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• Amanda Knox Memorializes Meredith Kercher in Essay on Anniversary of Her Murder

  02-11-2017 19:43 via yahoo.com
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• Titanfall and Apex Legends devs have a new shooter out in less than 2 months: Highguard launches in January 2026 "with hopes of pushing the shooter genre forward"

  12-12-2025 05:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Game Awards 2025 host Geoff Keighley closed out tonight's jam-packed show with the debut of a brand new multiplayer free-to-play FPS from 61 members of the Respawn team that made Apex Legends. It's called Highguard, and with it, new independent studio WildLight Entertainment is hoping to "push to shooter genre forward." Highguard launches on Steam, PS5, and Xbox on January 26.In the game's announcement trailer, which you can check out below, we see various extremely attractive heroes duke it
  
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• Capcom announces the first new mainline Mega Man game in 7 years – Mega Man: Dual Override

  12-12-2025 05:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Gaming's favorite blue bomber is finally back. Not in some kind of spinoff or remake, but in a true-blue, full-fledged title. Mega Man is, at last, back, in the first installment in the series since 2018 with Mega Man: Dual Override.Announced at The Game Awards 2025, Dual Override is, in typical fashion, a 2D sidescrolling action game featuring the classic design of Mega Man. While the glimpse we got at its gameplay was short, and missing any potential sneak peaks at future power-ups and bosses,
  
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• The next Diablo 4 expansion is Lord of Hatred, an April 2026 release adding Paladin and a mystery class, plenty of Diablo 2 nostalgia, and a long-requested region

  12-12-2025 05:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Blizzard Entertainment revealed the Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred expansion at The Game Awards 2025, and it's set to bring about some massive fundamental changes to the action-RPG. For starters, the studio is calling this the "culmination" of the Age of Hatred saga which kicked off in 2023 – spanning Diablo 4 and 2024's Vessel of Hatred expansion.Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred drives toward a final stand against Mephisto, whose influence has spread even more widely across Sanctuary following the even
  
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• With potential to be the next Black Myth: Wukong breakout, Phantom Blade Zero gets September 2026 release date

  12-12-2025 05:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Phantom Blade Zero now has a release date, announced at The Game Awards 2025. The hardcore Wuxia game – a stunning Chinese fantasy like 2024 breakout hit Black Myth: Wukong – will launch September 9, 2026.Its release date trailer is also one of its most darkly beautiful, showing off rainy mountainsides and bloody samurai in four minutes of moody adventure. Welcome to what a PlayStation listing of the trailer describes as a "kungfupunk world shaped by conspiracy, intrigue, and cinemat
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 gets free update to ring in record-breaking The Game Awards GOTY win: "New weapons, new quest, new boss"

  12-12-2025 05:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive made out like a bandit at The Game Awards 2025, collecting more trophies than any previous nominee and claiming the ultimate Game of the Year award in the end. To mark the occasion, as director Guillaume Broche announced in his speech, the French JRPG has a free content update rolling out tonight."If you remember, we promised some content a few months ago," Broche said. "I'm very happy to say that it's releasing now and you can just go h
  
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• Surprise, Diablo 4's new Paladin class is available to play right now

  12-12-2025 04:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Well, what do you know, Diablo 4 is getting the long, long-awaited Paladin class, which in and of itself isn't the most surprising news. What is genuinely unexpected, however, is that the Paladin class is playable in Diablo 4 tonight, a few months ahead of the game's next big expansion, the very Diablo-y named Lord of Hatred, launching April 28.Blizzard announced Diablo 4's Lord of Hatred expansion ahead of The Game Awards 2025, and then fully revealed the details in a press release. The expansi
  
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• Total War: Warhammer 40,000 revealed at The Game Awards, and it looks spectacular even before you factor in superfan David Harbour

  12-12-2025 04:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  After a trilogy's worth of takes on classic fantasy Warhammer, the Total War series is heading to the grimdark future for a brand-new entry. Total War: Warhammer 40,000 was announced at The Game Awards 2025. We even got an introduction from Stranger Things star David Harbour, a noted Warhammer superfan who is, himself, involved in the new game.The trailer is mostly cinematic, but the tiny bit of gameplay footage at the end looks spectacularly chaotic. The Steam page offers a few more gameplay de
  
