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• Working with Final Fantasy is like "deciphering sacred texts," says veteran JRPG composer: "I feel my posture straighten every time I engage with Final Fantasy music"

  09-02-2026 20:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  There's not much to say about Nobuo Uematsu's iconic Final Fantasy 7 music that hasn't already been said by people much more qualified than me, but veteran JRPG composer Yasunori Nishiki is in the unique position to offer genuinely novel insights.Nishiki, primarily known as the main composer for Octopath Traveler, also handled various arrangements for Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Rebirth, including Rebirth's versions of One-Winged Angel and Hollow Skies, and he recently opened up to RPG Site about
  
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• Arc Raiders boss says he'll "apologize" to Italy's Stella Montis hotel after it's flooded with reviews from players: "I didn't know about that. That's amazing"

  09-02-2026 20:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arc Raiders is set in a near-futuristic Italy, so in a sense it's no grand surprise that a real hotel shares a name with the map Stella Montis, notorious among raiders as a hive for PvP, ratting, and every other form of player skullduggery. After learning that Arc Raiders players had besieged the Stella Montis hotel with reviews parodying their experience with the game, CEO Patrick Söderlund of developer Embark Studios says he'd like to "apologize."Speaking with IGN, Söderlund said he
  
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• A second StarCraft revival is reportedly in development at Arc Raiders publisher Nexon, but it's got nothing to do with Blizzard's long-rumored shooter

  09-02-2026 19:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  StarCraft fans have had a rough decade, but a new report suggests a wide-ranging revival for the dormant sci-fi franchise is underway. Arc Raiders publisher Nexon has apparently hired a veteran StarCraft modder to lead a new entry in the series at its free-to-play shooter studio, and it seems this project is entirely separate from the long-rumored StarCraft shooter said to be in the works at Blizzard.Development of a new game building on the StarCraft IP has begun at Nexon, according to a machin
  
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• After dodging Slay the Spire 2 by moving forward a whole month, Balatro-inspired roguelike launches into 1.0 and goes straight onto Steam's new and trending chart

  09-02-2026 19:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  When you consider the sheer stress of Overcooked and TV show The Bear, cooking and roguelike games are a match made in delicious hell. Omelet You Cook is a roguelike where you tackle making the eponymous snack for hungry customers, picking from constantly rotating and ceaselessly chaotic ingredients, and since fully launching, it's doing some numbers on Steam.In fact, the game went into 1.0 only yesterday, February 8, and has slid right onto the New and Trending chart on Steam's homepage, per ti
  
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• Boy! God of War show casts rising star Callum Vinson as Atreus

  09-02-2026 18:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Prime Video's God of War show continues filling out its cast, bringing in rising young talent Callum Vinson to take on the key role of Kratos' son Atreus. Vinson became a breakout star thanks to a particularly memorable performance on the show Poker Face as a down-trodden elementary school student who is framed for the murder of a class pet.Vinson has been stacking up high-profile roles, having also been cast as a young Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th prequel show Crystal Lake. He'll also play
  
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• Horizon Zero Dawn pivot to multiplayer gets seal of approval from No Rest for the Wicked lead: "Don't fret too much if people don't like your game just yet"

  09-02-2026 18:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Moon Studios CEO Thomas Mahler has backed Guerrilla Games on its co-op pivot, Horizon Hunters Gathering, telling the team to not worry too much if people aren't immediately on board with such a drastically different game.Guerrilla Games last week revealed a co-op spin-off to its usually single-player robot dinosaur series called Horizon Hunters Gathering, a game that looks a touch more like Monster Hunter than it does Horizon Zero Dawn. Between the updated art style and general gameplay loop, on
  
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• "I've met a beautiful woman": After nearly 1 year, indie dev returns with good news of why development on stunning stop-motion puzzle game "is going slow"

  09-02-2026 17:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's not every day you see a game as beautiful as indie project All Living Things – but it's also not every day that you meet a beautiful woman. And that's just what this stunning gem's indie developer has gone and done.Of all the new games I've seen coming this year and beyond, All Living Things stands out as one of the most unique, with its gorgeous stop-motion storybook aesthetic and its animated mysteries.
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• Arc Raiders boss says "that's not the vision for our game" when asked about Fortnite-style skins, prefers the Battlefield 6 route where "everything fits the fiction"

