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• Destiny goes free-to-play as Destiny 2: New Light

  06-06-2019 21:18
  New Light aims to entice new players by offering an appealing place to start playing Destiny 2 without needing to play a pricey game of catch-up....
  
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• As PlayStation kills discs, Nier Automata creator Yoko Taro is "saddened by the loss of physical media" and despairs over "the future" of games: "That's just the way things are going"

  20-07-2026 15:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nier series director Yoko Taro has expressed his concerns over the decline of physical video games, after Nintendo started to replace some Switch 2 cartridges with Game-Key Cards, and PlayStation announced plans to end physical disc production for new games in 2028.Following up from a tweet in which he showcases his physical copy of Hi-Fi Rush, the legendary game designer writes about how he is "saddened" by the loss of physical games. Yoko thought that publishers would continue to distribute ga
  
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• Call of Duty movie officially set in the Modern Warfare universe

  20-07-2026 15:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Call of Duty movie has been confirmed to be set in the Modern Warfare universe. The news comes from Fanatics Fest, courtesy of Variety, and it was revealed by director/co-writer Peter Berg. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare brought the franchise forward from World War 2 to the present day for the first time, and it revolved around conflict in Russia and the Middle East. At the moment, nothing is known about what the film might be about, as plot details are shrouded in secrecy. Yellowstone creat
  
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• First Avengers: Doomsday trailer finally reveals Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom

  20-07-2026 15:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  After months and months of waiting, the first official Avengers: Doomsday trailer is finally here, and it looks like a thrilling return to form for the MCU after years of wheel-spinning post-Endgame.The trailer, which appears to be identical to the one shown behind closed doors at CinemaCon earlier this year, opens with the voice of Doctor Doom himself ominously intoning: "Something's coming, something we may not be able to deter." Clocking in at 2 minutes and 25 seconds, the extensive first gli
  
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• Leaked Lego Star Trek bridge looks brilliant, but fans are divided on price

  20-07-2026 15:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new Lego Star Trek bridge set is on the way according to leaks, and it'll recreate the original series Enterprise complete with its most notable crew members.Apparently found in-store by a fan and posted to reddit, the kit is an ode to the Enterprise bridge set from 1966 with more than a few practical effects inspired by the show itself– sliding doors, a transporter room that 'beams up' minifigures, and a captain's chair that rocks to simulate the cast throwing themselves around when the
  
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• LCD emulation could preserve a bunch of iconic Nintendo handhelds and their cursed rivals

  20-07-2026 14:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Old LCD games look like stone-age tech compared to even handhelds like the OG Game Boy, but they're still worth preserving. That's something BrickEmuPy hopes to achieve, as the project has already preserved over 60 portable classics, and it's seemingly the first to preserve Nintendo's Mini Classics keychains for emulation. Created by developers Azya52 and Andrei Cherniaev, BrickEmuPy is a "Handheld LCD games emulator in Python with PyQt6." Highlighted by the folks at Time Extension, the project
  
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• The Odyssey fans have only just noticed what the 7-month-old poster actually shows

  20-07-2026 14:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Now that The Odyssey has hit the big screen, fans have figured out that the film's first poster was actually hiding a huge plot point. Warning, the following contains spoilers for The Odyssey, so turn back now if you haven't seen it yet, but make sure to read our spoiler-free The Odyssey review first. On December 18, 2025, the first poster for The Odyssey was released online, showing the back of a soldier, who we now know is the King of Mycenae, Agamemnon, wearing a helmet with gold hardware res
  
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• Horror fans are raving over the first nightmare-inducing trailer for Other Mommy that played before The Odyssey this weekend: "Won't allow me to sleep for the foreseeable future"

  20-07-2026 13:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you saw The Odyssey in theaters this weekend (and plenty of people did), you may have been traumatized by the chilling first trailer for Other Mommy – a new Blumhouse horror starring Jessica Chastain. And horror fans are already raving about the terrifying first look.Directed by Rob Savage (Host, The Boogeyman), the movie centers on 8-year-old Bela, whose parents are going through marital difficulties when a sinister doppelgänger entity she dubs 'other mommy' emerges from her close
  
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• Final Fantasy 4 was nearly skipped entirely so the JRPG series could "beat" Dragon Quest: "It was kind of a brilliant idea"

