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• "Unless you're Nintendo," developers should never price games over $70, expert says, even though pricey Steam games usually make more money

  20-05-2026 23:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  $70 has become the video game industry's new standard premium price, which both I and my credit card bill find distressing. But video game sales expert Tom Kaczmarczyk, founder and CEO of business intelligence company IndieBI, makes an interesting case – in both me and my credit card's opinion – as to why most developers should avoid it. Kaczmarczyk discusses video game prices at a Digital Dragons Conference panel attended by GamesRadar+. One of his slides on the topic poses the ques
  
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• Subnautica 2 adding "better callouts for Silver" in first patch as players struggle to find any

  20-05-2026 23:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you're among the likely hundreds of thousands of players who've wondered how to find Silver in Subnautica 2, take comfort in the fact that developer Unknown Worlds is aware that this hotly demanded resource can be tricky to track down, and is working on a clarity fix of some kind. Unknown Worlds member Anthony, speaking in the game's official Discord, recently assured players that, "The first patch should have some better callouts for Silver, but honestly we've been looking at a holistic reso
  
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• Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced "ranks among the best titles in the franchise" for pre-orders, Ubisoft says, expecting "it will be a really successful" entry

  20-05-2026 22:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ubisoft is "very happy" with early reception to Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, the upcoming remake of the series' beloved pirate-themed installment, and expects it to sit comfortably alongside full-fat entries in the franchise. CFO Frederick Duguet discussed Resynced during the Q&A portion of the company's May 20 earnings call. Asked about internal expectations for the game, and whether it could approach a "full-scale" Assassin's Creed entry like last year's Shadows or if it would mor
  
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• The Boys showrunner explains what the VCU could look like in future spin-offs after the series finale: "Now you have all these loose Supes running around that Vought isn’t taking responsibility for"

  20-05-2026 22:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke says The Boys: Mexico will take place in the aftermath of The Boys series finale.Warning: Spoilers for The Boys season 5 episode 8 below!"It's still a super-fun world, and I think the point we were trying to make at the end is nothing is just perfect and happily ever after," Kripke told Rolling Stone. "Now you have all these loose Supes running around that Vought isn’t taking responsibility for anymore. And there’s problems to solve. There's always gon
  
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• DC boss says Supergirl will return in Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow: "She's a major part of what we're doing"

  20-05-2026 20:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  DC co-CEO Peter Safran has confirmed that Milly Alcock will indeed return as Supergirl in the Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow."She's a major part of what we're doing," Safran told Variety. Alcock made her DCU debut as Supergirl in 2025's Superman, where she's Clark Kent's hungover cousin who stops by the Fortress of Solitude to pick up Krypto (her dog, not Superman's). Supergirl, which hits theaters in June, follows Kara Zor-El as she and a young girl named Ruthye embark on an intergalactic ques
  
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• Ubisoft says expect more Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Ghost Recon in the next 3 years, and "a return to higher quality standards"

  20-05-2026 19:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ubisoft says more games from flagship brands like Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Ghost Recon are on their way with even better quality than what the publisher has demonstrated in new releases like "Assassin's Creed Shadows, Anno 117: Pax Romana and the Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora expansion."Each of these games managed to achieve "above 80 Metacritic scores," Ubisoft boasts in the earnings report posted on its website May 20, but the company looks forward to an even higher-caliber, "significantl
  
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• "Defending yourself is no longer treated the same as starting a fight": Arc Raiders devs update matchmaking, explain how it really works, and shoot down player theories

  20-05-2026 19:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Clearing up months of speculation, Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios released a detailed breakdown of how the game's matchmaking works alongside an update packing two major changes to that system. These matchmaking changes are "live now," and Embark will "keep tuning" as players respond to them.Firstly, Embark says in a new post, "defending yourself is no longer treated the same as starting a fight." Until now, though Embark was able to track who shoots first, it appears the flow of an engage
  
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• The Witcher 3 lead quest designer says the room fell into "wide eyes and silence" when he pitched one of the open-world RPG's biggest twists

  20-05-2026 18:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  I'm often curious about how major plot twists are pitched. Did Darth Vader revealing he's Luke's father make sense to everyone else in the room? What about when Ken Levine told his team about where BioShock was going? In the case of one of the bigger moments in The Witcher 3, the writing team was slightly flabbergasted, according to the person who came up with it.To mark the 11-year anniversary of The Witcher 3, Pawel Sasko, a quest designer on the RPG who's now an associate game director at CD
  
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• Subnautica 2 outpaces Crimson Desert, Slay the Spire 2, and more to become "Steam's fastest-selling 2026 game so far," analyst says

