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• I'm staring at "Persona 1 Origins" and "Persona 2 Duality" merch from Atlus and willing myself to believe that the OG PS1 JRPGs are finally making a comeback

  06-04-2026 23:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Earlier today, Atlus announced a new line of merch themed around the first two Persona games. That announcement broke a lot of hearts thanks to some awkward phrasing that made it sound like the OG titles were getting a modern re-release, but those hopes aren't entirely dead. Atlus has applied some new branding to those PS1 JRPGs that's almost got me willing to believe something bigger is on the way."Persona and Persona 2: Innocent Sin / Persona 2: Eternal Punishment are coming to Amazon," Atlus
  
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• The Boys season 5 debuts to a near perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, breaking the series finale curse

  06-04-2026 23:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Boys season 5 has a lot riding on it, but judging by the first reviews for the show's final season, it may actually live up to the expectations of fans. That's been a tough accomplishment for many recent high profile series finales, so viewers seem to have a lot to look forward to as the hardcore superhero epic comes to its conclusion.At the time of this writing, the final season of The Boys sits at a nigh-unimpeachable 96% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on critic scores. Admittedly,
  
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• The Boys season 5 debuts to a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, breaking the final season curse

  06-04-2026 23:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Boys season 5 has a lot riding on it, but judging by the first reviews for the show's final season, it may actually live up to the expectations of fans. That's been a tough accomplishment for many recent high profile series finales, so viewers seem to have a lot to look forward to as the hardcore superhero epic comes to its conclusion.At the time of this writing, the final season of The Boys sits at a nigh-unimpeachable 96% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on critic scores. Admittedly,
  
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• Steven Spielberg calls Denis Villeneuve's Dune trilogy his "favorite science-fiction movies of all time"

  06-04-2026 23:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Steven Spielberg has high praise for Denis Villeneuve's Dune trilogy... and it's absolutely warranted."Recently, I've loved the Dune movies. They are among my favorite science-fiction movies, not just recently, but of all time. Especially the second film," Spielberg told Empire. "I think [Part Two] is the best movie Denis has ever made. I cannot wait to see the third one. I’m sure he’ll show it to me early. I’m such a fan of his."This is pretty high praise given that Spielberg
  
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• Stephen Spielberg calls Denis Villeneuve's Dune trilogy his "favorite science-fiction movies of all time"

  06-04-2026 23:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stephen Spielberg has high praise for Denis Villeneuve's Dune trilogy... and it's absolutely warranted."Recently, I've loved the Dune movies. They are among my favorite science-fiction movies, not just recently, but of all time. Especially the second film," Spielberg told Empire. "I think [Part Two] is the best movie Denis has ever made. I cannot wait to see the third one. I’m sure he’ll show it to me early. I’m such a fan of his."This is pretty high praise given that Spielberg
  
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• "When we are going to make an open-world RPG, it's better played on high-end PCs": Arknights Endfield lead says it's a good thing "the player base of high-end PC gaming is increasing"

  06-04-2026 22:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  The rise of games like Genshin Impact, Wuthering Waves, and now Arknights: Endfield has seen gacha game developers venture into more conventional "core" platforms – current-gen consoles and gaming PCs – with larger and more complex games better suited to those audiences. In particular, many developers from countries like Japan and China have said – and some have told me in previous interviews – that they see PC gaming as an increasingly important platform. This also goes
  
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• Dune 3 runtime reveal puts it as the shortest of the Denis Villeneuve trilogy, defying expectations

  06-04-2026 22:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  The official runtime for Dune: Part Three has been revealed... and it's definitely not the three-hour extravaganza some of us were expecting.According to the official IMAX website, the runtime for Dune: Part 3 is 2 hours 20 minutes. This makes it the shortest installment in Denis Villeneuve's trilogy, with Dune being 2 hours 35 minutes and Dune: Part Two having a runtime of 2 hours 46 minutes.Contrary to popular belief, Villeneuve's filmography consists of some pretty short movies... with 2009's
  
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• Crimson Desert fan spends days watching NPCs build a statue in real time like a Red Dead Redemption 2 fan watching clothes dry, Kingdom Come: Deliverance boss says "this is absolutely insane"

  06-04-2026 22:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  There are fine details, then there's this. If you stand around after completing the mission to get the wolf statue built in Hernand in Crimson Desert, you can literally witness the monument be chipped into existence in real-time.No, really - there are now clips of it happening. You need to do the Wolf Over Hernand quest, to get things rolling, then just stand back and watch the process unwind. I should warn you, it's genuinely a bit boring, and even sped up it takes a while.But seeing the result
  
