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• Bully: Anniversary Edition Now Available on iOS and Android

  08-12-2016 12:18
  
  Bully: Anniversary Edition is now available on Android and iOS devices.
  Available for $6.99 (£4.99), the mobile version of Bully comes 10 years after the original version launched on the PlayStation 2, touted as the "best looking and performing version of the game to date" according to Rockstar Games. The Anniversary Edition features the Bully: Scholarship Edition of the game, which included extra content on top of the base game, as well as improved visuals, controls redesigned for touch d
  
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• 8 years after Wolfenstein 2 vowed to "make America Nazi-free again," multiple reports suggest Wolfenstein 3 is finally in development

  07-01-2026 21:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Today, multiple reports emerged suggesting Wolfenstein 3 is finally in development at Bethesda studio MachineGames. Fans have wanted a full third entry in the modern Wolfenstein revival series for years; the devs have occasionally teased the possibility of delivering on that desire, and it seems the time for an official announcement might finally be near.Windows Central published a report earlier today suggesting that Wolfenstein 3 is "on the cards" at MachineGames to coincide with the planned W
  
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• "This is about the arrogance of a company like Rockstar": Labor union pushes for relief for fired GTA 6 devs as Rockstar insists it only cracked down on leakers

  07-01-2026 21:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  The ongoing dispute over Rockstar's October 2025 firing of 34 GTA 6 developers, including 31 in the UK and three in Canada, has now seen the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain ask a judge for interim relief for the affected employees.As IGN reports, at a January 5 hearing at Glasgow, Scotland's Tribunals Centre, the IWGB pressed for interim relief – which would grant fired employees payroll and, where applicable, work visa reinstatement ahead of full trial determination – ac
  
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• The top-selling new game on Steam is this open-world co-op factory builder with huge Satisfactory vibes, which just launched in early access with 84% Very Positive reviews

  07-01-2026 18:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new year is upon us, which means – among a whole lot of other things – that it's time to start staring down the Steam charts in an effort to predict what the next big surprise hit on Valve's platform is going to be. We've got a strong early candidate in StarRupture, a first-person factory-building game that builds on the formula with a more robust focus on combat.In StarRupture, you play as a prisoner on an alien planet, sent down to extract resources and pay off a vague debt to a
  
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• The new Hyperpop Collection adds a much-needed pop of color to the PS5 lineup

  07-01-2026 18:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sony just got me lowering the brightness of my display after announcing a new wave of incredibly bright and vivid PS5 accessories. Set to launch on March 12 later this year, the upcoming Hyperpop Collection was just announced via the official PS Blog and consists of three new striking red, green, and blue designs available as PS5 Slim console covers and matching DualSense PS5 controllers.According to Leo Cardoso of the Hyperpop Collection Material and Finish design team, the loud Techno Red, Rem
  
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• Fallout Season 2 hype has doubled or even tripled the Steam player count of every game in the series, including the pre-Bethesda original and Obsidian's New Vegas

  07-01-2026 18:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Unsurprisingly, the return of the Fallout TV series has once again reignited interest in the games, with a surge in players across the board.Fallout Season 2 is well underway, and given that Lucy and The Ghoul are out exploring the wasteland again (I think; I only just finished season 1), it's only natural that fans of the TV show will either be reminded about how much they love the games or get the itch to explore the games. We saw this back in 2024 when season 1 released, and it looks like the
  
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• Arc Raiders is becoming a "waste of time" thanks to cheaters, says former FPS pro Shroud, who's considering a break until it's fixed: "Embark has zero control over their game"

  07-01-2026 18:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cheating in Arc Raiders is becoming common to the point of major streamers calling it out. Michael 'Shroud' Grzesiek, former FPS pro turned streamer, is the latest figure to discuss the regularity of finding players breaking the game to win, joining an increasingly frustrated chorus.In a recent stream, Grzesiek mentioned encountering cheaters often enough that he’s considering taking a break from the game. "Embark has zero control over their game," he says in a clip reposted on X/Twitter.
  
