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• A developer with no games on Steam now has the store's third-most-wishlisted game, behind Light No Fire and Valve's Deadlock

  21-09-2026 23:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  After some high-profile releases in 2026, the most-wishlisted games on Steam have shifted. The king is Valve's PvP shooter Deadlock, followed by Hello Games' next survival game epic Light No Fire. The third-most-wishlisted game on Steam is probably the biggest surprise in the top 10. Ahead of Fable, Phantom Blade Zero, Resident Evil Veronica, and Witchbrook, airline comedy co-op game Dear Passengers sits as one of the most-wanted games on Steam. Its developer, Flexus, has never released a game o
  
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• Out-of-print Metroid Dread physical copies are selling north of $100

  23-09-2026 23:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite the disappointment of Metroid Prime 4, the hype around Metroid Ravenous is building quickly. Samus Aran's next adventure seems to be picking up exactly where Metroid Dread left off, and that's had Nintendo fans who missed out on Dread the first time around eager to catch up. How eager? Eager enough to spend over $100 on a physical copy of Dread.Recent sold eBay listings for Metroid Dread have been creeping higher and higher in price. A few lucky buyers have managed to pick the game up fo
  
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• Genshin Impact's new character Vesna is one of the best 5-stars I've seen in 6 years of this game

  23-09-2026 23:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  After six years of Genshin Impact, I've settled into a comfy rhythm and rarely have strong enough feelings to commit them to print, but new 5-star Vesna is the kind of character I've wanted for ages. I am hootin' and hollerin', by which I mean I am telling my boss, and now you, about her. Vesna is one of two newly released 5-star characters in Genshin Impact update 7.1, opposite Vodyanitsa, who is one of Vesna's best teammates. She's a fae warrior, and an on-field damage-dealing character who sp
  
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• Uncharted 4 was "a very different" game under Amy Hennig, says former Naughty Dog artist

  23-09-2026 23:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Amy Hennig had a plan for Uncharted 4, and it's still hard for some people to accept they'll never quite know what it was. Over 10 years later, we at least have enough scattered details from former Naughty Dog developers and self-appointed fan detectives to help us form a compelling, although incomplete, picture. The latest insight on Amy Hennig's Uncharted 4 comes from ex-Naughty Dog visual effects artist Matt Radford, who joined the studio during Hennig's apparently tortured production of the
  
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• Primetime director wanted the movie to "feel like a fever dream that kind of turned into a nightmare"

  23-09-2026 23:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Primetime director Lance Oppenheim wanted to capture the absurdity of Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator in the new true crime-inspired drama."I like the idea of sort of riffing on the reality of the show and the original show to me felt like a mixture of horror and real-life horror and comedy, absurdity in a way," Oppenheim tells GamesRadar+. "The way that Chris Hansen would find these guys who were trying to do something absolutely horrific, and he would sort of put them in the position of thi
  
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• Fallout's iconic Vault Boy exists because the devs struggled to solve an old-school RPG problem

  23-09-2026 22:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Even as Fallout has evolved into a mega-franchise with massively popular open-world games and TV show spin-offs, certain elements of the original 1997 RPG remain – things like the SPECIAL stat system and the iconic Vault Boy mascot. As it turns out, these two creations were very closely related.Fallout was originally meant to use the Generic Universal Role-Playing System (GURPS), a tabletop RPG system published by Steve Jackson Games. In this iteration, Fallout had a bunch of different cha
  
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• CD Projekt Red releases new Witcher 3 Remastered footage side-by-side, and oh no, it looks worse

  23-09-2026 22:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Witcher 3 Remastered is coming to all players as a free update on September 29, and new footage from developer CD Projekt Red suggests you'll want to take a close look at what settings you have enabled, because I fear some details and atmosphere may be lost in translation. CDPR posted a new side-by-side comparison for The Witcher 3 and its upcoming remaster on its channels, and boy has it stoked some conversation. The clip sees Geralt torching a group of Drowners in a swamp with a flame spel
  
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• Skyler Gisondo feels "more prepared" for his DCU return as Jimmy Olsen after starring in Primetime

  23-09-2026 22:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Skyler Gisondo says starring in the true crime drama Primetime helped him prepare for his return to the DCU in the much less intense The People v. Gorilla Grodd."It's quite a change-up," Gisondo tells GamesRadar+ when asked about making the switch from his Primetime character Dan back to the effortlessly cool, but equally plucky, Jimmy Olsen. "I actually went straight from – not straight, [after Primetime] the next thing was Focker-in-Law... which is just, tonally, a very different movie."
  
