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• New MMO rebuilding 2008's AdventureQuest Worlds cleverly becomes 164,000,000% funded on Kickstarter by asking for $1 and raising $1.6 million

  03-04-2026 23:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  The developers behind AdventureQuest Worlds have been talking about a modern upgrade of the Flash-based MMORPG for over a decade – you know, for about as long as Flash has been irrelevant. The game's been locked in a custom launcher for ages now, and the devs are finally building a modern port for PC and mobile. Judging by the massive success of their Kickstarter, I'd say the audience is along for the ride.AdventureQuest Worlds: Infinity aims to rebuild the MMO in Unity, so it can be distr
  
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• Spider-Noir swings through old-timey Metropolis in Marvel and DC's Spider-Man/Superman crossover

  03-04-2026 23:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel and DC are in the midst of a series of crossovers bringing together the best loved characters of both universes, with Spider-Man/Superman #1, the next one-shot in the series, arriving later this month. If you're ready for it now, you're in luck, as we've got your first look at one of the stories in the anthology one-shot.The story, titled 'Metropolis Marvels,' is written by Dan Slott, who has written more Spider-man comics than anybody else, along with Marcos Martin, one of the best moder
  
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• It only took 6 years, but Xbox's open-world zombie game State of Decay 3 is back from the dead with "a series of alpha playtests" starting in May

  03-04-2026 23:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  When State of Decay 3 was announced, the Covid-19 pandemic was in its infancy, Gary Whitta was hosting an Animal Crossing talk show, and everyone was watching Tiger King. It feels like an eternity ago, and other than a trailer in 2024, it's the last we saw anything substantial from the project. Today, that finally changed, as the game has risen from the dead with the promise of "a series of alpha playtests" starting next month.Xbox Game Studios lead Craig Duncan said we'd be seeing more of State
  
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• Japanese company says it sent half of a game's $345,000 crowdfunding campaign to the wrong people – who, uh, did not return the money

  03-04-2026 23:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Japanese crowdfunding site Ubgoe owes game designer Jiro Ishii and independent developer Skeleton Crew Studio over half of the 55 million yen – approximately $345,000 – they raised for new visual novel Shibuya Scramble Stories. CEO Kazuo Okada says the platform kinda, sorta lost it, or something.Actually, it was a misunderstanding – Ishii says Okada told him the cash was unfortunately "mistakenly wired to a different client," according to an Automaton translation, and now Ubgoe
  
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• Arknights: Endfield dev says launching a new gacha RPG in a post-Genshin Impact world is tough when "some titles are so similar that players go into a game for 1 hour and they know what will happen in the next 20 hours"

  03-04-2026 22:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  New action RPG Arknights: Endfield turned heads not just because it's a major release from Hypergryph, home of tower defense powerhouse Arknights, but also because none of these other post-Genshin Impact gacha action RPGs have tried turning themselves into Factorio yet. This mix of genres immediately stood out, and I'll be damned, it actually works. Lead developer Ryan of Hypergryph tells me the factory and automation side of the game was something the developers just wanted to try, but it does
  
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• Sinners director Ryan Coogler is executive producing an Animorphs show because hell yeah

  03-04-2026 22:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Oscar winning Sinners director Ryan Coogler is continuing his trend of bringing fan-favorite '90s sci-fi stories into the modern era signing on to executive produce a new Animorphs show for Disney Plus through his company Proximity Media, with Bayan Wolcott serving as showrunner.Announced via Variety, Animorphs joins Coogler's upcoming X-Files reboot as classic '90s properties he's now attached to as a producer. Animorphs is a bit more of a cult-classic than X-Files, but it's still remembered wi
  
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• "Completing the Game" is the radical plan for The First Descendant after 2 years, and the latest roadmap cooked up by Nexon just days after it called the game a flop

  03-04-2026 22:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nexon's 2024 looter shooter The First Descendant was never truly healthy, and its 110,152 Mixed Steam reviews and slowly collapsing PC concurrent player count make that clear. Nexon can't deny it, but to its credit, it doesn't want to. Instead, the studio is introducing a "Completing the Game" roadmap to possibly, finally find gold in the mess it's made. Game director Minseok Joo and community manager Jason go into detail in Korean and English, respectively, about Nexon's plans in a Dev Talk liv
  
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• Crimson Desert players have a common foe, and his name is Yann: "An absolute disgrace to the Greymanes"

