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• Steam's new "golden age" is special because so many genres are popping off at once, indie expert says: "It's almost like the player base was drinking and their inhibitions lowered"

  26-03-2026 22:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Steam researcher, marketing consultant, and indie game advisor Chris Zukowski has been talking about a new "golden age" of indie games on Steam for a while now, so I was keen to dig into the idea during an interview at GDC. Simply put, Zukowski sees data to support his theory that multiple genres are currently enjoying the kind of Steam boom that hit roguelikes after the release of Vampire Survivors. If you made a game like Vampire Survivors in that window, you had an above-average shot at succe
  
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• Legendary fan translator is now officially helping bring back a mascot platformer that couldn't escape the '90s

  26-03-2026 22:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  The success of Mario and Sonic through the 16-bit wars spawned a massive wave of platformers featuring oddball mascot heroes. Some of them were pretty good, a lot of them were pretty bad, but most of them sat in that awkward space and were simply lost to time. One of the games in that middle category is Zool, which is somehow staging a comeback with assistance from the legendary fan translator Hilltop.Zool was originally developed by British studio Gremlin Graphics for Amiga computers in 1992. A
  
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• Former Diablo devs left in limbo after $65,000 in fake Kickstarter pledges overwhelm new ARPG Darkhaven: "We are taking a few more days to consider the best course of action"

  26-03-2026 22:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former Diablo and Diablo 2 devs have been left panicked after a crush of fake Kickstarter pledges came for their eerie fantasy ARPG Darkhaven. In a dev update on the crowdfunding website (h/t Phrasemaker), Diablo 2 artist and CEO of studio Moon Beast Productions Phil Shenk informs supporters, "We've verified that at least $65k in pledges were almost certainly insincere and won't be collected. We've been in touch with Kickstarter, and they've given us the option to either keep the funds raised or
  
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• Project Hail Mary 2 reportedly "not out of the question" after the sci-fi film had the biggest non-franchise opening at the box office since Oppenheimer

  26-03-2026 21:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ryan Gosling's big sci-fi blockbuster Project Hail Mary is a certified hit both at the box office and with critics, so much so that it's not impossible that a sequel could materialize.THR cites an unnamed insider close to Project Hail Mary, saying it's "not out of the question" that MGM Amazon could make a sequel. That said, it seems it all comes down to author Andy Weir, the writer of the novel Project Hail Mary, and whether he's got another story to tell.Weir has previously stated he's not aga
  
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• Minecraft devs say anything is possible in the sandbox game's future as they start to dip into old ideas for new updates: "You always have more ideas than you can realize"

  26-03-2026 21:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Minecraft will soon follow up its precious, new Tiny Takeover update with the underground overhaul Chaos Cubed, but developer Mojang wants players to know its tight timeline doesn't mean its sandbox game's future is set. Actually, anything is possible for Minecraft.Talking to Gamespot, product manager Anna Lundgren says, "Nothing is ever off the table when it comes to what's possible in the future." In fact, Mojang has been actively revisiting abandoned ideas to see if they could work in modern
  
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• As Arc Raiders gets stale for some, lead dev says players "reaching the end of our content" are a top focus: "We want more for them"

  26-03-2026 21:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ahead of the March 31 Arc Raiders Flashpoint update, some longtime players seem to be drifting away from the game a bit, or at least approaching their fill of what it currently has to offer. The game's still doing incredibly well, of course, and plenty of players are as hooked as ever. Monthly content drops and weekly patches have extended the road, but devs can never make content as fast as people consume it, so some hardcore players with hundreds of hours logged may be feeling repetition setti
  
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• Former Overwatch lead Jeff Kaplan says he wants to put "Rust-like mechanics" in his new survival game "someday," but for now base-building is more like "Valheim and Subnautica"

  26-03-2026 21:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jeff Kaplan is best known as the original lead of Overwatch, but now that he's split from Blizzard, it seems he wants his new game to be a little less PvP-centric – at least for now. Kaplan's new studio, Kintsugiyama, is working on a Wild West survival game called The Legend of California, which is currently taking more cues from PvE-focused games than the brutal PvP of something like Rust."Someday, I would like to introduce – on servers that want it – Rust-like mechanics," Kap
  
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• Invincible season 4's hell episode is currently the lowest-rated installment of the entire show on IMDb