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• The Punisher: One Last Kill gets a tiny teaser that will leave you wanting more Frank Castle

  06-04-2026 22:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's about to be the summer of Frank Castle, and the first teaser for his Disney Plus special The Punisher: One Last Kill is kicking off his rampage across the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The thing is, the teaser's only a few seconds long - but it's got just enough Punisher action to get fans excited for his MCU special. Check it out at the tail end of this trailer for the next episode of Daredevil: Born Again, starting around the 1:40 mark:Jon Bernthal is returning as the violent vigilante not j
  
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• AAA developers are getting forced into "dangerous" siloes, says Guilty Gear creator: "Even if you quit your job, your chances of finding another one will be slim"

  06-04-2026 22:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  These days, AAA publishers seem to be eager to burn it all down, closing studios almost as fast as they're opening them, ripping game servers offline just barely after they've come into existence, and none of the talented developers involved in these condemned projects seem to escape the purgatory of being laid off. Guilty Gear creator Daisuke Ishiwatari thinks he knows why.While speaking to Japanese site 4Gamer about Guilty Gear studio Arc System Works' new action game Damon and Baby (translati
  
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• Crimson Desert players average over 20 hours a week in the open-world game, blowing away almost everything else on consoles

  06-04-2026 21:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Crimson Desert is utterly massive in scope, above and beyond even what's typical for open-world games. Some players are pouring in dozens of hours, and they're not outliers. New data suggests that players are averaging over 20 hours a week exploring Crimson Desert.In the week ending March 28 – the first full week after launch – Crimson Desert players in the US averaged 20 hours of playtime on Xbox and 22 hours on PlayStation, according to Mat Piscatella of market analysis firm Circan
  
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• Ignoring Valve's Half-Life lessons, Baby Steps dev says trolling players with level design is important, actually

  06-04-2026 21:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Designer Gabe Cuzzillo's reflections on the literal and meditative walking simulator Baby Steps were a highlight of GDC. In his panel, Cuzzillo discussed how the game's mountainous open world was curated, made, and tested – and, in some cases, not tested. A moment that stood out to me was a comparison made to Valve's Half-Life, or rather, comments from designer Greg Coomer in the developer commentary of Half-Life 2: Episode 2. In a section highlighted by Cuzzillo, Coomer examines a section
  
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• Finally, a sim for the real sickos: plushie crafting simulator buried in more than twice its Kickstarter goal is less than a year away

  06-04-2026 21:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you're a regular reader here, you probably own a plushie or three. It just comes with the territory of being into games and pop culture these days. Now, there's a video game about making tons of the cute collectibles, and it's coming soon.In Toymaker: Threads of Joy, you manage a shop that produces bespoke plushies for all manner of customers. This involves taking people's orders, putting them together piece by piece, then upgrading your sewing machine and other equipment for more elaborate a
  
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• A24's Elden Ring movie seems to be in production with an elaborate set discovered in a random field

  06-04-2026 21:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  A24's Elden Ring movie has seemingly entered production, as a TikTok account has posted video of an apparent set for the film out in a random field somewhere in England. The set video, seen below, shows off a statue of Marika, a key character in the lore of the game, built to be remarkably close to the actual in-game environments.The video comes courtesy of the TikTok account of Elden Ring streamer Throx, who confirmed to Kotaku that a friend told them the location of the set, which they then vi
  
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• Sandbox RPG dev spends 5 years combining No Man's Sky with Minecraft in "voxel survival game where the world is a planet" in a solar system with "seamless" space travel, smashes Kickstarter goal in 3 hours

  06-04-2026 19:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  On paper, merging No Man's Sky and Minecraft is an easy pitch. It's no surprise, then, that a Kickstarter for a game doing just that has completely smashed its goals, earning over six times the original target.The game is PlanetSmith, a sandbox RPG set on spherical planets that are procedurally generated. "Explore alien planets, build anything you can imagine, fight dangerous creatures, and seamlessly launch into space to continue your adventure across a living solar system," reads the blurb.The
  
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• 4 years later, new Elden Ring cutscene uncovered with massive lore implications for DLC star Miquella