  03-04-2026 22:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Generally speaking, the Greymanes of Crimson Desert live up to their reputation as mighty warriors who protect what is just. Except for Yann, who spends a remarkable amount of time complaining, which might not be so bad, if he wasn't always giving you stuff to do, and players are already getting sick of him."There are like 40 Greymanes, most of which are genuinely pretty interesting and have cool stories," John 'Bucky' Buckley, head of publishing and communications at Pocketpair, says on Twitter
  
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• Charlie Day wants It's Always Sunny co-star Danny DeVito to play Wario in the next Super Mario movie: "[He] would fit so well in this universe"

  03-04-2026 22:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Charlie Day thinks Danny DeVito would be a great Wario... and we are so here for it. "Danny [DeVito] would fit so well in this universe, and he would be a good Wario, I think," Day told ScreenRant.Day voices Luigi in The Super Mario Bros. Movie and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (and we're still waiting on the live-action Luigi's Mansion movie, but I digress...) The comedian has been starring alongside DeVito in the sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia for some 21 years (and if you remember wh
  
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• Massive Nintendo court document reveal shows Shigeru Miyamoto saw Donkey Kong as a man in a gorilla suit and wanted his original arcade game to be called "Build On"

  03-04-2026 21:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  A massive trove of court documents related to Universal's 1983 lawsuit against Nintendo has suddenly become publicly available online. These documents include everything from mundane court records to testimony from Nintendo legends like Shigeru Miyamoto, Gunpei Yokoi, and Hiroshi Yamauchi. Perhaps most immediately interesting are some of Miyamoto's original ideas for Donkey Kong.Video game researchers are already combing through these documents for new insights into Nintendo history, and you're
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 writer says one actor's "charisma" did "some heavy lifting in helping us get the players over the hurdle of accepting Verso" and moving on from the RPG's big early twist

  03-04-2026 21:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you've played through Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, you'll know there's a certain twist that happens that leads to Verso becoming part of your team. It's a pretty heavy moment that could easily sour you on the narrative early, but it works, and Sandfall Interactive puts it down to Verso's voice actor, Ben Starr."It's a fine line," Jennifer Svedberg-Yen, lead writer, voice and localization producer on Clair Obscur, tells GamesRadar+. "Because you want players to embrace bim, because now he's pa
  
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• Crimson Desert is still the best-selling new game on Steam after 2 weeks, and its user reviews have jumped to 85% positive as more players get past the weak opening

  03-04-2026 20:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Crimson Desert is clawing its way back from its fairly controversial launch, proving itself an unambiguous critical and commercial success after two weeks of meaningful updates and improvements.Pearl Abyss dropped its new open-world RPG on March 19 to largely positive critical reviews but "Mixed" user reviews on Steam, with widespread criticism going toward its story and controls. There were also some early controversies around most of its mounts not being permanent, but Pearl Abyss quickly addr
  
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• Crimson Desert weapon lets you create deadly tornadoes to blow down enemies and buildings: "Looks like a Naruto reference"

  03-04-2026 20:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  There are many weapons in Crimson Desert, but you'd be hard pushed to find any as fun as the tornado-launching fan. A clip compiling some uses of the equipment is doing the rounds, as people start realizing it's their new top choice.YouTuber Khraze showcases the weapon, known as the Eastern Witch's Fan, in a compilation of the best special items in the game. "This weapon lets you create tornados in Crimson Desert. A single blow takes the whole house down," they say on Twitter, and this is a very
  
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• Andy Serkis confirms Viggo Mortensen won't return as Aragorn in Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum: "We are recasting the role"

  03-04-2026 19:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Just one day after Elijah Wood hinted at it, Andy Serkis has confirmed that Viggo Mortensen will not be reprising his role as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum."I don't know what's out there at the moment, but I know there's a lot of speculation, but let's just say we are recasting the role and we are on the way to finding someone," Serkis told ScreenRant.Some outlets are reporting that that someone is indeed Leo Woodall, mainly because of Wood's interview with the Happy Sad
  
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• FromSoftware experts find evidence Hidetaka Miyazaki's breakout RPG Demon's Souls deleted the biggest middle finger in the series: giant birds that hurl you off cliffs

  03-04-2026 19:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  From Bloodborne to Sekiro to Elden Ring, developer FromSoftware is no stranger to what I'd call "stepping on a rake" game design – abrupt, stinging pain inflicted on the player by traps or enemies lying in wait, and in a way where the only real solution is learning not to step on that rake. According to new findings from dedicated Souls sleuths, the breakout RPG from director and now studio boss Hidetaka Miyazaki, Demon's Souls, actually abandoned what could've been the harshest rake in th
  
