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• Leap Motion debuts next-gen VR hand tracking tech

  17-02-2016 17:50
  
  Motion controller outfit Leap Motion has pulled back the curtain on Orion; new hand tracking tech built from the ground up to tackle the "unique challenges" presented by virtual reality. ...
  
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• The Warlock is Diablo 2's first new class in 25 years, it's playable right now, and, oh, it's coming to Diablo 4 too

  12-02-2026 01:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  I genuinely never thought I'd see the day Diablo 2 gets a big content update, much less a whole new class. But that day is here, as Blizzard has announced the meaty Diablo 2 Resurrected update Reign of the Warlock is available to download for free right now, and yes, it adds the brand new Warlock class to Diablo 2 today.Blizzard came prepared for Diablo's 30th birthday stream today, revealing the first new Diablo 2 class in more than 25 years, the third new Diablo 4 class since its launch in 202
  
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• Highguard dev hit with mass layoffs as "most of the team at Wildlight" is let go

  12-02-2026 00:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Highguard studio Wildlight has reportedly laid off most of its staff just weeks after the game's launch.It's no surprise that Highguard hasn't had the easiest time since it was announced at the end of The Game Awards 2025. Reactions to the announcement trailer ranged from mild confusion and apathy to straight-up rejection of yet another live-service hero shooter ala Concord. Then the game was launched to middling reviews and performance complaints, and despite a flurry of big updates since, it s
  
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• Following Anaconda and Primate, new hippo-based creature feature unveils its first look

  12-02-2026 00:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Apes, anacondas, and now, one of the most deadly animals pound-for-pound, the hippopotamus - that's the current horror movie creature feature escalation as the first look at Hungry has arrived, seen above.Hungry is all about a group of friends who come face-to-face with a raging hippo which is somehow stalking the bayou rather than its native habitat of the rivers and estuaries of Africa. While a hippo might seem like a relatively cute animal to go on a murderous rampage, they're statistically o
  
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• After a mixed response from some critics, Christopher Nolan looks back at Interstellar's growing reputation as a modern classic: "It's incredibly rewarding"

  11-02-2026 23:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Christopher Nolan's Interstellar debuted as one of the auteur director's most polarizing films, with critics and audiences alike mixed in their reception. Now, 12 years after its release, Nolan is looking back on how Interstellar's reputation has evolved, with many considering it an unsung modern classic."The film was received in a slightly ambiguous way," Nolan recalls in a Variety interview with actor Timothée Chalamet. "It was a little bit sniffy. Some of the responses were a bit sniff
  
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• Helldivers movie sets late 2027 release date and adds a video game movie hero to its ranks in Minecraft's Jason Momoa

  11-02-2026 23:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Helldivers movie finally has a release date, and has found its lead in none other than Jason Momoa.According to Deadline, Momoa is set to lead the cast... though we don't yet know who he will play. More importantly, the film is slated for a November 10, 2027 release.In 2025, Sony announced that a movie based on Helldivers 2, the sequel to popular top-down shooter game Helldivers, was in the works. Put succinctly by Deadline,the game centers around "an elite unit of soldiers, known as Helldiv
  
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• After blending Wind Waker with Kiki's Delivery Service last year, indie dev reveals an N64-inspired Zelda-like RPG – and it's an instant Kickstarter hit

  11-02-2026 23:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  I was already intrigued by this new Zelda-like indie RPG blowing up on Kickstarter, but I'm precisely 10 times more excited after learning it's being developed by the same Spain-based studio that came out with Mika and the Witch's Mountain, one of my favorite indie releases from last year, which mashed up Wind Waker and Kiki's Delivery Service into an unstoppably charming cozy adventure.I'm definitely not the only one charmed by Bel's Fanfare, as its Kickstarter was 600% funded in just three day
  
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• "It's honestly been surreal": Yapyap dev sells 500,000 copies in a week through the power of friendslop and Steam, this time with wizards and 6-player co-op

  11-02-2026 22:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  The friendslop era is truly upon us, and it seems the genre's potential for success didn't, uh, peak with Peak and REPO last year. A new contender has entered the friendslop arena in the form of Yapyap, and just a week after launch, it's already managed to reach 500,000 copies sold."Way more of you showed up than we ever expected," the devs say in a February 9 Steam post announcing the news, "and it's honestly been surreal to watch! All of us at Maison Bap are super thankful for the overwhelming
  
