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• Return to Silent Hill gets a new trailer that brings in fan favorite villains including Pyramid Head and the Bubble Head Nurses

  02-12-2025 23:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new international trailer for Return to Silent Hill has arrived, and the new clip digs into more of the game's lore and many of its most iconic characters, including Bubble Head Nurses, and of course, the most well-known Silent Hill villain of all, Pyramid Head (or Red Pyramid Thing, if you're going by his official name).Here's the trailer:Return to Silent Hill is the third film in the franchise, which adapts the Silent Hill video game series that kicked off back in 1999. It follows 2006's Sil
  
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• Escape From Tarkov streamer becomes first to escape from Tarkov: "You survived. But at what cost"

  02-12-2025 23:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Extraction shooter Escape from Tarkov has been telling players to escape from Tarkov for nine years, and someone's finally gone and done it – but at great cost, narratively.Yes, Escape from Tarkov launched into closed alpha back in 2016, and it wasn't until just now, a little over two weeks after its full launch, that someone actually did The Thing. However, while it's undeniably an impressive accomplishment, it's also worth noting that it wasn't actually possible to escape from the titula
  
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• Aerith does not want to see your fanfic – Final Fantasy 7 Remake actor reminds fans "the meaning of the word inappropriate," asks them to stop tagging her in "smut"

  02-12-2025 23:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Think of it this way, if you wouldn't feel comfortable showing what's currently open on your browser to an ancient mage who could easily blast you out of existence, then you shouldn't show it to Final Fantasy's English Aerith actress Briana White.In a series of posts on Twitter, White reacts to shocked K-Pop Demon Hunters actor Rei Ami learning about "spicy" fanfiction, which she's having a hard time accepting. White says, "Maybe let's normalize not tagging voice actors in smut of their characte
  
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• Stolen Marathon art issue "resolved" with Bungie and Sony "to my satisfaction," original artist says

  02-12-2025 22:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Artist Fern Hook, or Antireal, who showed that her assets and designs had been copied wholesale by Bungie's upcoming extraction shooter Marathon, says she and the companies involved have reached a resolution on the plagiarism problem."The Marathon art issue has been resolved with Bungie and Sony Interactive Entertainment to my satisfaction," Hook said on Twitter earlier today, December 2.Marathon's plagiarism surfaced in May on the heels of an alpha play test. At the time, Hook said "the Maratho
  
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• AI has an "unbelievable ability to create a lot of slop," says ex-Nexon boss who signed Arc Raiders, predicting the industry will "triple" in size in 7 years due to players "rejecting slop and bad product"

  02-12-2025 22:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  During his 10-year run as Nexon CEO, Owen Mahoney jumped to sign Arc Raiders, which has become one of 2025's biggest releases. The game's developer, Embark Studios, has defended its use of AI voices and championed the tech as a way for the studio to punch above its weight. Mahoney, who criticizes executives for pushing AI as a miracle cost-cutting measure, seems to have similar thoughts on the technology, calling it a tool that could empower creatives.Speaking with The Game Business, Mahoney is
  
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• "This award can f*** itself": Clair Obscur Expedition 33 Verso actor would rather give up Best Supporting Performer than go without "the thrill of that sweet, sweet banana" Joker in Balatro

  02-12-2025 22:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  You wouldn't understand the relationship between Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Ben Starr and Balatro banana Gros Michel. It transcends words. It's an expression of belief… the belief that banana is good.Banana is just. Most of all, banana is ripe. Starr alludes to these tenants when WhatCulture Gaming asks him during the Golden Joystick Awards 2025 what feels better, winning Best Supporting Performer as Verso in Expedition 33, or "having Gros Michel last one more turn?" He answers swi
  
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• Stranger Things fans have resurrected a rather sinister season 2 theory involving Mike and Nancy's do-nothing dad – and the evidence in season 5 is overwhelming

  02-12-2025 21:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Thanks to a brand new episode involving a Demogorgon and a golf club, a (rather outrageous-seeming) fan theory from Stranger Things season 2 has resurfaced – and Ted Wheeler may not be as innocent as we think.Warning: Stranger Things season 5 spoilers below!Following Stranger Things season 5 episode 2, a new TikTok has popped up that poses the theory that Ted Wheeler, the largely useless father character of Mike, Nancy, and Holly, is actually the creator of the Upside Down. Now, I (as a fa
  
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• Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii isn't saying there's a Chrono Trigger remake, but he's not saying there isn't one: "I can't say ... I'll get told off!"

