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• Game design lessons from Super Mario Maker

  05-11-2015 10:04
  "As I dug deeper into the editor and the offerings put out, I came to realize and reaffirm some important elements about game design... something that Nintendo has known about for years."...
  
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• Crimson Desert impresses some RPG fans with its dialogue fast-forward feature, but leaves others questioning "why" it's even a thing: "TikTok has ruined this generation"

  05-03-2026 15:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  As it stands, Crimson Desert is arguably one of the most exciting new games on the horizon – but not all of its more, uh, unique features are proving popular with fans.Folks' thoughts (and more significantly, videos) following their hands-on time with Crimson Desert have gone live recently – check our own thoughts on the open-world RPG so far – and fans are, unsurprisingly, reacting to what they're learning about Pearl Abyss' hotly anticipated game.
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• More Kirby Air Riders amiibo are incoming, and I'm still trying to budget for the first ones

  05-03-2026 14:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo announced on its Nintendo Today app, and later across its social media channels, that it's adding two new amiibo figures to its Kirby Air Riders line. Like the previous collectibles, these Switch 2 accessories include both a cute character from the game and a vehicle for them to sit in, but this time it's Sword Kirby and Dragoon, and Noir Dedede and Hydra that have got the NFC-toy treatment.These new 2026 amiibo are single-handedly the most intricate from the set so far, featuring incre
  
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• Project Hail Mary director clarifies that "'no green screen' doesn't mean 'no VFX'" and confirms that the sci-fi movie's spaceship was a practical set

  05-03-2026 14:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Project Hail Mary may not have used any green screens during production, but co-director Chris Miller has clarified that this doesn't mean there's no visual effects in the sci-fi movie. Still, he says that the aim was always to prioritize practical sets and effects, and the spaceship where most of the film's events take place was all real."Some clarification here: 'no green screen' doesn't mean 'no VFX'. There were, in fact, thousands of VFX shots in the film (2018!)," Miller wrote on Twitter."G
  
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• Before Pokemon Winds and Waves, adorable spin-off Pokopia seemingly crushes hopes for a new Type fans have been begging to see for years: "Sound type is DEAD"

  05-03-2026 14:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  New Pokemon Types are always a contentious topic with fans, but Pokemon Pokopia seemingly just confirmed that the much-requested Sound-type isn't in the pipeline anytime soon, crushing one half of the fandom's hopes and making the other half rejoice.With Pokemon Winds and Waves on the horizon, trainers are once again wondering if Generation 10 will finally add a brand-new Type to the franchise. People often speculate about Light-type, Cosmic-type, and sometimes even Gourmet-type pocket monsters,
  
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• Resident Evil's Leon Kennedy has been "babygirl with the cat ears" for a few years, but he's in his "hot unc" era in Requiem, actor agrees

  05-03-2026 13:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Leon S. Kennedy actor Nick Apostolides has acknowledged his character's newfound "hot unc" status in Resident Evil Requiem.It's been impossible to pay any attention to the Resident Evil fanbase and not see the intense amount of thirst to one Leon S. Kennedy. And it's not just the fans doing it either, as Nintendo even got in on the action, calling him "ruggedly handsome, AND absolutely jacked." Sure, people have been all over Leon for years since he was a fresh faced rookie walking into RPD, but
  
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• Undertone releases another creepy and cryptic teaser, and it looks like there's more to the upcoming horror movie than we thought

  05-03-2026 13:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  2026 has already been a great year for horror, but it looks as though it's only going to get better as upcoming movie Undertone has released yet another creepy and cryptic teaser.In the new clip, posted on Twitter by A24, we see quick flashes of demonic images and paranormal events such as a chandelier swinging on its own and a person pressed up against a TV, reminiscent of The Poltergeist. Check out the video below.⸮taht raeh uoy did pic.twitter.com/EPBiXE6RKGMarch 5, 2026This is quite i
  
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• One Piece season 2 release schedule: when are new episodes streaming on Netflix?

