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• Banned horror game Horses now topping GOG's best-seller charts amid censorship controversy, and it's back on Humble even as Steam and Epic refuse to carry it

  03-12-2025 23:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  The controversy around the surreal horror game Horses seems to only be adding to the game's mystique. Stores like GOG and Itch.io, which are carrying Horses despite its ban from platforms like Steam and Epic, now list the game as their number-one top seller. At least one storefront has seemingly reversed course on the ban, too, as Humble has once again listed Horses for sale.Italian developer Santa Ragione describes Horses as "an enigmatic first person horror adventure that blurs the line betwee
  
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• This NES horror JRPG spent 32 years as lost media, but once it was preserved it only took 33 days to get a complete fan translation

  03-12-2025 22:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Back in November, we reported on the unexpected discovery and unofficial release of Splatterworld, a JRPG spin-off of the horror-themed beat-'em-up series Splatterhouse. Originally scheduled for release on the Japanese Famicom in 1993, it seems unlikely that this game ever would've been officially localized for NES even if it hadn't been canceled before launch, but don't tell that to the romhackers who've already given us a complete fan translation patch of a game that would've been considered l
  
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• As Octopath Traveler 0 launches to great reviews, the JRPG's producer says "we may have truly delivered what we set out to create" and "it feels as though I've finally returned to my hometown"

  03-12-2025 22:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ahead of Octopath Traveler 0's launch tomorrow, critical reviews suggest Square Enix has another JRPG hit on its hands, and the game's producer couldn't be happier about it. In fact, his comments in the wake of those great reviews are downright heartwarming.Octopath Traveler 0, a prequel to the first game in the series and an adaptation of the 2020 mobile game Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent, currently holds an impressive 84 Metascore with 28 reviews having been counted. That's jus
  
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• Red Dead Redemption 2 is "slightly more novelistic" than GTA 5 because Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser "binged on Victorian novels" for inspiration

  03-12-2025 21:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Is Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar Games and former lead writer on Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, an equal to literary legends like Charles Dickens? Well, I dunno, ask me again in a couple of centuries when gaming's canon is settled, but Houser himself will tell you that there are some similarities between Victorian literature and Rockstar's world-building, and that influence became very explicit for Red Dead Redemption 2.In an interview with The Guardian, Houser compares the GTA g
  
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• GTA is "not as good as Dickens," former Rockstar boss says, but he "binged on Victorian novels" so Red Dead Redemption 2's writing would "capture that 19th-century feeling of life and death"

  03-12-2025 21:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Is Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar Games and former lead writer on Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, an equal to literary legends like Charles Dickens? Well, I dunno, ask me again in a couple of centuries when gaming's canon is settled, but Houser himself will tell you that there are some similarities between Victorian literature and Rockstar's world-building, and that influence became very explicit for Red Dead Redemption 2.During a press tour for Grand Theft Auto 4 well over a decad
  
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• Fallout season 1 will soon be free to watch on Prime – but only if you have the right TV

  03-12-2025 21:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fallout season 2 is almost upon us, and it seems like Amazon is taking a page out of Apple TV's book and making season 1 of the hit video game adaptation available for free.You might recall that Apple TV Plus made Severance season 1 available to stream for free ahead of the highly-anticipated second season. Well, Amazon has teamed up with Samsung, Besthesda, and Xbox to do more or less the same – but it's only available for folks who have a Samsung TV (H/T Variety). Starting December 3, th
  
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• James Gunn can't share his whole Spotify Wrapped because "ALL" the top songs are in Man of Tomorrow

  03-12-2025 21:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Superman filmmaker/DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn has shared his yearly Spotify Wrapped playlist, a personalized rundown of each Spotify user's most listened to songs, albums, artists, and genres.Well, sort of. While Gunn did post a playlist that has a lot of the sort of pop-rock oriented fare one might expect, the director says he purposely excluded his actual top songs of the year, as all of them are in his upcoming Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow."I can't post my top songs because they are ALL
  
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• Former Nexon boss who took a risk on Arc Raiders says "the AAA industry is structurally at its end" and "it’s going to end in more disaster than it has already" without a "serious rewrite"

  03-12-2025 20:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Owen Mahoney, the former Nexon CEO who took a risk saying 'yes' to the company's acquisition of Arc Raiders studio Embark, has extremely dire words for the future of AAA game development.Mahoney recently sat down with The Game Business and reflected on risk in the industry and how the perception of risk could be contributing to the potential demise of AAA development and publishing as we know it. As CEO and president of Nexon from 2014 to 2024, Mahoney was the one who decided to invest and ultim
  
