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• Roguelike superstar drops out of The Game Awards because Megabonk "is not my debut game," but fans beg solo dev to reconsider: "Wait until you hear about 'indie' games in the indie category that are backed by multi-billion-dollar corps"

  18-11-2025 23:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Integrity – defined as moral fortitude, or the act of removing your beloved indie roguelike from The Game Awards nominations. Fans are pleading with the pseudonymous Megabonk solo developer John Megabonk, or Vedinad, to reconsider, but Mr. Bonk won't be swayed."I'm withdrawing from The Game Awards," they announce on Twitter in a November 18 post. "It's an honor and a dream for Megabonk to be nominated for TGA, but unfortunately i don't think it qualifies for the category 'Debut Indie Game.
  
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• Dragon Quest creator wants to "oversee everything" in the legendary JRPG series until he dies: "I think the next goal for me is to witness the 50th Anniversary [2036]"

  18-11-2025 22:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii plans to continue overseeing the JRPG series until his death.Horii, now 71, has been closely involved with every mainline Dragon Quest game since the 1986 original, and at this point, he rightfully considers the franchise his baby, telling Game Informer:"You know, in recent years, there's been increasingly more areas where I rely on other members to work on parts of the Dragon Quest titles. But I would still like to keep myself involved to oversee everything. I do
  
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• Peacock renews Twisted Metal for season 3 with The Boys writer joining as showrunner

  18-11-2025 22:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Peacock's hit video game adaptation Twisted Metal has been renewed for season 3 (per Variety). However, the new season won't be without some big changes, as showrunner and co-creator Michael Jonathan Smith is reportedly departing, with David Reed taking his place at the head of the table.Reed makes total sense as a showrunner for Twisted Metal, as his pedigree as a writer includes stints on both The Boys and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The Boys in particular is a good comparison to the style
  
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• Subnautica 2 studio was working on a secret game code named Project Labrador before Unknown Worlds leads were fired, and ex-CEO says he still hopes "to see that game come to light"

  18-11-2025 21:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  The fierce legal dispute between former Subnautica 2 studio leads and publisher Krafton has now reached its trial stage, revealing new angles of the two opponents' fight for a $250-million earnout ex-Subnautica heads say they're due, and Krafton suggests they don't deserve. Krafton has provided GamesRadar+ a transcript of the November 17 court session; during the session, fired CEO Ted Gill implies Krafton is also holding back developer Unknown Worlds from releasing a secret game and Subnautica
  
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• A new Five Nights at Freddy's 2 clip brings the game's creepiest puppet to life – and I'm so excited

  18-11-2025 21:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new behind-the-scenes clip from Five Nights at Freddy's 2 has given us our first look at The Marionette... and I have never been more seated in my entire life.In the brief clip, which can be viewed below, director Emma Tammi, returning cast members Joshua Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, and Elizabeth Lail, along with new cast member Mckenna Grace, talk about the game's creepiest puppet... which will soon come to life in the upcoming live-action sequel. We see it for just a quick second at the very en
  
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• Rust studio COO wants an official Delta Force collab after calling out the game for allegedly stealing assets: "Cinematic is great though, hopefully next time we see a Rust Hazmat in their next season"

  18-11-2025 20:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Delta Force studio Team Jade has been accused of stealing assets from survival game Rust, and after seemingly offering an apology to facepunch COO Alistair McFarlane, it seems the door is now open for an official collaboration to happen.Over on Twitter, McFarlane reacted to a new Delta Force trailer for the launch of the Ahsarah season, which seemingly features art taken from Rust, ostensibly without permission from facepunch. Specifically, McFarlane managed to spot an explosive in the trailer t
  
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• A new clip from Avatar: Fire and Ash has been released, featuring an intense chase from the Ash People

  18-11-2025 20:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new clip for Avatar: Fire and Ash has landed, and it shows off what looks like a fierce battle between Jake Sully and his water-bound family and a clan known as the Ash People who revel in flames.Here's the trailer, which teases a big, bad dragon battle and much more:Avatar is one of the highest-grossing movie franchises of all time, with the original 2009 film sitting at the top of the biggest earners ever, with 2023's Avatar: The Way of Water sitting in third place. The series focuses on the
  
