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• Playing Arc Raiders solo is shockingly chill for any PvP game, let alone an extraction shooter, players say: "They'll even take me there like I can't find the eggs in the supermarket"

  03-11-2025 23:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Extraction shooters tend to attract a pretty hardcore crowd bent on dominating the players around them, but a curious note has arisen around Arc Raiders: if you play solo, it actually seems to be a pretty chill time. Sure, group games do tend to result in wanton murder, but solo players are reporting a community that's actually willing to be helpful and engage in a little cooperation with their fellow raiders."Going solo - I fully expected it to be a free for all," as Reddit user iReaddit-KRTORR
  
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• Arc Raiders gives players 500 free Raider Tokens to apologize for servers buckling under the weight of 350,000 Steam players alone over the weekend

  03-11-2025 22:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you played Arc Raiders over the weekend, you may be entitled to compensation. By which I mean you will be receiving 500 Raider Tokens from developer Embark as a make-good after server issues and an emergency queue throttled the launch.More specifically, if you logged into Arc Raiders on Sunday, November 1, you'll get your 500 tokens. Embark announced the freebie in a Twitter post addressing the slightly rocky launch weekend. (The studio also confirmed that the separate Server Slam participati
  
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• After 32 years, an NES horror JRPG thought to be lost media has suddenly leaked in fully playable form

  03-11-2025 22:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fans of retro horror games, NES-era JRPGs, and lost media research all got a delightful surprise on Halloween when a fully playable build of Splatterworld leaked online. The existence of this RPG spinoff of Namco's Splatterhouse series was only recently made public, and the sudden appearance of the full game would be nearly unbelievable if it wasn't backed up by a playable ROM.If you're not familiar with Splatterhouse, the original is a horror-themed beat-'em-up from Namco where you play as a Ja
  
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• Avengers: Doomsday directors hint at a connection between Robert Downey Jr's Iron Man and Doctor Doom, and tease a bombshell Secret Wars twist

  03-11-2025 22:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avengers: Doomsday directors Joe and Anthony Russo have been coyly dropping hints about what their next big MCU film will be about, and the latest tease, courtesy of a social media post by their production company AGBO Films, seems to show some imagery that, when taken together, may have big implications for the plot of Doomsday and its immediate sequel Avengers: Secret Wars.The post, seen below (courtesy of ScreenTime) shows two AGBO employees standing back to back, one wearing an Iron Man mask
  
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• Another MMO dead: ex-World of Warcraft and League of Legends lead's new studio "will close its doors" this month without releasing its flagship game Ghost

  03-11-2025 22:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fantastic Pixel Castle, the indie studio from former League of Legends and World of Warcraft lead Greg Street, is closing.Street, who was previously World of Warcraft's lead systems designer, and then later lead gameplay designer on League of Legends and executive producer on Riot Games' elusive MMO, predicted last month that Fantastic Pixel Castle would "likely close" if it couldn't find a publisher for its flagship fantasy MMO, revealed in 2023 and codenamed Ghost. Well, unfortunately, Street'
  
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• Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies"

  03-11-2025 21:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Assassin's Creed franchise evolved into the household name it is thanks to rare, or at least rare-among-AAA, support for risk-taking at Ubisoft, reckons Assassin's Creed 3 creative director Alex Hutchinson.Speaking with FRVR, Hutchinson reflects on the dramatic shifts that Assassin's Creed has seen over the years. There's the once-central, now-sidelined modern era connection that started with Desmond Miles, for instance. "I would just delete it all in the modern ones," he says of this increa
  
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• Activision clears the air: no Call of Duty Black Ops 7 early access despite rumors

  03-11-2025 20:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 isn't getting an early access launch, Activision has confirmed.In normal circumstances, this wouldn't be news. Black Ops 7 launches November 14 on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC, and neither Treyarch nor Activision has said anything about an early access period beyond the beta that ended last month. However, rumors began circulating about an early access release this past weekend when Forbes posted an article seemingly erroneously claiming the $100 Vault Ed
  