  05-03-2026 13:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's time to get on the Grand Line as One Piece season 2 sails into sight. But with the Straw Hats' next adventure fast approaching and Netflix's binge model meaning spoilers will be out in the wild faster than usual, you may want some primers on when exactly new episodes are available.To help, we've put together a quick and easy guide on when One Piece season 2 is releasing, including streaming times in the US and UK, confirmed episode count, and more.So, unless you're out hunting for the real
  
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• With 1 week to live, Highguard is going out kicking with a final update adding a new character, speedy account progression, and more as devs thank "everyone who has played" the FPS

  05-03-2026 13:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite Highguard shutting down in one week, there's one last update now live on the ill-fated FPS. A new weapon, another character, and more progression are included in the curtain call patch, to give people one last glimmer of what Wildlight Entertainment was going for."For our final patch, we'd like to thank everyone who has played and is still playing Highguard," the studio says in the patch notes. "Even though we are shutting the game down, we are excited to give our remaining players one l
  
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• Jamie Lee Curtis says The Bear is ending with season 5 but admits she may have "completely blown" an under-wraps announcement

  05-03-2026 13:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jamie Lee Curtis has confirmed that FX's hit chef show The Bear will end with its upcoming fifth season, but it looks like the star might have leaked that information a little early.The actor shared the news on Instagram alongside a picture of herself and co-star Abby Elliott on the set of The Bear season 5. The caption reads, "FINISHED STRONG! Surrounded by an extraordinary crew and group of writers and producers and scene partners on the show that Chris Storer created, completing the story of
  
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• New horror-romance The Bride earns mixed first reviews, as critics call it everything from "a modern classic" to a "wokified, Jokerfied Folie-a-deux"

  05-03-2026 13:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Critics, put down the pitchforks pens! The first reviews for Maggie Gyllenhaal's monster movie The Bride are in – and well, they're seriously mixed.The new horror-romance is being called everything from "a modern classic" to an "unholy mess", earning it a 60% score on Rotten Tomatoes and a ton of comparisons to DC's Joker 2 in the days leading up to its release. Initially, it debuted to 54%, though, so we'll take the slight upswing into certified "fresh" territory...Starring Christian Bale
  
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• "I don't even want to be here": Resident Evil Requiem's Leon actor was so unnerved performing next to the main villain he would "start giggling"

  05-03-2026 12:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite this being his fourth outing as the character, Leon S. Kennedy actor Nick Apostolides says Antony Byrne's performance as Victor Gideon in Resident Evil Requiem is one of the most uncomfortable experiences he's had acting.Speaking to GamesRadar+, Apostolides says, "Tony is the one of two actors I've ever worked with that made me physically and mentally uncomfortable in the scenes," but not in a sinister, bad coworker kind of way, as he adds, "that is a testament to his acting, because he'
  
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• Suikoden anime trailer proves it's a pitch-perfect adaptation of the legendary PS1 RPG's sequel, but we're not sure it will fit in all 108 companions

  05-03-2026 12:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  The new Suikoden: The Anime trailer is here, and it's exciting for die-hard fans of the legendary PS1 RPG series and newcomers alike.First, the headline news: Suikoden: The Anime is arriving this October. The adaptation of 1999's Suikoden 2 has introduced even more familiar faces into the mix in this new teaser, including main villain Luca Blight, the princely figure who has more than an axe to grind with the citizens of Jowstown.The trailer also brings in hero Riou (here, renamed Riliu), Jowy,
  
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• DC fans aren't impressed with the suit in the new HBO Lanterns trailer: "Guys, I think we may have been too harsh on Ryan Reynolds' Green Lantern suit"

  05-03-2026 12:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  DC has unveiled the first trailer for Lanterns (after it leaked online first…), and fans seem skeptical of the DCU's next small-screen outing.For one thing, the trailer is overwhelmingly beige in its color scheme – including in its first tease of the Green Lantern suit. There's also not a whole lot of superhero-y business going on."Guys, I think we may have been too harsh on Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern suit," one fan wrote on Twitter, referring to the infamous 2011 Green Lantern mov
  
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• Despite being 23 years old and having Final Fantasy 14 to contend with, Final Fantasy 11 is locking off one of its biggest servers due to overpopulation

  05-03-2026 12:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 11 might be the older sibling that barely gets any adoration from its parents as far as Final Fantasy MMOs go, but the classic is actually growing in popularity 23 years on from its initial launch. In fact, new players have been crowding out Final Fantasy 11 so severely that Square Enix is planning to lock off a third server.Producer and director Yoji Fujito explains the company's plans in a new blog post (thanks, Automaton), writing that they've noticed "congestion on the Odin Wor
  
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• It's no Steam Machine, but if you've got a grand to splash on a tiny rig, I'd check out this NES-inspired mini PC