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• Valve accidentally smothers indie game with 138,000 wishlists by not telling anyone it existed, then apologizes to studio by accidentally revealing Steam Machine on the same day of promotion

  18-11-2025 19:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  After Steam offered to give it front page placement as an apology for having its launch kneecapped by a Steam bug, Planet Centauri once again missed out on getting eyes on it because of Valve.Developer Permadeath made the indie space sandbox game over 10 years, and it had eventually amassed 138,000 wishlists on Steam – before facing a disastrous launch. A Steam bug made it so wishlist emails weren't sent out, and Planet Centauri, in turn, sold only 581 copies in the first five days of its
  
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• Hideo Kojima says he "binged" new Netflix samurai show with 100% Rotten Tomatoes score: "It was so good"

  18-11-2025 19:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Everyone's favorite amateur film and TV critic and master game designer Hideo Kojima has once again chimed in with his thoughts on a popular new show, heaping praise on Netflix's hit series Last Samurai Standing."I binged Ikusagami (Last Samurai Standing) up through episode 6! It was so good. I love the Yamada Futaro × Squid Game kind of worldbuilding," Kojima states in a social media post that appears to have now been deleted. "The cutbacks between the Kodoku-game side, the organizers, an
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says "cult classic" Xbox 360 JRPG from Final Fantasy creator is "one of the best games of its kind" and "the last game that made me cry"

  18-11-2025 18:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  As if we needed more proof the devs behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are the right kind of JRPG sickos, they're full of appreciation for the underrated Xbox 360 gem Lost Odyssey. Guillaume Broche, the creative director of Sandfall Interactive, believes it represents what's a rare MO in terms of design and execution, and it truly left a mark on him."For me, Lost Odyssey was the last grand turn-based RPG adventure with realistic graphics," he explains to Eurogamer. "Its themes were very heavy an
  
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• Former PlayStation boss says that the indie scene is developing "creative uses for AI" and that it "can only take shape so quickly" thanks to their effort

  18-11-2025 18:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former president of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, has shared his views on AI in game development, saying that he finds "the cases where AI is part of the game's content the most interesting." He also describes how "both indie and larger studios are using AI in every aspect of game development."In an interview with Game*Spark that's been translated by GamesRadar+, Yoshida discusses how AI is currently being used in the industry, and where he thinks the technolo
  
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• PUBG creator says he's "really heartened to see the community revolt against AI," but his studio is still using the tech in new games: "We're using it in the right way"

  18-11-2025 18:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  As the rise of generative AI continues to prove a popular talking point amid developers and gamers alike, PUBG creator Brendan Greene weighs in with his own thoughts – and it's safe to say he thinks the technology should at least not replace humans' roles in production.Greene conveys as much during a recent interview with Eurogamer while answering whether or not his studio PlayerUnknown Productions employs the use of gen AI at all to help with its work on world-generating tech. "We don't u
  
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• Steam Machine price "will not be cheap," with analysts predicting anywhere between the "mid-five hundreds" and $1,000, as Valve "can basically do what it wants"

  18-11-2025 18:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Whether you consider it a living room PC or a "console that refuses to admit it's a console," there's no doubt that Valve's new Steam Machine is going to be a big deal when it launches early next year, but just how highly it sells will probably depend on its price – something Valve hasn't yet announced. We asked a number of games industry analysts how much they expect the hardware to cost, and while estimations vary, it sounds like "it will not be cheap."An analyst with a slightly more fav
  
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• inZOI was "far, far, far less developed than Subnautica 2" around the time publisher Krafton decided to fire Unknown Worlds leads, says former CEO: "There wasn't a ton of game present"

  18-11-2025 18:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  The trial between former Subnautica 2 studio leads and publisher Krafton has just begun, and in a November 17 transcript reviewed by GamesRadar+, the two had plenty to say. Ex-Unknown Worlds CEO Ted Gill, for example, remarks at one point that Krafton's early access life sim inZOI was more like a "tech demo" compared to the apparent splendor of Subnautica 2.Gill explains during questioning that Unknown Worlds had hoped to release Subnautica 2 in early access on August 14, 2025, but Krafton repor
  
