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• Captain Toad Treasure Tracker Walkthrough

  22-07-2018 18:07
  Our Captain Toad Treasure Tracker strategy guide has all the tips you need.
  
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• Valve is revisiting Steam Machine pricing and release timing due to "rapidly" increasing memory and storage shortages

  05-02-2026 01:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Looks like the Steam Machine is going to be a little more expensive than expected due to what Valve calls a "rapidly" increasing shortage of storage and memory.In a new update on the Steam Hardware lineup that was announced in November, Valve says it initially planned to reveal pricing and release timing details by now, but the ongoing and unprecedented memory chip shortage – made worse by a surge in demand from AI data centers, according to the International Data Corporation – threw
  
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• Steam is giving some players refunds for Ashes of Creation, which had the biggest MMO Kickstarter campaign ever, after leadership resignation and mass layoffs

  05-02-2026 01:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  The future of the Kickstarter-funded MMO Ashes of Creation looks unclear at best and dire at worst, and if you're among the masses who bought the game on Steam and feel you aren't getting your money's worth, you might have success simply asking for a refund.For some context, Ashes of Creation was the most successful MMO Kickstarter campaign ever, with the fundraiser launching in 2017 and raising almost $3.3 million. The game itself finally launched into Steam Early Access in December, and only a
  
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• Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone still feels "like an amateur" even with nearly 50 million copies sold, but he hopes that'll help Haunted Chocolatier keep its "indie soul"

  04-02-2026 23:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  After 15 years of development, 10 years of post-launch support, and an adoring fanbase in the millions, you might think that Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone would now feel like an accomplished game developer. Not so, apparently – he still feels like an amateur, and he's hopeful that sentiment will keep Haunted Chocolatier's indie spirit intact."I'm a very amateur developer," Barone tells IGN. "I still feel that way. I'm just a total amateur." That's why, he says, bringing
  
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• Cyclops actor James Marsden says Marvel is "giving everybody what they want" in Avengers: Doomsday, and old school X-Men fans will be happy

  04-02-2026 23:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  James Marsden, who makes his return as Cyclops in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday, is setting a high bar for the massive MCU crossover movie, promising fans of the classic X-Men that they'll be pleased with the movie."Yeah, of course," Marsden tells EW at the Apple TV+ slate event when asked if Avengers: Doomsday would give fans of the old school movie X-Men and his character Cyclops what they're hoping to see, before jokingly cautioning "I've also been trained not to speak about this particular
  
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• GTA 6 publisher Take-Two responds to the Google AI that sent game industry stocks crashing: Project Genie is "not even in the same ballpark" as a real game engine

  04-02-2026 23:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Last week, Google gave its AI Ultra subscribers access to Project Genie, a tool that lets users generate and explore AI-generated worlds. Game stocks quickly cratered after the news, affecting even GTA 6 publisher Take-Two. The company's president does see value in Google's tech but is keen to remind investors that it's no replacement for a real game engine."Trying to make a comparison to a game engine is just, really – they're not even in the same ballpark," Take-Two president Karl Slatof
  
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• Game of Thrones star joins season 2 of underrated Stephen King sci-fi show from Lost director

  04-02-2026 22:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Alfie Allen is set to star in the second season of Stephen King's The Institute.Per Deadline, Allen will star as an eccentric European tech billionaire named Nolan Reeves who is "one of the Institute’s financial backers with an ambitious agenda all his own."The series, based on the 2019 Stephen King novel of the same name, stars Joe Freeman as Luke Ellis, a young genius who is kidnapped in the middle of the night and wakes up in a mysterious building known as The Institute. He's one of sev
  
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• Marvel Rivals owner Netease says heck no we didn't shut down our AI department or warn devs off it: "The situation described did not occur"

  04-02-2026 22:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel Rivals owner Netease has responded to a strange situation in which Japanese developer Goichi Suda (Suda51) suggested the company had shuttered its generative AI research department and instructed its development teams to avoid the technology. Eager to set the record straight, Netease says no, it is still very much investing in AI tech.As Eurogamer reports, Suda said, "They originally had a section researching and developing AI-related stuff, but at one point they decided not to do that an
  
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• Marvel and Life of Chuck actor to star alongside Scarlett Johansson in Mike Flanagan's Exorcist reboot

