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• "Are you going to pick food, or are you going to pick a new game?": Analyst says "folks want to be optimistic" about Switch 2 and GTA 6 boosting the industry, but tariffs and cost of living loom

  30-04-2025 22:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  The base price of the Nintendo Switch 2 remains $449.99 in the US despite the Trump administration's ongoing and chaotic tariff rollout, but those tariffs have already sparked US price hikes on a range of Switch 2 peripherals. Analysts expect the Switch 2's core US price to hold for now, but veteran games analyst Mat Piscatella of Circana reasons that the US games industry is largely caught in "contingency planning" as it enters "unprecedented territory," despite big hitters like a new Nintendo
  
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• "I don’t think anyone will ever make something like this again": Danganronpa creator says his new strategy RPG is "a crazy game," and "even if it doesn't sell well, I'm genuinely glad we made it"

  30-04-2025 22:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Kazutaka Kodaka, best known as the lead behind the wild Danganronpa series, has helped build something even more over-the-top in The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, a non-linear, darkly comedic, violent, sexy, visual novel-inspired strategy RPG with 100 endings. Kodaka is glad for the chance to make something so weird it might not sell – but he'd really rather you buy a copy."I’ll say it again – this game is absolutely insane, and I really want everyone to play it," Kodaka
  
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• After trying to cast everyone from Daniel Craig to Colin Farrell, DC Studios is apparently pulling the plug on Challengers director Luca Guadanino's Sgt. Rock movie

  30-04-2025 22:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Following months of development, DC Studios is apparently calling off its planned Sgt. Rock film, at least for now. According to THR, the film, which has struggled to find a lead to play the eponymous soldier, has been backburnered, with reports suggesting it will either be postponed to a potential shooting 2026 schedule, or potentially canceled outright.Sgt. Rock would have been helmed by Challengers director Luca Guadanino, with Daniel Craig, who worked with Guadanino on his film Queer, origin
  
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• In the longest dev apology in years, Infinity Nikki dev owns up to "nearly one hundred issues" in the dress-up RPG's new update as its Steam reviews disintegrate

  30-04-2025 22:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  If the original version of free-to-play, dress-up RPG Infinity Nikki is a picnic table laden with soda bottles, banana cream, and strawberry jello, its new Steam version and Bubble Season update are cold hot dogs covered in ants. Developer Papergames apologizes for that in a letter so heartfelt, so pure – it alone could save the world. But it doesn't seem to be appeasing most players."Dear Stylists, hope this message finds you well," Papergames begins politely in its statement posted on Tw
  
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• EA reveals new Apex Legends hero, immediately lays off writer behind him: "It's objectively pretty funny to get a promo email for the character I wrote the day I'm let go"

  30-04-2025 21:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  In a stunningly bleak encapsulation of the current state of the video game industry, EA has laid off an Apex Legends writer just 24 hours after revealing the character she had been writing for over a year.A Bloomberg report surfaced on Tuesday that claimed EA had laid off between 300 and 400 workers, and Apex Legends studio Respawn soon confirmed that it had been impacted by the downsizing.EA also confirmed that an unspecified number of employees had been let go as part of an effort that "alloca
  
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• Assassin's Creed Shadows roadmap revealed: Free story content, new difficulty options, New Game Plus, and parkour updates are coming

  30-04-2025 20:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Shadows just launched in March, and Ubisoft has already colored in the game's roadmap with paid expansions, free story updates, new difficulty options, additions to the parkour system, and more.The game's first expansion, Claws of Awaji, was previously teased without a release date, and well, we still don't have a release date, but we know it's coming "later this year." We still don't have a price either, but Ubisoft says it'll be free for everyone who pre-ordered the game. The
  
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• The PC Gaming Show 2025 confirms Ubisoft, Devolver Digital, and more

