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• The Last of Us season 2 trailer brings the heart and the horror back to Joel and Ellie

  08-03-2025 23:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new trailer for The Last of Us season 2 is here, and it's as horrifying and emotionally harrowing as we've come to expect from both the groundbreaking video game franchise and the award-gobbling first season that adapted the first title.The Last of Us season 2 sees the return of Pedro Pascal as Joel and Bella Ramsey as Ellie, while Kaitlyn Dever joins the cast as Abby, along with Isabela Merced as Dina and Jeffrey Wright as Isaac.Ensuring to keep its infected cards close to its chest, the new
  
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• From "I stopped working on the project entirely" to "we are so back," Balatro creator says the roguelike's development was always about passion and taking breaks was essential

  08-03-2025 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Balatro’s release last year had the game become an overnight success and one of the defining games of 2024, overshadowing even the biggest AAA releases. But the game’s creator, Localthunk, revealed that they had all but given up on the game mere months into its development.Localthunk recently released the Balatro development diary; it covers the game’s development in-depth from late 2021 until it was released last February. The diary mentions a ton of interesting facts about th
  
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• The Witcher 4 devs explain how Ciri's fighting style will differ from Geralt's: "He's nimble, but he feels like a block...she's liquid"

  08-03-2025 15:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Witcher 4's biggest change from CD Projekt Red's first three fantasy epics is in its main protagonist, transitioning away from the gruff Geralt and toward his understudy/surrogate daughter Ciri. Naturally, swapping out heroes means more than just a revamped character model, and CDPR has now hinted at how combat is changing alongside the protagonist.While delving into the sequel's reveal trailer, senior communications manager Pawel Burza points at one particular shot that shows Ciri pinning a
  
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• True to the anime, Stardew Valley's hottest mod adds two romanceable Demon Slayer dudes who are both "rude and standoffish" at first

  08-03-2025 14:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stardew Valley is famous for letting us all escape from our corporate nightmares and enter a world where you know where your produce is grown, a life where you can spend the whole day fishing, and an existent with a lo-fi beat bumping to the sound of your footsteps. Modders are now taking that post-modern fantasy a step further by letting us do the seemingly impossible: romance two of Demon Slayer's most notoriously hard-shelled characters.One of Stardew Valley's hottest mods right now adds Demo
  
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• The director behind The Sims competitor InZOI spent 20 years making MMOs, but he ditched the massive RPGs after playing life sims with his son

  08-03-2025 13:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Sims franchise recently celebrated its 25th anniversary back in February of this year, and in that time – despite its massive popularity – The Sims’ reign has remained uncontested in the life sim genre. That could be about to change next month as the Krafton-published life sim InZOI is hitting early access on PC. However, the game's director, Hyungjun 'Kjun' Kim, revealed he was inspired to ditch his 20 years of creating MMOs thanks to his relationship with life sims.Speaki
  
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• Arrowhead reveals the Helldivers 2 ideas left on its cutting room floor, from 5-player squads to low-gravity planets and a whole new armor system

  08-03-2025 13:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arrowhead Game Studios' first swing at a big live service shooter was pretty much a homerun - Helldivers 2 was not only was it one of last year's best-selling games, it was also one of the most uncontroversially fun shooters in ages, despite some wonky updates. But Arrowhead still has even more cool ideas it had to leave on the cutting room floor.Head of product testing Patrik 'Fluffy' Lasota said as much during the game's first anniversary livestream, where he revealed that developers toyed aro
  
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• Vikings creator is heading back to his Norse roots with this new historical drama on Amazon

  08-03-2025 13:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Vikings and Vikings: Valhalla might be history, but that's not stopping Michael Hirst, the creator of both shows, from returning to the time of the Northmen in a brand-new Amazon series he and his brother Horatio Hirst are co-producing, as reported by Deadline.Bloodaxe brings true historical events to life, following the real-life Viking lord Erik Bloodaxe and his wife, Gunnhild, the Mother of Kings. One of 20 sons of King Harald Fairhair, Erik ruled Northumbria after defeating opposing forc
  
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• Balatro creator intentionally avoided roguelikes but did eventually play and "steal from" Slay the Spire anyway: "Holy s***. Now that is a game"

  08-03-2025 13:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Deckbuilding roguelikes have become a top-tier genre in recent years. Slay the Spire has undoubtedly been the king of the genre since it launched into early access back in 2017, but the arrival of Balatro in 2024 definitely made the contention for the throne a lot more crowded. Balatro arrived out of nowhere and took the world by storm, being a bona fide game of the year contender among behemoths like Helldivers 2, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, and Dragon’s Dogma 2. But that overnight success c
  
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• Robert Pattinson is hoping to team up with his The Batman co-star Zoe Kravitz on another project soon

