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• Capcom Shows Off New Training Mode

  10-11-2018 22:00
  As part of the XO18 livestream presentation, Capcom showed off a new mode for Devil May Cry 5, as well as a few new Devil Breakers. The new mode, known as The Void, allows players to practice combos at their leisure. Unlike other "waiting areas" in games like DmC: Devil May Cry and Bayonetta, this is a dedicated mode and lets you modify a number of parameters in order to cook up some seriously creative combos and share them online, similar to the training modes in fighting games. You can ex
  
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• Anime will be "done for" if it focuses on adaptations over original ideas, says Code Geass director

  19-03-2026 12:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Code Geass director Goro Taniguchi has delivered an urgent warning for the future of anime.Speaking to Tokyo Shimbun (H/T Automaton Media) ahead of the release of his new film Paris ni Saku Étoile, Taniguchi waxed lyrical about leaving a legacy of original works, not merely adaptations of manga and other IP."Over the last few years, adaptations have understandably become the norm because they’re easier to secure a profit on, but I believe that if left with nothing but adaptations, J
  
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• Train sim sickos push new Thomas the Tank Engine game to breaking point by obliterating world records with an unlikely candidate

  19-03-2026 12:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new Thomas the Tank Engine game is currently beating Resident Evil Requiem in the Steam top seller charts, and some of those dedicated players seem absolutely determined to push the train sim's cast of characters beyond the conventionally agreed-upon limits of Steam travel.Thomas & Friends: Wonders of Sodor released earlier this week, and brings the expertise of Train Simulator and Train Sim World developer Dovetail Games to the fictional world of Thomas the Tank Engine. Wonders of Sodor o
  
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• World of Warcraft hit with FOMO complaints once again as Blizzard slams the doors shut on delve Hall of Fame after just 9 hours: "Huge day for the unemployed"

  19-03-2026 12:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  World of Warcraft is no stranger to fans' fear of missing out on timed or locked content, and the recent delve Hall of Fame achievement offers no exception – in fact, this might be one of the worst instances of FOMO that Blizzard's MMO community has experienced.Less than a day after Season 1 launched, over 4,000 players tackled delve nemesis Nullaeus, prompting the closure of the Hall of Fame and its accompanying achievement in both the EU and North America.
  Players from the former region,
  
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• Crystal Dynamics is still "fully committed" to Tomb Raider Catalyst despite going through its fourth round of layoffs in under a year

  19-03-2026 12:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Crystal Dynamics is assuring fans that development of the upcoming Tomb Raider titles is still going fine despite the studio announcing its fourth batch of layoffs in under a year.Around a year ago, Crystal Dynamics confirmed it was letting go of 17 employees while continuing work on Perfect Dark and the then-unnamed Tomb Raider title. Microsoft then cancelled the Perfect Dark reboot as part of its sweeping layoffs back in July, which in turn saw Crystal Dynamics announce another round of layoff
  
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• Sarah Michelle Gellar says the Buffy reboot script leak is "not correct" and fans shouldn't read it: "That stuff is really unfortunate"

  19-03-2026 12:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Much like a vampire, the Buffy reboot may never see the light of day – but Sarah Michelle Gellar hopes that fans don't seek out any online leaks of the canceled pilot. "I actually hope it doesn’t [leak] because then everyone’s going to have an opinion on this and that, and pilots are not finished," Gellar told Page Six Radio.The reboot, titled Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale, was set to star Ryan Kiera Armstrong as the new Slayer, with Gellar returning as original Slaye
  
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• Crimson Desert's Metacritic score sinks Pearl Abyss share prices by 30% over the cardinal sin of being perfectly fine

  19-03-2026 12:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Crimson Desert's review scores are perfectly fine. They're pretty good, in fact. But the new open-world RPG isn't the best game ever made, as some people hoped it would be, prompting developer Pearl Abyss' share price to sink almost 30%.Crimson Desert was previously best known as the game that looked almost too good to be true in all of its maximalist trailers. Glimpses at its dragon riding, jetpacks, grapples, a huge fantasy world, quick cuts of too many weapon types to keep track of, and some
  
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• 8Bitdo has finally revealed the N64 Retro Receiver I've been asking for, but it's trolling me with its new 2.4GHz OG console gamepad

