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• Hot new kitchen gadgets

  21-03-2017 11:18 via yahoo.com
  
  Giz Wiz Dick Debartolo takes us through the latest and greatest kitchen tech.
  
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• Billy the Puppet rises from the dead as Saw 11 finds its director, but fans think the horror franchise is getting an overhaul

  28-09-2026 14:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Is that a squeaky tricycle we can hear? Yes, it is, as Billy the Puppet has risen from the dead and a new Saw movie is on the way. But fans don't think it's Saw 11 as such. On September 24, the horror icon took to Twitter to announce that a new Saw movie is officially moving forward, with franchise newcomer Mike P. Nelson directing. The official Saw page posted a suitably creepy video of the puppet saying "the game continues," before giving us the first look at the script. Check out the video be
  
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• Skyrim lead says "protective" Todd Howard is why Elder Scrolls didn't get a Fallout: New Vegas-style spin-off

  28-09-2026 14:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Veteran Elder Scrolls loremaster Kurt Kuhlmann suggests that Bethesda's fantasy RPG series never saw a Fallout: New Vegas-like spin-off because a "very protective" Todd Howard didn't want to create another situation where people might question whether his studio is best placed to handle the series. In a new interview with FRVR, Kuhlmann – who also served as Skyrim's co-lead designer, a quest designer on Oblivion, and more before leaving Bethesda in 2023 – implies that New Vegas's suc
  
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• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 now has a multiplayer mod that brings RP servers to the acclaimed RPG's open world

  28-09-2026 13:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 modding group has released an open beta for a mod that turns the game into an open-world multiplayer experience. Co-op mods for games that don't exactly support it are nothing new. While most FromSoftware games do have online multiplayer, the most popular mods for them are the ones that implement seamless co-op into the likes of Elden Ring, Dark Souls 3, and even the ones that didn't have multiplayer like Sekiro Online. However, rather than continue the trend for on
  
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• One Piece is taking one of its longest breaks ever until 2027

  28-09-2026 13:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  After almost 1200 episodes, One Piece is taking a lengthy break. The hit anime won't return until 2027, marking one of the longest breaks for the show ever. "The final TV anime of the year, "ONE PIECE" Thank you for watching!" reads a Tweet on the official account. "Next time will air in 2027! Please stay tuned for further details on the broadcast schedule."For over 25 years, One Piece released an episode a week – but, in 2025, it was revealed that the anime would instead pivot to a produc
  
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• Hideo Kojima's Physint isn't costing Xbox $400 million after all, new reports suggest

  28-09-2026 13:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Xbox apparently isn't paying close to $400 million for Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear spiritual successor Physint after all, despite recent rumors to the contrary. In news I don't think anyone – including Kojima himself – saw coming, Xbox is now publishing Physint instead of PlayStation after Sony decided it wanted to cancel the game entirely. The game's future is now apparently safe, despite ongoing restructuring at Xbox, but the question of why Sony wanted to drop it at all remains. One
  
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• Godzilla Minus One is the first R-rated Godzilla movie for a reason, says director: "Cutting it was just not an option"

  28-09-2026 13:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Godzilla Minus One has made history as the first-ever Godzilla movie to earn an R-rating. But according to director Takashi Yamazaki, this couldn't be helped, as the movie's violent and bloody scenes are essential to the story. "You want as many people from the general public to be able to see your film. So, an R-rating might seem like a barrier to entry," said Yamazaki to Variety. "In spite of that, though, there were certain scenes that, for me as a director, were so essential to the film. Cen
  
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• Lanterns writer says changing canon is "like handling plutonium" but there's "no fun and creativity" in playing it safe

  28-09-2026 13:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Comic backstories are usually in a state of flux, with pieces of history picked up and deployed at a writer's whim to suit whatever story they're trying to tell.But there are (usually) hard and fast rules: Superman landed in Kansas, Bruce Wayne watched his parents die in Crime Alley, and Hal Jordan watched his father die in a test flight.While Lanterns keeps the latter intact, it offers up a key tweak that not only reframes the character – but the entirety of Kyle Chandler's excellent perf
  