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• How to watch the Avengers: Endgame Encore bonus footage: regular screening and Infinity Vision extras explained

  23-09-2026 19:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avengers: Endgame Encore is "required viewing" ahead of Avengers: Doomsday, according to co-director Joe Russo. The reason for this is simple – Avengers: Endgame Encore features brand new bonus scenes that will serve as a bridge between Endgame and Avengers: Doomsday, and set up the story of the next Marvel mega-event.But as with many things Marvel nowadays, it's not as straightforward as turning up at your local theater and enjoying the full suite of extra scenes, as these are only availa
  
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• Arc Raiders is adding a battle pass with a paid tier, Embark says don't panic

  23-09-2026 19:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  The battle pass reaper has come for Arc Raiders. In the Frozen Trail update out October 8, developer Embark's hit extraction shooter will introduce a new "rewards pass" with free and paid tiers of loot."The Frozen Trail Reward Pass consists of 60 levels of in-game rewards, and two tracks: the Free Pass, available to all players who own the base game, and the Premium Pass," Embark explains in a press release. If you complete the full pass and unlock every reward, you'll earn more than enough raid
  
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• Arc Raiders is adding "weapon amplification" in Frozen Trail to customize weapons for PvP or PvE

  23-09-2026 19:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arc Raiders' big Frozen Trail update, out October 8, includes a new endgame crafting grind called "weapon amplification," and it sounds like a game-changer.Tied to a new research bench found in your expanded raider outpost, weapon amplification lets you add unique functions and attachments to, for now, 15 different weapons. You can upgrade a Renegade rifle with a scope (!), make the Burletta pistol fully automatic, or build a Rattler rifle that shoots incendiary rounds, for example. In the absen
  
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• Frozen Trail is a "2.0" moment for Arc Raiders: "Almost feels like we're shipping the game again"

  23-09-2026 19:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arc Raiders Frozen Trail is the biggest update yet and a "2.0" milestone for the game, developer Embark Studios says. Embark buries the lede in a press release covering today's Frozen Trail reveal. "ARC Raiders’ Frozen Trail 2.0 update will be available on October 8," it reads.Arc Raiders only just released update 1.47.0. The jump to 2.0 is significant, marking a new era for the game with implications of a soft relaunch. Many players were hoping for a major shift after several quiet months
  
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• Obsidian will keep its "creative identity" under Bethesda, Fallout and Elder Scrolls boss says

  23-09-2026 18:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Storied RPG studio Obsidian is now a part of Bethesda. That news came alongside Xbox's latest round of layoffs and reshuffling, and it's not entirely clear what it means for the studio's future. Apparently, it'll be little more than "a change in reporting structure" – according to a leaked memo from Bethesda president Jill Braff, anyway."The creative identity and strengths that make Obsidian distinct will remain at the core of their studio and work," Braff says in an email to employees, ob
  
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• Steam rewards iconic indie dev with 98% Very Positive reviews on his unhinged golf game

  23-09-2026 18:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  You may not know the name Luke Muscat, but you've almost definitely played his games before. He was a team lead and designer on Fruit Ninja – you know, the one where you swipe at various fruits on the screen for hours on end – and he designed Jetpack Joyride, among other zany releases. His latest is a solo venture, and it's a completely ridiculous spin on golf.It's called Normal Golf Game, because, well, it's a normal golf game, right? You hop onto the course for a nice, relaxing 18
  
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• WoW: Forever is "for the millions of people who have had their accounts lapse" in Classic, dev says

  23-09-2026 18:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  When Blizzard first unveiled World of Warcraft: Forever during BlizzCon 2026, many fans saw it as the MMO developer's answer to their Classic+ prayers – and, according to world builder Matthew Armstrong, it sounds like it basically is just that.The dev goes into detail on who Forever is truly "for" in a lengthy new thread on Twitter, saying that he had a very particular type of player in mind while helping design Blizzard's revamped take on its 2004 gem: the hardened Classic fan who didn't
  