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• Gory, tongue-in-cheek Ready or Not 2 trailer sees Samara Weaving face off against a scheming Elijah Wood and a killer Sarah Michelle Gellar

  03-12-2025 19:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is here – and it's safe to say, the upcoming horror sequel looks just as blood-soaked as the original. While the first film dipped its toe into camp, with its audacious kills and pantomimey villains, it looks like the follow-up is leaning more heavily into that zany, tongue-in-cheek humor."Thank God it's over," Samara Weaving's ill-fated Grace sighs from a hospital bed at the top of the promo, which you can watch above. But she couldn't be
  
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• Devs behind sci-fi survival game Once Human promise to "replace the asset in question" after No Man's Sky comparisons reach Sean Murray

  03-12-2025 18:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Amid the ongoing slew of updates for post-apocalyptic survival game Once Human, a small, unintentional nod to No Man's Sky appears to have slipped in. An exercise bike, available in loot crates, bears a striking resemblance to an item available in the space travel sim from Hello Games, leading to a comment from Sean Murray himself.The recent Thunder Overload from developer Starry Studio included the bicycle, which features the basic frame built into a larger metal ring. Besides the design being
  
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• Skyblivion delayed to 2026 as devs behind the unofficial Oblivion project made using Skyrim's engine say their "initial goal" of launching this year "is no longer possible"

  03-12-2025 18:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Unfortunately, Skyblivion has just been delayed – its creators simply need more time to iron out a few of the fan-led RPG project's details, so it won't be releasing now until sometime in 2026 rather than by the end of this year.The Elder Scrolls Renewal Project, the team behind both Skyblivion and Skywind, has been working on its Oblivion recreation in Skyrim's engine for 13 years now – and while it had previously revealed a launch window of 2025, it seems its work just isn't finish
  
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• Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says GTA games are "not as good as" Charles Dickens books, "but they are similar" in their world-building

  03-12-2025 18:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rockstar Games' co-founder and longtime Grand Theft Auto writer Dan Houser says that his games are not quite as good as Charles Dickens books, but they share similarities when it comes to world building.Speaking to The Guardian, Houser explains that during a press tour for GTA 4, "I was talking to a journalist from Paris Match, a very cultured French guy – and he said, 'Well, the Grand Theft Auto games are just like Dickens.'" While Houser was very pleased with the comparison, he notes, "I
  
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• PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted returns this week – here's how and when to watch it

  03-12-2025 18:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted is right around the corner, and if you're wondering when and how to tune in so you don't miss any of its big announcements and trailers, you're in the right place.This year's PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted – powered by Xbox Game Pass – will count down the 25 most-anticipated PC games currently in development, as decided by a council of over 120 journalists, games industry luminaries, content creators and celebrities, and chosen from a longlist of 100 games se
  
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• One week after an acclaimed indie studio said it faces closure following a Steam ban for its surreal horror game, Humble joins Epic in banning Horses at the last minute

  03-12-2025 18:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Humble Store is the third online storefront to ban the surreal indie horror game Horses, following decisions from Valve and Epic Games. Of the three, Steam is the only one to release a public statement about the ban, writing, "our internal content review team discussed [the ban] extensively and communicated to the developer our final decision that we were not going to ship the game on Steam."Just a day before the game was due to launch, Epic Games Store sent a message to Santa Ragione, the a
  
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• Creepy experimental FPS gets re-released on Steam after a "former friend" got it taken down, devs plead for support after weeks of lost sales: "We're unsure if we will be able to recover"

  03-12-2025 17:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  In an ironic twist, the spooky game No Players Online, about what remains of an abandoned FPS, is actually haunted in real life by a "former friend" of the developers who managed to get it taken down. A successful Steam strike removed the experimental horror shooter, and it’s only now been relisted.Adam Pype, a dev at Beeswax, the studio behind the game, recounted events in a statement. "They claimed to be a co-author of the game despite not having done anything for it," the post reads. "N
  
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• Monster Hunter Wilds director admits his action RPG's "difficulty curve was a little lacking" at first, but he'd love it if anyone who dropped it at launch gave it another try

  03-12-2025 17:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Monster Hunter Wilds director Yuya Tokuda has admitted that the game was perhaps a little too easy, while series producer Ryozo Tsujimoto says there are no plans to stop the series here.Now that The Game Awards list of 2025 Game of the Year nominees is out, if you'd have shown it to me at the end of 2024, I'd have questioned the lack of Monster Hunter Wilds (well, after freaking out that there's a new Donkey Kong game). Capcom's latest felt like it had all the momentum in the world going in, but
  