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• As Wardogs sells 3 million copies, lead admits the devs are "overwhelmed," taking forced holidays

  28-09-2026 12:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  There are times in life when you may find yourself suffering from success. Bulkhead, the developer of tactical FPS Wardogs, is going through one such period, the company's boss revealing much of the team are on mandatory leave to give them time to breathe amid what's been a hardcore launch period.Joe Brammer, the CEO of Bulkhead, posted about it on Twitter. "We have been a bit overwhelmed with the response, and I mean it literally," he writes. "It feels like we’ve spent our whole time figh
  
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• Xbox is in the midst of a "reverse acquisition," analyst says

  28-09-2026 12:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  A games industry analyst says that Xbox is being acquired in reverse after the publisher announced that it is placing some of its studios under Bethesda and Activision. Microsoft announced last week that the next wave of redundancies, as part of the planned 3,200 jobs cuts across Xbox throughout FY27, would not only result in the loss of 268 jobs – with the likes of Halo Studios and The Coalition affected – but also mark a major reshuffle for Xbox Game Studios. Notably, Playground Ga
  
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• Godzilla Minus Zero debuts to near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score

  28-09-2026 12:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Godzilla Minus Zero has been screened for critics, and it has debuted to incredibly strong reactions. The film is a direct sequel to Godzilla Minus One, picking up two years after the events of that movie. As revealed by the final trailer, this time around, King Ghidorah has entered the fray, too. After premiering at New York Film Festival, early reviews are in, and they're overwhelmingly positive. The film currently sits at 95% on Rotten Tomatoes from 22 reviews, which, while a near-perfect sco
  
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• WoW: Forever beta gets another population cap increase as Blizzard struggles to fit fans in the MMO

  28-09-2026 12:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Following Blizzard's big reveal of World of Warcraft: Forever at BlizzCon 2026, the MMO's official Beta release went live – and it's almost too popular.So much so, that senior game designer Josh Greenfield said he was witnessing "the craziest numbers I've seen in 17 years working at Blizzard" as the studio's servers kept breaking thanks to the WoW: Forever Beta.
  The developers remedied the issue by, you know, simply increasing the MMO's population cap – something they've just had to
  
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• Spider-Man filmmaker will direct first movie of new Star Wars trilogy in the Skywalker Saga

  28-09-2026 12:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Following a years-long break between movies, Star Wars is officially back in its cinematic flow. Following The Mandalorian and Grogu hitting screens this year, and with Shawn Levvy's Star Wars: Starfighter on the way, LucasFilm is moving forward with yet another feature, and it has already found its director. Jon Watts has been tapped to direct the first movie out of a new trilogy that will next chapter of the Skywalker Saga. The mystery trilogy is penned by Simon Kinberg, who has been working o
  
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• An unofficial Super Mario Galaxy PC port is in the works, with devs proudly claiming it's "100% coded by humans"

  28-09-2026 12:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo Wii classic Super Mario Galaxy has been 100% decompiled, with members of the game's community announcing an unofficial PC port is on the way. Game decompilation has been one of the highlights of the 2020's PC gaming scene, as it has allowed developers to create PC ports of games that never came to the platform and letting them be played natively and enhanced, offering greater utility over simply emulating them. It's allowed PC players to finally experience classics like Castlevania: Sym
  
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• Avengers: Endgame will overtake Avatar as the highest-grossing movie very soon after Encore's bumper box office numbers

  28-09-2026 11:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avengers: Endgame will almost certainly become the highest-grossing movie again – after Encore's re-release proved to be a smash hit at this weekend's box office.As per Variety, Encore grossed $86 million worldwide, bringing Endgame's overall gross to $2.88 billion, some $40 million shy of Avatar's record. If the numbers keep up, Avengers: Endgame will regain its crown (after Avatar and Endgame traded number one slots thanks to a series of prior re-releases) in just a few weeks.All told, t
  
