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• Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker Confirmed for Nintendo Switch, 3DS

  08-03-2018 23:22
  Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, the Wii U puzzle game is officially coming to the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS on July 13.
  The updated version of Treasure Tracker will also include new levels based on Super Mario Odyssey, which Captain Toad cameoed in. New Donk City is confirmed to appear.
  The Switch version can be played by two players using a split Joy-Con setup. One player controls Toad with a single Joy-Con, while the other player shoots turnips, among other capabilities.
  The 3DS version
  
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• Battlefield 6 was the US' best-selling game of 2025, finally dethroning Call of Duty after a 23-year-long feud between the juggernaut shooters

  23-01-2026 13:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Battlefield and Call of Duty have been wrapped up in a seemingly eternal feud for as long as both have been around, which is give or take 23 years. They're the shooter equivalent of Ares vs. Athena, Tom vs. Jerry, Coke vs. Pepsi - forever destined to be at odds for the title of the military shooter – and for the first time ever, Battlefield has come out on top.Veteran games industry analyst, Circana's Mat Piscatella, recently released a list of the best-selling video games of 2025 in the U
  
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• Live service dominated 2025 as both PlayStation and Xbox's top 10 US best sellers were almost entirely multiplayer games, with Ghost of Yotei the single-player-only exception

  23-01-2026 13:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  2025's best selling PS5 games list in the US has revealed that only one non-live service game cracked the top ten.Veteran games industry analyst, Circana's Mat Piscatella, has shared the top ten best-selling PlayStation games of 2025 in the US and – as spotted by ResetEra user nolifebr – reveals that live service games are still dominating.Content - 2025 Top 10 Best-Selling Premium Games on PlayStation platforms - U.S. (Dollar Sales, Physical and Digital from digital data sharing pub
  
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• Chris Pratt thinks it's "safe to say" he won't be the DCU's new Batman after trolling James Gunn with a pic of himself in the cowl

  23-01-2026 13:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Chris Pratt has revealed he once pitched himself as Batman to James Gunn, sending a selfie in a Photoshopped cowl to the DCU boss. It was a joke, the actor insisted, but the filmmaker's lackluster reaction made clear to him that he'll never play the Dark Knight nonetheless..."[James] just said, 'Haha,'" the Marvel actor laughed while promoting his upcoming AI thriller Mercy on Josh Horowitz's Happy Sad Confused podcast. "It's safe to say I am not going to be Batman."Pratt and Gunn have a long-ti
  
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• Jason Momoa says you haven't seen anything yet from Timothee Chalamet: "Wait until you see him in Dune 3… I'm serious"

  23-01-2026 13:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fresh off his Oscars 2026 nomination for Best Actor in Marty Supreme, Timothée Chalamet is being championed by Dune co-star Jason Momoa for his work in the Denis Villeneuve-directed sci-fi threequel."Wait until you see him in Dune 3," Momoa told Flip Your Wig. "Maybe some of the best stuff I've seen him do – ever. I'm serious. Tape this interview, write this shit down, I don't give a fuck."Momoa is set to return as Duncan Idaho despite his character's fate in the first movie for Dun
  
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• Arc Raiders players have found a real-life Stella Montis in Italy, and they're leaving hilarious reviews: "The Shredders are a bit of a nuisance"

  23-01-2026 12:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you've played Arc Raiders for any length of time, you've visited Stella Montis, the hidden lab buried in the mountains, where whatever is so unspeakable, it had to be abandoned and all entrances locked. You can actually find it in real life, too, but this version is much less exciting. Even still, players are leaving charming reviews, which hopefully won't confuse other potential visitors too much.The Hotel Stella Montis sits in the Autonomous Province of Trento, in northern Italy, and it's a
  
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• Valve MOBA Deadlock gets perhaps its biggest update yet with 6 new characters, another mode, revamped postgame and tons more

  23-01-2026 12:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Valve's Frankensteined MOBA shooter, Deadlock, just got maybe its biggest update so far.The hero shooter hybrid has been in beta over on Steam for well over a year, but the developer is still steadily improving on all parts of the game, most recently with yesterday's 'Old Gods, New Blood' update that debuted six new heroes coming over the course of the next three weeks and much, much more.Starting with the new playable characters – they're the highlight of every MOBA, no? – Valve has
  
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• Sansa Stark and Tomb Raider star Sophie Turner says she can't watch anything Game of Thrones related, or even listen to the theme song: "It gives me crazy anxiety"

