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• As Sony apparently pulls back from PC, ex-PlayStation boss suggests "platform business is winning"

  30-09-2026 17:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  As Sony reportedly pulls back from bringing its new major single-player PlayStation titles to PC, former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida suggests the company's thinking has reverted back to the "older days."Earlier this year, it was reported that PlayStation's studio business group CEO Hermen Hulst had told staff that Sony's narrative single-player games (like Saros and Ghost of Yotei, for example) would be PlayStation console exclusive going forward. Speaking in a new episode of The Verge's Ver
  
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• "Xbox is not for sale," says CEO despite rumors: "We will do whatever it takes"

  30-09-2026 20:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  In an extraordinarily turbulent time for the games industry as a whole, Xbox stands out as particularly volatile amid its big reset that'll see 3,200 people lose their jobs by the end of the current fiscal year. Meanwhile, entire studios have been shut down and their games canceled, while other teams under the Xbox Game Studios umbrella have been gutted and reduced to skeleton crews, as is reportedly the case with Halo Studios. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently said the "streamlining" of Xbox
  
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• MTG gets KPop Demon Hunters cards, and they're drop-dead gorgeous

  30-09-2026 20:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  KPop Demon Hunters are making their way to MTG as part of an all-new, limited Secret Lair collection that sees them rubbing shoulders with undead Captain America and David Bowie from Labyrinth. (Sounds like a damn cool party to me.)Magic: The Gathering is gearing up for spooky season with its 'Corn Maze' superdrop this October, and while some of its contents are supremely Halloween-coded, this is an eclectic roundup to say the least. MTG KPop Demon Hunters is a great example, with seven returnin
  
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• Resident Evil remakes are building to a "crossover" with the new games, producer says

  30-09-2026 19:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  For now, it seems we're getting a steady diet of new Resident Evil games alongside remakes of the classic series. But, eventually, Capcom's going to run out of games to remake, right? It seems the publisher is already prepared for this eventuality. In fact, executive producer Jun Takeuchi says the company's been preparing for an eventual "crossover" between these two lineages since Resident Evil Village."Currently, 'Resident Evil' operates on a two-pronged approach: the numbered titles allow pla
  
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• Dune Awakening boss says Denis Villeneuve feared the name "could be a little too close to Star Wars"

  30-09-2026 18:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Working on a licensed game is a double-edged sword. Yes, you could get to contribute to one of your favorite properties, be that Star Wars or Batman, but there are often hoops to jump through in terms of approval. In the case of Dune: Awakening, Funcom's had to build a reputation for being solid custodians of the 61-year-old sci-fi epic."We submit things to Jira, [Legendary] approve within a certain amount of time," Jon Bylos, chief creative officer at Funcom, tells gamesindustry.biz. "If they d
  
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• World of Warcraft Forever cracks down on real-money trading, takes $200 worth of gold from streamer

  30-09-2026 18:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  World of Warcraft: Forever fans have worried about the potential of real-money trading since Blizzard first unveiled the new MMO during BlizzCon 2026 – but, thankfully, it appears that the studio is cracking down on it prior to the full release.Now that the World of Warcraft: Forever Beta is out in full force, some players have begun to suspect certain content creators for engaging in, well, real-money trading for in-game gold.
  The suspicions have risen to an all-time high after fans spott
  
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• Intergalactic The Heretic Prophet is "testing the bounds" of Naughty Dog, teases The Last of Us star

  30-09-2026 18:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Last of Us Joel actor Troy Baker has been singing the praises of Naughty Dog's next game, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, telling fans that they're going to have their "minds blown."Even though it's been almost two years since Intergalactic was announced, we still know surprisingly little about it, but Naughty Dog boss Neil Druckmann confirmed this week that we can expect its full reveal sometime next year, so that's something. In the meantime, we'll just have to hope for the best, but a
  
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• Diablo 5 "won't be ready for spring 2029," Path of Exile co-creator says, despite "Blizzard money"

