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• Avatar: Fire and Ash frame rate explained – why do some scenes look so smooth?

  19-12-2025 11:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you saw Avatar: Fire and Ash in James Cameron's format of choice (high frame rate 3D), you might be wondering why some scenes looked so smooth. The Avatar movies often experiment with technology, with varied frame rates becoming the norm since Avatar: The Way of Water, for many of the franchise's underwater sequences in particular.But if you're curious about the 'smooth' look to some scenes (or are eager to read Cameron's passionate rebuttal), then you're in the right place. Below, we'll take
  
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• James Cameron says Matt Damon didn't actually lose millions from turning down Avatar: "That never happened… it was simply an availability issue"

  19-12-2025 19:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  James Cameron says that not only was Matt Damon never formally offered the lead in 2009's Avatar, but that he was never offered 10 percent of the film's earnings, either."He was never offered the part," Cameron told The Hollywood Reporter. "I can’t remember if I sent him the script or not. I don’t think I did? Then we wound up on a call, and he said, ‘I love to explore doing a movie with you. I have a lot of respect for you as a filmmaker. [Avatar] sounds intriguing. But I real
  
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• Total War: Medieval 3 lead is "pretty sure" we'll get the strategy game before Elder Scrolls 6, but hopes Bethesda will prove him wrong: "I need it"

  19-12-2025 18:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  After 19 years, Total War: Medieval 3 is in development at Creative Assembly. But don’t get too excited, because there's still quite a bit to go before we'll get to play the long-awaited historical strategy game. One of the studio bosses is relatively confident it'll arrive before The Elder Scrolls 6, though, even if he'd rather be playing that first.In a round-up post on the official forums, Roger Collum, vice president of the Total War series, speaks about the announcement of Medieval 3,
  
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• "We love making games more than we love managing": Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says "it's good to have limitations," so the RPG studio won't "scale up" for any future projects

  19-12-2025 18:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Now that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has secured various big wins under its belt, from the Golden Joystick Awards to the more recent Game Awards 2025 event, Sandfall Interactive likely has its eyes on the future – a future that apparently won't look very different for it.As per Edge's Knowledge newsletter, director Guillaume Broche implies as much as he responds to a question of whether or not Sanfall Interactive's next game will prove to be a "larger-scale production" than Clair Obscur: E
  
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• Yakuza lead is proud "people can finally say they enjoy the Like a Dragon series more openly" as some devs "kept their involvement a secret from their parents or girlfriends"

  19-12-2025 18:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Yakuza / Like a Dragon series producer Masayoshi Yokoyama says the thing he's most proud of is that people can openly enjoy the series now. Hm.The Yakuza series is 20 years old now, with the first game releasing in Japan on December 8, 2005. Compared to its humble beginnings, the series is somewhat of a powerhouse now, with a new release coming pretty much every year (or three in a year in the case of Feb 2023 – Feb 2024) and a massive worldwide fanbase for a series that didn't even bother
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director says the award-sweeping hit is "very different from traditional JRPGs": "Currently, in France there's a movement to make FRPGs"

  19-12-2025 18:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director Guillaume Broche claims that Sandfall Interactive never intended to make a JRPG and instead wanted to make something French. Since the launch of the record-breaking game, he thinks there's been a movement to create FRPGs in his home country.In an interview with DenFamiNicoGamer that's been translated by GamesRadar+, the French director says that while JRPGs inspired the team, it was never its intention to create a Japanese game. "When many Western de
  
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• Anime's answer to Spotify Wrapped is here thanks to Crunchyroll – and it comes with a "spirit companion" too

  19-12-2025 18:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you're subscribed to Crunchyroll, you can now see how your anime journey has been in 2025 – an answer to Spotify Wrapped, if you will, that you can share on your social media and that will tell you what kind of anime fan you are. It comes with a "spirit companion" too.Crunchyroll Arc offers a "personalized experience based on the anime that you loved to watch over the past year", according to the streamer. What was your most-watched anime series this year? How many hours have you stream
  
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• Ex-Bethesda lead reveals handwritten origins of Fallout's strange text and iconic "F*** You": "I was honestly expecting them to tell me to delete it"

