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• 2 years after the GTA 5 source code leak, fans think they've found the protagonist of Rockstar's canceled PS3 spy epic buried in the files

  07-04-2026 23:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  For nearly 20 years, we've been wondering what Rockstar's Agent would have looked like. Originally set for release on PS3, Agent was a Cold War-era spy game that disappeared from public view shortly after it was announced and was quietly canceled years later. Yet, vestiges of it still remain – including, it seems, in the GTA 5 source code.The GTA 5 source code leaked late in 2023, and now, years later, Rockstar fans are still digging through the files trying to figure out what's there. A 2
  
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• A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms star Peter Claffey "didn't think we'd be able to ever hit the level of quality of season 1," but season 2 is "incredible"

  07-04-2026 23:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 2 is currently filming, and star Peter Claffey, who plays the eponymous knight Ser Dunk, says it'll live up to the hype generated by season 1. Claffey says the new season, which adapts the novella The Sworn Sword, is "totally different," but still in line with the quality fans have come to expect from the show."It's totally different. The Sworn Sword is my favorite novella of the three in the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms book. It's a tragic love story. It's
  
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• Exit 8 director took inspiration from The Shining for the upcoming horror movie's unique sound design: "I think [it] gets under our skin and kind of like mentally corners us"

  07-04-2026 23:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Exit 8 director Genki Kawamura says the inspiration for the horror film's unique sound design comes from none other than 1980's The Shining."I paid a lot of respect to Stanley Kubrick and The Shining in this film," Kawamura tells GamesRadar+. "And when [Danny] goes down the corridor in the tricycle, there was a different sound the tricycle made when it was on wood versus when it was on the carpet. I think that level of difference really kind of gets under our skin and mentally kind of like corne
  
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• Crimson Desert's map is so big that you can go to space and look down at Pywel from the surprisingly detailed stars

  07-04-2026 23:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's no secret that Crimson Desert sports a massive map with unprecedented levels of interactivity, and just when you think you've reached the confines of the map, it opens up even further. As it turns out, if you just keep pushing up, you'll eventually reach outer space and be able to look down at Crimson Desert's fantasy planet from an interstellar perspective. As spotted by PC Gamer, the intrepid explorers at ItemRelocationClub recently demonstrated their history-making trip outside of the up
  
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• Crimson Desert players discover space travel, then find that space is strangely detailed for a game that isn't about space

  07-04-2026 23:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's no secret that Crimson Desert sports a massive map with unprecedented levels of interactivity, and just when you think you've reached the confines of the map, it opens up even further. As it turns out, if you just keep pushing up, you'll eventually reach outer space and be able to look down at Crimson Desert's fantasy planet from an interstellar perspective. As spotted by PC Gamer, the intrepid explorers at ItemRelocationClub recently made history by venturing beyond the upper atmosphere of
  
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• Crimson Desert players are literally running out of enemies to fight after blasting to the endgame: "Pearl Abyss needs to address the map"

  07-04-2026 23:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Crimson Desert has enough content to keep players trapped in its starting area for 136 hours, but once they manage to break away and pursue the endgame, some are claiming their to-do lists have become uncharacteristically empty. They think Crimson Desert's endgame is so egregiously boring, they're urging developer Pearl Abyss to make a change. One April 6 ordinance on Reddit with over 800 likes and, uh, 800 comments addresses Pearl Abyss' "Lead Systems Designers and Community Managers" directly
  
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• Exit 8 director wants to reinvent video game adaptations and blur the "borders between the movie and game mediums"

  07-04-2026 22:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Exit 8 director Genki Kawamura says he wanted the upcoming horror film to blur the lines between movie and video game."So when this game came out, people were playing the game on streaming," Kawamura explains to GamesRadar+. "I was very impressed with the overall game design. But I also watched a lot of different streamers. And because the game is so simple, it served as this backdrop, and there were as many stories in there as there were players and videos on stream. So I thought that this game
  
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• "Video games are cooked": Publisher head says "it doesn't matter" how many of us hate gen AI, Pandora's box has opened and "it's gonna get used now"

  07-04-2026 22:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mike Rose, founder of indie publisher No More Robots, which is perhaps best known for the likes of Yes, Your Grace and Descenders, likens the spread of generative AI use in games to the opening of Pandora's box. Simply put, we ain't getting the lid back on the box. "From a publisher perspective specifically, it's mega annoying," Rose tells GamesRadar+ in an interview, echoing other publishers like Hooded Horse. "If we thought the number of games being launched on Steam was crazy before, now it's
  
