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• Amid Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's turn-based hype, Square Enix asks JRPG fans "what's the best combat system" in its catalog and shares "some games with brilliant battles"

  08-05-2025 23:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has managed the arduous task of making turn-based combat – a 30-something-year-old system – feel fresh and topical, and even the turn-based monarchs at JRPG innovator Square Enix seem to be taking notice. In a new blog post, with a voraciousness it does not display in other recent posts, Square Enix asks fans to review its "brilliant battle systems.""There are many elements you need for a truly great RPG: a compelling world, memorable characters or an exce
  
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• JRPG sickos, I hate to get your hopes up again, but Yuji Horii says he's "starting to contemplate" a Chrono Trigger remake

  08-05-2025 22:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  At great risk of reigniting the JRPG community's hopes only for them to be dashed immediately after, it is my duty to inform y'all that Yuji Horii has definitely, for sure this time, mentioned a Chrono Trigger remake, and he says he's "contemplating" the project.Understand that I'm just as excited as anyone about a potential Chrono Trigger remake. It's one of the best JRPGs of all time and often takes the top spot in lists like the one I just linked to, and for damn good reason. So far, nothing'
  
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• Fallout season 2 wraps filming and celebrates with video of Walton Goggins ripping his skin off

  08-05-2025 21:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fallout season 2 has finished filming – and we're headed to New Vegas.Prime Video announced that the live-action Fallout TV series' second season was completed with a video of Ghoul actor Walton Goggins ripping off the facial prosthetics for his makeup in slow motion. You can watch the video below.You might remember that, in the final moments of Fallout season 1, we see villain Hank (Kyle MacLachlan) look out over the horizon and begin to walk toward New Vegas. New Vegas was also confirmed
  
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• Xbox is hiring to "secure the future of game preservation," and this time it's no AI Quake nightmare

  08-05-2025 20:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Earlier this year, Xbox boss Phil Spencer floated the idea that AI could be used for game preservation, and that thought seemingly culminated in an AI-powered demo of Quake 2 that was downright nightmarish. Thankfully, a new job listing suggests that Xbox isn't abandoning real game preservation, even as its AI investments continue.Xbox is hiring a principal software engineer to "help build the next evolution in Xbox Game Compatibility," as spotted on ResetEra. Xbox wants someone "to secure the f
  
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• 23 years and 3 sequels later, Mafia: The Old Country is abandoning its open-world roots, but a $50 "linear, narrative-driven" game sounds like heaven in 2025

  08-05-2025 20:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  I don't know about y'all, but I'm living in Mafia: The Old Country world today. Hangar 13 and 2K Games have had nothing but good news to share about the upcoming prequel, like the fact that it'll only cost $50 and won't require "massive time commitments."Another little detail warming my open world-weary heart is Mafia: The Old Country abandoning its open world roots, and instead being a "linear, narrative-driven game," according to an FAQ posted on its official website.Maybe it's just a symptom
  
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• 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (May 9 - 11)

  08-05-2025 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  This weekend, our list for the best new movies and TV shows to watch is deliciously diverse, ranging from new anime series to documentaries and horror films. If you are looking for a top-notch recommendation,and you want to stay up to date on the best streaming services' best new releases, we're here to help.Below, we have selected six unmissable new movies and series now available on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney Plus, Max, Apple TV Plus, and Hulu that should be on your radar. Don't waste
  
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• Doctor Doom's son locks lips with Killmonger as the secret of the Superior Avengers heats up

  08-05-2025 19:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Doctor Doom's personal Avengers have a big secret - they may not be on his side at all. Drawn from timelines where Doom rules supreme, the so-called Superior Avengers are not allies of Doom as they claim, but enemies sent to take him out.In Superior Avengers #5 by writer Steve Foxe and artists Luca Maresca and Kyle Hotz, that conflict comes to a head as Doom's heir Kristoff Vernard may find himself at the wrong end of a knife, as shown on the issue's main cover by RB Silva, seen here alongside K
  
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• John Walker was originally the Thunderbolts villain, but "it didn't work the same"