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• A 16-year-old, 180p clip of Valve's Gabe Newell nailing the piracy issue is making the rounds online and only feels more relevant today: "People are happy to pay money" for "a great product delivered on their terms"

  07-01-2026 18:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Steam baron Valve owes much of its current, enviably profitable position to products and policies that were ahead of their time, and the leadership of founder Gabe Newell played a major part in the company's vision. A particularly timeless comment from Newell has, rather amusingly, resurfaced after 16 years in glorious 180p resolution thanks to a YouTube channel with 750 subscribers and, suddenly, over 244,000 views on its latest upload: Newell tidily explaining why piracy is, and always will be
  
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• Final Fantasy 9 lead says the PS2 was so "so overpowered" its CPU sparked military concerns, so he struggled to get an emergency dev kit during his stay in Hawaii: "It was a very difficult situation"

  07-01-2026 18:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 9 event designer and Chrono Trigger producer Kazuhiko Aoki claims that it was difficult for him to get his hands on equipment to test the 2000 Final Fantasy game on PS2. He says that the then-unreleased console's CPU was considered so powerful that it may have been diverted for military use.When I first saw Tekken Tag Tournament running on PS2 I believed that humanity had reached the peak of graphical realism. I was wrong about the graphical fidelity of Jin Kazuma's face, but I was
  
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• New Tomb Raider star Sophie Turner says she's been training for a year to play Lara Croft: "I think it's going to be something special"

  07-01-2026 18:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  With filming yet to begin on Prime Video's upcoming Tomb Raider TV show, we're still very much in the dark as to what the titular archaeologist will get up to on the small screen.Just one day after Amazon announced 10 new cast members, though, Lara Croft actor Sophie Turner has opened up about her intense training in the run-up to the shoot – and now it seems certain that whatever adventures she finds herself on, they'll be action-packed."I can't say much, but my preparation began in Febru
  
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• Neurable and HyperX have unveiled a gaming headset at CES 2026 that can be controlled by your brain

  07-01-2026 18:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  CES is no stranger to gaming headset unveilings, but this year will mark the rare instance that a headset has been shown off at the event that can be controlled through the power of the human brain. Neurable, a Boston-based tech company dedicated to harnessing the power of the human mind, has announced that it has teamed up with HP to develop a HyperX-branded headset powered by neurotechnology.Not to be confused with the MW75 Neuro, a gaming headset developed between Neurable and US audio brand
  
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• The SteamOS Lenovo Legion Go 2 is now official, but there's still a Steam Deck LCD hole in my heart

  07-01-2026 18:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Let me put my surprised face on when I say Lenovo just announced a Legion Go 2 with SteamOS at CES 2026. It's been a pretty poorly kept secret, but a version of the best gaming handheld contender with SteamOS baked in is now official. That'll bring joy to anyone who is a fan of Valve's controller-friendly platform, but the bad news is that the 8.8-inch powerhouse will cost you $1,200.Yep, that's three times the price of the recently discontinued Steam Deck LCD, and it's nowhere near the price of
  
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• Gaming specs with impressive specs - Asus's new gaming glasses have fun ideas, but I'd much rather see them in a VR headset

  07-01-2026 18:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  One of the biggest surprises for me at CES this week is the collaboration between Asus and XREAL on a new set of high-end gaming glasses. The ROG XREAL R1 essentially puts a high-refresh-rate monitor on your face, giving you 240Hz, 1080p micro-OLED quality gaming you can take with you. As impressive as that sounds, my experience with other XR glasses really makes me wish this ambition was being channelled into a VR headset instead.It wasn't all too long ago we were hearing rumblings about a new
  
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• Indie devs behind adorable co-op horror game say a "direct copy" with "AI-generated assets" is launching on the PlayStation Store before their game is even finished

  07-01-2026 18:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Developer Lazy Flock is a two-person studio that's spent the past handful of years promoting an adorable horror game called Haunted Paws, where you and a co-op partner play as a pair of puppies trying to save your human pal from a haunted mansion. With Haunted Paws still without a definite release date, you might imagine the devs were quite surprised to find a game nearly identical in concept – just with kittens instead of pups – scheduled for release on the PlayStation Store later t
  
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• "Something to consider for a hypothetical Palworld 2": Palworld dev responds to demands for terraforming, says it's impossible without a year of development and wiping all save files

  07-01-2026 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Unfortunately for fans of Palworld who really want terraforming to become a part of the survival game, it sounds like it's not worth getting your hopes up as Palworld designer and Pocketpair publishing manager, John 'Bucky' Buckley, has outlined the amount of work it would take to actually implement into the game.Over on the Palworld Discord, a fan suggests adding the ability to smooth out areas of the terrain to create ideal locations for their bases without having to deal with slopes, which ot
  
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• Ubisoft studio unionizes, is immediately shut down by Ubisoft, affecting 71 people

