans — so it made no sense to suddenly see an army of these guys on the tabletop, getting gunned down by Tau Fire Warriors like a bunch of scrubs.Tha
  
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• Final Fantasy 7 Revelation lead says he pushed Square Enix for a physical version of the JRPG

  03-10-2026 01:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, the third and final entry in Square Enix's remake trilogy, will be available on disc when it launches on April 8, but the physical version comes with a massive caveat: unlike the two-disc Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Revelation will be a single disc and will only contain the opening parts of the game. You'll have to be connected to the internet to download and play the rest of the game. Naturally, this raises questions about the nature of physical media, entitlements, and
  
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• End Of Abyss Patch Fixes Most Of My Complaints Just One Day After Launch

  03-10-2026 01:26 via gamespot.com
  
  I spent a few days playing Section 9 Interactive's creepy metroidvania and writing my End of Abyss review, and ultimately concluded it was a fun but inconsistent experience hindered by a few particular issues. Now, just a day after it launched on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via the Epic Games Store, the studio has already cleared up most of those issues with a newly released patch.If you missed the review, my main concern was how the in-game map would sometimes share incorrect informa
  
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• There Are 2,800 Fortnite Skins, But Only The FNAF Skins Have This Special Feature

  03-10-2026 00:24 via gamespot.com
  
  There are thousands of Fortnite skins, but not many of them have anything unique to offer beyond their visual designs. The skins in the Five Nights at Freddy's Set--Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy--are among those rare exceptions, though, in a way that we haven't seen before. These skins don't just look uncannily great doing Fortnite dances--they also do something that no previous Fortnite skins do.A small proportion of Fortnite skins are "reactive," meaning they can respond in some way to what'
  
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• WoW Forever dev says it was an "honor" to bring an old Make-A-Wish quest back in Blizzard's new MMO

  02-10-2026 23:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  World of Warcraft: Forever is all about preserving the original, vanilla WoW experience as it was back in 2004, but there's one quest from 2007 that the MMO's community has been asking Blizzard to make an exception for, and now their wishes have been granted.For the uninitiated, the Kyle's Gone Missing quest was originally added to WoW during its Burning Crusade era from 2007. It was a Make-A-Wish request from a young player named Ezra 'Ephoenix' Chatterton, who had been battling brain cancer at
  
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• Warlock devs eventually realized that "too powerful" D&D spells were the perfect starting point

  02-10-2026 22:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warlock has quickly become one of the most exciting new games on the horizon, and it's not just because we're all thirsty for more Dungeons & Dragons games after exhausting Baldur's Gate 3. The open-world action-adventure promises an extensive spell system that'll let you interact with the objects and enemies in some wild ways. Even the devs were initially worried that the game's spells were too OP, but as it turns out, that was the perfect starting point."There's this tendency on the dev te
  
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• After Warner Bros. and Paramount merge, the notable studios are getting a surprising new name

  02-10-2026 22:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Paramount and Warner Bros. merger is indeed moving ahead, and with a new name in tow.According to Paramount CEO David Ellison, the newly combined company will be known as Skydance... which is what Ellison named his first media company back in 2006."Both have distinct identities, extraordinary legacies and brands that have resonated with audiences for generations,” Ellison writes on Twitter. "We wanted a name that would give the combined company an identity of its own while allowing Par
  
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• The Witcher 3 Remastered review: "An exceptional update that refines the rough edges to make a great RPG even better"

  02-10-2026 22:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  There's a massive laundry list of changes in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered, but you know what the singular best one is? They fixed those accursed trees Roach gets stuck on when you're on horseback.The Witcher 3 has long been recognized as both a pivotal RPG and open-world game, but it's undeniable there's a host of little frustrations that have always been present in the fantasy epic. Chief among those, for me, was the way Roach would always get stuck or snagged by trees as you rode by the
  
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• GTA 6 Screenshot Suggests It Won’t Be Shy About Movie References

