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• Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone "started off having no ambitions" for the farming RPG's success, and he was afraid even Harvest Moon fans "would probably hate it"

  29-04-2025 23:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has made no secret of his love for the OG farming RPG series, Harvest Moon, and the indie game's success has revealed the joys of cozy farming games to a whole new generation of fans. But during the game's development, Barone was worried that not even hardcore Harvest Moon fans would like it."When I first started, it was just a pipe dream project – something I didn't have huge, ambitious ideas for," Barone says in an interview with our frie
  
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• How to watch the Borderlands 4 PlayStation State of Play

  29-04-2025 22:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sony has announced a "special" State of Play stream for Borderlands 4 after the shooter's old release date got swapped out for one nearly two weeks sooner."Get ready for a deep dive on Borderlands 4," creative director Graeme Timmins writes in a new PlayStation blog. "During this special State of Play, I'll be joined by other members of the Gearbox team to share the nitty-gritty details of how you'll wreak havoc across Kairos and take down the Timekeeper."Until now, developer Gearbox has been fa
  
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• Want to watch Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld several days early? Hope you like Fortnite

  29-04-2025 22:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  The newest animated Star Wars series is set to premiere two days before its scheduled drop on Disney Plus - but you have to be both a Star Wars fan and a Fortnite player to have access.The first two episodes of Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld are set to premiere May 2 at 10am ET/7am PT on Fortnite (That's 3pm in the UK), to coincide with the first entirely Star Wars-themed battle royale season. Fans can link their Epic Games and MyDisney accounts. This also marks the first time a Disney Plus
  
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• Eric Barone is "committed to not working on Stardew Valley until I'm done with Haunted Chocolatier," but he'll "never say" he's completely done with his magnum opus

  29-04-2025 22:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone loves working on Stardew Valley so much that he once said he could continue development "forever," but now that the edges have been ironed out of the farming sim's big 1.6 update, he's finally ready to commit to his next game, Haunted Chocolatier.In a conversation with our pals over at PC Gamer, Barone (which we've just learned is pronounced Bar-own-ee) was asked if there's a cut off point for Stardew Valley development, and for the first time he suggested he's entirel
  
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• EA reportedly lays off "between 300 and 400" people, cancels Titanfall extraction shooter: "We've made select changes within our organization [...] in service of driving future growth"

  29-04-2025 21:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new report suggests that EA has laid off "between 300 and 400" people, including around 100 developers at Respawn, and canceling what would've been a Titanfall extraction shooter. The publisher hasn't confirmed the exact details of the report, but it has acknowledged the layoffs as part of an effort that "allocates resources in service of driving future growth.""Between 300 and 400 positions were eliminated, including around 100 at Respawn," according to a report from Bloomberg's Jason Schreie
  
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• $1,900 Doom: The Dark Ages graphic card bundle doesn't come with the game, but never fear – the $2,000 bundle does

  29-04-2025 21:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  High atop the mountain of greed and lost copies of Morrowind, the Official Bethesda Gear Store intimidates me like a god on Olympus with its $110 Elder Scrolls server blade crumbs and $155 Oblivion lamps which, like… no, I'm not going to buy. What? What are you even talking about, Bethesda?But, but – I'm getting weaker… the developer is taunting me again, outdoing itself with a new $1,900 Doom: The Dark Ages bundle that doesn't even include a copy of the game.
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• Former Rockstar dev says we've seen enough GTA 6 trailers: "The element of surprise is going to make the release only bigger as an event"

  29-04-2025 20:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former Rockstar North technical director Obbe Vermeij reckons we've seen enough GTA 6 trailers to ride out the hype train until launch.Vermeij, whose career at Rockstar ran from 1995 to 2009, hasn't been shy about sharing opinions on GTA 6 as well as insights from his time working on the beloved series. In his latest Twitter musings, he celebrates the 17-year anniversary of the release of GTA 4 with a story about how the 2008 game was delayed from 2007 at the last minute.He says he figures "deci
  