  09-02-2026 17:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Given its popularity, it's easy to imagine Arc Raiders engaging in all sorts of crossovers for skins ala Fortnite or Call of Duty. However, developer Embark Studios is keen to keep everything within reason for the universe, regardless of how the game continues to expand."First and foremost, we want to make sure that everything fits the fiction of Arc Raiders," Patrick Söderlund, CEO at Embark, tells IGN. "There are other games, very successful games out there - The Finals being one of them
  
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• Fallout: New Vegas "was not particularly well-received when it launched," game director says: "It took about 5 years for the community to come around"

  09-02-2026 17:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fallout: New Vegas lead Josh Sawyer says fans took a while to come around on the RPG, despite its current status as one of the best games in the series.Speaking to Game Informer, Sawyer acknowledges, "New Vegas was not particularly well-received when it launched. It was quite buggy and both players and critics commented on how much we had reused from Fallout 3." In fact, New Vegas still currently sits at a score of 84 on Metacritic – lower than all of the other mainline entries, with Fallo
  
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• A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms fans are debating whether Dunk is actually a real knight – but they don't seem to mind either way: "He is a knight in the ways that matter"

  09-02-2026 17:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Is Ser Dunk the Tall really a knight? Fans don't seem to think so, but they also don't mind either way.Warning: there are spoilers for A Knight of Seven Kingdoms episode 4 below, as well as book spoilers.In A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Dunk hesitates when it comes time to knight Raymun. Lyonel Baratheon takes over, and we see Dunk imagine himself kneeling before Ser Arlan of Pennytree... who just shrugs. This key scene, in addition to a specific paragraph from the Tales of Dunk and Egg novell
  
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• Game of Thrones fans have pointed out how close to the main series A Knight of the Seven Kingdom's Egg actually is, and it's eye-opening

  09-02-2026 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  While A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is set decades before Game of Thrones, the characters still have pretty significant links to the main characters of the flagship show – and it might take you by surprise just how much Egg is linked to them."[A Knight of the Seven Kingdom's] events are really so close to [Game of Thrones]. Maester Aemon is Egg's brother. Tywin was his cupbearer and page. He betrothed his son to Olenna Tyrell. He knighted Ser Barristan," writes one person on Twitter.Maest
  
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• Death Stranding 2 fans certain PC port is on the way after another Hideo Kojima cryptic message: "Didn't have much time today for editing"

  09-02-2026 16:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  When there's a cryptic Hideo Kojima post, there's a legion of Death Stranding diehards preparing to decode it. In this case, some people are certain Kojima's latest vague references to "editing" mean a Death Stranding 2 PC port is shooting down fast through the pipeline.Kojima writes casually in a February 9 Twitter post, "Didn't have much time today for editing." It's similar to a post he made last week, where he cries about "Editing for the first time in…8 months?" Notably, the first De
  
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• No Man's Sky and Light No Fire fans in shambles as Hello Games boss Sean Murray starts tweeting safety vest emojis: "OSHA manuals for everyone?"

  09-02-2026 16:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  The ever-updated No Man's Sky could be getting yet another update, or perhaps more news on Light No Fire is brewing – it's hard to tell, considering just how cryptic Hello Games lead Sean Murray's most recent posts online are.If you haven't seen them yet, there are two posts from Murray that have the community in shambles – or, "violently shaking," as one fan so aptly puts it in the comments. They're both very similar to one another, too.
  The first consists of just one emoji: a neon
  
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• Discord will age-lock your account next month and you'll have to submit an ID or accept a face scan to unlock it – you know, 4 months after suffering a third-party data breach

  09-02-2026 16:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  After softer, region-specific rollouts, Discord has now announced global child protection settings that will default all users to an age-locked "teen-by-default" status pending age verification via ID or selfie age estimation. Teen-by-default settings will hit "all new and existing users worldwide" in March 2026, starting with "a phased global rollout."Discord announced the change today, echoing a rise in age-based online protections purportedly aimed at child safety.Once marked as a teen on Dis
  
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• Game devs have once again led Valve by the hand to a great, if obvious, Steam update: Official 1.0 Early Access release dates

  09-02-2026 16:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Every now and then Steam adds a feature that makes me go, 'Huh, that wasn't here already?' Today's one of those days as Valve is finally letting Steam Early Access developers list a 1.0 release date or, at least, a 1.0 release guesstimate.The new Steam update now provides developers with a "dedicated space to display the date when a game plans to exit Early Access and officially launch 1.0," a blog post explains. Since Early Access games are so subject to change, teams can choose to list either
  