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• Star Wars Galactic Racer announced for 2026, promising pure racing "the way it was before the Empire shut it down" – but I don't see any podracers

  12-12-2025 04:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Move over Fate of the Old Republic, a real Star Wars game just entered the conversation. Yes, The Game Awards 2025 didn't grace us with one but two games in a galaxy far far away.
  The trailer establishes quickly that this game has the looks but it isn't just a pretty face. The team behind Star Wars Galactic Racer, Fuse Games, is made up of devs whose previous credits include racing masterpieces such as Burnout Paradise and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. For the Star Wars setting Fuse has traded ou
  
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• Star Wars Galactic Racer announced for 2026, promising pure racing "the way it was before the Empire shut it down" – but I don't see any pod racers

  12-12-2025 04:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Move over Fate of the Old Republic, a real Star Wars game just entered the conversation. Yes, The Game Awards 2025 didn't grace us with one but two games in a galaxy far far away.
  The second is Star Wars Galactic Racer, which will let you speed across gorgeous landscapes and planets you know and love. The trailer is melodramatic in a way that is intensely endearing with lines like "the galaxy needs racing." You are so right, and so do I.Star Wars Galactic Racer is coming in 2026 according to the
  
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• Lords of the Fallen 2 looks exactly like the bigger, bloodier Soulslike that fans of the series have come to expect

  12-12-2025 04:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  The upcoming sequel to Lords of the Fallen (no, not that one) just had its gameplay premiere at The Game Awards. If you're a fan of the series' heavier take on Soulslike gameplay, oodles of blood, and overwhelmingly gothic vibes, Lords of the Fallen 2 seems to have all of that in spades for players.The gameplay trailer provides glimpses at a few of the game's bosses, co-op action, and at least one gnarly-looking execution.In keeping with Lords of the Fallen's gothic fantasy trappings, the traile
  
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• Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve is coming in 2026, some 7 years (and 7 million sales) after Ace Combat 7 redefined arcade flight action games

  12-12-2025 04:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Bandai Namco was at The Game Awards 2025 to reveal Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve. This is set to be the first new video game in the long-running series since Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown took flight – the 2019 release still stands as a revolutionary instalment, shifting a franchise-record seven million sales.What of the sequel, then? Bandai went all out for the Ace Combat 8 reveal, presenting an in-game trailer demonstrating its commitment to single-player storytelling for the upcoming arcad
  
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• A story-rich open-world FPS with Max Payne and Cyberpunk 2077 vibes? All right, you have my attention, No Law

  12-12-2025 04:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Neon Giant, the developer behind pretty OK sci-fi RPG The Ascent, has just revealed its next grungy adventure at The Game Awards 2025: No Law.Its new game, which does not yet have a release date, looks like an FPS hellscape topped with a little Cyberpunk 2077 slime and a dash of Max Payne, neo-noir crunch. Its Steam page promises "a first-person, story rich, cyber-noire shooter set in a decadent port city built on neon sleaze instead of regulations. Explore its rich history and meet the veiled h
  
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• Saros gets a new trailer confirming April release date, and I think PlayStation is hoping you don't realize that's a delay

  12-12-2025 04:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Game Awards 2025 brought us a new trailer for Saros, developer Housemarque's spiritual successor to the excellent Returnal, giving a taste of the story and action in the upcoming roguelike. You might not have noticed, however, that the release date at the end of the trailer is new, and a month delayed from the game's previously announced launch day.Saros is now set to launch April 30, 2026, and while the trailer doesn't acknowledge the delay, that's just over a month after the previously ann
  
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• First Street Fighter movie trailer is so campy, I'm starting to think it might actually work

  12-12-2025 03:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Game Awards 2025 brings with it an array of video game announcements, but as always, it also offers a taste of Hollywood. The first teaser trailer for the new Street Fighter movie dropped as part of the show, and despite my own feelings of skepticism after what seemed like a pile of stunt casting announcements, this thing looks campy enough that it might just work.The 45-second teaser essentially shows off a quick glimpse at every major character, who all look like they stepped right out of
  
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• Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is a reimagining of Tomb Raider 1 coming next year and it looks like everything I've ever wanted, even from one trailer