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• CD Projekt Red veteran tells game devs to unionize after Epic adds 1,000 people to the layoff pile: "Collectively, we can influence things"

  07-04-2026 21:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Workiversaries in the game industry are bittersweet these days. It's tricky celebrating career milestones when it seems like every other week, hundreds of people lose their livelihoods all at once. For CD Projekt Red localization QA analyst Paula Mackiewicz-Armstrong, who recently hit eight years with the studio, it's simply a moment of gratitude for stability in a very unstable environment."It's quite strange reflecting on it, cause instead of celebrating achievements or releases, my thoughts t
  
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• "We had everything that I've seen from Crimson Desert," former Just Cause boss says of Avalanche's cancelled fantasy open-world game

  07-04-2026 21:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Well before Just Cause developer Avalanche lost Contraband, a co-op heist game planned as a major Xbox release, to Microsoft's cascading cancellations, the studio had to abandon an open-world fantasy game known as AionGuard in the '00s. New comments from Avalanche co-founder and former CCO Christofer Sundberg suggest AionGuard could've looked an awful lot like Crimson Desert, the newly released open-world fantasy game from developer Pearl Abyss that's sold millions of copies in a few weeks. Spea
  
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• Artemis II launch sends legendary astronaut sim Kerbal Space Program rocketing to its biggest Steam player peak in 10 years

  07-04-2026 21:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Space is having a bit of a moment. After years of the empty regions between planets feeling like a billionaire's playground, the folks at NASA are bringing back the good vibes with the Artemis II launch. Meanwhile, Project Hail Mary is taking space exploration to big box office heights. And all the while, there's been an unexpected beneficiary of all this space love: Kerbal Space Program, which just reached its biggest Steam player count since launch.Kerbal Space Program reached a peak of 11,890
  
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• Witchbrook's taken 10 years because "Harry Potter meets Stardew Valley" got old and the devs wanted time to make "something more unique"

  07-04-2026 19:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  We've been waiting a decade now for the release of Witchbrook, formerly Spellbrook, the cutesy magical life sim from Chucklefish. The good news is that the game's still coming; the team behind it is just trying to resist playing too strongly into obvious comparisons.Chucklefish COO Donna Orlowski discussed the perpetual delays with Knowledge. "The most important thing in developing this game was to ensure that what we do build is going to meet not only our expectations but expectations of an aud
  
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• As the shadow of GTA 6 looms, Just Cause lead isn't put off by comparisons to Rockstar's goliath as he prepares to release Samson: "There are times when you want to put GTA down and pick up something else"

  07-04-2026 18:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's hard to argue that 2026 isn't GTA 6's year as it looms on the horizon, threatening to overshadow any game that dares release anywhere near it, but the lead behind one rival urban action game that's been unable to escape Grand Theft Auto comparisons from fans and publishers alike is still confident he can offer something new when it launches tomorrow. Samson is being developed by Liquid Swords, a studio founded by Just Cause lead and Avalanche Studios co-founder Christofer Sundberg, and look
  
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• Resident Evil Requiem dataminers find an unused form for villain Victor Gideon that could've fixed my least-favorite part of the game

  07-04-2026 18:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Resident Evil Requiem dataminers have seemingly found an alternate form of Victor Gideon that went unused in the final release. Spoiler warning for the finale of Resident Evil Requiem to follow, so read no further unless you've beaten the game (or don't care, either or).So, at the end of Resident Evil Requiem, you'll never guess what happens. A Resident Evil villain decides it's time to take advantage of the virus or parasite of the week and turn into a giant monster thing. It's a constant of th
  
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• No Man's Sky boss Sean Murray once again gets the community dancing with just a few short posts: "Save some emojis for Light No Fire buddy"

  07-04-2026 18:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  That Sean Murray, what's he like? The co-founder and managing director of Hello Games is teasing something for No Man's Sky, using his favorite method: emojis. Singular emojis, just getting sent out on social media for fans to draw all sorts of wild conclusions.The first one in this latest round is a stadium, posted on April 6. Just one, solitary open-air venue, left to percolate in people's minds. It got so much traction, he trended on Twitter, for however much that's worth nowadays.Today, then
  
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• X-Men director says he's already thinking about sequels: "What hasn’t been explored as much, and how can that be incorporated?"