  08-05-2025 19:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Thunderbolts* originally had a very different antagonist. Wyatt Russell's John Walker, AKA US Agent, initially had the role Sentry took on in the final version of the movie, according to screenwriter Eric Pearson."There are a couple of versions where part of Valentina’s manipulation of them, for John Walker, she convinced him that his Super Soldier Serum was deteriorating and he needed updates," he told ComicBook, referring to Julia Louis-Dreyfus' scheming Contessa."He needed to have month
  
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• Andor showrunner had to scrap an episode of the Star Wars show that was "like a horror movie": "We could not afford to do it"

  08-05-2025 19:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Andor creator Tony Gilroy says a "monster movie" episode centering on K-2SO was scrapped for season 2.“Dan Gilroy wrote an amazing, entirely self-contained episode that was episode 209,” Gilroy told Entertainment Weekly. "It was an amazing episode that was like a horror movie. It was the K-2SO story. They had to bring this huge ugly tanker ship to Yavin, and there was a KX unit that was trapped inside there hunting. It was sort of like a monster movie with K2 on it. It was really coo
  
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• After "abrupt actions by Valve," Counter-Strike mod in development for 8 years gets canceled – modders deny using leaked Source code and say others should "reconsider how they see Valve"

  08-05-2025 19:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Classic Offensive, a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive mod aiming to recreate the feel of the classic 1.6 FPS, has been canceled after eight years in development. The developers cite "abrupt actions by Valve" as the cause for the decision to end the project.The Classic Offensive devs have been working on the project since 2016, and in 2017, they were OK'd for a Steam release through the now-retired Greenlight program. Development continued for years, but when the modders finally submitted their b
  
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• Destiny 2 lead insists divisive Star Wars-inspired expansion Renegades "is in-canon for the Destiny universe" as players worry the MMO is pulling a Fortnite

  08-05-2025 18:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Bungie revealed a whopping four Destiny 2 expansions at its latest info explosion, with The Edge of Fate kicking off the "multiyear" Fate Saga on July 15. The second expansion in line, Renegades, due December 2, 2025, ended up dominating a lot of the conversation around the event for one simple reason: it's a Star Wars-inspired expansion with LucasFilm Games involved in some way.Star Wars fans among Destiny 2's audience were understandably thrilled by the news, but others (like my clanmate and P
  
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• Razer wants to put your headset inside your gaming chair, and I have questions

  08-05-2025 18:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Razer has just announced its latest gaming chair accessory, with the $229.99 / £199.99 Razer Clio looking to add surround sound audio straight to your headrest.I'm going to level with you, surround sound systems, as cool as they are, are a bit of a hassle for most setups. Placing speakers in front of you is easy enough since you're generally going to be pointing yourself and your furniture at a screen which sits on a surface of some kind, or is tucked up against a wall. But speakers behind
  
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• Marvel's upcoming Thunderbolts comic has officially been retitled New Avengers, following in the movie's footsteps

  08-05-2025 18:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's official – Marvel Comics' upcoming New Thunderbolts* series has been retitled New Avengers after Marvel Studios changed the Thunderbolts* film title to reveal the meaning of its mysterious asterisk.The New Thunderbolts* title was announced in the lead up to the theatrical release of Thunderbolts*, with writer Sam Humphries and artist Ton Lima attached. Right from the jump, there was speculation that the comic could follow the same kind of twist as the movie – also renamed New Av
  
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• First haunting trailer for The Conjuring: Last Rites sees Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga take on their final case

  08-05-2025 18:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for The Conjuring: Last Rites is here, and it looks like the Warrens' final case may just be the most terrifying yet.The trailer, which you can watch below, opens with Ed and Loraine Warren giving a tour of their haunted menagerie – which, of course, features Annabelle herself sitting inside a glass case. The two are then tasked with their final case, which involves everything from creepy children and disembodied hands to sinks full of blood and crucifixes on fire. It's g
  
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• Some players swear by it, but Oblivion Remastered test finds that performance mod with 650k downloads seemingly does next to nothing: "After testing it A/B... it runs the same"