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• Hollow Knight: Silksong community crosses 4 weeks of cheering a mad lad fighting Savage Beastfly with ungodly custom rules, like doing the infamous Groal runback with every attempt

  11-02-2026 22:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Last month, I spoke to a Hollow Knight: Silksong player who'd begun a quest to beat a version of the Savage Beastfly boss that had been warped by ridiculous mods and rules voted on by Redditors in the Silksong community. As of today, that player, SuddenlySpoons, is up to 28 Beastfly changes, and the deviations are only getting stranger."Day 28 of fighting Savage Beastfly everyday until I can't beat it anymore, but the most upvoted comment on this post decides how I make tomorrow's fight harder,"
  
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• "I'm not slamming FromSoftware," says Lords of the Fallen 2 director, but CI Games' Soulslike has "more drives to experiment a bit" with your build

  11-02-2026 22:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Members of Lords of the Fallen 2 developer CI Games make a few comparisons to Elden Ring and FromSoftware's other games in a new developer update focusing on combat in their upcoming Soulslike sequel, with special attention paid to build diversity and how those builds come together."With a FromSoft game, and I'm not slamming FromSoftware, once I find my build, I'm in," says game director James Lowe. "That's probably the build I'm going to use for the entire experience, and I'm not going to reall
  
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• Retro Jurassic Park collection is being delisted just over 2 years after launch as Limited Run Games insists "we learned how important it is to provide plenty of notice for changes like this"

  11-02-2026 22:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been barely been two years since the Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection launched on digital platforms, and it's already on the verge of going extinct. Publisher Limited Run Games announced today that the collection is going the way of the dinosaur this March."We wanted to give you an early heads-up that the Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection will no longer be available for purchase on digital storefronts after March 31, 2026," the publisher says in a Steam post. "If you already purc
  
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• KPop Demon Hunters star pitches a "very, very serious" prequel set during the early 20th century: "That would be our Andor"

  11-02-2026 22:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  KPop Demon Hunters star Ji-young Yoo has a pretty surprising, and traditional, idea for a prequel to the hit animated movie."I love Pansori, the traditional Korean singing," Yoo told Collider. "Ejae does her spin on that in the intro to the movie when you hear her almost wailing vocal, so I would love to see ancient dynastic Korea. Or I'm really fascinated by the period from about the late 1800s to 1945, during the Japanese occupation of Korea. I don't know if that would be like a family movie &
  
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• Masters of Albion is "a true God game," Peter Molyneux says as he unveils a fully manipulable world halfway between Populous and Fable

  11-02-2026 22:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Masters of Albion, due in Early Access on April 22, just received its first gameplay trailer, and I think we've seen this before. That doesn't have to be a bad thing – the malleable god game looks a lot like director Peter Molyneux's greatest achievements.It's something of a blend between his original god game, isometric Populous from 1989, and Molyneux's sarcastic British fantasy RPG Fable, from 2004. Considering the fact that Molyneux bills Masters of Albion in a press release as "a true
  
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• Retro Jurassic Park collection is being delisted barely 2 years after launch as Limited Run Games insists "we learned how important it is to provide plenty of notice for changes like this"

  11-02-2026 21:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been barely been two years since the Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection launched on digital platforms, and it's already on the verge of going extinct. Publisher Limited Run Games announced today that the collection is going the way of the dinosaur this March."We wanted to give you an early heads-up that the Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection will no longer be available for purchase on digital storefronts after March 31, 2026," the publisher says in a Steam post. "If you already purc
  
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• OG Fable designer Peter Molyneux cried tears of joy watching Xbox reveal the new reboot, even though he thinks "there was a slight antiseptic feel about it"

  11-02-2026 20:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Legendary game designer Peter Molyneux, known for pioneering the god game genre and creating the Fable series, had a profoundly emotional reaction to the recent re-reveal and gameplay trailer for Xbox's Fable reboot.Molyneux left longtime Fable studio Lionhead back in 2012 after serving as lead designer on Fable 3, years before the series changed hands from Lionhead to Playground Games. That said, he was obviously instrumental to the series' creation and, apparently, still feels a strong connect
  
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• "'You have no idea what you've built'": Arc Raiders lead says a "prominent professor in neurology" encouraged him to submit the extraction shooter to science