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• Avengers: Doomsday star Simu Liu calls the Marvel movie a "love letter to the entire genre of superhero movies"

  03-11-2025 20:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Simu Liu is getting Marvel fans hyped after his latest comments about Avengers: Doomsday, calling the upcoming blockbuster a "dream come true.""I mean, there are just so many actors in it, and getting to work with those people as peers is really incredible because I grew up watching so many of them," Liu told ScreenRant. "It feels, in a lot of ways, like a love letter to the entire genre of superhero movies. And I think there’s something really fun about that."The Avengers: Doomsday cast l
  
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• Upgrading Hornet's weapon in Silksong always felt inconsistent, and now I know why: Team Cherry's special damage multipliers leave hits-to-kill all over the place

  03-11-2025 19:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you, too, found yourself upgrading your needle in Hollow Knight: Silksong and regularly wondering if you had actually upgraded it because it didn't seem to make a bit of difference when fighting several enemies, please join me in a resounding "Ohhhh" upon discovering the enemy-specific damage multipliers that Team Cherry apparently added in for difficulty balancing.Having religiously avoided any potential spoilers following Silksong's release, I apparently missed the initial discovery of thes
  
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• Battlefield 6's new casual mode Breakthrough is stuffed with bots, leaving some players worried it's losing what "makes the franchise special" but others happy to have a less sweaty option

  03-11-2025 19:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  There's now a more PvE-focused mode in Battlefield 6 called Casual Breakthrough, where two-thirds of the player-count is made up of bots. This is meant to provide an alternative to pure PvP, but it’s not sitting too well among everyone in the community, with some players feeling the FPS is drifting from what defines the series.The official description states the mode offers "a more relaxed way" for players to progress and earn XP. The catch is, there's already a belief that the shooter is
  
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• OG Sims dev says it's "critical" the series embrace diversity during today's "reactionary cycle" echoing '00s censorship efforts: "We will always go through this"

  03-11-2025 18:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Sims is all about simulating life, and any effort to do that means embracing diversity at a fundamental level. Charles London, who served as art director on the original 2000 game and as creative director on The Sims 2, says that embracing things like same-sex relationships was essential from the start, and says it remains critically important for the series to continue down that path even as the winds of culture shift."It's everything," as London tells FRVR, "and I think it's existential fo
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "this sort of feedback is a lot more useful during early access" as fans inexplicably ask Larian to "#showthegaleballs"

  03-11-2025 18:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate 3 fans are asking that the game give Gale more opportunities to strip down, but one dev says it may be too late to make it happen.Baldur's Gate 3 inspired a brand new generation of RPG fans to become extremely horny on main at literally every waking moment. And while you can bed everyone or probably everything that moves in the game, naturally the thirst for some characters is different for others, with Shadowheart being the most popular companion to romance. But one faction of the
  
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• "The greed on display is disgusting": Fortnite finally adds pets in the form of Sidekicks but finds a way to make everyone mad with "absurd" pricing

  03-11-2025 18:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  At long last, Fortnite has added Sidekicks – adorable pets – to the battle royale, but bad news; they're expensive, with price tags made even worse by customization restrictions that ask players to buy multiple of the same companions if they want their ears to be slightly different.Fortnite Sidekicks have been a mixed bag, to say the least. The idea of a little dog following you around as you play in the battle royale and Lego mode is cute – hell, you can pet them and watch the
  
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• Star Wars Japan seems to say The Mandalorian and Grogu will be a story of "love and loss," and it's worrying fans

  03-11-2025 18:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star Wars fans can't wait to see The Mandalorian an d Grogu on the big screen next year, but a recent description of the upcoming film has left some slightly worried. Starring Pedro Pascal and his little companion Grogu (aka Baby Yoda), the film sees the characters making the jump from the small screen, where they debuted back in 2019.We know the plot will see the pair offering their help to protect the New Republic and everything the Rebellion fought for after the fall of the Empire, but what k
  
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• If you're an RGB fiend like me, then you need to check out this Corsair wireless headset deal