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• Minecraft was nearly sold to Activision Blizzard for $1.5 billion before Microsoft secured Mojang, says former CEO Bobby Kotick: "I almost bought it"

  18-11-2025 17:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Although Microsoft bought both Mojang and its sandbox game Minecraft back in 2014 for a whopping $2.5 billion, the company wasn't the only one to consider the purchase – Activision Blizzard also got close to buying them.As much was speculated a decade ago, when reports of Activision Blizzard's (and EA's, too) interest in buying Minecraft were circulating around the web – but now, former CEO Bobby Kotick has confirmed that it was indeed one of his considerations years back. "I almost
  
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• Roblox set "to require facial age checks to access chat" much like Discord, mere months after the CEO told concerned parents to just not "let your kids be on Roblox"

  18-11-2025 17:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  After years of controversy surrounding children and their safety on Roblox – a virtual gaming platform that might just stand as the biggest in the world now – developers are finally adding a solid age verification system of sorts, although it's not without its flaws.News of the age checks coming to Roblox arrives in the form of an online update from chief safety officer Matt Kaufman and product vice president Rajiv Bhatia. In short, the platform will begin rolling out face-based age
  
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• Ghost of Yotei lead was "saddened" he had to tone down the game's flashback mechanic, which was originally far more complex: "I knew it was the right choice"

  18-11-2025 17:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Part of developing any game is killing your darlings, and that goes triple for something on the scale of Ghost of Yotei. Among the ideas cast aside in the blockbuster sequel was an added depth for the flashbacks that creative director Jason Connell truly wishes could’ve been avoided.He spoke about it with Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, breaking down his idea, and why it failed to take shape. "[Atsu is] on this lone wolf quest and then you press a button and suddenly she's kind of fee
  
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• Rambo prequel director says his new action movie will feature a "different" version of the action hero as it explores how he became the character we see in First Blood

  18-11-2025 17:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sisu director Jalmari Helander has teased what we can expect from John Rambo, his new prequel movie – and it sounds like we can expect something very different from this depiction of the titular action hero."Of course, it's different, because we're gonna start in a place where everything is basically pretty okay for Rambo," Helander tells GamesRadar+. "He's happy and younger and all that, because we are telling the origin story. What would happen to him? Why did he become that kind of dude
  
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• Ghost of Yotei director says Sucker Punch didn't want to be violent for the sake of it in its open-world Japan epics, even if "in video games, you get a lot of pressure just to do it sometimes"

  18-11-2025 17:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ghost of Yotei co-director Jason Connell has spoken about the use of violence in Sucker Punch's open-world series, saying he feels like game developers get pressured into making their games even more violent.Speaking to Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan as part of Sony's "Creator to Creator" series, Ghost of Yotei co-director Jason Connell says "With the violence for Ghost, it's something that we actually talked about very early."Given that Sucker Punch previously worked on the cartoony Sly Co
  
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• Steam Machine is "a console that refuses to admit it's a console," analyst says, but "Valve isn't trying to beat Sony or Microsoft at their own game so much as rewrite the rules"

  18-11-2025 17:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Valve's new Steam Machine is set to bring PC gaming to living rooms everywhere when it launches next year, but is it a fierce new console rival that'll compete directly against the likes of PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo, or is it more of a PC alternative, or something in between? Analysts have been sharing their thoughts with us.Joost van Dreunen, an NYU Stern School of Business professor and former CEO of games market research firm SuperData Research, argues that the Steam Machine is "a conso
  
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• Escape from Tarkov lead admits 1.0 Steam launch was "rough for sure," and problems fixed in the latest version were "not enough"

  18-11-2025 15:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Escape from Tarkov's game director, Nikita Buyanov, admits on social media that the 1.0 Steam release version is "rough for sure," saying that the bug fixes from the pre-release version are "not enough." He apologizes for the state the game is currently in, and promises to "continue fighting for everything good against the bad."The closed alpha for Escape from Tarkov launched in 2016, and the full game launched nine years later on November 15, 2025. Looking at the game's Steam page, it currently
  
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• World of Warcraft's $90 dinosaur mount is back again for a limited time ahead of Midnight's launch, and WoW Tokens have already sold out: "Costs more than the expansion. Company is trash."