  19-12-2025 17:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hidden between the real threats of Fallout 3, the busted mutants and big guns, there is a warning: "FUCK YOU." Since 2008, that gruff bit of graffiti has become a beloved Easter egg, but former Bethesda lead Nate Purkeypile tells GamesRadar+ that was never the plan.Purkeypile recently said on Bluesky, "It never stops being weird seeing my own handwriting being used for stuff I didn't write haha," after the developer added his handwriting as a font for Fallout 76. By comparison, that fat "FUCK YO
  
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• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 producer wanted a return to Morrowind and Oblivion-style RPGs where devs could "take greater creative risks" with "games that were not so forgiving"

  19-12-2025 17:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is an uncompromising game, much like the original, and that's no accident. Developer Warhorse Studios wanted its historical sequel to exist within a canon of other odd, singular games that were made without trying to appease every type of player.Speaking to PC Gamer, Warhorse Studios co-founder and the game's executive producer, Martin Klima, says "games [like Morrowind and Oblivion] were created in happier times, when teams were smaller, and overall cost of developme
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 director hates Divinity: Original Sin 2's squirrel so much he tried to delete him from the new versions, but the character "just wouldn't die"

  19-12-2025 17:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  We can all agree the squirrels in Larian Studios games are amazing, right? All of us except Swen Vincke, studio founder and recurring game director, who hated one of the cute critters in Divinity: Original Sin 2 so much he ran a one-person campaign to get it deleted and failed.He spoke about this to Mein-MMO, where he explained his disdain for the adorable pet. "It's funny that you like Sir Lora. I hate him. If there is one thing I regret about Original Sin 2, it's bringing Sir Lora into the gam
  
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• Even Divinity devs got carried away by your Game Awards sculpture theories: "I saw people speculate that it was Bloodborne 2. And I was like "Oh I hope it is!'"

  19-12-2025 16:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Of course, a glowing skeletal statue in the desert is going to spark theories – the mysterious Game Awards teaser was imposing enough to spark a religion. Fans were ultimately glad to learn the hellish sculpture revealed a new Divinity game and not the beginning of the apocalypse, but even Divinity developers at Larian got a little carried away by the possibilities."I had a moment where I saw people speculate that it was Bloodborne 2," Adam Smith, Divinity's writing director, says to Polyg
  
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• The word "arsehole" got a bestselling Switch shopkeeping sim removed from the eshop: "A single word in more than 100,000 words of localization was caught and scrutinized without a chance for us to fix it"

  19-12-2025 16:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Indie bestseller Tiny Bookshop disappeared off of the Nintendo Switch eShop after it was found to have shipped with the word "arsehole," without any warning to the developers.Tiny Bookshop – a cutesy game in which you run a tiny bookshop – was released onto Nintendo Switch back in August, and despite indie powerhouses like Hades 2 and Hollow Knight: Silksong releasing in the weeks that followed, it managed to keep a strong standing in the charts of the Nintendo Switch eShop. This las
  
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• Legend of Zelda lead Eiji Aonuma wanted to launch the first Zelda game on the Switch 2, but working with Koei Tecmo on Age of Imprisonment at least offered "some inspiration"

  19-12-2025 16:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Legend of Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma says that he wanted a Nintendo-made Zelda game to be the first released on the Switch 2 before Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment launched. However, the collaboration between his studio and Koei Tecmo has given the team inspiration for the next game in the series.In an interview with 4gamer, spotted by The Gamer and translated by GamesRadar+, Aonuma jokes that he wishes the team at Nintendo had the honor of launching the first game in the series
  
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• Amid Divinity's controversy, The Last of Us co-creator doubles down that "we don't need AI" and promises to avoid it while making his newest game

  19-12-2025 16:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Last of Us game director and co-creator Bruce Straley has doubled down hard on his original generative AI stance, pointing out that the tech's ethical questions extend far and wide. Needless to say, he'll be avoiding the tech for as long as he can while making his next game: the delightfully named Coven of the Chicken Foot.While speaking about the recent drama surrounding Larian's use of AI in Divinity's early development during a chat with Kinda Funny Games, Straley evokes "that Jurassic Pa
  
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• Larian lead says RAM shortage is affecting Divinity's development, calling for "a lot of optimization work in early access that we didn't necessarily want to do"

  19-12-2025 16:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  As Larian Studios, the developer behind Baldur's Gate 3, cracks on with its work on the new Divinity game, CEO Swen Vincke reveals that the recent RAM shortage and spike in its cost might present a setback in the development of the team's upcoming title.In a new interview with TheGamer, Vinckee explains that the ongoing RAM shortage (one that essentially boils down to AI model training) doesn't just have an effect on the gaming community – it also presents developers themselves with a prob
  
