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• Capcom's glad we hated Resident Evil Requiem's terrible DLSS 5 AI demo, because it means fans "really liked the original design of Grace"

  04-05-2026 23:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  When Nvidia unveiled its AI-powered DLSS 5 tech earlier this year, Resident Evil Requiem was one of the titles on display. The yassified versions of Leon and Grace that accompanied the announcement were presented as next-generation graphics technology, but most people with eyes pretty quickly recognized them as a serious insult to the original game's art direction. For its part, Capcom is glad people hated the demo, since that means they liked the real Grace's look."The fact a lot of players com
  
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• Zelda was Nintendo's answer to "traditional RPGs," Shigeru Miyamoto says: "We wanted the player to interact with the game world using the controller, and conquer dungeons"

  04-05-2026 23:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Speaking during a Q&A included with the 1994 audio CD The Legend of Zelda: Sound and Drama (and surfaced via Retro Gamer's 40 years of The Legend of Zelda issue) Miyamoto explained that Super Mario Bros and The Legend of Zelda were not only being worked on simultaneously, but once Mario was finished, developers from it went to help get Zelda across the finish line. But these were games with vastly different scales, which is why in Japan, Super Mario Bros. was a traditional game cartridge rel
  
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• Ahead of Avengers: Doomsday, Russo brothers say they "can't control everything" when it comes to preventing spoilers

  04-05-2026 23:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avengers: Doomsday co-director Joe Russo says they can't prevent fans from being spoiled... but what they can do is deliver a movie that defies expectation."On one hand, audiences want to be surprised, and that’s part of what makes the theatrical experience exciting," Russo told Metro. "On the other hand, it can become a little over-policed, where people are anxious about engaging with anything."Marvel fans take their movies pretty seriously, and there tends to be quite an uproar about spo
  
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• Activision kills Call of Duty rumor: next game will not be on PS4, ending last-gen support nearly 6 years after PS5 and Xbox Series X launch

  04-05-2026 23:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The next Call of Duty game will not be available on PS4 or seemingly Xbox One, ending six years of last-gen support for the series.The official Call of Duty Twitter account addressed the future of the franchise in a post earlier today, stamping out recent rumors claiming that Modern Warfare 4, widely but somewhat arbitrarily believed to be the next installment, is currently being tested on PS4. (If nothing else, we know that Activision will "no longer do back-to-back releases of Modern Warfare o
  
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• GTA 6 skipping PC at launch not due to PlayStation deal, but because Rockstar focuses on "the core consumer," Take-Two CEO says

  04-05-2026 22:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  As has become tradition with Rockstar's games, GTA 6 will only be available on consoles at launch, with no PC version on the immediate horizon. Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Rockstar parent company Take-Two, says that's because the devs want to focus on their core audience, and it has nothing to do with any marketing deal from Sony.Jason Schreier of Bloomberg posed the question of whether a reported marketing deal with Sony was behind the decision to have GTA 6 skip PC at launch. "No," Zelnick says. "
  
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• Gearbox head Randy Pitchford says Borderlands maker won't use AI for "any work that could ever be seen" after posting ChatGPT-generated image of a Gearbox employee

  04-05-2026 22:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  An odd Twitter post from Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has once again spiraled out of control and prompted messaging on the company's policies, with generative AI at the center of the latest grease fire. On May 3, Pitchford posted a ChatGPT-generated image depicting, per May 4 clarification, "a picture of yourself as if you worked at my company, Gearbox Software." That is the prompt Pitchford gave the AI tool. "My friends I was with for lunch earlier produced some funny things with similar prompts
  
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• Netflix's hit action TV series The Night Agent to end after season 4

  04-05-2026 22:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  After becoming one of Netflix's highest-ranking English-language shows, The Night Agent is set to end after season 4.According to Deadline, The Night Agent season 4 is set to be the show's last. The hit action show was recently renewed, with new cast members Titus Welliver, Trevante Rhodes (Moonlight), Li Jun Li (Sinners), and Elizabeth Lail (You) announced as series regulars alongside star Gabriel Basso.Created by Shawn Ryan (S.W.A.T) and based on the novel of the same name by Matthew Quirk, Th
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 icons like Jennifer English and Neil Newbon "changed the game" for game actors, Dragon Age Inquisition star says: "Our work does have value"

  04-05-2026 21:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Voice actors don't always get the credit they deserve. Despite bringing characters to life and then representing games at events, they're sometimes treated as mere footnotes in the development process. A performer on Dragon Age: Inquisition credits two stars of Baldur's Gate 3 with helping to raise the status of such contributors across the board."Video game acting is, at times, hard, demanding, and also challenging, and it's also joyous, and it's filled with, literally, blood and sweat and tear
  