  12-12-2025 03:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Amazon Game Studios has revealed not one, but two new Tomb Raider games at the Game Awards this evening, and my Lara Croft-loving heart is full. Alongside Tomb Raider: Catalyst in 2027, next year we're getting Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis - a reimagining of the original Tomb Raider game in Unreal Engine 5.In development as a partnership between Crystal Dynamics and Flying Wild Hog, it's being called a reimagining because it's not just another remake or remaster. This will be built to honor th
  
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• Tomb Raider: Catalyst is the new Lara Croft game and it kicks off a fresh chapter of Tomb Raider in 2027

  12-12-2025 03:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Lara's back, baby! As revealed at the Game Awards 2025, Tomb Raider: Catalyst is the new Lara Croft game from Crystal Dynamics.Coming in 2027 for Xbox Series X, PS5, and PC, it's being called a "bold direction" for the series as Lara ventures to Northern India in the wake of a mythical cataclysm that just so happens to be unleashing ancient secrets on the world.However, Lara's not alone, as rival treasure hunters from around the globe are also heading to the same place, so it's going to be a rac
  
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• Larian and Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke says Divinity is "our biggest, most ambitious RPG yet," and "I don’t think I've ever been so nervous about an announcement"

  12-12-2025 03:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  While it isn't exactly what fans were expecting, Larian Studios is returning to Divinity in a big way. Rather than Divinity: Original Sin 3, the Baldur's Gate 3 team is working on a new RPG just called Divinity (it's cleaner).According to studio head Swen Vincke it will be the "biggest most ambitious RPG yet" from Larian. He posted on Twitter saying, "I don't think I've ever been so nervous about an announcement".That nervousness makes sense considering, in the lead-up to The Game Awards, intern
  
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• Soma devs are going to make me throw up in the apocalypse again — the studio just revealed Ontos, the spiritual successor to 2015's best horror game

  12-12-2025 03:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  2010s horror savior Frictional Games has just revealed its next game at The Game Awards 2025, and I'm already preparing my vomit bucket. That's how you know it's a Frictional Games title.The Swedish indie studio helped popularize the weak survival horror protagonist that genre forefathers like Silent Hill invented, using 2010's Amnesia: The Dark Descent to prove it would suck a lot more if you were stuck in a Resident Evil monster mansion, but didn't know how to use a gun.The 2015 sci-fi surviva
  
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• Control Resonant is a very real shock to the system: Here's the 5 biggest changes coming to Control 2

  12-12-2025 03:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Remedy Entertainment has announced that Control 2 is coming in 2026, and it's a bit of a system shock. The sequel is officially titled Control Resonant, with this upcoming adventure for PC (Steam and Epic Games Store from day one), PS5, and Xbox Series X set to draw you out beyond the shifting walls of the Oldest House and into Manhattan, New York.Control released in 2019, an action-adventure game tracking Jesse Faden's attempt to locate her brother – a decision which inadvertently leads h
  
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• Capcom can't help itself, brings Leon Kennedy back for Resident Evil 9 as one of "two playable characters" and gives him a chainsaw

  12-12-2025 03:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Y'all better hold onto your hats, because I have a surprise that'll shake you to your core... Leon Kennedy is back in Resident Evil Requiem, and he's one of two playable characters.Never mind the fact that Leon starring in Resident Evil Requiem was one of the worst kept secrets in gaming - even more-so after hard proof emerged on the PlayStation Store - Capcom took the stage at The Game Awards 2025 and made history... by bringing back a character from 1998.Behold the new Resident Evil Requiem ga
  
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• D&D unveils new open-world adventure game Warlock, but it's definitely not a turn-based RPG like Baldur's Gate 3

  12-12-2025 02:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast has announced a new action adventure game set within its tabletop universe.Warlock, unveiled in a teaser trailer during The Game Awards, puts you in control of the titular D&D class. The trailer doesn't offer much information, but gives a sense of some magical combat, and a hint at the relationship between main character Kaatri and their patron - the powerful entity that strikes a bargain with a Warlock to grant them their supernatural abilities.Develop
  
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• Mass Effect veteran's Mass Effect-style sci-fi RPG sure looks a lot like Mass Effect in its new trailer

  12-12-2025 02:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Exodus, the upcoming sci-fi RPG from Mass Effect and Baldur's Gate veterans, is taking another major step towards full 'spiritual successor' status.In its new trailer at The Game Awards, we got the longest look yet at Exodus' gameplay. While developer Archetype has done an awful lot to build out its universe - with everything from novels to a tabletop roleplaying game - it's not shown off much in the way of how the game actually plays.As it turns out, the way it actually plays looks a lot like M
  