  26-03-2026 20:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Invincible is back for season 4, and though the show is a fan-favorite with strong critical reception, the latest episode, 'Hurm,' is the lowest rated episode of the series.That comes from IMDb's user ratings, which aggregate the general opinion of fans through ratings of 0-10 stars. Don't worry though, because even though Invincible season 4 episode 4 is the lowest rated of the show's episodes, it still ranks at a 7.2 - a respectable rating that represents a relatively small dip in user opinion
  
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• Queen of roguelikes Hades 2 gets "bonus content and quality-of-life improvements" alongside PS5 and Xbox versions next month

  26-03-2026 20:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Our ranking of the best roguelikes proudly puts Hades 2 at the very, but the game's had one especially notable flaw since its 1.0 launch last September: PlayStation and Xbox fans can't get it. Developer Supergiant Games has announced that's about to change in April, but existing players also have something to look forward to in the form of an update with additional content.Hades 2 hits PS5 and Xbox Series X/S on April 14, and will be part of Xbox Game Pass at launch. These editions "run at an ul
  
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• The Expanse: Osiris Reborn devs "do not think of ourselves as a successor to the Mass Effect series," even if the Owlcat team "really enjoyed" and take "great inspiration" from BioWare's sci-fi RPGs

  26-03-2026 19:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Owlcat Games' upcoming sci-fi RPG The Expanse: Osiris Reborn might take plenty of inspiration from Mass Effect, but its game design director says "we do not think of ourselves as a successor" to BioWare's series. The Expanse devs have previously been open about Mass Effect's impact on their RPG, with creative director Alexander Mishulin calling it a "great inspiration," and game design director Leonid Rastorguev specifically pointing to Mass Effect 2's suicide mission as an influence. Speaking d
  
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• Mass Effect-inspired sci-fi RPG The Expanse: Osiris Reborn gets a spring 2027 release window, and it has a closed beta coming next month

  26-03-2026 19:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Expanse: Osiris Reborn – the upcoming Mass Effect-inspired sci-fi RPG from Owlcat Games – just got a release window, but there's extra good news for anyone unable to wait until 2027, as a closed beta is arriving next month. Announced during today's Xbox Partner Preview, it;s been revealed that The Expanse: Osiris Reborn will be launching in spring 2027 across PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5, at which point it'll arrive as a Day 1 Xbox Game Pass release, too. I don't know about you,
  
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• Manor Lords publisher announces Vaunted, a new strategy game from ex-StarCraft devs inspired by a classic PS3 tactics RPG

  26-03-2026 19:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Manor Lords publisher Hooded Horse has announced Vaunted, the debut title from Lost Lake Games founded by former StarCraft and Guild Wars devs.During today's Xbox Partner Preview, we got new looks at the likes of Sega's Stranger Than Heaven, a big Stalker 2 update, and some more of Mass Effect-inspired The Expanse: Osiris Reborn – but we already knew about those. One of the surprise highlights from the showcase was the announcement of Hooded Horse's Vaunted, which evokes Sega's missing in
  
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• "Game Grandpa" obliterates Resident Evil Requiem by making handwritten copies of its maps and puzzles in his notebook: "It's not about being fearless, but about moving forward"

  26-03-2026 18:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  90-year-old Yang Binglin, the oldest male streamer according to Guinness World Records, recently completed Resident Evil Requiem by scribbling copies of its maps and puzzle hints in his notebook – so, the traditional way.Binglin, who some affectionately refer to as "Game Grandpa," streamed his entire Resident Evil Requiem playthrough on Chinese video sharing site BiliBili, where Google Translate reveals generous video titles assuring Grace that she shouldn't be afraid, because Grandpa's he
  
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• The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2077 dev would've loved to playtest the original Dark Souls or Demon's Souls: "Where do you draw the line between challenge that motivates you?"

