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• After 16 years dormant, Friday the 13th returns from the bottom of Crystal Lake with a new Jason mask marking the iconic horror series' 45th anniversary

  12-05-2025 22:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Largely due to a decades-long legal dispute between Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller and director Sean Cunningham, we haven't seen a new Friday the 13th movie since 2009's criminally underrated reboot. To make matters worse, the 2017 multiplayer horror game Friday the 13th: The Game got ensnared in the lawsuit and was unceremoniously shut down at the end of 2024.Thankfully, the legal battle has come to an end, and while I won't bore you with too much of the details, essentially, Miller
  
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• Nintendo Switch 2 adds a feature that I want on basically every device I own: battery charging settings that limit your juice and reduce "deterioration"

  12-05-2025 22:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo has lifted the veil on another new Switch 2 feature that's looking like a game-changer for the new console, and one I need pretty much every piece of handheld electronics to start copying stat. You'll be able to cap your system's charge at 90% to help reduce the degradation of your battery over time.As revealed in a new post on the Nintendo Today app, when you toggle this option on, "the Nintendo Switch 2 system stops charging when it reaches about 90% remaining battery. Pausing the cha
  
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• Leaked Stellar Blade PC trailer shows June 11 release date, every graphics setting I could ask for, a new boss fight, and 25 new costumes that look pretty good

  12-05-2025 22:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stellar Blade will finally come to PC on June 11, according to a leaked trailer posted and hastily removed by the PlayStation YouTube channel (and archived on Reddit).We've known that Stellar Blade would come to PC in June since February; an initial release window was announced alongside the long-teased collab DLC with Nikke, developer Shift Up's previous, significantly hornier game, which is also coming in June.For a while, it wasn't clear whether Stellar Blade would come to PC at all, though i
  
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• Hayley Atwell "would love" to return as Captain Carter in Avengers Doomsday or Secret Wars: "She's very much an underserved character"

  12-05-2025 22:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hayley Atwell says she wouldn't mind returning as Captain Peggy Carter for Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars."I would love that,” Atwell told Den of Geek. "There are so many things that she could do, there's so much more I feel I can bring to a character because I've developed as time's gone on.What's so great about having time behind you and having had a 20-year career so far is the development of skill, and I think there's so much more that Peggy can do. She's very much an und
  
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• The Office spin-off gets release window and first look featuring a fan-favorite character from the original series

  12-05-2025 21:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  NBC and Peacock have revealed the first look and release window for The Paper, a spin-off of The Office from OG creator Greg Daniels, Nathan For You co-creator Michael Koman, and executive producer Ricky Gervais.Set in the same universe as the original American series, the spin-off follows the documentary crew that immortalized Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch as they, while searching for a new subject, "discover a historic Toledo newspaper, The Truth Teller, and the eager publisher trying
  
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• It's "more of an action RPG," but Eric Barone says Haunted Chocolatier is still "a life sim" and "similar to Stardew Valley in many ways" but with more "dark and mysterious" vibes

  12-05-2025 20:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone says Haunted Chocolatier should still generally be considered a life sim despite previously teasing more robust action-RPG elements.Haunted Chocolatier has been something of a mystery since its reveal back in 2021, and not just because of its spooky, paranormal setting and story.Although we know it's a fully new game independent from Stardew Valley, on the surface it looks like it could be a Halloween-themed Stardew DLC with the same mechanics and gameplay. However, in
  
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• Star of Naughty Dog's Intergalactic says Neil Druckmann has been "bootcamp-ing" her after The Last of Us backlash: "I know Laura Bailey's experience"

  12-05-2025 19:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Actor Tati Grabrielle has been connected with Naughty Dog for years now, thanks to her appearances in the 2022 Uncharted film and the ongoing The Last of Us season 2. Her starring role in the upcoming Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophecy is her biggest collaboration with the studio yet, and she says she's been briefed by director Neil Druckmann on all the unfortunate baggage that can come from the worst parts of gaming fandom."Neil's been bootcamp-ing me," Gabrielle tells Entertainment Weekly. "I
  
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• The First Descendant devs reveal Nier: Automata collab and hoverbike at PAX East as live audience politely claps for anime butt

