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• Elden Ring movie set photos suggest the Loathsome Dung Eater and Raya Lucaria will appear in the A24 adaptation

  21-04-2026 23:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Following the release date and full cast announcement for A24's live-action Elden Ring movie, behind-the-scenes photos have been released that showcase a fan-favorite game location and a most-hated character.In the photos, which were shared exclusively by Shortlist, we see numerous bits from the fantasy RPG. This includes a sign that says "Leyndell Streets," which refers to the game's Royal City location, a box of props labeled "Stormveil," another game location, and several hanging lanterns and
  
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• Silo season 3 trailer teases the beginning of the end for one of Apple's best sci-fi shows

  21-04-2026 23:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for Silo season 3 has arrived, and it's just as ominous as we expected.In the brief clip, which can be viewed above, we see a montage of chaotic clips that appear to be moving in reverse. "Before we can know why we're here... " Juliette says in a voiceover narration. "Before we can understand, before we can know why everything is the way it is, before we can begin..." The voiceover trails off until the title screen appears and reads, "The truth will set you free," alongside the
  
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• Arc Raiders players all sigh with relief as Embark extends new Expedition challenge window from 5 days to 13, and confirms it's "approximately equivalent to destroying 20 Bastions"

  21-04-2026 22:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Responding to concerns and criticisms about Arc Raiders' updated Expedition system, developer Embark Studios announced a major change and released some new information that collectively make the system sound much more agreeable. For this Expedition cycle, players will have to deal damage in a limited-time challenge in order to earn maximum bonus skill points, meaning the money they may have saved for the previous value-based rewards is now worthless. Originally, players would've had just five da
  
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• Fallout 5 rumored setting New Orleans was originally discussed at New Vegas studio Obsidian, and veteran dev still believes "there's a lot of potential there"

  21-04-2026 22:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warm beignets and cold Nuka-Cola – these simple pleasures could be yours if Fallout 5 rumors are true and the upcoming Bethesda game is set in swamp city New Orleans. Or, they could be yours if you go back in time and kiss Todd Howard's feet 900 times, convincing him to release the Fallout game Obsidian veteran Chris Avellone hoped to set in the Louisiana wasteland.Avellone, who served as a senior designer on New Vegas in 2010, reminisced to YouTuber TKs-Mantis in a chunky new interview ab
  
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• Pragmata director and former Nier: Automata weapon artist Cho Yonghee gets a shoutout from Yoko Taro as the new IP holds its own among a golden Capcom lineup

  21-04-2026 22:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Capcom's latest success story, sci-fi hacking-action game Pragmata, marks the directorial debut for Cho Yonghee, a former Nier: Automata weapon concept artist and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance character designer. Yoko Taro, Nier and Drakengard chief, praised Yonghee in a Twitter post and said he's looking to play Pragmata himself. "Cho is amazing," he wrote (machine translated), "I really need to start playing Pragmata." Yonghee responded in a quote tweet, saying (machine translated), "Yoko Tar
  
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• Diablo 4 will get updates until the day it dies because players keep finding new problems "over the course of 10,000 hours," says Blizzard

  21-04-2026 21:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Blizzard has been taking in Diablo 4 player feedback and using it to shape game updates since shortly after launch in May 2023, and the developer doesn't expect it'll ever stop.In the latest issue of PC Gamer magazine, associate game director Zaven Haroutunian and game designer Aislyn Hall opened up about the challenges of keeping everyone happy in a game meant to be played over many years and hundreds of hours. It's the endgame, typically, that draws out the most fervent commenters, and Diablo
  
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• Former GTA lead Dan Houser's new "AAA story-driven open world video game" and animated series unveils its main cast, featuring stars of 30 Rock and Billions

  21-04-2026 18:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  After several years, Dan Houser, Rockstar co-founder and narrative lead on the GTA games, has provided some concrete details about new studio Absurd Ventures and its TV and video game project Absurdaverse. The central cast of the multimedia franchise has been revealed ahead of more news set to come during the Netflix Is A Joke comedy festival in May.According to a Variety report, Absurdaverse stars comedians Rachel Dratch, Dan Soder, Ari Matti, Annie Lederman, Yamaneika Saunders and Steph Tolev,
  