  26-03-2026 18:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Someone in the bowels of FromSoftware had the difficult task of playing Demon's Souls and Dark Souls before they were out. Imagine being those playtesters; the Undead Burg must be seared into their brains. A researcher at CD Projekt Red wishes he could've been a part of that team, just to see how the findings impacted the games."Either the original Demon's Souls or Dark Souls, even though I'm not a Soulslike player," says Dawid Zalewski, research operations coordinator and senior UX researcher,
  
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• Pokemon Pokopia players turn to "broken" Minecraft tactics to make gathering one of the game's rarest materials a breeze: "I mined 1,200 Pokemetal in about 90 minutes"

  26-03-2026 18:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pokemon Pokopia is impressing cozy game stans all over the globe with its Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Minecraft vibes – but some of the rare materials take away from the whole "cozy" aspect, as they aren't exactly easy to grind and gather.Or, well, they used to not be. If you're in need of Pokemetal or Rare Pokemetal (I'm looking at you, Cloud Island and 3D printer frequenters), simply look to this handy new method from content creator Austin John Plays on YouTube.
  First, head over t
  
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• "Pretend we kept patching Oblivion. What would we have done if we kept supporting it?" – Todd Howard explains the "thought exercise" Bethesda went through for its remaster

  26-03-2026 18:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Bethesda boss Todd Howard has explained the studio's approach to updates when it came to creating Oblivion Remastered. Speaking to GamesRadar+, Howard notes that remastering any of its titles is risky as "the chances of messing it up are way higher than not. So how do we do everything we can to make sure we're enhancing what Oblivion was for people who played it, and then reintroduce it." This led to the team taking a specific route when it came to the remaster, based on what the original game w
  
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• "If we focus too much on casual players, that would take away the bite": Nioh 3 may be an easier Soulslike, but Team Ninja considers "really good" players when testing

  26-03-2026 18:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's easy to make a hard game, and hard to make one that's just challenging enough. For some players, Nioh 3 landed a little shy of the difficulty standard set by previous games in the series and other action titles from developer Team Ninja of Koei Tecmo. Producer Kohei Shibata and Team Ninja studio head Fumihiko Yasuda tells us why some players might feel that the game is easier – hint: Dark Souls faced a similar problem – but also stresses that a satisfying challenge is still a gu
  
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• Stardew Valley-like farming sim with a romanceable "supernatural serial killer" gets an August release date, with a demo coming soon

  26-03-2026 18:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  The gorgeous pixel art blend of horror game and farming sim, Grave Seasons, finally has a release date, with it officially set to arrive this August. Specifically, as confirmed in today's Xbox Partner Preview, it'll be arriving on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC on August 14. It'll also be coming to PS5 and Nintendo Switch on the same date.Grave Seasons has been one to watch ever since its reveal. Described as a "narrative farming sim with a terrifying twist" on its Steam page, it takes the farmi
  
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• Crimson Desert's quarry is giving players "PTSD," probably because they keep missing the key secret: "You don't need to kill hundreds of enemies"

  26-03-2026 18:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Crimson Desert players keep hitting an early roadblock in the form of a bandit-infested quarry. The seemingly endless waves of enemies in Crimson Desert's Karin Quarry feel downright broken to some players, who are now debating whether the mission is terrible or simply badly explained – after all, there seems to be a shortcut to taking down the bandits in a hurry."I have PTSD after clearing the Quarry," as one big post on the Crimson Desert subreddit puts it, offering an image of a shaken
  
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• Diablo Cody shares cryptic clues about Jennifer's Body 2, says it's bolder than the original and "a response" to it becoming a cult classic

  26-03-2026 18:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's official: Jennifer's Body 2 is in the works – and, now, Diablo Cody has offered up a few cryptic clues as to what we can expect from the horror sequel. Firstly, it's "not a typical follow-up". While appearing on Bloody Disgusting's The Boo Crew podcast, Cody said that instead of going into the project thinking about all the things she wanted to "protect" from the 2009 original, she's keen to make up for "all the ways in which [she] was restrained on the first movie.""I'm now unleashed
  
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• Dinosaurs take over suburbia in first trailer for It Follows director's intriguing new sci-fi movie

  26-03-2026 17:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for new sci-fi movie The End of Oak Street is here – and a family's life is thrown into chaos when their neighborhood is seemingly transported back to prehistoric times.Directed by It Follows helmer David Robert Mitchell and produced by JJ Abrams, the movie's official synopsis states, "After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on the
  
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• "Slay the Spire 2 is the obvious call" for March's biggest banger, Palworld publishing boss says, but "don't sleep" on this cute open-world survival game quietly crushing it on Steam