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• New Supergirl teaser gives a behind the scenes look at the next big DC film courtesy of James Gunn

  03-04-2026 19:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn has shared a new behind the scenes featurette showing the production of Supergirl, the next big DC movie. The featurette, seen below, goes into detail about Supergirl's origins and her place in the DC Universe.Check it out:A complete force to be reckoned with. #Supergirl - only in theaters June 26. pic.twitter.com/N14OVMwRAxApril 3, 2026"Supergirl was raised on a chunk of a disintegrated planet. People were dying all around her. She's not Superman, and she's definite
  
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• InZOI boss says the success of Crimson Desert and other Korean games is "really nice to see" but Asian developers "still have a lot to learn from Western developers"

  03-04-2026 19:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  InZOI director Hyungjun 'Kjun' Kim says that he is proud to see fellow Korean developers succeed, but also reckons that Asian game developers still have lots to learn from the West.His comments, made during a private Q&A session at Krafton's InZOI Studio in Seoul attended by GamesRadar+, come after being asked about the success of Crimson Desert – made by Pearl Abyss, which is also based in South Korea – and differences between the Western and Asian games industries."I'm always r
  
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• After 40 years, Super Mario Bros speedrunners discover "the Holy Grail of glitches"

  03-04-2026 18:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Over a year ago, an ordinary player stumbled upon a crash while playing the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 2 on Nintendo Switch. In itself, that's not such a wild thing – even old games crash now and then – but the specifics of this glitch turned out to have massive implications for the speedrunning community. This ended up being the first step in essentially reprogramming the game as it runs to do anything you want, and now, after a year of work, speedrunners have applied tho
  
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• Invincible has quickly bounced back after last week's series low, as the latest episode of season 4 becomes the show's second-highest rated ever

  03-04-2026 18:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  A week after airing its lowest rated episode ever, Invincible has bounced back with one of its highest rated episodes yet with season 4 episode 5. The episode is filled with family and relationship drama for main character Marc Grayson and his family, which is apparently the bread-and-butter Invincible storytelling fans have been waiting for.The episode ratings come courtesy of IMDb, which tracks fan reactions through 1-10 numerical ratings. Invincible season 4 episode 5, titled 'Give Us a Momen
  
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• Succession star Brian Cox will play New York's biggest, scariest killer in Dexter: Resurrection season 2

  03-04-2026 18:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dexter: Resurrection season 2 is indeed moving forward, and with Succession star Brian Cox in tow.According to Deadline, Coz is set to play The New York Ripper... one of creepy millionaire Leon Prater's (Peter Dinklage) favorite serial killers. Though he's no longer active as a killer, he's "found a new way to live into his infamy by continuing to taunt the survivors of his long-ago murder spree." You might remember that the season 1 finale saw Dexter find the real name of The New York Ripper, D
  
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• Crimson Desert players beg for more storage as their rock collections start getting out of hand: "If they can do it in oblivion back in the day they can do it now"

  03-04-2026 18:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Crimson Desert players are begging developer Pearl Abyss for more storage, and I can't blame them when my closet is as full as it is. But these fans have it worse than me – I can push down my skirts and sweaters, but Crimson Desert players need to sacrifice a seemingly infinite number of gems, swords, and rocks constantly to avoid stuffing their limited inventory slots with crud. And even after selling or discarding piles of stuff, Crimson Desert players still need to jam their precious st
  
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• Persona 3 Reload fans are redoing every cutscene in this huge JRPG to add forgotten Portable female MC Kotone – the first scene was just released, and it looks incredible

  03-04-2026 18:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  In August 2024, a dedicated group of Persona 3 fans launched the Persona 3 Kotone Cutscenes project, a combined modder and animator effort to resurrect Kotone, the female protagonist playable in Persona 3 Portable but ignored by developer Atlus in other releases of the classic JRPG, including the modern remake Persona 3 Reload. Every cutscene would have to be redone with Kotone standing in for the male MC. On Thursday, April 2, the first scene for the expanded Persona 3 Reload Kototone Cutscenes
  
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• As ex-Helldivers 2 devs prepare to launch a Resident Evil-inspired horror game, they reminisce on their past Metroidvania that was too "happy": "'I need to get to blow someone's head off with a shotgun in the next game'"

  03-04-2026 18:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  You might be surprised to learn, if you didn't know already, that happy-go-lucky Metroidvania Yoku's Island Express featured a pair of devs who contributed prominently to Helldivers 2. The pair, Linus Larsson and Mattias Syngg, are now working on something horror-flavored, but they clearly recall just how much they needed some democratic violence after shipping the former."So before we worked on Helldivers, Matthias and I did Yoku's Island Express, which is a very cute Metroidvania game," Larsso
  
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• Who will kill Homelander in The Boys season 5?

