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• Capcom Shows Off Two Resident Evil 2 Maps For Umbrella Corps

  25-05-2016 17:01
  We had the chance to go hands on with Umbrella Corps at PAX East, and came away with elevated expectations. While we’re waiting for a proper sequel (and the Resident Evil 2 HD Remake), Capcom is giving us some classic maps and faces to tide us over.
  The latest battlegrounds unveiled takes us back to Raccoon City. One is a more open city map. The other returns us to the police station we called home in Resident Evil 2.
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• Metro 2039 pre-orders are live, but that Collector's Edition is moving fast

  14-10-2026 17:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Metro 2039 pre-orders are live and already flying off the shelves. You're in luck if you're simply securing a Standard Edition, but that bumper pack Collector's Edition is mostly out of stock today. I say mostly because, depending on where you are you might get lucky here. Very in the UK, for example, still has these merch bundles up for grabs. Things are still moving fast here, though, so if you spot stock live it's worth jumping on sooner rather than later. Metro 2039 pre-orders also have a mi
  
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• Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake has new boss rematches with built-in speedrun tracking

  14-10-2026 17:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  By all appearances, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Nintendo Switch 2 seems to be a one-to-one remake of the original N64 classic, faithful down to the details of every dungeon puzzle. But there are at least a few all-new features in here beyond the quality of life tweaks, including a special hall where you can marvel at defeated enemies and battle bosses all over again."Somewhere in this world lies the Hall of Fallen Foes," the game's new overview trailer explains. "Statues of defeated
  
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• Epic's bulletproof plan to outdo Steam: "We vibe coded the Epic Games Launcher"

  14-10-2026 17:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Epic Games has retooled the Epic Games Store to feel less like molasses in an igloo, and the company says it's now "46% faster than Steam" thanks to the power of partially AI-generated code. "We vibe coded the Epic Games Launcher to be faster than the other guy," Epic says in a recent Twitter post. Attached is a graph claiming that the EGS launcher now has a "cold start to store" time of 5.47 seconds, which is about 4.6 seconds faster than the 10.07 seconds recorded for Steam. It's unclear in wh
  
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• Kojima sympathizes with Digger flopping – people also wrote off Death Stranding without playing it

  14-10-2026 17:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Besides masterminding games like the Metal Gear Solid series and Death Stranding, Hideo Kojima has long been a fervent movie fan. He recently sat down with noted filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, whose film Digger is currently in cinemas, to discuss similarities between that picture and his games over the years.The conversation was put together by Gizmodo Japan, and during the chat, per machine translation from two different sources, they first touched on their shared preoccup
  
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• Rockstar still won't reveal cost of GTA 6 development, but it's definitely not previously rumored $1.5 billion

  14-10-2026 17:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rockstar Games still won't reveal just how much GTA 6 has cost to develop, but one person involved has shot down the idea that the game has a $1.5 billion budget.Given the 13-year wait for GTA 6, it's probably safe to assume that Rockstar and Take-Two have spent a lot of money on the project. The game has been worked on in one way or another since at least the mid 2010s, with Rockstar North co-studio head Rob Nelson confirming the studio was working on a version of the game dubbed "Project Ameri
  
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• Mario Kart 8 patch stops Switch 2 players from being bombarded with more obstacles than on Switch 1

  14-10-2026 17:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Nintendo's upgraded take for Switch on its beloved 2014 Wii U game, just got another new update – sorry, Mario Kart World stans.The update boosts Mario Kart 8 Deluxe up to version 4.0.1, bringing with it a good few fixes that fans of the 2017 banger have been eagerly awaiting.
  As per Nintendo's official patch notes, these start with developers addressing the "issue where the number of obstacles or Item Boxes would increase during Online Play and Wireless Play" on the S
  
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• Rockstar wins without doing anything as GTA 6 leaker Cyberleek retreats after meme coin crashes

  14-10-2026 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  GTA 6 leaker Cyberleek has once again called it quits after their meme coin not only failed to meet the $30 million market cap goal meant to trigger the release of a purportedly playable build of the game, but flamed out entirely. In a series of posts to their website later shared online, Cyberleek insists that the coin crash wasn't their fault. Rather, somebody else dumped their coin stock, "everyone else sold, and CL was blamed for the crowd's dump." "The token was always a donation, never an
  