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• Former Dragon Age writer praises Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as "beautiful," saying it's "kind of to JRPGs what Baldur's Gate 3 was to CRPGs"

  29-04-2025 18:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Following developer Sandfall Interactive and publisher Kepler Interactive's release of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, fans and fellow industry leads alike have been enjoying the new RPG – including BioWare veteran David Gaider.Sharing his thoughts on the turn-based banger, Gaider, who was the mastermind behind the Dragon Age setting himself, reveals how he feels about Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 in a new online post. "I've been playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and wow... so far, it'
  
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• One Marvel fan has done the maths on which Avengers: Endgame characters are returning for Doomsday, and fans are worried

  29-04-2025 18:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  With Avengers: Doomsday now filming and the film's release date only a year away, fans can't stop theorising about what's in store for the next Avengers reunion. One particular Reddit user has done the maths on which Avengers: Endgame characters are returning, and the results has some fans worried.Following the news from Doomsday's cast reveal in late March, we know that the upcoming MCU movie will feature original Avengers, X-Men alumni, and Thunderbolts* and Fantastic Four members."Kind of cra
  
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• Fortnite brings back long-forgotten Borderlands collab skin for the first time in almost 5 years, right on cue for Borderlands 4's new, earlier release date

  29-04-2025 18:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Borderlands fans can't stop winning, as Fortnite just brought back its old collab skin to the battle royale for the first time in almost five years, just in time for Borderlands 4 to get an earlier release date.Fortnite has loads of fun collab cosmetics, allowing players to go for a victory royale as everyone from Spider-Man to Satoru Gojo, to Hatsune Miku and Solid Snake, but sometimes, actually being able to get your hands on the skins is easier said than done. Cosmetics released in the item s
  
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• Thunderbolts star David Harbour says he’s been "mad" at Pedro Pascal for 30 years: "He got the lead, even back then"

  29-04-2025 18:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  David Harbour says he's known Pedro Pascal for decades - and that they have "beef" spanning some 30 years."I've known Pedro Pascal since I was 17," Harbour told ET Now. "Because we went to Northwestern. We auditioned for the same play. He got the lead, even then. He was so talented and attractive. I've been mad at him for 30 years."It was announced back in 2022 that the two were set to star in and executive-produce a limited series for HBO and Max titled My Dentist's Murder Trial, based on The N
  
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• Amid ongoing Switch 2 confusion over everything from features to games, former Nintendo marketing leads say the company should "just give people all the information" in one place

  29-04-2025 17:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Switch 2 is almost here, but many fans still remain confused about some of the console's features – and according to former Nintendo marketing managers Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang, the company could curb some of the confusion by simply releasing "all the information."It's been one heck of a puzzling time for Nintendo fans. Between the confusion over Switch 2 cartridges, including farming RPG Rune Factory's game card, and the misunderstandings regarding the GameCube controller's functiona
  
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• The essential Marvel movies and shows to watch before Thunderbolts – a spoiler-free guide

  29-04-2025 17:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  You know the drill by now. As with any upcoming Marvel movie, there's (usually) a handful of projects from the MCU's back catalogue to watch – or rewatch – in the hopes of making sense of another instalment.Thunderbolts* is no different. Bundling together a crew of misfits and anti-heroes from Marvel's past across film and television, the all-star crossover brings the likes of Sebastian Stan's Bucky Barnes into the same orbit as Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova for the first time.Throw
  
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• Borderlands 4 is releasing over a week earlier than expected because "the game is awesome, the team is cooking," and its own dedicated State of Play is coming up "imminently"

  29-04-2025 16:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  This is not a drill – Borderlands 4's release date just got altered, but in the best way possible for fans. Gearbox's next instalment is now launching over a week earlier than previously announced.As revealed in a video from Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford today (which was swiftly deleted, but is apparently being reposted soon), Borderlands 4 is now set to release on September 12 – a whole 11 days sooner than its old September 23 launch date.Pitchford teases that "everything's going kin
  
