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• As ex-Blizzard boss says Oblivion Remastered "will never hold up" despite acclaim, Baldur's Gate 3 dev reckons "AAA is feeling more and more disconnected from the audience zeitgeist"

  23-04-2025 23:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  On the heels of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered shadow drop, ex-Blizzard president Mike Ybarra stirred the pot with the suggestion that the 19-year-old RPG "will never hold up against modern masterpieces like Elden Ring.""I would love to be proven wrong. But I'm not," Ybarra added, stressing a shift "from safe, open-world RPGs to what Elden Ring brought us all." He recognized that there's an argument for nostalgia, but concluded that "I think the gaming community wants fresh and new mor
  
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• Oblivion Remastered has been in the works for 4 years, and despite big changes Bethesda says it's definitely not a remake: "We never wanted to remake it"

  23-04-2025 23:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite the title leaving virtually zero room for ambiguity, there's been some confusion about whether The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered is truly just a remaster or a full-blown remake, and Bethesda has officially put the matter to bed... again.Amidst the flurry of Oblivion Remastered news and commentary that emerged yesterday, Bethesda released a detailed statement on its intention behind the game and in it, once again, didn't mince words about what exactly the game is. It's a remaster,
  
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• Hit Metroidvania Nine Sols just got a surprise prequel manga that you can read right now

  23-04-2025 22:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nine Sols is one of the best Metroidvania games of recent memory, with its so-called "taopunk" setting melding sci-fi elements with a futuristic Asian-fantasy style. And now, the story is continuing with an official prequel manga that's already available to read in multiple languages.The prequel, drawn by artist Yang Chi-Cheng and produced by manga platform MOJOIN, consists of many story elements developed alongside the game that weren't able to be fit into the final plot."When we were working o
  
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• Ghost of Yotei leads say "the katana is still the most valuable weapon" even 300 years after Ghost of Tsushima, but "more opportunities to blow things up is never a bad addition for a video game"

  23-04-2025 22:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Set among cherry blossoms in 1600s Japan, Ghost of Yotei of course includes the menacing sparkle of Ghost of Tsushima's katana – a necessity for any sepulchral samurai game – but developer Sucker Punch Productions is happy to report some bombs, too.Speaking to Variety in a new interview, co-creative director Nate Fox says Ghost of Yotei has "the benefit of gunpowder being part of the combat mix.""While the katana is still the most valuable weapon," he explains, "having some more oppo
  
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• Subnautica 2 charts early access launch "later in 2025" in dev diary promising "our biggest and most ambitious" survival game yet

  23-04-2025 20:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Subnautica 2 is officially on its way to early access, with developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment promising the biggest and most ambitious entry in the series yet.In Subnautica 2's first dev vlog, design lead Anthony Gallego re-confirms that the sequel is still on track to hit early access sometime later this year. We still don't know a whole lot about it, but we have known for a while now that it'll let players dive to the sunken depths of its mysterious alien world with up to three friends in
  
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• Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake enters production with a fun callback to the classic Jason Voorhees movies

  23-04-2025 20:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  A24's Friday the 13th streaming series Crystal Lake has officially entered production, according to showrunner Brad Caleb Kane, who posted a message about the official start of filming on his social media."Crystal Lake production offices are live. It's all happening. Machetes for everyone!" Kane declares in the Instagram post.Crystal Lake goes all the way back to the Friday the 13th franchise's origin story, in which young Jason Voorhees is murdered by rowdy, irresponsible camp counselors at Cam
  
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• The Predator: Badlands trailer actually makes the eponymous alien the protagonist

  23-04-2025 20:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for Predator: Badlands has arrived - and it's unlike any Predator movie we've ever seen before.In the brief clip, which can be viewed below, we see Elle Fanning on what appears to be a planet of Predators - who are very much the stars of the show. Rather than focus on a protagonist trying to defeat the alien race, it looks like this particular sequel will see one of the Predators form an unlikely alliance with a human. Per the official synopsis: "In the future on a remote plane
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director throws support behind JRPG Clair Obscur as Oblivion Remastered threatens to bury it: "This game was made by a team that has fewer people than I have years"