  23-01-2026 12:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sophie Turner recently admitted that she can't watch Game of Thrones or even listen to the opening theme song without feeling "crazy anxiety." The star, who played Sansa Stark in the popular fantasy series throughout its eight-season run, is, however, rooting for the cast of the new show set in Westeros, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.Asked if she was going to be watching the new HBO series, Turner replied (via @jamesbstreet): "If I'm totally honest, anything Game of Thrones, I don't think I can
  
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• Upcoming Star Wars show Maul – Shadow Lord went back to basics by creating backgrounds with painted glass, just like in A New Hope

  23-01-2026 12:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  It looks like the team behind upcoming animated Star Wars show Maul – Shadow Lord learned a lot from their predecessors, as they used traditional matte glass painting techniques to bring the cityscape of Janix to life.In an interview with the official Star Wars site, Vice President of Lucasfilm Animation Athena Portillo explained that the team opted for old-school filmmaking methods to create the backdrop. "Cinematography, Lighting and VFX Director Joel Aron really took it up a notch with
  
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• Game Freak action RPG Beast of Reincarnation isn't just being made by the Pokemon studio, as the devs "managed to seek out a lot of partner companies to work with us"

  23-01-2026 12:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Game Freak has confirmed that a lot of the developers on Beast of Reincarnation are outsourced.Beast of Reincarnation – the new action RPG from Pokemon developer Game Freak – had its big reveal at yesterday's Xbox Developer Direct, showing off gameplay from the upcoming title for the first time. With a Final Fantasy 7 Remake-esque combat system and a world taking cues from the likes of Nier, its safe to say it looks way more ambitious than any Pokemon release in recent memory.Speakin
  
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• Don't skip Wonder Man, as overwhelmingly positive first reactions say it's one of the best MCU shows and "exactly what we need right now"

  23-01-2026 12:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first Wonder Man first reactions are in – and they offer an overwhelmingly positive glimpse at one of MCU's more experimental projects.Wonder Man, which sees superpowered Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) chase acting fame and glory, flanked by the one-time 'Toast of Croydon' Trevor Slattery (Sir Ben Kingsley), is being lauded as one of Marvel's best series, alongside Loki and WandaVision.Our own Wonder Man review says it's a "low-key gem up there with the MCU's best." Other criti
  
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• The Acolyte star jokes about the "controversy" around her now-canceled Star Wars show: "God forbid the lesbians make it to space"

  23-01-2026 12:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Acolyte star Dafne Keen has addressed the Star Wars show's controversy again – and she's wondering where the lesbians are.On a new episode of Losing the Plot podcast, host Ashleigh Simonot said that she and Keen met on the set of The Acolyte. "A fan favorite," Keen, who played Jecki Lon, the half-human, half-Theelin Padawan of Lee Jung-jae's Master Sol, joked.After it was released in June 2024, the show was subject to review bombing and online backlash on account of its queer, female s
  
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• Sinners star Wunmi Mosaku reacts to her (pleasantly surprising) Oscars acting nomination: "I didn't know the industry could be so gentle and kind"

  23-01-2026 12:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sinners just made history as the most nominated movie ever at the Academy Awards, following the Oscars 2026 nominations announcement, with Wunmi Mosaku becoming a first-time nominee in the Best Supporting Actress category. The star reacted to the announcement, saying she "can't believe it" and praising the character created by Ryan Coogler."It's such a beautiful continuation of this journey that I have described as magical from the moment I met with Ryan. From the moment I read the first scene,
  
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• Star-Lord actor Chris Pratt says the Avengers: Doomsday trailers were "really exciting", but suggests Peter Quill won't be involved: "I can't wait to see it"

  23-01-2026 12:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  When the cast of Avengers: Doomsday was revealed during a seemingly never-ending livestream last year, Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt was one of the most notable omissions in a long list of nearly every major Marvel player from the last two decades.Of course, Marvel is known for keeping secrets, but when GamesRadar+ asks what he thought of the four Doomsday teasers (featuring Steve Rogers, Thor, the X-Men, and the Wakandans) released so far, Pratt plays it coy – and suggests that
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 devs tip their hat to fellow RPG Fable: "Oh my f***ing god this game just became my most anticipated"

  23-01-2026 11:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Playground Games has finally lifted the lid and properly shown off its Fable reboot, chickens galore, basically two console generations after the last game in the series. The blockbuster fairytale did more than just make me, personally, very excited to marry and divorce all of Albion – it's impressed fellow RPG developers behind Baldur's Gate 3.The British studio swung its doors off its hinges yesterday when it showed up to Xbox's Developer Direct show with lots to say about Forza Horizon
  