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• Warner Bros. executive says the Harry Potter HBO series will be the "streaming event of the decade" and possibly the biggest ever

  09-02-2026 16:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Harry Potter's new HBO Max series is being talked up as the "streaming event of the decade" by one Warner Bros boss.JB Perrette, president of global streaming and games at Warner Bros. Discovery, told assembled press and guests at HBO Max's UK launch event that the Harry Potter series will "certainly [be] the biggest streaming event in the history of HBO Max, and arguably, I think, possibly in streaming period," (via Variety). "There's no other series that can be anywhere close to that."So, can
  
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• I review board games for a living, these are the three I'm playing this Valentine's Day

  09-02-2026 16:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's traditional to wheel out chocolates for your beau or squeeze into jam-packed restaurants to get a romantic meal, but I prefer settling down with cozy board games on Valentine's Day. A cheese and charcuterie board to one side, a glass of red on the other, and an evening rolling dice? I'd swoon.If you want to do things a little differently this year, there are plenty of board games I'd recommend for Valentine's Day. However, there are three in particular that I'll be breaking out for my wife
  
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• No Rest for the Wicked lead wants to "repeat" the success Baldur's Gate 3 had launching out of Early Access, but hopes to "keep growing" like Minecraft or Fortnite after that "for years to come"

  09-02-2026 15:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  No Rest for the Wicked - the gorgeous Early Access ARPG from Ori and the Blind Forest maker Moon Studios - has seen a big resurgence lately thanks to a deep discount and a new co-op update, but director Thomas Mahler hopes to turn the game's success into legs long enough to stand alongside the likes of Minecraft or Fortnite.To coincide with No Rest for the Wicked's Together update, one that finally added much-requested co-op to the Diablo-flavored game, the developers put it in a deep 40% sale t
  
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• Fallout games all get a huge boost in players thanks to Fallout season 2, although FO3 is way less popular than you'd think

  09-02-2026 15:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Since the finale of Fallout season 2 arrived last week, fans of the wasteland have been diving into the games. Every mainline installment, and a couple of spin-offs, have seen player spikes, just like during the first season in 2024.As you might expect, Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 have seen the largest rush of concurrent players. The former, the latest single-player game in the franchise, peaked at over 60,000 concurrent players within the week of Fallout season 2's last episode, according to Steam
  
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• This post-apocalyptic indie platformer might have Cyberpunk 2077 vibes, but comparisons to CD Projekt Red's RPG aren't a concern for the devs: "This is not your cookie-cutter thing"

  09-02-2026 15:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Replaced looks like everything you could want from a retro-futuristic side-scrolling beat-'em-up (yes, that's a lot of hyphens), but its developer isn't worried about players coming in with expectations set by Cyberpunk 2077."It's a very thin line where you have to convey the narrative right," Sad Cat Studios co-founder Igor Gritsay tells GamesRadar following a hands-on preview of the twice-delayed action platformer. "You can definitely feel that there is a retro-futuristic cyberpunk [feel], but
  
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• Todd Howard "stole" his brother's copy of Fallout during his early days at Bethesda "and never gave it back to him" as he "loved the vibe" of the RPG

  09-02-2026 15:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Before he was the big Bethesda Game Studios boss, Todd Howard worked as a producer for the company – and during that time, he discovered the beauty of Fallout's post-apocalyptic wasteland … all thanks to a copy he snagged off his brother.Yep, that's right. Todd Howard was introduced to Fallout via his sibling in 1997, as he tells Game Informer in a recent interview on the history of the series. It wasn't a Bethesda title at the time, having been developed and published by Interplay
  
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• Sequel to Netflix's divisive shark horror hit Under Paris finds director in The Hills Have Eyes and Crawl helmer

  09-02-2026 14:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  It looks like the shark horror subgenre is here to stay, as Netflix moves forward with a sequel to its 2024 hit Under Paris and finds a new director to take the reins.As found by The Hollywood Reporter, French filmmaker Alexandre Aja will direct Under Paris 2. But this won't be Aja's first rodeo with a horror movie centered around a swimming monster. The director is best known for helming the 2010 horror comedy Piranha 3D, following flesh-eating fish, as well as the 2019 killer croc thriller Cra
  