  11-02-2026 20:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Next time you play Arc Raiders, try ringing a bell each time you engage in PvP, or salivating whenever you get shot in the head – apparently, a distinguished neurology professor told developer Embark Studios' CEO Patrick Söderlund his game is a big psychological deal."I've read a bunch of articles saying the Arc Raiders is almost like a social experiment, and it kind of is, and I love that," Söderlund tells IGN in a recent interview. "I genuinely love the fact that that's what it
  
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• Modder puts Super Mario 64 on PS2, hacks in co-op, and adds online multiplayer with the N64 version, all through the power of Sony's secret PS1 chip: "It works much better than I thought it was going to"

  11-02-2026 19:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Adding local co-op to Super Mario 64 would be an impressive feat. Taking the multiplayer online would be equally astounding. Getting the classic platformer running on a PS2 would be another marvel. Doing all three at once? Now that's the stuff of modding legend, and it's exactly what YouTube Carl Does Tech Things has managed to pull off.Getting the classic platformer running on PS2 in the first place was the easy part, it turns out, since that port is one of the many that exist in the wake of Su
  
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• Soulslike action RPG Lords of the Fallen 2 is on the "same journey" as the Batman Arkham games, dev says: "It all came together and it felt perfect"

  11-02-2026 19:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  In a developer update that feels more like a podcast at 42 minutes, Lords of the Fallen 2 developer CI Games likens the evolution of the sequel to the Batman: Arkham games and how the series found its groove with combat.These comments are from game director James Lowe, who says the team has discussed this sort of Batman-like arc internally."Take a series like Batman: Arkham," he begins. "Arkham Asylum had a set of its combat abilities, and it got its core down, still had a ways to go. Arkham Cit
  
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• Pirates of the Caribbean director's first film in nearly 10 years is being hailed by critics as "the best Black Mirror episode in nearly a decade"

  11-02-2026 18:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Reviews are in for Gore Verbinski's new movie Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die – and they're overwhelmingly positive.The film stars Sam Rockwell as the unnamed "Man from the future" who takes the patrons of a Los Angeles diner hostage in order to help him save the world from a rogue artificial intelligence. The cast includes Juno Temple, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Asim Chaudhry, and Tom Taylor. At the time of writing, the film sits at a 92% Rotten Tomatoes score.G
  
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• The Virtual Boy returns next week, but there are three things I need you know about the Switch Online remake

  11-02-2026 18:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Whether you consider it one of the best retro consoles or a cursed flop, Nintendo is bringing the Virtual Boy back. You'll be able to get your hands on the latest Switch accessory remake on February 17, and pre-orders are already live, but there are three important things I need you to know about the goggles before you rush to grab one.Originally making its debut way back on July 21, 1995, the Nintendo Virtual Boy is best described as a "tabletop" console. That's largely thanks to the fact that,
  
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• Roguelike legend Edmund McMillen crammed 200 Simpsons-inspired intros into his new strategy game Mewgenics, and I'm ashamed I didn't notice sooner: "There's like 200 couch gags"

  11-02-2026 18:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mewgenics' intro was inspired by The Simpsons, with over 200 variations of the cartoon's intro playing when you boot up the game.In the 100+ hours I've collected over the last month on 2026's highest-rated game Mewgenics, I began to notice its intro cutscene is slightly different whenever I start it up. It somehow took me even longer to realize the intro was effectively a parody of The Simpsons, with its title appearing into the sky before flying through the town of Boon County – but I nev
  
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• These Baldur's Gate 3 treasure packs are a serious delight filled with Sirius dice

  11-02-2026 18:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Do you need one of the Baldur's Gate 3 Treasure Packs from Sirius Dice? If asked, I will tell anyone that the question "do I need more dice?" is probably an emphatic "no." If you're the kind of person that has enough dice to then potentially have more, you do not need more dice. And yet, I still couldn't stop myself from salivating at the thought of getting my hands on some of these.If you're unfamiliar, Sirius does a whole line of these Treasure Packs that typically include a die, an embroidere
  
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• Deltarune Chapter 5 is still underway, and Undertale icon Toby Fox says devs are "polishing" it with "some preliminary internal bugtesting on PC"

  11-02-2026 18:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Undertale and Deltarune creator Toby Fox previously said he doesn't think the latter game's Chapter 5 "will be released in the first half of 2026" – but that doesn't mean it's not well underway, as the developer reveals translations are going smoothly.We don't know when exactly Chapter 5 will arrive, with Fox having said in December that it's sadly still "several months" away, and Chapters 3 and 4 having released in the middle of last year – but thankfully, it sounds like progress is
  