  12-05-2025 19:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  The First Descendant developer Nexon showed off a heap of new content for the free-to-play looter shooter at PAX East this weekend, where a live audience also respectfully applauded playable character Bunny's leather-clad ass on a new hoverbike.While The First Descendant's Season 3 Breakthrough update this summer will introduce a fresh story and social "lounge area" feature to the multiplayer game, and Nexon announced a Nier: Automata crossover with promising outfits, the developer seems most pr
  
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• CD Projekt Red exec says Ciri is a great choice for The Witcher 4, and she opens up new possibilities for the series after more than a decade of RPGs

  12-05-2025 18:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  After revealing The Witcher 4 with its cinematic trailer at The Game Awards 2024, developer CD Projekt Red has been hard at work on its upcoming RPG – one that CD Projekt chief financial officer Piotr Nielubowicz hopes will be a "proud successor" to the series' past entries.Discussing Ciri's new role as protagonist in The Witcher 4 in a recent interview with Parkiet (translated by Google and DeepL), Nielubowicz recalls the reveal trailer that debuted during last year's Game Awards. While i
  
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• Legendary programmer credited with saving "lost" Fallout source code confirms it was never lost in the first place: "If I do get permission from Bethesda to release the source code, I will do so"

  12-05-2025 18:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  In April, Fallout creator Tim Cain published a video where he discussed the challenges facing game preservation. In that video, Cain noted that developer Interplay had ordered him to destroy his personal archive of the RPG's development, and many of the original materials used in the creation of the game had been lost. However, Cain explicitly noted that the Fallout source code was not among those lost materials – a detail that got seriously twisted as the story spread across the internet.
  
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• "I make one stupid pant s**t joke and it all goes ballistic": Helldivers 2 CEO fears "Reddit did what it always did" after he teased new updates, so now "we better deliver"

  12-05-2025 18:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  What's the most exciting thing anyone could possibly say about the future of their game? That it's gonna make everyone "shit [their] pants," apparently – a promise jokingly made by Helldivers 2 studio CEO Shams Jorjani, and one that the devs are now pressured to deliver on after Reddit went ballistic over it.At the end of April, Arrowhead CEO Jorjani was chatting away in the Helldivers 2 Discord server, answering a few questions from democracy-loving players. In amongst all that, one fan a
  
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• Taking the sting off that GTA 6 delay, Rockstar leaker says GTA 4 could get a modern port this year, with Max Payne 3 to follow

  12-05-2025 18:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  While we're all-in on GTA 6 thanks to the new trailer, there's still another year and change to wait thanks to the most recent delay, which pushed the game to May 26, 2026. However, we could be in for some more GTA to tide us over, according to well-known leaker Tez2, who has hinted that a port of GTA 4 may be on the way in the very near future.In a post on GTA Forums, Tez said, "Someone at Rockstar hinted at the IV port, and by now it should've gone up a year in development. We may end up seein
  
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• Wicked's Michelle Yeoh will play a retired surgeon fighting for her life in a new action movie from John Wick producers

  12-05-2025 18:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Michelle Yeoh is set to star in The Surgeon, a new action movie from Thunder Road, the production company behind John Wick.Per Deadline, Yeoh will play a retired surgeon "who is abducted and forced to operate on a mystery patient. Though greatly outnumbered, her captors have overlooked her greatest weapon: 35 years of surgical experience, leading to an explosive and brutal confrontation during which she outwits and cuts down her enemies in a visual style that defies anything you have seen before
  
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• After Suicide Squad's $200 million flop and a massacre of studios, Warner Bros acknowledges it has "no releases" out, it's spending 66% less on game content, and the Hogwarts Legacy boom is wearing off

  12-05-2025 17:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warner Bros. Games has been going through a massive rough patch lately, with three of its studios – including Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and open-world Wonder Woman game developer Monolith Productions – all recently shut down. Now, in a new financial report, it's revealed that its revenue and spending is down compared to this time last year, which isn't a shock when it has "no releases" to speak of.Spotted by PC Gamer, in Warner Bros. Discovery's results for the first quarter of
  
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• James Gunn announces filming has wrapped on Supergirl in the most nonchalant way