  03-04-2026 16:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Boys season 5 is almost upon us... and everyone wants Homelander dead. Who could blame them? The most evil Supe in all the world now has more power than the President of the United States, and God only knows what he plans to do next.Because Homelander dies in The Boys comics, it only makes sense for him to die in the series finale, ending with an epic showdown of sorts. Because of this, fans have been theorizing about who they believe will ultimately take him down (and apparently, we were wr
  
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• Get an exclusive first look at new Star Wars Loungefly bags inspired by Grogu, Darth Maul, and more

  03-04-2026 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  May 4 is a bit like Christmas for Star Wars fans thanks to a Corellian freighter's worth of merch that gets announced each year, but this time, we're celebrating early. That's because Loungefly has asked us to exclusively reveal a host of goodies based on a galaxy far, far away right here - and you've got the first look. There's a bounty of four items thawing out of carbonite ahead of their release today, and they range from a Grogu-inspired mini-backpack to a Darth Maul bag (just in time for Ma
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 performance director knew Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 would be a hit, and even took a bet "to win 33 baguettes"

  03-04-2026 15:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  While Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's wild success took its developers by surprise, one prominent actor and performance director was in fact so confident in the game that she took out a bet for 33 baguettes.Aliona Baranova - most notable for working as the performance and motion capture director on Baldur's Gate 3 - appeared at a panel during Emerald City Comic Con 2026, alongside the French RPG's lead actors, Ben Starr and Jennifer English, where she was asked about whether or not she saw Clair O
  
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• I reckon revisiting Sega's weirdest egg-rolling GameCube romp is the perfect way to spend Easter, especially if you've still got the 2000s retro console

  03-04-2026 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Perhaps there isn't such a thing as an Easter video game, but if there is one, it has to be Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg. Yes, that sounds like a made-up AI hallucination, but believe me when I say it's a real GameCube exclusive by Sega from 2003. Eggy title aside, it also ties in with the holiday, at least if you're where I'm from, far more than you'd expect, and playing on original hardware has swiftly become a yearly tradition in my household. At this point, my lovely American readers are
  
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• Even though Maul's story continues after Shadow Lord in Solo and Rebels, it's "not necessarily a straight line," the Star Wars show's director says

  03-04-2026 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Maul – Shadow Lord is bringing everyone's favorite ex-Sith back to our screens for a story set after The Clone Wars on the Star Wars timeline.But, as anyone who has tracked Maul's post-Phantom Menace adventures will know, his story continues into Solo and Star Wars Rebels. When we sat down with Maul – Shadow Lord's supervising director Brad Rau, writer Matt Michnovetz, and executive producer Athena Yvette Portillo, we asked if knowing the future of Maul's story affected the way they
  
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• "What if the gameplay was fun? This blew our f***ing minds": Dispatch devs had a revelation after years of tired Telltale mechanics

  03-04-2026 14:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dispatch developers had a big revelation after reusing the same TellTale formula across several years and several games: What if these adventure games could actually be fun, too?Dispatch co-directors and developer Adhoc's co-founders, Nick Herman and Dennis Lenart, are actually veterans of TellTale, the storied studio that pumped out countless choose-your-own-adventure games during the 2010s, from The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us to series based on Borderlands, Batman, Game of Thrones, and
  
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• A fanmade Jak and Daxter 3 PC port is now in beta, finally making Naughty Dog's most underrated trilogy fully available on PC

  03-04-2026 14:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jak and Daxter fans are eating good as all three of the Naughty Dog PS2 classics now have native PC ports.As spotted by Time Extensionthe team behind OpenGoal released a beta of its PC port of Jak 3, which following previous efforts now means that all three games in the trilogy are now"feature complete and fully completable" on PC. The original game in the trilogy Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy is the only PC version not considered in beta as both Jak 2 and 3 feature some audio bugs and gr
  
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• Red Dead Redemption 2 dev would "be surprised" if GTA 6 doesn't feature any ideas from Rockstar's open-world cowboy hit