  19-03-2026 11:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  I almost feel like 8Bitdo is trying to troll me with its new N64 2.4GHz wireless controller and Bluetooth Retro Receiver. Both are pretty much answers to questions I re-highlighted in my gray 8Bitdo N64 controller hands-on and my original Black version review, and while we're getting both a proper wireless dongle for the best retro console contender, and a complete gamepad set specifically for original hardware, I now feel slightly silly.Available to grab right now at Amazon, the new 8Bitdo N64
  
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• Spider-Man: Brand New Day pulls a No Way Home by clearly editing spoilers out of the trailer

  19-03-2026 11:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Spider-Man: Brand New Day's trailer is under the microscope for seemingly removing a bunch of characters from one of its fight scenes.The moment in question sees Tom Holland's Spider-Man flying towards a clutch of ninjas from The Hand. But as has been pointed out on social media, there is not only a suspicious amount of empty space in the framing of the scene, the eyelines of several ninjas meet characters that just aren't there. See for yourself.There are severally things/people digitally edite
  
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• Spider-Man: Brand New Day dethrones GTA 6 by having the first trailer in history to surpass 500 million views in one day

  19-03-2026 11:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Upcoming Marvel movie Spider-Man: Brand New Day hasn't even hit screens yet, and it's already breaking records, as its first teaser becomes the most viewed trailer ever.The first Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer, which was released on March 18, has broken the record of most views in the first 24 hours online. We have to wait until Sony releases the full figures, but Global Box Office reports that the Spidey teaser hit over 500 million views, beating GTA 6's record in just 12 hours. The video ga
  
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• Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan's new open-world FPS probably won't be free-to-play because "you need 8 billion players and 2 thousand devs cranking out f***ing keychains like a sweatshop"

  19-03-2026 00:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former Blizzard vice president and Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan hasn't decided on a monetization model for his new open-world action survival FPS The Legend of California, but he's pretty sure it won't be free-to-play. Having previously worked on Overwatch at the highest level, Kaplan knows a thing or two about free-to-play games, and he doesn't see it as a viable model for The Legend of California. "To be free-to-play, you need eight billion players and two thousand devs cranking out fuckin
  
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• Ex-Fallout and Skyrim artist says the Resident Evil remakes are "super cool" but giving the same treatment to Bethesda RPGs isn't "viable"

  19-03-2026 00:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Capcom's series of Resident Evil remakes, built from the ground-up in the studio's proprietary RE Engine, are universally acclaimed for modernizing visuals and systems without compromising mood and tone, but expecting the same treatment for Bethesda RPGs just isn't reasonable, says former studio veteran Nate Purkeypile.Of course, Bethesda just released the excellent Oblivion Remastered last year, which did a great job bringing the 2006 RPG up to 2025 standards in Unreal Engine, but for the most
  
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• Daredevil: Born Again season 2 showrunner and EP say Bullseye is "the hero in his own mind" and that they wanted to expand on "something he gave us" in the Netflix show

  18-03-2026 22:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Daredevil: Born Again season 2 showrunner Dario Scardapane and executive producer Sana Amanat talk Bullseye's big moment(s) in the new season."I'm not right. I don't look at the villains as villains. And I don't look at the heroes as heroes," Scardapane tells GamesRadar+. "And one of the things I think that Eric Olson and the staff of season three [of the Netflix show] did brilliantly was the Bullseye character... the Poindexter story. You know, there's a lot of pain and a lot of ouch to that gu
  
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• Nearly a year later, Nintendo has finally fixed the Switch 2 GameCube emulator's terrible analog stick mapping

  18-03-2026 22:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  At long last, Nintendo has finally fixed one of the biggest issues plaguing the Switch 2's selection of GameCube games: analog stick mapping. That might sound like a niche problem to some of you, but it ultimately makes using the control stick far more sensitive than it should be, and the issue has persisted since launch. Until now, when a quiet update seems to have corrected it.The analogue stick issue has been there since the GameCube Classics app was released through Nintendo Switch Online. U
  
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• Daredevil: Born Again season 2 showrunner says Matthew Lillard's mysterious new villain is "evil and scary" but just seems "like a totally regular guy"

  18-03-2026 22:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Daredevil: Born Again season 2 showrunner Dario Scardapane says his Dungeons and Dragons buddy Matthew Lillard was the only choice for the elusive Mr. Charles."Matt and I go way back. We worked together on a show called The Bridge. We worked together on a show I did, State Affairs," Scardapane tells GamesRadar+. "We're, we're really, really good friends. And when we were doing season 2, there was an element, a type of character that there were a couple ways that you could do it. You know, it's a
  
