games news

• Marvel's New Thunderbolts* comic steals the MCU's asterisk, and the reason why is just as big of a mystery

  12-03-2025 23:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  The "most dangerous loners" in the Marvel Universe are joining forces in a new Thunderbolts* comic coming this summer - and yes, the title has an asterisk, just like the upcoming MCU Thunderbolts* film.What does the asterisk mean? Well, much like with the movie, we'll have to wait to find out. But what we do know is the line-up, which will consist of leaders Black Widow and Winter Soldier, and team members Clea, Hulk, Laura Kinney Wolverine, Namor, and Eddie Brock who is currently Carnage. We al
  
  Read more

• Pokemon Go players brace for the worst as Niantic is sold off for $3.5 billion: "This game is entering its death knell"

  12-03-2025 23:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pokemon Go players are having a pretty miserable day after it was announced that developer Niantic's gaming division is being sold to Saudi-backed publisher Scopely for $3.5 billion.In case you missed it, Niantic and Scopely announced today that all of Niantic's current dev teams, as well as all of its games, including Pokemon Go, Pikmin Bloom, Monster Hunter Now, will all soon fall under Scopely's umbrella. The sale has broad implications for the future of Pokemon Go, especially when you look a
  
  Read more

• A 16-year-old pitch for a newly discovered first-party PSP game has me mourning the death of PlayStation's Japan Studio all over again

  12-03-2025 22:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sony's Japan Studio was responsible for many of PlayStation's most beloved cult favorites, including the likes of Shadow of the Colossus, Gravity Rush, Ape Escape, and LocoRoco. The studio was dissolved in 2021, and while its spirit lives on in Astro Bot developer Team Asobi, the gaming world remains a bit darker with the loss of that creative spark – and a newly unearthed pitch for a PSP game called Stamp has me mourning Japan Studio all over again.Pitch materials for Stamp dated to Novem
  
  Read more

• Over 20 years later, live-action adaptation of beloved Claymore manga and anime in development by Heroes star

  12-03-2025 22:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  A live-action television series based on the fantasy mangs series Claymore is officially in the works.According to Deadline, Heroes star Masi Oka is developing the series in partnership with CBS Studios and will serve as executive producer. CBS is currently searching for writers.Claymore, written and illustrated by Norihiro Yagi, was first published monthly in Weekly Shonen Jump back in 2001. The series is set on a medieval island where humans are hunted by humanoid shape-shifters known as the Y
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor Neil Newbon says he "got rid of" agents who deliberately kept him away from video game gigs: "They just didn't want me to do it"

  12-03-2025 21:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's impossible to imagine what Baldur's Gate 3 would be like without Astarion actor Neil Newbon there to keep things admirably sleazy, but if Newbon had kept working with his former agents, he may never have gotten the chance to drink your blood and be sexy."I've had agents turn down three-week mocap gigs that I didn't even know about," Newbon tells Entertainment Weekly in its new interview with members of the "Pixel Pack," some of the gaming industry's most prominent actors."They just didn't w
  
  Read more

• Jennifer Hale says she didn't see a single line as Mass Effect's Commander Shepard until it was time to record: "It was all cold reading on the spot"

  12-03-2025 21:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Longtime video game voice actor Jennifer Hale says that her role as Commander Shepard in Mass Effect boiled down to a lot of last-minute performances since she didn't see any scripts until it was time to record them.Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Hale reckons that "85 to 90%" of video game voice capture work boils down to cold reading. "The entirety of Mass Effect, I saw no line before the moment I recorded it," she says. "It was all cold reading on the spot. A couple takes, maybe a few, an
  
  Read more

• Meet the Venomouse, an all new Eddie Brock, and more in Web of Venomverse: Fresh Brains #1

  12-03-2025 21:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Web of Venomverse: Fresh Brains #1 will kick off the symbiote side of the upcoming Spider-Verse Vs. Venomverse event in which the many Spider-heroes from across the Multiverse will collide with the Venom symbiotes of different worlds by showcasing stories of several different symbiotes. Now, we've got an early look at a page from each of the tales in the one-shot.Web of Venomverse: Fresh Brains #1 features multiple stories, each by a different creative team. Writers credited on the one shot incl
  