  07-04-2026 18:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel's X-Men may not even have a script yet, but that hasn't stopped director Jake Schreier from dreaming up possible sequels to the long-awaited MCU movie.While promoting Beef season 2, which is set to release on Netflix on April 16, the Thunderbolts* helmer told Collider that he and the team have been "talking about" where the franchise could go beyond the upcoming first film. "Obviously, first things first: We have to make one great movie. But we always have an eye [on]... 'What are the dif
  
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• The animator behind Fox's intro in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has been revealed, and they previously worked on Jujutsu Kaisen

  07-04-2026 18:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  The animator behind that incredible 2D Fox intro in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has talked about working on the film – and it turns out he previously worked on Jujutsu Kaisen. "I had an incredible time working as a 3D supervising animator on the movie and was truly honored to be in charge of the 2D Fox intro sequence," the animator, Benjamin Faure, wrote on Twitter. "Getting the chance to bring both 2D and 3D animation to life on this project made the whole experience even more special. S
  
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• Another obscure Final Fantasy game could come to PC with Square Enix "exploring the possibility" of porting Dissidia Duellum

  07-04-2026 17:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Square Enix is reportedly exploring the possibility of bringing the latest Dissidia Final Fantasy title to PC after its mobile launch last month. Speaking to Siliconera,Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy producer Naoya Matsumoto is asked about the decision to base the game's perspective around a vertical screen and locking it to portrait mode, and whether that would in turn rule out the possibility of a PC version of the game. Matsumoto explains: "We opted for the vertical screen because the game's
  
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• OG God of War actor has a message for "all you men": He thinks the sex scenes will be back in the Greek trilogy remake

  07-04-2026 17:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  The sex scenes in the original God of War trilogy are equal parts horny and corny, and the question of whether or not they'll return in the upcoming remakes has been hanging ever since the project was first announced. Original Kratos actor T.C. Carson, who's returning to the role in the remakes, thinks those scenes will return.He was asked about the return of those "intimate romance minigames" during a panel at MegaCon Orlando. In a clip shared by IGN, Carson responded with a smile: "You know wh
  
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• InZoi devs say Baldur's Gate 3's early-access success story helped inspire them to try it themselves, even though it "was not really a thing" for Korean studios

  07-04-2026 17:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  InZOI's developers say that the studio had no choice but to launch the game in early access due to its increasing complexity, and was inspired to do so by Western studios that built their games alongside players.GamesRadar+ attended a private Q&A session at Krafton's InZOI Studio in Seoul, where InZoi director Hyungjun 'Kjun' Kim said via a translator that the ever-increasing amount of code within the life sim meant the developers "could not see the end result," but it seems taking some cues
  
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• Naturally, the Artemis II launch was shot on a Nintendo 3DS, and you know what? It has all the charm of the '60s missions

  07-04-2026 17:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  The idea of shooting the Artemis II launch on a 3DS might sound bananas considering most of us have 4K camcorders in our pockets, but a fan of the retro handheld has shared a unique clip of the takeoff that's more charming than the official feed.Captured by proud 3DS owner Cambot72, the 3DS Artemis II launch clip is as janky as you'd expect. We're talking about a handheld from 2011 with a 0.3 megapixel camera and zero image stabilization. Yet, the portable has somehow managed to produce a shot t
  
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• Sony is doing its best Hideo Kojima impression, scanning fans into games like Gran Turismo 7, but only if you can impress with your player stats and "authentic love for PlayStation"

  07-04-2026 17:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sony appears to be attempting its very best Hideo Kojima impression as it announces plans to scan PlayStation fans into its games, so if you're lucky enough, maybe you'll soon have a lookalike living their best life in Gran Turismo 7. For a while, anyway.In a PlayStation Blog post today, Sony Interactive Entertainment's vice president of global marketing, Isabelle Tomatis, unveiled The Playerbase – described as "a unique opportunity for PlayStation's biggest fans to step into some of the b
  
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• Hideo Kojima put Low Roar in the Death Stranding games because he thinks gamers need more culture in their lives: "I believe that is the role entertainment is meant to play"

  07-04-2026 16:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's important in life, I believe, to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.In an interview with Vogue, he spoke about using his games as a platform for highlighting the artists he'd like people to explore further. "Take the band Low Roar from the previous game, for instance," Kojima explains. "When someone hears
  
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• ReZero Starting Life in Another World season 4 release schedule: what time is episode 1 on Crunchyroll?