  12-05-2025 17:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Good news DC fans, James Gunn has sneakily confirmed that filming on upcoming movie Supergirl has officially wrapped.Rather than announcing the news via a behind-the-scenes image as he usually does, the DC Studios co-CEO decided to confirm that filming had concluded in the most nonchalant way, replying to a fan on Instagram Threads. "James, I wanna hear from you… has Supergirl really wrapped filming?" asked the fan, to which Gunn replied, "Yes it has."The news comes just over one month be
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 features "ultra hard" minigames inspired by the RPG director's time in Final Fantasy 10's infamous chocobo races

  12-05-2025 17:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  If there's one in-game area Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 players have had trouble with, it's the Gestral Beaches and their accompanying challenges – challenges Sandfall Interactive lead and game director Guillaume Broche admits are his own doing.Discussing the already infamous minigames in a recent interview with Xavier "MisterMV" Dang on YouTube, Broche explains that it was actually beloved JRPG Final Fantasy 10 that inspired him to implement challenges like climbing, platforming, racing,
  
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• Don’t mind the 12-year wait — ex Rockstar dev suggests GTA 6 production really started in 2018

  12-05-2025 16:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  We've all been waiting on GTA 6 for over a decade now, with GTA 5 being just under 12 years old now (and it will be almost 13 by the time the game releases thanks to the new delay). However, despite how good the new GTA 6 trailer looks, being packed full of impressive visual details like realistic beer bottles and cloth animations, the game hasn't been in active development for that whole time.Environment artist David O'Reilly – who worked at Rockstar during the development of GTA 5, Red D
  
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• The trailer for the next episode of The Last of Us season 2 features tons of Pedro Pascal, and it looks like it will break your heart

  12-05-2025 16:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you were missing Pedro Pascal's Joel a bit too much, we have good news for you – the next The Last of Us season 2 episode seemingly features a lot of the character through flashbacks. The bad news? It will probably break your heart.In the episode's teaser trailer (you can watch it above), we see a few scenes starring Joel and Bella Ramsey's Ellie. At first they seem to be happy, as their father-daughter relationship flourishes despite the threats around them during the events of season
  
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• Andor emulates a key plot point from Game of Thrones with one small detail in season 2 episode 9

  12-05-2025 16:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Andor season 2 episode 9 may already be one of the highest-rated Star Wars TV episodes of all time (and the second season is the franchise's highest-rated live-action project on Rotten Tomatoes, too), but viewers are still spotting neat little plot details that elevate the show even further.One fan has pointed out that a particular blaster serves a similar purpose in the narrative to the catspaw dagger in Game of Thrones, passing from hand to hand in a kind of poetic arc. "Kathleen [Kennedy, Luc
  
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• The Last of Us season 2 director on why episode 5's surprising ending delivered: "It was the right tonal gear shift"

  12-05-2025 16:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Last of Us season 2 has already hit us with plenty of emotional gut punches in its final few minutes, but none quite like this.Spoilers for The Last of Us season 2, episode 5 follow.The Last of Us' latest episode sees Ellie (Bella) find a lead in the ongoing hunt for Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) – in the shape of Tati Gabrielle's Nora. Instead of a normal interrogation, Ellie flips and repeatedly attacks her in brutal fashion.Ordinarily, the cut to black would signal the end of the episode but
  
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• Director of cult horror comedy says Warner Bros. boss "put the final nail in the coffin for Tucker and Dale" by scrapping a TV spin-off

  12-05-2025 15:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite becoming a cult horror comedy in the early 2010s, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil might never get a sequel after all. The film's co-writer and director Eli Craig recently revealed there were a few scrapped projects along the way, including a TV series."Honestly, Tucker and Dale 2 has died more deaths than the college kids in Tucker and Dale," he said in an interview with SlashFilm."We've had so many versions that have almost got off its feet or, for one reason or another, have gotten killed.
  
