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• "Long live friendslop": Peak devs didn't win anything at The Game Awards, but they "still had a PEAK year" - just don't "hit Bing Bong up rn"

  12-12-2025 17:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  In any awards show, among the winners there must be plenty of losers. Sadly, at The Game Awards, comedy climbing game Peak was one of the losers, losing out on Best Multiplayer Game to Arc Raiders. The devs have been good sports about the opportunity, despite a dramatic post or two."He lost his marriage, then bbno$, and now the game award," co-publisher Aggro Crab dramatically tweeted with an image of mascot Bing Bong, "no one hit up Bing Bong right now." It truly has been a tough year for our g
  
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• Paul Bettany teases a return as Vision in Avengers: Secret Wars after Vision Quest

  13-12-2025 00:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Paul Bettany is set to return as the android Avenger the Vision in his own Vision Quest streaming series coming in 2026. And according to the actor himself, it seems quite likely that he's got a future in the MCU beyond that as part of Avengers: Secret Wars."I think I've got some Avengers duties next year," Bettany tells The Telegraph. Secret Wars will likely be in some state of production through 2026 to meet its 2027 release date as the follow up to next winter's Avengers: Doomsday.Bettany has
  
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• Yes, that is Sebulba in the Star Wars: Galactic Racer trailer, and Anakin's original antagonist seems to be getting the last laugh because he's managed to outlive Darth Vader

  12-12-2025 23:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  My first thought upon seeing the trailer for Star Wars: Galactic Racer at The Game Awards 2025 was "hell yeah, a new podracing game!" My second thought, a few moments later, was "wait, where are all the podracers?" Admittedly, the chaos of the award show made me miss the obvious tease of Sebulba's iconic podracer engine noise, but there's an arguably even more notable detail that eluded me at the time: the Dug has really managed to get the last laugh over Anakin Skywalker.Just in case there was
  
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• No one knows whether Larian's new Divinity will be a turn-based RPG or ARPG, but everyone has thoughts: "If Divinity is not a turn-based CRPG I will eat a raw potato"

  12-12-2025 22:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios unveiled its new project at The Game Awards 2025: It's simply titled Divinity, and aside from an extraordinarily explicit trailer, we don't know a whole lot about it, not even what kind of combat it'll have.The game that kicked off the series, 2002's Divine Divinity, is a Diablo-inspired action-RPG with real-time battles, and it spawned two action-RPG sequels, 2004's Beyond Divinity and 2009's Divinity 2. That said, these days the Divinity name is more cl
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's celebratory DLC bosses and nerfs are so brutal that players are having to retool their months-old endgame builds

  12-12-2025 22:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  After a nearly clean sweep at The Game Awards, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is enjoying a renewed sense of vigor. It helps that Sandfall Interactive already planned to celebrate the record-breaking occasion with a new update, which provides as many fixes and tweaks as it does new content. Among the new stuff are a couple of boss encounters that are, evidently, ruffling many players' feathers.Hardcore Expedition 33 players are no strangers to the game's many superbosses. They're practically litter
  
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• As Larian disgusts and excites with Divinity trailer, Obsidian's Josh Sawyer says "it is wild what people will get upset about in games" and then cheer "Wicker Man x Event Horizon"

  12-12-2025 22:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Somewhere at Larian Studios is a well-worn whiteboard with a bulleted list labeled in marker, "The grossest stuff we can think of." At least, I assume so, and I also assume that all of those listed ideas went into the reveal trailer for Divinity, the next hotly anticipated RPG from the makers of Baldur's Gate 3."The new Divinity trailer was great," reckons fellow RPG mastermind Josh Sawyer in a Bluesky post, "but it is wild what people will get upset about in games, content-wise, and then be com
  
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• Warframe is set to break its all-time player count on Steam with latest The Old Peace update, soaring close to 180,000

  12-12-2025 22:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite releasing over a decade ago in 2013 (oh how time flies), it seems that free-to-play online action shooter Warframe has never been more popular than right now. This week, following the release of the new The Old Peace update, the game's concurrent player count on Steam is rocketing towards it's all-time peak. Frankly, it's not hard to understand why.While the release of any fresh batch of content is sure to bring in new and returning players, at least for a little bit of time, it seems ev
  
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• Former The Last of Us director is happy to be making his own weird game and "not something that you need to do a remaster of in the next 4 years because the tech has already outgrown it"

  12-12-2025 21:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Years after seemingly hanging up the cape and stepping away from games, Bruce Straley – best known for his work directing several Uncharted games, as well as The Last of Us – is back with a funky little game called Coven of the Chicken Foot. It focuses on reactive companion characters, and Straley's own words, "It's not something that you need to do a remaster of in the next four years because the tech has already outgrown it."Straley shared that sentiment with Polygon in an intervie
  
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• Larian wears the trademark application that spoiled its Divinity reveal like a badge of honor – can we get T-shirts next?