  08-03-2025 12:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  He might possibly be reunited with Zoe Kravitz in the next chapter of The Batman's story, but until then, there's a chance that Robert Pattinson could find himself working with his co-star on an entirely different project.In conversation for Hero with his Mickey 17 co-star, Naomi Ackie brought up working on Blink Twice, which marked the directorial debut of Kravitz. The film saw Ackie and Alia Shawkat as friends who, along with a group of strangers, visit a billionaire's island only for death an
  
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• With 18,000 glowing Steam reviews on their lovely debut game, this indie team's game about leading cute fantasy yaks up a mountain is instantly one to watch

  08-03-2025 12:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  In an industry plastered with in-game stores and trends repeated ad nauseum, sometimes the biggest fantasy a game can let us live out is one where we spend the whole time guiding a bunch of peaceful yaks up a mountain.Enter Herdling, the next game from indie developer Okomotive, which previously put out two emotional but lovely side-scrolling survival games in the Far series about leading a big, odd vehicle across a post-apocalyptic landscape. The first one,2018's Far: Lone Sails, unsurprisingly
  
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• Justin Lin to helm Keanu Reeves' comic book movie adaptation BRZRKR for Netflix

  08-03-2025 11:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  He might have been confirmed to be out of action as John Wick, but Keanu Reeves has found a new hero to snap, shoot, and stab bad guys in copious amounts, and director Justin Lin will help him do it. The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that a comic book creation of Reeves' own making, BRZRKR is finally getting a live-action adaptation for Netflix with the former Mr. Wick in the lead role.Debuting on shelves in 2021, the 12-issue comic series followed a character known as B (Reeves), a war-craze
  
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• Before selling millions of copies, Vampire Survivors creator says he'd "given up on the idea of success," and he's not interested in making something just to be successful

  08-03-2025 11:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Every so often you get one of those games, the type of game you’ve never heard about, and then suddenly it's the biggest game on the planet. While we’ve had the likes of Balatro and Lethal Company in the time since, not many have become as much of an overnight sensation as Vampire Survivors, which brought an entirely new genre along with it. Well, as it turns out, the secret to its success was its creator making a game without success in mind.Speaking to Edge Magazine, Luca Galente s
  
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• Train to Busan director is returning to the horror sub-genre with a new movie described as the culmination of his zombie universe

  08-03-2025 10:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho is taking us on one more ride through the undead world with another zombie movie, Gunche.Deadline confirmed that Gunche (that's "colony" in Korean) will star Jun Ji-hyun, Go Soo, Ji Chang-wook, and Koo Kyo-hwan, who are all confirmed to be among the cast. The film's plot, however, is being kept under wraps but is being promised as “the culmination of Yeon Sang-ho’s universe, spanning from Train to Busan to Peninsula.”Yeon's fast-paced, overl
  
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• Although Netflix is making the Peaky Blinders movie, fans need not to worry as it will be released in theaters too

  08-03-2025 09:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  By order of Netflix and the Peaky fluffin' Blinders (come on, it's too early for that kind of language), it's been confirmed that the feature-length chapter of Thomas Shelby's (Cillian Murphy) future exploits will make its way to both the big screen and the small upon release.The show's creator, Steven Knight, confirmed with The Playlist that the Peaky Blinders movie The Immortal Man will be released theatrically, allowing audiences to make a real night of the event. This is a dream scenario for
  
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• Former Xbox boss says GTA: San Andreas and its infamously NSFW Hot Coffee minigame "signified a maturing of the industry" and put games "on par with movies and music"

  08-03-2025 02:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former Xbox boss Peter Moore sees 2004's GTA: San Andreas, and specifically its sexually explicit Hot Coffee minigame, as a turning point in the video game industry that put it in league with the film and music industries.In case you're wondering what the heck I'm talking about and if you missed out on the uncut version of San Andreas, no, Hot Coffee is the colloquial phrase for a minigame that was cut from San Andreas before launch and eventually leaked by a modder.There's a whole fascinating b
  
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• James Cameron had "too many great ideas" for Avatar: The Way of Water, so the cut content became Avatar 3 which "will actually be a little bit longer" than its 3-hour predecessor

  08-03-2025 00:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  James Cameron said we were supposed to meet the Ash clan in Avatar: The Way of Water - but the story was saved for Avatar: Fire and Ash."In a nutshell, we had too many great ideas packed into act one of movie 2," Cameron told Empire. "The [film] was moving like a bullet train, and we weren’t drilling down enough on character. So I said, "Guys, we’ve got to split it.'"The Ash clan, aka the Mangkwan, will make their first appearance in the third installment, with Oona Chaplin starring
  
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