  02-12-2025 20:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dragon Quest series creator Yuji Horii is once again commenting, but not really saying much, about a potential Chrono Trigger remake.Horii, who was supervisor and scenario writer on the original version of Chrono Trigger, inadvertently set the JRPG community ablaze back in May by seemingly confirming the existence of a Chrono Trigger remake, but later reports claimed he never actually mentioned one. Still, the toothpaste was unleashed from the tube, and Chrono Trigger diehards have been waiting
  
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• Banned by Steam, $100,000 in the hole, and facing shutdown, graphic horror game dev now dropped by Epic Games Store "roughly 24 hours before launch"

  02-12-2025 19:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Horses, developer Santa Ragione's very intentionally upsetting horror game about naked, censored humans in horse costumes, has been banned by the Epic Games Store just one day before launch, after Epic said it would "promote and support" the game when it was banned by Steam following a content review by Valve.Santa Ragione shared the news on Bluesky on the heels of the game's release on GOG, Itch, and Humble for $4.99. "Yesterday, the Epic Games Store decided at the last minute not to distribute
  
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• The Stranger Things finale runtime has been officially confirmed, and it's only the second longest episode of the show

  02-12-2025 19:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  The final season of Stranger Things is underway, but fans who are sad to see the venerable streaming series end will be happy to know that the runtime for the series finale is as long as a full-length movie.The Stranger Things season finale will run for 2 hours and 5 minutes, according to streamer Netflix's official announcement. This means that there are still many hours left to spend with the gang from Hawkins, Indiana as they have their final battle with the villainous Vecna and the forces of
  
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• After trying Unreal Engine, new fantasy RPG led by ex-Elder Scrolls leads goes back to its Bethesda roots with a unique proprietary engine that's "already more than doubled our development speed"

  02-12-2025 18:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  After unveiling new studio OnceLost Games in 2019, The Elder Scrolls series veterans Julian LeFay, Ted Peterson, and Vijay Lakshman went on to reveal The Wayward Realms – a fresh fantasy game they described as a "grand" take on the RPG genre.Since then, they reintroduced it as a title that would restore "scope, choice, consequences, and roleplaying to RPGs" – a very big project, to say the least – and although LeFay passed away this summer, the team assured his "legacy will liv
  
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• As Sony's lawsuit against "slavish clone" of Horizon series continues, Tencent agrees not to promote open-world survival game Light of Motiram, at least for the time being

  02-12-2025 18:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tencent has agreed to hold off on any promotion of its upcoming open-world survival game Light of Motiram – a game that Sony alleged is a "slavish clone" of its own Horizon titles – at least until things reach an important next step in the two companies' ongoing legal battle.Light of Motiram, developed by Tencent subsidiary Polaris Quest, was unveiled last year, and immediately found itself being compared to Horizon Zero Dawn thanks to its animal-like machine foes, key visuals, and c
  
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• FromSoftware owns up to its swamp addiction as Elden Ring Nightreign adds yet another, director insists it just kind of happens: "It's just sort of taken a life of its own"

  02-12-2025 18:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  There are a few things you can count on in a FromSoftware game: inscrutable lore, lots of dying, and a swamp. There's always a swamp, and though late to the party, Elden Ring Nightreign is no exception. New DLC The Forsaken Hollows has brought on some swampy marshland, and even the devs are in the joke at this point.Wandering around Limveld post-The Forsaken Hollows, you'll notice some muddy, toxic areas that'll poison you or inflict several other status ailments. These parts of the map are as t
  
