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• New Overwatch Patch Adds Weekly Brawls

  24-03-2016 05:18
  
  Overwatch recently received a massive content patch, adding a new map and new play mode to the game.
  Blizzard's new escort map is called Route 66, and is inspired by the Main Street of America. The country's "travelers and road trippers" are gone, but the historic route remains "a testament to a simpler time." Among the abandoned gas stations, roadside shops, and cafes, the outlaws of the Deadlock Gang are "planning their biggest heist yet."
  Weekly Brawls—inspired by the namesake Hearthsto
  
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• Paranormasight's sequel is going to leave me sleeping with the lights on thanks to this Switch 2 headset

  06-02-2026 15:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Paranormasight, one of my favorite horror games in the past 5 years, is finally getting a sequel. The moment I first spotted the Storyteller's fabulous silver locks and the reveal of The Mermaid's Curve in the February 5 Partner Direct Showcase, I knew I not only had to pre-order the game as soon as possible, but also use one of the best gaming headsets to play it.The first game was a feast for the ears. It didn't have a huge sweeping orchestral score, but the audio played a big part in creating
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 director says the RPG's endings were made to "serve as narrative soil for new adventures," so he's "eager to find out which ones" will be adapted in the TV show

  06-02-2026 15:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Well, it's official… a Baldur's Gate 3 adaptation for television is underway, and all of us are losing our minds trying to figure out where the story might go and how it might play out on screen – there are plenty of routes it could take, after all – including Larian boss Swen Vincke.Larian Studios crafted an RPG gem with various paths and finales to experience, so there's no telling which ones the newly unveiled Baldur's Gate 3 TV show might take – but, as game director
  
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• Nintendo aims to offset skyrocketing memory prices through "mass production of Nintendo Switch 2," because if more people own the console, it can "greatly expand software sales" instead

  06-02-2026 13:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo has confirmed it aims to tackle the ongoing memory shortage through mass production of Switch 2 units.The ongoing memory shortage has been a hot topic in the tech world as RAM prices are ballooning thanks to AI garbage ruining everything it touches. This has already caused Valve to revisit Steam Machine pricing and release timing due to shortages, while both Sony and Nintendo have had to acknowledge the chances of this causing price hikes for their consoles in the near future (although
  
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• Todd Howard says Fallout season 2 has "the most badass Power Armor I think we've ever done," so it's "awesome" to have it in Fallout 76 too

  06-02-2026 13:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Fallout TV show made a big mushroomed-sized bang when it debuted a brand new Power Armor into the world's lore in season 2, but not only was its appearance a standout moment in the streaming series, franchise steward Todd Howard thinks it might be the coolest Power Armor variant Bethesda's ever worked on.The New California Republic Power Armor is a pretty big deal since it's the first time we've seen the suit in Fallout canon – it hadn't yet appeared in any of the games when the episod
  
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• Horror fans will be able to purchase Markipiler's Iron Lung in one week, but the director still plans to release the film on his own terms: "We're still doing it independently from start to finish"

  06-02-2026 13:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  After an impressive theatrical run, Markiplier says his new horror movie Iron Lung will be leaving the big screen in one week and heading for an at-home release."It's going to be in theaters another week, but we're still getting the wheels turning for you to get it at home," said YouTuber-turned-director Markipiler (real name Mark Fischbach) during a livestream on YouTube on February 3. "The whole translation thing is going to take some doing… But as far as getting it ready and packaged u
  
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• Larian's publishing boss threatens to "crash out" over Baldur's Gate TV show but immediately walks it back with a more level-headed outlook: "I don't think anyone can trump our writers"

  06-02-2026 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Larian publishing director Michael Douse, known as Cromwelp/Very AFK on Twitter, is once again going through it.Upon the announcement of the Baldur's Gate 3 TV show, Douse tweeted that he would "crash out on main." He then followed up the response with a series of retweeted posts from the more dissatisfied part of the Baldur's Gate community.The oft-outspoken Larian boss then walked it back in a later tweet. Douse wrote, "I've spent the last 8 to 10 years of my life with the writers & creato
  
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• Faced with the bots' attempts at peace, Helldivers 2 players shoot down "baseless propaganda" as anti-freedom drivel: "I can't believe they would lie to their own citizens about our peaceful ways"