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• The Last of Us fans think Bella Ramsey "bodied" the brutal showdown in season 2 episode 5: "Stone cold vengeance mode"

  12-05-2025 15:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Last of Us season 2 amped up a notch with episode 5. This week's installment saw things take an even darker turn for Bella Ramsey's Ellie as she came face-to-face with one of her adversaries – but before we get any further, this is your warning that the following contains major spoilers for The Last of Us season 2 episode 5.If you're still here, you'll know that Ellie and Dina's second day in Seattle culminated with Ellie confronting Nora (Tati Gabrielle), a WLF doctor who was present
  
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• It might be price hike season, but Sony just dopped a new PS Plus PS5 bundle that's actually a bargain

  12-05-2025 14:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  A brand-new PlayStation 5 bundle has appeared on the official Sony online store and select retailers today, packing in the Sony console and 24 months of PS Plus Premium.The best PS5 bundles in the past year have typically come with a digital copy of a hugely popular game, like Astro Bot, but this time, Sony has put the emphasis on a whopping two years' worth of PS Plus instead.12 months of PS Plus Premium right now is $159.99 on the official US PlayStation Store, and the disc edition launch PS5
  
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• Assassin's Creed Shadows devs "just couldn't wait" to sneakily add some parkour improvements ahead of a bigger Title Update with some much smoother freerunning

  12-05-2025 13:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Shadows' big parkour update isn't due out until later this month, but Ubisoft "just couldn't wait," and quietly snuck some improvements into last week's title update, too.Last week's Assassin's Creed Shadows update, version 1.0.4, added a new free story pack and made a plethora of bug fixes, but one thing its patch notes didn't mention was the changes made to its parkour mechanics. Some significant differences have been spotted by content creator Ropotopolous, who shares a video
  
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• The New Avengers are here in new Thunderbolts poster, which mimics an iconic piece Avengers: Endgame art

  12-05-2025 13:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  The New Avengers are here and proud in a new Thunderbolts* art, which is a direct call back to a highly memorable Avengers: Endgame poster.The new poster, created by artist Eileen Steinbach of SG Posters, shows silhouettes of the Thunderbolts standing in a line. However, below, theirshadows resemble The Avengers. Hawkeye’s shadow stands underneath Ghost, Hulk below Red Guardian, Black Widow below Yelena, Iron Man below Bucky, Captain America below John, and Thor below Bob.This is reminisce
  
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• Ori and the Blind Forest studio is "not in immediate financial danger," CEO clarifies after suggesting it could shut down after negative reviews on action RPG No Rest for the Wicked

  12-05-2025 11:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  The CEO of Ori and the Blind Forest developer Moon Studios has clarified comments he made about the studio potentially facing the threat of shutdown following a wave of negative reviews on its early access action RPG No Rest for the Wicked, noting that "we're not in immediate financial danger."No Rest for the Wicked has been in early access for just over a year now, but at the end of last month, a new update, The Breach, was released, which initially went down rather poorly with players. Despite
  
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• Nier: Automata might've never happened as the producer considered "a very famous title that everyone knows" before the action RPG series: "But I chose Yoko Taro!"

  12-05-2025 11:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nier: Automata and prequel Nier: Replicant ver.1.22474487139 are now revered by players worldwide as action RPG gems, but they only came to fruition after producer Yosuke Saito took a chance on director Yoko Taro.The producer admits as much while recalling Nier's beginnings during a recent interview with Famitsu (as reported by Automaton). As Taro remembers how the game's creators didn't at first expect much to come of Nier, the now-iconic series the director describes as initially being an "exp
  
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• Tom Cruise said he was asked to make Top Gun sequels "over and over" before Maverick, but wanted to prove himself elsewhere: "I wanted more challenges"

  12-05-2025 11:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  It is a truth universally acknowledged that, when something works in Hollywood, it will be exploited until its last breath.After the massive success of Top Gun in the 80s, Paramount Pictures immediately asked Tom Cruise to come back for a sequel, but the actor recently recalled how he consistently rejected their advances. He had more ambitious plans as one of Hollywood's shiniest rising stars of the time."They really wanted me to make Top Gun over and over. But I wanted to develop my talent in d
  
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• The Last of Us season 2 episode 5 just introduced an even scarier effect of the Cordyceps virus

  12-05-2025 04:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite the showrunners saying we wouldn't see them in the series, spores have been introduced in The Last of Us season 2.In episode 5, spores - another way to become infected by the Cordyceps virus - is introduced. It's much more disturbing than it is in the game, and I'm holding my breath just thinking about it.You might remember that the virus was initially spread through products like flour and cake mixes, etc., while the most common way to get infected in the show and game is through a bite
  
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