  08-05-2025 18:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Right out of the gate, there were loads of mods available for Oblivion Remastered, including ones made to further optimize the RPG, but experts claim that one popular performance mod might not have as big of an impact as expected.The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered – Ultimate Engine Tweaks mod was launched by Nexus Mods user P40L0X on the remastered RPG's release date, offering tweaks to Unreal Engine's .ini text file "with the goal to remove most stutters, improve performance and sta
  
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• Cozy sandbox RPG mash-up from former Dragon Age, Skyrim, and Witcher talent raises over $100k on Kickstarter in just 1 day

  08-05-2025 18:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hawthorn, the adorable sandbox RPG headed by talent who worked on Skyrim and other big RPG titles, has been up on Kickstarter for just one day – but it's already raised over $100,000.The upcoming RPG life sim mash-up made rounds online when it was first unveiled nearly a year ago, but its crowdfunding page on Kickstarter didn't go live until yesterday. It's been in progress for a little while, however, standing as the title that is set to be NEARstudios' debut game. The studio itself is ma
  
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• Nintendo Switch 2's huge third-party support is something "we haven't seen" from Nintendo "maybe ever, but at least for a long time, maybe even since the GameCube," analyst says

  08-05-2025 18:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  The old adage is that people buy Nintendo consoles to play Nintendo games. But the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct made a huge statement about third-party titles right out the gate, announcing the likes of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Cyberpunk 2077, and Elden Ring, as well as a brand new exclusive from FromSoftware, The Duskbloods. So GamesRadar+ asked industry analyst Mat Piscatella about how supporting third parties could affect Nintendo Switch 2."Historically, Nintendo products get purchased to play Nin
  
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• Andy Serkis' new Gollum-centric Lord of the Rings movie gets a precious December 2027 release date

  08-05-2025 18:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum is officially releasing in 2027.As reported by Variety, the next journey to Middle-earth – both starring and directed by Gollum actor Andy Serkis – will drop on December 17, 2027. That mirrors both Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies, which both released in the holiday season.Little is known about Hunt for Gollum so far, other than it filling in the off-screen, Smeagol-centric gaps between Frodo setting off after Bilbo's p
  
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• Oblivion Remastered player clears the RPG's Dark Brotherhood "murder mansion" quest in 8.75 seconds using only his fists, leaving no witnesses

  08-05-2025 17:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Now that The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered is here, fans are conjuring up challenges to spice Bethesda Game Studios' remastered RPG up – like streamer Keenan "Criken" Mosimann does in his approach to the Dark Brotherhood's "Whodunit?" quest.During a recent stream, Criken manages to clear the quest in under 10 seconds – using fists only and leaving no witnesses behind. If you've never played through Oblivion's Dark Brotherhood questline, it involves killing five NPCs attending
  
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• Former PlayStation boss blames AAA "production costs" for $80 games, says titles with "tighter teams" like Clair Obscur could be the way forward

  08-05-2025 17:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former Sony Interactive and PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida thinks the move toward $80 games was always inevitable.In the last few months, Nintendo shocked the internet by announcing that Mario Kart World would be its first modern game with a $80 price tag. Xbox wasted no time in jumping aboard and soon revealed that at least some of its new first-party games would also be $80 by the end of the year - hello, Call of Duty?So when Rockstar Games again showed off GTA 6 this week, and everyone
  
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• Razer's new gaming keyboard looks perfect for Steam Deck fans

  08-05-2025 17:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Razer has just announced a brand new gaming keyboard joining its family of high-end clackers, and the Joro is taking on the handheld market. The super-portable ultra-low-profile 65% deck weighs just 374g and sits at only 16.5mm thin, making it the most portable deck the brand has produced yet. What's more, its Bluetooth 5.0 connection means you can free up ports on your Steam Deck or Asus ROG Ally.I've had a handheld PC in my backpack for years now and regularly connect it to TVs and monitors wh
  
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• Dark Souls 3 helps explain the papal conclave to Spanish TV viewers, who may be wondering where the cardinals got all those fireballs

  08-05-2025 17:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  As the 2025 papal conclave goes on in the Sistine Chapel following the death of Pope Francis on April 21, a news channel in Spain has used Dark Souls 3 footage to illustrate what could be going on.So from my understanding, when all of the cardinals from around the world descend on the Sistine Chapel, they put it to a vote to decide who the next Pope will be, with a large majority of the vote needed to successfully elect a new person to the role. Although my knowledge is only from the film The Tw
  