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  Will you kill for mommy? I beg that you do not tell me the answer to that question, but it seems Bungie has been posing it to Marathon players for some time now. Dataminers have recently taken a close look at some of the weapon skins included in the Marathon reward pass to discover a bit of subliminal messaging, and the game's community lead is having a great deal of fun with the reactions.The big theme in the first Marathon reward pass is Achromatic Rush, a series of black-and-white cosmetics c
  

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• Former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss completes Death Stranding 2, praises Hideo Kojima's sequel as one "hell of an experience" – even if the first game's story was better

  21-04-2026 18:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Now that Death Stranding 2 has been out on PlayStation 5 and PC for a while, plenty of folks have had the opportunity to experience the Hideo Kojima masterpiece – including Mike Ybarra, former Blizzard Entertainment lead and Xbox corporate vice president at Microsoft.Ybarra reveals as much in a new online post, praising the game while sharing a screenshot of his Death Stranding 2 stats on Steam. It shows his hours spent in-game and achievements unlocked, which he has apparently 100% comple
  
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• Windrose players thank the devs for avoiding item durability, a divisive survival game feature: "Possibly the most un-fun mechanic in any video game"

  21-04-2026 18:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Windrose fans are thanking the developers for not putting item durability into the popular piracy survival game.Over on the Windrose subreddit, multiple posts about the topic have emerged, with one user writing:"Big shout out to the devs for not including quite possibly the most un-fun mechanic in any video game." And, for the most part, this seems to be a pretty popular take, with another adding:"I really, really, really hope they don't change this as the game moves toward full release. Having
  
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• Kingdom Come: Deliverance devs are donating $1 of every copy sold on Steam this week to the real-life Pirkštejn Castle, preserving the actual history behind Henry's home

  21-04-2026 18:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you've been eyeing up Kingdom Come: Deliverance, this would be a good week to finally dive in. Not only is the game heavily reduced at the moment, but a portion of money from every copy sold for the next week will go towards preserving an iconic and very real location from the RPG.To make sure I'm not burying the lede here, Kingdom Come: Deliverance is currently 80% off as part of the Steam Medieval Fest. That's already an amazing deal, because it's a role-playing adventure with hours upon ho
  
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• The price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is falling, and all it cost was day one access to new Call of Duty games

  21-04-2026 18:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Microsoft is lowering the price of its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription plan. Starting today, Game Pass Ultimate will be priced at $22.99 per month instead of $29.99 – a 23% decrease. The price of PC Game Pass is also being lowered from $16.49 to $13.99 a month. There is a cost to Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass becoming more affordable. Xbox will no longer bring future Call of Duty games to the service on the day of their release, with new titles arriving into Game Pass Ultimate t
  
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• Your next Xbox could come in Asus and MSI flavors, but Microsoft has confirmed an in-house Project Helix

  21-04-2026 17:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Microsoft is keeping its full next-gen Xbox Project Helix plans under wraps for now, but fresh rumors suggest Asus and MSI could be involved. Yes, those are two companies that happen to make the best gaming handhelds today, but they could end up producing their own versions of the future home console in addition to first-party versions.The next-gen Xbox info comes courtesy of Kepler L2 via a NeoGaf post, with the leaker suggesting the Project Helix custom AMD chipset could make its way to third-
  
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• New Devil May Cry season 2 trailer teases a brother vs. brother showdown as Dante takes on Vergil

  21-04-2026 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The new Devil May Cry season 2 trailer has landed, and the follow-up to Netflix's animated video game adaptation is keeping it in the family as brothers Dante and Vergil head on a demonic collision course.While the new trailer, which you can see above, begins by showing Dante in full flow and firing off his twin guns Ebony and Ivory, he's soon stopped in his tracks by Vergil, who has returned and is seemingly serving the demon Mundus.As expected from the franchise, there's lashings of heavy meta
  
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• Final Fantasy 14 "can't afford another failed expansion," fans say, as unofficial census reports significant player drop ahead of the MMO's big 8.0 reveal

  21-04-2026 16:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 14 hasn't exactly been in the best shape since Dawntrail – you know, with its "Mostly Negative" reviews nearly two years post-launch and all – and active player counts show as much, with numbers reportedly dropping.We can find these numbers in the unofficial census that Lucky Bancho, a fan who gathers all sorts of data from The Lodestone regularly, has put together on his online blog.
  Just two months ago, he noted a nice increase of 110,000 players, which brought the nu
  