  18-11-2025 15:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  What better way to kill time before World of Warcraft: Midnight launches than buying an expensive mount? With the expansion going into beta, Blizzard has decided to bring back the $90 dinosaur players became enamored with last year.The Trader's Gilded Brutosaur, a delightfully cute mini-brachiosaurus with a gold saddle and helmet, is back on the in-game store. There's a non-zero chance you've noticed the side effects of this already, as subscribers in Britain and Europe have noticed WoW Tokens b
  
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• After launching Assassin's Creed Shadows and Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft dubs the market "more volatile" now amid rise of free-to-play titles and subscriptions: "Many new games are struggling"

  18-11-2025 15:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  In an era that's seeing declining numbers for physical software and an increase in live service games, digital purchases, and subscriptions, it comes as no surprise that studios are worrying about the future of one-time purchase full releases – and Ubisoft is no exception.Just over this past year or so, Ubisoft oversaw a good few such launches – there was the hotly anticipated Assassin's Creed Shadows, of course, and before that, Star Wars Outlaws in 2024. It wasn't all that much com
  
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• As Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 surpasses Baldur's Gate 3 on Game Award nominations, Larian publishing lead says it's "intensely hopeful" to see a new IP from a fledgling team do so well

  18-11-2025 14:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead Michael Douse is celebrating Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's success in The Game Awards' nominations.Surprising no one, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the frontrunner at The Game Awards this year, but what is somewhat surprising is that it's now officially the number-one most nominated game in The Game Awards history with 12 nominations (previously held by The Last of Us Part 2 and God of War Ragnarok with 11 each). And given that level of success, it'll be a real s
  
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• Breaking Bad creator says he's "a weenie," and the show's notorious Gus Fring box cutter kill "looked so real" it made him feel "faint"

  18-11-2025 13:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan has revealed that he was only able to watch one of the show's particularly bloody scenes once as it made him feel faint."The older I get, the less so I become interested in seeing violence," Gilligan said in conversation with Ghost of Yōtei's Jason Connell as part of Sony's Creator to Creator series."With Breaking Bad, we had a scene where Gustavo Fring, our main bad guy from the show, kills one of his henchmen with a boxcutter. I wasn't on the set when t
  
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• Pluribus creator Vince Gilligan says testing an episode of his X-Files spin-off made him swear he would "never freaking do that again," and he still doesn't know how Breaking Bad tested

  18-11-2025 13:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  One of the most humbling experiences as a filmmaker has to be screening a movie or TV shows to an audience, and no one knows that better than Pluribus creator Vince Gilligan, who was put off test-screenings for life after his '00s X-Files spin-off."We had a spin-off show of The X-Files called The Lone Gunmen, which I was very proud of, and I still have a soft spot for it," said Gilligan to Sony. "I had to sit through audience testing on the first episode of that show, and I swore on the graves o
  
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• Helldivers 2 drops a cryptic message with its latest patch notes asking us to draw a "'fiery' red circle" around early December for some "'buzzing' updates," immediately sparking speculation

  18-11-2025 13:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has left a cryptic message at the end of its latest patch notes, asking players to "put a 'fiery' red circle" on their calendars, ready for a "buzzing update." The team calls the most recent addition a "mini quality-of-life update", but we're more interested in deciphering its closing statement.The Helldivers 2 4.1.2 patch is now live, and mostly deals with fixing some of the game's crashes. There are also some much-wanted optimizations such as preventing weather
  
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• Avatar star Stephen Lang says he only has a "folk memory" of Avatar 5, having not read it for "8 or 9 years" – but remembers there's "not one scene I don't look forward to playing"

  18-11-2025 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avatar star Stephen Lang may not have read Avatar 5 for almost 10 years, but he promises he'll be "completely up to speed" by the time filming comes around in late 2026.While chatting to him about his upcoming action sequel Sisu 2, GamesRadar+ asked whether there were any scenes in future Avatar movies that he's particularly itching to shoot. Lang, who plays antagonist Colonel Miles Quaritch, candidly replied: "I haven't read Avatar 5 in seven or eight or nine years now, I have a folk memory of
  