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• Uma Thurman goes full Kill Bill as she faces off against Charlize Theron in first trailer for Netflix fantasy-action sequel The Old Guard 2

  08-05-2025 17:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for The Old Guard 2 has arrived – and Charlize Theron is back to kick immortal butt.In the brief clip, which can be viewed below, Andy (Theron) says she's finally at peace... until she's introduced to a new adversary - an immortal named Discord, played by none other than Uma Thurman. "For centuries, I've watched you fight to protect humanity while forsaking your own kind," she tells Andy. "I will destroy you and everything you stand for with a power you can't even imagine
  
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• John Wick director says Donnie Yen "had concerns" about his Rogue One character not living up to full potential: "It's hard when you're doing Star Wars as there's so many other things going on"

  08-05-2025 17:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  John Wick director Chad Stahelski has revealed that Donnie Yen had some doubts about his fan-favorite Rogue One character."Donnie had concerns about it because neither of us felt like that lived up to his potential," Stahelski told Collider. "I think there was more to do with that character. You know, it’s hard when you’re doing Star Wars as there’s so many other things going on."He played Chirrut Îmwe in the 2016 prequel movie, a warrior and one of the Guardians of the W
  
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• Mafia: The Old Country won't be $80 when it drops this August, but it's still a "premium experience in the vein of earlier Mafia entries"

  08-05-2025 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The leaks were true - Mafia: The Old Country is coming out on August 8, 2025 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.Hangar 13 and 2K Games announced the release date ahead of today's PAX East developer presentation, while also showing us our first look at the new Mafia's revamped combat, "refined stealth," new horse-riding and old car-driving, and its gorgeous Sicilian setting which well before any of the other games in the early 1900s.The best part? Mafia: The Old Country is going to be $50/£45
  
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• New Nintendo of America policy asks users to give up their rights to a class-action lawsuit and call customer service instead: “Most matters can be quickly resolved in this manner”

  08-05-2025 16:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo of America's latest End User License Agreement (EULA) includes a new segment asking users to agree to waive their right to join a class action lawsuit against the company.During the lifespan of the Nintendo Switch, Joy-Con drift was a hot topic, and one that got Nintendo a lot of heat from fans. It was the subject of two class action lawsuits – filed in 2019 and 2020 – that were eventually dismissed.And while Nintendo has confirmed that the new Joy-Con 2 controllers are desi
  
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• One of Andor season 2's most shocking moments has a haunting parallel with the final act of Rogue One

  08-05-2025 16:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Andor season 2 hasn't even reached its final act yet, but things are already at fever pitch. The latest batch of episodes saw the horrifying Ghorman Massacre, Mon Mothma's stirring speech to the senate, and a long-awaited confrontation. Well, for one party, anyway.In the midst of the violence that breaks out on Ghorman in episode 8, Syril Karn (Kyle Soller) still manages to spot Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) across Tarkin Square. He's waited a long time for this moment, and he instantly rushes over
  
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• PUBG creator's nails-hard survival game flips genre staples on their heads: "Have you tried chopping down a tree?"

  08-05-2025 16:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Prologue: Go Wayback, the upcoming survival game from PUBG creator Brendan Greene's new studio, wants to challenge survival genre tropes – mostly by demoting the importance of hunger/thirst meters and not relying on endless tree-felling.Speaking to the Epic Games Store, Scott Davidson – former Rust developer and now creative director on Prologue – explained that his team is reversing course on a survival game staple. Any fan of the genre will have lost a life to hunger or thirs
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs warn players have "1 more day to enjoy" the JRPG's most broken skill before it's nerfed, after they "clearly overdid it" with a last-minute damage boost

  08-05-2025 16:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 gives players a lot of freedom to create powerful character builds to destroy even the toughest enemies in your path, but it turns out that developer Sandfall Interactive might have made one powerful skill just a tad too good, and it's about to be nerfed.The skill in question is Stendahl, learned by Maelle. Stack up eight AP, and you can unleash "extreme single-target Void damage" on an unsuspecting foe. Thanks to Maelle's unique 'Stance' mechanic, which allows her to
  