  Read more

• 5,000 gold, 2,500 hours, and one priceless scroll: Baldur's Gate 3 player cooks up a "Midas run" by turning the RPG's bosses into solid gold trophies, because "why not"

  12-03-2025 20:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Many players will overcome Baldur's Gate 3's greediest boss, Gerringothe Thorm, by charming, killing, or simply avoiding her. But if you're generous enough to bribe your way through the tollkeeper's encounter with at least 5,000 gold, you can bag one of the rarest spells in the whole RPG: Flesh to Gold. Gerringothe's scroll is the only way to use this spell, which can turn nearly anything into an immobile hunk of solid gold, and you only get one scroll per playthrough. This would make it difficu
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Stranger Things star Sadie Sink joins Spider-Man 4 and fans are already theorizing she might be X-Men’s Jean Grey

  12-03-2025 20:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sadie Sink is leaving Hawkins, Indiana for Earth-616 and joining the cast of Spider-Man 4.The casting news comes from Deadline, who says that Sink has officially joined the cast despite Marvel and Sony being unavailable for comment at this time. Tom Holland is, of course, set to return as Peter Parker.It's been rumored for quite some time now Sink would be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe as none other than Jean Grey - though, with her fiery red hair (and the fact that MJ doesn't know who P
  
  Read more

• Resident Evil and Witcher 3 mocap director says video game industry layoffs have made it so "nothing is guaranteed," but AI won’t be replacing real actors "anytime soon"

  12-03-2025 19:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  The SAG-AFTRA video game actor strike continues, and one of the key points of the dispute remains protection against AI. Today, the union has sent out a message denouncing the potential of "AI abuse" in the latest contract negotiations, but in a recent interview at least one prominent figure in the performance capture world is confident that AI can't truly replace human performances "anytime soon.""There's no doubt that the industry is going through a challenging time," Steve Kniebihly, a perfor
  
  Read more

• Retiring Insomniac boss says developers should still tackle new genres, but it's much riskier these days due to time and money

  12-03-2025 18:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Insomniac Games used to genre hop every console generation, going from the platformer Spyro to the wacky shooter Ratchet and Clank to the gritty, sci-fi FPS Resistance: Fall of Man. Insomniac CEO Ted Price says in a new interview that this is a lot harder to do these days.The Insomniac of today is mostly known for the Spider-Man games. It's done a few VR games too, but since 2018 we've had three Spider-Mans (men?) and one Ratchet and Clank game. Still no Resistance reboot or Sunset Overdrive seq
  
  Read more

• Atomfall dev doesn’t understand how massive development teams manage to keep organised: "How do you organize a game that has 2,000 people working on it?"

  12-03-2025 18:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin’s Creed Shadows isn’t the only big open-world game on the block this month; Atomfall launches the following week. Although the two couldn’t be more different, with the British post-apocalypse title having more in common with Fallout and Stalker than anything, giving players the freedom to kill any NPC in the game if they want to. However, Atomfall developer Rebellion’s boss isn’t quite sure how the likes of Ubisoft’s approach to development works.Spea
  
  Read more

• Absolute Superman #5 puts a devastating new spin on the Man of Steel's origin story

  12-03-2025 18:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  DC's Absolute Universe skews darker than the mainstream DCU. We're seeing that across all of the comics that have been published in the range so far, with Bruce Wayne growing up without his fortune and his father, Wonder Woman being raised in Hell, and Superman on the run and while fighting the dystopian forces of the Lazarus Corporation. It's the latter we're here to talk about today, with March 12's Absolute Superman #5, by Jason Aaron and Rafa Sandoval, revisiting an iconic part of the Man of
  
  Read more

• Stardew Valley player bringing a bit of Baldur's Gate 3 to ConcernedApe's farming sim, now with Larian's seal of approval, says they've played over 1,500 hours and will improve the mod

  12-03-2025 18:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  The talented creator behind the massive new Stardew Valley mod that turns ConcernedApe's farming sim into Baldur's Gate 3 isn't done with it just yet – and their in-game hours prove just how dedicated they are.Baldur's Village, as the mod is aptly dubbed on Nexus Mods, acts as a fan-created expansion, bringing a bit of the Baldur's Gate 3 world and its inhabitants to Stardew Valley. While it only released a few days ago, it managed to catch the attention and approval of Larian lead Swen Vi
  
