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• Elle Fanning explains why she was "more nervous" to play villainous synth Tessa than "big personality" droid Thia in new sci-fi Predator: Badlands: "You can fall into a cliché"

  08-11-2025 21:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Actors often say that playing a villain is more fun than playing the hero, but it's not often that they get to test that theory out in the same movie. In Predator: Badlands, Elle Fanning gets the rare opportunity, as she brings both chatty, optimistic synth Thia and colder, company-loyal droid Tessa to life."I played Thia day-to-day on set. I was her most of the time, so then Tessa would dip in and out. It'd be like, 'Ooh, it's a Tessa day,' but I was more nervous to play Tessa," Fanning recalls
  
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• Stardew Valley 1.7 update sounds like it'll be as big as the farming sim's last, with ConcernedApe hinting at social features, a new farm type, and "lots more"

  17-12-2025 14:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stardew Valley mastermind Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone recently unveiled a 1.7 update for his 2016 farming sim, but a few months have passed without any solid word on what it might contain – until now, that is.In a surprising new reply to a fan asking for any hints about 1.7 "or a sneak peek," the iconic solo developer provides a little bit of insight – although, of course, nothing will be enough for us hungry Stardew Valley stans if we're honest. "There will be some more character/soc
  
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• Sorry Nintendo, Hori's new Mario Kart World wheels are what the Switch 2 truly deserves

  17-12-2025 13:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hori's Mario Kart World Racing Wheels are finally out in the wild, and these new officially licensed add-ons are exactly what Nintendo's first wheels should have been. Each wheel is themed after a racer, including Mario, Princess Peach, and Yoshi, and is draped in the character's colorways, featuring little details including the character's emblem and a piece of art on the back - a huge step up from the wheels Nintendo launched earlier this year.Revealed on Hori's official Twitter (X) profile on
  
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• Todd Howard says Bethesda is already considering "what elements can we bring into our games" from Fallout season 3

  17-12-2025 13:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Prime Video's second season of the Fallout TV show is off to a solid start, but franchise boss Todd Howard is already thinking about which Fallout season 3 elements could fit into the video games that first introduced us to the post-apocalyptic wastelands.Despite Fallout season 2 just debuting this week, Bethesda Game Studios head and frequent game director Todd Howard recently revealed that writing is currently underway for a third season."For us on the game and TV show side, we're writing seas
  
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• Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe will "announce something very soon" on the farming sim's Switch 2 edition: "Sorry about the long wait"

  17-12-2025 13:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone says that news relating to the promised Switch 2 edition of the farming sim is "coming soon." First announced during the September 2025 Nintendo Direct, the updated version of the 2016 gaming hit was initially scheduled to be released in fall 2025.Originally launching on PC, Stardew Valley has been so successful that it has received a version on every platform imaginable, from Linux to PlayStation Vita. It felt inevitable that it would eventually
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity director says he's not "pushing hard" for AI, the studio is actively hiring artists, and "I don't actually think it accelerates things"

  17-12-2025 13:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Following significant backlash, Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke's stance on the use of AI for Larian's next game, Divinity, has been outlined further.Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier shared the full transcript of his discussion with Vincke about AI after his article claimed "Larian has been pushing hard on generative AI." During that interview, Vincke confirmed that generative AI was being used for Divinity's "white-boxing", a term used to describe early parts of the development process du
  
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• Despite previously having a solo spin-off in the works, Kit Harrington says he doesn't "wanna go anywhere near" voicing Jon Snow in a Game of Thrones audiobook: "I spent 10 years doing that"

  17-12-2025 13:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Game of Thrones star Kit Harington doesn't sound keen on returning to Westeros, even though he previously had a solo spin-off show in the works.Speaking to Variety about his role as Gilderoy Lockhart in the Audible audiobook Harry Potter series, Harington was asked who he'd want to play Jon Snow in a Game of Thrones audiobook – and the actor seemed to rule himself out pretty definitively."No, god no," Harington responded, apparently interpreting the question as whether he'd be willing to v
  
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• Stephen Lang says his Avatar: Fire and Ash character Quaritch fits with the Ash People because "he's in familiar territory" with the war-hungry Na'vi

