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• Fallout 4 PS4 mods beta delayed after technical difficulties

  29-06-2016 19:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fallout 4 players on PS4 will have to wait a while longer to start modifying their lives in the Commonwealth
  
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• Anthem fan server project, which started "out of little more than spite for EA and Bioware," isn't making much progress

  28-01-2026 23:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's harder to re-animate a dead game than Frankenstein, fans of BioWare's defunct looter shooter Anthem are learning.They were able to resuscitate the, by most accounts, middling 7-year-old game long enough to post a proof-of-concept server test on YouTube last week – but it sounds like their progress has been paused right around there. The fans behind the server project have just discussed some of the challenges they've been facing in a new interview with Ars Technica, and they ask you n
  
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• After 30,000 layoffs and a dead MMO, Amazon reportedly loses gaming exec who famously said games "don't really have acting"

  28-01-2026 23:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  As Amazon makes a further 16,000 company-wide layoffs following 14,000 job cuts in October, Amazon Game Studios has reportedly lost its studio head, Christoph Hartmann.Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports that Hartmann, previously head of 2K, "is leaving the company."You may also remember Hartmann as the studio head who said, in 2024, the year after Baldur's Gate 3 won a zillion game of the year awards and the year before Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 did the same, that games "don't really have acti
  
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• X-Men Annual #1 turns the team into sentient drawings in a comic within a comic to battle a villain who controls "imagination itself"

  28-01-2026 22:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  The X-Men are about to embark on one of their weirdest adventures ever in X-Men Annual #1, which pits them against a villain known as The Creationist with power over "imagination itself." The team will venture into a drawing to defeat the villains, appearing as unfinished pencil drawings among a fully rendered world.X-Men Annual #1 is written by Ryan Stegman and drawn by lead artist Steve Skroce along with additional pages from Sanford Greene and Stegman himself.We've got your first look at page
  
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• "These people are just delusional": Blizzard says World of Warcraft players can keep selling services for in-game currency unless their business is "non-traditional," and GDKP raiders are furious

  28-01-2026 22:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  World of Warcraft developer Blizzard has issued a moratorium on its Anniversary realms' gig economies. It'll continue to ban GDKP raids, in which players bid gold on loot and split the subsequent pot of gold among each other, and other business ventures it deems "non-traditional." But WoW Classic entrepreneurs are furious. Do you know the cost of a mount these days?The comments section for a January 27 post on the Blizzard forums is hot with frustration now that community manager Linxy has expla
  
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• Fantasy MMO from husband-and-wife duo who worked on formative games like EverQuest and Asheron's Call leaves Steam early access after 8 years: "Let the next chapter begin"

  28-01-2026 22:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Project: Gorgon, the old-school fantasy MMO that launched in Steam Early access back in 2018, finally has its big 1.0 update.As someone who cut his teeth on Ultima Online and EverQuest way back in the day, I've had a passing interest in Project: Gorgon for years. The game was conceived by husband-and-wife duo Eric Heimburg and Sandra Power, former lead developers on legacy MMOs like Asheron's Call and EverQuest 1 and 2, but Power sadly passed away in 2025 following a three-year battle with cance
  
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• Mike Flanagan's Exorcist movie adds Man of Steel star Diane Lane

  28-01-2026 21:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mike Flanagan's Exorcist has added another powerhouse actor to its cast with Diane Lane joining Scarlett Johansson and Jacobi Jupe in the reboot of the classic horror film. The news comes courtesy of Bloody Disgusting.It's the second attempt at an update in just a few years, with 2023's The Exorcist: Believer intended to launch a new film trilogy that was scrapped when the movie bombed with critics and audiences alike.Flanagan is known for his keenly updated takes on classic horror stories such
  
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• Dune: Awakening Chapter 3 promises a "bigger, better endgame" that makes it easier for lapsed players to return by abolishing tax, and more: "Our work is far from done"

  28-01-2026 20:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dune: Awakening is ready to deliver an incredible endgame – again. This time, developer Funcom will try to improve on what many players consider a lackluster experience with its Chapter 3 update, which promises "A BIGGER, BETTER ENDGAME.""When it comes to the endgame, the specifics of what you're looking for varies across both players and player types," Funcom says in a Steam post, "but we've also been able to combine your feedback with cold, hard in-game telemetry." Since the survival RPG
  