  12-12-2025 20:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  During The Game Awards, Larian Studios announced Divinity. The orgy-filled trailer was a showstopper that teased what the studio is calling its "biggest, most ambitious RPG yet" – too bad a trademark application eagle-eyed fans spotted just a couple days before the announcement slightly spoiled the surprise. But now even Larian is in on the joke.At some point following The Game Awards, people started noticing that the team seemed to be poking fun at itself. Take the official Larian Twitter
  
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• The Last of Us director left Naughty Dog after the studio settled into a "paradigm" of how to make a specific type of game: "I just don't have it in me. I would make a lot more money if I did!"

  12-12-2025 20:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Last of Us director Bruce Straley has given his most personable and in-depth explanation of why he left Naughty Dog back in 2016, citing the "repetition" of the studio's established game design as one of the key reasons for his departure."I had been there 18 years. That's a long time for anybody to be anywhere," Straley tells Polygon. "I think I played a very integral role in building that brand up and those titles, and I had a really amazing experience with those teams. But I felt like I wa
  
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• HBO's first teaser for its Green Lantern show is 11 seconds of pure adrenaline

  12-12-2025 20:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first teaser for HBO Max's Lanterns has arrived as part of a compilation of the streamer's upcoming releases, and though it's only 11 seconds long, it still manages to squeeze in a bit of thrill ride. Lanterns, based on the Green Lantern Corps, centers on Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) training his successor, John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) to use his power ring. Nathan Fillion's Guy Gardner will also appear.Here's the teaser, which starts at the 1:35 mark:The all-too-brief clip shows Hal Jordan and
  
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• Take a bow, Arc Raiders players: your degeneracy surprised even Embark, which didn't expect all the wallhacking – "We have to continuously find ways to waterproof the experience"

  12-12-2025 19:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Enough monkeys and a typewriter will produce Shakespeare, and enough gamers and a loot economy will produce exploits. Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios felt this firsthand as it watched millions of players discover and disseminate ways to access loot hotspots normally gated behind rare keycards by – checks notes – running into a corner really hard. This was not on the studio's bingo card, it turns out, and it wasn't the only surprise.Speaking with PC Gamer, art director Robert Sam
  
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• Disco Elysium devs built the RPG's visual style as a "cover band" for Obsidian's "great comeback game," Pillars of Eternity

  12-12-2025 19:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Disco Elysium is lauded as one of the most unique and original games ever made, but it didn't spring entirely from nowhere. In fact, the developers at the original iteration of ZA/UM took pretty explicit inspiration from another RPG, Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity, to help define the game's visual identity."I was the first person ever to have touched a games engine in the ZA/UM studio history," artist Siim Raidma explains in a new documentary from Noclip. "Pretty much the first day I come into t
  
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• Kirby Air Riders team will disband after one final patch, says director Masahiro Sakurai, and you're on your own after that: "Please enjoy the balance of the game as a definitive version"

  12-12-2025 19:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  The great Masahiro Sakurai has foretold it, and so it shall be: the Kirby Air Riders development team is disbanding after, maybe, one final patch.Sakurai, the Nintendo legend who created Kirby and Super Smash Bros., explains his plan for Kirby Air Riders on Twitter, in a post translated by Automaton. He makes it clear that Kirby Air Riders' newly released Ver. 1.2.0 update will be one of its last before the dreamy racing game's developers move on."I think we might be able to tweak it one more ti
  
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• Arc Raiders dev says "we do analyze behavior and match accordingly" in the closest confirmation we have that PvP goblins get cage match lobbies while loot rats chill together

  12-12-2025 18:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  An Arc Raiders dev has said that the team does analyse player behaviour as part of the matchmaking. So your horrible actions will apparently have consequences after all.Arc Raiders has become the breakout multiplayer hit of the end of 2025. While Battlefield 6 and Black Ops 7 have obviously done well, neither seems to have the same excited community as Embark Studios' latest shooter.Part of that popularity is its social media presence, namely, watching clips of players being the absolute worst p
  
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• Tomb Raider: Catalyst and Legacy of Atlantis will introduce Lara's new voice, who you've probably heard before if you played Cyberpunk 2077