  03-11-2025 18:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  When it comes to the best gaming headsets, I love me some RGB lighting. I'm well aware they aren't everyone's cup of tea, as they can be a battery drain and look tacky and unsightly, but the Corsair Virtuoso Max Wireless headset looks so good it could bring out the RGB fan in anyone.The wheels of LED lighting are so bright and luminous on the Corsair cups that they remind me of something out of a Kubrick movie, but that futuristic aesthetic comes at a high price. Well, thankfully, it doesn't tod
  
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• Frankenstein star Jacob Elordi had "complete liberty" in deciding how the Creature looked in Guillermo del Toro's new Netflix movie: "[It was] a lot of trial and error"

  03-11-2025 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Saltburn and Euphoria star Jacob Elordi takes on his most physical role yet in Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro's new take on the classic Gothic novel. He plays the Creature, the living, breathing result of egocentric but brilliant scientist Victor Frankenstein's outlandish experiments in the creation of human life.Assembled from different body parts from a multitude of corpses, the Creature may be the size of an adult man, but he has the mobility and language of a much younger child when he fir
  
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• "If Gears 1 was Alien, the rest of the franchise was Aliens": Former Gears of War art director reckons the Xbox shooter franchise lost its horror edge over the years

  03-11-2025 17:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Gears of War's original art director has recalled how strongly influenced the first game was by the horror genre, a style that was diluted over time in the sequels, as he compared them to the Alien franchise."If Gears 1 was Alien, the rest of the franchise was Aliens," art director Jerry O’Flaherty tells FRVR, speaking to how James Cameron's sequel was more of a guns-blazing action movie compared to Ridley Scott's tight, claustrophobic, straight-up horror original."It was a lot more, you k
  
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• Fortnite Simpsons collab divides players with its cramped map, suggesting Small Map Syndrome is spreading through the air: "It feels like Reload, I want it to feel like Battle Royale"

  03-11-2025 17:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Homer, Bart, Lisa, Marge and Maggie have descended on Fortnite in a new collaboration featuring The Simpsons. With them comes the whole town of Springfield as the playable map, and much as it's fun to snipe someone from atop the Kwik-E-Mart, some would like a little more legroom.The finer details are on point, with all sorts of references to the beloved show, but a condensed play area is frustrating players. Despite being for 80-person battle royale, it feels a lot closer to the Reload mode, mad
  
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• Cyberpunk series creator Mike Pondsmith says he's watching Cyberpunk 2 closely at CDPR, just like he did with 2077: "People have been showing me what they're doing"

  03-11-2025 17:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  The creator of the Cyberpunk franchise, Mike Pondsmith, has been discussing his involvement with the development of the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, teasing that, like in CD Projekt Red's 2020 RPG, he's very aware of what the devs are putting into the game.In Cyberpunk 2077, amongst other things, Pondsmith is listed in the credits for "lore consultation," and he's been speaking about his role advising the developers throughout the making of the RPG in a recent special episode of CD Projekt Re
  
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• Hawkeye season 2 gets an update from star Jeremy Renner who says it would "continue that narrative" of season 1, but that it's "not really my decision to make"

  03-11-2025 17:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jeremy Renner finally has a Hawkeye season 2 update for us after telling fans he's more than game to pick up the bow and arrow once more – and that it'd probably take place a little after Christmas."It's really not my decision to make," Renner told Screen Rant. "For a second season, that was always the idea to continue that narrative, even in the Christmas framework of it all, too, because they love that world in New York."The season ends with Clint Barton saving New York City just in
  
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• Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Switch 2 update trailer didn't bother to mention one of the biggest quality-of-life changes coming to the game, despite fans begging for it since launch

  03-11-2025 17:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  The new Animal Crossing: New Horizons update's best feature wasn't even included in the announcement video; instead it's a throwaway line on the Nintendo website.Animal Crossing: New Horizons was an interesting departure in some ways; namely, the game had a ton of crafting and building elements in the early hours for players to get through before they arrived at what can be considered the traditional Animal Crossing experience. And one of the biggest issues there was it wasn't exactly the most i
  