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• It's somehow possible to beat Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave while ignoring the entire point

  27-09-2026 17:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Somehow, it's possible to beat the entirety of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave without recruiting its four central characters, The Flame Lords.Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave doesn't follow the familiar structure laid out in most other games from Nintendo's SRPG series. In this one, players create their own character who exists in an apocalyptic present day and needs to travel back in time to recruit The Flame Lords - each of them has their own full-fat, completely unique route and storyline that can
  
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• Gabe Newell had a "room full of knives and blades and swords," says Counter-Strike co-creator

  27-09-2026 15:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Gabe Newell - billionaire yacht enthusiast, daily Dota 2 player, Valve co-founder. Now, you can also add bladed weapon maestro to his resume, according to Counter Strike co-creator Minh 'Gooseman' Le.The co-developer of the Half-Life mod that spawned the ultra popular Counter-Strike series, Le recently talked to Indie Game Joe about his experience working at Valve and with its president Gabe Newell, a figure who leads quite a colorful, side-quest-filled life when he's not arguing in court about
  
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• CD Projekt Red worked backwards from Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty's brutal final choice

  27-09-2026 14:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cyberpunk 2077's excellent spy thriller expansion, Phantom Liberty, is three years old now. To mark the anniversary, Cyberpunk 2 associate game director and the expansion's lead quest designer Pawel Sasko looked back on the project with a few new details. First up, it's pretty hard to ignore the stomping elephant in the room of Cyberpunk 2077's disastrous launch when talking about Phantom Liberty's impressive turnaround. To make sure Phantom Liberty dodged the base game's launch woes, developer
  
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• Minecraft sells over 425 million copies and gets its first new dimension in 14 years

  27-09-2026 11:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Minecraft's reign as the blocky king of the sandbox genre has lasted for well over a decade, but the crafty survival game is still as popular as ever. This year's Minecraft Live event revealed the game's getting its first new dimension in nearly 15 years, after selling a whopping 425 million copies altogether. Lots to mine. That new dimension is called the Sift, a vibrant and otherworldly plane - and you'll be able to check it out in next week's ARPG, Minecraft Dungeons 2, before it eventually c
  
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  Nier: Automata director Yoko Taro has a reputation for being weird and esoteric – not that the giant, moon-faced Emil mask he always wears in public has anything to do with it. The idiosyncratic dev's games have a reputation for dark, twisted narratives that care more for their philosophical underpinnings than offering happy conclusions for their characters.With the first Nier, released in 2010, the game featured two different protagonists, with a gruff older character on Xbox 360 and a bo
  

• Rockstar reportedly reminded GTA 6's voice cast they're still under NDA

  26-09-2026 16:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rockstar Games has supposedly reminded the GTA 6 voice cast to keep quiet about their involvement in the upcoming open-world epic - shortly after actor Stephen Root let slip that he's in the game.The Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption maker has slowly been revealing bits and pieces about its next crime romp. The developer recently unveiled the GTA 6 soundtrack featuring 34 original songs from popular, real-world artists, as well as a $400 Collector's Edition that doesn't actually include t
  
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• Final Fantasy 7 Revelation lead says the original RPG "is very much enshrined within the story"

  26-09-2026 15:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Asked about whether newcomers should play the original classic before starting its epic trilogy of remakes, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's director says there's no "clear cut" answer. In some ways, knowing what happened in the 1997 RPG is crucial in understanding the Remake trilogy's story, but at the same time, newbies who don't know what a Materia is can still have a great time.Speaking to GamesRadar+, lead developer Naoki Hamaguchi says fans aren't "mistaken at all" for recommending that new pl
  
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• Manor Lords publisher isn't worried about launching a game on GTA 6's release date