  30-09-2026 17:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  As of now, the release of Diablo 5 is set for 2029. That may seem like plenty of time for Blizzard, and it is, since it's three years away, but one of the co-creators of Path of Exile believes we'll likely be waiting at least a little bit longer for the next installment in the iconic series.In a YouTube video discussing the game's announcement, Chris Wilson, lead designer on Path of Exile, provided his thoughts on Blizzard's plans. "They've announced they're targeting spring 2029, which is both
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 star Jennifer English joins Ghostrunner devs' new first-person Soulslike cast

  30-09-2026 17:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ghostrunner dev One More Level's upcoming first-person Soulslike Valor Mortis has announced more of its cast, with Game of the Year award magnet Jennifer English taking on a starring role. Valor Mortis was supposed to release last week, before a particularly busy week caused the developers to delay the game to mid-October before it even announced its release date. But now the route ahead is clear for an October 13 launch – which has just become quieter thanks to Crimson Desert's DLC being
  
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• Xbox rolls out disc-to-digital program worldwide, but won't somebody please think of the hard drives

  30-09-2026 17:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  After a lifetime of PlayStation fandom, Microsoft's handling of the digitalization era of gaming is a bittersweet pill to swallow. While Sony has been largely ignoring outrage from its decision to end disc production in 2028, Xbox is going about the shift in a slightly different way - namely, making sure your library of physical titles doesn't become an expensive paperweight when the new generation rolls around.The brand has now globally launched its disc-to-digital program, allowing users to co
  
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• Shure is finally launching one of its microphones in a true all-white colorway

  30-09-2026 17:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Shure is known for its iconic, pro-level microphones for content creators and musicians, but its USB gaming mic, which launched back in 2024, has been a viable option at the entry-level end of the market since it hit the shelves. Shure is now launching an upgraded model of its MV6, but thankfully the best microphone competitor is staying at the same price. The Shure MV6 Gen 2 tries to achieve the same plug-and-play simplicity all USB mics strive for, but it's updating the software and control yo
  
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• 28 Years Later 3 will have "a lot of Cillian Murphy" in it, says director Danny Boyle

  30-09-2026 17:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Director Danny Boyle says 28 Days Later Part 3 is indeed in the works, and that we can expect to see a whole lot of OG star Cillian Murphy in it."28 Years 3, or whatever it ends up being called, will get made because people keep asking about it," Boyle told Variety. "Quite when I’m not sure, but there’s a script – a very good script by Alex Garland. [It will have] a lot of Cillian Murphy in it. Whether he'll take his kit off anymore, that I don't know. He's got the Oscar now."2
  
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• The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past plays out differently if you've finished the RPG's second expansion

  30-09-2026 16:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Now that The Witcher 3 Remastered is finally here, we're all looking forward to CD Projekt Red's new expansion, Songs of the Past – but we don't need to rush through the RPG's other DLC, apparently.Fool's Theory – the partner studio working with CD Projekt Red on the expansion – creative vision director Karolina Kuzia-Rokosz confirms as much in a new interview with VGC.
  She implies that the upcoming content will actually work around the player and what they've done in the RPG s
  
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• Black Clover season 2 release schedule: when is episode 1 on Crunchyroll?

  30-09-2026 15:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Black Clover is fast becoming one of the biggest names on anime and its second season aims to build on the quality of its first.This week, Black Clover season 2 begins on Crunchyroll and, with it, the quest for the Magic Knights to save their superiors from the Spade Kingdom and the clutches of the Dark Triad.A lot is at stake, then. So, you'll want to be on the ground floor for new episodes to avoid all the spoilers and social media chatter coming your way. With that in mind, we have the Black
  
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• GTA 6 influencers sent mysterious merch that sure looks better than those $400 Collector's Boxes

  30-09-2026 15:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  GTA 6 marketing is really ramping up now as influencers are receiving packages of merch from Rockstar Games, and I've gotta say, it looks like they got a better deal than the fans paying $400 for those Collector's Boxes. The package in question has been shown off by content creator TmarTn on YouTube (below), who says he received the mysterious box from Rockstar with no heads up from the devs. Contained within his box was a blue baseball cap with a pink Rockstar Games logo embroidered on the fron
  