  12-12-2025 18:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Game Awards proved to be a big night for Tomb Raider fans, who were treated to not one but two announcements. The first, Catalyst, is an all new title continuing Lara's adventure while the second, Legacy of Atlantis, is a remake of the first game in the series. This marks a new era for the beloved series, and that includes an all-new voice for Lara.Per an official post from Amazon, the actor stepping into the boots of Lara for both upcoming titles is Alix Wilton Regan. Regan is no stranger t
  
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• The next game from the creator of Yakuza features Don Lee as the main character and otherwise looks a lot like a Yakuza game

  12-12-2025 18:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  The next game from the creator of Yakuza has been revealed at The Game Awards, and to one's surprise, it looks a lot like the series he founded. It's called Gang of Dragon and appears to star Don Lee as the lead.You can see the first full trailer for the game here:Gang of Dragon is the debut title from Toshiro Nagoshi's new development team, Nagoshi Studio. The team was founded back in 2021 following Nagoshi's departure from Sega as a subsidiary under NetEase.Gang of Dragon appears to continue i
  
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• "Lizard Sex confirmed:" Fans of Baldur Gate 3's horniness seem to already love Divinity after its orgy-riddled announcement trailer

  12-12-2025 18:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's safe to say that Larian's next RPG Divinity, which premiered at The Game Awards, had one of the more jarring trailers of the night. It truly had it all: a strung up Wicker Man-like sacrifice, pigs feasting on the vomit of drunken cultists, and, oh yeah, that whole orgy scene.Fans of the studio's last game, the landmark RPG Baldur's Gate 3, are no strangers to the game's randy writing. After all, this is the game that exploded in popularity after it was revealed that the player could have se
  
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• Resident Evil Requiem's latest trailer gets everyone talking about "hot uncle" Leon Kennedy, including RE2 director Hideki Kamiya himself: "Uncle Leon, I hope you at least live a happy life in old age"

  12-12-2025 17:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Resident Evil is returning to Racoon City with the upcoming game Requiem, and a familiar face will be along for the ride. During The Game Awards 2025, Capcom revealed that Leon Kennedy will be joining newcomer Grace Ashcroft. He's older, but that hasn't stopped fans from continuing to thirst over the veteran Resident Evil protagonist.In fact, talk of hot old Leon has gotten so extreme that even Resident Evil 2's director is weighing in.レオンおじさん&hel
  
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• The Elder Scrolls 6 didn't make an appearance at The Game Awards 2025, and the RPG community is once again in shambles: "Todd Howard and Bethesda fatigue has finally set in"

  12-12-2025 17:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Well, it's official – Bethesda Game Studios did not unveil any footage of The Elder Scrolls 6 or share any news at The Game Awards 2025, despite circulating rumors (more like copium, let's be real here), and the community is once again in shambles.It turns out that The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley's cryptic teaser wasn't a sign of any Half-Life 3 news, a new God of War game, or, perhaps most unfortunately, a trailer for The Elder Scrolls 6. The strange statue was, in fact, constructed f
  
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• Half-Life 3 hopefuls suffer yet another Game Awards, from a promising trailer that ended up being Control Resonant to a busier-than-usual Domino's branch: "The game was meant to be there"

  12-12-2025 16:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Depending on who you ask, Half-Life 3's announcement at the Game Awards may as well have been prophesied by the stars. The recent news of Steam hardware and an uptick in activity at the…pizza places near Valve's headquarters seemed to all but guarantee that a dazzling reveal was imminent. Of course, no such announcement was made–how often do Valve really play by anyone's rules or expectations but its own–and now r/halflife is burning.Just days ago, members of the subreddit, wh
  
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• Death Stranding's Hideo Kojima isn't interested in AI-generated content, but thinks the tech could "compensate for those differences" in people's playstyles

  12-12-2025 16:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding 2 director Hideo Kojima has once again shared his thoughts on AI use in game development, and the famed developer still isn't interested in generating content with the controversial tech.AI use in game development has become a hot-button topic over the years as concerns have been raised about big companies using the tech as an excuse to cut costs and jobs, actors have gone on strike to protect their likenesses, and AI-generated rip-offs of existing games have
  
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• Resident Evil Requiem protagonists Leon Kennedy and Grace Ashcroft are so different, Capcom says "it’s almost like having 2 games" mixed together