  06-02-2026 12:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Robots are trying to twist the message of Helldivers 2 into something that's anti-liberty. Nonsense, right? Freedom and democracy are the whole point! The mechanical menaces have even gone as far as recreating the intro to make Super Earth's forces look bad and hacking into the official social media channels to spread these lies.Thankfully, dedicated players are seeing right through this deception. Across the multiplayer shooter's community, people are rejecting claims we might be the baddies. "
  
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• More mysterious Nintendo trademarks updated amid first-party Direct rumors, but hype responsibly as one has made me less certain these mean anything

  06-02-2026 12:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Two more Nintendo trademarks have been updated, spurring on speculation about an upcoming Nintendo Direct.Despite the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase taking place just yesterday, fans are convinced that there will be a full-blown Nintendo Direct in the near future. While there are rumors, there's no concrete evidence or reliable leakers to point to it being a thing just yet. But an updated Splatoon Raiders trademark recently released copium into the world that this rumored general Direct could
  
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• Don't get too excited over Nintendo's mysterious "Nintendo Switch 2: Wii Remote" page – it's probably just a glitch, with the same controller also listed for the long-dead 3DS

  06-02-2026 12:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo has filled fans with some seemingly false hope of a Switch 2 and Wii crossover (or, perhaps just me) after posting an official support page for an accessory that doesn't exist – the "Nintendo Switch 2: Wii Remote."If you're anything like me, then you have fond memories of the Wii. Standing as one of the most successful (and nostalgia-inducing) Nintendo consoles to date, it's hard not to love the platform that brought us gems like The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and, of cou
  
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• Nvidia RTX 6000 GPUs might not actually happen next year, but I'm more concerned about what Dynamic Multi-Frame Generation will mean for current-gen cards

  06-02-2026 12:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  If your current PC upgrade plans revolve around waiting for new Nvidia RTX 6000 graphics cards, I've got bad news for you. While the company's current release cadence would point towards a new generation of GPUs in 2027, rumours are already suggesting 60-series models won't happen until 2028. At the same time, whispers are pointing towards an April launch for the green team's new DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi-Frame Generation tech, and I reckon the latest AI tool should be what we're talking about inst
  
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• X-Men star Ian McKellen teases Magneto role in Avengers: Doomsday in the most hilarious way: "I'm putting on a fierce look and I'm trying to be magnetic"

  06-02-2026 12:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Since Marvel dropped four separate Avengers: Doomsday teasers in January, news on the upcoming MCU movie has been a little light, but thankfully, X-Men star Ian McKellen has come along to give us a little sneak peek at what fans can expect from his character."I don't always understand the story of these movies that I'm in. But in this one, I don't think I'm spoiling anything by saying that Magneto destroys New Jersey. I'm sorry about that," said McKellen on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Th
  
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• Roblox brags about its experimental AI tech while showing off a disorienting AI-generated Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lookalike

  06-02-2026 12:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Roblox Corporation recently tried to show off its experimental generative AI tech, one the company hopes will let players fabricate entire game worlds soon, but the best the tech could come up with for now is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33... if you squint really hard and pretend that game really sucked, actually.Roblox lives and thrives off of user-made games, so perhaps it's unsurprising that the Roblox Corporation is also chasing the generative AI dragon. In a series of recent tweets, the co
  
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• Larian isn't involved in the Baldur's Gate TV show, but Swen Vincke says his conversation with Craig Mazin gave him "hope"

  06-02-2026 11:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke has confirmed that Larian will have no creative involvement in the upcoming Baldur's Gate HBO series – but says show creator Craig Mazin has reached out nonetheless.In reply to a fan asking if Larian writers are consulting on the show, Vincke replied on Twitter, "Not to my knowledge. But Craig did reach out to ask if he could come over to the studio to speak with us. From the conversation we had, I think he [truly] is a big fan which gives me hope."This
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 fans are already skeptical over HBO TV show adaptation: "It'll make Game of Thrones season 8 seem good"

  06-02-2026 11:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  With the news that beloved RPG Baldur's Gate 3 is being turned into a HBO TV show with The Last of Us co-showrunner Craig Mazin at the helm, fans of the hit game are voicing their doubts.For one thing, Larian is not involved in the adaptation, and, for another, the game ends with multiple possible endings – both for the main narrative and then for each individual character, including your own. As the HBO show is picking up after the game, that means certain choices are going to be unavoida
  
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• Before Final Fantasy 7 blew up globally, a lot of Square Enix leadership thought there wasn't "real money" in English translations, and the localization team had to beg them for overseas releases