  20-05-2026 18:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Subnautica 2, which managed to sell a whopping two million copies selling in just 12 hours, is unsurprisingly still making waves – so much so, in fact, that it's beating out the likes of Crimson Desert and Slay the Spire 2 over on Steam.Rhys Elliott, head of market analysis at Alinea Analytics, reports as much in a new article, revealing that the Subnautica sequel has "already sold 4.1 million copies in its first week, generating $100 million in revenue."
  According to the analyst, most of
  
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• The Expanse: Osiris Reborn players hated the male hero's voice so much that he's being recast as devs respond to negative feedback for their Mass Effect-inspired RPG

  20-05-2026 18:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Voice acting can be a tricky thing to get right. Sometimes you just don't know if a performance is really what you're looking for until you hear it in context. In the case of two major roles in The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, developer Owlcat Games is recasting its original actor after a round of particularly poor feedback from players.Owlcat Games reveals the change in an update one month into Osiris Reborn's current beta period. "While the voice actor for the male protagonist and [his identical tw
  
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• The sight of a scribbled on PS5 has made me more thankful than ever that console covers exist

  20-05-2026 17:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  When perusing social media for GamesRadar+ reasons, I stumbled upon a post that sent shivers down my spine - a photo of a PS5 covered in hand-drawn scribbles.The post by X (Twitter) user @lexi_trades1 appeared like Diana from Pragmata has got her cute little hands on the Sony console, as the little doodles, which include the PlayStation icons and what I imagine to be depictions of the little artist in residence's family, are what you'd expect to find if a kid has got their hands on your pricey S
  
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• Subnautica 2 devs aren't "judging players who want combat," but it isn't happening: "Subnautica has always been built around vulnerability"

  20-05-2026 17:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds is aware an increasing number of players want to shoot the underwater survival game's shoals of alien fish with a gun. But it's never going to happen. "We have heard the strong request for more direct ways to deal with hostile creatures, including the ability to kill them," Unknown Worlds says in a Steam blog explaining its new commitment to creature balance. "We understand where that request is coming from." Nevertheless, Subnautica 2 will remain an emphati
  
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• The Mandalorian and Grogu on track for a bigger box office opening than Project Hail Mary

  20-05-2026 17:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  While The Mandalorian and Grogu's Rotten Tomatoes score might not be super high, it is on track to have an impressive box office opening. According to Deadline, the Star Wars film (the first in seven years) is estimated to meet or surpass the $80 million domestic prediction for its four day weekend opening. Globally, the film is predicted to net $160 million. That would mean it beats Project Hail Mary's $141 million to become the third biggest opening of the year (tied with China's Pegasus 3, wh
  
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• Final Fantasy 11 is still kicking, despite the MMO's boss expecting a "sharp decline" in interest once its Final Fantasy 14 crossover and welcome back campaigns wrapped up

  20-05-2026 17:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  The original Final Fantasy MMO – none other than Final Fantasy 11 – continues to go from strength to strength, and not even director and producer Yoji Fujito expected to be here.Over the past year or so, Final Fantasy 11 has had to stop accepting new players to some of its most popular worlds because the servers clearly aren't currently built to handle that level of popularity. A nice problem to have, though not one the developers expected.Speaking to Famitsu, Fujito reckons the surg
  
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• With a straight face, Valve insists Counter-Strike 2 cases are fine and "people enjoy surprises" in move to dismiss New York lawsuit

  20-05-2026 17:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's no secret that Counter-Strike 2 has been under fire recently – and, well, forever – for its cases and skins… so much so that it's resulted in actual legal action against Valve.In case you've been out of the loop, the state of New York slapped the Steam company with a lawsuit in February, demanding "full restitution" for players and saying "Valve's loot boxes pose the same dangers as casino gambling, especially for children."
  It's certainly not a new position – Valve
  
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• X-Files movie with 32% Rotten Tomatoes score getting a new director's cut on Disney Plus that is the "scary movie" the director "always intended"

  20-05-2026 16:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  The X-Files: I Want to Believe is getting a director's cut on Disney Plus. The film didn't perform all that well at the box office when it was released in 2008, and it holds a critics score of just 32% on Rotten Tomatoes. But, the film is getting a second life thanks to a new director's cut heading to Disney Plus on June 11 (H/T Polygon). I Want to Believe picks up with Mulder and Scully both no longer working for the FBI, but both are pulled back in to a creepy case involving a missing agent an
  
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• Forza Horizon 6 players waste no time finding a money glitch that lets you unlock all the cars and other rewards in mere hours