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• No Man's Sky lead says Sony has a "KNACK for this kind of thing" as people try and riddle out the viral Game Awards teaser – that, or "Geoff is simply opening a hell portal"

  03-12-2025 17:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's just that time of the year, as with The Game Awards quickly approaching and host Geoff Keighley leaving a cryptic teaser of what the event might reveal, the gaming community is going wild – but No Man's Sky lead Sean Murray thinks he's cracked the code.Or, well, he jokingly does, anyway. For anyone out of the loop on The Game Awards debacle, Keighly recently showed some sort of structure composed of beasts, warriors, and demons (?), glowing red, and people have been trying to decipher
  
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• After more AI English anime dubs were removed from Prime Video, the studios say it wasn't approved in "any form" and they are "looking into it with Amazon"

  03-12-2025 17:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Amazon has removed more AI English dubs from popular anime shows... and now the studios are speaking out.Earlier this week, several viewers spotted something very curious hidden within the 'Audio Languages' options for the anime series Banana Fish and Pet, as well as the movie No Game, No Life Zero. One of the options included 'English [AI beta], which seemed to feature voices from entirely AI-generated actors.As of Wednesday, all three AI dubs have been removed from Prime Video – with noE
  
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• Fortnite star Ninja urges Arc Raiders devs not to make the same mistake as Epic's battle royale: "Keep it as casual as possible"

  03-12-2025 16:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  In a recent livestream, Fortnite and Family Feud player Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins explains how he worries that Arc Raiders will become a competitive game, believing it would ruin online play, and comparing it to the game that made him famous by saying, "it's what happened to Fortnite."A clip that was shared on Reddit, shows Ninja passionately discussing the idea of a competitive Arc Raiders scene with his audience, saying it has "too much desync for this game to like legitimately be competitive" and
  
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• World of Warcraft lead thinks the MMO will still be "kicking" in 10 years, but despite having ideas for "the very long run," Blizzard is currently focusing "on the next 5 years"

  03-12-2025 16:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  With World of Warcraft: Midnight just around the corner, one of the central developers behind the ever-popular MMORPG has taken a second to reflect on what the next decade may look like. Hopefully still king of the MMO space, he says, though Blizzard's projections aren't quite as long-term."Still around, still kicking, I think hopefully, still at the forefront of the genre, and really, you know, defining what it means to be a persistent online community in a world," game director Ion Hazzikostas
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says Xbox Game Pass "lowered that barrier of entry" for his turn-based RPG, a genre that "might put people who prefer more real-time action games off"

  03-12-2025 16:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director Guillaume Broche says Xbox Game Pass "lowered that barrier of entry" for his beloved turn-based RPG, which sits in a genre that "might put people who prefer more real-time action games off."In a new post on the official Xbox Wire blog, it's revealed that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was 2025's biggest new third-party game launch on Game Pass – definitely no small feat, but it's perhaps unsurprising given its immense popularity and success. Broch
  
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• Marvel star Elizabeth Olsen says she "doesn't mean to pick" movies about grief since WandaVision, but thinks her new afterlife rom-com Eternity offers something different: "This felt more about a continued life"

  03-12-2025 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  If we had a penny for every time Elizabeth Olsen played a widow trying to navigate her grief in a fantastical setting in the last five years… Well, we'd have two pennies. After playing a grieving Scarlet Witch in WandaVision on Disney Plus (and again in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness), Olsen is tackling love and loss again in new rom-com Eternity.She plays Joan, a woman faced with an impossible choice in the afterlife, but Olsen tells GamesRadar+ that she didn't "consciously
  
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• These Switch 2 Twin Controller grips are finally back in stock, and should be first up on your holiday shopping list

  03-12-2025 14:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Of all the accessories you can grab for the Nintendo Switch 2, the 4Gamers Twin Controller Grips aren't the fanciest, nor are they the most expensive. Yet, out of all the Nintendo Switch 2 accessories out there today, they're still the first one I'd recommend to anyone just grabbed the Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle.The controller grips are just $14.99 at Walmart and can transform the single Switch 2 Joy-Con experience into something so comfortable that it'll remove the guilt of having to hand
  
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• First teaser for new horror movie with 97% Rotten Tomatoes score sees a music store employee get more than he bargained for after making a mysterious wish