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• A new indie take on King's Field arrives on Steam and consoles in time for Halloween

  30-09-2026 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Today, FromSoftware is known for creating the Soulslike: a particular brand of dark fantasy action-RPG that's helped to define the modern gaming landscape. But the spirit of the genre goes all the way back to the '90s, when FromSoftware's own King's Field series started endearing itself to a small cult of devotees. Now, that same spirit is influencing a new generation of indie developers, and the upcoming Queen's Domain is one of the most impressive tributes we've seen yet.You might've heard abo
  
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• GTA 6's weather is completely re-done from Red Dead Redemption 2, has hurricanes, rainbows and more

  30-09-2026 14:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  The small details have always been where Rockstar works the most magic, and GTA 6 will be no different. Besides anything else, the weather is going to be something to watch out for, since the whole system's been overhauled from what we saw in Red Dead Redemption 2.In Game Informer, Owen Shepherd, the vice president of art for lighting and rendering at Rockstar, divulged some of what players can expect when roaming Leonida, and it won't all be sunshine and tans. You can encounter all sorts of con
  
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• Avengers: Doomsday is currently "two and a half hours" with a "very surprising ending"

  30-09-2026 14:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Directors Joe and Anthony Russo have seemingly confirmed the current runtime for Avengers: Doomsday is shorter than Avengers: Endgame.While speaking to Fandango about the challenge of balancing a large cast with a focused story, Anthony Russo said, "It's a two and a half hour movie or so, and you're sitting through it, and it's a focused propulsive narrative that has like an organizing principle at its center, and everything has to orbit around that.That's part of the creative challenge for Joe
  
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• 20 years after Robert Downey Jr. was cast as Iron Man, Marvel fans are just discovering his audition

  30-09-2026 14:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Robert Downey Jr. was announced as Tony Stark 20 years ago, marking one of the most iconic superhero castings ever made. A report from September 29, 2006 was shared by a fan on Reddit alongside one of the actor's final screen tests.In the original report from The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel head Kevin Feige was quoted about the news, seemingly bracing for backlash from fans. "In every casting announcement we've done, people in their mind's eye have their own view of it and let us know about it,"
  
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• Sean Gunn says Man of Tomorrow is his "favorite of all" James Gunn movies

  30-09-2026 13:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sean Gunn has shared his thoughts on Man of Tomorrow, and it sounds like the film is shaping up to be something special. Gunn has a role in the DCU as Maxwell Lord, and he also played Kraglin and was the physical performer for Rocket Raccoon in the MCU. "It weighs everything on it," Sean Gunn told ComicBook, when asked how Man of Tomorrow tips the scale between James Gunn's Marvel and DC movies. "Because I can tell you: I can't say anything about Man of Tomorrow in terms of what it's about or wh
  
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• Crimson Desert DLC Charting the Unknown delayed 2 weeks as devs seek "a more polished and stable gameplay experience"

  30-09-2026 13:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has announced that the Charting the Unknown DLC expansion has been delayed, but thankfully not by too long. Crimson Desert DLC was confirmed a few months after the game dropped, with the developer confirming an expansion was in the works in June, which felt like an obvious move after the massive success of the open-world game at launch, but I don't know that many were expecting it to be dropping this year. But despite that, Pearl Abyss confirmed it would be a
  
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• Avengers: Endgame writers planned for Hawkeye to die until Marvel employees protested

  30-09-2026 12:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avengers: Endgame co-writer Stephen McFeely has revealed the surprising way the Soul Stone sacrifice was chosen."Because it's not a small thing to kill off a principal female character in the MCU, we tried a version of Hawkeye [dying]," McFeely said of the moment on the planet Vormir between Hawkeye and Black Widow at an Avengers: Endgame Encore Q&A event (via Forbes).But a back-and-forth was just beginning. With the writers undecided on whether to kill off Hawkeye or Black Widow, those at M
  
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• Absurdly rare Raincoat Pikachu Pokemon card sells for $8.4 million