  20-05-2026 16:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  We are one day removed from the full launch of Forza Horizon 6, and people have already figured out a way to cheese progression. If you don't fancy grinding too much for funds in the racing sequel, there's a way of earning a lot of extra dosh, and experience along with it, and it's not too complicated either.There are a couple of ways of getting this Forza Horizon 6 money farm, but they rely on the same fundamental principle. Essentially, you're placing certain cars on tracks designed to provide
  
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• The Mandalorian and Grogu star Sigourney Weaver says it's "fascinating" that Star Wars, Avatar, and Alien are "considered the same genre" because "they really couldn't be more different"

  20-05-2026 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sigourney Weaver joins the Star Wars universe in The Mandalorian and Grogu, but, of course, she is no stranger to a huge sci-fi film. Weaver also stars as Ellen Ripley in the Alien movies and Dr. Grace Augustine/Kiri in the Avatar films, so when we met with her in London to talk about The Mandalorian and Grogu, we asked how joining the Star Wars universe compared to those other legendary sci-fi franchises. "It's fascinating to me that they're all considered the same genre," she says. "They reall
  
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• Here are all the Disneyland references I've been able to find so far in the Lego Main Street USA set

  20-05-2026 15:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  As an total Disney Parks nerd, the reveal of the new Lego Main Street USA set made my day. Besides recreating the first thing visitors see when they arrive at Disneyland or Disney World, it's filled to the brim with references - some obvious, others less so.Natrurally, that means I'm honor-bound to rustle up a list of all the Disney Parks references I've been able to find in the Lego Main Street USA set so far. Because we deserve something nice today, yeah? There's certainly enough to be going w
  
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• Sony's State of Play returns next month, promises "closer look at Marvel's Wolverine" and "more than 60 minutes of updates, announcements, and gameplay reveals"

  20-05-2026 14:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sony's State of Play is set to return next month, and it looks like Marvel's Wolverine is taking top billing among all the other updates on PS5 games, old and new, we'll see.That all comes from Sony itself, which says the showcase will take place on June 2 and feature "60 minutes of updates, announcements, and gameplay reveals from top studios around the world."As for what you can expect to see, you'll largely have to wait and find out. To tide you over until then, though, Sony does reveal we're
  
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• Diablo 4 lead says games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are "a great example of what a passionate team of junior people can achieve"

  20-05-2026 14:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  A lead engine engineer on Diablo 4 says games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are "a great example" of what a passionate team of juniors can achieve and show why every development team should seek a balance of experience and raw talent.As part of this year's Digital Dragons conference, Marcin Undak delves into the realities of working on triple-A games in the modern day. Once we get to the question-and-answer session of that talk, however, the conversation shifts to the importance of blending y
  
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• First Vought Rising teaser was shown ahead of The Boys series finale in theaters, offering the first look at Stormfront's return

  20-05-2026 13:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Although the first Vought Rising teaser wasn't shown after The Boys season 5's final episode like we expected it to, it was shown in theaters ahead of the finale screening. Those lucky enough to see The Boys season 5 episode 8 in theaters in the US were treated to the first piece of footage from Vought Rising. According to fans on Twitter, the clip includes another look at V-One Supes Soldier Boy, Torpedo, Private Angel, and Bombsight, as well as the first look at Clara Vought, aka Stormfront's
  
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• Homelander's fate has finally been revealed in the finale – and The Boys fans have thoughts

  20-05-2026 13:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Boys season 5 episode 8 brings the superhero series to an epic close, sealing the fate of all of the major characters. Ever since the first episode aired way back in 2019, we've been wondering how it would all end for Antony Starr's Homelander – and now we finally have the answer.Before we get into that, we'll of course be talking about big spoilers from 'Blood and Bone' below so make sure you've seen the series finale before reading on. Following Frenchie's experiments on Kimiko last
  
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• 2 months later, Super Mario Galaxy Movie fans are still spotting new Easter eggs, and I can't believe no one noticed this retro reference hiding in plain sight

  20-05-2026 13:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  It might've been around two months since The Super Mario Galaxy Movie was released, but fans are still spotting new Easter eggs – and the latest one is seriously impressive. In one of the Super Mario Galaxy Movie post-credits scene, we get a look at the prison holding Bowser and Bowser Jr. Look a little closer, though, and you'll notice it's a perfect retro reference. Llevo mucho tiempo pensando en la prisión de la película de Mario Galaxy, me extrañaba que algo as&iac
  
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• LucidSound has entered the budget headset fray with a new battery champion that provides one hour of battery for every $1