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• After a quiet flop and some very loud industry-wide implosion, Shovel Knight dev really needs its new Game Boy-style soulslike to break through: "If we sold, like, 100,000, that's not so good"

  02-12-2025 17:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Shovel Knight developer, Yacht Club Games, says that it needs its next release, Mina the Hollower, to be a success or the company may have to downsize, forgo independence, or worse, with co-founder Sean Velasco claiming, "It's make-or-break for sure."Shovel Knight was the first major indie game success on Kickstarter. Raising more than $300,000 over the course of the campaign, Yacht Club earned a lot of goodwill by not only delivering an excellent game, but overdelivering on its stretch goals wi
  
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• Player count collapse? Roadmap? Buddy, we've got bigger problems, Dune: Awakening player decides, making it his life's goal to get the MMO's "useless" melee combat fixed

  02-12-2025 17:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been a wild journey for Dune: Awakening so far, between its player count dropping to promises of long-awaited features like the Base Backup Tool and various patches – but one specific issue has plagued its community now for a while: melee combat.If you've been out of the loop (or took an extended break from the game post-base demolition like I admittedly did), melee has… well, fallen off a bit, for lack of better words. Put simply, Funcom seemingly attempted to address an issue
  
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• In the nick of time, Helldivers 2 rolls out a "slim version" shrinking file sizes by a whopping 85% on PC: "It's a low-risk way to save ~131GB of space on your drive"

  02-12-2025 17:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sweet liberty, the Helldivers 2 PC file size is finally getting a substantial reduction after months of bloating and taking up chunks of people's hard drives. In a new update, Arrowhead Game Studios has shaved around 85% of the overall memory requirement down, creating a "slim version."The numbers are as follows: the files for Helldivers 2 used to amount to around 154GB, but now they stand at a grand total of around 23GB. That's a massive difference, and one that's been long overdue in the eyes
  
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• After an agonizing 7-year wait, Metroid Prime 4 Metacritic score is just barely above black sheep like Other M and Prime Pinball

  02-12-2025 17:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been 7 years since the announcement of Metroid Prime 4, 9 years since the launch of the last Metroid game, and 18 years since Prime 3 landed. After an agonizing wait for longtime series fans, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is nearly upon us, and early reviews are already here. But while those scores aren't bad, they do suggest that Samus's latest adventure can't quite measure up to the classics of the series.With 57 critic reviews factored in, Metroid Prime 4 currently enjoys a Metacritic score of
  
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• Fortnite channels its inner Helldivers 2, adds ragdoll-like tumbling, which is either very funny or incredibly embarrassing depending on who you ask

  02-12-2025 17:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fortnite Chapter 7 is here, and with Season 1 there are a number of new mechanics to use in the battle royale, including the ability to roll around when you're knocked down. With that also comes something else – Helldivers 2-esque ragdoll-like physics, which can see you uncontrollably tumbling down hills and being flung around by friend and foe alike.When playing with a team (or solo, if you've managed to grab one of the rare new Self-Revive Devices), when you get knocked, you now have the
  
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• PS5 architect Mark Cerny says an intense Nintendo rivalry turned Sega into a "sweatshop" when he worked there: "Three people. Three months. That's a game"

  02-12-2025 16:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  PlayStation lead architect and PS5 designer Mark Cerny says that Sega was a "sweatshop" when he worked there in the late '80s, because leadership believed the key to beating Nintendo was to release more games than its biggest competitor.Speaking with Simon Parkin on the My Favourite Console podcast, Cerny explains the toxic working conditions he experienced at Sega's Tokyo office in the late 1980s. "Now, I've gotta caveat this," Cerny starts. "I'm only talking about the second half of the 1980s
  
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• PS5 architect Mark Cerny had a "transformative" experience playing Pikmin on the Nintendo GameCube: "I'm a sucker when it comes to story"