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• Steam Controller orders immediately break Valve's servers, $200 scalper listings appear after it sells out in under an hour

  04-05-2026 21:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Steam Controller is now available – or, at least, it was as of earlier today. Valve's servers instantly broke when the controller went up for sale, and by the time the dust had settled, it had sold out entirely. Unless, of course, you're willing to pay the scalper prices that are already trending above $200 a pop.Orders for the Steam Controller were set to go live at 1pm ET today, though judging by the comments I've seen on the fairly annoyed Steam subreddit, they actually went up a co
  
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• Invincible creator says J.K. Simmons was initially offered a different role in the hit Prime Video show: "We sent him the script and he was like, 'I'd rather be Omni-Man'"

  04-05-2026 21:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Invincible creator Robert Kirkman says J.K. Simmons was initially offered a different (though fitting) role in the hit Prime Video series."We initially offered him another role," Kirkman said on the Escape Pod Podcast. "It might've been Cecil... It was fun because we sent him the script, and he was like, 'I would rather play Omni-Man.' And we were like, yeah, that would be great."At this point, it's hard to imagine anyone else voicing the role of morally grey anti-hero and all-around deadbeat da
  
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• If you're asking why everyone's making an extraction shooter, Escape from Tarkov is the 11th most-played game on PC according to new report, beating Overwatch, Marvel Rivals, and PUBG

  04-05-2026 20:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you've ever pondered just how big Escape From Tarkov is, a new report places it just shy of the ten most-played PC games in 2025. While it's not on the level of Fortnite or Counter-Strike 2, the extraction shooter is proof positive that players can be very into the genre, hence the industry's memetic obsession.A report from Newzoo on video games in 2026 contains a chart of the top 20 games by playtime on PC for all of 2025. Sitting at number 11, comfortably above several heavy-hitters you mig
  
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• Greta Gerwig's Narnia movie delayed to 2027 as Netflix plans for first-ever wide theatrical debut

  04-05-2026 20:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Greta Gerwig's Narnia movie is being delayed to 2027... but that's because Netflix is planning its first-ever wide theatrical debut.Per Deadline, Narnia: The Magician's Nephew is no longer set to hit theaters on November 26 and has been pushed to February 12, 2027... but it's for good reason. Previews for the film will begin in IMAX on February 10 before a global wide release begins on February 12. It'll then hit Netflix on April 2.This is technically Netflix's second global wide release, with t
  
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• Gabe Newell's first appearance in months is the most Gabe Newell thing imaginable: a yacht ad

  04-05-2026 19:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Valve boss and Steam billionaire Gabe Newell makes a few brief appearances, and even receives a hand-drawn thank-you portrait, in a new advertisement for yacht company Oceanco, which Newell invested in last year.Newell can briefly be seen gearing up for a scuba dive – part of his daily routine, apparently – at 1:35, and again at 2:58 laughing along with his fellow yacht enthusiasts. At 2:43, we see a drawing of him and a dragon which seems quite grateful judging by the caption: "Than
  
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• Somehow, EA's Battlefront is still the best-selling Star Wars game of all time in US

  04-05-2026 19:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  EA's 2015 Star Wars Battlefront reboot got a middling-to-positive response at launch and still has a small-but-dedicated group of fans, but in the illustrious history of the best Star Wars games it's barely a footnote. At least, that's the vibe I had before today, but as it turns out, Battlefront 2015 is still the best-selling Star Wars game of all time in the US, and EA is absolutely dominating the charts."Star Wars: Battlefront (2015) is the best-selling Star Wars video game in US tracked hist
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Lune actor would be "delighted" to reprise her role if possible, but she's not in the "conversations" about expanding the franchise

  04-05-2026 18:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  It feels like we're all collectively looking at Sandfall Interactive to see what the studio's next move will be after the runaway success of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Will there be a sequel? A spin-off? Or something else entirely. The voice actor behind Lune keeps being asked about returning, and although she's well up for it, it's not her decision to make."People often talk to me who haven't played it, and they're like, 'Oh yeah, because you can come back as Lune and do a sequel and things,'
  
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• The full story of the Pragmata fan grieving his late daughter, who went so viral he even made it to Capcom: "I wasn't expecting this to reach so many people"

  04-05-2026 17:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  On April 26, Reddit user TheRealDuke777 posted in the subreddit for Pragmata, developer Capcom's newly released sci-fi puzzle-shooter (which will likely end up on my personal GOTY list). He shared that he'd lost his 8-year-old daughter McKenzie to illness in 2009, and that she bore a striking resemblance, both physically and emotionally, to Pragmata co-star Diana, a childlike android girl who protagonist Hugh bonds with throughout the game. Within a week, his story was the all-time most popular
  