  17-12-2025 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Things haven't been easy for Colonel Miles Quaritch. After dying in the first Avatar movie, he reappeared in Avatar: The Way of Water as a recombinant, which means his human memories were implanted in the body of a Na'vi – the native Pandoran species Quaritch is sworn against.In Avatar: Fire and Ash, we see a whole new side to Quaritch once again. This time, he becomes tangled up with the Mangkwan Clan, or the titular Ash People, a bloodthirsty type of Na'vi obsessed with fire who are led
  
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• It: Welcome to Derry creator says the finale's fog is "unrelated" to Stephen King's The Mist before immediately explaining how they are, in fact, related

  17-12-2025 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Across its eight-episode run, It: Welcome to Derry has been bursting with Easter eggs – most of which were deep-cut novel references and wider nods to Stephen King's other works, like Carrie or The Shawshank Redemption.In the finale, as General Shaw and the military forced It out of his 27-year hibernation, a fog descended upon the titular town. It looked, admittedly, a lot like the haze in King's 1980 thriller The Mist, which sees protagonist David Drayton forced to hide from the vicious
  
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• Delaying GTA 6 is the "smartest thing" Rockstar could do, Elder Scrolls 6 lead says, because fans wouldn't want something that "doesn't meet their expectations"

  17-12-2025 12:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  We might be waiting a while for The Elder Scrolls 6, and by that I mean, a long while. But much like GTA 6, games of this scale take as much time as necessary to make. In a show of solidarity, one Bethesda lead is clear: Rockstar made the right call delaying its new crime simulator, because making sure it's ready should always be the greatest priority."GTA [6] just got pushed again, which was the smartest thing they could do," Emil Pagliarulo, studio design director at Bethesda told Game Informe
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity publishing lead says "I'm not entirely sure we are the ideal target for the level of scorn" as backlash hits Larian over AI stance: "We don't use AI for art"

  17-12-2025 12:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  The developers behind Baldur's Gate 3 and the upcoming Divinity game, Larian Studios, are facing backlash following CEO Swen Vincke's statements on the use of generative AI during development – but they're prepared to clear the air.Publishing director Michael 'Cromwelp' Douse has taken to social media to respond to fans' questions (and criticism) regarding the controversial technology and its place in Larian's own development process. In his first reply, he writes, "Back in April, our stan
  
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• Palworld's Home Sweet Home update "won't be as content-heavy as you might like," lead warns, but it will help make the survival game's 1.0 launch "the best ever"

  17-12-2025 12:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pocketpair communications director John 'Bucky' Buckley shares that the recently released Palworld Home Sweet Home update is not too content-heavy, and that the development team is focused on "cleanup that needs to be done before Palworld can exit early access.""As we're just a few hours from Palworld Home Sweet Home, I'd like to remind gamers about this video!" Bucky writes on Twitter. "Home Sweet Home won't be as content-heavy as you might like, but it lays the groundwork and foundation toward
  
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• Peak devs have been "running on pure adrenaline" since the co-op game went viral, so "the frequency of patches and updates will be slower" in 2026

  17-12-2025 12:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Peak's had an - ahem - absolutely peak year since going viral on release, and its joint developers definitely made the most of the co-op climbing game's overnight momentum, but things should be calming down for the comedy sensation starting next year."We have a couple of cool things in the works for 2026 but we do want to be transparent with the fact that the frequency of patches and updates will be slower," co-developers Landfall (of TABS fame) and Aggro Crab (of Another Crab's Treasure fame) w
  
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• Amazon's fake Fallout chat show is a secret Prime Video bonus that's way better than we were expecting

  17-12-2025 12:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Prime Video has released a fake Fallout chat show that has to be seen to be believed.Hosted by Fallout's shady Snake Oil Salesman (Jon Daly), the Fallout Fake Talkshow, found under Prime Video's Fallout season 2 landing page, sees Lucy actor Ella Purnell and Mr. House actor Justin Theroux drop by for a surreal chat in the wasteland.In case you were hoping for some chin-scratching discussion about the art of acting and the cast's work in Fallout, the first episode kicks off with an extended bit w
  
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• Fallout season 2's Vault 24 is a deep-cut location that was removed from the finished version of Fallout: New Vegas

  17-12-2025 11:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Prime Video's Fallout series has never been shy about referencing the games, but this season 2 premiere location takes it to another level entirely.Spoilers for Fallout season 2 follow.Partway through The Ghoul and Lucy's trek to New Vegas, they happen upon a mysterious Vault – Vault 24 to be precise.While there, they discover the dwellers within had been brainwashed and turned into communists.Mind control is nothing new in the Fallout universe – Justin Theroux's House is shown using
  