  Read more

• Monster Hunter Wilds' final boss is even cooler than we thought: series experts point out attacks stitched together from iconic monsters throughout the series

  12-03-2025 18:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Monster Hunter Wilds is crawling with predators completely new to the action RPG series; colossal wyverns stalk their prey with fanged wings, stocky monkeys turn metal into lava, and creatures generally try to intimidate you with their twisted bodies and abilities. (Spoilers to follow.) But you might find one of Wilds' original monsters more familiar than the rest, as the game's final boss, Zoh Shia, seems to be a combination of Monster Hunter's most memorable beasts.Monster Hunter expert Shincr
  
  Read more

• New Marvel Rivals balance patch only tweaks "a handful of heroes" to maintain the "rich diversity" of the shooter's current strategies, but it also includes a much-needed buff for Human Torch

  12-03-2025 18:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new Marvel Rivals balance patch is on the way, and, while it includes some much-needed upgrades for one of the newest heroes, developer NetEase is determined to maintain the "rich diversity" of strategies players have been using in Season 1.5 by refraining from changing too much.In the patch notes for version 20250314's balance adjustments (which are set to go live tomorrow, March 13, at 2am PT/ 5am ET/ 9am GMT), NetEase explains that in the current season (specifically, its second half) the d
  
  Read more

• First Spinal Tap 2 teaser reveals release date for comedy sequel that’s over 40 years in the making

  12-03-2025 18:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first teaser for Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues is here, revealing a sequel where everything is being dialed up to 11, and beyond. The short video tells us little else beyond the release date, set for later this year.The follow-up will feature the iconic yet dysfunctional rock group reuniting for a big concert, 15 years after they disbanded. An appropriate premise, since the upcoming movie has director Rob Reiner getting back together with stars Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest and Michael
  
  Read more

• First Poker Face season 2 trailer sees Natasha Lyonne team up with Yellowjackets, Wicked, and Orange is the New Black stars, sets a May release date

  12-03-2025 17:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for Poker Face season 2 has arrived - and Charlie Cale is so back.In the brief 30-second clip, which can be viewed above, we see Natasha Lyonne's de facto detective team up with just a small sliver of this season's guest stars, including Melanie Lynskey, Cynthia Erivo, John Mulaney, Giancarlo Esposito, Awkwafina, Justin Theroux, Katie Holmes, Method Man, and Taylor Schilling. The highly-anticipated second season is slated for a May 8 release exclusively on Peacock, with 12 epi
  
  Read more

• Avowed director says Xbox and Microsoft are "very happy" with the reception to its new Obsidian RPG

  12-03-2025 17:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  With Game Pass in the mix, success is an odd thing to gauge for any first-party Xbox release nowadays since sales aren't necessarily paramount. Thankfully for the beloved RPG studio, Avowed's director says Obsidian's corporate overseers are happy with how it's doing.Speaking to Eurogamer, Avowed director Carrie Patel notes that she doesn't "have a really firm metric." The first-person spin on Pillars of Eternity was, as is the case with every Xbox-owned game, released into Xbox Game Pass, meanin
  
  Read more

• After concerns from Valve, creators of CS:GO mod that aimed to "recreate the 1.6 vibe" are now "auditing the current build" to comply with guidelines

  12-03-2025 17:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Classic Offensive, the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive mod that aimed to "recreate the 1.6 vibe" loved by longtime fans, returns to the limelight as its creators reveal that they've heard from Valve following "concerns" regarding Steam guidelines.The mod was in the works for over eight years when its developers "received an automated Steam Support message" about the app's retirement (or rejection) after they submitted their build to Steamworks. The news was especially devastating as Classic Off
  
  Read more

• Picking up where Chrono Trigger left off 30 years later, this love letter to the classic JRPG has me in awe of its stunning pixel art – and now there's even a sky pirate

  12-03-2025 17:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Threads of Time has been an absolute stunner every time we've seen it, and just when I thought it couldn't look any better the devs have gone and added a sky pirate to the cast of the JRPG love letter.Developer Riyo Games has been very forthcoming about Threads of Time's inspirations, as this is a time-traveling JRPG in the SNES style that owes no shortage of debt to Chrono Trigger. You'll fight dinosaurs in a prehistoric age, journey to a futuristic city, and fight impossible monsters at the ed
  