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• After co-founder apology, Discord rolls out "rightfully" controversial age verification system anyway

  23-09-2026 18:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  As of now, messaging platform Discord operates under an age "assurance" system that automatically sorts you in either an adult, teen, or unconfirmed age group based on context, like how long you've had your account and what servers you're a part of. It's the best co-founder and chief technology officer Stanislav Vishnevskiy could do after apologizing in February for the whole thing. Now, most of what Discord is incorporating in its age assurance policy is what Vishnevskiy outlined in his Februar
  
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• NBA star warns GTA 6 will ruin November sports because players and coaches will be too busy playing to train

  23-09-2026 18:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  NBA star Steven Adams has warned that sports performance will take a major hit in November because everyone's going to be too busy playing GTA 6.I don't think it's too hyperbolic to say GTA 6 is perhaps the most-anticipated game of all-time within the general public. Rockstar Games titles are always very popular, obviously, but the 13-year wait since GTA 5 released and went on to become one of the best-selling games ever made has made that anticipation a bit more feral. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zeln
  
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• George Lucas says he "redid" his Star Wars movies because they weren't finished

  23-09-2026 17:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  George Lucas says he went back and edited the original Star Wars trilogy (with minor tweaks to the prequels) because they simply "weren't finished.""Most movies aren't finished; they're simply yanked out of your hands and put in the theaters," Lucas said via IGN. "So you're always saying 'oh, I wish I could have just finished that one piece of thing.' But it's not that way. You have a deadline; you've got to make the deadline.""But then I went back, after Star Wars, and redid all the movies, in
  
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• Nodusfall looks like Elden Ring but was "designed to be accessible," says Hoyoverse

  23-09-2026 17:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  The makers of Genshin Impact and Zenless Zone Zero are taking a different route for upcoming action game Nodusfall, going for a more of a downtrodden, Elden Ring vibe. Although it seems grim and scary, HoYoverse states the adventure isn't meant to be impenetrably hard.The studio takes to Twitter to answer a few frequently asked questions of the upcoming release. "We don't want difficulty to be a barrier for players entering Nodusfall," the post reads."The game is designed to be accessible even f
  
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• Godzilla Minus Zero is the first ever Godzilla movie to get an R-rating

  23-09-2026 17:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Godzilla Minus Zero is breaking new ground for the kaiju franchise. The film, a sequel to smash hit Godzilla Minus One, is the first ever Godzilla movie ever to earn an R-rating. Per Film Ratings, the movie is "rated R for some violent content/bloody images." That might not come as a huge surprise, considering the film will no doubt see Godzilla rampaging through the civilian population. Still, it does mean we're probably in for some pretty gnarly visuals from writer/director Takashi Yamazaki, w
  
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• RTS legend laid off after 16 years at Microsoft as Xbox guts Age of Empires studio World's Edge

  23-09-2026 17:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  The massive Xbox "reset," as the brand's leadership calls it, continues. Yesterday, the company announced another 268 jobs eliminated along its quest to lay off 3,200 employees throughout the fiscal year. We also learned that several Xbox studios and franchises were coming under the Activision Blizzard banner, including Age of Empires developer World's Edge.Studio creative director Adam Isgreen says there have been substantial layoffs at World's Edge alongside that transition. "I am of course di
  
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• Resident Evil Blu-ray pre-orders are now live after less than a week in theatres

  23-09-2026 17:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Resident Evil is already available to pre-order on Blu-ray, which are words I love to type as a horror movie fan. It's still in movie theatres the world over, and I've not even had the chance to drag my frightened fiancé to see it. But physical copies are now available, should you want to avoid the horrors of a loud and phone-lit theatre screening.Starting from $36.99 at Amazon, you can secure your copy of the 4K release, a standard Blu-ray, or even a DVD copy. Amazon US and UK have all t
  
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• After less than a week in theatres, physical film fans can pre-order the Resident Evil Blu-ray

  23-09-2026 17:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Resident Evil is already available to pre-order on Blu-ray, which are words I love to type as a horror movie fan. It's still in movie theatres the world over, and I've not even had the chance to drag my frightened fiancé to see it. But physical copies are now available, should you want to avoid the horrors of a loud and phone-lit theatre screening.Starting from $36.99 at Amazon, you can secure your copy of the 4K release, a standard Blu-ray, or even a DVD copy. Amazon US and UK have all t
  