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• One Piece season 2's Tony Tony Chopper actor didn't watch the anime ahead of playing the fan-favorite character: "To copy the anime would have been a disservice"

  18-03-2026 22:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mikaela Hoover, who voices the oddly cute but surly Tony Tony Chopper in Netflix's One Piece season 2, says she didn't watch the anime before filming the show. Instead, she chose to put her own spin on the character, with One Piece's showrunner and producers reassuring her that One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda would fully approve of her performance."I remember after a few sessions saying to [showrunner Joe Tracz] and one of the producers, Steve Welke, 'Should I watch?' And they said, 'Honestly, we
  
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• A "simple test" of Baldur's Gate 3's modding tools has "snowballed" into a full-blown remake of the first Baldur's Gate, and you can play the demo now

  18-03-2026 21:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  A team of modders is remaking the original Baldur's Gate using the Baldur's Gate 3 engine following the success of a "simple test" of the 2023 RPG's modding tools.Project lead 786r786 tells Rock Paper Shotgun the idea for a Baldur's Gate remake sprouted when an unlocked version of Baldur's Gate 3's official modding tools showed up on NexusMods in September 2024. 786r786 never intended on remaking the whole game, but they wanted to test the limits of the unlocked toolkit and went forward with cre
  
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• Death Stranding 2 developer offers nuanced take on Resident Evil Requiem's DLSS 5 makeover: "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no"

  18-03-2026 21:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Senior animator Mike York has worked on a range of hits from the divorced man's GTA 5 to the divorced man's Death Stranding 2, so he's seen a lot of things in video games, but never Grace Ashcroft after having undergone liposuction. That's the kind of image Nvidia's new AI-powered DLSS 5 rendering model brings to Resident Evil Requiem, one of the titles in which it will debut in the fall, and York can't stand it.He offers his perspective as an industry veteran in a new stream on his YouTube chan
  
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• Deltarune Chapter 5 is closer than ever as Toby Fox confirms "most of the development team has moved on"

  18-03-2026 21:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Toby Fox says that most of the Deltarune Chapter 5 dev team has moved on, suggesting that the next part of the beloved Undertale follow-up is finally nearing release. Following up a post last month, where Fox explained that "some preliminary internal bugtesting on PC" was underway, he says the testing process is about to get underway in full."The professional testers are familiarizing themselves with the game now," Fox says in a new Bluesky post. "They begin formally testing on April 1st. Japane
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead writer doesn't use AI for work because "writing is part of the joy," and "it's also part of the pain"

  18-03-2026 19:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  As AI creeps its way into nearly every facet of daily life, including art direction in video games with Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 tech, there's still hope that a hard line will be drawn before dialogue and scripts are AI generated. Telling and interpreting stories is an ancient human tradition, connecting different perspectives for millennia, and even if you can get past AI's inherently non-human nature and thus its inability to tell a truly original story, it's just not very practical, acco
  
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• Studio Ghibli producer says 85-year-old Hayao Miyazaki wants to keep making movies: "He's still active and working hard"

  18-03-2026 19:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki and Hayao Miyazaki's son, director Goro Miyazaki, both say that the beloved director has no plans for another retirement."Hayao Miyazaki turned 85 in January of this year, and I thought he might be getting old soon, but that's not the case at all; he's incredibly energetic," Goro said during a press conference (via ManTan Web). "Why is he so energetic? His blood test results are better than mine."Miyazaki's last feature film, The Boy and the Heron, hit theate
  
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• Hideo Kojima says a Hawaiian proverb led to the new Death Stranding 2 trailer, because what else did you expect: "I gave it the special title 'No Rain, No Rainbow'"

  18-03-2026 18:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Trailers for Hideo Kojima games are truly a genre unto themselves, often esoteric as they are. A promo accompanying Death Stranding 2: On the Beach's PC launch is no different, and the man himself took to Twitter to explain his ideas for it. They're exactly what you'd think, which is to say, you couldn't have possibly predicted this."For this trailer, I gave it the special title 'No Rain, No Rainbow,'" he says. "It's originally a Hawaiian proverb, carrying the positive meaning that no matter the
  
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• Street Fighter 6 hits new all-time peak player count on Steam thanks to the protagonist who failed to take the series lead role from Ryu almost 30 years ago

