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• Castlevania: Belmont's Curse exists because Konami loved Evil Empire's Dead Cells crossover pitch, even though the devs thought the DLC was "too big" and the publisher would "never say yes"

  01-05-2026 23:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  I will forever support the growing trend of AAA publishers letting indie studios take a stab at dormant IP, and Castlevania: Belmont's Curse is maybe the most exciting example yet. But the whole thing is pretty unexpected for developer Evil Empire – the studio was pretty sure Castlevania owner Konami wasn't even going to get on board with its original idea for Dead Cells DLC.Dead Cells developer Motion Twin spun off a separate company, Evil Empire, to help build DLC for the action roguelik
  
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• MCU actor Evangeline Lilly slams Disney for "turning their back" on artists after mass Marvel layoffs: "Shame on you"

  01-05-2026 23:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ant-Man and the Wasp actor Evangeline Lilly has spoken out about Disney and Marvel's recent mass layoffs."Disney, SHAME ON YOU for turning your back on the people who built the power you are now using to throw them away," Lilly wrote on Instagram (via Variety). "Where are the laws that REMOVE all human art from the AI bank?!?” she asked. “Why do they get to steal our brilliance and use it to make executives rich while the artists responsible for feeding their robots go hungry?? Disgu
  
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• GTA 6 isn't "even at risk" of having product placement "because all the brands are made up," Take-Two CEO says: "I think that keeps us pure"

  01-05-2026 22:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Judging by all the talk from industry analysts and pundits over the past few years, GTA 6 is going to make infinite money – but it could make infinite plus a little extra if there were some in-game advertising, right? Don't worry, because even Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick knows everybody would hate it if Rockstar's latest open-world game was suddenly rife with product placement."We need to be true to the underlying intellectual property and we need to be true to our consumers," Zelnick say
  
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• New Oscars rules ban Generative AI from ever being eligible for an Academy Award

  01-05-2026 22:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sorry, Tilly Norwood, no Oscar for you! The Academy has changed its rules for the upcoming 99th ceremony and beyond, banning AI-generated actors and screenplays from being eligible to win any gold.The news comes straight from the official Oscars rules page, which was updated as of May 1 to reflect a series of new changes. One of the items in the Special Rules for Acting Awards category states that "only roles credited in the film's legal billing and demonstrably performed by humans with their co
  
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• Neverness to Everness players find their answer to Genshin Impact's Paimon: a yappy lil' guy called Taygedo who they want to beat to death with hammers

  01-05-2026 21:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  In short order after the recent global launch, Neverness to Everness players have all but set iron sights on their very own annoying companion character: Taygedo, the perfect counterpart to Paimon from Genshin Impact, the open-world gacha action RPG that started the genre's modern boom.Paimon's reputation has improved among Genshin Impact players thanks to a recast English voice actor and a shift in writing direction that's made her less disruptive and repetitive, but for years players complaine
  
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• Invincible creator Robert Kirkman has no love for Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man sequel: "[It's] dogsh**t"

  01-05-2026 21:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Invincible creator Robert Kirkman is not a fan of The Amazing Spider-Man 2... and has some harsh words for the polarizing Spidey adaptation."No, terrible, terrible. I don’t like to publicly talk about my opinions on movies. Still, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is dogshit," Kirkman, who also wrote the Invincible comic where Mark Grayson teams up with Spider-Man, said on an episode of The Escape Pod Podcast while discussing live-action Spidey movies. "As much as I love Jamie Foxx, I love Andrew,
  
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• Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era "broke even on development costs in just one day" as it launches to 90% positive Steam reviews and 250,000 sales

  01-05-2026 20:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Heroes of Might and Magic's revival has been a long time coming, and it seems the wait has paid off for fans and developers alike. Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era launched into Steam early access yesterday to very positive user reviews and immediate sales success – so much success, in fact, that the game made its development budget back within its first 24 hours."24 hours have passed since we’d first opened the doors and portals to the world of HoMM: Olden Era," the devs at Unfr
  
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• Warhammer 40K Armageddon box set for 11th Edition revealed, and it's crammed with incredible models

  01-05-2026 20:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Warhammer 40K 11th Edition Armageddon box set has finally been revealed in full after weeks of teasing, and it's crammed to the rafters with goodies – from a wonderfully ridiculous walking Ork gun mech to a brand-new Space Marine Landspeeder.Following the reveal of the set back at AdeptiCon, publisher Games Workshop held a livestream to unbox the entire Armageddon box set ahead of the Warhammer 40K 11th Edition launch. Interestingly, there's no terrain in here unlike Age of Sigmar's eq
  
