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• Deltarune fans spent 2 years recreating Chapter 1 "in its entirety" inside SNES RPG Earthbound, which feels like the ultimate tribute to Toby Fox's romhacking start

  30-10-2025 17:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Undertale and Deltarune creator Toby Fox tinkered with Earthbound romhacks very early in his game dev career, and that inimitable, SNES oddness went on to inform the RPG duo that so many fans know and love today. So it's only fitting for a crew of those fans to have spent two years painstakingly rebuilding Chapter 1 of Deltarune inside their own Earthbound romhack, which will be released for free this month.Chromadeline, one of the eight developers of the upcoming Earthbound romhack Bound to the
  
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• Bethesda was scared of making Fallout 3, but by Fallout 4 it had chilled out: "we don't have to be so reverential now"

  20-12-2025 19:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fallout 3 lead writer Emil Pagliarulo explains Bethesda was nervous when creating the game, but by Fallout 4 the team had chilled out.It may not feel like it since it's made roughly the same number of entries as Interplay did in its seven years, but Bethesda has owned Fallout for almost two decades now (having gotten the license in 2004, before purchasing it outright in 2007). 2008's Fallout 3 immediately sent the franchise from a beloved cult hit PC game that had been dormant for a while straig
  
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• "Last year we were the 'Manor Lords publisher', this year I think we're something more": Heroes of Might and Magic company sold over 4.5 million copies two years in a row

  20-12-2025 17:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Strategy game publisher Hooded Horse has been on a roll lately with back-to-back hits, like Manor Lords and 9 Kings, and some really exciting upcoming games, such as Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era. And, now, CEO Tim Bender has released some really interesting stats about the company's performance.In a LinkedIn post, Bender revealed that the publisher had "sold over 4.5 million copies across all stores" over the last year, with its catalogue being added to Steam Wishlists more than 8.5 mill
  
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• Arc Raiders legend dedicated to collecting rubber ducks has now amassed an army of 4,200 of them with no end in sight

  20-12-2025 17:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Arc Raiders player who campaigned for Embark Studios to recognize each and every rubber duck has now collected an army of the little bath toys, and they have no plans to stop.Just last month, one particular Arc Raider known as BigBootyTom on Reddit shared their pretty impressive collection of 600 rubber duckies and called on Embark to patch the game. You see, previously, raiders could only display nine of them in their dens. After BigBootyTom's cries, every single duck became visible in raid
  
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• Death Stranding's Hideo Kojima wants to "pioneer a new genre," not "focus much on existing ones," but he'd still like to make a Western or space game

  20-12-2025 16:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Death Stranding and former Metal Gear Solid director Hideo Kojima is known for pushing boundaries and toying with ideas you don't often see in multi-million dollar blockbusters. But it's a conscious effort as the famed director has now said he's not really interested in working within existing genres.When asked what genres he'd like to tackle next, in an interview with Wired Japan, Kojima said, "I want to pioneer a new genre, so I don't focus much on existing ones."Before the first Death Strandi
  
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• Dispatch cut a KPop Demon Hunters-style character who "looked like a Saja Boy undercover," devs say: "We should do that for Season 2. If there is a Season 2."

  20-12-2025 15:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dispatch almost included a character that would've fit right into the world of Netflix's animated musical phenomenon, KPop Demon Hunters.Dispatch writer and AdHoc Studio co-founder Pierre Shorette revealed as much in an interview with Eurogamer, explaining that the team had an idea for a hero called Winter, a "K-pop star" with a "Korean idol-y face" who "looked like a Saja Boy undercover."Nick Herman, game director and fellow studio co-founder, instead disagreed and recalled that Winter "dressed
  
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• Steam will always dominate over the Epic Games Store because people don't want to "cheat on [their] home library with some other shop," says Witchfire lead

  20-12-2025 02:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  One game developer has a theory on why Steam has remained the dominant PC storefront for so many years despite the existence of high-profile competitors like the Epic Games Store.Witchfire creator Adrian Chmielarz, who co-founded Polish studio The Astronauts in 2012, partially credits the success of Witchfire with its early days as an Epic Games Store timed exclusive, but he didn't shy away from criticisms in an interview with FRVR. Chiefly, he compared Steam very favorably to the Epic Games Sto
  
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• The Switch 2 could be getting two smaller game cartridges as publisher reveals and then backtracks the existence of a cheaper path to physical launches