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• New Lego sets in November 2025 surprised me, but not for the reason you might think

  03-11-2025 17:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Menu1. Icons
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• Battlefield 6 player goes to extreme lengths to prove the new maps are much smaller than in previous games, painstakingly scaling pixels to meters: "I've done nothing but work on this the entire weekend"

  03-11-2025 16:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Even though it's the latest entry, Battlefield 6 actually has some of the smaller maps in the FPS series thus far. This is according to data compiled by a discerning fan who has gone through many of its installments and ranked their multiplayer areas by size for comparison's sake.The information was shared on Reddit by users ClaratheRed and PENGUINonPC, who did "nothing but work on this the entire weekend," and it comes in three distinct datasets. The first is a top-down view of every map across
  
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• Just Cause 5 "would be a no-go" because of studio departures, Avalanche co-founder says, but he would've loved for Xbox's canceled Contraband see the light of day

  03-11-2025 16:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mad Max, Rage 2, and Just Cause maker Avalanche Studios (not to be confused with Hogwarts Legacy maker Avalanche Software) hasn't returned to its signature open-world series in years, and the company's co-founder doesn't see a potential Just Cause 5 happening anytime soon, either.Avalanche Studios co-founder Christofer Sundberg recently jumped online to react to leaked images of Contraband, the open-world co-op heist game that was recently scrapped by publisher Xbox after years in development. "
  
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• Palworld dev says "it's trendy to say 'eww UE slop'" but Arc Raiders "might be the new benchmark" for Unreal Engine games: "In awe of what they've achieved"

  03-11-2025 16:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Palworld developer John 'Bucky' Buckley has some massive praise for Arc Raiders' technical prowess and the developer's use of Unreal Engine 5.Arc Raiders launched last week and is doing pretty well for itself. Despite some complaints about the cosmetic pricing, the game currently holds a 'Very Positive' rating on Steam. Its opening weekend saw Arc Raiders' servers crash after hitting a peak of 337,000 concurrent players on Steam, with the developers saying matchmaking may still take longer than
  
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• Resident Evil royalty will host the Golden Joystick Awards 2025, with Ultimate Game of the Year voting now open

  03-11-2025 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Voting for Ultimate Game of the Year is now open for the Golden Joystick Awards 2025, and you'll need to move quickly if you want your favorite game to pick up the night's biggest award.Click to vote for YOUR Ultimate Game of the Year!This year's ceremony will be hosted by Maggie Robertson, best known for her roles as the extremely tall Lady Dimetrescu in Resident Evil Village, and terrifying shapeshifter Orin the Red in Baldur's Gate 3. Robertson, who claimed the Performance of the Year title i
  
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• Behold the world's first Godzilla RPG, revealed exclusively here

  03-11-2025 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The King of the Monsters is ready to stomp all over your game night, because GamesRadar+ can exclusively reveal the first Godzilla tabletop RPG.Due to smash its way onto Kickstarter in March 2026 like a rampaging kaiju, the Godzilla tabletop RPG sees players "join G-Force to fight the greatest kaiju of all time." Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game doesn't use dice like most of the best tabletop RPGs, though – it calls upon standard 52-card decks instead.Toho's nuclear-powered monster isn't the
  
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• From Spirited Away to Cowboy Bebop, the internet is sharing the anime everyone needs to watch at least once, even if you're not an anime fan

  03-11-2025 14:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Anime fans are sharing the titles they think everyone should watch, whether they're into anime or not – and Studio Ghibli is proving a popular choice."Spirited Away, it's one of the best gateway anime movies," said one user on Reddit. "I'd then recommend them Princess Mononoke and Nauscaä of the Valley of the Wind as good movies before moving on to seasonal anime."First released in 2001, Spirited Away was a huge commercial and critical success both in Japan and worldwide and was the f
  
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• Best Buy's early Black Friday deals are legendary for Zelda fans