  30-04-2025 20:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  A decade after its E3 2015 debut, the PC Gaming Show is once again returning, and our friends at PC Gamer have just lifted the veil on the first round of publishers and developers confirmed for the showcase.Ubisoft, Failbetter Games, Devolver Digital and Astra Logical will all be part of the PC Gaming Show 2025, which will broadcast on Sunday, June 8 at 12pm PT / 3pm EDT / 8pm BST across Twitch, YouTube, Steam, and more.The show promises "over 50 games on PC, Steam Deck, Linux and MacOS includin
  
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• Bethesda celebrates Oblivion Remastered by watching 19-year-old documentary about the making of the original, and Todd Howard says "this is gonna be really f***ing awkward"

  30-04-2025 18:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  To celebrate Oblivion Remastered, Bethesda has gathered some of its long-time staff to sit them down and watch a documentary about the making of the original 19-year-old RPG.In one room, a few dozen Bethesda developers watch their younger selves work on what would become one of the best-selling RPGs of all time. Todd Howard, who served as executive producer on the game, warns the team, "this is gonna be really f**king awkward watching this.""I'm wearing the same necklace right now," the 42nd per
  
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• Wednesday season 2 adds Reacher star in mystery role – and it's set to mark a Tim Burton reunion

  30-04-2025 18:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  The cast of Wednesday is expanding ahead of its eagerly anticipated season 2.Reacher star Anthony Michael Hall is the latest to join Jenna Ortega, Emma Myers, Hunter Doohan, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and more in the Netflix hit's next chapter. His role, though, remains mysterious (and spooky), according to Variety.His involvement in the show is set to mark his reunion with director Tim Burton, whom he last worked with on gothic romance Edward Scissorhands, and helmed four of Wednesday season 2's eig
  
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• Turtle Beach puts three controllers up for pre-order, including a glow-in-the-dark Mario one

  30-04-2025 18:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Turtle Beach has put three new controllers up for pre-order, and they might not be as pricey as you first expect coming from a well-known brand. While Turtle Beach does make some premium bits of hardware, it's no stranger to catering to the budget buyer either, and you may be surprised to know that all three of the brand's latest gaming gadgets are coming in under $50.The main standout for me is the new Turtle Beach Afterglow Wave, an RGB-filled controller with fairly solid features for its aski
  
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• Oblivion Remastered expands its "modding capabilities" with a script extender just like the original RPG and Skyrim, but the creator says don't "get your hopes up yet"

  30-04-2025 18:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered has been out for over a week now, meaning skilled fans have been hard at work modding Bethesda Game Studios' remade RPG since – so hard at work, in fact, one has already released a script extender.Much like the original 2006 Oblivion and Skyrim, the remaster does indeed have its very own script extender now. Oblivion Remastered Script Extender, as it's dubbed, or "OBSE64," has arrived thanks to modder "ianpatt" on Nexus Mods with over 80,000 downloa
  
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• Pokemon TCG Pocket community is in shambles as a cheerleading chicken threatens to destroy the meta with an ability that makes it almost completely immune to the game's strongest cards

  30-04-2025 18:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pokemon TCG Pocket just got a new expansion, bringing with it loads of new Alola region 'mons to collect and battle with, but its biggest threat might not be a heavy hitter like the legendary Solgaleo and Lunala, but a cute, cheerleading bird that's totally impervious to attacks from the game's strongest cards.Introduced with the Celestial Guardians expansion, say hi to Pom-Pom style Oricorio – an Electric-type dancing bird with pom-poms on its wings and nary a thought behind its eyes. But
  
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• ConcernedApe doesn't "really try Stardew Valley mods," but "read an article about" the Larian-approved Baldur's Gate 3 mashup and thinks "it's cool"

  30-04-2025 17:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has praised Baldur's Village, the massive mod merging his farming sim with Baldur's Gate 3 – but he hasn't tried it yet.Speaking in a recent interview with PC Gamer, ConcernedApe explains that while he has indeed seen Baldur's Village, the mod that acts as a fan-created expansion bringing a bit of the Baldur's Gate 3 world and its quirky inhabitants to Stardew Valley, he hasn't played it. In fact, he probably hasn't played most mods himself
  