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• Looks like Xbox is adding its own version of PlayStation's Platinum Trophy: the Mythic Achievement

  23-09-2026 17:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Xbox PC app has seemingly unveiled Mythic Achievements, the Xbox equivalent of a PlayStation Platinum Trophy. Earlier this year, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma confirmed that Xbox would be getting its own version of the PlayStation Platinum Trophy for Xbox's Achievement system. For those unaware, on PlayStation, when you unlock all of the Trophies for a game, you're then given a Platinum trophy as a stamp of "I've done everything," whereas over on Xbox you simply have the 1,000 Gamerscore to show off.
  
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• "The Robloxification of Steam": Creator of viral game apologizes after rip-offs flood Valve's store

  23-09-2026 16:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Needle In A Haystack Simulator, a co-op sim game on PC that's exactly what it sounds like, went viral on social media over the summer – which, of course, means clones galore.In case you missed it, Needle In A Haystack Simulator made the rounds for its amusing premise: you and your friends work to dig a singular needle out of a massive haystack (we're talking like five million pieces of hay, y'all), much like the old saying.
  Unsurprisingly, it spurred a plethora of clones shortly after it w
  
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• CRKD is finally shipping the upgrade to my favorite teeny tiny controller, and I can't wait to get my hands on the Atom+

  23-09-2026 16:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  The CRKD Atom+ controller has begun to ship globally. That means if you pre-ordered your tiny, retro-style pad in March earlier this year, you should expect it to arrive at your door sooner rather than later.The $29.99 (Amazon) pad, much like CRKD's Nitro Deck 2, was subject to delays and was originally expected to begin shipping from late June 2026, but as you're likely well aware, the summer is officially over and June it is not. The shipping window was then moved to August 17-31 2026, but it
  
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• Counter-Strike 2 update adds 3v3 mode, music, and chicken eggs, but fans want "better anti-cheat"

  23-09-2026 16:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new Counter-Strike 2 update is here with a plethora of exciting features, from a 3v3 mode to, erm, chicken eggs – but the anti-cheat fix folks have long been hoping for isn't part of the patch, much to their dismay.Valve unveiled its big update over on Steam earlier today, a patch aptly dubbed "Rush Hour" after the new game mode it boasts, unveiling various additions and tweaks.
  First, of course, is Rush, "a new fast-paced 3v3 queued mode" for Counter-Strike 2. In it, players run a gaunt
  
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• Wardogs boss admits Bulkhead is "failing on getting Infantry servers to you guys"

  23-09-2026 16:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  All systems are firing are Wardogs HQ at the moment. The FPS managed to bring in hundreds of thousands of players from the jump when it launched into early access a couple of weeks ago, putting developer Bulkhead on the backfoot in terms of maintenance and updates. Leadership admits there are some shortcomings, but the studio's gradually getting up to speed.On Twitter, Joe Brammers, Bulkhead CEO and executive producer of Wardogs, comments on the availability of infantry-only servers and the team
  
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• Resident Evil storyboard artist hits back at AI rumors, confirming the artwork is hand-drawn: "Not an ounce of AI here"

  23-09-2026 16:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Zach Cregger's new Resident Evil movie is the latest project to come under fire for allegedly using AI in its early stages of development. However, storyboard artist Simeon Wilkins has come forward to set the record straight. "A small sampling of the storyboard work I did with Zach for Resident Evil. Not an ounce of AI here- all hand-drawn!," said Wilkins on Twitter, sharing a snippet of early drawings for the new video game movie. Check out the post below. Rumors started to swirl after a bunch
  
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• VisionQuest showrunner confirms Vision saved Ultron "at the last moment" in Avengers: Age of Ultron

  23-09-2026 15:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Retcons are part and parcel of comic book movies, with plot changes echoing back (and often improving) past entries.One such instance appears to be arriving in VisionQuest, the upcoming Marvel show that charts the next mind-bending chapter in the life of Paul Bettany's android.A major moment in Vision's then-short life arrived in Avengers: Age of Ultron. There, he seemingly chose to wipe evil AI Ultron (James Spader) from existence.According to VisionQuest showrunner Terry Matalas, however, that
  
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