  04-02-2026 22:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Chiwetel Ejiofor is teaming up once again with Mike Flanagan for a brand new take on The Exorcist.Per an official press release, Ejiofor is set to join the cast alongside the previously announced Diane Lane, Scarlett Johansson, and Jacobi Jupe. Plot details and characters are being kept under wraps. Though the film is being billed as a "radical redo," which focuses on a new story surrounding a father who seeks help for his possessed child.Blumhouse-Atomic Monster and Morgan Creek Entertainment a
  
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• "Made without crunch": World of Warcraft Midnight is the "the fastest expansion" Blizzard has ever made, with "no sacrifices to team health"

  04-02-2026 22:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  World of Warcraft's Midnight expansion, due out, March 2 is a hurricane, introducing a brand new housing feature to help shake the 22-year-old MMORPG up, along with a whirlwind of customization features. But, according to developer Blizzard, something this ambitious could only be accomplished without crunch.Game director Ion Hazzikostas tells reporter Christopher Dring in a new The Game Business interview, while Midnight is certainly "the fastest expansion we've ever made, in terms of the shorte
  
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• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 players have already killed more NPCs than there were people on Earth in the real 15th century

  04-02-2026 22:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 turns one year old today (they grow up so fast), and Warhorse has shared some startling statistics about what we've been up to as the affable Henry of Skalitz. Apparently, we're a bunch of murderous, drunken, fruit-obsessed thugs, for the most part.Over on Twitter, Warhorse shared an infographic on player activity in the year since Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 launched, and it looks like players aren't much for no-kill runs. Collectively, we've killed 452.8 million NPC
  
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• The first trailer for Netflix's War Machine channels classic Predator vibes as Reacher star Alan Ritchson leads a squad of soldiers against an unstoppable killer robot

  04-02-2026 22:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for Netflix's War Machine is here, and despite the title matching the name of Don Cheadle's MCU superhero identity, the film has nothing to do with Marvel. Instead, it focuses on Reacher star Alan Ritchson as a US Army Ranger in training who comes up against a totally unexpected foe.Here's the trailer:As you can see, Ritchson's Ranger, codenamed '81', will have to lead his squad of trainees in a seemingly hopeless battle against some kind of giant mech of undetermined origin. I
  
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• After 60 years in the industry, Harrison Ford says Shrinking would be a "sufficient" way to end his storied career: "Where do you go from here?"

  04-02-2026 22:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Harrison Ford says he wouldn't mind if his career ended after his time on the Apple TV comedy-drama Shrinking, which he calls a "very special" and nurturing experience."Where do you go from here? The kind of work that we’re able to do is remarkable given the tools we have to work with, and the notion that lies behind this series," Ford said during an Apple TV press day panel (via The Hollywood Reporter). "And if it was all over here, that would be sufficient. This has been a different kind
  
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• Those big Animal Crossing and Splatoon updates are meant to be a pathway for fans to migrate to Switch 2 at their own pace, Nintendo says

  04-02-2026 20:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo kicked off 2026 with huge updates for popular games that launched years ago on the original Switch. Animal Crossing: New Horizons' transformative 3.0 update added a new hotel feature that brings offshore strangers to your island as tourists and juiced up visuals on Switch 2, while Splatoon's unexpectedly meaty 11.0.0 update made some major gameplay changes, like the new Flow Aura mechanic for kill streaks and health bars displaying approximate HP for allies and opponents.During Nintendo
  
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• Blizzard renames Overwatch 2 to Overwatch, 4 years after deciding Overwatch was Overwatch 2, because "Overwatch is more than just a digit: it's a living universe," called Overwatch

  04-02-2026 20:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Blizzard has taken a bold stance against number-two and is dropping the disgraced digit from the Overwatch 2 title. The hero shooter will henceforth be known as simply "Overwatch." Again.It was only four years ago that Blizzard reinvented Overwatch as Overwatch 2 – an awkward, fledgling thing halfway between a major game update and an actual standalone sequel, as we observed in our Overwatch 2 review.The game never even ended up including the PvE mode that was meant to make it a "2" in the
  
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• After Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was snubbed at the Grammys, legendary Journey composer Austin Wintory dedicates his win to Sandfall's "once-in-a-generation-level rarity"