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• Best Buy's last minute PS5 game deals are so good, I need to rethink my holiday gaming plans

  19-12-2025 16:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  With less than a week to go until December 25, time is slowly but surely running out to buy any PS5 games as gifts. Fortunately, these last minute PS5 game deals from Best Buy can at least help, as plenty of them are available for same-day pickup or are ready to ship in time for the big day. But with savings this good, I won't tell anyone if you want to grab some to give yourself plenty to play over the festive period instead.There is a lot of savings on recent 2025 releases, which is something
  
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• Lords of the Fallen 2 boss says Epic Games Store exclusivity doesn't matter because the "majority of PC players who want a specific game will buy it" anyway

  19-12-2025 15:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Broadly speaking, platform and store exclusives are becoming relatively rare. Ballooning costs in a precarious industry mean most studios need every possible avenue for sales. The upcoming Lords of the Fallen 2 is working against this idea, coming out on the Epic Games Store only on PC, and one of the central devs believes it’ll make a negligible difference to the audience.On Twitter, Marek Tyminski, founder and CEO of CI Games, explained why the sequel is tied to Epic's marketplace. "Let'
  
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• Tomb Raider: Catalyst actor "really frightened about losing Lara" after being "completely blindsided" by Microsoft's decision to abruptly scrap Perfect Dark reboot

  19-12-2025 14:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Perfect Dark actor Alix Wilton Regan says she was blindsided by the game's cancellation, given just how much had been recorded for it. Thankfully, though, the upcoming duo of Tomb Raider: Catalyst and Legacy of Atlantis offers some relief.Microsoft's sweeping layoffs earlier this year resulted in a number of project cancellations across Xbox and beyond, with Rare's Everwild, Zenimax Online Studios' unannounced MMO, and even third-party titles like Romero Games' unannounced project, which lost it
  
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• Dune: Part Three is about how Paul Atreides has "been impacted by years of leadership" as Timothée Chalamet discusses director Denis Villeneuve's "inspiring" approach to the sci-fi sequel

  19-12-2025 13:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dune: Part Three will feature a "different" version of Paul Atreides, according to Timothée Chalamet, as the story is set 15-20 years after the events of the previous movie.Speaking exclusively to GamesRadar+ during the promotion of his new movie Marty Supreme, the actor revealed some details about the upcoming third movie in Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi saga."Without giving too much away about Dune: Part Three, but I am playing older. And also someone who's been impacted by years of leaders
  
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• A JRPG series that's been running for 21 years is going back to remakes because "the player base was shrinking," Trails producer says, and devs "needed a breather"

  19-12-2025 13:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  The JRPG developers behind the long-running Trails series are so focused on remakes right now because the player base has shrunk over the years.The Trails series has been kicking for over two decades at this point. That's an achievement by any metric, but the fact that it's also part of the interconnected The Legend of Heroes series, which debuted in the 1980s, makes its longevity all the more impressive. Now, however, Trails developers are leaning hard into remakes to try to bring back players
  
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• Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima thinks "we can't go back" to a world without AI: "Smartphones were the same"

  19-12-2025 13:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Legendary director Hideo Kojima has likened the rise of AI to the invention of smartphones, but questions whether the convenience that AI offers would lead us to becoming too spoiled.In an interview with Nikkei Xtrend that's been translated by GamesRadar+, Kojima discusses how the rise of AI has been viewed negatively by the public. "When smartphones came out, everyone slated them," Kojima explains. "But now there are so many people who can't live without their smartphones. AI is like that. It's
  
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• After more than 10 years, this beloved fantasy anime show has finally announced a season 2 and fans can't believe it: "Best Christmas news ever"

  19-12-2025 12:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Yona of the Dawn fans had lost all hope of seeing a season 2, but it seems Christmas miracles do exist, as the return of the beloved fantasy anime series has just been announced! With Mizuho Kusanagi’s manga now finished, the show's official Twitter account revealed that its onscreen adaptation is finally set to continue, with new episodes currently in production.It's been more than ten years since the release of the first season, which adapted the beginnings of the popular manga into 24 e
  
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• Avatar 4 is getting a new narrator, and the actor was told about it "12 years ago"