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• Former PlayStation boss blames "really sad" layoffs on "misjudgment" of companies: "It's funny to see the companies who shut down, lay off, the stock price goes up"

  01-05-2026 18:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  The games industry isn't in the best health right now. Layoffs have become shamefully routine up and down game development, most severe at the likes of EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, and Epic Games. As a veteran of the medium, Shuhei Yushida, former president of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios, believes it comes down to poor judgment from management."The shutdowns and layoffs and the cancellations are the result of these adjustments from the misjudgment that many companies made," he to
  
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• Not only has Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director played Remake part 3 before you, he's beaten it "over 40 times"

  01-05-2026 18:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 7 Remake series director Naoki Hamaguchi says he's completed the yet-to-be-announced third installment in the remake project over 40 times already.Speaking with Nintendo Life ahead of the Nintendo Switch 2 release of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Hamaguchi was asked about progress on the upcoming third – and final – entry in the remake trilogy. The developer responded "We’re very excited about how the game is currently progressing." Which makes sense, considering he's
  
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• Crimson Desert player finds out-of-bounds village that looks like medieval Red Dead Redemption 2, and now everyone's hoping Pearl Abyss will let us pillage it in a future update

  01-05-2026 18:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Over a month from its release date, Crimson Desert players have broken free of the massive starting area Hernand and are now breaking into out-of-bounds settlements that look like Red Dead Redemption 2 took a trip to the Ren faire. "That's the starting area in RDR2," quips one Reddit comment with over 1,000 upvotes in a thread where YouTuber and Crimson Desert player Riskbreaker shares "an entire unused village" they found "hidden behind a mountain while exploring out of bounds." "Unfortunately,
  
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• Skyrim inspired Kingdom Come: Deliverance even though Warhorse co-founder once listed "100 reasons that he hates" the Bethesda RPG

  01-05-2026 18:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warhorse Studios co-founder Daniel Vávra once wrote a scathing article listing over 100 reasons why The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim sucks. Years later, the Bethesda RPG apparently went on to become a massive inspiration for Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Asked about the open-world influences behind the two Kingdom Come: Deliverance games during a recent Reddit AMA, studio content director Ondřej Bittner says "that huge inspiration for Dan" was "Skyrim even though he wrote famous article wher
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 was "lightning in a bottle," Astarion actor says, and "proved a lot of things" that big companies "who are just really chasing the money need to learn from"

  01-05-2026 18:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  There's no shying away from the fact Baldur's Gate 3 was a big game. The RPG from Larian Studios dominated the games zeitgeist for months, yielding massive sales and more than a few awards. It's a hard game to follow, for other devs and for anyone who's looking for their next fantastical quest, but two of the actors involved believe the benchmark can be reached, if companies have the right attitude."Baldur's Gate 3 set a very, very, very high bar," Devora Wilde, who voices Lae'zel in Larian's ma
  
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• The Xbox Ally X finally just got its promised Auto SR abilities, but I doubt most handheld players will care right now

  01-05-2026 18:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Almost six months later, the ROG Xbox Ally X finally has the Auto Super Resolution abilities Microsoft promised at launch. The AI upscaling tools work similarly to the likes of Nvidia DLSS, but while it benefits from being baked into Windows and not needing separate integration for games, the fact that it only works in docked mode spoils its potential as a gaming handheld feature.Auto SR on the ROG Xbox Ally X still isn't public yet, but you can give it a try if you're a Windows Insider. You'll
  
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• Xbox isn't worth a port for small Japanese studios, says RPG dev, since the console isn't even sold in most local retailers

  01-05-2026 17:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Japanese developer says smaller companies can't really afford to make Xbox ports due to the lack of regional demand for the console. The developer – who goes by y_koichi – was previously in charge of character modeling on developer Edelweiss' 2020 game Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, and recently teased on Twitter that Sakuna 2 will eventually come out one day. A fan then asked about the possibility of an Xbox port (via TechRadar), since the original game skipped the platform. But while
  
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• Saros trophy list includes an unexpected tribute to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