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• "Stop banning the cat please": Jetpack Cat just became the most popular Overwatch hero as players call her the "most fun" – but she's starting to get banned from overuse

  11-02-2026 18:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Blizzard knew what it was doing putting Jetpack Cat into Overwatch, I'm certain of it. Coming in Season 1 of the hero shooter's soft reset, whereby Overwatch 2 became simply Overwatch and there's a revamped narrative focus, the skyward feline is already standing out as a fan favorite, for good and ill.In case you're wondering, Jetpack Cat is just that, a cat with a jetpack you can use to fly around the map. It has lasers for offense and defense. Fika is its actual name, and she’s voiced by
  
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• Pokemon devs "wanted to create a different type of game that's not an RPG" with cozy life sim Pokopia, but that whole idea "was a challenge"

  11-02-2026 18:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pokemon Pokopia is the creature-collecting series' very first life sim, and its senior director says it came about because "we wanted to create a different type of game that's not an RPG."Speaking to VGC, Shigeru Ohmori notes that Pokopia, which is being co-developed by Game Freak, Koei Tecmo, and The Pokemon Company, offered a pretty different experience for the dev team."For Game Freak, they had not created something directly for the spin-offs," Ohmori says. "We wanted to create a different ty
  
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• "I could see $1,000": Steam Machine is "a PC with console benefits" and console hardware struggles, analyst says, and "whatever the next Xbox thing is, it's going to be just like it in a lot of ways"

  11-02-2026 18:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  With memory and storage sinks chasing GPU droughts, the global hardware market has gotten so bad that Valve can't even commit to a plan on the Steam Machine's release date or price. When it does eventually arrive, games director Mat Piscatella of analyst firm Circana expects the Steam Machine to offer a preview of full-fat consoles to come, particularly the next-generation Xbox.Speaking with GamesRadar+, Piscatella describes the Steam Machine and its place in the market as "a PC that can be hook
  
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• Pokopia "doesn't force you to wait" like Animal Crossing – the cozy Pokemon life sim wants you to knock stuff out your "own way" instead of waiting "a whole day to continue to play"

  11-02-2026 18:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sick of waiting on Tom Nook? Tired of shaking the same peach trees over and over just to pass the time 'til morning? You might want to take a vacation from your Animal Crossing island, then, and sail towards Pokemon's new cozy life sim Pokopia – where you don't have to wait.Director Takuto Edagawa explains in a new VGC interview that, unlike more languid sims like Animal Crossing, which encourage players to wait for its story to unroll in real-time, the upcoming Pokopia embraces your time-
  
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• Black Panther director Ryan Coogler says sequel Wakanda Forever is watched at home "so much more than the other Panther" for a simple reason: "People may be watching when they want to feel something specific"

  11-02-2026 17:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Black Panther director Ryan Coogler has reflected on making Wakanda Forever after the tragic loss of Chadwick Boseman – and shared why he thinks more people watch the sequel at home than the first movie."I learned that I was more resilient than I give myself credit for – I'll say that was the biggest thing," he told The Hollywood Reporter of the experience. "And that movie gets watched at home so much more than the other Panther did. I think about that: People may be watching when th
  
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• Watch out, Jason Voorhees: a sequel to the most violent movie of 2024 is in the works, and the killer is headed to summer camp

  11-02-2026 17:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  A sequel to In a Violent Nature is coming soon... and this time, Johnny is headed to summer camp.The first film, written and directed by Chris Nash, is told from the POV of a creepy masked undead killer named Johnny (Ry Barrett) and follows him as he hunts down a group of teens (one of whom stole a locket that unleashed his spirit in the first place. It's very much in the same vein as Friday the 13th, though Jason Voorhees couldn't even dream of making kills this upsetting (trust me).Per Variety
  
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• TMNT OG actor confirms they would have returned for R-rated The Last Ronin movie, and slams execs for canceling it: "Maybe you need to spend some time with the fans"

  11-02-2026 17:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles actor Judith Hoag, who played April O'Neil in the 1990 TMNT live-action film, has confirmed they were approached about appearing in the now-canceled The Last Ronin.Speaking during a panel at Big Lick Comic Con, Hoag said (via Collider), "I've been approached, and I'd be happy. It would be a great bookend for me. And maybe that happens and maybe it doesn't. We'll see."Unfortunately for those hoping for a brooding legacy sequel, Paramount reportedly wielded the axe on
  
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