  02-12-2025 15:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  As a central figure in the creation of the PS4, PS5, and PlayStation Vita, and credited on numerous classic series, including Spyro and Crash Bandicoot, you’d expect Mark Cerny to have pretty discerning taste. This is exemplified by his experience with Pikmin, a game he reveals changed his life.Cerny spoke about what those tiny multi-coloured aliens meant to him during an interview on My Perfect Console. "I thought it was such an emotionally involving story," he says. "Poor Captain Olimar,
  
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• Vecna returns with new Lego Stranger Things set that features the first ever transforming Lego house

  02-12-2025 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's time to return to the Upside Down, because the Duffer Brothers have revealed a brand-new Lego Stranger Things set – only this time we're going to Vecna's Lair.The new kit is based on the Creel House, AKA Henry Creel/001/Vecna's base of operations. However, the model isn't just a recreation of the Hawkins location; a secret mechanism can be activated that "splits the exterior to reveal the interdimensional horror lurking beneath." This makes the new Lego Stranger Things set the first e
  
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• Five Nights at Freddy's 2 star Josh Hutcherson fills in the blanks on what the new movie has in store for his character Mike: "He's not going to get a normal life... definitely not in the sequel"

  02-12-2025 14:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  While the Five Nights at Freddy's movie followed the first game pretty faithfully, centering security guard Mike, whose new job winds up being a real nightmare, upcoming sequel Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is set to deviate from the source material a bunch. While the protagonist catches a bit of a break in the second game, as the franchise goes back in time, Josh Hutcherson's lead won't be putting his feet up on the big screen."At the start of Freddy's 2, Mike's in a better place. I think
  
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• Horror titans Jordan Peele and Sam Raimi are teaming up to turn spooky short film into a feature-length frightfest

  02-12-2025 14:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  It may be December 2, but Christmas has come early for genre fans: Jordan Peele and Sam Raimi are teaming up with Universal to make a new religious horror movie -- and you can watch the chilling viral short in which it'll be based right now.Taking inspiration from writer-director Dylan Clark's Portrait of a God, the film will presumably center on Mia Reilly, a young girl who's forced to wrestle with her own idea of faith as she analyzes a painting of the titular Almighty.The 7-minute original ha
  
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• After releasing a lost Kill Bill chapter in Fortnite, Quentin Tarantino wants to make a prequel origin story and an animated Vega Brothers movie

  02-12-2025 14:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  After Yuki's Revenge, a lost chapter of the original Kill Bill script, finally hit our screens via Fortnite, Quentin Tarantino has shared his feelings about using animation as a medium to explore other unrealized projects."I could see some world between [Unreal Engine] and Japanese anime that I could find some happy medium. Or, you know, between the things that I couldn’t physically do, like, say, the Vega Brothers movie, or something like that," Tarantino said during a Q&A at the prem
  
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• The Witcher 4 seems stronger than ever, as ex-Baldur's Gate 3 dev joins the team behind CD Projekt Red's new RPG: "Time to trade in my Baldur's Gate dice for some Polish steel"

  02-12-2025 13:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  As work on The Witcher 4 continues to press on, CD Projekt Red welcomes new developers to its team of talented RPG masterminds – and one of its more recent newcomers is none other than a former Baldur's Gate 3 artist.Felix Pedulla, who has plenty of cinematic experience under his belt now, worked at Larian Studios for a solid six years. While there, he served as a senior cinematic artist on Baldur's Gate 3 – an RPG I'd argue genuinely might have some of the most beautiful and emotion
  
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• Helldivers 2 patch brings balance changes and bug fixes, but fans are devastated that "Factory Striders will no longer be launched to sky erratically" now: "Worst change ever"