  23-04-2025 18:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Oblivion Remastered is a force of nature hurtling straight to the top of Steam's global top sellers list with mud, sticks, and little pieces of new JRPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 stuck in its hair, so Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director Michael Douse is stepping in for clean-up."Now everyone's talking about RPGs, it's worth noting there's a 92 Metacritic RPG drop tomorrow," Douse writes on Twitter in reference to Clair Obscur. "If you want to play something that's really good and features some
  
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• Diablo 4 could come to Nintendo Switch 2, but series head says "live services on Switch have been a little bit challenging in the past"

  23-04-2025 18:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Nintendo Switch 2 already has an impressive lineup of games being ported over to it, like Cyberpunk 2077 and Elden Ring, and Diablo 4 may eventually be on that list.In an interview with Danny Peña’s Gamertag Radio (spotted by VGC), general manager of Diablo, Rod Fergusson, says: "I think there's opportunity there for sure. I mean, we have Diablo 3 and Diablo 2 Resurrected already on the Switch, and with backwards compatibility it'll be playable on Switch 2."It's not a sure thing
  
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• Final Fantasy 14 players can't help themselves: MMO diehards dogpiled the "casual" Cosmic Exploration content so hard it's caused community debate on FOMO and time-gating

  23-04-2025 18:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Final Fantasy 14 community is once again in shambles, but this time it's not over a poor event reward or Dawntrail reviews – it's related to patch 7.21 and its introduction of Cosmic Exploration, a new instanced form of collaborative casual content.At least that's what it's supposed to be – but fans are saying it's anything but "casual" now, as more invested players bulldoze progress through Cosmic Exploration and leave others with nothing to do. A recent meme shared on Reddit hi
  
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• After 9 years in Wii U prison, sci-fi JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles X debuts as March's best-selling Switch game in the US, kicking Mario Kart 8 into second place

  23-04-2025 18:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  One of the most underrated Wii U games, Xenoblade Chronicles X, has finally been given a new lease of life on Nintendo Switch, and the sci-fi JRPG has had a phenomenal debut month after dethroning Mario Kart 8 Deluxe as the console's best seller for March in the United States.Xenoblade Chronicles X, despite being an absolute gem, had become somewhat forgotten in comparison to the main Xenoblade Chronicles trilogy. For over nine years, it was stuck on a console that sold notoriously poorly, with
  
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• With Ubisoft's hopes on its back, Assassin's Creed Shadows claws to the top of the March sales charts and follows Monster Hunter Wilds as 2025's second-best-selling game

  23-04-2025 17:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ubisoft has a lot riding on Assassin's Creed Shadows, and it seems the extra time in the oven did wonders for the game, which is the second best-selling of 2025, only behind Monster Hunter Wilds.Mat Piscatella, an executive director and video game industry analyst at Circana, posts on Bluesky that "Assassin's Creed: Shadows debuted as the best-selling game of March, ranking 2nd [year-to-date]." It amassed more than two million players just a few days after launch, so this result isn't surprising
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 publisher says "omg it's like Barbenheimer" as the RPG clashes with Oblivion Remastered, and also "teehee" as it ties for the best-rated game of 2025

  23-04-2025 17:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  As developer Sandfall Interactive and publisher Kepler Interactive prepare for the release of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 tomorrow, the studios can't help but react to how it lines up with the recent launch of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered – and how it's already soaring the charts as one of this year's best games.Bethesda Game Studios made waves yesterday upon suddenly dropping the long-awaited Oblivion remake, resurrecting a 19-year-old RPG gem. Unsurprisingly, the remaster is
  
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• Mysterious new movie from M. Night Shyamalan gets supernatural first plot details