  03-04-2026 14:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  A former Rockstar Games developer reckons the developer's upcoming GTA 6 will probably borrow a few ideas from Red Dead Redemption 2, not unlike the way GTA 5 borrowed from older titles in the studio's gameography. Speaking to YouTuber Kiwi Talkz about the open-world behemoth, Rob Carr, once an audio designer on everything from LA Noire and GTA 5 to Red Dead Redemption 2, said he can pretty easily imagine older features creeping into the sequel in some form. His evidence? GTA 5, of course."Even
  
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• "Marathon is gonna be Game of the Year," actor Ben Starr says, because it has Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 award magnet Jennifer English

  03-04-2026 13:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Final Fantasy 16 lead Ben Starr says Marathon has a special trick up its sleeve that will nab it Game of the Year.If you think about the three games in recent years that have absolutely demolished the Game of the Year running in their given years, it's Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, and – most recently – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. All three of these games have something in common, and not just being fantasy RPGs. No, all three have a prominent role pla
  
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• GTA 6 is taking so long that Rockstar has "probably rebuilt the entirety of the Rage Engine," former GTA 5 and LA Noire dev says: "I'll be amazed if they didn't"

  03-04-2026 13:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  A GTA 5 and LA Noire developer thinks Rockstar has likely rebuilt its Rage Engine, explaining why GTA 6 is taking so long to come out.Rob Carr, a former audio engineer at Rockstar Games, had an in-depth interview with Reece "Kiwi Talkz" Reilly, in which he spoke about his time at Rockstar and what he thinks the company could be up to. Carr spoke about how he thinks you'll be able to see ideas for the upcoming title in GTA 5, citing a mission in GTA 4 being the inspiration for the multiple protag
  
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• New Slay the Spire 2 patch gives players a pat on the back with Badges, "little reminders to let you know what was unique about each run"

  03-04-2026 11:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Once you've gone through about a million (and counting) Slay the Spire 2 runs, successive bouts in the hit roguelike can get a little fuzzy. Developer Mega Crit is now trying to make each run stand out a tad more with a new Slay the Spire 2 patch that gives players a kind of pat on the back after each playthrough."This patch brings in some structural work for a system called Badges," the developer says in its latest patch notes. "Badges may appear at the end of a run, noting various things that
  
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• Skyrim and Fallout 4 artist says Bethesda's Todd Howard has too many yes men: "A lot of people were afraid to say no to Todd and that hurt him"

  03-04-2026 02:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Bethesda's Todd Howard is no ordinary game developer. Having risen to the top of the ranks at Bethesda Game Studios over his 32-year tenure, he's a household name even among people who don't write about video games for a living. He's been instrumental in the development of some of the most beloved games of all time, including The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, Fallout 3, and Fallout 4, and so you'd assume he's probably made some really brilliant executive decisions over the course of his long career. An
  
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• Immersive sim pioneer Warren Spector's new stealth game Thick as Thieves makes the blessed pivot, dropping PvPvE in favor of single-player and co-op

  03-04-2026 01:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Thick as Thieves, the new stealth game from OtherSide Entertainment, a studio founded by immersive sim legend Warren Spector, is dropping the previously confirmed PvPvE elements in favor of single-player and co-op gameplay.I've been cautiously optimistic - heavy on the cautiously - about Thick as Thieves since it was announced back in December 2024. Spector is a titan of the industry largely credited as one of the pioneers of the immersive sim genre, having produced the foundational 1992 action-
  
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• Spider-Man star Zendaya says she wants to work with Black Panther director Ryan Coogler: "He means so much to the world, but he also means so much to us"

  03-04-2026 00:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  There are few bigger stars in the world right now than Zendaya, and few filmmakers at the level of 2026 Oscar winner Ryan Coogler. But if the Spider-Man and Euphoria star has her way, she'd like to work with Coogler as a career goal."Oh goodness. You know, I would love to work with Ryan [Coogler]," Zendaya tells Jennifer Hudson on her podcast (around the 5 minute mark). "Because, it's been for years that I felt this way, since Fruitvale Station, because I thought that was such a beautiful and po
  
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• Sony may never support PS3 games again, but at least the platform's best emulator is getting massive improvements on PC handhelds like Steam Deck

  03-04-2026 00:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rumors regarding a PS6 handheld abound, but there's one thing I figure is pretty much set in stone: you won't be playing PS3 games on it. Sony cut off backwards compatibility with that notorious hardware the instant the PS4 launched, and it seems unlikely that the PS6 will change that – much less a companion handheld. But you can still enjoy PS3 games on the go, especially now that RPCS3 has gotten a massive update making the handheld experience much better."For the past few weeks," the fo
  
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