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• Fortnite promises 20% back on V-bucks as long as you promise to give your money to Epic and not Apple

  09-05-2025 23:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  From now on, Epic's promising 20% on every single Fortnite V-bucks purchase – or any other item you buy in the publisher's free-to-play games. All you have to do is make your purchases directly through Epic rather than a platform-holder's store. As Fortnite makes ready to return to iPhones following years of legal drama, it's difficult to see this as anything other than one last jab at Apple."Starting today, when you make a purchase in Fortnite, Rocket League, and Fall Guys using Epic&rsqu
  
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• Suits spin-off cancelled at NBC after just one season

  09-05-2025 23:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Suits: LA has been cancelled ahead of its season finale after just one season.According to Deadline, the cancellation has to do with low streaming numbers, with each episode hovering at around one million viewers. Per the report, there have been "modest week-to-week ratings bumps here and there but overall, viewership has remained low."NBC pursued a spin-off due to the show's record-breaking numbers on Netflix. After the first eight seasons of the show were added to the streamer in June 2023, th
  
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• Spider-Man: Brand New Day casts The Bear star in mystery role

  09-05-2025 23:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Yes Jeff! Spider-Man: Brand New Day has cast The Bear actor Liza Colón-Zayas, who won an Emmy for playing the character Tina Marrero, in an unnamed role, as reported by Deadline.Colón-Zayas joins a burgeoning cast consisting of Tom Holland in his fourth turn in the starring role of Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Stranger Things actor Sadie Sink, who was previously cast in her own mystery role.As for Liza Colón-Zayas, it's unclear what role she might play. There aren't many obvi
  
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• Rogue punches out a dragon in Uncanny X-Men #18 as a "never before shown" part of X-history is revealed

  09-05-2025 21:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Uncanny X-Men launched with Gambit making a deal with an ancient, mythical dragon – and now, the dragon has come home to roost, forcing Gambit to make good on their bargain. In Uncanny X-Men #18, Rogue will come calling to save her husband from the dragon.But things aren't exactly as they seem, as Gambit and the dragon have come to an uneasy arrangement of peace, meaning Rogue may be bashing her way into a situation without all the facts.We've got an early preview of Uncanny X-Men #18 by w
  
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• "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games

  09-05-2025 20:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  In an era where more games are charging $80, how much will Gearbox parent Take-Two be asking for Borderlands 4 ahead of the delayed launch of GTA 6? Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says he doesn't know the Borderlands 4 price himself, but he's not ruling out "the new price that Nintendo and Microsoft have led with," nodding to recent price hikes across Xbox and the $80 tag on the Nintendo Switch 2 launch title Mario Kart World.Asked about Borderlands 4's price at a PAX East panel, Pitchford says: "
  
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• The creator of XCOM has high hopes for Switch 2's mouse Joy-Cons and strategy games: "Mouse control RTS might work really well here"

  09-05-2025 20:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Going off the ferocious demand for Switch 2 pre-orders, everyone's pretty psyched for Nintendo's upcoming console, but its quirky mouse controls and GameChat communication features have yet to really prove their worth. Even so, original XCOM creator Julian Gollop is fully onboard with both of those Switch 2 features, and specifically their potential for strategy games.As part of a wide-ranging group developer interview with GamesRadar+, Gollop said he's been a big fan of Nintendo handhelds going
  
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• Borderlands 4 boss raises Todd Howard's 'you can climb that mountain' Skyrim promise: "You see something anywhere on the screen, a mile away, up in the sky, you will be able to get there"

  09-05-2025 20:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first time Bethesda boss Todd Howard was selling us all on Skyrim, somewhere around the Cretaceous period, he famously insisted that "that mountain is not just a backdrop, you can walk all the way to the top of that mountain."This 'you can climb that mountain' promise has evolved into one of the many memes stuck to Howard's leather jacket like a fish hook in your thumb, and it's a promise that Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford has now one-upped with extremely similar verbiage in his excitement fo
  
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• Peacemaker season 2 trailer seems to embrace the Multiverse as John Cena's antihero meets his doppelganger

  09-05-2025 19:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new trailer for Peacemaker season 2 has arrived - and it's already packing in cameos, surprises, and major teases about what's to come as the fan favorite streaming series returns.In the brief clip, which can be viewed below, we see John Cena suit up once again as Peacemaker for an interview with the Justice League, specifically with Sean Gunn's Maxwell Lord, Isabela Merced's Hawkgirl, and Nathan Fillion's Green Lantern Guy Gardner. But things don't go exactly as planned.Have a look:Along with
  