  23-04-2025 17:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  We finally know more about M. Night Shyamalan's mysterious new movie, which has a story from Shyamalan and The Notebook author Nicholas Sparks.Jake Gyllenhaal and Phoebe Dynevor will star in the film with a screenplay from Shyamalan, while the book is penned by Sparks. Both share the same story but are being worked on independently."I'm excited to share the cover for the novel version of REMAIN, my upcoming collaboration with @NicholasSparks," Shyamalan wrote on Twitter. "The book, written by Ni
  
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• The Beginning After the End author speaks directly to fans after the anime went viral for low-quality animation: "I want nothing but the best for this story"

  23-04-2025 16:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Beginning After the End author TurtleMe has released a statement after the anime adaptation went viral for all the wrong reasons."With the anime adaptation of The Beginning After the End (TBATE) having reached its 3rd week and Sakura-Con approaching, I felt it necessary for me to speak up in hopes to quell any misunderstandings making their rounds," he wrote directly on Reddit, starting off by thanking the fans for their passionate support.The Beginning After the End follows the story of a k
  
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• Nintendo corrects itself, says the Switch 2 GameCube controller will work with games outside the Online Classics library but "there may be some issues"

  23-04-2025 16:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo has cleared up some confusion surrounding its upcoming Switch 2 GameCube controller, which apparently will be compatible with non-GameCube games after all, although "there may be some issues" if you choose to use it this way.The Switch 2 GameCube controller was announced during the flurry of Nintendo Switch 2 news earlier this month, as an optional controller to use with the upcoming classic GameCube titles being added to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. However, fans were quick
  
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• "Let's just fail quickly": REPO devs pivoted to co-op horror after running out of money since their last game "hadn't been successful enough"

  23-04-2025 16:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  REPO is this year's Balatro. It's a phenomenally successful indie that shot to the top of the Steam charts and has stayed in the top 10 for a long while. But, it was make or break for the devs that created it.Semiwork's previous game Voidigo had taken six long years to develop, and it hadn't done as well as the team had hoped. Making REPO "was a big risk to take, as Voidigo hadn't been successful enough to guarantee a next step," explains Semiwork marketer Pontus Sundström, who recently fac
  
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• The Last of Us showrunner teases horrifying unseen moment from Bella Ramsey's Ellie: "I was scared of her, and I didn't like her, and I didn't want her to do what she's doing"

  23-04-2025 16:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Last of Us season 2 showrunner Craig Mazin has talked about an upcoming terrifying moment from Bella Ramsey's Ellie."I was scared of her, and I didn't like her, and I didn't want her to do what she's doing,” Mazin told The Hollywood Reporter. "I look at her, and she's breaking my heart. I'm just like …" He added: "I'm telling you, Bella Ramsey."The Last of Us season 2 has already shocked viewers with that brutal moment in episode 2, which sees Joel murdered by Kaityln Dever's Ab
  
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• First trailer for Wednesday season 2 confirms it'll follow in Stranger Things and You's footsteps with two-part release

  23-04-2025 15:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jenna Ortega is back as everyone's favorite pig-tailed goth girl in the fun new look at Wednesday season 2, which not only sees her "willingly" return to Nevermore Academy but also reveals when the Tim Burton-directed show will return.The trailer, which you can watch above, opens with Wednesday getting stopped by airport security, and forced to remove all the concealed weapons she has on her person – from a knuckleduster and nunchucks to a taser and an axe. Later, she reunites with her pe
  
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• Oblivion Remastered is just as janky as Bethesda's original 2006 RPG it seems, with Elder Scrolls stans lovingly welcoming the random crashes: "It's just like I remember it"

  23-04-2025 15:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered has finally arrived, and while it's certainly stunning as an Unreal Engine 5 remake, it's still apparently very much the same janky Bethesda Game Studios RPG fans have loved for nearly two decades now.After 19 years, Oblivion has returned to the limelight with the long-awaited remaster yesterday, but at its core, it remains the iconic 2006 Elder Scrolls entry fans know and love.Players are expressing as much online, with posts detailing bugs and random cr
  
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• Until Dawn director on balancing laughs and scares in the horror game adaptation, as he recalls scaling back some of its Evil Dead-style humor during filming: "It was like, 'Maybe it needs to be a bit more serious'"