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• A terrifying 20,282 games were released on Steam in 2025, and just 608 managed to get 1,000 reviews, expert finds: "We might be in a bit of an indie golden age"

  28-01-2026 19:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Annual game releases on Steam reached 20,282 in 2025, according to analysis from indie dev and marketing expert Chris Zukowski, and 608 of those games were able to crack 1,000 user reviews on Valve's platform – which might actually be a good sign.In a report on "What the hell happened in 2025," Zukowski, comparing against similar data from the past three years, reckons more games succeeded on Steam last year, assuming you define success as hitting 1,000 reviews.Zukowski is quick to qualify
  
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• Slay the Spire 2 pulls a Silksong, scares indie devs into releasing roguelike ahead of schedule in fear of losing players to "an absolute juggernaut in our own genre"

  28-01-2026 18:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  In an industry where delays are commonplace, it's rare you see a game's release date actually move forward, but that's exactly what's happened with cooking roguelike Omelet You Cook. By choosing a February launch, publisher SchuBox Games is looking to avoid competition – as Slay the Spire 2's planned March release seemed set to absorb all its potential buzz."Originally we were operating under the assumption we wouldn't have to worry about Slay the Spire 2 since it was set to come out in la
  
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• The Elder Scrolls 6 setting may have been decided when Bethesda was working on Fallout 4, former Skyrim lead and "loremaster" teases: "It was more of a consensus"

  28-01-2026 18:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Although Bethesda Game Studios hasn't yet confirmed where The Elder Scrolls 6 will be set, there's been no shortage of speculation online – but according to series veteran and beloved "loremaster" Kurt Kuhlmann, developers have perhaps had an idea of where for a while.Or, well, as far as he knows anyway – it has been quite a long time, after all. "From when we were talking about it way back in the Fallout 4 timeframe," he tells PC Gamer in a recent interview, "there was a sort of con
  
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• Nintendo Switch versions of Capcom's Disney collection have emerged – and it now includes one of the Resident Evil creator's first games

  28-01-2026 18:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  After leaking courtesy of the ESRB earlier this month, the Nintendo eShop has confirmed that Capcom's The Disney Afternoon Collection is finally coming to Switch and Switch 2, now with bonus games.The Disney Afternoon Collection's absence from Nintendo platforms is still very weird, given that it was released a month after the Switch and was entirely made up of NES games. But earlier this month the collection was rated by the ESRB for Switch and Switch 2, published by Atari – owner of the
  
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• Resident Evil Requiem changed form dramatically halfway through its six-year development, says director, and returns to the story of the first six games

  28-01-2026 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Resident Evil Requiem director, Koshi Nakanishi, says that development on the ninth entry in the survival horror series started around six years ago, but that the version available to play via the demo, and therefore the final release, only really "came to be" about three years ago.In a PlayStation Japan Blog that's been translated by GamesRadar+, Nakanishi describes how the style of development on Requiem shifted halfway through to become what you can play today. "Development started on a small
  
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• This Crucial P510 is one of the last bastions of reasonably priced gaming SSDs, but it won't be around for long

  28-01-2026 17:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  You won't find a discount on the Crucial P510 SSD at the moment, but if you have a PC build that can accommodate a Gen 5 drive, I'd jump on the chance to add it to your rig while you still can.The prices of the best SSDs for gaming are continuing to rise, and this could be your last chance to grab 1TB of speedy extra storage before stock runs out and Crucial packs up its travelling wares to go and make data centres.So far, it's staying put at $139.99 at Amazon, but there's a lot of cause for con
  
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• Blizzard isn't "walking back" plans to remove World of Warcraft combat and UI mods: "Our goal was never to stamp out the addon ecosystem"

  28-01-2026 17:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  As World of Warcraft developer Blizzard prepares its decades-old MMO for new expansion pack Midnight's arrival on March 2, fans continue to grapple with changes to handy combat add-ons.For anyone out of the loop regarding add-ons' removal, Blizzard unveiled its plan to remove World of Warcraft combat mods last year, stating that it was to "level the playing field" for the long-running MMO. The team doubled down on this, going on to assure that it was axing add-ons so as "to set ourselves up for
  
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• "Hytale is a forever game": After a miracle comeback, Hytale head says it "will get updates as long as gaming exists"