  03-11-2025 14:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hey, listen. Now that November is in full swing, we're officially closer than ever to Black Friday and getting our hands on the best Switch 2 accessory discounts the saving season can bring. In fact, we're so close that early Black Friday Nintendo Switch deals have already started to roll out, and at Best Buy, they're particularly great for Zelda fans.If you missed out on the latest wave of Legend of Zelda amiibo figures, they're available from just $19.99 at Best Buy, a return to their lowest e
  
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• Arc Raiders catches heat over expensive cosmetic bundles and lack of earnable premium currency: "Helldivers 2 should be the gold-standard for paid-game content"

  03-11-2025 14:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  While Arc Raiders has had a very positive reception from players so far, the pricey cosmetics are turning some heads due to the game's premium nature.While Embark Studios' The Finals has torn it up as a free-to-play release, the studio's latest game, Arc Raiders, is a full-priced release with a $40 standard edition and a $60 deluxe edition available to players. However, despite being a premium title, it still has some of the biggest trappings of free-to-play releases, namely a deluge of cosmetic
  
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• Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser couldn't kill GTA 4's Niko Bellic as fans needed to be able "to play forever," so he killed Red Dead Redemption's John Marston instead

  03-11-2025 14:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rockstar Games co-founder and the studio's former lead writer Dan Houser has revealed that he originally wanted to kill off Niko Bellic at the end of GTA 4, but the team abandoned the idea due to technical challenges and returned to it for Red Dead Redemption's heart-wrenching finale. I say that's a fair trade."I would've liked to have, at the end of GTA 4, killed Niko, but you couldn't do it," Houser said in an interview with Lex Fridman. "You know, the game doesn't work like that."According to
  
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• After 15 years, Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser reveals the meaning behind Red Dead Redemption's Strange Man: "He's a manifestation of your shadow, your karma, the devil"

  03-11-2025 14:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  One of the creepier mysteries in the Red Dead Redemption games surrounds the 'Strange Man', an unnamed gentleman in a top hat who makes recurring appearances. He has an ethereal presence in Red Dead Redemption 2 and its predecessor, haunting John Marston and sparking rumors among NPCs.Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar Games, doesn't have too many answers on what's going on with the character, but he does provide more context as to their creation. "We felt we needed more story so we, quite late
  
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• PlayStation bosses at Sony scrapping Days Gone studio's live service IP didn't come as a surprise to one dev: "We didn't make enough substantial progress over the 3 years I was there"

  03-11-2025 13:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  A former Bend Studio developer has spoken out about the studio's scrapped new live service IP, which was canceled earlier this year in a move the ex-animator says he saw coming.As highlighted on the r/GamingLeaksAndRumours subreddit, Robert Morrison – now a senior animator at Ready or Not studio VOID Interactive, but for three years (up until this June) a senior animator for gameplay at Bend Studios – recently took to Twitter to share a roundup of all the games he's worked on in the
  
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• "This is a Komplete FAILURE": Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection is off to a rough start with massive input lag and netcode issues ruining fighting game fans' experiences online

  03-11-2025 13:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection is off to a rough start with a "Mixed" reception on Steam and the PlayStation version getting slammed for input lag issues.Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection is the latest documentary release from Digital Eclipse, akin to Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story and Tetris Forever (albeit, not officially a part of the studio's "Gold Master Series," but following that format). And, as someone who loves Mortal Kombat for its cultural impact and silly lore while also thinking
  
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• KPop Demon Hunters stars are reuniting in a cutthroat new K-Pop thriller described as "Scream meets Black Swan"

  03-11-2025 13:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Two KPop Demon Hunters stars are reuniting in another K-pop themed movie, though this upcoming thriller sounds very different from the wholesome family fun of the Netflix sensation.May Hong, who voices Mira in KPop Demon Hunters, has joined the cast of upcoming thriller Perfect Girl, per Deadline. The film is described as "Scream meets Black Swan," and it sounds like a particularly cutthroat story about a new K-pop group getting ready to debut."With only four spots available in the band and the
  
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• The Outer Worlds 2 takes the RP in RPG so seriously, some NPCs will call you out for walking around naked: "Should I be averting my eyes, or?"