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• Former GTA 6 dev highlights "labor of love" GTA 5 map expansion mod, and doesn't know how its environment artist finds the time for the "tremendous amount of work" required

  29-04-2025 16:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  One former Rockstar Games environment artist is full of praise for this massive GTA 5 mod that adds a whole new area into the game, noting what a "tremendous amount of work" it must have been for the mod's own environment artist.David O'Reilly was at Rockstar Games for over 12 years before his departure in 2023, in which time he worked on Red Dead Redemption 2, GTA 5, and the still unreleased GTA 6. Needless to say, he knows the original world of the 2013 game very well, so hearing his thoughts
  
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• Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead acknowledges that "it's been a while since our last update," but "fear not – we are cooking" as it teases "exciting news to come"

  29-04-2025 16:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Co-op third-person shooter Helldivers 2 shot onto the scene last year and did so well that its servers simply couldn't handle how many of us wanted to play it. The game has done a great job of retaining our interest by constantly releasing new updates, and although it's slowed down, developer Arrowhead wants to reassure everyone that more content is on the way."We know it's been a while since our last update, fear not – we are cooking," reads a tweet from the official Helldivers 2 Twitter
  
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• A new trailer for Barbarian director's new horror movie just dropped – and it might be the scariest movie of 2025

  29-04-2025 16:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Following the success of Barbarian, director Zach Cregger is back with another creepy horror movie called Weapons, and we just got a first full trailer. Judging by the mysterious and spine-chilling footage, this might be the scariest movie of 2025."This is a true story that happened in my town," says a little girl at the start of the trailer, which you can watch in the post below. "So this one Wednesday is like a normal day for the whole school. But today was different. Every other class had all
  
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• Planning on using the Steam Deck as a Switch 2 console alternative? I'd start with this discounted dock

  29-04-2025 15:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  I get it – you just bought a Steam Deck before Nintendo decided to (rudely) finally unveil the Switch 2 and grabbing the latter is off the table. So, you're now instead trying to piece together a hybrid handheld setup that will let you play games on a big screen in a similar manner to Ninty's console, and I've got a dock that will help you achieve that for under $30.In case you weren't aware, Amazon is holding a Gaming Week sale, and while it feels like the retailer is holding a discount e
  
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• Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is unrecognizable as a UFC champ in sweaty first trailer for A24's The Smashing Machine

  29-04-2025 15:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for The Smashing Machine has arrived, and it's a gritty look at a UFC champ.In the footage, which you can watch above, Dwayne Johnson looks unrecognizable as MMA fighter and two-time UFC Heavyweight Tournament Champion Mark Kerr. We see Kerr in multiple fights, as well as talking about his ethos towards the sport. Johnson, of course, started out as a professional wrestler, so this seems like a role that was made for him.Emily Blunt, who co-stars as Kerr's wife Dawn Staples, als
  
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• The fastest-selling Dragon Ball game in history may have just had its Switch 2 port leaked by the Saudi ratings board

  29-04-2025 14:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  A recently deleted tweet suggests Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is coming to the Nintendo Switch 2.A Redditor spotted a Tweet from the Saudi general authority of media regulation that gave the unannounced port a 12+ rating, the same rating it had previously received for its PC, PS5, and Xbox versions, suggesting the game would have been relatively unchanged. That tweet has since been deleted.Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero released in October 2024, skipping the Switch entirely, but the Switch 2 looks to
  
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• Exclusive: Take a look at the best-dressed Black Series Star Wars action figure, fresh off his appearance in Andor season 2

  29-04-2025 14:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  GamesRadar+ can exclusively reveal an armed and fully operational Star Wars action figure from the Black Series, and it should be pretty familiar if you've kept up with Andor Season 2.Director Orson Krennic is suited, booted, and reporting for duty with this new Star Wars action figure. Indeed, he's dolled up in his dress uniform best as he schmoozes with Imperial elites between stints creating a planet-sized death-laser. As a Black Series toy, this one stands at six inches tall and comes with t
  