  Read more

• 32 years after Star Fox hit the SNES, one of the shooter's original creators is building an indie spiritual successor

  12-03-2025 17:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  We're long overdue for a new Star Fox game, but in the absence of an official sequel, one of the creators of the original SNES game is building an indie spiritual successor called Wild Blue. If you've been longing for a new rail shooter featuring anthropomorphic animals piloting sleek space ships, Wild Blue looks to be just the thing."Chuhai Labs, founded by original Star Fox programmer Giles Goddard, brings a modern take to the beloved on-rails adventure genre with Wild Blue," according to the
  
  Read more

• The $5 roguelike banger that turned Terraria into a sci-fi tower defense game is getting a bigger, deeper sequel

  12-03-2025 17:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  In 2022, Dome Keeper gave us the answer to an unexpected question: "What if Terraria was a sci-fi tower defense game?" In 2023, Wall World arrived to prove another developer could do the concept justice with a new perspective at a supremely compelling $5 price tag. Now, in 2025, we're getting Wall World 2, which aims to provide a bigger, deeper experience than its predecessor. I guess this idea really does have legs.Like its predecessor, Wall World 2 puts you in the boots of miner piloting a rob
  
  Read more

• Monster Hunter Wilds' new event quest is the best one yet: bully a Chatacabra for "a pile of Hard and Advanced Armor Spheres"

  12-03-2025 17:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Chatacabra has the unfortunate distinction of being the first monster you have a scrap with in Monster Hunter Wilds. The giant gorilla-frog hybrid may look slightly imposing, but it's a bit of a pushover when it comes to battle (I mean, you can drop a Large Barrel Bomb when it runs at you and the dude just eats it). But this also makes it a great monster to practice a new weapon or the game’s timed mechanics like Guard Crush or Offset attacks on. So if you’re anything like me, th
  
  Read more

• Actors supporting AI protections didn't know they were being replaced in Zenless Zone Zero update 1.6: "I found out the role was recast today alongside all of you"

  12-03-2025 16:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Zenless Zone Zero update 1.6 arrived yesterday, March 11, and alongside new characters like Anby: Soldier 0 and Pulchra, it brought new English voices and voice actors for two existing characters: Soldier 11 and Von Lycaon. The original actors behind those characters, respectively Emeri Chase and Nicholas Thurkettle, who've both vocally supported the ongoing SAG-AFTRA video game voice actor strike demanding AI protections, say they weren't notified of the recasting until patch notes were release
  
  Read more

• Ubisoft shareholder plans protest in response to mismanagement, Assassin's Creed Shadows delays, and alleged acquisition talks with Microsoft and EA

  12-03-2025 16:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  One Ubisoft shareholder is reportedly preparing a protest against the company's "horribly mismanaged" plans, which led to "declining shareholder value."In a statement seen and shared by IGN, AJ Investments CEO Juraj Krupa is planning a protest to once again express its disappointment in the publisher's management, pointing to Assassin's Creed Shadows delays, declining stock, and alleged acquisition talks.Last year, Bloomberg reported that Ubisoft was considering selling almost the entire company
  
  Read more

• Palworld is finally getting crossplay across PC, Xbox and PS5 this month as Pocketpair teases "some little surprises" to come to the survival game

  12-03-2025 16:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Over a year on from its original early access release, Palworld is finally getting crossplay, allowing friends (or should I say pals?) on all platforms to play together later this month.Right from the get-go, Palworld was immensely popular – on Steam alone it quickly soared past two million concurrent players (and at the time, was the second ever game to do so), not to mention its fans on Xbox. Months later, when it finally came to PS5, Palworld shot right to the top of Japan's PS5 charts,
  
  Read more

• Cinderella body horror movie that made viewers sick gets release date, and it’s coming very soon

  12-03-2025 16:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  We're in an era of fairy-tales and wholesome characters becoming terrifying horror movies, and now it's Cinderella's turn. The classic tale has been transformed into a gruesome film known as The Ugly Stepsister, and it's coming out soon.The Ugly Stepsister takes a sordid angle on the centuries old story, where a woman endeavors to become more beautiful through DIY cosmetic surgery in order to outdo another prospective bride and attract the local prince. Going by early reactions, the procedures a
  