  20-07-2026 13:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy series leads Takashi Tokita and Yoshinori Kitase claim that Square Enix considered skipping Final Fantasy 4 as a promotional stunt. If the company had decided to go directly to FF5, the multi-entry JRPG series' fifth entry would've launched before Dragon Quest's.In an interview on Final Fantasy's official website, Final Fantasy 4 lead Tokita reveals that Square Enix considered calling the series' fourth entry Final Fantasy 5 in order to surpass the company's most popular JRPG serie
  
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• The Steam Machine isn't doing exclusives because Valve thinks "restricting where people can play" doesn't work

  20-07-2026 13:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Valve engineer has explained why there wasn't a plan to launch a brand new exclusive alongside the Steam Machine, or to have exclusives in general. Despite the Steam Machine being a new console-like experience, Valve has opted to take the Xbox Series X|S's approach and release it without a new exclusive game to really draw players in – despite many rumors/fanfics that Half-Life 3 is on the way. Even though the selling point of the platform has always seemed to be your whole PC library in
  
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• Ryan Reynolds says the next Deadpool movie will have "a few really deep cuts" from the comics

  20-07-2026 13:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  If news of Avengers: Doomsday tickets imminently going on sale and a possible Avengers: Doomsday trailer dropping today weren't enough, Ryan Reynolds has confirmed that "another Deadpool film" is coming, suggesting it will draw closely from "a few deep cuts" from the comics.Speaking on stage at Fanatics Fest (via @hobbynonsense on Instagram), Reynolds teased an inevitable fourth Deadpool film. "There's a few really deep cuts that are missing from the movies, I think there's a few deep cuts missi
  
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• Someone managed to build the leaked Lego Donkey Kong Arcade early, so an official reveal has to be imminent

  20-07-2026 13:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Another day, another case of the leaked Lego Donkey Kong Arcade set appearing in the wild. Someone seems to have actually bought and built the model after it turned up at Target last week, and their finished build on reddit gives us our best look yet at how the leaked Lego Donkey Kong Arcade set works. For starters, yes: even though it's a display piece like many of the best Lego sets, it's 'playable' and allows you to roll barrels from the top right down to the bottom. However, it looks like Ma
  
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• Broken laptops can morph into Steam Machine alternatives, and the base parts cost less than 32GB RAM

  20-07-2026 13:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Valve's $1,049 starting price means trying to build a Steam Machine is all the rage. Many of you will end up with a standard budget gaming PC instead, since you can't achieve the same compact build and thermals using off-the-shelf parts, but one of my favorite modders is turning old laptops into something close for less than a 32GB kit of RAM. Over at DIYPerks, Matthew Perks has you covered on how to turn an old laptop into either a snazzy all-in-one gaming PC or an ultra-thin alternative to the
  
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• House of the Dragon season 3 fans are disappointed by episode 5, especially since the season is only 8 episodes long

  20-07-2026 12:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  House of the Dragon season 3 got off to an explosive start with the Battle of the Gullet and Rhaenyra finally taking King's Landing, but the Game of Thrones spin-off's pace dropped considerably in the aftermath – and episode 5 is concerning fans. One person took to Reddit to lay out their concerns about how the show is playing out, saying, "I honestly enjoyed the new episode quite a bit, but I'm growing incredibly concerned about the show's pacing moving forward."Are we 100% sure they know
  
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• Palworld has been "life-changing," lead says as Pocketpair's survival game hits almost 1 million concurrent players on Steam

  20-07-2026 12:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Less than two weeks after launching into 1.0, people are still piling into Palworld. The monster-collecting hit came within spitting distance of a huge milestone, attracting more than 950,000 concurrent players over the weekend.Numbers gleaned from SteamDB have the survival game's recent peak at 961,897 concurrent players, while SteamCharts give a slightly different read out at 956,613. There are always slight variations for these things, but the point is, Palworld almost brought in over one mil
  
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• As Bethesda boss Todd Howard praises Elder Scrolls 6 and Fallout 5's "incredible" tech team, fans aren't convinced Creation Engine 3 is a good idea: "Gonna release in an absolute buggy mess"