  02-10-2026 21:41 via gamespot.com
  
  A new screenshot from Grand Theft Auto 6 has arrived, and fans immediately noticed that it appears to be referencing the iconic opening scene from Quentin Tarantino's 1994 crime movie Pulp Fiction.
  The image was shared by Love magazine on Instagram. The GTA 6 Countdown social media account put it next to the diner scene from Pulp Fiction, and the similarities are there, especially in the framing.
  In Pulp Fiction, Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer's characters, Pumpkin and Honey Bunny, go on to rob the
  
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• Ahead of VisionQuest premiere, Marvel releases first three WandaVision episodes for free on YouTube

  02-10-2026 21:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Just two weeks before the premiere of VisionQuest, Marvel has the first three episodes of WandaVision available to stream for free on YouTube.You might recall that WandaVision is the first TV show to kick off the Disney Plus era of the MCU, with each series tying into the main movie universe. WandaVision takes place after the events of Avengers: Endgame, where a grief-stricken Wanda Maximoff uses magic to create a happy, idyllic life in the wake of Vision's tragic death at the hands of Thanos. A
  
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• Zelda and Banjo PC port devs slam new vibe-coded Banjo-Tooie recompilation

  02-10-2026 21:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  As fanmade recompilations and PC ports of classic games become more and more prominent, so have AI-driven projects built largely through vibe coding. Many prominent members of these development communities have taken strong anti-AI stances, and that includes the devs behind Zelda 64: Recompiled and Banjo: Recompiled. Those devs are particularly perturbed by a new recompilation of Banjo-Tooie that builds on their work with extensive AI coding.Two years ago, a tool called N64: Recompiled debuted w
  
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• Arc Raiders free trial gives you 4 days of access to the "full" extraction shooter

  02-10-2026 21:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Arc Raiders hype may have died down ever-so-slightly since its monumental launch almost a year ago, but it's still reaching tens of thousands of concurrent players on Steam every day, so developer Embark must be doing something right. The studio says its "biggest update since launch," titled Frozen Trail, is launching October 8, and it's celebrating that release with a new free trial running for four days between then and October 12.On the official Arc Raiders website, Embark says the free t
  
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• GTA 6 has "detailed decapitation" and cocaine can be "snorted directly," says UK ratings board

  02-10-2026 20:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  GTA 6 has been given a PEGI 18 rating in the UK and Europe, unsurprisingly, but the very detailed description of the game's contents suggests an even more violent, sexually explicit game than you might expect from the notoriously violent, sexually explicit series.Rockstar's upcoming behemoth has already been rated by the ESRB and other rating systems, but the PEGI rating specifically includes some incredibly juicy new details about the game. In providing a reason for the 18+ rating, the board sa
  
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• GTA 6 Should “Blaze A Trail” To More Expensive Games, Dev Says

  02-10-2026 19:17 via gamespot.com
  
  Rockstar's GTA 6 is priced at $80 for its standard edition. Another voice has come forward to say they hope other teams follow suit and charge more for new games to help the industry at a time when developers are closing up shop, cancelling games, and laying off developers on a regular basis.Martin Klima, the co-founder of Kingdom Come developer Warhorse, told PC Gamer that raising unit prices would "help a lot," but "everybody's scared to death" to do it."Now, hopefully, GTA will blaze the trai
  
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• GTA 6 Takes The Ridiculous World We Live In And Turns It Up To 11

  02-10-2026 19:14 via gamespot.com
  
  Video games are usually a few steps removed from reality, but with Grand Theft Auto 6, developer Rockstar Games aims to reflect and amplify the current state of the world with an "over the top" experience. As seen in the trailers and gameplay previews so far, GTA 6 is a contemporary game about doing whatever it takes to make it to the top, and that pursuit of fame and glory is often bookended by shootouts, car chases, and explosions in its Bonnie and Clyde narrative."If you are going to put all
  
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• Xbox Game Pass Loses These 9 Games In October

  02-10-2026 18:34 via gamespot.com
  
  The start of the month usually brings several new Xbox Game Pass titles for subscribers, along with confirmation of which games will leave the subscription service in the coming days. This month, at least nine games will be leaving, including one of the best games of 2025, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.Other big departures this month include A Plague Tale: Requiem and-- inconveniently for horror fans during the spookiest month of the year--the Dead by Daylight spin-off The Casting of Frank Stone.
  
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