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• The next Xbox will apparently use Windows, and that's the last thing I want to hear after a weekend wrestling with Fallout New Vegas on the Xbox Ally X

  09-02-2026 14:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rumors that the next Xbox will use Windows at its core are recirculating, and while the information isn't new, it's still making me twitchy. The chatter about Microsoft's controversial operating system making its way to next-gen home consoles comes off the back of a long weekend trying to get Fallout: New Vegas running smoothly on ROG Xbox Ally X and, spoilers, frame rates are far more stable on the Steam Deck OLED than the $1,000 portable PC.Again, this is technically an old next-gen Xbox leak,
  
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• Oops, Crunchyroll accidentally leaks brand new episode of fantasy anime from Solo Leveling studio a whole week early

  09-02-2026 14:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  In a pretty big oops, Crunchyroll accidentally uploaded a new episode of hit anime Fate/strange Fake a whole week early.Episode 7 of the anime hit YouTube on February 8 despite having a February 14 release date, and it was available for over eight hours until it was taken down, according to CBR.The episode is said to have been without English subtitles, but, in the time it was up, the episode was reportedly nabbed by piracy groups.Fate/strange Fake is a fantasy anime from studio A-1 Pictures, th
  
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• PlayStation State of Play is coming this week, Sony confirms, and at 60 minutes it's going to be a big one

  09-02-2026 14:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sony has confirmed that the rumored State of Play presentation is the real deal, and it's happening later this week.Over on the PlayStation Blog, Sony confirms that State of Play will return on Thursday, February 12 at 2pm PT / 5pm ET / 10pm GMT, and it will be broadcast on the PlayStation YouTube and Twitch channels. Not only that, but it's going to be one of the biggest State of Play showcases to date, with a massive 60 minute runtime – which is usually the type of length reserved for th
  
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• Rayman creator casually reveals "I think there's a kind of remake planned" for the 1995 platformer, as the classic seemingly joins rumored Assassin's Creed Black Flag revival as yet another badly-kept Ubisoft secret

  09-02-2026 14:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rayman creator Michel Ancel – apparently seeing how Ubisoft can't keep a lid on its remakes given all of the Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag rumors – has spoken about a potential remake of the original 1995 platformer.In an interview with Retro Gamer magazine, Ancel casually says, "I think there's a kind of remake planned." He explains: "I don't remember when specifically, but it will be in HD and I think Ubisoft is adding a few more checkpoints and things like that to make it a bit l
  
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• Upcoming DC horror movie Clayface gets pushed back, but it's now releasing closer to Halloween

  09-02-2026 13:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Upcoming DC movie Clayface has been pushed back, but the good news is that it will now release closer to Halloween.Despite Clayface originally being set to release in theaters on September 11, the comic-book movie will now hit the big screen on October 23, 2026. This is part of a release date shake-up over at Warner Bros., which also sees long-awaited sequel Practical Magic 2 shift from September 18 into Clayface's original slot, September 11, 2026.Although this means that DC fans will have to w
  
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• Despite only briefly appearing in season 2, Fallout showrunner says Ron Perlman's Supermutant will figure into future seasons: "He is a larger character in this world"

  09-02-2026 13:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you were at all disappointed by Ron Perlman's fleeting appearance as an unnamed Supermutant in Fallout season 2, fear not, as showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet says that she has "always seen that as a big role."Speaking to The Direct following last week's season 2 finale, Robertson-Dworet teased that we haven't seen the last of Perlman's Supermutant after a cameo in episode 6. "Just because he appears in one scene this season, I hope people know that he is a larger character in this world, i
  
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• The Pokemon Super Bowl trailer didn't give fans the Gen 10 tease they wanted, but a rundown of celebrities' favorite pocket pals: "Stayed up until 3 am"

  09-02-2026 13:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Pokemon Company showed up to the biggest marketing fest in the world during last night's Super Bowl LX just to give us a rundown of a bunch of celebrities' favorite pocket monsters.Pokemon celebrated its whopping 30th anniversary in much the same way it did its 20th anniversary, with a Big Game spot at one of the year's most-watched sporting events. But unlike some other ads that played at the show, The Pokemon Company wasn't actually trying to sell anything directly, much to the dismay of f
  
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