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• 28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it"

  09-05-2025 19:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite its limited content and tiny scope, the 1997 PC title Lego Island packed in enough charm to completely ingrain itself in the brains of a generation of Lego fans. The love for the game runs so deep that a group of fans spent nearly two years recreating the game's source code, which was believed to be lost, by hand – but it seems the code wasn't quite so lost, after all.The Lego Island Decompilation project got underway in the first half of 2023, and as of December 2024, is now 100%
  
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• Next Godzilla x Kong movie announces title with a dramatic new teaser – and it's already in production

  09-05-2025 18:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Godzilla and Kong are back, baby.The first teaser for the next MonsterVerse movie, Godzilla x Kong: Supernova, has got a dramatic first teaser that not only sets up an ominous emergency of some kind, but also reveals the movie is in production now. Watch it above.That's not all, either, as this is the first confirmation we've got of the movie's title. Supernova certainly sounds epic to us – and it calls to mind Godzilla's atomic breath, too.Not much is known about the new movie yet, but a
  
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• REPO is making a big change to Overcharge "that makes the game harder every 10th level" and it won't just be "a gimmick for no reason"

  09-05-2025 18:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  REPO is 2025's biggest surprise hit so far, in terms of something that's gone from obscurity to superstar status overnight bringing in a staggering amount of reviews. The co-op horror game where you play as funny little robots moving furniture received its first update in the beta branch last week, but the game's developer has decided to make some changes to the new Overcharge mechanic based on player feedback.Overcharge is a mechanic that was introduced to combat the somewhat overpowered option
  
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• Taskmaster could have been a very different character as Black Widow star reveals he originally auditioned for the role: "He was this kind of maniacal-like character"

  09-05-2025 18:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Black Widow star O-T Fagbenle has revealed that he originally auditioned for another, very different role in the Marvel movie: Taskmaster."Basically, I first auditioned for Taskmaster, and it was a really incredible speech, actually. It was an audition I was very proud of," Fagbenle told The Direct. "I've still got it in the back someplace. I made him with an African accent, and he was this kind of maniacal-like character."Instead, he ended up playing Rick Mason in the 2021 prequel, a figure fro
  
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• The Witcher 3 is getting the asymmetrical horror treatment as Geralt, Triss, Yennefer and Ciri cosmetics come to Dead by Daylight

  09-05-2025 18:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Witcher 3 might not be a horror game, but an upcoming Dead by Daylight collection will let you pretend it is.Behaviour Interactive announced the CD Projekt Red collaboration today at PAX East, alongside an official Dead by Daylight x Five Nights at Freddy's chapter that was teased last year and will feature the vocal talents of Scream's Matthew Lilliard. But when you're not hacking at Survivors as Springtrap, the cat-and-mouse game's upcoming Witcher 3 collection boasts an array of Killer an
  
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• REPO dev has been joining and questioning players "incognito, in secret, through the random matchmaking" in the big update beta

  09-05-2025 17:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Have you been checking out REPO's update beta recently? Well, I hope you were on your best behavior because there's a good chance you were sneakily joined by its developers who were jumping into games "incognito" to see how everyone was liking the changes.Semiwork developer Pontus Sundstrom says so in a new dev vlog. "The open beta has been unleashed upon the world, and it's been so fun to see you guys interact with all the new stuff we've added," he explains in the video embedded below."And I'v
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 gets its first big patch, as the RPG's devs say "this is the first in a series of patches we are looking to do over the coming months"

  09-05-2025 17:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 patch 1.2.3 is here, and the game's first major patch doesn't just nerf the overpowered Maelle build that's been breaking the RPG since launch. There's an array of other tweaks, too, and the devs say more fixes and additional features are on the table for further patches coming in the months ahead."This is the first in a series of patches we are looking to do over the coming months," Sandfall Interactive says in the patch notes. "We are still investigating many featur
  
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• Jeremy Renner says "some" of Hawkeye season 2's most interesting rumors are true, but they've "still gotta figure things out" before it happens

  09-05-2025 16:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jeremy Renner has addressed the possibility of Hawkeye season 2 – and whether the whispers that it will be like action classic The Raid are true.Josh Horowitz brought up the idea that a second season of Hawkeye could be "Raid-style, single location" to Renner during a recent episode of Happy Sad Confused.2011's The Raid, directed by Gareth Evans, revolved around a rookie officer fighting his way through to the top of an apartment building in the hopes of arresting a crime boss.Renner repli
  