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• Crimson Desert's Kliff mocap actor thinks your sexy mods are "hilarious," gives modders his blessing to go wild "as long as no one is actually being hurt"

  21-04-2026 16:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's never long before a popular game gets some raunchy mods from the community, if only for puerile laughs. Crimson Desert is no exception, and there are indeed several modifications that allow you to see main character Kliff in the nude, or to upscale his features to make him even more buff and defined. Should you partake in such deviancy, one of the performers behind the protagonist gives his blessing, as long as nobody's getting hurt.During a Reddit AMA, Trevor McEwan, the mocap actor for Kl
  
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• Embark tells Arc Raiders players to expect "significant changes" to the skill tree, admitting many skills kind of suck: "I don't think by any means we nailed it"

  21-04-2026 16:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  The next Expedition in Arc Raiders is dated to start on April 28, but this one's going to be different. Rather than earning extra skill points through accumulated wealth, players now do so through dealing a certain amount of damage, creating a five-day window where chaos will reign. In the background, developer Embark Studios is working to make those skill points more appealing. This change was revealed in the announcement of the latest Expedition. In case you're unaware, this is a mechanic that
  
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• Badass Ultimate Wolverine gets an equally badass Marvel Legends action figure, and you can pre-order it now

  21-04-2026 15:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hasbro has unveiled its latest Marvel Legends action figures, and Ultimate Wolverine is finally entering the fray. Revealed during the company's latest live stream, this darker, alternate universe version of Weapon X is just one of seven new Marvel Legends action figures that are up for pre-order now (ranging from Alpha Flight team members to the first Robbie Reyes Ghost Rider). However, I'd argue Ultimate Wolverine is one of, if not the, most eye-catching. That black and red costume is phenomen
  
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• Splatoon Raiders launches in July, but the single-player Switch 2 exclusive leaves a mysterious gap in Nintendo's 2026 line-up

  21-04-2026 15:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo has released a new trailer for Splatoon Raiders, confirming the single-player spin-off game is launching on July 23, 2026.Almost a year ago, in June 2025, Nintendo used its Nintendo Today app to announce a new game for the first time – a mysterious Splatoon deserted island game exclusive for Switch 2, titled Splatoon Raiders. And since then, Nintendo has dropped tons of info about the game, like… well, nothing actually. But despite missing the last Nintendo Direct and not e
  
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• FPGA dev claims the Neo Geo AES+ is "basically the MiSTer core" broken up into separate chips

  21-04-2026 14:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's no surprise that the Neo Geo AES+ is raising a few eyebrows, especially given its promise to recreate the retro console without using emulation or FPGA. However, it turns out the arcade system's ASIC chips are based on existing FPGA code, and one developer says Plaion is pulling a "bait and switch."For context, the Neo Geo AES+ is set to replicate the board of the '90s console using ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) programmed for one specific task. In this instance, the chips
  
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• We still have no word about the Steam Machine and Steam Frame, but a Steam Controller unboxing video has emerged that could point to Valve's new gamepad launching soon

  21-04-2026 14:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  For months, we've been asking why, if Valve is having so much trouble pricing and launching its new Steam Machine and Steam Frame VR headset, the brand doesn't get the ball rolling by releasing its new Steam Controller. Now, it seems like that might just be on the cards, as a new discovery on SteamDB hints that Valve is preparing to give us more information on the upcoming PC controller. The SteamDB file was found by reliable VR leaker Brad Lynch (@SadlyItsBradley) on Twitter/X under the name "s
  
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• Despite using Unreal Engine 5, the Rogue Trooper movie team wanted to avoid an "uncanny-valley video game aesthetic"

  21-04-2026 14:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  The upcoming Rogue Trooper adaptation's unique animation style may employ video game engine Unreal Engine 5, but the creative team behind the movie didn't want it to look like one."We started working with the Unreal Engine to do the animatic, but one of the things that was really important to us was to make sure that we found that animation style that wouldn’t invite parallels being drawn to it being a video game movie. We really wanted to try and find that 2000 AD DNA," producer Stuart Fe
  
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• Windrose's first mods are already adding quality-of-life improvements "for captains who'd rather be chasing horizons than managing menus"

  21-04-2026 14:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Open-world pirate survival game Windrose has gotten off to a flying start on Steam since its early access launch last week, and it appears that modders have been working just as hard as the devs when it comes to making improvements. While developer Kraken Express has already patched out a number of bugs in Windrose, with more to come, fans have taken to mod platforms like Nexus Mods to share their own quality-of-life improvements, faster than you can say "yarrrr."Currently, one of the most popul
  
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• Where does Stranger Things: Tales From '85 take place on the Stranger Things timeline?