  20-07-2026 12:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Not everyone is feeling optimistic about The Elder Scrolls 6 and Fallout 5 following Bethesda's confirmation that both are being developed using the studio's proprietary Creation Engine, albeit an updated version.Last week, Bethesda dropped a slew of information, including confirmation that Fallout 5 is in pre-production, that Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters are in the works, and that Obsidian Entertainment is teaming up with the studio on a whole new Fallout game. Amongst all that was the ann
  
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• New Avengers: Doomsday synopsis teases the Multiverse's "final chapter" that will "lay the foundation for the future" of the MCU

  20-07-2026 12:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  As movie theaters prepare for their sites to be crashed by Marvel fans trying to buy Avengers: Doomsday tickets, one chain has posted a brand-new synopsis. The new Doomsday synopsis, as per Fandango, reads, "Universes collide and the Multiverse Saga begins its final chapter in Marvel Studios' Avengers: Doomsday. Beloved heroes from three distinct universes will be set on a deadly collision course and ultimately face an existential threat unlike anything they've ever encountered. This epic film w
  
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• As Bethesda pushes ahead with The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, "professional lurker" Todd Howard returns to Reddit to say "you'd be surprised how many great ideas I get" here

  20-07-2026 12:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Bethesda Game Studios boss Todd Howard has revealed he's constantly lurking on Reddit and claims the team is consistently taking that feedback on board. In a thread on r/Games, Howard chimed in with his first Reddit post since the launch of Starfield – well aside from reacting to one post six months ago that modded a cardboard cutout of him into Fallout 4 as the immortal snail – saying "Hey Reddit. I’m a professional lurker and read your comments all the time." And given Reddit
  
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• The Odyssey beats The Dark Knight Rises to score Christopher Nolan's biggest opening weekend ever

  20-07-2026 12:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Odyssey has had a massive opening weekend at the box office. As well as opening bigger than any Christopher Nolan movie to date, topping The Dark Knight Rises, the movie scored the second-biggest IMAX opening weekend ever, coming in behind only Avengers: Endgame.Debuting to an enormous $264m worldwide ($124.5m domestic), The Odyssey blew past initial projections, powered by extremely positive word-of-mouth (it achieved an A Cinemascore), sold out round-the-clock IMAX 70mm showings, and a nea
  
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• Marvel puts ominous twist on regular Fantastic Four clip to tease Avengers: Doomsday

  20-07-2026 11:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  The wait for Avengers: Doomsday is getting more agonizing as Marvel releases an ingenious – and ominous – new tease for the film. Every week since last August, the Fantastic Four Twitter account has put out a video of Pedro Pascal's Reed Richards saying, "We make a point to do family dinner every week. Sunday at seven, on the dot, no matter what." But, this most recent Sunday (July 19), the video changed for the very first time. A glitch switches the video to black, and we hear Sue S
  
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• How to watch the World Cup final, live stream for free around the world

  19-07-2026 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  How to watch the World Cup Final for freeUS | YouTube TV (10 day free trial)UK | BBC iPlayer, ITVXAUS | SBS On DemandWatch anywhere: Norton VPN (60 day money back guarantee)If you want to know how to watch the World Cup Final, everything that you need to know is right here. England's hopes of another World Cup victory were dashed on Wednesday in a rather bad-tempered battle with Argentina, with the Argentinian team winning 2-1 to go through to the final. That will see them face off against Spain
  
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• Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced lead begs fans to "please play us when when GTA 6 comes out" as he teases post-launch support plans

  19-07-2026 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced game director, Richard Knight, hopes people are still playing his remade pirateventure by the time GTA 6 comes out this November. Modern Assassin's Creed games have typically had surprisingly long legs with Ubisoft supporting titles such as Assassin's Creed Shadows and Odyssey for months or sometimes even years after their initial release dates. There aren't any concrete plans for a Black Flag Resynced roadmap just yet - at least, not one that's been made pub
  
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• Final Fantasy 10 leaned into the fantasy genre after devs "learned that The Lord of the Rings was in production" and thought it would be "the next big global trend"