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• The Witcher 3's deadliest foe might just be The Bloody Baron's Gwent deck, which has spent 10 years kicking our collective butts across 458 million matches

  09-05-2025 16:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Later this month, The Witcher 3 celebrates its tenth anniversary, and CD Projekt Red is kicking off the celebrations by revealing one of the game's toughest foes - The Bloody Baron's Gwent deck.In a tweet celebrating ten years of The Witcher 3, the studio revealed that over the past decade, Geralt has partaken in more than 458 million rounds of Gwent. You might wonder how he had time for quite so many games of cards when Ciri's fate hung in the balance, but that's a question that's probably bett
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's big Maelle nerf is even worse than we thought, as it turns out one of her best weapons was never meant to be so powerful in the first place

  09-05-2025 16:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's first big update is here, and while it mainly focuses on squashing bugs, it turns out one powerful build is getting an even bigger nerf than previously anticipated.Yesterday, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive revealed that it was going to be toning down the power of Stendhal – an incredibly strong skill learned by Maelle that could be used to decimate bosses and reach ridiculously high damage records. The devs "clearly overdid it" with
  
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• A new Netflix sci-fi show that's storming up the charts has a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, and it has Hideo Kojima's approval: "This is really good"

  09-05-2025 16:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new Netflix sci-fi TV show is storming up the global charts, and it's proving itself a hit.The show, titled The Eternaut, based on the Argentine comic of the same name by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López, is set in Buenos Aires and sees the population decimated by a toxic snowfall of alien origins.At the time of writing, the show sits at number two on the weekly Netflix global TV chart, with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 94%."I binge watched 3 episodes of T
  
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• Behold, all 5,000-plus frames of GTA 6's latest trailer, which have been uploaded online as detectives work to uncover all of Rockstar's secrets

  09-05-2025 16:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  The new GTA 6 trailer sent the game's fanbase into a frenzy. While most of us looked at it and went, "hey, that game looks pretty good," GTA fans were looking for every little detail available during the two minutes and 40 seconds of footage available. Thanks to those people, we are aware of everything from the incredibly impressive beer bubble tech and cloth animations to a Red Dead Redemption 2 reference and the signs of a resurrected Phil Cassidy from GTA 3.But those weren't enough for some,
  
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• Andor star reveals there were "three or four" other options for what Cassian says to them in this week's long-awaited showdown

  09-05-2025 16:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  The latest batch of Andor season 2 episodes was nothing short of dramatic. Things turned disturbingly violent with the Ghorman Massacre and Mon Mothma made a dangerously honest speech to the senate, but a smaller-scale conflict also came to a head.Imperial stooge Syril Karn (Kyle Soller) finally came face-to-face with the subject of years of obsession: Cassian Andor (Diego Luna). He spots Cassian across Tarkin Square in the midst of the Empire's massacre on Ghorman and starts to fight him, but i
  
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• Switch 2 games like Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza "could not be realized" on Switch 1, says Nintendo president to hardware doubter

  09-05-2025 15:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza could only have been made on Nintendo Switch 2, according to Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa.During a recent investor Q&A (translated via DeepL), Furukawa was asked how much of a technical jump there was between the Switch 2 and its predecessor. In response, he said that "higher hardware processing performance has become necessary for software developers to realize one of Nintendo's most important goals: proposing new ways to play."With that in m
  
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• In true Undertale fashion, the Deltarune website now features various mysterious pages fans are scrambling to decipher: "What the f*** does this mean?"

  09-05-2025 15:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  As Undertale creator Toby Fox prepares to release the long-awaited Deltarune Chapters 3 and 4 next month when the Switch 2 launches, fans are uncovering some mysterious new URLs hosted on the RPG's official website.Both Undertale and Deltarune have featured their fair share of puzzling mysteries for fans to solve, from the enigmatic "Man" to Pluey, but the latest batch might just be the most cryptic of all yet. As spotted by various excited players online, the official Deltarune website now host
  
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• This limited edition glow-in-the-dark PS5 skin is giving me serious 90s bedroom vibes

  09-05-2025 14:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Back in 2019, Dbrand launched its limited-edition 'Robot' custom vinyl skins that gave everything from your Xbox Series X/S to your Steam Deck a fresh new look. Now, a whole 6 years later, the brand known for being behind some of the best PS5 accessories has brought it back in 'Glowbot' form - but only for a limited time.On its own, Robot was one of the brand's more iconic custom skins, featuring a white and black illustrated pattern of what the future might look like once our robotic overlords
  