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• Razer has decapitated Kuromi for its new earbuds, but it's the perfect amount of gaming tech absurdity

  14-10-2026 16:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  When a brand like Razer launches a new "edition" of its existing tech, I always prefer the design to go big or go home. Transforming my favorite goth-bunny girl's head into a pair of Kuromi Edition Razer Hammerhead V3 X HyperSpeed earbuds is definitely a go-big moment.The $119.99 earphones don't just re-color the charging case pastel purple and slap on some existing Sanrio artwork and call it a day. Instead, the entirety of the existing gaming earbuds case has been swapped out with Kuromi's head
  
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• Arc Raiders PvE mode called "bland" and "hollow" by players who say it's ruined the tension

  14-10-2026 16:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  A PvE playtest is currently happening in Arc Raiders, and some first impressions aren't strong for the mode. A contingent of players isn't happy with how the dynamic feels compared to the standard experience, even expressing regret that they wished this had been added in the first place.Embark Studios kicked off a week-long public beta for PVE in Arc Raiders just yesterday, October 13. The idea is that player-on-player damage is removed, forcing everyone to tackle the Arc in front of them and ge
  
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• VisionQuest's E.D.I.T.H. star brought elements of Tony Stark into her role: "Tony's legacy is in there"

  14-10-2026 15:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  VisionQuest introduces the human avatars of several of Tony Stark's A.I.s who occupy Vision's interior world with him. Among them is E.D.I.T.H., or Even Dead I'm The Hero, who was first introduced in Spider-Man: Far From Home through a pair of Stark-created glasses.VisionQuest builds out her story a lot more as she's played in human form by Schitt's Creek star Emily Hampshire as a chaotic, fun, weapons expert. Speaking to GamesRadar+, Hampshire says she really wanted to acknowledge her character
  
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• Avatar: Seven Havens books three and four have been in the works "for a bit"

  14-10-2026 15:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avatar: Seven Havens is only three episodes into season one, but in a remarkable display of confidence, it was confirmed during the show's recent New York Comic Con panel that the Last Airbender sequel series will return for seasons three and four.This, however, wasn't news to Seven Havens co-creator Michael DiMartino, or writer and co-executive producer Sehaj Sethi, who revealed during a conversation with GamesRadar+ that, like The Last Airbender before it, the Seven Havens team have been worki
  
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• Paul Bettany says Wanda Maximoff is like a "ghost" that Vision is "haunted by" in VisionQuest

  14-10-2026 15:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  VisionQuest may be the conclusion to the WandaVision trilogy, but this is not Wanda Maximoff's story. Instead, it's Vision, specifically White Vision, who takes the limelight, and according to showrunner Terry Matalas, it was always planned that way. "She died in that big movie," he tells GamesRadar+ when asked how Wanda's absence impacted the story, referencing her death in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. "It's Vision's moment now. WandaVision gave almost just a blank canvas with t
  
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• CRKD's tiny controller got a growth spurt, but the new Atom+ is still a perfect travel-friendly pad

  14-10-2026 14:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  The CRKD Atom+ has gone through some upgrades to merit its new 'plus' namesake, and its new size is exactly what I had hoped for when I first learned of the improved version of the retro-inspired gamepad.Don't get me wrong, it's still teeny tiny and should never be used as a day-to-day Switch 2 Pro controller substitute, unless you want some Mario Kart World with a side order of wrist cramp. However, the £29.99 (via Amazon) growth spurt has made it big enough to stand out amongst my messy
  
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• Doom creator among the developers paying tribute to legendary FPS dev Richard 'Levelord' Gray

  14-10-2026 14:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tributes are pouring in for Duke Nukem and Sin level designer Richard 'Levelord' Gray, who passed away on October 12, 2026, aged 68.Gray got his start making modded levels for Doom, making his official game development debut as a designer for fellow FPS Duke Nukem 3D, before going on to design levels for the likes of Quake, Half-Life: Opposing Force, and Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, as well as being a primary designer on Sin. His talent for level design had him dubbed 'Levelord,' with him bei
  