  05-03-2026 12:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Okay, I know forking out for even the Steam Machine will sting if it costs a grand. I'm also aware that thanks to AI's ravenous hunger for RAM, everyone's paying more than they should be for gaming PC tech. That said, if you're really itching to get a rig under your TV that can serve as a console for your Steam backlog, I'd have a look atACEMAGIC's latest doodad that takes cues from the NES.Technically speaking, the new CEMAGIC Retro X5 is already discounted, as you can grab it for $999.99 inste
  
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• Boba Fett star all but confirms his Star Wars bounty hunter won't show up in The Mandalorian and Grogu: "[I’m] shelved, that’s all, like a jar of peaches"

  05-03-2026 12:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  It sounds as though Star Wars fans won't get to see one of the franchise's best bounty hunters, Boba Fett, anytime soon, including in The Mandalorian and Grogu."[I’m] shelved, that’s all, like a jar of peaches. When it does get opened, I’m going to come out sweeter, darling," said Temuera Morrison in an interview with Inverse. Morrison played the titular antihero in the 2021 show The Book of Boba Fett. However, fans have yet to see Boba Fett return to the screen in the years si
  
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• We won guys, the pixel Pikachu plush everyone went nuts for is coming to the US and UK

  05-03-2026 12:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's good news everyone, because Pokemon has announced that the chonky 1996 pixel Pikachu plushie we all went mad for is making its way west.If you're just catching up, the original plushie everyone had a meltdown over (which is fair enough, it was to die for) got announced in Japan at a Pokemon 30th Anniversary media reveal... but it seemed to be Japan-exclusive. Queue much wailing and despair until now, where the US/UK Pokemon Twitter account revealed that the original 1996, gloriously pixella
  
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• One Piece fans have kickstarted a mission to retrieve the real-life One Piece – but it will cost $100,000 a day

  05-03-2026 12:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  The mission for the One Piece is rumbling on. Already, fans had discovered the likely resting place of the real-world document that contains the true meaning of the manga and anime's mythical treasure.Now, the numbers have been crunched and a plan has been formulated for a retrieval mission unlike any other.A Twitter account called One Piece Hunter has laid out their strategy for deep-sea diving and finding the secret that One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda buried at the bottom of the sea.Remarkably
  
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• Peak devs say "we have no plans to go to mobile" as fans spot another "fake" version, this time on the App Store: "They take FOREVER to get removed"

  05-03-2026 11:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Peak, the viral co-op climbing sensation that helped put friendslop on the map in 2025, is still proving popular – so popular, in fact, that very blatant lookalikes of the beloved indie gem are everywhere, including mobile platforms.Late last year, publisher Landfall Games acknowledged the wave of Peak rip-offs hitting the PS5, stating it had been "reporting a bunch of these AI slop things for the past year," but that "the process takes a while." Sadly, it seems like that process doesn't j
  
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• GTA 6 devs "must be quaking" over so much fan expectation, Hell Let Loose lead says: "The more excited people get, the more you get worried"

  05-03-2026 11:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  GTA 6 is probably one of the most hotly anticipated games of all time, and it's no surprise why – the open-world dramedy is following up one of the best-selling and most-played games ever after a 13-year gap in releases that's even become a meme of sorts. But one fellow developer thinks the overwhelming and sometimes unrealistic expectations from fans probably has Rockstar Games "quaking."In an exclusive interview with GamesRadar+, this lovely site here, Hell Let Loose and Hell Let Loose:
  
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• OG Pokemon devs struggled to fit their iconic RPG onto a Game Boy cartridge: "It was a fight against capacity, a fight against what we could fit onto the cartridge"

  05-03-2026 02:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  The original Pokemon games, originally Pocket Monsters Red and Green in Japan, are some of the most formative RPGs of all time, but if the original Game Boy's game cartridges had just a little bit less memory, they may have never existed.Playing the recently released Switch and Switch 2 versions of the Pokemon LeafGreen and FireRed remakes, I'm genuinely astounded that Game Freak managed to pack so much RPG into a literal Game Boy game, and according to the game's original programmer, Junichi Ma
  
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• Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto saw games in the '80s becoming like "pornography": "I think the world of 'hidden secrets' in games has almost reached that same grotesque level"

  04-03-2026 23:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Shigeru Miyamoto has always had a reputation for thinking outside the box, pushing back on prevalent game design trends, particularly in Nintendo's very experimental Wii and DS eras. But his frustration with an industry chasing its own tail goes back decades. In fact, he saw the proliferation of samey games doubling down on the same concepts with increasing complexity as pretty "grotesque," and not far off from pornography.Yes, Miyamoto once compared popular games to porn. In a 1989 interview fo
  