  06-04-2026 19:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Elden Ring is still keeping secrets, but dataminer Lance McDonald is good at easing them out – the YouTuber just discovered a piece of cut content illuminating more of FromSoftware's arcane story.Lore spoilers for the 4-year-old game to follow! Turn back if you want to watch a VaatiVidya video first. McDonald has uncovered a new cutscene showing demigod Miquella planting the Haligtree legacy dungeon – and a literal, crooked tree – with his own pale hands. While I believe everyt
  
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• JRPG fans crushed again as latest Tales announcement turns out to be another bust: "The way they hype things up is just terrible"

  06-04-2026 19:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been back-to-back disappointments for Tales fans. Bandai Namco, publisher of the long-running JRPG series, broke hearts last month when a teaser for an anime-style RPG turned out to be a Sword Art Online game, and now a hyped announcement for Tales' 30th anniversary has offered similarly disappointing results.This 30th anniversary Tales announcement was first teased back in February by anime studio Ufotable. The fact that this teaser was coming from an anime company rather than Bandai Namco
  
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• The hottest new sim on Steam is a love letter to Blockbuster stores and everyone who remembers winding a VHS tape, made by 2 people who sold 100,000 copies in 5 days

  06-04-2026 18:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  In March 2025, two-person Canadian developer Blood Pact Studios released Bonesaw, a turn-based strategy game about beating the devil at gambling by cutting off all of his fingers. This strategy has always worked for me in poker as well; the other players never see it coming and struggle to play afterward. Bonesaw reviewed well on Steam but didn't exactly explode. For its next game, Blood Pact dipped into the shopkeeper sim space that has very much exploded on Steam in the past few years, and now
  
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• Nintendo's live-action Legend of Zelda movie is filming in same location as the Lord of the Rings trilogy

  06-04-2026 18:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  After it was reported that the upcoming live-action Legend of Zelda movie was filming in New Zealand, it's been confirmed that the pic is filming in the same locations as Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy.According to CBR, the production is currently underway in Otago, which includes the small town of Glenorchy. This means the lush landscape and dreamy cinematic wilderness from the Legend of Zelda video games will indeed be real and practical... rather than CGI.Official photos of stars E
  
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• Daredevil: Born Again season 3 set photos reveal Luke Cage and Iron Fist, setting up a full Defenders reunion

  06-04-2026 18:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  It looks like the Defenders are officially reuniting in the MCU. Following Krysten Ritter's impending return as Jessica Jones in the currently ongoing Daredevil: Born Again season 2, it seems that she'll be joined by Mike Colter and Finn Jones as Luke Cage and Iron Fist, as they've been spotted in set photos from the currently in-production season 3.It's still too soon to technically call their return officially confirmed, but we're gonna assume they weren't on set filming scenes that somehow wo
  
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• Robert Pattinson hopes people will be "really pleasantly surprised by" The Batman 2: "This is a different type of Batman movie"

  06-04-2026 18:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Robert Pattinson says he hopes that fans will love the sequel to Matt Reeves' 2022 DC hit The Batman... and he seems pretty stoked about it."I mean, the script is so good.... I think it's kind of crazy. The first one was like a little bit of a different type of Batman movie, and this is like really a different type of Batman movie," Pattinson told Filme Gitmeden Önce. "I think hopefully people will be really pleasantly surprised by it. Yeah, I'm really excited."The film hit theaters back in
  
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• Twisted Metal dev was "convinced" the PS3 would "never be" emulated, and now he's congratulating RPCS3 on proving him wrong: "Amazing work"

  06-04-2026 17:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  The developers behind PS3 emulator RPCS3 have made a breakthrough in their handling of the console's notorious Cell CPU. This is already resulting in notable performance benefits when running some of the PS3's most intensive games, including the 2012 Twisted Metal reboot. Nobody seems more impressed than James Stanard, who served as principal engine developer on the original game.A big part of the reason PS3 emulation has proven so difficult – and why so few PS3-exclusive games have offici
  
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• X-Men Origins: Wolverine is "better than the movie," says dev, but "it was harrowing" to make the PS3 action game before the film was done

  06-04-2026 17:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  X-Men Origins: Wolverine could have been a shrug and a yawn like every other promotional movie-tie in game around 2009, but developer Raven Software instead made a genuinely impressive action game that even outshone its source material. It wasn't easy. As producer Keith Fuller tells FRVR in a recent interview, Raven was tasked with making its blustery action game before the movie of the same name was even close to finished. "It was harrowing to go through that process," Fuller says. "Had they ma
  
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• First Faces of Death reviews call it a "terrifying, stark, oppressive horror film" and "bold and sinister reimagining" of the original "snuff film" franchise