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• GameStop boss says $56 billion offer could turn eBay into a "legit competitor to Amazon," believes there's "nobody who is more qualified" than him to run the auction site

  04-05-2026 17:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Yes, GameStop really has made a $56 billion offer to buy eBay. The game store is barely a quarter the size of the online auction site, but CEO Ryan Cohen believes that the offer would be transformational for eBay, which he hopes to turn into an online retailer that could rival Amazon.Reports about the deal began to emerge this past Friday, and Cohen made it official with an open letter to eBay chairman Paul Pressler on Sunday. The proposal? GameStop gets "all common stock of eBay Inc. at $125.00
  
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• New Mandalorian and Grogu clip goes full toybox as the duo dodge multiple AT-ATs during madcap downhill slalom

  04-05-2026 17:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new clip from The Mandalorian and Grogu has hit the internet in celebration of May the 4th aka Star Wars Day.The clip, which initially premiered as part of a special segment on Good Morning America, sees Din and Grogu board an AT-RT and ride it downhill in order to ski past a horde of AT-ATs that are shooting with intent to kill. An unnamed villain (referred to as an 'unnamed crime boss' in various write-ups of the film's first 15 minutes), is in charge of the AT-ATs... though we don't know wh
  
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• The original Diablo studio was saved from bankruptcy by Blizzard's timely acquisition offer: "The taxman was literally at the door, threatening to shut us down"

  04-05-2026 16:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Though the series has been riding high for decades now, Diablo almost didn't make it to shelves. The original genre-defining action-RPG narrowly avoided death by bankruptcy, thanks to Blizzard, who made a lifesaving offer at the eleventh hour for the devs behind the fledgling project.See, Diablo was the brainchild of a studio called Condor in the early '90s. Although progress was happening, it was looking increasingly like finances would run dry first, until a sudden call from the company behind
  
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• "We were children" says Fable creator who admits that the fact it ended well "is a miracle"

  04-05-2026 15:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fable creator Peter Molyneux recalls that Fable ending up as good as it was is testament to the team at Lionhead. Molyneux spoke to Edge magazine (now republished in Playmakers), and said, "Dene [Carter] and I had been thinking about Fable for at least ten years before we started on it, and not necessarily in the most grounded of ways" he explained, "We were children, dreaming up a game about simulation, self-expression, magic, gothic horror and unintended consequences, who became young adults w
  
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• Early Nintendo was a madhouse: "It was very difficult to finish Mario and then get the Mario programmers involved in the final push to finish The Legend of Zelda"

  04-05-2026 14:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto recalls that early Nintendo was a bit of a madhouse, with Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda – which he also created – being in development at the same time. Speaking during a Q&A included with the 1994 audio CD The Legend of Zelda: Sound and Drama (and surfaced viaRetro Gamer's 40 years of The Legend of Zelda issue) Miyamoto recalls, "We had started development on Super Mario Bros shortly before [starting on LoZ in 1984], so we were extremel
  
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• Shigeru Miyamoto thinks Zelda 2 was "sort of a failure," and A Link to the Past is the "real sequel"

  04-05-2026 13:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mario, Donkey Kong, and Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto thinks The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is the real sequel to the original after the second game failed to live up to the hype.Speaking to the Swedish Superplay Magazine in 2003 (via Retro Gamer's 40 years of The Legend of Zelda issue) Miyamoto mentions what remains the black sheep of the Legend of Zelda series, Zelda 2: Adventure of Link. The game took the top-down perspective of the first game and made it an RPG-like world traversal
  
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• I've been hands-on with most Star Wars Day merch in 2026, here's what I'd recommend this May 4

  04-05-2026 12:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star Wars Day (AKA May 4) brings us a Hutt-sized haul of merch each year, and 2026 is no different. Actually, it feels as though there's more on offer for the event this time around than before. I was lucky enough to go hands-on with almost all of it when I visited Disney's London HQ a couple of months ago, and was taken aback by how much there was to see.Because the only way to sort the good from the dark side was to go hands-on with as much of it as I could, I did my due diligence and mucked a
  
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• Mortal Kombat producer says the studio "didn't know what it had" with the first movie, which is why "we were in that fighting pit 75% of the time"

  04-05-2026 12:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mortal Kombat producer Todd Garner has revealed that the powers-that-be didn't realize how popular the video game adaptation would become."Quite frankly, in the first movie, the studio didn't know what they had," Garner said in a candid admission during a virtual press conference attended by GamesRadar+ of the 2021 original. "So we were in that fighting pit for like 75% of the movie, just because of the budget."As you may recall, the first Mortal Kombat certainly brought the guts and gore the se
  
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