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• This $8 indie game blowing up on Steam is like Mario Golf mixed with Super Smash Bros., and it's already sold 500,000 copies with 95% positive reviews: "Less like friendslop and more like friendsoufflé"

  04-03-2026 23:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  What happens when you chuck Mario Golf and Super Smash Bros. into a blender with some good old fashioned explosives? Apparently, an extremely popular multiplayer game called Super Battle Golf, which has quietly become one of Steam's best-selling games this year at 500,000 copies sold.The premise for Super Battle Golf is simple and brilliant. It's an online golfing game where eight players try to knock their balls into the hole all at the same time. While it would normally be seen as pretty rude
  
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• 26 years ago today, the PS2 arrived and changed console gaming forever, and I'm gifting Sony's legendary system modern gadgets for its birthday

  04-03-2026 23:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  The PS2 just turned 26 years old, as the system many would call Sony's best retro console debuted in Japan on March 4, 2000. I'm not exaggerating when I say the legendary Sony PlayStation sequel completely flipped the gaming scene on its head when it arrived with its then cutting-edge Emotion Engine CPU, Online support, and DVD playback capabilities, and it still feels modern if you gift it the right gadgets.No, I'm not saying PS2 graphics have aged particularly well over 26 years. I'd go as far
  
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• After being unceremoniously pulled from the release schedule, M3GAN spin-off SOULM8TE sparks back to life with an R-rating by the MPAA

  04-03-2026 23:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  SOULM8TE, the previously announced M3GAN spin-off movie, still doesn't have a release date... but it does have an official MPAA rating.According to BloodyDisgusting, the MPAA has given SOULM8TE an R rating for strong violence, gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, and language. This is pretty interesting given that both M3GAN movies were rated PG-13... and the fact that we're still not sure if the film will still even be released at all (or at least any time soon).It was announced back in Decemb
  
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• Game Freak can't add hundreds of new Pokemon and more Types every generation or else new games would take too long to make, director says: "If you added like 300 or so new monsters, that'd just be too many"

  04-03-2026 22:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  There are well over 1,000 Pokemon now, steadily added in batches of about 100 new creatures every generation. It's easy to wonder if developer Game Freak is going to run out of ideas, but that doesn't seem to be a major concern at the studio. In fact, the devs have so many ideas for new Pokemon that the real challenge is narrowing them down.As veteran Pokemon art director Ken Sugimori explains as part of a 30th anniversary interview, "The reason why there are about 100 Pokemon added per game is
  
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• "Overwhelming evidence of organized espionage": MindsEye CEO blames flop launch on "corporate sabotage" and commits to "prosecution" amid more layoffs

  04-03-2026 22:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  MindsEye studio Build a Rocket Boy has announced another round of layoffs following approximately 300 redundancies in 2025 as new CEO Mark Gerhard continues to blame the action game's underwhelming launch on criminal activity.Gerhard discusses apparent "overwhelming evidence" proving this in a statement posted on the Build a Rocket Boy LinkedIn page, with a caption acknowledging, "Today is a very difficult day for our studio." Build a Rocket Boy is beginning "a further number of redundancies," a
  
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• New Invincible season 4 trailer teases the debut of ultimate Viltrumite villain Thragg

  04-03-2026 22:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new clip from Invincible season 4 puts the spotlight on Grand Regent Thragg, the leader of the Viltrumite empire who is the season's big villain, with massive implications for everything to come in the Prime Video streaming series.Here's the clip, which promises "In two weeks, you'll start to understand why some refer to Conquest as 'light work'":Thragg, voiced by Lee Pace, is as fanatical - and powerful - as Viltrumites come, with a goal of expanding the Viltrumite empire across the entire un
  
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• Resident Evil Requiem's Leon actor doesn't care about who the hero is married to, would rather see the guy "open an ice cream parlor": "Settle down for once"

  04-03-2026 22:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  You'll never convince Leon Kennedy actor Nick Apostolides to tell you who he hopes ends up with the very special agent. Please. Apostolides just wants Leon to be away from prying eyes, and the undoubtedly intrusive mold spores he's spent a lifetime snorting.It's true that Resident Evil Requiem has revealed the shocking truth that, in addition to being an unkillable man of steel, Leon is married. And this is exactly the kind of milestone Apostolides wants for the character, who he's voiced since
  
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