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• 10 years before Thunderbolts, Sentry actor Lewis Pullman auditioned for a very different Marvel role

  09-05-2025 13:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Thunderbolts* star Lewis Pullman may be garnering praise for his performance as Sentry in the movie, but turns out he auditioned to play a very different Marvel character a decade ago: Peter Parker's best friend, Ned."Lewis Pullman actually auditioned for me for the role of Ned Leeds in Spider-Man 10 years ago," Marvel casting director Sarah Finn revealed to IGN.Jacob Batalon ended up playing Ned alongside Tom Holland's Peter Parker in 2017's Spider-Man: Homecoming, as well as its sequels Far Fr
  
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• In a world of jetpacks and mechs, Helldivers 2 players are losing their mind over a sword, and yeah, I get it

  09-05-2025 13:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Some Helldivers 2 players are absolutely chuffed that they're finally getting a sword, of all things, in a game already stuffed with mechs and jetpacks and planet-eating black holes - and, honestly, me too.Arrowhead Game Studios yesterday announced the Masters of Ceremony Warbond, coming May 15, which is reminding the sci-fi world of a time when humans used to war with bayonets and dress fancy in meetings about bloodshed. It might be slightly slimmer than most Warbonds, but this one makes up for
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 Lae'zel actor had a little chair in the booth because she was still recording 2 days before giving birth: "My waters broke after the session"

  09-05-2025 13:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate 3 Lae'zel actor Devora Wilde was particularly committed to getting all her lines recorded - remaining in the booth even while nine months pregnant, and almost right up until the birth of her child.In an interview with Ready Aim Fire (via PC Gamer), Wilde explained that she was still at work until "two days" before giving birth. Being nine months pregnant does take a bit of a physical toll, so Wilde says that Larian gave her "a little chair" so she could have a sit down in-between l
  
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• Warhammer spoils its biggest 2025 reveal with a fun, tongue-in-cheek teaser

  09-05-2025 13:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  It was starting to feel like an open secret that a new edition of Warhammer Horus Heresy – a grittier, more in-depth version of 40K set a millennia before – was on its way, and it seems like publisher Games Workshop agrees.That's because it just launched a thoroughly tongue-in-cheek page called 'The Horus Hearsay.' This poses as a fansite dedicated to rattling off "all the rumours, rumblings, and hearsay on the Age of Darkness," complete with behind-the-scenes sprue shots and a lot o
  
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• Nintendo of America might turn your Switch into an expensive paperweight if you mod your console or install any "unauthorized" games, new policy warns

  09-05-2025 13:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  It sounds like Nintendo is really trying to crack down on Switch modding, as a new update to Nintendo of America's User Account Agreement says that your console may become "permanently unusable in whole or in part" if you break certain new restrictions.The new user account End User License Agreement (EULA) was sent out earlier this week, and as reported by Game File, it makes some significant changes to the second section, "license." Before we get into it, it's worth noting that Nintendo explain
  
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• Silent Hill 2 movie from the director behind the controversial 2006 Silent Hill will be a "faithful adaptation" of the "masterpiece of a game" that is the PS2 classic

  09-05-2025 01:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Return to Silent Hill, the live-action film adaptation of Silent Hill 2, is being directed by Christophe Gans, who helmed the controversial 2006 Silent Hill movie, but it sounds like this new one will be more faithful to the game.Per Variety, Return to Silent Hill is set for a theatrical release on the big screen. There's still no release date attached, but we now know Cineverse has acquired the rights for the movie in the US. The company promised it'll be "a faithful adaptation of the video gam
  
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• FPS legend John Romero says it's a "huge honor" for Quake to join the World Video Game Hall of Fame alongside GoldenEye, the inescapable Tamagotchi, and an iconic '80s arcade classic

  09-05-2025 00:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  The latest round of inductees to The Strong Museum's World Video Game Hall of Fame were announced today, and we've got a quad of certified icons in this lineup. Defender, GoldenEye, Tamagotchi, and Quake are the winners this year, and the legendary John Romero says it's a "huge honor" for the 1996 FPS he designed to finally join the hall of fame."It's a huge honor for Quake to be inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame," Romero exclaimed on Twitter. "On behalf of the entire original Quak
  
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