  07-04-2026 16:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's time for one of our favorite isekai to draw us in again as Re:Zero makes a return to our screens. But with the tidal wave of new anime making its way to screens this week as part of spring's opening flourishes, you might not know when Subaru and company are back. To help, we've put together a quick guide on the Re:Zero season 4 Starting Life in Another World episode 1 release date, plus a streaming time for those watching along on Crunchyroll.For more, be sure to check out the JoJo's Bizarr
  
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• Despite Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum scheduling conflicts, Andy Serkis will return as Alfred in The Batman 2: "I'm pretty certain it's all going to work out"

  07-04-2026 16:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  It looks like Andy Serkis will be splitting his time between Middle-earth and Gotham City, as he's confirmed to return as Alfred Pennyworth in The Batman 2.“I'm pretty certain it’s all going to work out. Yeah, we're working on it, but I think it's all looking good," Serkis told Collider. The actor and filmmaker also told Screen Rant that he "won’t be joining them immediately, but by the end of the year, I will be."Serkis portrayed Bruce Wayne's trusty old Butler in The Batman (
  
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• Crimson Desert super fan "played 56 hours straight and slept 8" on repeat to earn its Platinum trophy, and even Pearl Abyss is concerned: "That's not enough sleep"

  07-04-2026 15:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Crimson Desert is an enormous game. Even completing its main story in the almost three weeks since launch would be quite a challenge for most, but imagine earning every single trophy the open-world behemoth has to offer. Well, some have actually pulled this off, in a span of time that's even left Pearl Abyss' PR and marketing lead concerned. For some context, the race to Crimson Desert's Platinum trophy on PS5 was evenly matched for anyone who wanted to participate. As per Pearl Abyss' director
  
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• The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask lead worries Link speaking in the movie will ruin the magic for some fans

  07-04-2026 15:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask art director Takaya Imamura says he's worried the magic of the series will be lost when Link speaks in the upcoming movie. Over on Twitter, Imamura responds to a post asking about people's thoughts on the upcoming The Legend of Zelda movie now that The Super Mario Galaxy Movie – which Imamura won't be seeing until later this month when it releases in Japan – has been out for a few days. The legendary ex-Nintendo dev says (via machine translation) th
  
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• Netflix's One Piece returns in 2027 for season 3, and it could wrap up one of the manga's best arcs

  07-04-2026 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  One Piece is embarking on a new adventure in 2027 with season 3's Battle of Alabasta.As revealed by Netflix in a sand-covered teaser, the live-action remake of One Piece has a quick turnaround and will hit our screens next year.ONE PIECE will return in 2027! 🏴‍☠️ The Battle of Alabasta is approaching... pic.twitter.com/a7v97oRKdjApril 7, 2026Given the One Piece season 2 ending set up Monkey D. Luffy and his Straw Hat crew heading to Vivi's homeland of Alabasta, it should
  
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• Keys Factory is launching a new wave of Switch 2 Animal Crossing New Horizons accessories, and it's about time

  07-04-2026 14:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Animal Crossing New Horizons Switch 2 Edition arrived in January earlier this year, and at the time, I had hoped that we'd see some of the best Switch 2 accessories get the Animal Crossing treatment. Alas, while there was a steady flow of adorable new merch that popped up on the official Nintendo US and UK storefronts, there wasn't much in the way of new Switch 2 cases, controllers, and other goodies.However, the fansite Animal Crossing World discovered that a new batch of Animal Crossing Switch
  
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• Daredevil: Born Again's Bullseye almost starred in a canceled Star Wars video game over a decade ago, and everyone's suddenly realizing what a missed opportunity it was

  07-04-2026 14:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Daredevil: Born Again season 2's Bullseye actor Wilson Bethel was set to play a big role in a now-canceled Star Wars video game and, over a decade later, a new batch of fans are taking the news pretty hard.Bethel was set to play an original character, Rak Jaren, a bounty hunter who was the original protagonist of Star Wars 1313. In the canceled game, he was set to be murdered by Boba Fett early on in the action, and he would then take over as the main character. Set in an underground area of Cor
  
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• Mark Hamill says Dave Filoni is the best choice to lead Lucasfilm: "He knows George's sensibility"