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• Co-founder of Ghost of Yotei studio Sucker Punch steps down as studio head to usher in the "next chapter of creative leadership"

  17-12-2025 11:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sucker Punch co-founder and studio head, Brian Fleming, has stepped down from the Ghost of Yotei, Infamous and Sly Cooper studio after 28 years. He will remain at the studio until the end of April to help with the transition, at which point Jason Connell and Adrian Bentley will take over as co-studio heads.Jason Connell started at Sucker Punch as lighting director on the Infamous series and is now working as the creative and art director on the Ghost series. Adrian Bentley works on the technical
  
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• Peak's winter update has festive decorations, frosty biomes, and snowballs you can ragebait friends with: "Peak holiday vibes"

  17-12-2025 11:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Peak just dropped its festive winter update, and it contains a big addition (snowballs) for those of us who enjoy ragebaiting our friends.Landcrab (the love child of TABS developer Landfall and Going Under maker Aggro Crab) released Peak's 1.50 patch yesterday, shortly after the co-op climbing game's first virtual concert headlining Bing Bong's favorite in-real-life rapper bbno$, which saw player counts double over the weekend."You'll find the airport lobby is looking a little more festive but t
  
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• M3GAN spin-off movie SOULM8TE has been dropped by Universal following a string of 2025 Blumhouse horror blunders

  17-12-2025 11:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Horror fans may be waiting a very long time to see upcoming M3GAN spin-off movie SOULM8TE, as the movie has reportedly been pulled from release.The upcoming erotic thriller has been dropped by Universal Pictures, with Blumhouse and Atomic Monster now looking for a new distributor, as reported by Deadline. SOULM8TE was supposed to release in January 2026, but now it is unclear when, or if ever, it will hit screens.The movie, directed by You Are Not My Mother helmer Kate Dolan, was announced way b
  
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• Marvel leaks continue as Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer somehow ends up online

  17-12-2025 11:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Very shortly after the first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday hit the internet, it appears a Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer has also surfaced online ahead of time.While it's pretty much impossible to verify if it's one hundred percent a real trailer, the clip is being swiftly taken down by copyright strikes, lending credence to the footage.The leaked trailer is set to LCD Soundsystem's track "New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down," and it looks like Spidey is pretty lonely after Doct
  
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• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs may have been gunning for GOTY, but they know you don't need "tens of millions of players to move forward": "What you need is a bunch of really engaged people"

  17-12-2025 02:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 developer Warhorse has an extremely loyal and passionate player base whose crash out over the game's snubbing at The Game Awards 2025 was a lot louder than the developer's own public reaction, and according to communications director Tobias Stolz-Zwilling, that's really all you need to succeed anyway."I don't think you need tens of millions of players to move forward, get better, or be successful," Stolz-Zwilling told GamesRadar+. "What you need is a bunch of really e
  
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• Terminator Survivors is delayed indefinitely and will now be a single-player only survival game with no early access launch

  17-12-2025 00:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  The open-world survival game Terminator: Survivors has been delayed out of 2025 as developer Nacon Studio Milan reveals sweeping changes to its plans for the title.Nacon shared a development update on Steam, and man, any time a game developer posts something titled "what's next" for its game, you know it's not going to be good, especially when that game was supposed to come out in 2024, and then 2025, and there are two weeks left in 2025.The biggest bummer is the delay, as not only is it not com
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 devs didn't want to include a core D&D rule in their RPG, but players proved them wrong: "We were afraid it was going to slow down the gameplay too much"

  16-12-2025 23:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate 3 almost left out a core piece of the D&D ruleset that was only saved thanks to the RPG's early access community.In D&D, Reactions are a tool that allows players to respond to certain triggers, even when it's not their turn. Perhaps the most famous is Counterspell (which is prompted when a creature casts a spell, and can automatically stop that spell from casting), but there are dozens of other Reactions for all sorts of different situations. If it had been up to Larian, ho
  
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• Divinity producer says using AI for "unimportant lines" removes "the chance to support performers" such as Baldur's Gate 3 star Jennifer English: "Every VA starts small"

  16-12-2025 22:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Discussion around generative AI continues to permeate the industry, and Burhan Zamri, an associate producer at Divinity and Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios, is making it clear he's firmly against using the tech in voice-over work. In a post on Twitter, he explained exactly why it’s important that smaller roles go to human beings rather than machines."We lose the chance to support performers like Jennifer English if we let gen AI replace human acting," he states, sharing a clip of
  