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• Larian's next RPG is a new Divinity, and it's "even larger than Baldur's Gate 3"

  12-12-2025 02:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate 3 studio and RPG royalty Larian has officially announced and revealed its next game: a new Divinity title.Larian debuted its new RPG at The Game Awards 2025 with one of the more gruesome, unsettling trailers I've seen in recent memory. It starts by showing an emaciated, brutally tortured prisoner suspended by the wrists, before transitioning to a scene that initially looks a lot cheerier: some sort of celebration where people are eating, drinking, dancing... burning their prisoner
  
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• Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic looks like the KOTOR 3 I've waited 20 years for, and the original RPG's director is returning to lead it

  12-12-2025 02:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic was the first major announcement for The Game Awards 2025, and it's a doozy. A brand-new single-player action-RPG led by Casey Hudson, director of the original Knights of the Old Republic and the Mass Effect trilogy, this looks to be a proper follow-up to the game that introduced a generation of Star Wars fans to the joys of RPGs – myself included.The brief teaser trailer shows a group of characters landing on a planet, led by what's eventually revealed
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 controversially wins Best Independent Game at The Game Awards, Sandfall devs dedicate it to indies "who put creativity first" and "push forward with limited resources"

  12-12-2025 02:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 took one step closer to global domination right at the start of the The Game Awards 2025 – predictable behavior, following the "AA" JRPG's big win at the Golden Joystick Awards earlier this winter. Now, the game from developer Sandfall Interactive is officially the Best Independent Game this year… though some people aren't sure it qualifies.When the anonymous solo developer behind roguelike hit Megabonk dropped out of the same Game Awards category in Nove
  
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• Decrepit is a first-person horror Soulslike about escaping an undead castle, and it's even got FromSoftware icon Wheely Skeleton

  12-12-2025 02:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Decrepit is a brand new first-person Soulslike that blends light roguelike elements to make each stab at its dungeon-crawling gameplay a fresh nightmare. Developed by one-man studio Jämmerdal Games and published by Three Friends, the promising new game just premiered at The Game Awards.Here's a look at the reveal trailer:According to its Steam page, Decrepit will take place in a "decaying, medieval prison" where you must fight your way out of a forsaken castle. As if the Dark Souls parallel
  
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• Devil May Cry and Resident Evil veterans are making a new zombie action RPG, and I'm picking up some Lollipop Chainsaw vibes

  12-12-2025 02:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  No, that wasn't a Lollipop Chainsaw 2 trailer you just saw at The Game Awards, but it might be the next best thing.Stupid Never Dies, the first game from NetEase-owned studio GPTRACK50, revealed itself with a stylish trailer that already has me hungry for more. Even if it is the studio's first game, the talent behind the action RPG is undeniable with multiple former Devil May Cry, Dragon's Dogma, and Resident Evil developers are attached to the project.Per the official Steam page, Stupid Never D
  
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• Pragmata escapes the Capcom mines after 6 years: release date set for April 2026, surprise demo out today, and Nintendo Switch 2 version announced

  12-12-2025 02:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Capcom's upcoming action-adventure game Pragmata is officially set to launch on April 24, 2026, there's a surprise demo coming at some point later today - and we're not done yet - a Switch 2 version has been announced.All of this went down at The Game Awards 2025, where we got a new trailer for the third-person sci-fi adventure, which puts players in control of both spacefarer Hugh and his robot companion, Diana. The new trailer showcases the apparent father-daughter relationship between the two
  
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• Pragmata escapes the Capcom mines after 6 years: release date set for April 2026, surprise demo out now, and Nintendo Switch 2 version announced

  12-12-2025 02:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Capcom's upcoming action-adventure game Pragmata is officially set to launch on April 24, 2026, there's a surprise demo available on Steam - and we're not done yet - a Switch 2 version has been announced.All of this went down at The Game Awards 2025, where we got a new trailer for the third-person sci-fi adventure, which puts players in control of both spacefarer Hugh and his robot companion, Diana. The new trailer showcases the apparent father-daughter relationship between the two before the ac
  
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