  02-12-2025 13:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new Helldivers 2 patch is here, rolling out a number of balance changes as well as bug fixes, and I'm sure those newly detected "strange signals" are nothing for Super Earth's finest to be concerned about. …Right?Helldivers 2 Into the Unjust version 5.0.0 rolled out today, with the patch notes confirming buffs for a number of weapons, including the P-2 Peacemaker, SMG-37 Defender, and M6C/SOCOM Pistol. In addition, the Stalker enemy has been nerfed, as Arrowhead has decreased the force
  
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• Toby Fox teaches translators the meaning of "caked up" in Deltarune Chapter 5 tease as we eagerly await our big booty worm

  02-12-2025 13:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Toby Fox has given Deltarune fans a sneak peek at the game's next chapter, including annotated notes for Chapter 5's localizers that suggest we'll be treated to a "caked up" worm.In a post on Bluesky, Fox shares that he hasn't been working on his winter newsletter as he is focused on annotating notes for Deltarune Chapter 5's translators, who begin work next week. Annotating dialogue is a helpful way to show translators the meaning and nuance of certain phrases in their proper context, as these
  
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• Five Nights at Freddy's 2 director Emma Tammi says she did feel pressure going into the sequel after the first movie's success, but feels the team has made something "special" packed full of "surprises"

  02-12-2025 13:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  No one could have predicted the success of the first Five Nights at Freddy's movie in 2023, but although director Emma Tammi says the reception was "major," it did add another layer of pressure when going into upcoming video game movie Five Nights at Freddy's 2."It did add a little pressure for the sequel," says Tammi to GamesRadar+. "But I think mostly just wanting to make sure that we were really expanding on the story in the way that the fan base was hoping for and going to be excited about.
  
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• Mad Men fans spot edit issues with HBO Max's 4K release, including crew members and visible vomit machines

  02-12-2025 13:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mad Men fans were delighted when HBO announced back in November that it would be releasing the hit drama in 4K on Max the following month. Well, now it's streaming, but unfortunately the super sleek restoration seems to have come with some unexpected issues, including one heck of a post-production goof.As pointed out by user b345tbr34th on Reddit and "Johnny" on Twitter, two crew members holding a fake vomit machine can be seen in a shot during the first season's seventh episode 'Red in the Face
  
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• After widespread criticism for the use of AI voice actors, Amazon removes AI dub from anime series Banana Fish

  02-12-2025 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Amazon has seemingly removed an English dub from the anime series Banana Fish that appeared to utilize AI voice actors.The controversy erupted over the past few days on social media, with viewers spotting that the 'Audio Languages' option listed an 'English [AI beta]' selection.The video showcasing the AI 'talents' – which you can see below – spread like wildfire and led to a massive backlash from audiences and industry figures.Amazon has started using AI to add English Dubs to anime
  
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• 2025's most underappreciated anime movie is coming to Netflix this month

  02-12-2025 12:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  You'll soon be able to catch the most underappreciated anime movie of 2025 on streaming – 100 Meters is landing on Netflix at the end of this month.The film, adapted from the manga of the same name, is hitting the streamer on December 31 after releasing in North American theaters on October 10 (and Japanese theaters on September 19).100 Meters follows runner Togashi and new student Komiya, who, after first meeting at school, face each other on the racetrack as adults. Check out a trailer b
  
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• After months of anticipation, Helldivers 2 fan film gets suddenly removed from YouTube, but it wasn't Sony even though an official movie is in the works: "I am chatting with YouTube right now"

  02-12-2025 12:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  While we wait for Hollywood's Helldivers 2 movie to be made, a fan film called For Liberty! is here to fill the gap. Or it would be, if not for a YouTube takedown that unceremoniously removed the video from the platform without notice.After almost a year of anticipation, For Liberty! arrived recently to helped deliver democracy across the known universe. Sadly, the powers that be had other things in mind, with the short production getting taken off YouTube soon after becoming publicly available.
  