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• GTA 6 mapping community is already "connecting the dots" from Rockstar's new trailer to accurately draw the game's map a full year in advance

  08-05-2025 16:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  GTA 6 won't be out for about a year, but that's not stopping one group of soon-to-be fans from trying to draw out its map as accurately as possible by piecing together screenshots, official info, Florida's geography, and Rockstar Games' newest shiny trailer.Redditor EliteFireBox posted another mock-up of the game's map shortly after the second trailer went live, created by the game's mapping community, who are "all hard at work connecting the dots." The map takes into consideration the various h
  
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• Switch 2 price could still rise, as Nintendo president says the company is racing to beat new tariffs

  08-05-2025 15:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Nintendo Switch 2 price could still rise, according to Nintendo's president, who says the company is working "quickly" to beat any potential tariff-related hikes.Shuntaro Furukawa (via Yahoo Japan, translated via DeepL) said that Nintendo's priority right now is to promote the Switch 2 as much as possible. He points out that the company's policy is to pay attention to tariffs and factor them into regional pricing, but says that "if the assumption of tariffs changes significantly, we will con
  
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• From jiggle physics to individually modeled blades of grass, this game dev proves how GTA 6 is taking Red Dead Redemption 2's visuals to the next level

  08-05-2025 15:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rockstar Games recently dropped the new GTA 6 trailer out of the blue, and it's been impressing fans since with its hyper-realistic visuals – including one professional game artist, who is now pointing out all the impressive details.In an online thread, Francesco "FR3NKD" Piacenti, who describes himself as a "professional game artist," highlights "some of the technical details I noticed in the new GTA 6 trailer." It's an impressive collection of details, to say the least, consisting of scr
  
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• After failing to sell for $100,000, one of the rarest GameCubes ever is up for auction - and its price is climbing fast

  08-05-2025 13:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nature is healing; Nintendo is finally bringing the GameCube back for the Nintendo Switch 2 via the Nintendo Switch Online app and the new GameCube controllers. Finally the GameCube is back; games are good again. However, while the new era of the console is in full swing, one of the earliest GameCubes ever made is up for sale.Nintendo used to host its own E3-style trade show with Space World, which ran from 1989 to 2001 and featured some legendary moments in Nintendo history, like the announceme
  
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• Hideo Kojima prefers casting actors he vibes with irl, and that's not going to change for his upcoming horror or spy games

  08-05-2025 13:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hideo Kojima says he picks the actors whose films he likes to watch to star in his games, and that's not likely to change with his new projects like OD and Physint.Speaking to IGN, he explained that the process of bringing an actor to life in a game like Death Stranding 2 is a complicated one. "It's not as if we can shoot everything in one three-month period like a film," he says, explaining that he looks for a "mutual bond" with the actors he wants to cast."I start with the people I like," he s
  
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• Ms. Marvel star Iman Vellani calls Thunderbolts "The Breakfast Club in tactical gear"

  08-05-2025 13:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ms. Marvel star Iman Vellani is a fan of Thunderbolts*, taking to Letterboxd to share her review of the Marvel Phase 5 movie."Five emotionally constipated misfits are forced into trauma bonding under the watchful eye of a morally bankrupt authority figure and – oh, um, hey, so this is The Breakfast Club in tactical gear. I live," Vellani wrote.Vellani isn't the only person won over by the new Marvel movie, either. The film holds a score of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, with our own Thunderbolts*
  
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• Deep Blue Sea director ditches sharks for orcas in upcoming ocean horror movie

  08-05-2025 13:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Deep Blue Sea director Renny Harlin just cannot keep away from murky waters, as the director is set to helm an upcoming horror movie about a killer orca.Harlin, best known for his 1999 killer shark movie, is ditching great whites for killer whales in Black Tides, as reported by Deadline. This means that Harlin now has two horror movies on the way based on ocean slayers, the new orca movie Black Tides, and his previously announced shark movie Deep Water.Inspired by real-life orca attacks that hav
  
