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• Countdown to midterm elections

  30-07-2018 23:51 via yahoo.com
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• New Hello Kitty Island Adventure event turns money, clothes, and probably your brain into chocolate, and I'm also having a meltdown: "OH MY GOD IT'S SO CUUUUTEEE"

  06-02-2026 22:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hello Kitty is only five apples tall, and so she was very brave to bring all these pink-wrapped boxes and creamy bonbons to Hello Kitty Island Adventure, the Sanrio life sim that is once again celebrating its Valentine's Day Hugs & Hearts festival event.As was the case with its past two iterations, Hugs & Hearts requires you catch wiggly lovebugs in exchange for gifts – now through February 19. But this year, as if anticipating that I needed it, Friendship Island will also be full
  
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• New Super Mario Galaxy Movie teaser shows off Shy Guys, Koopa Kids, and Yoshi's talent for turning enemies into eggs

  06-02-2026 21:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is shaping up to expand the world of 2023's Super Mario Bros. Movie with a whole host of new villains, allies, and adventures, with a new clip from the film showing off the classic enemies the Shy Guys along with Mario's dinosaur pal Yoshi demonstrating his power to capture bad guys and turn them into harmless eggs.Don't think too hard about how that works - just enjoy how cute (and kinda terrifying) Yoshi is and get ready for more aspects of the venerable Super Mari
  
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• Reported Arc Raiders budget of $75 million is "not too far off," says Embark head: "We can live for a long time on the money that Arc Raiders has been generating"

  06-02-2026 21:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arc Raiders had sold over 12 million copies as of January 12, so Embark CEO Patrick Söderlund is right to say "you don't have to be a math professor to realize that the game has done well for us." But the specifics of the game's profitability and its impact on Embark's plans, including the development of two new games, remains interesting.Söderlund gets into Arc Raiders' reception and finances in an interview with IGN. "Of course, it's been very profitable for us," he says.Asked about
  
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• Whistle director breaks down the gory horror movie's surprisingly sweet ending: "I wanted it to be gentle"

  06-02-2026 21:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Almost every character in Whistle dies before the screen cuts to black and the credits roll. Hell, even the ones who actually survive pass over briefly in the final act in an attempt to confuse their murderous fates and stop 'em killing them for good.Before we delve into the specifics, you should be warned that this article contains major spoilers for Whistle –though you've probably already guessed that. Turn back now if you've yet to watch the movie and don't want to know what happens!So,
  
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• You're really "gonna s*** your pants" this time, Helldivers 2 boss threatens, and I'm more convinced now that he's speaking the same language as the bots

  06-02-2026 20:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Helldivers 2 studio CEO Shams Jorjani is teasing something huge in the nastiest way possible, and you're going to need bigger pants.You're going to need bigger pants, because Arrowhead lead Jorjani says you're going to shit them again. Yeah. Sorry. Jorjani is continuing a long-running community joke that started in 2025, when Jorjani told a fan wondering what was next for Helldivers 2, "You'll shit your pants" – except, now, Jorjani has delivered the omen in even more frightening binary co
  
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• Blizzard insists its Overwatch rebrand isn't "us trying to admit there was a failure," it's about easing fears over "when it's going to get replaced by Overwatch 3"

  06-02-2026 20:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  This week, Blizzard announced that Overwatch 2 is now just Overwatch again, but it's not ready to call its seemingly failed attempt at a full-blown sequel a, well, failure.The newly 2-less Overwatch was announced as part of a substantial rebrand ushering in a "new story-driven era" for the shooter, and it's all kicking off with a year-long narrative arc called The Reign of Talon, consisting of six seasons that'll release over the course of the year. Season 1, which comes out February 10, will ad
  
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• Xenogears translator had a rough time with the legendary PS1 JRPG, and not just because it's about killing God: "At the time, I was a Jehovah's Witness"

  06-02-2026 19:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  These days, it's pretty much a given that you'll kill God – or at least some conception of an almighty deity – at the end of any given JRPG. In 1998, when Xenogears launched on PS1, the idea was the source of a lot more controversy. It was particularly troubling to translator Richard Honeywood, who describes his time working on Xenogears as something of a nightmare – and not just because of the religious content."You have to remember that the content was quite formidable: it's
  