  Read more

• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has another secret skill, and this one is an absolute game changer - looking down makes you duck under branches while riding your horse

  12-03-2025 15:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is stunning us all with its immersion and hidden skills, and this one will help you defeat the game's deadliest enemies of all: branches and fallen logs.Have you ever been trotting through the beautiful wilderness of Bohemia and been knocked clean off your horse by a pesky branch you didn't notice? It's downright embarrassing, but fortunately, there's a very easy way to avoid them – just look down.This secret skill is shared by FabioDracul on YouTube in a video
  
  Read more

• Hideo Kojima left "a number of clues" in the new Death Stranding 2 trailer, including hints of a day/night cycle

  12-03-2025 15:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you ask me, Hideo Kojima is inarguably the king of the video game trailer. Going as far back as that incredible Metal Gear Solid 2 E3 trailer, his trailers have been jam-packed affairs that build excitement for whatever mad stuff he’s working on this time around. I would watch those Metal Gear Solid 5 trailers on a near-daily basis while waiting for it to come out. And the latest Death Stranding 2 trailer was no different; the action-packed gameplay trailer instantly shot the game right
  
  Read more

• All of the Best Picture winners of the last 10 years combined still have a lower budget than the Russo brothers’ new Netflix movie

  12-03-2025 15:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  We're not kidding when we say The Electric State is one of the most expensive movies ever made - and one cinema buff just put the price into perspective.One Twitter user noted that all of the Best Picture winners of the last 10 years combined still have a lower budget than The Electric State. The Russo brothers' new Netflix movie boasts a budget of $320 million, with all 10 movies making up just 69% of that budget (and we did double-check the math).Anora, which swept the 2025 Oscars, was made fo
  
  Read more

• Buckle up Nerf Herders, the Lego Star Wars Dark Millennium Falcon has only been this cheap twice

  12-03-2025 15:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  As part of the Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy collection, the Dark Falcon Starship Set is a gorgeous alternative model of an iconic ship in the Lego Star Wars universe. Complete with Darth Jar Jar and Jedi Vader minifigs, it puts a little switcheroo on an old classic, and I'm here for it.Usually sitting somewhere between £160 and £130, the Star Wars Dark Falcon Starship Set is currently just £119.99 at Amazon. That's just £10 more than its lowest price ever, which it'
  
  Read more

• Amazing PS2 gifts in this month’s Retro Gamer

  12-03-2025 15:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Retro Gamer is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the PS2 with some excellent gifts. First up is a fantastic 32-page magazine featuring 60 of the greatest games to grace the console. There’s also an amazing double-sided poster featuring Shadow Of The Colossus and God Of War, which are both celebrating their 20th anniversaries this year.Additionally, Retro Gamer’s main cover feature is a technical deep dive on the world’s best-selling console. It explores the difficulties of wo
  
  Read more

• 28 years after its original release, one of the best Studio Ghibli movies is getting a restored IMAX re-release

  12-03-2025 14:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Princess Mononoke is returning to theaters in the US and Canada – in IMAX, and with a 4K restoration.The Studio Ghibli flick follows Ashitaka, a young Emishi prince who's exiled after being cursed by a demon. On a quest to cure himself of the curse, he becomes entangled in the conflict between Irontown and the nearby forest of the gods, including a feud between the town's leader, Lady Eboshi, and San, a young girl raised by wolves.Originally released in 1997 and written and directed by Stu
  
  Read more

• The final season of Fallout star's HBO comedy has debuted to a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score

  12-03-2025 14:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  The final season of The Righteous Gemstones, which stars Danny McBride and Fallout's Walton Goggins, has debuted to a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes.The show revolves around a wealthy, famous televangelist family, the titular Gemstones. The first episode dropped on March 9, with the rest to follow until the series concludes for good in May.So far, its Rotten Tomatoes score is made up of 14 positive reviews, which praise the show's humor and its heart.The first episode of season 4 has already c
  
  Read more

• World of Warcraft guild cheats its way to winning Race for World First, gets caught, banned, then reverses its name and does it all over again