  20-12-2025 01:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo could soon be offering two new Switch 2 cartridges for publishers wanting a cheaper option to give their games a physical launch.Right now, the only two options publishers have for distribution on Switch 2 are the console's traditional 64 GB cartridges, the game-key cards often maligned in game preservation communities, and of course, purely digital launches. It seems that may be about to change, though, if a leak from R-Type Dimensions 3 publisher Inin Games is to believed - despite th
  
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• First Stranger Things season 5 volume 2 clip features a new plan to take down Vecna – that involves a certain "wizard" and his newfound powers

  19-12-2025 23:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first clip for Stranger Things season 5 volume 2 has arrived – and Joyce is feeling a little overzealous. However, after the ending of volume 1 episode 4... we can't really blame her.Warning: Spoilers for Stranger Things season 5 volume 1 below!In the brief clip, which Matt and Ross Duffer brought exclusively to The Tonight Show, an impassioned Joyce is giving the gang her brand new plan to defeat Vecna. Of course, it involves Will and his newfound "wizard" powers (though technically,
  
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• 3 weeks after a game-changing Super Mario 64 speedrunning hack was discovered, streamer sets new world record for beating the game with just one star on a drum kit

  19-12-2025 22:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  About three weeks ago, blindfolded speedrunning prodigy Bubzia shared a newly discovered Super Mario 64 hack he predicted would change the game "forever," and a ridiculous new world record bears that out.As GR's resident speedrunning sicko Dustin Bailey pointed out then, the new trick is called the crackslide, and it renders a notoriously difficult maneuver that had previously been integral to the 1-star speedrunning category – that is, Mario 64 runs completed with only one star collected
  
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• Silent Hill f writer says he's "forever scared of" women, and that's why the game takes them seriously: "Working on themes based around women is, to me, the greatest act of respect"

  19-12-2025 22:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Freud offers several options for why men are so afraid. Castration is a big one. Lacan then posits a bit nervously that "there is no such thing as Woman" – since her existence is encompassed by mankind, isn't it? But the philosophy of Silent Hill f scriptwriter and When They Cry manga creator Ryukishi07 is more simple. To the horror legend, men are scared, women are scary, and that's just a beautiful thing."These are my personal opinions, so allow me to apologize in advance if my answers s
  
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• "Now it's just toxic": Helldivers 2 lead says meta weapons can ruin the game, especially since "you will get tired of" having a "bigger power fantasy than everyone else"

  19-12-2025 20:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Helldivers 2 is a game about dictators, but that doesn't automatically crown you as one. Design director Niklas Malmborg thinks you should actually loosen up about how you play – for the sake of Democracy."We start getting a separation of community where some players say like, 'No, we're playing on this power level. The rest of the weapons and gear are on this power level," Malmborg says in a new Democratic Conversation on the Helldivers 2 YouTube. Things spiral. "The more separations you
  
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• Todd Howard says Elder Scrolls 6 "most definitely" has more trees than Skyrim, and now I'm pinning Valenwood to the location conspiracy board

  19-12-2025 20:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Elder Scrolls 6 is right up there with GTA 6 in terms of the most anticipated games, but we still know precious little about it, despite there being more than seven years between its reveal trailer and now. That said, Bethesda director and executive producer Todd Howard has just dropped one of the only hard details about the game itself so far, even if it ends up meaning very little in the long run.In a genuinely fascinating video from content creator Any Austin, the question we've all been
  
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• James Cameron says Matt Damon didn't actually lose millions from turning down Avatar: "That never happened… it was simply an availability issue"

  19-12-2025 19:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  James Cameron says that not only was Matt Damon never formally offered the lead in 2009's Avatar, but that he was never offered 10 percent of the film's earnings, either."He was never offered the part," Cameron told The Hollywood Reporter. "I can’t remember if I sent him the script or not. I don’t think I did? Then we wound up on a call, and he said, ‘I love to explore doing a movie with you. I have a lot of respect for you as a filmmaker. [Avatar] sounds intriguing. But I real
  
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• Total War: Medieval 3 lead is "pretty sure" we'll get the strategy game before Elder Scrolls 6, but hopes Bethesda will prove him wrong: "I need it"

  19-12-2025 18:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  After 19 years, Total War: Medieval 3 is in development at Creative Assembly. But don’t get too excited, because there's still quite a bit to go before we'll get to play the long-awaited historical strategy game. One of the studio bosses is relatively confident it'll arrive before The Elder Scrolls 6, though, even if he'd rather be playing that first.In a round-up post on the official forums, Roger Collum, vice president of the Total War series, speaks about the announcement of Medieval 3,
  