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• PS5 pirate store with over 1,600 games taken down before being immediately replaced by a clone

  14-10-2026 13:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  An unofficial store with over 1,600 free game downloads for jailbroken PS5s was taken down this week, but – please, pretend to be shocked – it's already been reinstated by someone else, with Pandora's box well and truly open.The store, known as Overdrive, went viral a few days ago – it arrived following a new PS5 jailbreak, which, as reported by Tom's Hardware, was compatible with all consoles except those that'd been very recently updated. Obviously, Sony was never going to be
  
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• MTG Darkhold Destiny just went up for pre-order, and it's the first Marvel Magic set I've felt excited for

  14-10-2026 13:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pre-orders for Magic: The Gathering's latest expansion have emerged like a sorcerer from a sling ring portal, and to be frank, MTG Darkhold Destiny is the first time I've felt excited about a Marvel set. Following its surprise announcement at New York Comic Con 2026, the supernatural range (which promises to explore darker corners of the Marvel universe) is now up for grabs at Amazon ahead of its 2027 release. I've been looking through the set's array of goodies – from four Commander decks
  
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• Avatar: Seven Havens co-creator confirms there was no "secret Avatar" between Korra and twin Avatars Pavi and Nisha

  14-10-2026 13:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avatar: Seven Havens is a show loaded with mysteries: how can there be twin Avatars? Did Korra really cause the cataclysm that destroyed the world? And why was there no Avatar in the two centuries between The Legend of Korra and Seven Havens?The latter question has led to a popular theory that maybe, secretly, there were other Avatars during this 200-year period. But speaking to GamesRadar+, Avatar co-creator Michael Dante DiMartino confirms that the line of Avatar succession leads directly from
  
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• Rockstar vowed GTA 6 wouldn't be finished "by crunching" after Red Dead Redemption 2's development

  14-10-2026 13:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  After Red Dead Redemption 2's crunchy development, Rockstar decided "'we're not doing it again like this'" for GTA 6, the studio's head of publishing says, and she's "proud" that the studio changed things for its latest title.In an interview with Bloomberg, head of publishing Jennifer Kolbe says that the development of Red Dead Redemption 2 was "a real moment for Rockstar to look at itself," even before the company began receiving backlash over reports of crunch for the staffers bringing the 201
  
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• Palworld isn't following Fortnite because making money "as quickly as possible" isn't the mission

  14-10-2026 13:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Palworld universe is expanding quite a bit in the coming months. Developer and publisher Pocketpair has got a dating sim, a farming sim, and an MMO on the slate, and while you might think elements of these would make more sense as expansions of the main game, the team isn't keen on simply replicating Fortnite's metaverse-type model."I can certainly understand why some people might expect us to take Palworld in that direction," John 'Bucky' Buckley, the head of publishing and communications a
  
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• Zelda: Link's Awakening's Nintendo Switch remake now has a PC port if you can stomach an "almost exclusive use of AI"

  14-10-2026 13:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  A recompilation PC port of the Nintendo Switch remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening has emerged online, made "with almost exclusive use of AI."PC ports of classic games through the act of decompilation and recompilation have been one of the best things to happen to PC gaming in the 2020s while everything else falls apart around it. Thanks to AI slop causing ballooning prices, a sheer amount of shovelware flooding steam, and just generally being all over the place, some have taken to c
  
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• "Please tell me you're kidding": GTA 6's two delays flabbergasted Take-Two CEO

  14-10-2026 12:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  The two GTA 6 delays might have been frustrating for you, but they were definitely worse for Strauss Zelnick, CEO of the game's publisher, Take-Two Interactive, who reportedly asked the unfortunate Rockstar dev who told him about them if they were "kidding."Speaking to Bloomberg, Rockstar's head of publishing, Jennifer Kolbe, said she had to call up Zelnick twice - once when GTA 6 was delayed out of Fall 2025 to a May 2026 date, and then again to say that it needed a second delay, this time from
  
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• DC Studios co-CEO gives the first Swamp Thing update in over a year – and it sounds promising