  26-09-2026 14:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Plenty of developers have shuffled around their release dates to avoid brushing shoulders with GTA 6, which is shaping up to be the biggest video game launch of all time. But publisher Hooded Horse isn't worried about releasing its medieval management sim Blacksmith Master into 1.0 on November 19 - in fact, it's apparently a deliberate strategy.The Manor Lords publisher is gearing up to push Blacksmith Master out of the early access fire on the same day as Rockstar Games' mammoth open-world romp
  
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• Marvel's Wolverine finally lets you turn off overbearing Scent Trails for side content

  26-09-2026 14:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Some of Marvel's Wolverine's more hand-holdy, overbearing guardrails can be removed thanks to Insomniac Games' latest update, but the superhero romp will still keep the game's infamous Scent Trails turned on for "story-critical" moments.The loudest conversation around Marvel's Wolverine has been fixated on the game's perceived unwillingness to let players off the leash. Unbeatable quick time events and on-rails motorcycle sections caught some flack on social media, but most players also found is
  
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• Mr. Hytale is offering $15,000 to the first person to beat a new challenge in next month's update

  26-09-2026 01:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Simon Collins-Laflamme, the founder of Hytale studio Hypixel, is offering a massive monetary reward for whoever becomes the first person to complete a challenge in next month's massive Hytale update.Hytale's big Chapter 1 update is coming to Hytale early access on October 12, and in advance of that, Hypixel dropped a teaser trailer previewing some of what's to come. The video, which you can watch below, showcases some new areas including a huge underground cave environment with acid rivers and w
  
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• Blizzard says "sorry" for Diablo 4 season 15 woes by giving away the game's rarest crafting material

  25-09-2026 23:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  I've been thoroughly enjoying my time with Diablo 4 Season of Hell's Legacy even if it just makes me really, really want a Diablo 1 remake, but I'm not alone in experiencing some pretty bad server wobbles, not to mention the launch-day delay of the new seasonal realm and Solo Self Found mode. As a token of appreciation to players who continue logging in despite these problems, Blizzard is giving away one of the game's rarest and most valuable crafting resources for free.As reported by Icy Veins
  
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• PlayStation is "hearing the feedback from customers" on discs, says JRPG boss

  25-09-2026 23:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite a very vocal backlash, Sony has no apparent plans to backtrack on its decision to end physical PlayStation discs in 2028. But maybe things aren't quite as set in stone as they seem – at least, that's what I want to tell myself as I read recent quotes from Kenzo Saruhashi, president of Nippon Ichi Software, who offers a bit of hope that Sony's decision isn't final."In our discussions with Sony so far," Saruhashi tells Kotaku, "I think that they're hearing a lot of the feedback from
  
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• Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is too massive for How Long To Beat to have any useful results

  25-09-2026 23:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is an astonishingly large, whale belly of an RPG. At least, that's what my intuition tells me – I haven't personally finished playing publisher Nintendo's latest installment to its tactical fantasy since it launched on September 17, and it seems no one else has, either. The Nintendo Switch 2 game's listing on the usually reliable How Long To Beat website is unusually empty; at the moment, there are only two respondents, who report taking anywhere between 74 and
  
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• Amid mass Xbox layoffs, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the "streamlining" is "great to see"

  25-09-2026 22:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  At least somebody is happy with the state of Xbox. With Xbox now 75% through an urgent restructuring plan that has seen thousands laid off, many games canceled, and several studios severed or consolidated, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the "streamlining" going on is "great to see." Asked about the state and future of Xbox on Sources Podcast by Alex Heath, Nadella says "I feel fantastic about the IP we have right now. If I look at the studios, the IP portfolio we have, and our ability to then
  
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• PC gaming has more than doubled in size over the last 4 years in Japan, report finds

  25-09-2026 21:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Since Japan is the home country of Sony and Nintendo, it should come as no surprise that consoles from those corporations tend to dominate the Japanese market. Xbox consoles have long struggled to compete, as did the PC market along with it. But data from the local Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association shows there's been a considerable shift over the last few years.According to Kotaku, which is citing a preliminary report shared during Tokyo Game Show – with a full report exp
  
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