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• "We love making games more than we love managing": Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says "it's good to have limitations," so the RPG studio won't "scale up" for any future projects

  19-12-2025 18:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Now that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has secured various big wins under its belt, from the Golden Joystick Awards to the more recent Game Awards 2025 event, Sandfall Interactive likely has its eyes on the future – a future that apparently won't look very different for it.As per Edge's Knowledge newsletter, director Guillaume Broche implies as much as he responds to a question of whether or not Sanfall Interactive's next game will prove to be a "larger-scale production" than Clair Obscur: E
  
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• Yakuza lead is proud "people can finally say they enjoy the Like a Dragon series more openly" as some devs "kept their involvement a secret from their parents or girlfriends"

  19-12-2025 18:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Yakuza / Like a Dragon series producer Masayoshi Yokoyama says the thing he's most proud of is that people can openly enjoy the series now. Hm.The Yakuza series is 20 years old now, with the first game releasing in Japan on December 8, 2005. Compared to its humble beginnings, the series is somewhat of a powerhouse now, with a new release coming pretty much every year (or three in a year in the case of Feb 2023 – Feb 2024) and a massive worldwide fanbase for a series that didn't even bother
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director says the award-sweeping hit is "very different from traditional JRPGs": "Currently, in France there's a movement to make FRPGs"

  19-12-2025 18:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director Guillaume Broche claims that Sandfall Interactive never intended to make a JRPG and instead wanted to make something French. Since the launch of the record-breaking game, he thinks there's been a movement to create FRPGs in his home country.In an interview with DenFamiNicoGamer that's been translated by GamesRadar+, the French director says that while JRPGs inspired the team, it was never its intention to create a Japanese game. "When many Western de
  
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• Anime's answer to Spotify Wrapped is here thanks to Crunchyroll – and it comes with a "spirit companion" too

  19-12-2025 18:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you're subscribed to Crunchyroll, you can now see how your anime journey has been in 2025 – an answer to Spotify Wrapped, if you will, that you can share on your social media and that will tell you what kind of anime fan you are. It comes with a "spirit companion" too.Crunchyroll Arc offers a "personalized experience based on the anime that you loved to watch over the past year", according to the streamer. What was your most-watched anime series this year? How many hours have you stream
  
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• Ex-Bethesda lead reveals handwritten origins of Fallout's strange text and iconic "F*** You": "I was honestly expecting them to tell me to delete it"

  19-12-2025 17:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hidden between the real threats of Fallout 3, the busted mutants and big guns, there is a warning: "FUCK YOU." Since 2008, that gruff bit of graffiti has become a beloved Easter egg, but former Bethesda lead Nate Purkeypile tells GamesRadar+ that was never the plan.Purkeypile recently said on Bluesky, "It never stops being weird seeing my own handwriting being used for stuff I didn't write haha," after the developer added his handwriting as a font for Fallout 76. By comparison, that fat "FUCK YO
  
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• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 producer wanted a return to Morrowind and Oblivion-style RPGs where devs could "take greater creative risks" with "games that were not so forgiving"

  19-12-2025 17:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is an uncompromising game, much like the original, and that's no accident. Developer Warhorse Studios wanted its historical sequel to exist within a canon of other odd, singular games that were made without trying to appease every type of player.Speaking to PC Gamer, Warhorse Studios co-founder and the game's executive producer, Martin Klima, says "games [like Morrowind and Oblivion] were created in happier times, when teams were smaller, and overall cost of developme
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 director hates Divinity: Original Sin 2's squirrel so much he tried to delete him from the new versions, but the character "just wouldn't die"

  19-12-2025 17:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  We can all agree the squirrels in Larian Studios games are amazing, right? All of us except Swen Vincke, studio founder and recurring game director, who hated one of the cute critters in Divinity: Original Sin 2 so much he ran a one-person campaign to get it deleted and failed.He spoke about this to Mein-MMO, where he explained his disdain for the adorable pet. "It's funny that you like Sir Lora. I hate him. If there is one thing I regret about Original Sin 2, it's bringing Sir Lora into the gam
  
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• Even Divinity devs got carried away by your Game Awards sculpture theories: "I saw people speculate that it was Bloodborne 2. And I was like "Oh I hope it is!'"