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• "Holy f*** guys": Larian CEO knows AI "invokes a lot of emotion," responds to backlash and insists the Divinity studio is simply "researching and understanding the cutting edge"

  16-12-2025 22:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke has swiftly responded to a Bloomberg report saying the Baldur's Gate 3 developer is "pushing hard" for AI and subsequent backlash, insisting it's not that serious."Holy fuck guys we're not 'pushing hard' for or replacing concept artists with AI," Vincke wrote on Twitter. The Bloomberg report from December 16 claimed, "Under Vincke, Larian has been pushing hard on generative AI," while confirming AI assets wouldn't appear in the upcoming Divinity.On Twitter, Vincke
  
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• Oh, Resident Evil 7's notoriously disgusting setting was actually just Capcom trying to create a more authentic American experience

  16-12-2025 22:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Resident Evil is my favorite game series, but even I admit I'm utterly repulsed by one of the best games in the franchise, Resident Evil 7, to the point where I don't have any intention of ever playing it again. As it turns out, I have none other than the land of the free and the home of the brave to thank.Capcom veteran and Resident Evil series producer Jun Takeuchi recently shared insights into the studio's top-level plans for the franchise for the November 2025 issue of Japanese print publica
  
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• Bethesda director Todd Howard says Elder Scrolls 6 is "progressing really well" and "the majority of the studio" is working on the Skyrim successor: "We have long pre-productions on things so that we feel good about them"

  16-12-2025 19:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Elder Scrolls 6 may still be years from releasing, but uncle Todd Howard has some mild words of encouragement: development on the long-awaited Skyrim successor is "progressing really well" and most of the studio is working on it.Although just recently Howard sparked some confusion by saying Fallout 76 was the game Bethesda Game Studios was "doing the most work in," he's now clarified unambiguously that it's actually Elder Scrolls 6 that "the majority" of the studio is focused on, which makes
  
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• Final Fantasy 14 patch 7.4 sparks concern as the MMO's most beloved cat boy sounds "different" than before: "What is wrong with G'raha's voice?"

  16-12-2025 18:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 14 hasn't been a stranger to its fair share of voice actor-related controversies, from the Wuk Lamat debacle and beyond – but its latest might just be the most serious if you ask hardened fans, as it could mean the beloved G'raha Tia has been replaced.Or, well, his voice actor might've been, anyway – at least that's what some fans of the MMO think now, following the hotly anticipated arrival of patch 7.4. Into the Mist, as Square Enix has dubbed the big update, packs qu
  
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• Monster Hunter Wilds' new update falls short of impressing the action RPG's fans after performance comparisons from Capcom show a meager "average of 5-8 FPS boost"

  16-12-2025 18:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Capcom has released comparison videos showcasing its new PC performance updates for Monster Hunter Wilds, but some feel it's not enough to justify the 10-month wait.In another world, Monster Hunter Wilds probably would've been right up there as a major competitor at The Game Awards last week, but the game's major performance and technical issues – mostly on PC – have hampered it massively over the course of the year, to the point where 2021's Monster Hunter Rise has outsold it since
  
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• Peak devs rebut claim their award-nominated multiplayer game uses AI: "We might be slop, but we're human-made locally-sourced artisanal slop"

  16-12-2025 18:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  The proliferation of generative AI is causing a considerable degree of skepticism within video games, leading to accusations that certain projects are using machine-made prompts. One such target of this is the multiplayer sensation Peak, which just recently lost Best Multiplayer Game at The Game Awards – but the devs have been quick to refute claims of any AI work being present.In a trend on Twitter pointing toward "The World’s first 100% AI Created Game," Peak gets targeted by an ac
  
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• An old Xbox 360 dev kit has become a treasure trove of new Fallout: New Vegas content as fans turn cut material into mods you can download now

  16-12-2025 18:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  A few weeks ago, Games' Past, an organization "dedicated to discovering, restoring, and releasing canceled video games & video game prototypes," did just that, releasing files for a Fallout: New Vegas beta discovered on an Xbox 360 dev kit. Since then, modders have been working furiously to restore all of the cut content and finish a few things that the developers never didTwo dev kits from Obsidian were discovered, containing hundreds of files pertaining to Fallout: New Vegas and its DLC. H
  
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