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• Todd Howard knows there's "anxiety" about Fallout 5, admits "we do like to wait" but reassures fans "we never stopped developing Fallout"

  06-02-2026 19:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Bethesda chief Todd Howard says he gets the "anxiety from fans" regarding the studio's dead silence on Fallout 5, which has continued even amid peak Fallout TV show hype, but maintains that work is happening and news will come.In Game Informer's excellent oral history of Fallout, Howard joins other Bethesda veterans in evaluating the future of the series. For years, the only concrete information we've had for Fallout 5 is that it will come out after The Elder Scrolls 6 – another game with
  
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• Bungie reluctantly responds as the best raiders in Destiny 2 force each other to solo-kill the Witness final boss "or drink pee" as punishment

  06-02-2026 18:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Like some people, I haven't been playing as much Destiny 2 lately, but I have enough love for the game that it wouldn't take the threat of a Bear Grylls cocktail to get me to log in again. Nevertheless, a concerning number of Destiny 2 raiders – enough to catch Bungie's attention, anyway – have issued and completed a solo raid challenge which they've appropriately dubbed, "Solo Witness or Drink Pee.""We've heard about the alternative community punishment," the Bungie Twitch account s
  
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• Dragon Quest 8 translator's decision to make the JRPG British English didn't go down well with Square Enix's American office: "They couldn't understand it, and they really hated it"

  06-02-2026 18:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ask any writer who's used both British English and American English, and we can list a multitude of differences between them. They're the same language, but with lots of contrast in execution. Long-time video game translator Richard Honeywood opened a can of slimes by opting for the British end of the spectrum when translating Dragon Quest 8, to stand-out from the distinctly more American Final Fantasy localizations, and the developers weren't happy about the change."I knew we needed to be caref
  
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• Bethesda could take notes from Baldur's Gate 3 on how to make new RPGs like The Elder Scrolls 6 "meaningful," says Skyrim lead: "The gaming community has spoken"

  06-02-2026 18:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former Skyrim lead and Bethesda Game Studios veteran Bruce Nesmith would look to RPGs like Baldur's Gate 3 for inspiration while developing new games like The Elder Scrolls 6, if he were working on them.Or, at least, he seems to reveal as much during a recent interview with Press Box PR. He begins by explaining how Bethesda's games have evolved over time – and how they still could.
  "Bethesda games in the last decade have become less dynamic in order to meet the needs of what the games need
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs receive rare honor from French Ministry of Culture, previously won by Shigeru Miyamoto and the creator of Rayman

  06-02-2026 18:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  After sweeping The Game Awards and capturing our hearts wholesale, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's plaudits continue still. Studio Sandfall Interactive has now received an award from the government of France for creating a milestone in the country's game development scene."We were received yesterday at the Ministry of Culture to celebrate our game, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33," Sandfall Interactive says in a LinkedIn post, as spotted by VideoGamer. "As such, the members of Sandfall Interactive wer
  
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• Chrono Trigger writer and Xenogears composer's new JRPG, also starring a sick frog warrior, is coming to Switch and PC this summer

  06-02-2026 18:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Chrono Trigger writer and Chrono Cross director Masato Kato is back with a new turn-based game, but he couldn't help himself, this one also has a badass sword-wielding frog in your party.Another Eden Begins was announced at yesterday's Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase as the next project from lead developer Masato Kato (who has credits on too many JRPG classics to name) and composer Yasunori Mitsuda (Xenogears, Chrono Cross), coming to PC, Switch and Switch 2 sometime this summer.If the name sou
  
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• After 100 hours of The Binding of Isaac creator's new cat breeding roguelike Mewgenics, I'm not surprised it's the highest-rated game of 2026 so far

  06-02-2026 18:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mewgenics – the new cat breeding roguelike from the creator of The Binding of Isaac – is the first game in 2026 to score in the 90s on Metacritic and Opencritic.After 13 years since its original announcement, Mewgenics has finally been released. And while the game went through a cancellation and reboot in that time, against all odds, it's both managed to live up to the expectations of the long wait and the expectations of following up one of the best roguelike games ever made in The
  
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• Danganronpa creator encourages devs to "deceive the company" to get risky projects approved: "If something goes wrong, the one who hired you is to blame anyways lol"