  06-02-2026 01:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 7 is widely considered one of the best JRPGs of all time for many reasons: its beautifully written and timeless story, its three-dimensional characters, its engaging gameplay, to name a few. But one other reason you might not know about is that it's largely responsible for Square Enix's embrace of the Western market following Final Fantasy 7's global success.Richard Honeywood, a legend in the localization field and former employee of Square, explained to Time Extension in a new int
  
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• Baldur's Gate TV show in the works at HBO with The Last of Us co-creator Craig Mazin attached as writer and showrunner

  06-02-2026 01:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Beloved Dungeons and Dragons video game series Baldur's Gate is getting an HBO Max TV adaptation from one of the biggest heavyweights in the world of game adaptations, with Craig Mazin of The Last of Us signed on as writer and showrunner."After putting nearly 1000 hours into the incredible world of Baldur's Gate 3, it is a dream come true to be able to continue the story that Larian and Wizards of The Coast created," Mazin says in a statement (via Deadline). "I am a devoted fan of D&D and th
  
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• Kill Bill star's bloody new thriller movie about a killer ballerina gets its first images

  06-02-2026 00:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Uma Thurman became a legend thanks to her role as the deadly antihero Beatrix Kiddo in Kill Bill, and now she's bringing her killer skills to a new thriller movie as an ex-ballerina hunting down the next generation of dancers in the first images from Prime Video's upcoming film Pretty Lethal.The movie centers on Thurman's Devora Kasimir, a former ballet dancer turned innkeeper who escalates a chance encounter with younger ballerinas into a harrowing and violent game of cat and mouse.As you can s
  
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• The anime action RPG I played for 130 hours is suddenly back after 19 dead-silent months – Granblue Fantasy: Relink gets huge DLC and Switch 2 port in July

  05-02-2026 23:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  The most recent version update notes for Granblue Fantasy: Relink, a gorgeous RPG that turned the universe of a complex gacha game into a compelling action powerhouse, were published on June 28, 2024. But after 19 months of nothingness so final, so unmoving, that I was convinced we'd seen the end, developer Cygames has announced a surprise expansion for Relink, titled Endless Ragnarok, coming on July 9, 2026 – two years later, almost to the day, since the last patch.Endless Ragnarok was re
  
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• The Highguard whiplash continues as yet another massive patch is announced: a new shapeshifting hero, sky palace map, wolf mounts, and 3v3-only ranked mode are coming tomorrow

  05-02-2026 23:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The times, they are a-changin' for Highguard once more, as studio Wildlight has announced yet another jam-packed update that'll add a new hero, new map, new mount, and ranked mode – plus some key design changes – tomorrow, February 6.Per the official patch notes, Highguard's Episode 2 update, as they're calling it, will add the game's first new Warden: the shapeshifting monster-slayer Ekon, who has the ability to turn into a vicious direwolf that can track down mounted foes using his
  
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• Xbox is fine with releasing Halo: Campaign Evolved in the summer, but it's worried about Fable and Gears of War: E-Day getting overshadowed by GTA 6

  05-02-2026 22:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Xbox Game Studios is reportedly planning to release the remake Halo: Campaign Evolved this summer, but it's concerned that the Fable reboot and Gears of War: E-Day will be outshone by GTA 6's scheduled November 19 debut.So what is Campaign Evolved to you, Xbox? Master Chief's chopped liver? It's possible – Tom Warren reports for The Verge that sources at Microsoft expect Campaign Evolved this summer, when GTA parent company Take-Two wants to begin "launch marketing" for the virulently anti
  
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• The Matrix and John Wick star Laurence Fishburne has joined the cast of Mike Flanagan's new Exorcist movie

  05-02-2026 22:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Laurence Fishburne is set to star in Mike Flanagan's "all-new" Exorcist movie, marking his first horror movie in 13 years.Per an official press release, Fishburne is set to join the cast alongside the previously announced Diane Lane, Scarlett Johansson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Jacobi Jupe. Details about the film are still being kept under wraps, but we know that it will "tell an all-new story set in The Exorcist universe" and is not a sequel to 2023's The Exorcist: Believer.Blumhouse-Atomic Monste
  
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• Helldivers 2 Cyborgs hack Arrowhead socials, post propaganda recreating the game's intro but with evil humans killing innocent robot children: "Think if you were in our place"