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• Andor season 2 includes the highest-rated live-action Star Wars TV episodes of all time

  08-05-2025 13:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Andor season 2 is already the most critically acclaimed Star Wars project on Rotten Tomatoes, but the show now includes the highest-rated live-action episodes ever from the galaxy far, far away.Episodes 8 and 9 (titled 'Who Are You?' and 'Welcome to the Rebellion'), which both premiered this week on Disney Plus, are both rated 9.8 out of 10 on IMDb – and for good reason. As the series navigates several time jumps to bring us closer to the events of Rogue One, the stakes are higher than eve
  
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• Death Stranding 2 will "allow players that want to fight to do so more freely," Hideo Kojima says, like how Metal Gear Solid 2 "made it a little easier to use weapons"

  08-05-2025 13:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Death Stranding 2 is little over a month away from its release, and director Hideo Kojima hints that the team at Kojima Productions has taken a similar approach to fighting in the sequel as was previously taken with Konami's Metal Gear Solid 2.Speaking to IGN in an interview, Kojima is asked what he was trying to accomplish with his upcoming sequel, to which he requests that he'd "like to ask you to think back to the beginning of Metal Gear Solid."At the start of the 1998 stealth game, "no weapo
  
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• Death Stranding 2 devs worried it was "getting a little Metal Gear-ish," but Hideo Kojima himself says you don't have to be sneaky: "I don't even use stealth myself"

  08-05-2025 13:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hideo Kojima says that Death Stranding 2's apparent focus on combat and stealth doesn't mean that the core gameplay has changed too much.Speaking to IGN, Kojima says that when it comes to Death Stranding 2, "I'm not simply pushing combat. The game is still fundamentally about cargo delivery, but combat has become more flexible."For instance, "players have the choice to take a detour around enemies," or simply use a car or bike to drive around them, rather than fighting them. But some of that fle
  
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• Anime's summer season just got even more crowded with this new isekai series from the studio behind Fire Force and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

  08-05-2025 13:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  The spring season may be in full flow, but there's now one more summer name to keep an eye on amid the wave of new anime hitting our screens.Isekai series Onmyo Kaiten Re: Birth Verse is arriving on Crunchyroll on July 2. It sees a boy named Takeru become fixated on a girl who keeps appearing in his dreams.But, of course, 'isekai' might have given the game away here. Suddenly, anime does anime things – and Takeru finds himself in a strange new land."After an unexpected accident, Takeru fi
  
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• Borderlands 4's lead writer is desperately trying to keep a lid on the toilet humor: "the rejected names for this system would make a dockworker blush"

  08-05-2025 12:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  One of Borderlands 4's leading devs seems to be struggling to keep a lid on the series' classic toilet humor.Earlier this week, details emerged about a Borderlands 4 feature that will allow players to replay missions and bosses. Dubbed 'Moxxi's Big Encore machine' after the series' long-running burlesque bartender NPC, it'll offer a chance to farm items and weapon drops without exploit save systems.Apparently, however, it wasn't always known by that name, and was possibly something that made a b
  
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• Hideo Kojima already has a Death Stranding 3 pitch that could relate to a DS2 plot device, but "I am not going to make it myself"

  08-05-2025 12:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hideo Kojima may already be making three separate games with Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, OD, and Physint, but he already has ideas for Death Stranding 3. Just don't expect him to be making it, though.Death Stranding 2 is mere weeks away at this point, and if the recently released trailer is anything to go by, it looks to be an ambitious follow-up to the original game. And clearly Kojima Productions is confident, as it invited press to play 30 hours of the upcoming game, around two months ah
  
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• Palworld studio makes "yet another compromise" amid Nintendo lawsuit by changing the survival game's gliding mechanic

  08-05-2025 12:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Palworld developer Pocketpair has given an update on its ongoing legal battle with Nintendo and The Pokemon Company as it makes another change to its survival game, which it says is "necessary in order to prevent further disruptions to the development of Palworld."Nintendo and The Pokemon Company filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair last September, alleging that Palworld "infringes multiple patents." It was later revealed that Pocketpair was specifically alleged to have infringed upon three patent
  