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• Final Fantasy creator finds plans for his first-ever game with Square while "decluttering," featuring detailed instructions like "give apple" to get a "kiss" and "kill lion with revolver"

  02-12-2025 12:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi is decluttering his files, and has recently unearthed the original 1984 pitch for his first game, drawn on graph paper with very detailed instructions on what the game entails, and cute drawings to go alongside it.Sakaguchi shares on Twitter several images from his original pitch, all of which are hand-written on graph paper. As translated by GamesRadar+, the tweet reads, "As part of my decluttering series. 1984. The first game proposal I wrote."As spotte
  
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• Avatar: Fire and Ash premieres to rave first reactions that call the new James Cameron movie "pure blockbuster filmmaking at its finest" and "the best one yet"

  02-12-2025 12:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avatar: Fire and Ash had its world premiere at Hollywood's Dolby Theater last night (December 1), and it's earning rave first reactions on social media.The follow-up to 2022's The Way of Water sees Jake and Neytiri's family face a new threat in the form of the Ash People, a mysterious Na'vi tribe led by the fearsome Varang – who's allied with Jake's enemy Colonel Miles Quaritch."James Cameron’s AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH is a phenomenal moviegoing experience," said Fandango's Erik Davies.
  
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• Fallout season 2 gets festive in new teaser trailer with fresh looks at The Ghoul, a Deathclaw, and a Radroach attack

  02-12-2025 12:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nothing says Merry Christmas 2025 like a new season of Fallout season 2, and it looks like the sci-fi show is getting into the festive spirit as its new teaser trailer confirms that December 19 (when the next installment hits Prime Video) will be the most wonderful time of the year.The new teaser, poster on Twitter by Prime Video, opens with separate shots of characters Lucy, Ghoul, Maximus, and Hank all looking pretty cheerful as Andy Williams' hit Christmas song 'It's the Most Wonderful Time o
  
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• Citizens of Super Earth, rejoice: Helldivers movie moves forward with Fast and Furious director

  02-12-2025 11:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been almost a year since a Helldivers movie was announced, so you could have been forgiven for thinking the adaptation of Arrowhead's bug-squishing shooter sequel may have joined several upcoming video game movie projects in development hell.Not so. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the Helldivers movie is officially moving forward with Fast and Furious director Justin Lin at the wheel.It and Annabelle writer Gary Dauberman will be penning the script, but it's Lin's reported pitch that might r
  
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• We can apparently cross God of War and Diablo 4 DLC off the list of things The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley could be teasing, and I'm sure The Elder Scrolls 6 fans are feeling very normal about that

  02-12-2025 11:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  The plot thickens around The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley's mysterious teaser that had The Elder Scrolls 6, Half-Life 3, God of War hopefuls and more all convinced that they could see a long-awaited announcement at this month's awards show, as we now apparently know two things he isn't hinting at.After making Half-Life fans go feral over his singular wishlisted Steam game, Keighley took to Twitter over the weekend to share an image of a door-like structure, surrounded by carvings of skeletons
  
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• Hideo Kojima's new film role is not at all what we expected, but it's somehow perfect

  02-12-2025 11:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hideo Kojima, who doubles as a legendary game designer and a massive cinephile, has scored a new movie role.Now, to be totally honest, it's not at all what we expected, but somehow, it fits perfectly. Kojima will next appear on the big screen in the Japanese version of Zootopia 2 with a voice role, per Famitsu. He'll be voicing Paul Moldebrandt, who, as you might have guessed by the name, is a mole employed at the Zootopia Police Department."I have plenty of experience with cameo appearances in
  
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• "Unforgivable" Stranger Things season 5 NES blooper has retro game fans fuming, albeit mostly jokingly

  02-12-2025 00:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  The '80s nostalgia trip of Stranger Things arguably peaked in season 5 with a brief scene inside the bedroom of Derek Turnbow (Jake Connelly), an absolute wonderland of toys and games that looks like something out of an era-appropriate Sears catalog. But a key mistake in the episode's presentation of Capcom's classic action game Ghosts 'n Goblins has caught the – mostly joking – ire of retro game enthusiasts.When we see Derek's room in episode three of season 5, it includes everythin
  
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