  18-03-2026 18:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Almost three years after it first launched, Street Fighter 6 has hit an all-time player peak on Steam, and it's all thanks to the series' failed Ryu successor. Street Fighter 3 and its subsequent iterations are perhaps one of the biggest examples of games not getting their flowers until much later in life. After six years of waiting for a true follow-up to Street Fighter 2, "The New Generation" arrived, with quite the literal name, as Capcom had only opted to bring back Ryu and Ken (and later Ak
  
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• Minecraft griefing returns in Pokemon Pokopia as player ruins "public island for co-op building" with 0 guilt: "Very sad to see the efforts of around 100 people go to waste"

  18-03-2026 18:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  The ever-cozy Pokemon Pokopia offers a very wholesome blend of Animal Crossing: New Horizons vibes and Minecraft mechanics – but players are discovering that, sadly, not all in the community are as wholesome as the game they're enjoying.Picture this: it's the early 2010s, you're just getting home from school, and you're preparing to hop on your favorite Minecraft server for some admittedly not-so-great builds. What do you see when you get in, though?
  Your house-in-progress is now a house-i
  
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• 8Bitdo's gray N64 controller pays a perfect tribute to Ninty's colorful '90s gamepad, but I really wish it came with a dongle

  18-03-2026 18:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  The purist in me hates to admit it, but I prefer the 8Bitdo N64 controller to Nintendo's OG trident gamepad. In truth, the only thing that ends up drawing me back to the wired original is its vibrant buttons and contrasting classic gray shell. However, now that there's a version with the same colorful getup, I reckon everyone should pair Ninty's best retro console contender with the new-age Bluetooth accessory. I'm not saying you should ditch your Nintendo 64's original retro controller entirely
  
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• Starfield gets its answer to Fallout 3 and 4's Vault Boy bobbleheads, complete with a playset to display the whole collection

  18-03-2026 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Starfield Free Lanes update is adding the spacefaring RPG's answer to Vault-Tec Bobbleheads from Fallout 3, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76 on April 7, 2026 - with a new twist for those who collect them all.Players have submitted a lot of requests to Bethesda in the three years since Starfield first took flight. The studio is working through some of the biggest of those in the incoming Free Lanes update, as it introduces expansions to space travel and refinements to customization, exploration, and
  
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• While Valve jokingly asked the industry for spare RAM at GDC, Markiplier was streaming Resident Evil Requiem with 192GB of memory and 96GB of VRAM

  18-03-2026 17:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  As the games industry awaits the arrival of Valve's Steam Frame VR headset, Steam Machine mini PC, and brand new Steam Controller, the RAMpocalypse is raging on. So much so that Valve jokingly asked at GDC last week if anyone had any spare RAM, could they send it the company's way to help with the launch of its new hardware. While everyone scrambles to find the best RAM for gaming, it seems that not everyone is short of memory in their at-home rigs.While scrolling through my feed today, I found
  
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• GTA 6 prankster comes clean after response to viral 'leak' was "way bigger than I expected"

  18-03-2026 17:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  You should take most leaks with a grain of salt, but especially anything visual from a release as locked down as GTA 6. Alas, someone managed to make a convincing replication of Rockstar's upcoming blockbuster, to the point of gaining major coverage, and they've now owned the hoax, and explained how they did it.Earlier this month, an apparent leak of Grand Theft Auto 6 showing one of the protagonists, Jason, on a bridge passing several vehicles was uploaded to a mysterious and now-deleted Instag
  
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• World of Warcraft update lifts flying restrictions on mounts in Midnight, even if Blizzard acknowledges "the ability to fly trivializes a challenge" for some

  18-03-2026 17:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  The long-awaited World of Warcraft expansion, Midnight, is finally here, and Blizzard's hard at work tidying up fans' experience with it via hotfixes and updates – including one that lifts the requirement to unlock Pathfinder for Steady Flight.There were discussions surrounding the necessity to unlock Pathfinder for traditional flying in Midnight before the expansion even released – see Reddit for examples.
  Folks were frustrated about the potential grind, with one fan dubbing the req
  
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• "Every appropriate individual" will play GTA 6, says Take-Two CEO, who can’t imagine anyone over the age of 17 being uninterested: "I just don’t see it"

  18-03-2026 17:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick reckons that everyone over the age of 17 years old who owns a console will end up playing GTA 6 . Speaking on The Game Business, host Chris Dring mentioned that a lot of his friends would've played GTA 5 in their early 20s and will maybe lack the time to actually play GTA 6 when it comes out – at least to the extent they used to play them. Zelnick, however, has no fear, as he says "I think we're gonna have a lot of 17 year olds playing GTA 6."Zelnic
  
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