  21-04-2026 14:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  We're only a couple of days away from the release of Stranger Things: Tales From '85, a new animated spin-off that'll reunite us with our favorite Hawkins heroes. If you've seen the trailers, you'll have already realised that the show isn't a direct follow-up to the live-action series – the world isn't ending, Eleven's still around and Will's back rocking his bowl cut, for starters. In fact, showrunner Eric Robles has previously described it as kind of a "lost season". We wouldn't blame yo
  
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• Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced footage leaks days ahead of its official reveal, just in case you doubted Ubisoft calling the open-world remake "gaming's worst kept secret"

  21-04-2026 14:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced footage has leaked ahead of its official reveal earlier this week.Ubisoft's upcoming remake of Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag has been one of the most leaked projects in recent memory, going back to 2023. But the interesting thing about it is that, despite knowing almost everything about it in advance, not one actual bit of footage from the remake was released during its countless leaks. Earlier this week, Ubisoft officially confirmed that we'll get the world
  
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• We're not in Nevermore, anymore! Latest look at Wednesday season 3 teases interesting new location for the our favorite Addams

  21-04-2026 13:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new look at Wednesday season 3 has our favorite Addams in a brand new location – and she's stealing Emily in Paris' thunder. In the fresh look, which you can see below, Jenna Ortega's Wednesday and Thing can be seen standing in front of the Eiffel Tower, which is, of course, located in Paris, France. Wednesday appears to be holding a letter of some kind, and she is clad in her signature black. From Paris, with dread. pic.twitter.com/vyucpce8D7April 20, 2026In the Wednesday season 2, part
  
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• First look at DC Studios' Clayface is more face than clay

  21-04-2026 13:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first look at Clayface has arrived, and it's actually way creepier than it first appears. In the picture, which you can see below, we see Tom Rhys Harries's Matt Hagen on the cover of a magazine. "Rising star Matt Hagen," the magazine proclaims, and Matt looks pretty happy. Of course, this is going to be short-lived: Matt is going to be badly disfigured before gaining his clay-based powers. A post shared by Clayface (@clayfacemovie)A photo posted byon In fact, in footage shown behind closed
  
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• Look mom, new Intel Arc G3 handhelds that no one can probably afford are inbound

  21-04-2026 12:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Intel is about to enter the best gaming handheld ring again, as Arc G3 and G3 Extreme portable PCs are apparently on the way. That's according to insider information acquired by Videocardz that suggests the Pather Lake devices will debut at Computex, but I'm not holding my breath for approachable price points.I don't want to be a premium portable party pooper, especially since the MSI Claw 8 AI+ gave Intel a handheld scene second wind. Plus, if the Pather Lake models are packing Arc B380 and B36
  
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• One of the most infamous Star Wars lines was added in reshoots, Oscar Isaac says

  21-04-2026 12:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Rise of Skywalker wasn't exactly warmly received upon its release, and that sense of ill will has only grown in the years since.One of the enduring legacies from the ninth and final movie in Star Wars' Skywalker Saga was the proclamation from Oscar Isaac's Poe Dameron that "Somehow, Palpatine returned."At once, in an inexplicable retcon and shorthand for The Rise of Skywalker skipping over dramatic plot beats (including unveiling the Emperor's return in Fortnite, of all places), the line has
  
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• Marvel to return to San Diego Comic-Con's Hall H in 2026 for the first time since Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom casting was revealed

  21-04-2026 12:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  After a year off, Marvel is returning to Hall H at this year's San Diego Comic-Con.According to The Wrap, Marvel Studios will be back in its usual headline slot on the convention's Saturday night (July 25). Unusually, the studio skipped 2025, so this will be their first appearance since 2024's panel, when it was announced that the Russos would return to direct Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars – and that Robert Downey Jr. would be returning to the MCU, but as Doctor Doom rather
  