  28-01-2026 17:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hypixel founder Simon Collins-Laflamme says he has no plans to cease development on the Minecraft-inspired RPG Hytale.Hytale has been a pretty big hit so far after its rough development, with Hypixel pumping out patches for the game as it continues its early access quest. While the game has had some issues, the developers warned that there would be problems at launch (and even then, nothing too major has happened yet), so after 10 years since its announcement, people seem pretty happy as the tea
  
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• GTA 5 Online update fixes a million bugs, and now some players will no longer randomly spawn in the ocean: "I got to hand it to the devs"

  28-01-2026 17:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rockstar probably knows you're crying over its several GTA 6 delays, but at least you can now more efficiently wipe your tears with stolen cash in your GTA 5 Online mansion. The developer has just released the chunky Update 1.72.Patch notes on the Rockstar website describe a number of improvements to the Rockstar Mission Creator, GTA 5's new mansions, and some more general fixes. One highlight: players should no longer find themselves randomly marooned in the middle of the Pacific Ocean."Fixed a
  
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• Razer Synapse has finally made the jump to browsers, but it's off to a slow start

  28-01-2026 17:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Razer has jumped on the web-tool bandwagon this week, releasing a beta for its Synapse Web customizer. Except it's been all but a smooth rollout.The tool is currently compatible with three Razer Huntsman decks, including one of the best gaming keyboards on the web, the Razer Huntsman V3 Pro Mini. Alongside the V3 Pro 8K and V3 Pro TKL 8K, the Huntsman should be fully configurable through your web browser. If it could load.I dug out my Huntsman V3 Pro Mini to take the beta out for a test drive an
  
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• Before it could come to Steam, Valve made devs "record and send footage" of their game's "alien orgy" for verification, which was fortunately cleared for launch

  28-01-2026 17:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Yesterday, January 27, the comedic sci-fi point-and-click Earth Must Die came out on Steam. This would be totally unremarkable, what with the amount of games released there every day, except for the fact that it was almost disallowed by Valve due to having an extra-terrestrial orgy."Up until a few days ago, it was unclear if we were actually going to be allowed to launch Earth Must Die on Steam," publisher No More Robots says in a press release. "As Valve had told us that they were 'unable to ve
  
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• Henry Cavill looks battle-worn in long-awaited first look at John Wick creator's Highlander reboot

  28-01-2026 17:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Henry Cavill has unveiled the first look at Chad Stahelski's Highlander reboot – and he looks seriously battle-worn.In the pictures, which you can see below, Cavill's Connor MacLeod looks rugged, sweaty, and, crucially, very cool in a leather coat."This has been quite the journey for me, which I'll tell you all about when the time is right, but it's a special moment to be able to share this. I hope you enjoy," Cavill captioned the post.A post shared by Henry Cavill (@henrycavill)A photo po
  
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• Yellowjackets star says it's "bittersweet" heading into the thriller show's final season, as she shares "redemption" hopes for "cruel" Shauna

  28-01-2026 17:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Yellowjackets star Sophie Nélisse has promised fans they'll have the "ultimate blast" with the thriller show's fourth and final season – and shared her big, somewhat conflicted hope for Shauna Shipman going into the last-ever episodes."It feels very bittersweet," the actor tells GamesRadar+ when we ask her how she's feeling ahead of the shoot kicking off in February. "I feel like these women have shaped who I am today, because I got to grow up alongside them, learn so much from them
  
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• Arc Raiders hit with "extensive, coordinated DDoS attacks" causing server and matchmaking issues, Embark says, with The Finals struggling too

  28-01-2026 16:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Embark Studios says servers are being hit by "extensive, co-ordinated DDoS attacks," which have led some players of both Arc Raiders and The Finals to struggle to enter matches, or to suffer from persistent lag when they finally manage to enter a game.The studio hasn't publicly identified a time for when the attacks started, but Embark community lead Julia Ossen made a statement to players on Discord giving "An update on recent server issues." In her message, she explains that both of Embark Stu
  
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• Fallout 3 artist was stopped by security after taking location scouting a little too seriously in Washington DC: "Turns out they don’t want you snooping around the buildings"

  28-01-2026 16:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fallout 3 designer Emil Pagliarulo says the location scouting that went into the development of Fallout 3's Washington, D.C. almost got one artist into big trouble.Speaking to PC Gamer, the devs behind Fallout often spoke of just how fun it is to virtually destroy areas – especially when you live there. As artist Istvan Pely says, "it was actually a lot of fun," adding, "this tickled some part of the brain where it's just kind of fun to blow things up."Fun aside, Pely says it was also "sup
  