  26-03-2026 17:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Palworld's publishing lead is urging players not to ignore an overlooked survival crafting gem that might have been lost in between this month's two mammoth game releases, Slay the Spire 2 and Crimson Desert.Pocketpair's head of publishing and communications, John 'Bucky' Buckley, recently jumped online to share his thoughts on the new open-world RPG Crimson Desert, a game he adores despite its "pretty janky" controls."March had several absolute bangers, so there’s more than enough for eve
  
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• World of Warcraft guild known for raid-busting exploits disqualified from new Midnight Mythic race by Blizzard after hitting 1 boss for 300 million damage: "Absolute gamers"

  26-03-2026 17:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Every time a new World of Warcraft expansion rolls around, eagle-eyed players uncover bugs and exploits that help land them in first place in the never-ending race to tackle Mythic raids as quickly as possible – and Midnight certainly offers no exception.The Dreamrift, a brand-new one-boss raid (yes, just the one – unheard of for those of us used to Final Fantasy 14 and its million boss phase mechanics) from the first season of Midnight, is up – and that means folks were racing
  
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• "I didn't expect them to have the same impact as Final Fantasy 16": Clair Obscur Expedition 33's Ben Starr thought "being an idiot with Balatro" would be his biggest role of 2025, not Sandfall's surprise-hit RPG

  26-03-2026 17:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  We were all a bit blindsided by the sheer success of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. It always looked like a great game, but to be zeitgeist-defining the way it was in 2025 took us all a bit by surprise. That includes those involved, as voice actor Ben Starr didn't expect the J'RPG to have the same impact as Final Fantasy 16.In the Game Maker's Toolkit Podcast with the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, Starr recalled how he thought 2025 was going to "be the year of me dressing up as a clown
  
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• The 3DFX Voodoo add-in card that revolutionised 3D PC gaming is getting an FPGA remake, and with the way things are going, I'd choose it over a next-gen Nvidia GPU

  26-03-2026 17:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  The legendary 3DFX Voodoo, an accelerator card that ushered in a new era of 3D PC gaming back in the '90s, is ready for an FPGA comeback. That's right, while Nvidia likes to remind us it created the first dedicated GPU in the GeForce 256, the component that I personally credit with setting the stage for the entire industry might make its way to new devices in the big 26, and it could make for the perfect escape from the chaos of modern-day graphics cards. Created by developer Francisco Ayala Le
  
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• After that controversial first look, God of War TV show casts its Freya

  26-03-2026 17:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  The God of War TV show has found its Freya. Sonya Walger will play Freya in the Prime Video show. Walger is probably best known for appearances in For All Mankind and Lost. Freya is Odin's ex-wife, one-time Queen of the Valkyries, and a Vanir goddess capable of great magic. Exiled at the end of her marriage to Odin, she lives a lonely, reclusive life on Midgard, where humans call her the Witch of the Woods. Walger joins Ryan Hurst as Kratos, Mandy Patinkin as Odin, Teresa Palmer as Sif, Ó
  
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• Even as prices continue to climb, Teamgroup is launching a Gen 5 SSD for "high-stability performance for the AI creation era" and not gaming

  26-03-2026 17:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  With SSD prices continuing to rise, a large percentage of us are struggling to afford even multiple-year-old Gen 4 drives. With that in mind, newer Gen 5 drives are likely the last thing on many of our minds, but that hasn't stopped TeamGroup from unveiling the new T-Create Classic H514 M.2 PCIe 5.0 SSD.This is not a drive designed to be the best SSD for gaming and the bastion of our affordable drive prayers. however. Instead, Teamgroup states this new SSD is designed to "meet the growing demand
  
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• After selling 100,000 Steam copies in a week, publisher behind 8-year-old horror game says continued investment is key: "In 30 years, we've had 30 Resident Evil games"

  26-03-2026 17:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first Hello Neighbor game has sold over 100,000 copies in a single week and broken its previous Steam player peak a whole eight years after it first launched out of Early Access. How? Its publisher says that it's been investing in the stealth-horror series the entire time, and its recent success is just a "direct result of a strategy we embarked on a decade ago."Publisher tinyBuild's CEO Alex Nichiporchik shares the incredibly impressive stats in a long, detailed blog posted online. Hello Ne
  
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• Peaky Blinders creator says Arthur Shelby wasn't in The Immortal Man because "Tommy needed to have done something that he couldn't forgive himself for"