  07-01-2026 17:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ubisoft has closed another studio, this time shuttering Canada's Ubisoft Halifax right on the heels of its unionization.Per a statement to GamesIndustry, 71 people at Ubisoft Halifax, a 15-year-old studio acquired by Ubisoft in 2015 and previously working on mobile installments for flagships like Assassin's Creed and Rainbow Six, will be starting 2026 with a run in the job market.Just this week, the Halifax team announced that its labor union, the first among Ubisoft in North America, had offici
  
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• Netflix seemingly puts an end to Stranger Things' Conformity Gate theory with 2026 trailer teasing One Piece season 2, new Bridgerton, and Enola Holmes 3

  07-01-2026 17:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Well, there we have it, folks! January 7 didn't see a secret episode of Stranger Things drop on Netflix (sorry, Conformity Gate truthers). Turns out, though, the conspiracy theorists were right that the streamer had something to reveal on said fateful day: a trailer teasing all the exciting titles coming in 2026.In the four-minute promo, which you can watch above, a fortune teller (played by One Battle After Another standout Teyana Taylor) predicts the future of a young woman who unwittingly wan
  
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• That Mass Effect 3 scene with Garrus, you know the one, made Shepard actor Jennifer Hale "break" because it took her "by surprise": "I was like no, no, no, Shepard doesn't cry"

  07-01-2026 17:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  When it comes to heartbreaking moments in Mass Effect, the number one spot will always belong to the exit of Dr. Mordin Solus. But in second place is Garrus and Shepard’s promise to each other before heading to war against the Reapers, a scene so poignant, it almost made Jennifer Hale break down.She recalls doing the scene for the Behind the Voice podcast, mentioning that it's the time during her tenure voicing the female Commander Shepard where the emotions started catching up to her. "Th
  
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• I'm hyped for 8Bitdo's mobile controller, but Gamesir has already Game Boy-ified my phone

  07-01-2026 17:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  As a proud parent to numerous retro handhelds, the last thing I need is a controller that'll turn my phone into a Game Boy. Yet, I'll be testing two gamepads set on transforming my doomscrolling device into a Pokémon machine this year, as 8Bitdo just announced a retro rival to a GameSir pad that's already on my desk.Set to arrive this Summer, 8Bitdo's new "FlipPad" is available to try out at CES 2026. It's effectively a hinged USB-C mobile controller that blends the look of the OG Game Bo
  
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• I'm hyped for 8Bitdo's Game Boy mobile controller, but Gamesir has already Game Boy-ified my phone

  07-01-2026 17:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  As a proud parent to numerous retro handhelds, the last thing I need is a controller that'll turn my phone into a Game Boy. Yet, I'll be testing two gamepads set on transforming my doomscrolling device into a Pokémon machine this year, as 8Bitdo just announced a retro rival to a GameSir pad that's already on my desk.Set to arrive this Summer, 8Bitdo's new "FlipPad" is available to try out at CES 2026. It's effectively a hinged USB-C mobile controller that blends the look of the OG Game Bo
  
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• "The first dialog we had was obviously centered around [GTA 6]": Arc Raiders devs "did not want to be close" to Rockstar at launch, but were just fine challenging Call of Duty

  07-01-2026 17:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  After a late pivot to $40 premium pricing largely inspired by Helldivers 2, Arc Raiders developer Embark faced another quandary: should we delay this thing? Studio CEO and Battlefield veteran Patrick Söderlund says a few big games cast shadows over their planned launch, none bigger than Rockstar's GTA 6, which nobody "wanted to be close to".Speaking with GamesBeat, Söderlund recalls discussions of when Arc Raiders should launch (thanks, PC Gamer). "When we spoke about whether we should
  
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• Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says "realism" complaints are often caused by game worlds breaking their own rules, something his early RPG Arcanum was meticulous about: "Magic and tech don't coexist"

  07-01-2026 17:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says players who complain about a lack of realism are actually looking for consistency most of the time.If you've spent any amount of time within the gaming sphere, you'll know that a common complaint is a lack of realism in games; even when it's a game like Assassin's Creed Shadows or God of War Ragnarok where realism really isn't a part of the design philosophy in the first place. And while in some cases it's used as a blanket term to complain about other aspects of
  
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• GoldenEye 007 is "a fantastic game," but 007 First Light dev says IO Interactive's title has "a far wider and more expansive offering and gameplay experience"