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• Spider-Man: Brand New Day director teases big "tonal shift" for the new movie while saying "it’s still the Spider-Man that everybody loves"

  23-01-2026 11:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Spider-Man: Brand New Day director Destin Daniel Cretton has recently teased a "tonal shift" for the upcoming Spidey movie, as he wanted it to be different from the previous instalments starring Tom Holland."All the creatives involved when I came on board wanted to do something that felt different," he told ComicBook. "Of course, it’s still the Spider-Man that everybody loves, but this is a new chapter in his life, and that tonal shift was something that was really exciting to me. It felt
  
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• Bethesda could have made a Fallout movie or TV show a decade ago, but "credit to Todd Howard," they refused Hollywood's offers until they found "the right partner"

  23-01-2026 01:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hollywood had been asking Bethesda to make a Fallout movie or TV show for a decade before the hit Prime Video TV show adaptation, according to studio veteran Emil Pagliarulo, but the developer continually refused until they found the right people to run the show.In an interview with our pals at PC Gamer, Pagliarulo explained why Bethesda kept rejecting pitches from Hollywood. Apparently, it's all thanks to the face of the studio, Todd Howard."Credit to Todd Howard, we could have made a Fallout m
  
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• Halo Master Chief actor tells AI to keep its filthy paws off of his voice: "That's where we cross a line"

  23-01-2026 01:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Steve Downes, the iconic voice behind Master Chief from the Halo franchise, has joined the chorus of high-profile voice actors speaking out against the use of AI in voice performances. However, his concern is very specifically related to the alarming prospect of developers using real voice recordings to make AI clones of those voices.In a YouTube AMA going live today, Downes made it very clear that he does not approve of anyone using AI to replicate his voice. "That's where we cross a line that
  
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• Fable head says "we can't try to make a Lionhead game," and the RPG reboot isn't fantasy either: "We all know what fantasy is – it's The Witcher, it's Skyrim, it's Lord of the Rings"

  23-01-2026 00:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ralph Fulton, Playground Games general manager and game director on the new Fable, is drawing a distinct line between what his reboot of the classic RPG series is and isn't.For one, it's not a Lionhead game. The OG Fable developer shut down in 2016, and Playground isn't trying to simply dupe the recipe for that studio's special sauce.In an interview with Xbox Wire, Fulton revealed that Playground received a "treasure trove of documents from Lionhead that had been in storage" to serve as a naviga
  
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• Forza Horizon 6 is going full anime, from the Initial D-inspired nighttime Touge Battle mode to what appears to be a full-sized Gundam

  22-01-2026 23:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Forza Horizon 6 takes the series to Japan, and while the gameplay reveal at today's Xbox Developer Direct was largely focused on real-life inspirations, there was also a strong undercurrent of pure anime throughout. The few seconds we saw of the nighttime Touge Battle mode looked like a straight-up adaptation of Initial D, and the whole thing ended on what appears to be a full-sized Gundam.There was never any question that fans would turn an open-world racing game set in Japan into Initial D. Th
  
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• Minecraft creative lead plays Hytale and concludes "I'd rather just play Minecraft," and Hytale's lead says "he is probably right to feel this way"

  22-01-2026 23:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  With Hytale entering the sandbox game pantheon, Minecraft and Mojang CCO Jens Bergensten has been poking his head in to see what all the fuss is about. His verdict on the early access version of the game? "Very polished" and worth another look, but a little familiar.In a post on Bluesky, Bergensten responds to a user wondering about his thoughts on Hytale. The CCO had previously said he's looking forward to trying the game after its surprise revival, after all."I'd like it to be more different t
  
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• Forza Horizon 6 adds Assassin's Creed Shadows-style Estate where you can build "pretty much whatever," as long as you fund your lavish lifestyle by doing things like "delivering tofu"

  22-01-2026 23:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Forza series – which lets you drive at 300mph – is not one you might automatically associate with "responsibility," but the upcoming Forza Horizon 6 is going to teach you to take some, damn it.The Japan-set racing game out on May 19, per the January 22 Xbox Developer Direct, will introduce new, fantastic stretches of rural land called Estates, which are yours to customize exactly how you want… as long as you can afford it.Per an Xbox Wire post, "The Estate is a flat area o
  
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• New Fable developer Playground "got a treasure trove of documents" from original creator Lionhead "that had been in storage," and one sums up the whole series in 5 words