  19-12-2025 16:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Of course, a glowing skeletal statue in the desert is going to spark theories – the mysterious Game Awards teaser was imposing enough to spark a religion. Fans were ultimately glad to learn the hellish sculpture revealed a new Divinity game and not the beginning of the apocalypse, but even Divinity developers at Larian got a little carried away by the possibilities."I had a moment where I saw people speculate that it was Bloodborne 2," Adam Smith, Divinity's writing director, says to Polyg
  
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• The word "arsehole" got a bestselling Switch shopkeeping sim removed from the eshop: "A single word in more than 100,000 words of localization was caught and scrutinized without a chance for us to fix it"

  19-12-2025 16:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Indie bestseller Tiny Bookshop disappeared off of the Nintendo Switch eShop after it was found to have shipped with the word "arsehole," without any warning to the developers.Tiny Bookshop – a cutesy game in which you run a tiny bookshop – was released onto Nintendo Switch back in August, and despite indie powerhouses like Hades 2 and Hollow Knight: Silksong releasing in the weeks that followed, it managed to keep a strong standing in the charts of the Nintendo Switch eShop. This las
  
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• Legend of Zelda lead Eiji Aonuma wanted to launch the first Zelda game on the Switch 2, but working with Koei Tecmo on Age of Imprisonment at least offered "some inspiration"

  19-12-2025 16:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Legend of Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma says that he wanted a Nintendo-made Zelda game to be the first released on the Switch 2 before Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment launched. However, the collaboration between his studio and Koei Tecmo has given the team inspiration for the next game in the series.In an interview with 4gamer, spotted by The Gamer and translated by GamesRadar+, Aonuma jokes that he wishes the team at Nintendo had the honor of launching the first game in the series
  
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• Amid Divinity's controversy, The Last of Us co-creator doubles down that "we don't need AI" and promises to avoid it while making his newest game

  19-12-2025 16:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Last of Us game director and co-creator Bruce Straley has doubled down hard on his original generative AI stance, pointing out that the tech's ethical questions extend far and wide. Needless to say, he'll be avoiding the tech for as long as he can while making his next game: the delightfully named Coven of the Chicken Foot.While speaking about the recent drama surrounding Larian's use of AI in Divinity's early development during a chat with Kinda Funny Games, Straley evokes "that Jurassic Pa
  
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• Larian lead says RAM shortage is affecting Divinity's development, calling for "a lot of optimization work in early access that we didn't necessarily want to do"

  19-12-2025 16:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  As Larian Studios, the developer behind Baldur's Gate 3, cracks on with its work on the new Divinity game, CEO Swen Vincke reveals that the recent RAM shortage and spike in its cost might present a setback in the development of the team's upcoming title.In a new interview with TheGamer, Vinckee explains that the ongoing RAM shortage (one that essentially boils down to AI model training) doesn't just have an effect on the gaming community – it also presents developers themselves with a prob
  
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• Best Buy's last minute PS5 game deals are so good, I need to rethink my holiday gaming plans

  19-12-2025 16:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  With less than a week to go until December 25, time is slowly but surely running out to buy any PS5 games as gifts. Fortunately, these last minute PS5 game deals from Best Buy can at least help, as plenty of them are available for same-day pickup or are ready to ship in time for the big day. But with savings this good, I won't tell anyone if you want to grab some to give yourself plenty to play over the festive period instead.There is a lot of savings on recent 2025 releases, which is something
  
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• Lords of the Fallen 2 boss says Epic Games Store exclusivity doesn't matter because the "majority of PC players who want a specific game will buy it" anyway

  19-12-2025 15:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Broadly speaking, platform and store exclusives are becoming relatively rare. Ballooning costs in a precarious industry mean most studios need every possible avenue for sales. The upcoming Lords of the Fallen 2 is working against this idea, coming out on the Epic Games Store only on PC, and one of the central devs believes it’ll make a negligible difference to the audience.On Twitter, Marek Tyminski, founder and CEO of CI Games, explained why the sequel is tied to Epic's marketplace. "Let'
  
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• Tomb Raider: Catalyst actor "really frightened about losing Lara" after being "completely blindsided" by Microsoft's decision to abruptly scrap Perfect Dark reboot

  19-12-2025 14:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Perfect Dark actor Alix Wilton Regan says she was blindsided by the game's cancellation, given just how much had been recorded for it. Thankfully, though, the upcoming duo of Tomb Raider: Catalyst and Legacy of Atlantis offers some relief.Microsoft's sweeping layoffs earlier this year resulted in a number of project cancellations across Xbox and beyond, with Rare's Everwild, Zenimax Online Studios' unannounced MMO, and even third-party titles like Romero Games' unannounced project, which lost it
  
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