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• Former FPS pro Shroud says Highguard's "vision is there," but tech problems are holding the fantasy shooter back: "Gameplay is really good, it's just poor performance"

  28-01-2026 16:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  The fantasy FPS Highguard is here, and after closing out The Game Awards last year then going a little quiet on the marketing front, it debuted to 97,000 players on Steam. Among the people checking it out is former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro-turned-streamer Michael "Shroud" Grzesiek, who finds it somewhat middling thus far."The vision is there, the FPS is not," he said during a stream where he played the shooter from developer Wildlight Entertainment, as spotted by Jake Lucky on Twitte
  
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• A Tomb Raider video game voice actor has a mystery role in Prime Video's new TV show – and she could be playing Lara Croft's mother

  28-01-2026 15:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tomb Raider video game voice actor Keeley Hawes seems to have a mysterious role in Amazon's new TV show.New set photos leaked by The Sun show Hawes in a trenchcoat and boots surrounded by mysterious masked figures. According to the publication, there's speculation that she could be playing Lady Amelia Croft, the Countess of Abbingdon – AKA Lara Croft's mother.That would be a full circle moment for Hawes, who first voiced Lara Croft 20 years ago in 2006's Tomb Raider: Legend. She went on to
  
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• After 5 years, Terraria 1.4.5 sees the iconic sandbox game hit another high with over 160,000 players exploring its new Minecraft-inspired world seed and more

  28-01-2026 14:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Terraria's long-awaited 1.4.5 update is finally here, and boy, is it packing some content – so much content, in fact, that the iconic sandbox game has officially managed to rack up its second-highest player peak to date.A quick look at SteamDB shows that Terraria hit its all-time peak in 2020 when update 1.4, Journey's End (or not-so-end, really), launched, with 489,886 players flocking to the game to explore what many thought would be its final major patch. Now that 1.4.5 is here –
  
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• Reboot of controversial cult horror gives Final Destination and The Monkey a run for their money, as its first trailer showcases increasingly gruesome ways to die

  28-01-2026 14:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Controversial cult horror Faces of Death's long-delayed reboot has finally unveiled its first trailer – and it's predictably morbid.The promo may only be 55 seconds long but it crams a whole bunch of gnarly demises in, from a man being mauled by a bear and someone getting beheaded to someone getting run over by a train. As the frame pulls back, each of the black-and-white clips moves into position to form a skull. Be warned before hitting play below, it's genuinely disturbing!Based on John
  
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• Monster Hunter Wilds players were right; buying $500 of DLC unintentionally made the game run better, so Capcom has fixed it

  28-01-2026 14:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Earlier this month, Monster Hunter Wilds PC players reported that the open-world RPG's hub area runs more smoothly if you have purchased all $500 of DLC. Capcom has now confirmed that this was due to an error in the code, and has been fixed in the latest patch.The Monster Hunter Wilds Ver. 1.040.03.01 update not only confirms that there was an issue and what was causing it in the patch notes, but also that it's been fixed. Capcom says the team was alerted to the issue through user reports.The st
  
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• Jason Sudeikis is back on the pitch in first look at Ted Lasso season 4, which hits Apple TV this summer

  28-01-2026 14:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Two years after season 3 set out to mark the end of the series, Apple TV has shared the first look at Ted Lasso season 4, which is hitting the streamer very soon.In the first look images, which you can check out below, we can see Jason Sudeikis back as Ted, but this time he's coaching a women's football team alongside Sex Education star Tanya Reynolds. In another picture, we can see Ted reunited with Hannah Waddingham's character, Rebecca Welto,n standing outside of a private jet. So, we can ass
  
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• Studio formed by OG Diablo leads is announcing its debut action RPG this week, and you can play a demo of it ahead of Steam Next Fest in February

  28-01-2026 13:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Moon Beast Productions – formed of ex-Blizzard developers who worked on Diablo – is gearing up to reveal its debut ARPG title this week.While the studio hasn't released a title yet, it's hard to think of a studio with a better action RPG pedigree than Moon Beast Productions, which is formed of ex-Blizzard North talent who worked on Diablo, Torchlight, and Hellgate: London, with a majority of the team having worked on Diablo 2 (aka: the best one). And this week we'll finally have a ch
  
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