  01-05-2026 17:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Saros is here, and like all the best PS5 games, it has a big list of trophies to unlock. Most of those trophies are things you'd expect, awarded for beating major bosses, unlocking items, and a handful of more obscure challenges. The list also features a handful of Easter egg tributes to Housemarque's own past, as well as an unexpected tribute to 2025's nigh-universal GOTY, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.The Saros trophy list includes an item called Carcosan Cartographer, which challenges you to "u
  
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• You almost definitely didn't spot this seriously impressive Darth Vader Easter egg in Maul – Shadow Lord

  01-05-2026 17:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  We're just two episodes away from the end of Maul – Shadow Lord, but Darth Vader hasn't made an appearance in the Star Wars show. Instead, Maul has been doing battle with Inquisitor Marrok and the Eleventh Brother (AKA Crow), but one Easter egg cleverly hidden in a battle sequence points towards Vader himself. One eagle-eyed fan on Twitter has noticed that Marrok uses a move very similar to a classic Anakin Skywalker lightsaber manoeuvre. "You can tell Marrok was trained by Vader by the ov
  
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• Blizzard swiftly removes new Diablo 4 quality-of-life feature after players complain it was costing them valuable loot: "It missed the mark"

  01-05-2026 17:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Oh dear, what once seemed like a good way to help players in Diablo 4 actually proved to be more of a hindrance, leading Blizzard to roll it back. Special portals, added for quicker escapes from pits and towers, were causing people to miss out on valuable loot, and have now been removed.It's the topline change in the latest Diablo 4 hotfix. "Finishing a pit or tower run no longer spawns a portal to exit from," the patch notes state, followed by some further context: "Our intention with adding th
  
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• Star Wars has seemingly confirmed Ahsoka season 2 is coming in 2026

  01-05-2026 16:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  It seems Star Wars has confirmed Ahsoka season 2 is coming this year, which is good news for those of us who've been missing Snips. The news comes in the latest – and final – issue of Star Wars Insider, as shared on social media by user Morai the Messenger. The magazine says that "a second season of Ahsoka is due to drop on Disney Plus later this year." For those of you nervous about AHSOKA season 2 not releasing this year…Star Wars Insider has confirmed that it is still expec
  
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  Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is being billed as a pretty faithful reconstruction of the original game, but Ubisoft isn't leaving the entire pirate adventure intact. While social stealth options will sneak back in, the devs have dug a hidden blade or two into the game's combat.Developers involved in remaking the upcoming Assassin's Creed game recently took to a Reddit AMA to field fan queries, and as you might imagine, the series' most iconic weapons came up quite a bit. Asked if Black Fl
  

• The Boys creator says season 5's latest death was on the cards since the character was first introduced: "We felt that was the right punishment"

  01-05-2026 16:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Boys creator Eric Kripke says that surprise death in the latest episode was actually a long time coming...Warning: this article contains spoilers for The Boys season 5 episode 5!"We always knew he was going to kill Firecracker, maybe as long back as when we introduced the character," series creator Eric Kripke told TVLine, explaining that she was inspired by notable Trump loyalists and extremists. "It's the most predictable pattern in the world, which is Trump demanding ultimate allegiance,
  
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• I'm gonna need you to look at the sheep in this cozy ranch-building game that's launching on Steam this year and immediately threatening my free time

  01-05-2026 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you ask me, the best part of Stardew Valley, Story of Seasons, or any farming sim is filling your land with loads of cute animals, and, in case its name didn't give it away, upcoming cozy ranch-builder Little Sheep Valley seems to be all about that life. Created by Redknot Games, a team of only three devs, Little Sheep Valley will see you build your own ranch out in a "beautiful Mediterranean landscape," placing things like buildings, decor, plants, and ponds seemingly freely to make the whol
  
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• Magic: The Gathering head designer reveals Mood Swings, a new card game 28 years in the making

  01-05-2026 14:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Magic: The Gathering's publisher has revealed a brand-new prototype, and it's aimed squarely at anyone who finds trading card games too complex.Created by Magic: The Gathering head designer Mark Rosewater, "Mood Swings" is a card game 28 years in the making for 2-4 players with matches that should only last 5-10 minutes when played head-to-head. Despite using the same five-color system seen in MTG and many of the best card games, it's also far more straightforward and can be played right out of
  
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• Subnautica 2 pulls a Hollow Knight Silksong, shoves one of Steam's most-wishlisted games out of its original release date: "We need to dodge the Leviathan"