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• "This game sucks": Former Uncharted 4 dev says a mystery Naughty Dog project was torn apart by corporate, leading to threats of pulled funding and a huge leadership shake-up

  21-04-2026 12:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  It sure sounds like a former Naughty Dog developer just revealed a few new details about the scrapped version of Uncharted 4 that never came to be, as he discusses a game prototype that corporate allegedly threatened to pull funding from if the team didn't improve things. The version of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End that we know – the one that made it to store shelves – was directed by The Last of Us leads Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley, but this wasn't always the case. Uncharted seri
  
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• The Last of Us and Death Stranding actor Troy Baker has worked with Neil Druckmann, Hideo Kojima, and many more – Now he wants to create a studio and "tell my own stories"

  21-04-2026 12:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Last of Us and Death Stranding actor Troy Baker says he's looking into building a game studio of his own. Speaking to Kinda Funny Games, Baker is asked about his desire to make games, and explains, "To be able to take those tenets and principles, lessons and losses and be able to form something new out of that. I want to tell my own stories. "I want to proliferate the wisdom and the experience that those other great studios - and bad - have given me and be able to fold that into new experien
  
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• AMD could be readying up Multi-Frame Generation, even though the AI tool's absence is arguably a Radeon selling point

  21-04-2026 12:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  AMD is still running in the best graphics card race, but it's not quite on the same track as Nvidia's Multi-Frame Generation GPUs. However, changes to the tech company'sADLX FidelityFX SDK imply that its strategy of sticking to standard Frame Gen could soon change, in turn opening its cards up to the same "fake frames" criticism as its AI-obsessed rival.The new additions to AMD's ADLX 1.5 (Device Library eXtra) SDK used to control new GPU and hardware changes add a feature dubbed "IADLX3DFidelit
  
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• This is my favorite denial on the Citadel: Mass Effect showrunner says he was never told to rewrite the Amazon series for "non-gamers"

  21-04-2026 12:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mass Effect co-showrunner Daniel Casey has questioned reports that the upcoming Amazon series was being rewritten for a wider audience.Back in early April, The Ankler reported that Amazon's head of global television Peter Friedlander was waiting on rewrites before giving the go-ahead for Mass Effect to enter production. Those changes purportedly focused on being "more appealing to non-gamers."In reply to a fan asking about the report on Bluesky, Casey wrote, "I can't talk about the specifics of
  
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• Kevin Feige got his Marvel start on X-Men, so reusing old sets for Avengers: Doomsday made him "emotional"

  21-04-2026 12:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Kevin Feige has revealed that Avengers: Doomsday makes use of some old X-Men sets, which was particularly emotional for the Marvel boss. Feige started his film career as an associate producer on 2000's X-Men, so Doomsday was a poignant full circle moment for him. "I think for fans the notion of having the Avengers and X-Men together for the first time within our cinematic universe is incredibly exciting," Feige told Fandango. "It's been something that has been a long time coming. For me personal
  
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• Capcom knows it's on a roll, threatens another banger after Resident Evil Requiem, Monster Hunter Stories 3, and Pragmata: "We're not done with 2026 yet"

  21-04-2026 02:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Capcom seems very aware that it's gone three-for-three this year with back to back banger releases Resident Evil Requiem, Monster Hunter Stories 3, and Pragmata, and it also seems pretty darn confident that its next game coming out this year, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, will live up to the expectations it's set by doing so.In a new Bluesky post, Capcom USA acknowledges its stellar string of releases with a composite image showing title cards for the above-mentioned games, grayed out with an "out
  
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• Ghost of Yotei star says Sucker Punch is "bold" to "leave behind safety and comfort" to tell new stories with fresh characters, but the actor doesn't know "what might come next"

  21-04-2026 01:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  2025 open-world banger Ghost of Yotei established Sucker Punch's Ghost series as an anthology, featuring a brand new protagonist, setting, and time period, meaning it's pretty safe to assume we won't be getting a new game starring Atsu any time soon. In an interview with GamesRadar+ for the 2026 BAFTA Games Awards, Atsu actor Erika Ishii opened up about what it's like saying goodbye to their character after just one game. The bad news is they're "sad" not to be able to play Atsu again, but the g
  
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