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• Shogun season 2 reveals how it's moving past the source material – with a significant time jump and these returning main characters

  30-04-2025 17:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first details have emerged about Shogun season 2 – including its filming start date and how far it will move past the source material.Shogun's second season will begin filming in January 2026 in Vancouver. It will be set 10 years after the first season (which adapted the entirety of James Clavell's 1975 novel of the same name) and "continues the historically-inspired saga" amidst the backdrop of a tense Japanese political landscape in the 17th Century.Hiroyuki Sanada is back as Lord To
  
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• Now You See Me 3 sent literal, actual money to fans who were in the "right place, right time" after watching the new trailer

  30-04-2025 17:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Now You See Me: Now You Don't sent a pretty good chunk of change to lucky fans who dialed a phone number just in time.On April 29th, two mysterious video billboards popped up in Times Square, New York City. One billboard featured a timer set for 60 minutes and a phone number (315-669-8263) alongside the words, "TEXT FOR MAGIC." Below, the second billboard showed an endless stream of falling cash.According to Far Out Magazine and several tweets from fans, those who sent a text to the number on th
  
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• Horror sequel Final Destination Bloodlines called "a splatterific blast" with one of the most memorable deaths to date: "This one is for the sickos"

  30-04-2025 16:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Destination Bloodlines is pulling in rave first reactions, with the upcoming horror sequel being called "heartbreaking", "clever", and full of "crazy, wicked" kills.Marking the sixth installment in the franchise, the new flick follows Stefanie (Kaitlyn Santa Juana), a college student who's plagued by recurring nightmares of a tower block collapse in the 1960s. Before long, she discovers that her grandmother used to suffer from the same violent visions, and actually manage to save multiple
  
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• Taking notes from Steam, Nintendo lets you hide any Switch virtual game cards you don't want your friends to see, so of course it's already being used to hide hentai games

  30-04-2025 16:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Have you ever been deeply, utterly ashamed of one of the games you play? No? Well, Nintendo thinks some of you should be. The company is implementing a feature borrowed directly from Steam: the ability to hide digital games.Ahead of the Switch 2's launch, Nintendo revealed new virtual game cards that you can move between consoles and can be shared between friends via a two-week loan.A Twitter user has shown off the feature, which brings up an option to ensure "this virtual game card will be hidd
  
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• Marvel is misdirecting us in trailers again as one Thunderbolts star confirms some teaser footage didn't make it into the film: "There was a ton of good stuff"

  30-04-2025 16:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Thunderbolts star David Harbour has revealed that some trailer footage won't make it into the final cut of the Marvel team-up movie."It's been fun to watch the marketing too because there is so much stuff on the cutting room floor that maybe the marketing team just picked up – little moments that aren't in the movie that they are just taking," Harbour, who reprises his role as Russian hero Red Guardian in Thunderbolts, told Digital Spy.In this instance, this was less Marvel misdirection to
  
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• Nintendo Switch's new Steam Families-like digital game loaning feature is here, but some are unhappy as functionality for an old sharing method has seemingly been ruined

  30-04-2025 16:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo just rolled out its new Steam Families-esque feature on Switch 1, allowing you to lend users in your Nintendo Account family group digital games for up to two weeks at a time – but not everyone is particularly happy about what the big system update has done for the console's existing game sharing functionality.Not to be confused with the local wireless GameShare feature (which is currently unusable until the Switch 2 launches), the Virtual Game Cards system gives you flexibility t
  
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• Borderlands 4 State of Play live coverage – all the news as it happens