  26-03-2026 16:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  While Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man brings the story of Tommy Shelby to a close, one character, Arthur Shelby, is pretty much absent from the narrative. He appears in a flashback, though not played by original actor Paul Anderson, who in 2024 pleaded guilty to four charges of drug possession. In the flashback, we see (spoiler alert!) Tommy strangling Arthur to death. "What I'll say is that the story determines the cast, and the story was set. I knew that Tommy needed to have done something th
  
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• New AAA games could cost $300 million or "much more" to make, insider says, which might help "explain the current state of the industry" amid layoffs and studio closures

  26-03-2026 16:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nobody needs reminding of how precarious the games industry is right now, since layoffs and studio closures continue to happen with horrendous regularity. A large contributor to these problems is rising budgets, as figures are purportedly in the hundreds of millions for many triple-A games, and rising still.Bloomberg's Jason Schreier provides some insight, based on his extensive interviews and reporting within the industry. "Exact budgets of video game productions can be tough to corroborate but
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix irons out "several crashes" Larian may or may not have accidentally introduced when fixing corrupted saves last month

  26-03-2026 16:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix is here, ironing out a few issues – including "several crashes" – that Larian may have accidentally introduced in its previous update, essentially turning the whole situation into a game of bug fix whack-a-mole. In the latest patch notes on its site for hotfix 36, Larian admits: "Our last small update, which aimed to resolve corrupted savegames affecting a number of players, seemed to have also introduced some performance issues that triggered crashes."Se
  
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• Evil Dead Rise director says he turned down a sequel in order to take a "risk" on a new installment in the Mummy franchise: "It's definitely going to surprise people"

  26-03-2026 16:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Mummy director Lee Cronin says he handed over the director reins for the next two Evil Dead movies because he wanted to take a risk."The risk was not making a sequel to my last movie, because that was really easy for me to do," Cronin said in the latest issue of SFX. "I said no, ultimately, because I wanted to do something else, and I like to take a risk and gamble. The other risk factor is there's brilliant movies called The Mummy but they've also been there since the '30s. It's not just ab
  
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• Everything announced at Warhammer AdeptiCon 2026, from a new 40K edition to the most gloriously silly vehicle I've ever seen

  26-03-2026 16:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  From a new edition of Warhammer 40K to a fresh take on Kill Team, Warhammer Adepticon 2026 was utterly determined that we weren't gonna drift off and doomscroll during the show. It was more crowded than a cauldron full of grots.If you've been kicking around the hobby a while, that might not come as a surprise. For fans of the grimdark future or a far-flung fantasy past, this show is like Christmas; it's the biggest treasure-chest of reveals we get each year. And this time, Warhammer Adepticon 20
  
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• Nintendo legend had "high hopes" for a Star Fox movie, and after today's Super Mario Galaxy Movie reveal he's full of gratitude: "Thank you, Miyamoto-san"

  26-03-2026 16:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fox McCloud will appear in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, as revealed in a new poster for the film. With the appearance of the Star Fox hero, fan speculation is rampant over the possibilities of a Super Smash. Bros movie, but there's one person who's arguably more excited for Fox's appearance than anybody else: Takaya Imamura, the legendary Nintendo designer who created the character in the first place."Overwhelmed with emotion," Imamura says in a tweet machine translated from Japanese. "Thank yo
  
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• Crimson Desert streamer discovers the incredible truth: you can one-shot bosses with an actual tree as your weapon

  26-03-2026 16:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  The most overpowered Crimson Desert weapon comes straight from the earth in beech, maple, or walnut. So, uh, yeah. It's a tree.Streamer Darth Microtransactions learned this about Pearl Abyss' new open-world adventure game by happy accident, after ripping a birch tree up from its roots during the Abyss Kutum boss fight and hitting a home run back to Hell. The streamer reports his findings in a shocking Twitter post: "you can 1 shot bosses with a tree in Crimson Desert."you can 1 shot bosses with
  
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• New Stranger Things: Tales from '85 trailer is giving us serious Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed vibes, as Netflix confirms cool new casting