  06-04-2026 17:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first reviews for Faces of Death have arrived, and just as we expected... they're mixed to mostly positive.The upcoming film, directed by Daniel Goldhaber and written by Isa Mazzei, follows a young woman named Margot (Barbie Ferreira) who stumbles upon a website that appears to be recreating some of the death scenes in the original Faces of Death franchise... and it's all downhill for her from there. The horror currently sits at a 69% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 16 reviews (whic
  
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• Stephen Spielberg says he doesn't need to make a horror movie after watching Weapons: "It satisfies me so completely"

  06-04-2026 17:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stephen Spielberg has high praise for Zach Cregger's Weapons, saying that it satisfies his need to make a truly scary horror film."I haven’t directed a horror film yet, and I’ve always wanted to, and someday I may. But there have been some great horror films out already that satisfy that itch,"Spielberg told Empire. The iconic director has made everything from kid-friendly fodder to some pretty scary sci-fi... but he's yet to make an outright horror pic."When I see a great horror fil
  
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• The Steam Machine may still be a long way off, so these are the accessories I'd use to make a Steam Deck workaround

  06-04-2026 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Steam Machine is still AWOL on the shelves, some four months after its original announcement. Valve has addressed the silence, stating it originally intended to have price and availability information for us way back in February - but still nada. It's not surprising. Current component shortages are putting MSRPs all out of whack, with RAM and storage (and soon CPU) supplies dwindling and prices skyrocketing across the industry. Anyone who already has a Steam Deck is already about halfway there,
  
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• Arc Raiders devs would love to have machine takedowns "like the Hoth invasion scene in Star Wars," and "we could do that if we just had better rope physics"

  06-04-2026 16:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  There's an interesting relationship between what developer Embark Studios is doing with new updates, like the recent Arc Raiders Flashpoint update, and what it can feasibly do with the technology available to it. In the future, as machine learning research lead Martin Singh-Blom told me at GDC, Embark will surely develop new tools and techniques that may enable ideas that weren't possible in the past – for instance, rope physics sophisticated enough to support attacking large Arc with trip
  
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• After deleting the console's fourth-biggest publisher, Sony has unleashed another wave of delisting across the PlayStation Store's shovelware collection

  06-04-2026 14:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sony is continuing its war on shovelware as a number of titles have been suddenly delisted from the PlayStation Store.Earlier this year Sony removed every single PlayStation game by publisher ThiGames from the storefront, who you may not have heard of before, but it was the fourth-biggest publisher on the platform in terms of games released with 1,194 released before it was purged from the store, including the iconic titles "The Jumping Orange 3," "The Jumping Spaghetti," "The Jumping Wrap," and
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Ben Starr hasn't romanced Baldur's Gate 3's Shadowheart because it'd be "so weird" after Jennifer English's role as Maelle, and he's more of a "Gale girly"

  06-04-2026 14:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Verso actor Ben Starr says he's never romanced Shadowheart in Baldur's Gate 3 as it would be a bit weird for him after acting alongside Jennifer English in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33At a panel at Emerald City Comic Con 2026, a fan asked the panel of Starr, English, and Aliona Baranova (who performed motion capture on Baldur's Gate 3) asked the trio if they each tend to play the games starring their co-stars, and capped it off with a question to Starr "have you ever romanced Shadowheart in Baldu
  
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• The clip of Resident Evil 2's Ada Wong actor teasing the characters return is a dud, as it actually surfaced from a fan's Cameo request

  06-04-2026 14:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  A surfaced clip of Resident Evil Ada Wong actor Jolene Andersen that led some to believe the character was returning for a new project turned out to be a Cameo. Over the weekend, a clip of Anderson – who played Ada Wong in Resident Evil 2 Remake – surfaced in which she gives well wishes for the new year before adding, "Speaking of missions, I’m getting ready to go on a very top secret mission myself. I’d love to tell you all about it, but uh… that information is cl
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor says Hades has become a comfort game, though she's "too bad" to get into Hollow Knight: Silksong

  06-04-2026 13:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jennifer English – the actor behind Baldur's Gate 3's Shadowheart and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Maelle – says Hades is a comfort game, but would need an easy mode to get into Silksong. Speaking to Radio Times Gaming, English was asked about her history with video games, and whether it's something she was always into before acting in them. English recalled "I played games as a kid [and I] was kind of banned from the PlayStation cause I would play Soul Blade and get really violent
  
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