  19-07-2026 15:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 10's developers chose to move away from sci-fi after finding out that The Lord of the Rings was being adapted into a big-screen trilogy, and hoping they could be a part of the "next big global trend."Square Enix is now celebrating 25 years since the original Final Fantasy 10 first launched, and in an effort to stop fans crumbling into dust, the company released an interview between Takashi Tokita (of Chrono Trigger and Parasite Eve fame) and series producer Yoshinori Kitase about t
  
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• After GTA San Andreas' Hot Coffee debacle, Rockstar makes a "huge effort" to wipe anything cut from its game to avoid accidentally shipping it, ex-dev says

  19-07-2026 14:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  A former Rockstar Games producer says the famed studio is careful to scrub cut content from its game files in an effort to avoid accidentally shipping anything it doesn't want the public to lay eyes on, and we can thank the GTA San Andreas Hot Coffee scandal for that.For context, more than two decades ago, GTA San Andreas and Rockstar Games found themselves in the middle of a scorching scandal. The open-world game maker at one point developed a sexually explicit minigame for 2004's San Andreas,
  
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• Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced required devs to "rebuild" the 2013 game because Ubisoft couldn't "use the code from the original"

  19-07-2026 13:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ubisoft developers had to rebuild most of Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag entirely from scratch to make this year's swashbuckling remake, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, because the original 2013 code was largely unusable for a 2026 game.Black Flag Resynced is a pretty faithful reconstruction of one of the best Assassin's Creed games ever made, but even though the remake sticks to the original's story and open-world structure very closely, the team at Ubisoft were still essentially making a
  
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• Xbox exec tells fans not to "overly fixate on single-player" games becoming console exclusives because it's not "carved in stone"

  18-07-2026 16:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Figuring out which upcoming Xbox games will be console exclusive hasn't been totally clear so far, but in an interview with GamesRadar+, CCO Matt Booty says fans shouldn't expect all single-player games to be locked down either.After slowly shipping many of its formerly exclusive games across the multiplatform pond, Xbox recently announced a return to exclusivity. Gears of War: E-Day will only be available on Xbox Series X|S and PC when it launches later this year, as will Clockwork Revolution w
  
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• The Steam Machine's $1,000+ price tag is unlikely to come down anytime soon as Valve says the memory crisis is "still getting worse"

  18-07-2026 15:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Steam Machine's price tag is already scarily expensive and downright unaffordable for your everyday player - starting at $1,049 for the cheapest 512GB model without a controller - but that eye-watering price is unlikely to come down anytime soon. Valve and, seemingly, the rest of the industry are bracing for the worst.As AI data centres continue to swallow up memory chips and storage and a bunch of other components used in consumer devices, prices for PC gamers and hardware manufacturers hav
  
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• GTA 5 dev "can only imagine the size of GTA 6" – "It must be monstrous"

  18-07-2026 14:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rockstar Games' open-world adventures almost always try to one-up their predecessors, at least in terms of sheer size, and that's not a pattern one former GTA 5 developer anticipates will change when GTA 6 finally blasts onto the scene. John Ricchio, a former producer on everything from GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption to Max Payne 3, was recently asked about whether he'd even want to be part of the studio ahead GTA 6's imminent launch. "I think the fact that every single time they do a GTA, it's l
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Jennifer English pulls out of fantasy RPG Tides of Annihilation: "Recently, I've found myself needing to slow down"

  18-07-2026 14:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 star Jennifer English is pulling out of upcoming fantasy RPG Tides of Annihilation due to personal health reasons, and is handing her role over to another yet-unnamed actor while working as an advisor on the project.Jennifer English has been involved in some of the best RPGs of recent years, lending her vocal chords to Baldur's Gate 3's Shadowheart, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Maelle, Elden Ring's Latenna, and much more. While Tides of Annihilati
  
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• The Odyssey's Himesh Patel says he was surrounded by bees for his Cyclops scene, but it helped the "visceral reality" of Christopher Nolan's epic

  18-07-2026 12:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you didn't know any better, you would think the cast of The Odyssey risked life and limb to bring Homer's epic to life on the big screen. Waves crash around its actors, armor is lugged up hilltops, and – for one final sting in the tail – they were some ferocious cameos during the movie's feted Cyclops sequence.For Himesh Patel, who plays Odysseus' second-in-command Eurylochus, that sense of peril only enhanced his performance – aided by the trust of director Christopher Nola
  
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