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• Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says the industry is "moving towards PC" even if consoles are "never going away," but still hasn't confirmed if GTA 6 is coming to PC

  18-11-2025 12:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick says he thinks the industry is moving towards PC gaming, even if consoles will probably never go away.PC gaming has definitely had a surge of momentum over the past decade, with more and more moving to the platform as their main system as previously console-focused publishers like PlayStation, Konami, and Atlus have started releasing their games on PC. Not to mention, the major consoles – especially Xbox – are effectively PCs with custom UIs a
  
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• Battlefield 6 update fixes aim assist by reverting it back to Open Beta settings, but some players want more drastic changes: "The whole game/weapons need to be rebalanced"

  18-11-2025 12:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  The latest Battlefield 6 update is now live, and it's a doozy. Besides bringing the California Resistance additions of Season 1, the patch addresses some latent glitches and tweaks aim assist, though the latter is proving slightly divisive.To start, Eastwood, a map themed around sunny Southern California, is now live, with slight differences across various modes. Rodeo has been added to Gauntlet, and Sabotage is a new mode, playable for a limited time. The DB-12 Shotgun and M357 Trait Sidearm ar
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 boss says Game Awards 2025 nominees like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are "proof" the industry still recognizes "passion," regardless of the "budget or who is making it"

  18-11-2025 12:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate 3 director and Larian Studios lead Swen Vincke has reacted to nominations for The Game Awards 2025, specifically those leading what arguably stands as the most competitive category of all: Game of the Year.The nominations went up yesterday, with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 smashing it in various categories from Game of the Year to Best Game Direction and many more. It's not the only GOTY contender, of course, with other gems to come from this past year making the list, like Death S
  
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• The Mandalorian and Grogu director Jon Favreau says "we get to really have fun with" fan-favorite Star Wars Rebels character Zeb Orrelios in the new movie: "He's such a compelling character, even if you've never seen Rebels"

  18-11-2025 12:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Mandalorian and Grogu director Jon Favreau has teased the role of a fan-favorite Star Wars character in the upcoming movie: Zeb Orrelios, who also briefly appeared in The Mandalorian season 3."Now we get to really have fun with him," Favreau said in a new interview with Empire. "He’s such a compelling character, even if you’ve never seen Rebels, between the voice, the swagger, and the physical ability."Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios is a former member of the Lasat Honor Guard who became
  
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• Stranger Things star Sadie Sink has reportedly joined the cast of Avengers: Secret Wars, making her Spider-Man 4 character even more mysterious

  18-11-2025 12:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite Marvel fans still being in the dark over which comic book hero Sadie Sink is playing in Spider-Man 4, it seems as though the character is important enough to appear in further MCU movies, including Avengers: Secret Wars.As reported by Deadline, Sink has joined the cast of Avengers: Secret Wars and is due to start shooting in London later in 2026. Marvel Studios has yet to confirm the news.Marvel is keeping its cards close to its chest in terms of the sixth Avengers movie, with no officia
  
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• As Arc Raiders faces backlash for its AI voices, Dispatch leads call the tech "a production solution, not a creative one," saying it can only offer "something you've heard before"

  18-11-2025 12:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dispatch's creative director Nick Herman and executive producer Michael Choung have spoken out about the use of AI voices in games. The episodic superhero adventure game uses well-known actors to voice its characters, including Jeffrey Wright from Westworld and Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad.Arc Raiders has come under fire for the use of AI voices via text-to-speech, though Embark Studios co-founder Stefan Strandberg justifies the decision saying, "there's no end goal in replacing any actors." In
  
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• "Another rigged year:" Former FPS pro Shroud responds to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 getting a Game Awards GOTY nomination over Arc Raiders, says "the world is just not ready for AI in video games"

  18-11-2025 12:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Game Awards 2025 nominations are in, and after pushing for Arc Raiders to win Game of the Year above French JRPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, ex-FPS pro Michael 'Shroud' Grzesiek isn't happy about the extraction shooter missing out on a GOTY nomination.Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has secured itself 12 nominations – the most in the history of The Game Awards – while Arc Raiders has one in the Best Multiplayer Game category. Joining Clair Obscur in the GOTY category are Donkey Kong
  
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