  05-02-2026 22:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  The world of Helldivers 2 is turning upside down, with a brand-new propaganda machine spreading the curious claim that the Helldivers themselves might actually be the bad guys. Could it be true? Surely not, but that's the message seemingly teasing the arrival of a new Cyborg faction, which is now turning the game's intro cinematic into a plea to save the robot children.Coded messages in 1s and 0s have been all over the Helldivers Twitter and Discord today, translating into Swedish statements of
  
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• Lies of P boss fights were so good they inspired Nioh 3's director to improve the bosses in his own Soulslike: "I really had a lot of fun"

  05-02-2026 22:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Having once called Lies of P the best Soulslike ever made outside FromSoftware's walls, I find myself nodding along to comments from Nioh 3 director Masaki Fujita, who says the bosses in Neowiz's Pinocchio-inspired game pushed him and Team Ninja to do more with the third game's yokai boss fights.Speaking with PC Gamer, Fujita notes that Team Ninja's own output since Nioh 2 has, of course, had a big impact on its vision for Nioh 3. You can see muscles trained with the likes of Wo Long: Fallen Dyn
  
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• Borderlands 4 is finally getting Pearlescent gear this month, plus Bounty Pack 2 ahead of the March story update bringing new Vault Hunter C4SH

  05-02-2026 21:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Borderlands 4 player, I hope you're ready to have your hands full. Gearbox's latest looter shooter is about to get a ton of stuff.It begins on February 26 – with Bounty Pack 2: Legend of the Stone Demon, the first paid Borderlands 4 DLC, plus what Gearbox calls in an announcement a "major update" bringing the new Pearlescent rarity tier. Later, in March, Borderlands 4 is set to receive its first Story Pack, Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned, which will introduce the new playable Vault
  
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• Holding the throne of "biggest survival game on Steam," Rust unveils massive naval update with player-made boats, floating cities, more islands, and an AI overhaul

  05-02-2026 21:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  If the biggest games on Steam were celestial bodies, Rust would be an especially brown and bloody moon, kind of like the one from Iron Lung but with more survival game dirt and wood. Here in the year 2026, Rust is consistently the most-played survival game on Steam and still getting enormous updates. In a February 5 dev blog, Facepunch Studios unveiled a naval update packing an entire ocean worth of content, from player boats to city boats to evil boats. Oh, and the game is 50% off right now."It
  
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• Fallout season 2 showrunner suggests the series is pulling a Fallout 4 when it comes to the finale's big twist

  05-02-2026 21:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Prime Video's Fallout TV series may very well be taking a page out of Fallout 4 when it comes to the Ghoul/Cooper Howard reuniting with his family.Warning: spoilers for the Fallout season 2 ending follow."I think one of the fun things about the Fallout world is that cryo exists," Robertson-Dworet explained to Cinema Blend, when asked if Cooper Howard's family is still alive. "So there's always these questions of, 'Were they in cryo before she left the note? Are they in cryo again? What is happen
  
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• Bethesda knows putting Switch 2's Indiana Jones on a real cart is a flex, but it still can't help but lock Fallout 4 and Oblivion Remastered to code-in-box launches

  05-02-2026 20:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  It was announced today that Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition, Oblivion Remastered, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle are coming to Switch 2, but only one of them is getting a physical game cartridge.The news was announced during today's Nintendo Direct, with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle studio MachineGames and publisher Bethesda following up on Twitter with a self-satisfied confirmation that "the game is on Game Card" – a weird way to say it'll be an actual physical release. That
  
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• 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (February 6-8)

  05-02-2026 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you're looking for the best new movies and shows to watch over the weekend on streaming, we've found some really good options. As January ends and we start the second month of 2026, new releases have landed on the best streaming services out there, and we've chosen the best ones so you don't miss a thing.Below, we've put together a list of 6 great new movies and shows on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney Plus, HBO Max, Apple TV Plus, and Hulu, that should be on your radar. This time around,
  
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• Dune Awakening devs don't expect to "keep launch player numbers" after Steam player count hit 189,000 then ran off a cliff, but they're trying: "We do hope to get players returning"

  05-02-2026 19:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dune: Awakening had a more devastating downfall than a Russian tsar, with the MMO reaching an incredible 189,333 peak player count on Steam back in 2025 and spending the cold months since then collecting only a fraction of that – about 10,000 players a day. But developer Funcom is sort of at peace with it.Lead producer Ole Andreas and senior content manager Tor Egil discuss this with FRVR in a new interview about Dune: Awakening. "It is a live game, and it's a natural thing to see the cycl
  
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