  30-04-2025 15:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Surprise! Borderlands 4 is releasing over a week early and we're getting a special State of Play stream dedicated to the loot 'em up today to reveal more.Revealed a wee bit earlier than it should, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford took to Twitter to reveal that release plans are changing. While that typically means a delay these days, that wasn't the case here – Borderlands 4 is now releasing on September 12. Considering that the original release date was September 23, that's 11 days earlier th
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead shares the love, tells fans to play Danganronpa creator's new game "after your Expedition" as there are "too many good RPGs coming out at the same time"

  30-04-2025 14:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  All you RPG fans are eating good this month, and developers know it. As people finish up Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the creator of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy recommends you check out his game next, and Sandfall Interactive has approved the message.Kazutaka Kodaka, the legendary developer behind the Danganronpa series and the new Last Defense Academy, tweets: "To everyone who's finished their expedition — your admission to The Last Defense Academy awaits!"He'd already said The
  
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• Star Wars fans are theorising that Krennic is (sort of) referenced in the original trilogy after all

  30-04-2025 13:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  A handful of Star Wars super fans are convinced Rogue One and Andor villain Orson Krennic was indirectly referenced in the original trilogy – and it's all thanks to an empty chair.On April 29, OkuroIshimoto took to the franchise's unofficial discussion board on Reddit to share a still from 1977's Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Often dubbed the 'Death Star conference room', it sees Darth Vader and other highly-ranked Galactic Empire officers hold their important meetings. In
  
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• A Minecraft Movie domination continues, as Jack Black's 34-second solo becomes the shortest song ever to enter the Hot 100

  30-04-2025 13:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Minecraft Movie's cultural domination shows no signs of slowing down, as Jack Black's solo has become the shortest song to ever enter the Billboard Hot 100.'Steve's Lava Chicken' clocks in at just 34 seconds, with lyrics like "la-la-la-lava, ch-ch-ch-chicken."The song debuted at number 78 on the Hot 100, on the chart dated May 3, 2025, according to Billboard. It has also reached number 10 on the Hot Rock Songs chart. Black and director Jared Hess co-wrote the song.This isn't Black's first time
  
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• Ahead of Switch 2, Nintendo lays the groundwork for its local GameShare feature on the OG Switch in a huge new system update, but you can't actually use it yet

  30-04-2025 13:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  As Nintendo prepares for the upcoming release of its long-awaited new console, the Switch 2, the company has finally started rolling out functionality for GameShare – a game sharing feature that'll allow you to play certain games with friends and family via local wireless, even if you only own one copy of it.The company first unveiled the exciting new feature at the beginning of the month during its wave of Nintendo Switch 2 news, introducing GameShare as a way for fans to "play together l
  
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• Nier director Yoko Taro believes AI is coming for creators next, but also says his predictions are never correct, so don't worry about it

  30-04-2025 12:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nier director Yoko Taro recently said that he believes AI will one day put game devs out of a job and have them "treated like bards," and now he says he reckons all creators will also be unable to make a proper living.In a recent tweet (translated by Automaton), Taro writes, "Using AI, regular people will become creators. You won't be able to make a living as a creator anymore. However, people who want to create games will do so even if they can’t make a living out of it."It's a sad predic
  
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• An easily missed detail in Andor season 2 has huge implications for the ending of Rogue One

  30-04-2025 12:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  One easily overlooked detail in Andor season 2 will change the way you watch Rogue One – specifically, the ending.The following contains spoilers for Andor season 2, so turn back now if you're not up to date! In the show, Bix is heavily traumatized by the torture she was subjected to in season 1. She's using a drug of some kind, and, at one point, under the influence of the drug, she's seen holding a blaster and watching TV. As it turns out, this is the very same blaster that Cassian will
  
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• GTA 6 has nothing to do with Borderlands 4's new release date, as Gearbox CEO insists it's "100% the result of confidence," not "any other product's actual or theoretical launch date"