  12-12-2025 16:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Resident Evil Requiem's leads say Leon's sections serve to alleviate the tension of Grace's horror-focused gameplay, and as a result, the upcoming horror game feels like two different titles mashed together.Surprising absolutely nobody, Capcom revealed that Resident Evil Requiem features Leon Kennedy as the second playable character (which PlayStation leaked earlier this week). What was somewhat surprising was just how much his segment of the new trailer was giving Resident Evil 6 vibes, with ac
  
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• Divinity is a "brand-new game" that doesn't require any experience with Larian Studios' past RPGs – but you'll be better off if you've played Original Sin and its sequel

  12-12-2025 16:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  What a wild year it's been for gaming, with The Game Awards 2025 arriving last night to top things off with plenty of well-deserved wins for developers and sneak peeks at exciting new games – one of which was Divinity, an RPG underway from Larian Studios.Divinity has now been confirmed (no, not Divinity: Original Sin 3), finally solving The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley's cryptic teaser, and it looks downright incredible so far… fiery sacrifice, fantastical backdrop, sweaty orgies
  
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• Lords of the Fallen 2 lets you dismember enemies because "Soulslikes thrive on challenge" and the RPG devs want to sweeten every victory with extra gore

  12-12-2025 15:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Lords of the Fallen 2's second bloody trailer was gruesome, to put it politely, when it debuted last night at The Game Awards 2025. Many a head was beheaded and many an arm was chopped clean off during a sub-two-minute look at the Soulslike sequel, but that's only because series fans told the developers to "go all in" on the violence."When we asked our community just how far we should push the gore in the next Lords of the Fallen, the answer was loud and unanimous: 'go all in'," CI Games creativ
  
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• No Man's Sky fans waiting for news on follow-up Light No Fire going through it after The Game Awards sent hopes soaring before immediately crushing them: "It's official, we wait for next year"

  12-12-2025 13:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Light No Fire fans are going through it right now, as The Game Awards 2025 have been and gone with no news for Hello Games' upcoming fantasy exploration title. Except, one dev was wearing a Light No Fire shirt, which has got to mean something, right? …Right?Last night, Hello Games took home the Best Ongoing Game award for its exploration and survival game No Man's Sky, which has been going strong for over nine years since its original launch. The award was accepted by Hello Games lead des
  
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• Frankenstein director Guillermo del Toro's scrapped DC movie would have been led by John Constantine and included a Batman cameo

  12-12-2025 13:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Guillermo del Toro has opened up about his scrapped superhero movie Justice League Dark, revealing which characters would have appeared in his take on the DC universe.When it came to who would lead the project, Toro said, “It was John Constantine, and the plot made absolute sense, perfect sense," on Josh Horowitz's Happy Sad Confused podcast. "I loved that screenplay. I was in love with that screenplay. I thought it brought everybody in effortlessly, you know."In fact, del Toro wanted to i
  
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• Tomb Raider: Catalyst picks up "years after" 2008's Underworld, finally continuing Lara Croft's story from the Legend trilogy after almost two decades

  12-12-2025 13:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ever the abundance of riches, The Game Awards gave us not one but two bits of Tomb Raider announcements. We've got Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, a full reimagining of the first PS1 game, and Tomb Raider: Catalyst, a more forward-looking entry in the franchise that picks up the timeline where the Legend trilogy left off.Before 2013's Tomb Raider rebooted Lara Croft's story, Underworld in 2008 capped off a three-game arc for the intrepid adventurer. The 2013 entry's success led to a full trilog
  
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• Tom Cruise is no longer set to make history in space as the actor's NASA movie with Edge of Tomorrow director has reportedly been scrapped

  12-12-2025 13:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tom Cruise's in-development space movie has proven to be mission impossible. The actor's history-making project with Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman has reportedly been scrapped.According to Page Six, sources say that the movie reached a dead-end due to Cruise's reluctance to ask the President for permission to work with NASA. "From what I understand, they would need NASA coordination to do the movie, and supposedly Tom Cruise did not want to ask Donald Trump for a favor," an insider told t
  
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• Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid mastermind Hideo Kojima says "things that are too comfortable won't stay inside the player," so he likes to "leave a bit of discomfort or friction"

  12-12-2025 13:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hideo Kojima explains that he wants his games to be uncomfortable for some in order to make a lasting impression on players.As goofy and over the top as Hideo Kojima games can be, he's never shied away from taboo topics in games, especially ones that are commonplace in film and TV. Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes is a statement on camps like Guantanamo Bay and features some of the most horrifically detailed torture seen and heard in games, while its successor, The Phantom Pain, features child
  
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