  12-03-2025 14:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  A World of Warcraft guild has pulled off a hilarious stunt: They've won the race to world first in the new Undermine patch using an exploit, had their ranking removed and their accounts suspended, reversed their name, and done it all over again.As reported by our friends over at PC Gamer, RAoV Quality Assurance beat the new Mythic difficulty raid using the lowest-level gear, an impossible feat. RAoV stands for random acts of violation, and they certainly live up to their namesake, as WoW communi
  
  Read more

• Balatro creator hits back at AI art spread on the roguelike's subreddit: "I don't use it in my game, I think it does real harm to artists of all kinds"

  12-03-2025 13:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Balatro creator Localthunk spent years working on his hit roguelike mostly on his lonesome, so it's maybe not surprising that he's now landed on the anti side of the AI art debate.To find the context for his quotes, however, we first need to backtrack to Redditor DrTankHead, who was a moderator for the game's main subreddit and the owner of r/balatromance, a page mainly dedicated to NSFW erotic joker fanart inspired by the game. (If that last cursed line wasn't a hint already, prepare for a very
  
  Read more

• The fan-made Dreamcast version of GTA 3 is looking way better in the latest look, introducing tech that "would’ve previously been a slideshow"

  12-03-2025 13:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  I, like many others, am not over the premature death of the Sega Dreamcast. Any console that brought Dynamite Cop to the home deserved a better shot, but the PS2, Xbox, and GameCube (but let’s be real, mostly the PS2) were too powerful for it, and that was that. Although, if anything could have saved the Dreamcast, it would’ve been GTA 3. The game was originally in the works for Sega’s platform, and a group of developers are looking to correct the timeline and bring the game to
  
  Read more

• AMD's new Ryzen 9 X3D processors launch today, here's where you can buy them

  12-03-2025 13:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  AMD's most powerful desktop processors launch today, so I don't blame you for wondering where to buy the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D. After a reveal at CES at the start of the year, we finally got official launch dates and pricing for AMD's new Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D CPUs. The beefy 9950X3D rests at $699.99 while the 9900X3D costs $599.99, and either will allow you to harness some serious gaming and content creation power thanks to their 3D V-cache technology.These two processors are bound
  
  Read more

• AMD's new Ryzen 9 X3D processors launch today, here's the stock I've found so far

  12-03-2025 13:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  AMD's most powerful desktop processors launch today, so I don't blame you for wondering where to buy the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D. After a reveal at CES at the start of the year, we finally got official launch dates and pricing for AMD's new Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D CPUs. The beefy 9950X3D rests at $699.99 while the 9900X3D costs $599.99, and either will allow you to harness some serious gaming and content creation power thanks to their 3D V-cache technology.These two processors are bound
  
  Read more

• Pokemon Go developer Niantic is being bought for $3.5 billion, CEO says it'll help its games be "'forever games' that will endure for future generations"

  12-03-2025 13:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pokemon Go developer Niantic is being acquired by mobile game developer and publisher Scopely for a whopping $3.5 billion.It's been confirmed that all of Niantic's current dev teams, as well as its full portfolio of games – from Pokemon Go itself to Pikmin Bloom and Monster Hunter Now – will all belong to Scopely.In a statement, Tim O'Brien, Scopely board member and chief revenue officer, says the company has been "extremely inspired" by Niantic's efforts over the last decade, namely
  
  Read more

• Pokemon Go developer Niantic has been bought for $3.5 billion, CEO says it'll help its games be "'forever games' that will endure for future generations"

  12-03-2025 13:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pokemon Go developer Niantic has been acquired by mobile game developer and publisher Scopely for a whopping $3.5 billion.It's been confirmed that all of Niantic's current dev teams, as well as its full portfolio of games – from Pokemon Go itself to Pikmin Bloom and Monster Hunter Now – will all belong to Scopely.In a statement, Tim O'Brien, Scopely board member and chief revenue officer, says the company has been "extremely inspired" by Niantic's efforts over the last decade, namely
  
  Read more

• Jurassic World Rebirth studio asked Scarlett Johansson to join Instagram, but she refused: "The film will do fine"

  12-03-2025 13:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  However else Jurassic World Rebirth gets promoted, Scarlett Johansson won’t be getting involved on Instagram. The former MCU star revealed she was asked to join the social media platform to help advertise the upcoming movie, in which she has a leading role, electing not to on the belief the blockbuster doesn’t really need the help.With no major online presence, Johansson's an outlier in Hollywood these days. In the run up to Jurassic: World Rebirth, Universal unsuccessfully managed t
  