  03-12-2025 14:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  A hopeless romantic's wish goes horribly wrong in the first teaser for new horror movie Obsession. The film has been the subject of online buzz since it premiered at Toronto International Film Festival back in September – and now, genre fans who weren't lucky enough to be in attendance can finally get a taste of what everyone's raving about.In the cryptic clip, which you can watch above, Michael Johnston's character, Bear, can be seen sitting in a dimly lit car, talking to someone on the p
  
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• Palworld lead says "a very story-based" spin on the survival game is possible, as he knows "a lot of creature collector fans are used to story games" more like Pokemon

  03-12-2025 14:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pocketpair Publishing boss and Palworld designer John "Bucky" Buckley says that a more linear story-based take on the Palworld franchise could be explored in the future.Although I think Nintendo and Pocketpair would rather it stop, it's impossible to talk about Palworld without Pokemon coming up. But when it comes down to it, the two games don't really have all that much in common outside of the creature collecting aspects. One is an open-world survival crafting game while the other is an RPG wi
  
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• The Elder Scrolls 6 probably isn't making an appearance at The Game Awards, and once again, the RPG community is begging Bethesda for literally anything: "Please, Todd"

  03-12-2025 14:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's not been an easy year (or decade, really) for The Elder Scrolls 6 hopefuls, between a lack of news from Bethesda Game Studios and recent excitement spurred over what fans thought might be a teaser of something to come at The Game Awards this month.For anyone out of the loop, the supposed teaser involves a very cryptic post from The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley, showing some sort of structure comprised of beasts, warriors, and demons (?) glowing red. Fans assumed it could mean news of Hal
  
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• Ralph Fiennes is experimenting on the infected and Jack O'Connell is wreaking havoc in new trailer for horror sequel 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

  03-12-2025 13:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new trailer for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is here, and it hints at some potentially game-changing developments for the horror franchise as the focus shifts to Dr. Ian Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) and Jimmy Crystal (Jack O'Connell).The new clip, which you can watch above, opens with Kelson telling us that he's been "developing an idea about the nature of the infection. When the infected attack, what do they see?" he asks.It then cuts to Spike (Alfie Williams), the young protagonist of this year
  
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• Red Dead Redemption's free Xbox Series X upgrade is currently broken with fans baffled after being asked to buy the whole game again, but Rockstar is "working with Microsoft to resolve it"

  03-12-2025 13:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rockstar Games launched a free current-gen update for digital owners of the original Red Dead Redemption, but Xbox players noticed they were unable to make the leap from the Xbox 360 version to the Xbox Series X|S. The company has now released a statement acknowledging the issue, and says it's "working with Microsoft to resolve it."Owners of both Red Dead Redemption and the Undead Nightmares DLC on both PlayStation and Xbox are – or at least will be able to – play the game on PS5 and
  
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• The Chainsaw Man author's manga one-shot that broke my heart is getting a surprise live-action adaptation

  03-12-2025 13:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Chainsaw Man author Tatsuki Fujimoto's acclaimed one-shot Look Back is getting the live-action treatment.As revealed by both Fujimoto's editor Shihei Lin on Twitter and in the pages of Chainsaw Man's latest chapter in Shonen Jump, Look Back is being turned into a live-action film in 2026 by director Hirokazu Kore-eda. The filmmaker is perhaps best known to western audiences for 2013's Like Father, Like Son and 2018's Shoplifters.Look Back, which was turned into an animated film and streamed on P
  
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• Bioshock creator Ken Levine's new narrative FPS Judas was shaped by a "stream of consciousness" where an anti-social character prefers vending machines to people: "Conversation is a prelude to failure"

  03-12-2025 12:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ken Levine, one of the masterminds behind BioShock, has a new FPS in the works, the mysterious Judas for Ghost Story Games. As details drip out about the project, he's provided us with an insight into the eponymous lead character, who seems rather heavily defined by how little they like other people."I often come up with ideas when I'm out on runs, and one day I thought of this speech that would define this character that we were trying to figure out," he says in a comment for the PlayStation Bl
  
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• The Boys star Karl Urban teases major deaths as early as the season 5 premiere: "Anybody's fair game"

  03-12-2025 12:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Welp, it looks like the plot armor is being peeled off in The Boys season 5 as star Karl Urban teases some "big hits" as early as the final season's premiere."I think we throw you in the deep end, but in a good way, because the stakes are as high as they can possibly be," Urban said at San Francisco's Fan Expo (H/T Screen Rant). "I think the real thing to look out for in season 5 on an emotional level, as far as the characters go, and your attachments to characters, there's going to be some big
  