  03-11-2025 13:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Obsidian Entertainment has always had an eye for the finer details, whether that came in the form of Pentiment's commitment to history or Grounded's literally small details. And in the case of its newest game, The Outer Worlds 2, it comes from characters calling you out for running around butt naked.So, yes, Obsidian RPGs have been great at reacting to your larger choices and character builds and dialogue options - so much so that getting through a playthrough without save scumming, just to walk
  
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• Marvel fans are discussing a wasted opportunity in What If...? with one specific character who is "completely underused in the MCU"

  03-11-2025 12:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Given its power to create limitless alternate scenarios, Marvel fans are disappointed that the Disney Plus show What If...? hasn't included one "completely underused" MCU character. We're talking, of course, about Pietro Maximoff (aka Quicksilver), who debuted (and died) in Avengers: Age of Ultron back in 2015."Anyone else think it's weird how What If didn't even bother with Quicksilver at all," wrote a fan on Reddit, suggesting that "a major plot that could've been explored is What if Quicksilv
  
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• New Scream 7 trailer seems to include another voice of a dead franchise character other than Matthew Lillard's Stu Macher

  03-11-2025 12:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  It looks like the first Scream 7 trailer is harboring more Easter eggs than we originally thought, as alongside Matthew Lillard's original Ghostface Stu Macher, another franchise character seems to be hiding in plain sight.As spotted by fans, the end of the Scream 7 trailer features Lillard's voice, teasing, "This is gonna be fun." However, as found by ScreenRant, another OG franchise favorite's voice can be heard in the clip. Around the 1:39 mark, it sounds like David Arquette's Dewey Riley say
  
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• Eat my shorts: The Simpsons is releasing four mini-episodes on Disney Plus to help explain its Fortnite crossover

  03-11-2025 12:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Simpsons has released the first of four Fortnite crossover shorts on Disney Plus.As per Disney, Fortnite's major new seasonal event sees the island turned into Springfield Island. With several iconic locales such as Moe's Tavern, Krusty Burger, and the Power Plant being introduced, there's plenty for fans of Springfield to do and see.But that's not all. "Weekly narrative shorts" are being released every Monday throughout November, with each one filling in the gaps behind just how The Simpson
  
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• This year's October box office was the lowest in 28 years – and Halloween was the worst weekend of the year

  03-11-2025 12:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  The past month was the worst at the box office for 28 years, with the lowest takings at the multiplex since October 1997 (excluding 2020, when the pandemic wreaked havoc on Hollywood).Totals clocked in at $425 million for October 2025, with only $49 million being earned over this year's Halloween weekend – the lowest takings of the whole year. 28 years ago, slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Devil's Advocate, starring Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves, and psychological thriller Kiss th
  
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• Silent Hill 2 remake Born from a Wish DLC copium grows even stronger as Bloober Team writer acknowledges the expansion along with a potential Xbox release: "Born from a what?"

  03-11-2025 12:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Silent Hill 2 remake hit its one-year anniversary last month, and with that the PlayStation console exclusivity was ended for the game. Naturally, everyone began wondering when an Xbox Series X/S port could arrive, and if it might follow in the footsteps of the original game's Xbox release and include the Born from a Wish story expansion. And now, a Bloober Team writer has not-so-subtly implied something may be happening.Bloober Team's Grzegorz Like, who was the lead writer for Layers of Fea
  
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• Arc Raiders servers crash after hitting a peak of 337,000 concurrent players on Steam, and matchmaking may still take "longer than usual" while devs fix the extraction shooter

  03-11-2025 12:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  The much-anticipated Arc Raiders launched last week, but some players hoping to drop in on the extraction shooter have been left hanging. Suffering from success, the multiplayer game rocketed up the Steam charts, only for the servers to implode over the weekend, with Embark Studios now working to remedy the situation.After launching to over 260,000 concurrent players on Steam, Arc Raiders only grew bigger in the days after, pushing out to a peak of 337,834. Impressive numbers for only the second
  
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• Godzilla Minus One sequel is officially titled Godzilla Minus Zero, and a dramatic first teaser has already been released