  Read more

• Undertale creator Toby Fox's tomfoolery leaves Deltarune testers thinking an intentional nerf was actually a bug after they "independently" discovered it

  12-03-2025 13:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Solo Undertale developer Toby Fox has been teasing the 2025 release of Deltarune's next two chapters online, recently revealing that character-flavored teas will basically become useless in Chapters 3 and 4 – a memo the game's own testers apparently didn't get.Deltarune has been in the works for over six years now, with Fox confirming late this past fall that its long-awaited Chapters 3 and 4 would "100% come out in 2025." At the tail end of 2024, the beloved dev created an online thread w
  
  Read more

• Former Pokemon world champ uses a "stupid strategy" that "should never work" to transform a Lapras into an OHKO machine so powerful it can even take out enemies in alternate dimensions

  12-03-2025 13:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Competitive Pokemon is serious business, and one former world champion recently devised a strategy for a tournament that was so devious that once it was in action, he could one-hit KO pretty much any opposing Pokemon in his path, even if they were in different dimensions. No, really.Pokemon icon Wolfe "Wolfey" Glick – who was world champion in 2016, and recently won the Masters Division at the 2025 European International Championships – is a certified genius when it comes to building
  
  Read more

• Minecraft movie's popcorn bucket is an explosive, game-accurate continuation of a cinema trend that shows no signs of slowing down

  12-03-2025 13:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  The trend of film-specific popcorn buckets is here to stay. Fresh off the block is a Minecraft movie bucket which, honestly, seems to be one of best examples yet of taking an established property and turning it into something to hold your popcorn in.As revealed by Discussing Film, Cinemark's Minecraft popcorn bucket is a TNT crate. No sign of any fuses or redstone though, thankfully.Alongside that is a 'chicken jockey' drinks container, a nod to the possibility of a baby mob – typically a
  
  Read more

• The Running Man reboot is bringing back key aspects of Stephen King's novel to turn it into "the deadliest game of hide and seek"

  12-03-2025 13:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  The upcoming reboot of The Running Man won't be a straight remake of 1987's classic movie. Instead, director Edgar Wright has shared his plans to go back to Stephen King's original novel for inspiration.Originally published under his pen name Richard Bachman in 1986, the novel follows Ben Richards as he takes part in a reality show called The Running Man. Contestants win money by evading the team of hitmen who have been set to murder them.Speaking to Empire magazine, Wright says his plan isn't t
  
  Read more

• Good Boy, a new scary movie told from a dog's POV, is being called "one of the best horror films of the year"

  12-03-2025 13:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Good Boy, a new scary movie told entirely from a dog's POV, just premiered at South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas – and it's already being called "one of the best horror films of the year".Too often in genre films, the pooch dies first, so writer-director Ben Leonberg took it upon himself to conjure up a story that flips that trope on its head. Co-penned by Alex Cannon, the flick centers on Indy, a cute-faced canine who faces off against a sinister, supernatural entity in order to
  
  Read more

• After stepping away from Balatro for 3 months, the developer only resumed work "because I was bored but the internet was out so I couldn't play Rocket League"

  12-03-2025 13:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Even LocalThunk, the developer of the indie roguelike hit Balatro, puts off his work to procrastinate. He admits that he once took a three-month break to play Rocket League and only returned to making the game when his internet went out.LocalThunk has been very open about his development process for Balatro. He began the project all the way back in 2021 and says breaks are very important. "A very important habit I have developed for creative hobby projects is to stop working on something when I
  
  Read more

• The Skate reboot isn't even out yet, but it already has an EA specialty: microtransactions

  12-03-2025 12:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  EA is rebooting its beloved skateboarding series as just 'skate.' and an insider program has already given a select number of fans access to an exclusive playtest, which just got updated with an EA speciality.EA formed developer Full Circle to exclusively work on its upcoming sports game that's aiming to launch into early access this year. The Skate reboot doesn't have a concrete release date yet, but since the series is going down the free-to-play path, an in-game store and microtransactions an
  
  Read more

Follow @Newslockergames on Twitter!