  01-05-2026 14:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Before Subnautica 2 claimed its early access release date of May 14, that day actually belonged to another open-world survival game with over a million Steam wishlists that's had to quickly swim away as if it's just caught the attention of a hungry sea beast.Subnautica 2 has just pulled a minor Hollow Knight Silksong in the sense that it's caused at least one other game in its genre to move the heck out of its way. The indie developer behind Outbound, a co-op game about sustainably living out of
  
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• Zach Cregger's Resident Evil movie takes inspiration from the creatures in controversial Resident Evil 6

  01-05-2026 14:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  The new Resident Evil movie will take inspiration from one of the video game franchise's more controversial installments: Resident Evil 6."You'll see a lot of Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 6," production designer Tom Hammock says during a set visit attended by GamesRadar+. "So Zach [Cregger, director] and I went through and pulled specific creature elements that we like from the games, whether it's tentacles, the teeth integration, and then tried to take that language and move it over to these
  
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• Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced isn't making the map any bigger, lead dev says, but it'll still take you longer to explore

  01-05-2026 13:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  We're heading back to the Caribbean in the 1700s for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, a complete remake of the fan-favorite installment. Redoing a game allows for improvements and such, and it's been confirmed that although the map itself isn't getting any bigger, it won't be quite the same as before.During a Reddit AMA to celebrate the announcement of Resynced, creative director Paul Fu answers a question on the overall size of the world compared to the original release. "The map size rema
  
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• Original Aragorn actor Viggo Mortensen approves of his Lord of the Rings recast in Hunt for Gollum

  01-05-2026 13:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  While Aragorn is set to feature in the upcoming Lord of the Rings movie The Hunt for Gollum, he won't be played by Viggo Mortensen. Instead, Jamie Dornan will take over the role. According to director (and Gollum actor) Andy Serkis, though, Mortensen has given his approval to the recast. "I really, really don't want to go into it right now because I do want to save that for further down the line," Serkis said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. "We're at a crunch stage now, we're just about to st
  
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• Booyah! The Anbernic RG Rotate is hitting the $100 sweet spot I was hoping for, and its specs aren't half bad either

  01-05-2026 13:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  We've finally got an Anbernic RG Rotate price, and I'm hyped to report it's actually affordable. The rotational retro handheld that doubles up as an iPod-inspired MP3 player will start at $87.99, accompanied by a premium metal version for $107.99 that boasts the same respectable specs.The Anbernic RG Rotate pricing was initially shared with Retrododo, but the gaming handheld maker has also posted a new unboxing video outlining full specs. Both the plastic "Polar Black" and the aluminium alloy "A
  
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• Ahead of The Boys series finale, Homelander star seeimignly shades Stranger Things' low-stakes final episode

  01-05-2026 13:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  As we approach The Boys series finale, which will air on Prime Video later this month, Homelander actor Antony Starr seems to be throwing shade at another popular streaming show and the way in which the team decided to bring the series to a close. "Something just finished - I won’t say what - and nobody died," said Starr, while taking part in Wired's autocomplete interview. "I was just scratching my head going ‘there’s nowhere else to go this is the end of the run, kill some pe
  
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• Star Fox Switch 2 leaker insists "I do not doubt the game's existence" as the rumored game misses its expected announcement

  01-05-2026 13:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  After the announcement of a new Star Fox game on Switch 2 was nowhere to be seen, the leaker behind the rumors reiterates that he still believes it's coming.Nate The Hate made a name for himself in the Nintendo community for being the one to accurately leak the random afternoon that Nintendo would reveal the Switch 2 – as well as subsequent Nintendo Direct announcements. Last month, he released a blowout of information that included claims that a Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake is
  
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• Star Wars fans are going nuts for this new Grogu animatronic, but not its price

  01-05-2026 13:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hasbro Pulse has unveiled what might be the most realistic Grogu collectible ahead of May 4 (AKA Star Wars Day) that you'll find beyond the Mandalorian and Grogu movie set.Appropriately titled "Ultimate Grogu," this 1:1 scale animatronic version of Baby Yoda packs more than 250 lifelike animations, sound effects, and a premium design that includes wispy hairs on the top of his head… but also comes with a premium price tag to match many of the best toys combined. You can pre-order this Sta
  