  22-01-2026 23:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  New Fable developer Playground Games has been careful not to slavishly emulate the work of series creator Lionhead Games, but the new shepherds of the IP did obviously want to examine and learn from the games that came before them. As part of this history lesson, the studio unearthed design files that were evidently stored away before or around the time Xbox shut down Lionhead a decade after acquiring the studio and mismanaging it into dust – a misstep that Xbox leadership has publicly own
  
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• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 couldn't compete with Assassin's Creed or Dragon Age: The Veilguard's budgets, so Warhorse had to "change the rules of the game"

  22-01-2026 22:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is an absolutely huge game by pretty much every metric, but it was made on a much tighter budget than comparable RPGs like Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Shadows and EA's Dragon Age: The Veilguard. However, instead of trying to directly compete with those giga budget projects, Warhorse decided to forge its own distinct path forward.Talking to Edge Magazine for issue #420, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 lead designer Prokop Jirsa explained the game's brilliant balancing of ha
  
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• Fable will let me romance nearly all of its 1000 NPCs "with a very few exceptions," lead says, and I can't wait to be a hero-turned-divorcee with two kids after orchestrating a turbulent love triangle

  22-01-2026 22:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fable is about to bring us into an open-world version of Albion that's home to a living population of over 1000 NPCs, and I'm happy to confirm that you can romance almost all of them.With the Xbox Developer Direct revealing that we can get to know the NPCs, go on dates, get married, and even have kids, I took the opportunity to ask Playground Games' general manager Ralph Fulton if we could feasibly woo and wed any one of NPCs we encounter in the world."With a very few exceptions, the answer is y
  
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• Forza Horizon 6 Premium Edition is $120, even more expensive than the previous game, and it still doesn't include all DLC

  22-01-2026 21:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Forza Horizon 6 looked extremely impressive during today's Xbox Developer Direct, with a gorgeous take on Japan and some seemingly smart tweaks to progression on display. If you're ready to buy all the way in, you might want to take a little caution, however, as the game is going to be notably more expensive than its predecessor at pretty much every level.If you just want the game itself, Forza Horizon 6 is $70, up ten bucks from the $60 price point that Forza Horizon 5 launched at back in 2021.
  
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• Remedy defends Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney as Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead questions "millions in lost revenue" from no Steam version: "There would be no Alan Wake 2 without Epic"

  22-01-2026 21:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Alan Wake 2 studio Remedy is slapping Larian publishing lead Michael Douse on the wrist, while Douse is slapping Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney on the wrist, while Sweeney is patting himself on the back for prioritizing good deals for gamers.That's a lot of flapping around, so let's take it step-by-step. Earlier this week, Sweeney made a post on Bluesky responding to claims that giveaways on the Epic Games Store result in more Steam purchases, saying, "gamers and developers win by having more option
  
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• Sorry, the Fable reboot doesn't feature a dog companion, Playground lead confirms: "I was hoping that nobody would ask that question"

  22-01-2026 21:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  There's been one big question on many a fan's lips since the Fable reboot was first revealed: will there be a dog? And after the Xbox Developer Direct didn't give us an answer, I put that exact question to Playground Games general manager, Ralph Fulton."Do you know what? I was hoping that nobody would ask that question, although I think it was inevitable that someone would. We do not have a dog in this game," Fulton confirms.Yes, there will be no faithful canine companion for our hero when we st
  
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• Invincible season 4 trailer teams up Mark Grayson and Omni-Man to fight an intergalactic war

  22-01-2026 20:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for Prime Video's Invincible animated series has arrived, and it throws a big twist in the adversarial relationship between Mark Grayson, the show's eponymous superhero, and his villainous father Omni-Man, who returns to Mark's life in a serious and unexpected way.Here's the trailer:As long time fans are well aware, Omni-Man masqueraded as one of Earth's greatest heroes before launching an invasion on behalf of the intergalactic Viltrumite empire. He later turned against his ow
  
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• Fable isn't a sequel, Playground Games lead says, because "we needed to reboot the franchise" and "put our stamp on it" – "It would be inauthentic for us to just try and make Fable 4"

  22-01-2026 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fable is about to bring us back to the classic setting of Albion for the first time in almost 15 years, but as Playground Games general manager Ralph Fulton makes clear to me in an interview, it's purposefully, officially titled Fable for a very good reason: this is a "Playground Fable game".As the Xbox Developer Direct made clear, Fable is entering a new era, with a truly open-world version of Albion, a different take on the morality system, and an impressive number of NPCs to meet. And while i
  
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