  04-02-2026 19:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  This year's Grammy Award for the best video game soundtrack celebrated some excellent OSTs – but notably, the list of nominees did not include Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Even this year's winner is having a hard time believing that Sandfall's game didn't make the cut.Austin Wintory, best known as the composer on Journey, won the 2026 Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media thanks to his work on the wonderful hoverboarding indie adventure Sword of
  
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• Peak's "8 bucks is still 5 bucks" view is a genuine look "behind the curtain" at "vibes pricing" across the industry, analyst says: "70 bucks seems right. All right, we'll try that"

  04-02-2026 19:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nick Kaman of Peak co-developer Aggro Crab made a seemingly silly, very fair point when he reckoned that "eight bucks is still five bucks" when it comes to indie game pricing and player perception. Games director Mat Piscatella of analyst firm Circana says the idea is very real, and reaches way beyond the indie space, especially at a time of enormous price fluctuations in games.Piscatella got onto the subject of price stability in a recent interview with GamesRadar+. Previously, he's noted a wid
  
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• Original Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner reacts to Ubisoft's "brutal" cancellation of Sands of Time remake: "Words like loss and grieving might seem exaggerated, but artists put their hearts into their work"

  04-02-2026 19:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Prince of Persia series is known to many from the PS2-era hit Sands of Time and its follow-ups, but it began with developer Broderbund's original Prince of Persia in 1989, designed and helmed by Jordan Mechner. Following the cancellation of the Sands of Time remake that had been in the works, and indeed in the trenches, at Ubisoft for years – just one casualty of a massive overhaul at the long-declining company – Mechner took to his blog to commiserate with fans and developers hu
  
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• Helldivers 2 finally brings back underrated service technician, whose voice actor is "so happy" to be returning: "Love this game, love this team, love this character"

  04-02-2026 18:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  You'll be greeted by a familiar face if you log into Helldivers 2 just now, because the service technician aboard your Super Destroyer is once again reporting for duty. After taking some time away, she can be found hanging about in the lobby, maintaining all your guns and equipment."Grateful to be back," she exclaims in some of her fresh dialogue. "And to have been gone. You learn a lot in professional development training, like how to create better documentation, and how to stay focused on a pr
  
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• Nioh 3 Metacritic score sees it beat Nioh 2 with its open-world pivot, but you may be surprised to hear it's still losing to the original samurai Soulslike

  04-02-2026 18:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nioh 3's Metacritic score places it above the second entry in the Soulslike trilogy, while it still sits below the original game.At the time of writing, Nioh 3's PS5 version sits at an 86 while the PC version comes in slightly lower at 85. So at least on PS5, its beating Nioh 2 which received 85 for its original PS4 release (however, the PS5 and PC re-release Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition did slightly better at 86, once again tying things). However, despite fans generally being warmer on t
  
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• Iconic Mario voice actor "didn't know anything about video games" in his audition, so he did what anyone would do and "just made things up about food and started talking"

  04-02-2026 18:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  There's no doubt that legendary Mario voice actor Charles Martinet helped Nintendo's red-hatted plumber become as iconic and beloved as he is today, but in his original audition, he "didn't know anything about video games," so he opted for a slightly unconventional approach and "made things up about food," instead.Speaking to GAMINGbible in a new interview, Martinet says that he "started off crashing an audition where I had never heard of the character or even Nintendo." He explains, "I was simp
  
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• Thor star Chris Hemsworth praises Steve Rogers' surprise Avengers: Doomsday teaser: "No one knew he was going to be in the film, and then there he is"

  04-02-2026 18:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Thor star Chris Hemsworth may be the star of his own Avengers: Doomsday teaser, but his favorite trailer revolves around one of his co-stars."I thought it was pretty cool when [Chris] Evans comes up on the motorbike, and because no one knew he was going to be in the film, and then there he is," Hemsworth tells GamesRadar+. "I just thought it was cool. And he had a baby in real life and in Marvel life."The first teaser for the new Avengers movie, which dropped last December ahead of screenings of
  
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• Stardew Valley still has "a secret that no one has ever found" after 10 years, but ConcernedApe says it "reveals something that actually isn't even true anymore"

  04-02-2026 18:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  The ever-beloved farming sim gem Stardew Valley has now been around for nearly 10 years, so you'd think we dedicated fans would've discovered just about everything it has to offer by now – but, according to developer Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone, that's not the case.There is, in fact, a secret remaining that no one in the community has uncovered. Speaking in a recent interview with IGN, ConcernedApe reveals as much. "There's still a secret that no one has ever found," he admits. "I don't thi
  