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• My Hero Academia special epilogue trailer proves you can have nostalgia for something that ended only a year ago

  01-05-2026 13:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  After its ending last year, My Hero Academia fans will have undoubtedly wanted more from the heroes they spent close to the past decade watching. Now, they're getting 'More' – a post-finale special that catches up with the superhero anime's major players eight years down the line.As you can see above, the special trailer previews how Izuku and the rest of his former classmates are getting on after the events of 2025's My Hero Academia series finale.There is, of course, plenty of hero antic
  
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• Hades 2 developer is hiring for "what's next" after its 2 roguelike juggernauts, but fans can't decide if they want a threequel

  01-05-2026 12:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Supergiant Games is officially ramping up for its first project after Hades 2, but there's no consensus among fans on whether it should be Hades 3.The beloved indie game maker recently posted a graphics and animation engineer job opening at the studio, asking prospective developers to "come build what's next after Hades 2." As far as we can tell, this is the first concrete mention of the studio working on a new project since wrapping up Hades 2's 1.0 launch and its recent Xbox and PlayStation po
  
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• After 5 seasons of Fisk, Daredevil: Born Again season 3 will introduce new villains

  01-05-2026 12:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Daredevil: Born Again showrunner Dario Scardapane says that we can expect to encounter some new villains in season 3 after two seasons (or five, if you include the Netflix show) of Kingpin taking center stage in Hell's Kitchen."The idea of heroes and villains in our story… Somebody that you may see can evolve into something unexpected… The idea of introducing characters that we know, Bullseye being one of them, and playing around with, 'Should we be rooting for this guy? Wait a sec
  
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• Despite being the first Star Wars movie in 7 years, The Mandalorian and Grogu box office tracking is lower than Solo

  01-05-2026 12:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Even though The Mandalorian and Grogu is the first Star Wars film in seven years, its box office numbers are projected on the low side. The film, directed by Jon Favreau, is set to follow a new adventure with Pedro Pascal's Din Djarin and his tiny green charge Baby Yoda, AKA Grogu. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie is projected to bring in around $80 million domestically in its opening weekend, which spans the four days of Memorial Day weekend. Solo, in comparison, brought in $103 m
  
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• Maul – Shadow Lord star says Star Wars fans won't have to wait "too long" for season 2

  01-05-2026 12:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  New Star Wars series Maul – Shadow Lord hasn't even finished its first season yet, but Disney Plus has already renewed it for season 2. Better yet, fans might not have to wait too long to see the Sth's return, as star Sam Wittner knows when season 2 will hit screens. "It's the usual development cycle... I know when it's coming out, but it's not a situation where the audiences will have to wait too, too long," said Witwer in an interview with The Direct. However, the Maul voice actor couldn
  
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• Resident Evil movie director Zach Cregger reveals the impossible-to-spot Resident Evil 4 Easter egg he snuck into the trailer

  01-05-2026 11:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Think Resident Evil and you probably think of one or two things: either the body horror nasties that populate the sewers, prisons, and basements of Raccoon City, or the desperate search for herbs, ammo, and ink ribbons in a bid to survive.While there's been plenty of discourse about how authentically Resident Evil Zach Cregger's upcoming Resident Evil movie actually is, the director has more than proven he knows his stuff by pointing out a couple of fascinating details you may have missed in the
  
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• GTA 6 launch has Take-Two's CEO a "billion" times more "scared" than any other game release

  01-05-2026 11:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has admitted he's feeling the pressure when it comes to the release of GTA 6 later this year. Speaking at the Interactive Innovation Conference (via Variety) Zelnick admits "I run so scared with regard to all of our releases," but when it comes to the launch of GTA 6, you can "just multiply it by a billion this time around." Zelnick, however, says that he should be scared, adding: "I think the minute you stop running scared, you better get a different job if you're i
  
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• Asked about Kingdom Come: Deliverance 3, Warhorse Studios vaguely teases "there are plans in motion"

  01-05-2026 11:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warhorse Studios has thrown fans wanting Kingdom Come: Deliverance 3 a bone, though its tease is vague enough that it could only be considered a fish bone.Several developers from the Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 maker recently held a Reddit AMA to field questions from fans of the historical series, and as you'd expect, the topic of a potential threequel popped up quite a bit.When asked if there are any plans for good old Henry's story to continue in a Kingdom Come: Deliverance 3, studio content d
  
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