  23-04-2025 15:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  If the Until Dawn video game was a love letter to Saw and The Cabin in the Woods, Sony's upcoming adaptation is more The Descent meets Evil Dead II. For a minute there, though, it was a little too comedy-leaning, says director David F. Sandberg."I have a tendency to do that because I love horror movies that have fun," the filmmaker tells GamesRadar+, when we mention being surprised at how much humor there is in the movie. "I mean, we even had to take it back in some scenes where it was like, 'We
  
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• Sony confirms Ghost of Yotei release date for October alongside a new trailer, with pre-orders for the open-world PS5 game starting next week

  23-04-2025 14:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sony has just revealed that its long-awaited Ghost of Tsushima sequel, Ghost of Yotei, is releasing this fall on the PS5.Following months of speculation, a release date has finally been confirmed for Ghost of Yotei. Lifting the veil on the hotly anticipated launch, Sony writes in a new online post that "Ghost of Yotei comes to PS5 on October 2." That's not all, though – along with the newly revealed date, Sony's announcement also links to a trailer for the open-world action-adventure seque
  
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• Nintendo wasn't ready for how in-demand the Switch 2 would be in Japan, as boss warns there isn't enough stock from its official store to fulfill the 2.2 million lottery sale applications

  23-04-2025 14:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Switch 2 isn't out yet, but it's already taking Japan by storm, so Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa is warning fans who applied for its lottery sale that there isn't going to be enough stock to go around from its official store.To pre-order the console from the My Nintendo Store in Japan, fans had to apply for a chance to be selected in a lottery, leaving it up to chance whether they would actually be successful in buying one. In a tweet posted on the Japanese Nintendo Twitter account ye
  
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• Hideo Kojima teases what to expect from A24's Death Stranding movie, says it'll be strange and unbelievable

  23-04-2025 13:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hideo Kojima has teased what to expect from A24's Death Stranding movie – and, honestly, we'd expect nothing less from the project than what he's hinted at here.Speaking on Koji10, Kojima praised director Michael Sarnoski and said the director had played some of his games. @Genki_JPN on Twitter offered up a rough translation of the conversation: "Hideo Kojima says the Death Stranding live-action film with A24 will be an unbelievable and strange film! via @koji10_tbs"He says Director Michae
  
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• Andor season 2 becomes the most critically acclaimed live-action Star Wars project on Rotten Tomatoes ever

  23-04-2025 12:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Andor season 2 has become Star Wars's most critically acclaimed live-action movie or TV show ever.On Rotten Tomatoes, the season currently holds a score of 99% with 68 reviews (H/T The Hollywood Reporter). That's higher than any other show or movie ever in the saga, including The Empire Strikes Back, which holds a score of 94%. Andor season 1, meanwhile, stands at 96%.Our own Andor season 2 review gave the show four stars, with our verdict reading: "Andor season 2 is just as excellent as its pre
  
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• Over 182,000 people were playing Oblivion Remastered on Steam within hours of its sudden launch on a random Tuesday

  23-04-2025 12:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered has had a spectacular launch, and despite there being no official marketing for the RPG right until its release, it quickly surged beyond 182,000 concurrent players on Steam.While the remastered RPG had been rumored for some time, yesterday's big reveal stream marked the first public acknowledgement of it from developers Bethesda and Virtuos. Plans for the game to be shadowdropped were included amongst the prevalent rumors, to the point that its sudden la
  
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• As fans recreate their ugliest Oblivion characters in the RPG's new remaster, Baldur's Gate 3 dev says "there is literally no better marketing campaign than viral funny faces from a Bethesda game"

  23-04-2025 12:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered had a not-so-surprising shadow drop yesterday, and you've all been keeping alive a long tradition of making the most disgusting characters possible in the character creator. For that, we thank you.The original Oblivion allows you to make your hero blue, green, many colours in the rainbow, and the remaster is allowing for some similarly absurd antics. This time around, people aren't just going for funny colours, they're making their characters' faces as wi
  