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• The Last of Us season 3 will "definitely" provide answers about a season 2 mystery, promise showrunners: "We just didn't know if we were getting canceled"

  08-05-2025 12:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Last of Us season 2 is leaving a few questions unanswered – but only for now. With the second game in the franchise being adapted across two seasons, it looks like we can expect some mysteries to be unravelled in season 3 instead, including the one surrounding Isaac.Jeffrey Wright's double-crossing FEDRA agent turned WLF leader was introduced in episode 4 of season 2, where we see him torturing a Seraphite at the WLF base in Seattle. The WLF and the Seraphites are at war with one anoth
  
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• GTA 6's new trailer has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference to Red Dead Redemption 2, further proving they're set in the same universe

  08-05-2025 12:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  There's a split-second reference to Red Dead Redemption 2 hiding out in the new GTA 6 trailer, somewhat unsurprisingly.Rockstar Games has been tucking clues and Easter Eggs in its open-world games for decades, and over the years, it's become increasingly obvious that its cowboy romps (Red Dead) are set a few decades before its modern crime fest satires (Grand Theft Auto).In the new GTA 6 trailer, if you zoom in on any of the scenes set in a strip club - for research purposes, of course - you'll
  
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• Elden Ring DLC and Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero made up for Bandai Namco's disastrous 2024, spiking profits nearly 1000%

  08-05-2025 12:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Elden Ring DLC and Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero helped drive their publisher's profits up by almost 1000% in 2024.Bandai Namco published its financial results for the past financial year (which ended on March 31) early this morning (via Automaton). Net sales jumped by just under $600 million to $3.16 billion, but profit spiked a huge amount - growing 995% to $475 million.That much growth means that while the 2025 financial year was a successful one, the 2024 year was likely substantially worse - c
  
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• Nintendo predicts Switch 2 will sell 15 million units and 45 million games in its first year, so it's "working to strengthen our production to meet demand"

  08-05-2025 12:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo is gearing up for its long-awaited release of the Switch 2 – its new console that the company now predicts will sell at least 15 million units, with following game sales reaching even greater heights potentially.In the company's recently revealed end-of-year financial results, Nintendo shares its fiscal forecast for a post-Switch 2 world – and it certainly looks bright. "Nintendo Switch 2, our new dedicated video game system, will launch on June 5, 2025," reads the report, g
  
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• Andor's Tony Gilroy said he "hijacked canon" to retcon Mon Mothma's big moment from Star Wars Rebels: "Do I have to stick to this speech?"

  08-05-2025 12:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Andor creator Tony Gilroy has explained why Mon Mothma's iconic anti-Empire speech naming Emperor Palpatine as being behind the Ghorman Massacre was changed from its initial iteration in Star Wars Rebels."We are hijacking canon," Tony Gilroy told Entertainment Weekly of the decision to deviate from a set-in-stone event on the Star Wars timeline. "In canon, she's rescued by the Gold Squadron and the speech that they gave in the cartoon, which was a canonical show, [is on that ship]. And [writer D
  
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• Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's performance woes didn't hold back its sales, as Gen 9 overtakes Sword and Shield to become the series' all-time runner-ups

  08-05-2025 11:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have sneaked ahead of Pokemon Sword and Shield to become the series' second best-selling games.In new sales information released during its latest investor call, Nintendo confirmed that the most recent mainline Pokemon games had sold 26.79 million copies. That means that they've just managed to overtake Sword and Shield, which have shipped 26.72 million copies.Those 70,000 units are a pretty minor difference when you're talking about the 20+ million sales that some of
  
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• Eric Barone can't say if Haunted Chocolatier will be out by 2030, but "that's the goal" and "it has to be better" than Stardew Valley

  08-05-2025 01:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Haunted Chocolatier , the follow-up to Stardew Valley, was announced back in October 2021, but creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone can't say whether it'll be out in five years.To be fair, Barone was put on the spot in an appearance on Bobby Lee's TigerBelly podcast (timestamped here), and he was probably just being extra careful not to commit to anything or confirm a launch window on a podcast, but his answer gives you an idea of how early in development Haunted Chocolatier appears to be despite
  
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