  14-10-2026 12:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Several DC Studios projects have fallen by the wayside – but not Swamp Thing.James Mangold's horror project has largely been on the backburner since it was first unveiled back in 2023.Speaking to Deadline at the Clayface premiere, DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran has confirmed that work is still ongoing on the film."We're working on it, absolutely," Safran said. "The script is being written as we speak. But it's something we're excited about. All these things take time – when you've al
  
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• GTA 6 was delayed for years after Rockstar scaled back "Project Americas"

  14-10-2026 12:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rockstar North co-studio head and GTA 6 lead developer Rob Nelson explains that the open-world game has taken so long to come out, in part, due to a scrapped version dubbed "Project Americas."I don't know if anyone really noticed, but Rockstar Games has taken quite a while to follow up GTA 5 and release GTA 6. While we've had the massive Red Dead Redemption 2 in the meantime, the 13-year wait for GTA 6 has made fans quite feverish to play the next game in Rockstar's iconic crime series. Many ass
  
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• Crystal Lake creator and star Linda Cardellini reveal the Friday the 13th scene that "forms the basis of the series"

  14-10-2026 12:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Even though Pamela Voorhees is the original villain in the Friday the 13th franchise, she is often forgotten. The mix-up is so ingrained in horror culture that in Wes Craven's Scream, Ghostface asks his first victim who the original Camp Crystal Lake killer is, to which she says Jason. Throughout time, Jason Voorhees has become a horror icon, while his mother faded into the background. That's why Crystal Lake creator Brad Caleb Kane wanted the new prequel series to focus on Pam. "Well, we only s
  
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• VisionQuest fans think Ultron is "the highlight" of the new MCU show

  14-10-2026 12:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  VisionQuest has finally landed on Disney Plus, and the first two episodes bring back James Spader's fearsome Ultron – only now, he has a human guise, and he lives inside of Vision's head (along with the rest of the MCU AIs). Despite his new roommates, though, Ultron is still his villainous self, and MCU fans are loving seeing him again. The following contains spoilers for episode 1 and 2. In the second episode of the series, Paladin the bounty hunter takes Vision's son, Tommy Shepherd, hos
  
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• GTA 6 took 13 years, but Rockstar says GTA 7 won't

  14-10-2026 12:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Although GTA 6 has taken a whopping 13 years to come to fruition following Grand Theft Auto 5, Rockstar promises that shouldn't be the case with GTA 7 or any other future projects, as it's got everything it needs to get 'em out more quickly.Phil Hooker, technical director at Rockstar, tells Bloomberg as much during a new interview, explaining that the foundation developers have built while creating GTA 6 – an entry that's arriving over a decade after predecessor GTA 5 launched back in 2013
  
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• World of Warcraft: Forever aims to "aggressively shut down the flow of suspicious gold"

  14-10-2026 12:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Although World of Warcraft: Forever is still only available to play via its Beta – a Beta which won't see any player progress carry over to Blizzard's full release, mind you – it's not enough to deter folks from purchasing in-game gold with real money.You know, real money trading. If you've played any MMO at all, whether that be retail World of Warcraft or something like Final Fantasy 14, you know it's a problem. And even though it doesn't really make sense financially, the WoW: Fore
  
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• DC boss James Gunn says the Clayface movie won't be the last we see of the shapeshifting Batman villain

  14-10-2026 11:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  The DCU's next movie, Clayface, has premiered, and the supervillain body horror is already being called "shockingly gruesome" in early reactions. Good news for all the Clay-heads out there, then: James Gunn has revealed this won't be the last we see of Matt Hagen in the DCU.Speaking to Cinemex on the Clayface red carpet, Gunn confirmed that the gloopy, shapeshifting bad guy will return in a future DCU project. "I think one of the most fun things about creating the DCU is being able to tell stori
  
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• VisionQuest's hidden Wanda Easter egg makes Vision's return even more tragic

  14-10-2026 11:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Last we checked, Wanda was definitely dead in the MCU. Having an entire mountain dropped on you – as shown in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness – will do that to a person.Since then, we've had allusions to her fate in Agatha All Along (yep, still dead) and, now, a touching tribute to Scarlet Witch courtesy of Vision in VisionQuest. But there's almost no chance you spotted it first time around.As unveiled by an eagle-eyed user on Twitter, the moment in the VisionQuest premie
  
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