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• Star Wars fans are in mourning after that major Andor season 2 death, and it's made even worse by one tragic detail

  23-04-2025 11:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warning: the following contains spoilers for Andor season 2, episodes 1-3! Turn back now if you're not up to date!Andor season 2 didn't pull any punches with its opening three episodes, and one moment in particular has Star Wars fans in mourning.Brasso, Cassian's good friend from his home on Ferrix, is tragically gunned down by stormtroopers when he's caught working on Mina-Rau during an Imperial inspection. Sadly, though Cassian arrived in the nick of time with his stolen TIE fighter, he wasn't
  
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• Oblivion Remastered mods are here despite Bethesda saying they're "not supported," with the OG 2006 RPG's own modding tools working: "It is literally just Oblivion under the hood"

  23-04-2025 11:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered is finally available following leaks and release date rumors, and despite Bethesda Game Studios revealing that the revamped RPG doesn't include official mod support, fans are already modding away.After dropping the long-awaited remake yesterday alongside its big announcement stream, Bethesda answered the question on every PC player's mind – no, "mods are not supported" in Oblivion Remastered. This doesn't mean modding is impossible, however, but rat
  
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• That jungle planet in Andor season 2 might actually be a major Star Wars location hiding in plain sight

  23-04-2025 11:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warning: The following contains spoilers for Andor season 2 episodes 1-3! Turn back now if you're not up to date!Andor season 2 has finally arrived, and it kicks off with a storyline for Cassian that sees him trying to deliver a stolen TIE Fighter – only to end up trapped by another rebel cell on a remote jungle planet.The planet is never identified by name, unlike other planets in the premiere episodes, and the rebels there are starving and stuck after one of their crew abandoned them. It
  
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• Take a trip to The Walking Dead: Dead City with the latest issue of SFX

  23-04-2025 10:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Walking Dead: Dead City’s Maggie and Negan are on the cover of SFX 391, as part of a horror-heavy halfway-to-Halloween issue.Don't forget: if you live in the UK you can use this tool to find a stockist near you. Or you can order a copy online.
  The Walking Dead: Dead City 
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  The Manhattan-based spinoff of the zombie franchise returns for its second season shortly. In an eight-page feature, we quiz producer Scott G Gimple and star Lauren Cohan about what’s
  
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• Andor season 2, episode 2 features a major reference to a key prequels character

  23-04-2025 05:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Andor season 2, episode 2 features a blink and you'll miss it Star Wars prequels Easter egg.In the episode, when Kleya returns to the antiques store, eagle eyed viewers might spot a familiar headdress on display. It's gold and shaped like a large disc around a centerpiece, with a pattern of triangles and circles along the disc.If you've seen Attack of the Clones, you might immediately recognize this particular piece of headwear – it's worn by none other than Padmé Amidala when she a
  
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• On Oblivion Remastered day, former Blizzard boss says he's "skeptical about 20 year old remasters" because "the bar has simply moved from safe open world RPGs to what Elden Ring brought us all"

  23-04-2025 02:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra has some capital-T thoughts on the reveal and release of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered.Yes, for the three or four folks reading this and hearing about Oblivion Remastered for the first time: it's here, it's available right now on consoles, PC, and Game Pass, and it looks great. However, the notoriously outspoken Ybarra isn't so sure it'll hold up against modern RPG classics like Elden Ring."I'm skeptical about 20 year old remasters," he said in a
  
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• Director of Until Dawn movie teases "very bloody bathroom scene" as he opens up on the challenges of filming a time loop horror: "It was everywhere, you couldn't clean it up"

  23-04-2025 00:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Until Dawn director David F. Sandberg has opened up on the biggest challenges of filming a time loop horror – and as you might have imagined, most of them involve blood and gore."There were a lot of technical challenges. Like, the amount of clothes... the same set of clothes," he tells GamesRadar+, ahead of video game adaptation's release on April 25. "For Clover's outfit, I think we had 90 [sets] because there's so many different stages, then we had to have backups and clothes just for st
  
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