  03-11-2025 12:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first teaser for the Godzilla Minus One sequel is here – and so is the official title.Per the first teaser, the follow-up will be titled Godzilla Minus Zero, or Godzilla -0.0. Not much else is given away by the teaser, which is a slow reveal of the title set to some ominous music. When the title changes from -1.0 to -0.0, something that sounds a lot like the type of large scale destruction Godzilla is so good at can be heard. Check it out below.新作ゴジラ
  
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• Dragon Quest creator and JRPG icon Yuji Horii becomes the first game designer to receive Order of the Rising sun award: "It's thanks to all the staff that helped create the games with me"

  03-11-2025 12:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii is being honored with an award from the Japanese government, officially becoming the first game designer to be given it.As reported by The Japan Times, Horii has been selected to receive the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette. The Order of the Rising Sun was first established all the way back in 1875, and is awarded to individuals for their service to the country in different ways, including the promotion of culture.In a comment (via FNN, translated b
  
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• Creating Red Dead Redemption 2 was "not that fun," Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says, as it wasn't "coming together" and was "over budget so much I didn’t want to think about it"

  03-11-2025 12:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's no secret that Rockstar Games traveled a shaky road on its way to Red Dead Redemption 2's release date, twice delayed. At the time, a Kotaku report claimed that many developers on the open-world hit were subject to crunch and, now, Dan Houser's finally spoke out about the tough production - without mentioning the crunched devs, of course.In the latest episode of the Lex Fridman podcast, Rockstar Games co-founder, former GTA frontman, and Red Dead Redemption 2 lead writer Dan Houser spoke ab
  
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• Creating Red Dead Redemption 2 was "not that fun," Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says, as it wasn't "coming together" and was “over budget so much I didn’t want to think about it"

  03-11-2025 12:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's no secret that Rockstar Games traveled a shaky road on its way to Red Dead Redemption 2's release date, twice delayed. At the time, a Kotaku report claimed that many developers on the open-world hit were subject to crunch and, now, Dan Houser's finally spoke out about the tough production - without mentioning the crunched devs, of course.In the latest episode of the Lex Fridman podcast, Rockstar Games co-founder, former GTA frontman, and Red Dead Redemption 2 lead writer Dan Houser spoke ab
  
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• Despite Netflix still not confirming a sequel, KPop Demon Hunters star is ready to start making another movie: "I'm waiting for the call"

  03-11-2025 11:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Even though Netflix has yet to announce a sequel to this year's mega hit KPop Demon Hunters, Zoey star Rei Ami seems more than eager to make another movie."I'm waiting for the call, just like you," said Ami to E! News when asked when fans can expect to see a KPop Demon Hunters sequel. "You're gonna find out when I do, so we'll chat then." The singer, who voices demon hunter and HUNTR/X member Zoey in the animated movie, was attending Heidi Klum's Annual Halloween Party at the time.Despite Netfli
  
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• Star Wars: Visions producer says the show isn't concerned about the franchise's established canon: "I don’t think we'd ever get things like The Duel if we tried to fit it into that"

  03-11-2025 11:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star Wars: Visions might be part of the beloved sci-fi franchise, but, according to its executive producer James Waugh, it can stand on its own as it's not necessarily "part of the ongoing canonical narrative."With Volume 3 now available to stream on Disney Plus, the show continues to wow fans with new and exciting stories set in a galaxy far, far away, through standalone episodes each created by a different studio. Waugh recently explained that Visions is not too concerned with preserving Star
  
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• The Witcher showrunner aims to release the final season "a little bit sooner" than the two-and-a-half year gap between seasons 3 and 4

  03-11-2025 11:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich hears your complaints over the long wait between seasons on Netflix. To that end, we should maybe expect The Witcher season 5 to be streaming a little sooner.Hissrich told Variety there should be a "hopefully shorter" gap between The Witcher seasons 4 and 5. That follows a two-and-a-half-year gap between The Witcher's third season and its most recent season, which premiered on Netflix on October 30."Two and a half years is never ideal. Obviously, we
  
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