  26-03-2026 16:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first full trailer for Stranger Things: Tales from '85 is here – and it's giving us big Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed. And as a 30... something who grew up on the Mystery Inc's live-action flicks, I mean that as a compliment.Set between seasons 2 and 3 of the original show, the animated spin-off is set to see Eleven (voiced by Brooklyn Davey Norstedt) and co kick off a new D&D campaign and wind up "unravelling a paranormal mystery". In short, business as usual. Well, kind of... If
  
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• How to watch March Madness free online, the best streams for Sweet 16 in the US, UK, and around the world

  26-03-2026 16:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Wondering how to watch March Madness now that basketball is back in action for another week? You're not alone. This year's Sweet Sixteen games are being broadcast by no fewer than four stations in the US, each with their own streaming options to boot. Things are a little easier in the UK, with DAZN offering free streams, but this is still a juggling act over the ocean. How to watch March Madness Sweet Sixteen (March 26)US: YouTube TV (free trial)Non-CBS games: HBO Max ($18.49/month)CBS games: Pa
  
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• In pursuit of the ideal roguelike, Saros runs are shorter than Returnal's as Housemarque wanted to "keep the feeling of danger" and "reduce the feeling of helplessness"

  26-03-2026 16:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Five years on from Returnal, developer Housemarque is about to return with Saros, another sci-fi roguelike shooter. This one's quite different, though, favoring shorter runs and offering specific mechanics for them, like the ability to teleport between areas. Getting these aspects right is more of an art than a science, but the devs are proud of the balance they've struck."We were asking ourselves, what aspects of the roguelike do we like, and what do we want to augment?" Abebe Tinari, lead game
  
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• Masters of the Universe's Sorceress has been revealed via an unlikely source: Uno cards

  26-03-2026 16:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Our first look at Sorceress in Masters of the Universe comes from an unlikely source: a set of Uno cards.A sneak peek of the tie-in game includes glimpses of Morena Baccarin as Sorceress in a white and gold gown and headdress, James Wilkinson as Mekaneck, Jon Xue Zhang as Ram Man, James Apps as Spikor, and Hafthor Bjornsson as Goat Man. Check it out below.Thanks to the "MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE" Movie UNO Game coming soon, we have our best look yet at the film costumes for Morena Baccarin as Sorc
  
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• How to watch the World Cup Qualifiers 2026: where to stream and watch for free

  26-03-2026 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tonight we'll see intense battles for the final six World Cup places, with the first match kicking off at 5pm GMT / 10am PT / 1pm ET and at 4am in Australia. Four of the six places will be given to European teams, with the remaining two going to the victors of the Inter-Confederation Play-offs. If you're wondering how to watch the World Cup Qualifiers, you're in the right place. The European qualifiers take place today, Thursday 26 March (Friday 27th if you're in Australia) and the streaming rig
  
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• Even the Star Wars Zero Company devs have spent a lot of time "going on Wookieepedia" to get the deep cut lore right

  26-03-2026 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Even with the great Disney timeline purge of 2014, there's a lot of Star Wars lore to keep track of. If you're working on side quests for a game like Star Wars Zero Company, how do you get it all straight? The same way us casual fans do, apparently: spending a whole lot of time on Wookieepedia.Zero Company features an array of side missions called operations, as detailed in the latest issue of PC Gamer, where you engage in non-combat objectives with an array of potential outcomes. One such side
  
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• Dying Light: The Beast's Restored Land update isn't DLC, lead says – it's "another chapter" in the survival horror that's adding permadeath, New Game+, a hunger meter, and more

  26-03-2026 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Techland's latest zombie slasher Dying Light: The Beast just got a massive free update as part of a re-release, and it comes with a thrilling new survival-heavy way to experience it."After releasing The Beast, we were doing several big updates where we wanted to add New Game +, legend levels, and nightmare mode," lead producer Michał Broda tells GamesRadar+ in an interview. "We were sitting down at the airport, actually, and we were figuring out how we can push the envelope a little bit mor
  
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• Jak and Daxter fans, look away – a remake concept made in the hope of PlayStation greenlighting the project resurfaces years later, and it looks absolutely perfect

  26-03-2026 15:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Jak and Daxter remake was at one point pitched to Sony but never got the green light, and now, years later, a small snippet from the project has seen the light of day.Animator Travis Howe posted to LinkedIn to share that "a long while back, a team was assembled to pitch a remaster of Jak and Daxter," and he was asked to animate a shot-for-shot recreation of one of the platformer's cutscenes "to show what this updated version would look like."Travis Howe (Animator @ Sanzaru Games 2018-26) - "A
  