  06-02-2026 18:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Danganronpa and The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy mastermind Kazutaka Kodaka has some words of wisdom for any aspiring developers – if you want to have an especially out there or creative project approved, lie.Well, that's a bit of a crude summary, but it's pretty on point regarding Kodaka's actual words. As translated by Automaton, a new online post from the developer in response to a fan asking for advice on how to have their more ambitious or "out there" ideas approved by companies
  
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• Switch 2 suddenly has a better PS1 emulator than the one PS5's had for years, as the new Console Archives series shows Sony how retro games should be

  06-02-2026 17:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  The long-running Arcade Archives series from Japanese publisher Hamster has set an impressive standard for emulated rereleases of older games, and its new Console Archives lineup is already showing similarly high standards. The fact that it's debuting with classic extreme sports game Cool Boarders also comes with a special irony: there's now a PS1 emulator on Switch 2 that's dramatically better than Sony's official emulator on PS5.Hamster's version of Cool Boarders is available now on Switch 2 f
  
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• Silent Hill: Townfall from Outer Worlds publisher confirmed as Konami's "brand-new Silent Hill," but after 4 years of silence I don't know what to expect

  06-02-2026 17:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Silent Hill is a spreading sickness, and Konami is determined to keep propagating it in a variety of great, fine, and startlingly terrible ways. The publisher has just confirmed that – shortly after the disastrous Return to Silent Hill movie, alongside Bloober's promising Silent Hill 1 remake – it's also currently working on the new Silent Hill: Townfall.Don't confuse it with middling Silent Hill: Downpour from 2012, or the awful interactive TV series Ascension from 2023 – thou
  
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• Light guns at the ready: House of the Dead movie is reportedly a "top Sega priority", with The Last of Us breakout Isabela Merced now onboard

  06-02-2026 17:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  The video game movie gold rush continues as Superman and The Last of Us breakout actor Isabela Merced gets set to lead a new House of the Dead movie.While the House of the Dead movie has been floating around for a while with Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson attached, it appears the project is now officially moving forward.As per Deadline, Merced is crossing the threshold into House of the Dead, an adaptation of the wildly successful lightgun franchise that populated arcades across the l
  
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• Five new Analogue 3D "Prototype" consoles are coming in unreleased N64 colors I'd have killed for back in the '90s

  06-02-2026 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  More Analogue 3D Limited Edition consoles are inbound, and this time the FPGA N64 systems are wearing unreleased "Prototype" colors. While the last drop featured transparent shells based on the original Funtastic range, this wave is picking up where Nintendo left off by releasing five new colorways that feel unmistakably '90s.Appropriately dubbed the Analogue 3D Prototype Limited Editions, the new range features transparent Extreme green, Atomic Purple, Ocean, Ghost, and Glacier colorways. As th
  
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• Mass Effect veteran says new RPG Exodus won't be one of those games where "you can just romance anyone because you're the hero"

  06-02-2026 16:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Upcoming RPG Exodus, the very Mass Effect-y one from veteran Mass Effect developers, is trying to avoid easy romances in favor of more realistic, sometimes challenging relationships.In an exclusive interview with GamesRadar+, novelist and narrative director Drew Karpyshyn says the team's approach to romance is to "start by giving players as many options as we can, but we want to keep it so that these characters feel real."
  With experience on everything from Baldur's Gate and Star Wars: Knights o
  
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• Nioh 3 shatters record for the series' highest Steam concurrent player count through the power of actually launching on PC simultaneously for once

  06-02-2026 16:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nioh 3 already has the highest player count of the series on PC, which goes to show that a simultaneous release is a great idea.Looking over on SteamDB (first spotted by VG247) the concurrent player count for Nioh 3 is something I've had to constantly re-write because it literally won't stop going up so far. When I first looked at it, the game was boasting a player count of 53,237, however at the time of writing it's at 70,186 players which was as of one-minute ago. Regardless, the 53,000 high a
  
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• MachineGames boss says Wolfenstein 3 is still on the cards, almost 12 years after the trilogy began: "It can be now, it can be later, but we're not done with it"

  06-02-2026 16:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Wolfenstein 3 is still on the cards and MachineGames has always intended to finish the trilogy it began 11 years ago, according to studio director Jerk Gustafsson.Gustafsson reiterates as much in an interview with GameIndustry when talking about what comes next for the studio after its excellent adaptation, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, but he's more tight-lipped when it comes to when exactly to expect a finale to its alt-history epic."Our intention has always been to go back to Wolfenstei
  