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• GTA veteran's new open-world game uses a camera trick while you drive "to make you feel like you're on the edge of control, almost like you're in a Fast & Furious film"

  29-04-2025 13:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Leslie Benzies, the longtime creative force behind GTA 5 and much more, is steering his next project, MindsEye, toward the kind of blockbuster car action usually reserved for the big screen. Now heading the Edinburgh-based studio Build A Rocket Boy, Benzies has given his team an unambiguous brief: make every chase feel like the climax of a summer action movie. According to Assistant Game Director Adam Whiting, the touchstone is the Fast & Furious franchise, and that influence becomes obvious
  
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• Almost 30 years later, Ben Affleck says his iconic Armageddon DVD commentary might be his best work: "It is an achievement I'm proud of"

  29-04-2025 13:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ben Affleck has no shortage of career highlights, from starring in modern classics like Pearl Harbor and Gone Girl and playing Batman in the DCEU to his directorial work in award-winning movies like Argo. His best work, however, might be his brutally honest Armageddon's DVD commentary, according to Affleck himself."In retrospect, now, I feel like maybe my best work in my career is the commentary on this disc," he said during a Criterion's Closet Picks video after finding Michael Bay's thriller o
  
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• The director of one of the 21st Century's best anime movies is releasing a new film in 2025

  29-04-2025 13:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new Mamoru Hosoda film is heading to cinemas later this year, and its first trailer promises an action-packed fantasy epic with unique visuals and a fascinating heroine. Studio Chizu has confirmed that Scarlet is releasing worldwide on December 12, only a few weeks after its Japanese release on November 21.The announcement revealed some details about the upcoming anime movie, which follows a princess seeking revenge for the death of her father. In a story that "transcends time and space", Pri
  
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• The new Warhammer 40K Space Wolves stole Thor's magic hammer and copied Kratos' axe, but I certainly wouldn't want to ask for them back

  29-04-2025 13:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  I don't think it's outrageous to say that Warhammer 40K Space Wolves are known for a very healthy 'cool' factor (slapping a Viking aesthetic on Space Marines will do that), but now they're backing it up with a spin on Thor's hammer that warps back to their hands after splitting skulls. Considering how they look hard as nails, I probably wouldn't consider accusing them of copying the MCU and God of War's homework.The Wolves of Fenris are getting reinforcements for Warhammer 40K later this year, a
  
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• Promising Soulslike Wuchang: Fallen Feathers finally gets a summer release date and a new trailer showing off its fast combat and electrifying soundtrack that blends traditional Chinese music with modern electric guitar riffs

  29-04-2025 13:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Many games have tried to recreate that electrifying feeling of fighting a Dark Souls boss, but few have pulled me in as well as Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, an upcoming Soulslike that's just gotten a new release date trailer that shows off the lightning-fast combat and its absolutely stellar soundtrack.You play as the pirate Bai Wuchang during China's Ming dynasty, and she has a phenomenal arsenal of tools at her disposal to take on Wuchang: Fallen Feathers' big bads when the game launches on July
  
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• We're one step closer to Ahsoka season 2, as Rosario Dawson reveals filming has begun with a behind the scenes photo

  29-04-2025 12:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Filming has begun on Ahsoka season 2, with Ahsoka Tano herself – AKA Rosario Dawson – announcing the news with a behind the scenes photo featuring a very familiar silhouette.Dawson took to Instagram to post a picture of her in costume, though with a catch: you can only see her shadow on the ground, but it's enough to make out those distinctive lekku either side of her head. "& we're off…to galaxies far, far away….!" Dawson captioned the post.
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• Bloodborne's notoriously difficult Orphan of Kos fight even gave Elden Ring legend Let Me Solo Her a run for his money, who agrees it's "definitely the hardest boss" in the action RPG