  30-04-2025 12:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Borderlands 4 may be releasing earlier than expected, but Gearbox's CEO really wants to make it clear that this has nothing to do with the launch dates of any other games, which is notable as plenty were theorizing if it could help narrow down GTA 6's release.Yesterday, it was confirmed that Borderlands 4 will be coming out 11 days sooner than previously announced, arriving on September 12 instead of September 23. Previously, Borderlands 4 was set to directly clash with the release of Bungie's u
  
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• Andor creator explains why a significant Star Wars prequel character was recast: "We tried really hard, but he wasn't available"

  30-04-2025 11:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Andor has never been a show about flashy cameos or Star Wars fan service in a galaxy far, far away. Even so, a familiar face showed up in Andor season 2, episode 6 – but he was portrayed by a different actor due to scheduling conflicts.As creator Tony Gilroy told Entertainment Weekly, the role of Bail Organa didn't go to Jimmy Smits (who had played the Senator in Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, Rogue One, and Obi-Wan Kenobi) but, instead, Benjamin Bratt."The scheduling didn&rsqu
  
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• GTA 4 scrapped a lot of San Andreas features to make the "massive jump" from PS2 to PS3, but the fan-favorite GPS used code from GTA 3 that was "basically unchanged"

  30-04-2025 11:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  GTA 4 often feels like an ignored middle child. It doesn't quite have that same nostalgia factor as San Andreas, and it's not the new, shiny GTA 5. Now, 17 years after its release, former Rockstar developer Obbe Vermeij shares some anecdotes about how it and other GTA games came to be."17 years ago, on April 29, 2008, we released Grand Theft Auto 4," Vermeij tweets. "To focus on making the game truly next-gen, we dropped many game features from San Andreas. Stats (fitness, weight), Multiple citi
  
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• A major Star Wars character returns in Andor season 2 – who's playing him?

  30-04-2025 05:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Andor season 2 brings back a legacy character – but not as we saw him last. The following will contain spoilers for Andor season 2 episodes 4-6, so turn back now if you're not up to date! Now, if you're still reading, then you'll know that none other than Bail Organa shows up in this set of episodes. That's not a massive surprise, considering Bail appears in Rogue One on Yavin 4. But, his involvement in Andor season 2 wasn't confirmed pre-release.There's also something very different about
  
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• What are Saw and Wilmon using in Andor season 2? Rhydonium in Star Wars explained

  30-04-2025 04:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The following contains spoilers for Andor season 2, episodes 4-6! Turn back now if you're not up to date!Andor season 2 has introduced a curious material – rhydonium. It plays a crucial part in a plot hatched by Saw Gerrera, which Wilmon Paak has unwittingly found himself dragged into, unable to leave until the plan is complete.But what is rhydonium, and where has it come up in Star Wars before?Well, it's a type of starship fuel, and it's best known for being extremely volatile. As you can
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead writer says "chances are good" that the JRPG banger gets DLC at some point

  30-04-2025 01:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  It sounds like chances are pretty high that new JRPG darling Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is going to get DLC at some point, at least according to public Instagram messages from the game's lead writer, Jennifer Svedberg-Yen.As reported by Vice, Svedberg-Yen replied to Instagram messages from players asking about the potential for DLC, and what she said was highly encouraging.Svedberg-Yen made it very clear that there aren't any hard plans for DLC at the moment, but that the plan at developer Sand
  
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• PSA: Diablo 4 season 8's new Reliquary system has a bug that's causing players to lose Platinum without the reward, but Blizzard has a fix coming today

  30-04-2025 01:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 4 season 8 launched today with brand new boss powers, Apparition Incursion events, a new seasonal questline, and the new Reliquary battle pass system for obtaining themed cosmetics.It's that last feature we're primarily talking about today, because while I'm excited to check out everything new in season 8, I have a fairly urgent PSA on a bug related to Diablo 4's Reliquary system while Blizzard works on a fix.As reported by numerous Diablo 4 players on social media, the Reliquary system a
  
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