  07-04-2026 13:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mark Hamill has shared his thoughts on Dave Filoni taking over as co-head of Lucasfilm, and it sounds like he couldn't be happier. Filoni and Lynwen Brennan officially became co-presidents earlier this year, replacing Kathleen Kennedy. In a recent interview, Hamill told USA Today that he "can't think of better hands" than Filoni, who understands Star Wars "so well.""George was a mentor to Dave, so he knows George's sensibility," he added, praising the "great stuff" Filoni has worked on, like The
  
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• Overwatch will free Anran from her "baby face" in Season 2, director confirms, and her voice actor approves: "She looks much more like the strong older sibling we knew her to be"

  07-04-2026 13:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  After just under two months, Blizzard revealed the new look for Anran in Overwatch. After waves of complaints about her initial design, the studio decided to give her a makeover that's now more fitting for the kind of character the devs want her to be.Aaron Keller, game director of Overwatch, introduces the changes in a short video. "We think she could come across older and that her original version was too innocent and playful," he says, over a contrast of her old and new looks."We made some ad
  
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• Marvel's X-Men director explains why Thunderbolts and Beef writers are the perfect fit for the "soap opera" superhero movie: "[They] understand how to drive ideology from personal stakes"

  07-04-2026 13:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel's long-awaited X-Men movie just got a very exciting update: Thunderbolts* scribe Joanna Calo and Beef creator Lee Sung Jin have signed on to write the script. In a new interview with Collider, the film's director, Jake Schreier, explained why the duo are the perfect people to pen the mutants' first MCU outing. He also gushed about how "exciting" it is to be collaborating with them again after working on Thunderbolts* and Beef, in which he helms a bunch of season 2 episodes, together."When
  
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• After Dune 3 IMAX tickets sold out in minutes, scalpers are reselling tickets online for $1000

  07-04-2026 13:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Over eight whole months before Denis Vilenneive's Dune: Part Three is due to hit the big screen, tickets to the film's first day in IMAX cinemas have already sold out, and scaplers are taking full advantage of the demand. On April 6, the official Dune Twitter page spontaneously announced that tickets for 70mm IMAX screenings were going on sale that evening. Tickets were ready to purchase for the movie's opening weekend at 18 cinemas across the US, the UK, and Canada. However, with so many Dune f
  
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• The Super Mario Galaxy Movie releases a taster of its best moment online for free and, yes, we're talking about the Star Fox anime sequence

  07-04-2026 12:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has already been upfront about its inclusion of Glen Powell's Fox McCloud. Now, it's going one step further by releasing a sizzle reel of Fox's best scenes from the Mario movie sequel online, less than a week after it was released in theatres.In the teaser, which you can see below, fans can now see the moment Fox flies onto the scene with his trademark style that won Toad over in record time. And, yes, there's even a look at Fox's backstory, depicted in beautiful ani
  
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• Super Mario 64, Star Fox programmer says devs weren't historically given free copies of their games, so they had to "wait until supply caught up with demand" if their work sold out

  07-04-2026 12:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fox McCloud's designer isn't getting an early screening of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, though a former Nintendo developer who worked on the likes of Star Fox and Super Mario 64 says that sort of thing has been the norm for a while, as even working on a game doesn't guarantee you a copy of it. Earlier this week, the character designer for Star Fox, Takaya Imamura, said that – despite creating Fox McCloud – he won't be getting the chance to see his character in The Super Mario Galaxy
  
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• New Daredevil: Born Again season 2 teaser spoils a pretty big plot development for Jessica Jones, and fans aren't happy

  07-04-2026 12:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new mid-season trailer for Daredevil: Born Again season 2 has spoiled a pretty major plot development for Jessica Jones – and fans aren't happy about it (spoilers ahead).In the new clip, as Jessica appears in her signature leather jacket and some sunglasses, she tells Daredevil, "They showed up at my house with my daughter there." The fact that Krysten Ritter's superhero-turned-PI has become a mother since we last saw her on our screens is a pretty big twist. Is Luke Cage the father? Doe
  
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• GTA 6 might not feature an entirely rebuilt Rage Engine after all, as one report says it's more of an expansion on what Rockstar used in Red Dead Redemption 2

  07-04-2026 12:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been claimed that GTA 6 may indeed feature an updated version of Rockstar's proprietary Rage Engine, but not a total rebuild – and, oh, that rumor about the game's save function being broken is total rubbish.Perhaps it's because it's the most highly anticipated game on the horizon right now, maybe it's because there's been such a massive wait for it, or, possibly, Rockstar's relative silence is just sending fans feral, but rumors and speculation around GTA 6 are rampant. One such rumo
  