  07-01-2026 16:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  IO Interactive senior licensing producer Theuns Smit has distanced the studio's upcoming game, 007 First Light, from previous James Bond game GoldenEye 007. He claims the studio is not worrying about the title's legacy and is instead focused on what it's "bringing forward."When it comes to games based on the infamous special agent with a license to kill, the same one always comes to mind. While dozens of Bond games have been released over the years, GoldenEye 007 is the only one that is often co
  
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• The Audeze Maxwell 2 fixes the original's only two problem areas, and it could be coming for SteelSeries' lunch in 2026

  07-01-2026 16:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Audeze has taken to the CES 2026 showfloor to claim its stake among the best gaming headsets this week, with the brand new Maxwell 2 cups now hitting the shelves.The original Audeze Maxwell holds a special place in my heart. Yes, I'm mostly using the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless in regular PS5 play but when I want that chef kiss audio experience I always turn to this planar prince.The new generation keeps what made the original so noteworthy, with 90mm planar magnetic drivers and a frequ
  
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• "Two Premier Brands. One Mobile Controller" - GameSir and Hyperkin's modular gamepad could take over the market

  07-01-2026 15:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Two of the biggest and most beloved controller brands are teaming up, and they're bringing out a mobile controller that you'll be able to modify and change to your liking. That's right; Hyperkin and GameSir have emerged at CES 2026 with the X5 Alteron, a modular mobile controller that's "coming soon".As a controller reviewer, I never feel the war between symmetrical vs offset thumbsticks rages harder than it does in the mobile controller market. A smaller controller means more potential for thum
  
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• Sydney Sweeney's new thriller The Housemaid is getting a sequel after the surprise hit made $133 million at the box office

  07-01-2026 15:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Less than three weeks after The Housemaid hit the big screen, a sequel to the Sydney Sweeney-led thriller has now officially been announced.Based on the novel by Freida McFadden, The Housemaid follows Millie (Sweeney), a woman with a troubled past who takes on a job as a live-in housemaid for a wealthy family, who have dark secrets of their own. Amanda Seyfried plays her employer, Nina Winchester.The movie has been a hit at the box office, making $133 million at the global box office (against a
  
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• Creepy first trailer for Deadpool and Wolverine star's new horror movie looks like a mix of Death Note and Talk to Me

  07-01-2026 15:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  X-Men's Dafne Keen and Yellowjackets' Sophie Nelisse find themselves fighting off an ancient curse in the creepy first trailer for new horror movie Whistle.In just two-minutes' worth of footage, the film is already giving us big Death Note meets Talk to Me vibes, with a little Final Destination thrown in for good measure – and it's safe to say, we're intrigued.Directed by Corin Hardy (The Nun, The Hallow), the film centers on a misfit group of unwitting students, who get more than they bar
  
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• JSAUX is showing off its new Switch 2 dock at CES 2026, and my setup wants a piece

  07-01-2026 15:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  JSAUX is adding to its already busy Nintendo Switch 2 accessory repertoire with the new 6-in-1 Gaming Dock for Switch. As unveiled at CES 2026, the dock is designed as an alternative to the official accessory, but it stands out from the real deal as it's packed with additional features you're more likely to find on console display stands.The Switch 2 accessory is equipped with 4K HDMI & 3D video output and provides a 100W USB-C port for fast charging other devices, while not forgetting to pr
  
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• Sega posts tribute to co-founder David Rosen, a "true pioneer" of the industry, who passed away at 95: "We will always remember his contributions"

  07-01-2026 15:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Video games recently lost a titan in David Rosen, one of Sega's co-founders with a presence in the industry since 1957. He passed away on December 25, 2025, at the age of 95, and the house of Sonic the Hedgehog has paid tribute to a man integral to the company’s existence."We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of David Rosen, one of the founders of Sega, and a true pioneer in the video game industry," Sega posts on Twitter. "Sega would like to offer its condolences to the family,
  
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• "Square had a kind of recklessness at that time": During Final Fantasy 9's development, the team moved to Hawaii without "a solid plan," and some even splashed out on themed license plates

  07-01-2026 14:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu says that "Square had a kind of recklessness" when it came to spending at the time of Final Fantasy 9's development, meaning that the team could move to Hawaii, despite not having a plan, and purchase cars with personalized license plates while there.The late '90s represents Square's golden era. Between 1997 and 2000 the company developed and published banger after banger like Final Fantasy 7, Parasite Eve, Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy 8, Ta
  
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