  30-09-2026 12:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  A hyper-rare Pikachu card just sold for $8.4 million, making it the second-most expensive Pokemon card to ever hit auction.Dubbed 'Raincoat Pikachu' by fans because it shows the electric mouse dressed up for a downpour with umbrella in hand, it's rarer than a shiny Mew; this was the result of a global competition so only 100 were ever made as a personal prize, meaning it was never sold in stores. That goes some way to explaining why this Pokemon card in particular fetched such a high price. Inde
  
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• Horror legend Mike Flanagan wants his Amazon show Carrie to run for three seasons, going far beyond Stephen King's story

  30-09-2026 12:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mike Flanagan has shared his hopes that his new Amazon series will run for multiple seasons. The Haunting of Hill House director is helming a new adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie, and it seems like it will extend far beyond the original story.Speaking to Collider recently, Flanagan said: "In my dream scenario. I think it’s three seasons. In my dream scenario, I think Carrie has a wonderful three-step arc. It’s a trilogy, really.”The Amazon show will follow Summer H. Howell's
  
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• Veteran Halo lead has suggestions for Activision, and they include hiring "laid off folks"

  30-09-2026 12:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's no secret that Microsoft's plans to cut 3,200 employees at Xbox are still in action, having just affected a whopping 268 employees earlier this month, many of whom were working at Halo Studios – the team largely responsible for the Halo franchise.At the time, chief content officer Matt Booty said the role eliminations were focused "across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer." As for the future of Halo, Activision took control of
  
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• Shigeru Miyamoto apparently has a love-hate relationship with Toad, who he would constantly pick in Mario Kart

  30-09-2026 12:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Super Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto either loves or hates Toad and is seemingly doing his best to make sure nobody knows the truth. In a 2012 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Miyamoto was asked who his favorite character to play in Mario Kart is, with the interviewer noting that he likes to play as Toad. Perhaps predictably, Miyamoto said, "I'm sorry that I cannot come up with an interesting answer. Somehow, it's habit to me, but I play with Mario. He's a very balanced character." When aske
  
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• Deadlock smashes Steam record following new update with over 228,000 concurrent players

  30-09-2026 12:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Even though it's still in closed beta, Deadlock, the newest shooter from Valve, is still setting records. The shooter just surpassed 228,000 concurrent players, on the back of a massive update focusing on various gameplay elements.Right off the top, this round of additions, collectively known as City Never Sleeps, brings in no less than six new characters to play as. Among them are Rat King, who's described as "Scrappy, regal, tenacious"; explosives expert Deadman Danny; and my personal favorite
  
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• Police arrest "one of the alleged leaders" behind Rockstar hack that revealed how much money GTA Online makes

  30-09-2026 12:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  The FBI has confirmed the arrest of "one of the alleged leaders" of cybercrime and hacking group ShinyHunters – the group that claimed responsibility for a Rockstar Games hack earlier this year.As reported by Reuters, earlier this week, Dutch police announced that they arrested a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam on September 15 who's suspected of being part of the group. In a statement, the FBI's cyber division assistant director, Brett Leatherman, refers to the man as "one of the alleged le
  
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• Game of Thrones movie Aegon's Conquest gets release date and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms director

  30-09-2026 12:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Game of Thrones movie based on Aegon's Conquest is coming to theaters – and it finally has a release date. The film will land on June 1, 2029, and it will be directed by Owen Harris, according to Deadline. Harris directed three episodes of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Andor scribe Bea Willimon will pen the script, and the film is titled Game of Thrones: Aegon's Conquest. While no further details have been revealed just yet, judging by the title, the movie will cover Aegon I Targarye
  
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• Amazon is adapting one of Spider-Man's most controversial stories, and it's not going down well with fans

  30-09-2026 11:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite Spider-Noir's cancelation, Spider-Man is close to a streaming return at Amazon with an adaptation of one of the webhead's most controversial and divisive comic storylines.As reported by Deadline, Prime Video could be the destination for a Clone Saga show. For the uninitiated, the arc – which spanned multiple Spidey titles across the mid-1990s – featured the return of Ben Reilly, a clone of Peter Parker who tricked many into believing he was the real Peter Parker.What followed
  
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