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• Ubisoft loses another Assassin's Creed veteran: 21-year design senior on the series since the original game leaves the company for "a smaller studio with other veterans"

  04-02-2026 18:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ubisoft is in upheaval, with a massive restructure underway and the specter of layoffs looming. Amid all that, another Assassin's Creed veteran has announced his departure from the company: Luc Couture, a level designer who'd been with the historical open-world series from the very beginning, is moving on to a new project."Today was my last day at Ubisoft Montreal," Couture announced in a LinkedIn post (spotted by Insider Gaming) on February 3. He explains that "I was recently in need for some c
  
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• Texas Chain Saw Massacre is being turned into an original TV show because its director is "not interested in remaking perfect films": "It's the only way I wanted to do it"

  04-02-2026 18:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Surprise! Revered horror classic Texas Chain Saw Massacre is being turned into a TV show by an unlikely team: A24, The Long Walk writer JT Mollner, and actor Glen Powell.As per The Hollywood Reporter, A24 has nabbed the rights to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (or Chain Saw, if you're a horror purist).At this early stage, it's not known what precisely the TV show will cover, though original Chain Saw Massacre co-writer Kim Henkel teased, "There's an epic tale lurking in the Chainsaw backstory."But
  
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• Pokemon Ultra Beasts are "a manifestation of my own resentment," Game Freak artist says after his designs were rejected by art director: "This doesn't mean that I hate Mr. Sugimori or anything like that"

  04-02-2026 18:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  It isn't the Ultra Beasts' fault that they're so abnormal. Understandably, it seems that Pokemon become unpredictable when they're festering with human grudges, artist Yusuke Ohmura reveals.He dumped all of his disappointment about Game Freak art director Ken Sugimori rejecting his designs originally intended for garden-variety Pokémon into Ultra Beasts, he reveals on Twitter, in posts translated by Automaton. You have to admit, if you were only brought into existence to represent one guy
  
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• This mega-cute Eevee Switch 2 pouch is a Valentine's Day gift no-brainer for Pokemon fans

  04-02-2026 18:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Now that the handheld has been out for over 7 months, there's a plethora of cute Nintendo Switch 2 accessories out there that would make the perfect gift, but few scream Valentine's Day more than Hori's Eevee Cottage Core Puff Pouch.For one, this official Switch 2 pouch features actual hearts throughout its design, which are delicately printed alongside a bunch of little Eevee illustrations. Secondly, this case is down to just $29.99 at Amazon today, a saving of $7 off its $29.99 MSRP. Today's d
  
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• Someone put a force feedback wheel on an RC-style controller, and with GameSir's Swift Drive on the way, I hope this sim racing trend continues in 2026

  04-02-2026 17:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  The classic issue of getting into sim racing is that you need to spend big, but to even enjoy the kit you've bought, you'll need to deal with the faff of setting it up at a desk or coffee table. It's either that, or you keep it as a mainstay feature in your home, which isn't the most practical solution since one of the best PC racing wheels and pedals will take up a fair bit of space.It's always felt to me like more of a middle ground should exist. Can't we get one of the best PC controllers tha
  
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• Switch 2 won't increase $450 price tag due to ongoing RAM shortage according to Nintendo president – for now, at least

  04-02-2026 17:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo fans still hoping to snag a Switch 2 don't need to worry about a rise in price due to the ongoing RAM shortage just yet – or, at least, that's what a recent statement from company lead Shuntaro Furukawa would imply.Furukawa, who is the current sitting president of Nintendo, seemingly reveals as much during a recent Q&A session (machine translated by DeepL) following a company financial call. When asked what the impact of rising component prices (specifically those related to m
  
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• Arc Raiders squeezes cheaters a little harder, blocking Steam Family Sharing workarounds "to prevent abuse of shared licenses" and stop players evading bans

  04-02-2026 17:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Embark Studios has been working to curb the amount of cheating in Arc Raiders, and the latest measure on Steam will definitely make some of their lives harder. There are now further limitations on how the extraction shooter can be shared across accounts, preventing some nefarious loopholes.Steam Family Sharing - Valve's system allowing up to six family members access to the same library - now comes with some important caveats on Arc Raiders. "If any account in a Steam Family receives a ban while
  
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