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• Fox McCloud joins The Super Mario Galaxy Movie roster, intensifying Super Smash Bros. movie speculation

  26-03-2026 15:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  A poster for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has revealed that Fox McCloud, star of the Star Fox and Smash Bros. games, will appear in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. And our Super Smash Bros. Movie dreams have taken one giant leap towards reality.In the poster, which can be viewed below, Fox can be seen posing in front of Arwing, his signature spaceship, being admired by an unidentified (but impossibly cute) monkey. Fans were somehow able to identify Fox in a previous teaser by just a blurry screeng
  
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• Star Wars Zero Company lets you explore like it's a third-person action game outside of combat, and it sounds like the same kind of X-factor that helped Baldur's Gate 3 break out beyond the CRPG nerds

  26-03-2026 15:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  The XCOM reboot helped move isometric tactics games into the mainstream, and it seems Star Wars Zero Company aims to take it even further. It aims to be a strategy title with all kinds of depth, yes, but the devs are hoping to make it more palatable by doing things like letting you explore the world in third-person in between the turn-based battles. It's reminding me of Baldur's Gate 3's big emphasis on AAA production values – which was certainly a major factor in helping that game break o
  
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• Star Wars Zero Company will kill story characters, Fire Emblem-style: Narrative lead says "I lost an argument about permadeath, and it was good that I did"

  26-03-2026 15:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  XCOM in a galaxy far, far away is a compelling pitch, and one that's had Star Wars Zero Company at the top of my wishlist since before it even had an official name. But while there are plenty of parallels with the beloved alien tactics games, Zero Company also has plenty in common with an equally legendary line of fantasy-themed strategy RPGs: Fire Emblem.Zero Company features both randomized soldiers in the vein of XCOM, and authored squadmates with particular stories and abilities, as explaine
  
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• Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream demo is already producing some of the wildest Miis I've ever seen, from Pokopia's Ditto to Resident Evil Requiem's Leon

  26-03-2026 14:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream demo has been out in the wild for about a day or so now, having dropped seemingly out of the blue yesterday – and, unsurprisingly, players are already concocting some of the wildest Miis I've ever seen.Take the abundance of Mii customization options in similar wacky titles like Miitopia and, of course, the original Tomodachi Life, and then multiply it tenfold – that's what the Living the Dream Mii creator has to offer… or so it feels like,
  
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• Andy Muschietti confirms an It supercut is going to happen, but we're not likely to see it until after Welcome to Derry season 2: "Now we are happily committed"

  26-03-2026 14:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Seven years after he first teased it, Andy Muschietti has confirmed that he's "going to do" a six-hour supercut of It and It: Chapter Two – but we won't be getting it until after It: Welcome to Derry season 2. When asked for an update on the combined version, which will reportedly feature newly filmed sequences as well as deleted scenes, by SlashFilm recently, the horror director explained: "We didn't have time to do it because we were involved in all kinds of projects. The show had a prio
  
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• The gray 8Bitdo N64 controller is a thing of beauty, but if you don't share my dorky passion for retro colors, you'll want to grab the cheaper white version

  26-03-2026 14:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Look, if I had my way, everyone eyeing up the 8Bitdo's N64 controller would grab the colorful gray version. The gamepad's extremely authentic getup will cost you slightly more, but it's a small price to pay for something that perfectly matches the OG retro console while offering up contemporary comfort. If you're going to fight me on paying slightly more for an aesthetic, though, I suppose I can point you towards the currently discounted white version (sigh). Maybe you've got a clinical PC setup
  
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• Pokemon Champions producer had a "heated discussion" with one of Game Freak's original battle designers about removing a complicated mechanic after 30 years to make PvP more accessible

  26-03-2026 13:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pokemon Champions will be ditching IVs to make the series' competitive scene more approachable, something producer Masaaki Hoshino had to discuss with one of the series' original battle designers. Starting later this year, Pokemon Champions will the the official game of the Pokemon Video Game Championships, with the free-to-play title set to be the go-to game for competitive Pokemon going forward. But at the same time, Pokemon Champions aims to make the competitive battles a bit more approachabl
  
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