  19-12-2025 12:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sam Worthington's Jake Sully has guided audiences through Pandora in all three films of the Avatar franchise. However, it appears the Toruk Makto is stepping aside in upcoming films for a new voice to emerge."I narrate the next one, [Avatar 4]," Sigourney Weaver, who plays teenage Na'vi wunderkind Kiri, told Jake's Takes. "It's a major part of the saga for Kiri."After confirming she was told back in 2013, right around the time when the Avatar sequels began to take shape, Weaver explains that the
  
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• A Nintendo Wii-like console that's giving the PS5 and Xbox Series X a run for their money wants to succeed where the Mario maker failed: "We are standing on a giant’s shoulder"

  19-12-2025 12:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nex Playground's CEO says the company has a plan to avoid the same fate as the Nintendo Wii, where many owners bought only a handful of games.Even as someone whose job it is to know about the goings on in the games industry, the Nex Playground came out of nowhere for me. The first thing I had heard about it was last month; it was the second-best-selling console of the week ending in November 22, beating out the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S – only coming in behind the Nintendo Switch 2 in the US
  
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• Arc Raiders producer says "the work is just beginning" on the extraction shooter, reveals Christmas gift of 1,000 tokens to all players: "We're here for the long-term"

  19-12-2025 12:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Few games have had a better year than Arc Raiders. After months of anticipation from open betas, the shooter from Embark Studios arrived in October to widespread acclaim. As such, with the end of the year approaching, executive producer Aleksander Grondal has taken some time to address the rousing reception and announce a little gift to players."Internally, we were having a blast playing [Arc Raiders] before release, and your reaction to the tech test in April gave us an inkling of what was to c
  
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• Former Destiny artist and Marathon art director leaves Bungie following fallout from its now-resolved controversy

  19-12-2025 12:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marathon art director Joseph Cross is departing developer Bungie just months before the extraction shooter launches in March 2026.Cross announced his leaving via his LinkedIn page and social media channels, though there's no bad blood in the exit. "I'm incredibly proud of the visual world we built for Marathon," he wrote on Twitter. "Getting support at this scale for something a bit different is rare, and the art team at Bungie is the best in the biz. I'll be enjoying playing the game as a fan w
  
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• The Lenovo Legion Go 2 will allegedly turn into a big Steam Deck at CES, but I'm hoping it'll also be cheaper

  19-12-2025 12:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Lenovo Legion Go 2 is fresh on the scene, but we're apparently getting a Steam Deck flavor at CES 2026. By that, I mean a SteamOS version of the best gaming handheld contender could make an appearance during the January tech showcase, but I'm hoping it's a chunk less than the Windows 11 model.These early CES leaks come courtesy of Windows Latest, who claim the SteamOS Lenovo Legion Go 2 will be the company's "most powerful handheld yet. It's a bit of a strange comment to make, given it'll se
  
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• Hideo Kojima says watch the OD teaser trailer "100 times" and you'll get a "big hint" about what his new horror game actually is: "I can't say anything else"

  19-12-2025 12:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you're as confused about what OD is as everyone else then director Hideo Kojima has a message for you. While he won't say what it is outright, he tells gamers to watch the teaser trailer "100 times" and they'll maybe see a "big hint."In an interview with Nikkei Xtrend, translated by GamesRadar+, Kojima says that OD is a kind of media "like no other," despite being made entirely in a game engine. "I think when you first see OD it looks like horror," he says. "But the system it uses isn't ordin
  
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• Deltarune Chapter 5 is still "several months" away, admits Undertale mastermind Toby Fox – but "progress is going excellently"

  19-12-2025 12:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Undertale and Deltarune creator Toby Fox previously said he doesn't think the latter game's Chapter 5 "will be released in the first half of 2026" – and that's looking very possible now, as he reveals the next part still has quite some time ahead of its launch.Speaking in a recent winter newsletter, Fox first shares a new video from the fifth chapter's Castle Town. It's what comes after the clip that's grabbed my attention, however – an entire status update on Chapter 5. In it, he ex
  
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• Kingpin actor says Daredevil: Born Again season 2 is "looking real good" as he shares a dark new image of the villain

  19-12-2025 12:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Daredevil: Born Again season 2 is still a few months away, but we just got a first early review from Vincent D'Onofrio. The actor, who is reprising his role as Kingpin in the new episodes, took to social media to share a dark and mysterious image of his villainous character, while revealing his first impressions about the second season."Just watched some episodes of the second season of DD Born Again. Looking real good!" he wrote on Twitter, making fans really excited about the upcoming release.
  
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