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• I just got my hands on MANGMI's Pocket Max modular gaming handheld, and I suspect it could be my new favorite for PS2 games

  06-02-2026 15:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Psst, there's a new modular gaming handheld in town, and the MANGMI Pocket Max just reached my paws in time for its launch. The 7-inch Android contender is available as of now with an early bird $199 price tag, and while its apparently "designed for streaming," I suspect I'll end up using for it for playing my PS2 collection when not rotting my eyes with CRT screens.Again, the Pocket Max is now live for $199.99 at MANGMI, so you're getting what the brand calls the "first Android handheld with ma
  
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• Arc Raiders player seeks ultimate victory over the Arc by one-shotting the Queen with synthesized fuel canisters: "16 hours I'm not getting back"

  06-02-2026 15:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  There are few encounters more daunting in Arc Raiders than the Queen. The hulking great mechanical beast can make light work of even the most efficient teams. So, threading the line between brave and stupid, one player decided to try and one-shot the six-legged nightmare – and the results are actually surprising.The YouTuber Zeeb decided to perform the experiment – y'know, for science. Obviously, no conventional weapons are capable of one-shotting the Queen, because if any did, Embar
  
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• The official Switch 2 SD card is back in stock, and it can cope with all 102GB of FF7 Rebirth

  06-02-2026 15:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is making its way to the Nintendo Switch 2, as we learned during the recent Direct presentation. Anyone who hasn't yet spent a gruelling 90+ hours running the sequel is likely very excited, but a big game like that requires a lot of storage and you'll need 102GB of your Switch 2 to install it.Fortunately, the official Switch 2 SD card is back in stock for $59 at Amazon, with its 256GB of extra storage. Due to its cute official Super Mario design, this official Switch 2mic
  
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• Paranormasight's sequel is going to leave me sleeping with the lights on thanks to this Switch 2 headset

  06-02-2026 15:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Paranormasight, one of my favorite horror games in the past 5 years, is finally getting a sequel. The moment I first spotted the Storyteller's fabulous silver locks and the reveal of The Mermaid's Curve in the February 5 Partner Direct Showcase, I knew I not only had to pre-order the game as soon as possible, but also use one of the best gaming headsets to play it.The first game was a feast for the ears. It didn't have a huge sweeping orchestral score, but the audio played a big part in creating
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 director says the RPG's endings were made to "serve as narrative soil for new adventures," so he's "eager to find out which ones" will be adapted in the TV show

  06-02-2026 15:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Well, it's official… a Baldur's Gate 3 adaptation for television is underway, and all of us are losing our minds trying to figure out where the story might go and how it might play out on screen – there are plenty of routes it could take, after all – including Larian boss Swen Vincke.Larian Studios crafted an RPG gem with various paths and finales to experience, so there's no telling which ones the newly unveiled Baldur's Gate 3 TV show might take – but, as game director
  
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• Nintendo aims to offset skyrocketing memory prices through "mass production of Nintendo Switch 2," because if more people own the console, it can "greatly expand software sales" instead

  06-02-2026 13:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo has confirmed it aims to tackle the ongoing memory shortage through mass production of Switch 2 units.The ongoing memory shortage has been a hot topic in the tech world as RAM prices are ballooning thanks to AI garbage ruining everything it touches. This has already caused Valve to revisit Steam Machine pricing and release timing due to shortages, while both Sony and Nintendo have had to acknowledge the chances of this causing price hikes for their consoles in the near future (although
  
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• Todd Howard says Fallout season 2 has "the most badass Power Armor I think we've ever done," so it's "awesome" to have it in Fallout 76 too

  06-02-2026 13:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Fallout TV show made a big mushroomed-sized bang when it debuted a brand new Power Armor into the world's lore in season 2, but not only was its appearance a standout moment in the streaming series, franchise steward Todd Howard thinks it might be the coolest Power Armor variant Bethesda's ever worked on.The New California Republic Power Armor is a pretty big deal since it's the first time we've seen the suit in Fallout canon – it hadn't yet appeared in any of the games when the episod
  
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