  20-05-2026 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The PowerA-owned audio tech brand LucidSound unveiled its new LS500 wireless gaming headset on May 19, 2026, which despite its cheap price, manages to pack in an impressive 70-hour battery life. The newly announced pair is available in models for both the Xbox Series X/S and the PS5 and can achieve those 70 hours of playback on a single charge over Bluetooth, or it can reach up to 50 hours when hooked up to its included wireless USB dongle. While some of the best gaming headsets I've tested at t
  
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• Lord of the Rings, Tomb Raider, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and more now overseen by new company from Embracer that'll make at least 2 "outstanding AAA products" a year

  20-05-2026 12:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Upcoming games set in Middle-earth and involving one Lara Croft have a new parent company, alongside a wealth of other series. Embracer, the conglomerate that owns several major publishers, including Plaion and THQ Nordic, has announced a wing dedicated to overseeing a selection of the biggest IP, and to foster further growth in others.The enterprise is called Fellowship Entertainment, and Embracer's founder and chair Lars Wingefors announced the move in an open letter to shareholders. "The main
  
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• The Witcher 3 lead recalls having to watch his work "fall apart in front of me," as CD Projekt Red faced various setbacks while developing their legendary RPG

  20-05-2026 12:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Although The Witcher 3 now stands the test of time as one of the best RPGs ever created, it doesn't boast such a simple origin story. CD Projekt Red had to try, and then try again.And again, apparently. Lead quest designer Paweł Sasko recalls as much in a new online post commemorating the conception of The Witcher 3. "It's February 2012," he begins.
  "A former factory in Warsaw. Red brick, wooden folding chairs, the smell of an old building that has been a hundred things before. Around 80 of
  
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• Lost producer reveals his canceled Star Wars movie would have been a meta battle between "the force of nostalgia and the force of revision"

  20-05-2026 12:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Lost producer Damon Lindelof has revealed a lot more information about his scrapped Star Wars movie, and it sounds like a pretty new approach to the beloved franchise. Lindelof was attached to the long-gestating Rey movie, directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, but he ultimately exited the project in 2023. "Just to talk about the bantha in the room, I was fired off of a Star Wars movie," Lindelof shared on an episode of The Ringer-Verse, as part of a longer conversation on Star Wars. "They asked me,
  
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• Former Square Enix exec says backlash over Final Fantasy 6 AI mock-up shared by the JRPG series' creator "shows how far down the rabbit hole the madness goes"

  20-05-2026 12:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  A former Square Enix executive has weighed in on the discourse surrounding Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi spotlighting a Final Fantasy 6 remake concept created through the use of AI.Reacting to one of the many stories covering the situation so far, former Square Enix business director Jacob Navok comes down on the side of the JRPG veteran being free to explore AI, if that's what he wants to do."People telling a legendary creator about how creators should feel shows how far down the rab
  
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• Subnautica 2 devs roll out first hotfix, promising "adjustments to the Terms of Service" amid EULA concerns

  20-05-2026 11:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Subnautica 2 just got its first little hotfix from Unknown Worlds, neatly addressing some of the issues fans have noted since the new survival game sequel's big release last week.Although it's been a good few days or so for the Subnautica 2 developers, considering how the two million copies sold in just 12 hours and the now ever-growing thousands of positive Steam reviews, there are some wrinkles to iron out still. This is an Early Access title, after all – but thankfully, Unknown Worlds i
  
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• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 studio confirms Lord of the Rings rumors, Warhorse is making an "open world Middle-earth RPG"

  20-05-2026 11:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 developer Warhorse Studios is indeed now working on a new open-world Lord of the Rings RPG, confirming what many fans hoped to be true following reports.I've been yearning for a good game set in Middle-earth for years now, with the last one I can remember playing being on the PlayStation 2 (unless we count the darling little LEGO entries in between, of course). Sadly, various projects – I'm looking at you, Amazon – have popped up only to then face cancella
  
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• The Russo Brothers say Avengers: Doomsday is a "complete reinvention" for Marvel and the audience isn't "expecting it at all"

  20-05-2026 11:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avengers: Doomsday is coming very soon, and directors the Russo Brothers have teased that it's going to shake-up the MCU. The film brings back Robert Downey Jr., only this time he's playing the bad guy: Doctor Doom. "What Marvel's done better than anybody in history is that serialized storytelling, at scale. And Doomsday is a complete reinvention, it's another swing," said Joe Russo during a chat on the brothers' production company AGBO Film's YouTube. "I don't think the audience is expecting it
  
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