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• Maul – Shadow Lord becomes one of the highest rated Star Wars projects on Rotten Tomatoes

  07-04-2026 12:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Maul's highly anticipated return in the new animated show Maul – Shadow Lord has debuted to an excellent reception, becoming one of the highest-rated Star Wars projects ever on Rotten Tomatoes. The show currently stands at a perfect score of 100% from 25 reviews, meaning it has edged past Andor season 2's 97% (though from 212 reviews). Andor season 2 is the most critically acclaimed live-action Star Wars project ever, so this is no mean feat. In fact, Shadow Lord currently holds the highes
  
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• Marvel TV boss says that She-Hulk is one of the MCU's "best-performing shows" and he'd "love to make more" despite negative fan response

  07-04-2026 12:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Although the 2022 Marvel series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law only ran for one season and divided critics and audiences, Marvel TV head Brad Winderbaum said it still stands as one of the MCU's most successful shows, and he'd love to make more seasons. "I love She-Hulk. I'd love to make more She-Hulk," said Winderbaum on The Escape Pod on YouTube, after hosts Andrew Parker and Alex Azor expressed their love for the show. "I mean, I'll tell you this about She-Hulk. That's one of our best-performing sh
  
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• Nvidia's own DLSS 5 video being blocked on YouTube thanks to an Italian TV station is pretty funny, but boy, it sure makes me worried about AI copyright infringement

  07-04-2026 12:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  YouTube's copyright system is daft, so I'm not really surprised to hear that it blocked Nvidia's own DLSS 5 announcement video off the back of a claim. The blip will likely bring a smile to the face of anti-AI gaming PC players far and wide, but while the mix-up made me snigger, Beavis and Butthead-style, I can't help but feel we're not remotely prepared for more complex gen-AI copyright situations brought on by Nvidia's latest form of upscaling. Highlighted by NikTek in an X post, the whole DLS
  
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• Netflix casually confirms Steel Ball Run's episode 2 release plans – but JoJo's fans might not like it

  07-04-2026 11:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  After weeks of waiting (and putting literal curses out into the world), JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fans can rejoice: Netflix has confirmed the release plans for Steel Ball Run episode 2 and beyond.As announced on Netflix Anime's Twitter account, the streamer is "planning a split‑cour release across the entire run of episodes."What does that mean for those who want to get back in the saddle for the next leg of Steel Ball Run's cross-country race? According to Netflix, the next cour (titled '2
  
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• Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream's viral soap opera lore expands as Nintendo embraces the "drama" and "silliness" of the life sim: "NOT HUGH FRIENDZONING ANGIE ON LIVE TV"

  07-04-2026 01:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is only 10 days away from making Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Pokemon Pokopia players divide up their free time even more, and there's a new trailer expanding the series' viral soap opera-like lore.Tomodachi Life has always been unique among life sims, farming sims, cozy games, what have you, largely because of the way it fosters all sorts of ridiculous situations and drama between Miis. This latest trailer focusing on Crystal and Angie's friendship is the p
  
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• After making 2 of the best indie games of all time, Lucas Pope won't even talk about his third because "it's getting slurped up by AI or people are gonna copy it"

  07-04-2026 00:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been eight years since the release of Return of the Obra Dinn (I know, sorry!), the last full game from indie dev Lucas Pope, and while he's working away on a new project, he's reluctant to provide any details. In an age of generative AI and algorithms, he's worried it'll get sucked into the slush pit of a chatbot, or someone else might steal his idea.He spoke on the subject on the Mike and Rami Are Still Here podcast. "I have this curse where I really wanna finish things, and I also like t
  
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• Indie dev inspired by PS1 Resident Evil tells arachnophobes to get bent, creates first-person survival horror where you're trapped in an apartment "infested by giant spiders"

  07-04-2026 00:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you're the type to flip on arachnophobia mode in games like Grounded 2 and Monster Hunter Wilds, turn away now and run. Run far, far away, because we're talking about a new survival horror game all about giant, killer spiders.Lurking, from indie developer Ctrl Freak, exists in defiance of arachnophobia modes. Spiders were obviously explicitly designed by god to be as scary as possible. The six legs. The multitude of eyes. The venom. Spiders are not serious creatures. Their sole purpose on thi
  
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