  29-04-2025 12:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Professional Malenia slayer Let Me Solo Her might just be the most iconic figure in the Elden Ring community, but despite his thousands of victories against that action RPG's hardest base game boss, even he struggled with Bloodborne's toughest DLC fight.As of 2023, Let Me Solo Her had beaten Elden Ring's Malenia over 4,000 times with nothing but a jar on his legendary Tarnished warrior's head in a massive heroic effort to help struggling players through the fight. Fast forward to now, though, an
  
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• Weapons keeps its crown as one of 2025's most mysterious movies – thanks to this teaser that's just two hours of Josh Brolin watching creepy CCTV footage

  29-04-2025 12:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Weapons is the gift that keeps on giving for fans of horror marketing. Case in point: this 137-minute video that features a sprinkling of clues about Zach Cregger's next movie, as well as a generous helping of unsettling CCTV footage featuring missing children.All sorts of bizarre occurrences crop up during the (admittedly, looped) two-and-a-bit hours of footage.At 11:58, for example, a photo of a group of men is shown onscreen. You might also spy star Josh Brolin's face peering out of the refl
  
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• As Oblivion Remastered introduces new fans to Bethesda's iconic 2006 RPG, ex-Elder Scrolls dev admits the level scaling system "was a mistake" eventually fixed in Skyrim

  29-04-2025 12:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  As fans continue their new journeys through The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered after Bethesda Game Studios' surprise release of the refreshed RPG, former developers like designer Bruce Nesmith look back on the original.Speaking in a recent interview with VideoGamer, Nesmith calls Bethesda and partner studio behind the remaster, Virtuos Games, "brave" for working to improve the original RPG's own controversial systems, including its leveling and world scaling. The former Oblivion dev, who a
  
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• Alienware steps back into the ultrawide monitor ring with a new 32-inch curved QD-OLED contender

  29-04-2025 12:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dell just launched its latest Alienware ultrawide gaming monitor, and this time its 32-inch QD-OLED curved model boasts a 240Hz panel. That's perhaps a more subtle upgrade over its AW3423DWF predecessor, but the new display also shares design DNA with some strong contenders already battling it out in the ring.Available now, the Alienware AW3425DW comes in at $799.99 via Dell, so it's far from the cheapest gaming monitor on the block. There are plenty of curved panels out there for less than half
  
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• This new Netflix anime movie feels like the spiritual successor to Your Name that I've been waiting almost a decade for

  29-04-2025 11:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  For a generation of anime fans, nothing has quite scratched the Your Name itch since its release in 2016.Director Makoto Shinkai certainly delivered some of the decade's best anime movies in Weathering With You and Suzume, but they haven't quite stacked up to the body-swapping romance classic that melted the hearts of millions almost a decade ago.While the new Netflix animated movie Lost in Starlight might not quite fill the Your Name-shaped hole in your life, it's certainly giving it a good sh
  
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• In the wake of chicken jockey, new A Minecraft Movie screenings will encourage rowdy behaviour: "It's time to get loose, laugh out loud and belt out those lyrics"

  29-04-2025 11:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Minecraft Movie screenings have been going so wild that even Jack Black has had to step in – but, very soon, you'll be able to meme to your heart's content at screenings of one of the best video game movies of recent years."Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures invite fans back to the theater to experience A Minecraft Movie together in a whole new way! You know the moments. You know the lines. You love the songs! Now it's time to get loose, laugh out loud and belt out those lyrics
  
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• Yoko Taro says Nier: Automata has so many endings because "Square Enix told us" to "add more content"

  29-04-2025 01:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  There's a very good reason PlatinumGames went with so many different possible endings in Nier Automata: Their publisher, Square Enix, straight up told them the game needed more stuff.Nier Automata director Yoko Taro and producer Yosuke Saito sat down for a Square Enix interview recently to celebrate the Nier series' 15-year anniversary, and they talked about all sorts of stuff, including the fact that Taro slipped the original game's save-deleting ending right past Saito.At one point in the inte
  
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