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• Mario Kart World update makes playing with friends easier, one intermission track less pathetic, and finally allows you to turn that soundtrack up to the only option you need: "Loud"

  03-12-2025 12:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo has released a new update for Mario Kart World, which features some especially good news for fans of its incredible soundtrack.Mario Kart World may be somewhat divisive after its price debacle, intermission tracks, and the fact that, after 11 years, no Mario Kart game had a chance in hell to live up to a post-booster course pack Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with its roughly 500 (96) tracks included, but there's one thing that everyone agrees on: that soundtrack absolutely rips. Driving around th
  
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• EA's $55 billion buyout will reportedly see Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund own 93.4% of the EA Sports FC and Battlefield 6 company

  03-12-2025 12:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dragon Age, Battlefield 6, and EA Sports FC owner EA is set to go private in a $55 billion buyout, and a new report claims that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) will own the vast majority of the company should the deal go ahead.While the buyout hasn't gone through at the time of writing (EA previously said it's "expected to close in Q1 FY27 and is subject to customary closing conditions"), assuming it does, the company will be owned by the PIF, as well as private equity firm Silver La
  
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• Helldivers movie director may not be a gamer, but Arrowhead boss says he trusts Justin Lin because he "did a great job on the Star Trek movie"

  03-12-2025 12:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Helldivers movie is making progress almost a year after being announced, but there is one thing that's already troubling fans.Director Justin Lin, who has previously helmed multiple Fast and Furious movies as well as Star Trek Beyond, is said to be "not a gamer," according to The Hollywood Reporter. Naturally, this has some fans concerned – but Arrowhead boss Shams Jorjani isn't worried.On Discord, after a fan asked Jorjani if he could "make sure the director plays the game at least on
  
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• Stranger Things season 5 pulls in 59.6 million views in 6 days, making it the biggest English-language premiere week "in the history of Netflix"

  03-12-2025 12:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first volume of Stranger Things season 5 is already breaking Netflix records.Since the first four episodes of the final season debuted on the streamer on November 26, they've amassed 59.6 million views, which is the biggest premiere week ever for an English-language show (the "English-language" part is an important caveat – earlier this year, Squid Game season 3 amassed 60.1 million views in just three days of streaming).It's certainly on track to make waves in Netflix's English-langua
  
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• No Man's Sky lead responds to reports of stolen assets in fellow open-world survival game Once Human, says the "joke's on them" because they're actually unfinished

  03-12-2025 11:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been a wild couple of days in the No Man's Sky community, as players share reports that fellow open-world survival game Once Human has potentially nabbed some of Hello Games' assets – and it turns out they've caught the eye of Sean Murray himself.The situation first unfolded on Reddit, where a user pointed out, "A cosmetic item in Once Human looks extremely similar to NMS's Base Teleport Module – and it's being sold as a high-tier lootbox reward. Is this acceptable?" They had at
  
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• James Gunn denies that Supergirl has a $200m budget: "Not even a little bit true"

  03-12-2025 11:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  James Gunn has shot down reports that Supergirl will have an eye-watering budget.According to Forbes, Supergirl was being lined up for a $200m budget, not far off Superman's own $225m budget.However, Gunn has moved to deny those claims, writing on Threads that the figure is "not even a little bit true."This isn't the first time the DC boss has taken to social media to debunk rumors and reports. Previously, Gunn said there was "zero truth" to suggestions that Warner Bros. interfered in the final
  
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• Former Battlefield devs had "something to prove" with Arc Raiders and The Finals, ex-Nexon boss says, and that's why they succeeded where other veteran-led studios failed

  03-12-2025 02:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney reckons he knows why Arc Raiders developer Embark has been so successful compared to other veteran-led studios: because the people in charge actually care about something other than money. And Mahoney would know - under Nexon he bought Arc Raiders studio Embark thanks to the live-service game's promise.Talking to The Game Business, Mahoney was asked what differentiates a certified live-service hit like Arc Raiders from a massive bomb like PlayStation's Concord. Both
  
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• James Cameron says he's "not negative" about generative AI, but reassures fans it won't be used on any Avatar movies: "It's the existential threat from big AI that worries me more than all that stuff"

  03-12-2025 00:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avatar: Fire and Ash filmmaker James Cameron hasn't been shy about his stance on the idea of AI, drawing a line between generative AI, and the larger concept of AI that he's called an "existential threat." Despite his relatively neutral stance toward the idea of using AI in film, he's promising fans that there's no use of the technology in the upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash, nor will there be in any Avatar movies."I'm not negative about generative AI. I just wanted to point out we don't use it on
  
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