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• No Man's Sky Developer in Final Push for Release

  24-06-2016 20:28
  
  No Man's Sky still looks set to crack the universe open in August, according to an official blog post today.
  In the post, developer Sean Murray of Hello Games reaffirms the game's August 9 release date for North America, saying the team is working "night and day" to make sure it's ready for release.
  No Man's Sky was originally set to be released this past Tuesday, but last month Sony announced it would be pushed back to August to allow for a few weeks' worth of extra polish.
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• Diablo 4 is "the best selling Blizzard game of all time," according to marketing lead

  26-01-2026 19:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Regardless of whatever impression the rollercoaster of player sentiment might've given you over the years, it seems Diablo 4 is quite popular. In fact, it's the best-selling game in Blizzard's entire 35-year history, according to a marketing lead at the company.Lauren Ashling Hill, communications lead for Activision Blizzard in Northern Europe, describes Diablo 4 as "the best selling Blizzard game of all time" in her LinkedIn profile (as spotted by Eurogamer). She also notes that Call of Duty: M
  
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• Terraria update trailer shows off building islands in the sky and some of the 8 terrifying new bosses, including a giant skeleton and a gigantic pair of floating eyeballs

  26-01-2026 18:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  There's a big Terraria update coming tomorrow, another heralded as the final one,bringing a wealth of new additions, including some crossovers with Dead Cells and Palworld. Dubbed 'Bigger and Boulder', this one lives up to the name on paper, and looking at the trailer, it's even more exciting in motion.For Palworld, players are getting a Digtoise they can call on in times of need. We don't yet know if you can make this thing a pet or not, but it’s cute and handy nonetheless. On the Dead Ce
  
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• Pokemon studio's action RPG Beast of Reincarnation is not open-world, has difficulty settings unlike Soulslikes, and combat is about parrying to tag in a dog you power up with pets

  26-01-2026 18:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Beast of Reincarnation's director, Kota Furushima, has released more gameplay details about the upcoming one-person, one-dog action RPG, which will be the first AAA game developed by Game Freak that's not part of the Pokemon series.In an interview with Famitsu, translated by GamesRadar+, Furushima has given more details on the game, scheduled for release in mid-2026. His comments have helped clear up some confusion about the game's genre.Gameplay shown during the 15-minute showcase as part of Xb
  
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• Nintendo 64 classic Banjo-Kazooie gets fanmade PC port with 60 FPS and widescreen, and the series creator has paid tribute in classic Gruntilda fashion: "Recompiled, oh my word! People just love the bear and bird!"

  26-01-2026 18:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Banjo-Kazooie creator Steve Mayles has given a shout-out to the fan project that has recompiled the N64 classic for PC.Decompilation efforts have been a highlight of the 2020s, as a massive fan of retro games, with the native PC ports that have emerged from the efforts have made for incredible ways to re-experience classic games. Replaying Ocarina of Time via Ship of Harkinian made for a fantastic experience last year, and other projects like Sonic Unleashed Recompiled made a game that isn't pla
  
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• Assassin's Creed studio Ubisoft returns with more bad news, proposing "voluntary" layoffs that could cut up to 200 people at its France location

  26-01-2026 18:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  After a week of terrible news about Ubisoft game cancellations and delays, the company has announced it's exploring eliminating 200 roles at its Paris headquarters through a "voluntary mutual termination agreement."In a statement sent to GamesRadar+, Ubisoft says that this "remains a proposal" – at least for the time being. "In line with last week's announcements on its new operating model and the acceleration of cost-reduction initiatives, Ubisoft International has initiated discussions r
  
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• One Yoshi moment in the new Super Mario Galaxy Movie teaser has fans questioning canon: "I hope someone was fired for that blunder"

  26-01-2026 18:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  The latest teaser for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie features one major flaw: Yoshi swallows a Chain Chomp."Canonically, Yoshi cannot eat a Chain Chomp," someone on Reddit pointed out. "I hope someone was fired for that blunder."The Chain Chomps, AKA black metal balls with sharp white teeth, are part of Bowser's army and appear in several Yoshi games, including Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, so they're a foe he's familiar with. However, although Yoshi can stick out his tongue and eat many of
  
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• World of Warcraft Midnight pre-patch follows tradition with a colony of bugs, filling the sky with dragons and turning hills into squishy gray lumps: "I just expect them to try and do better for once"

  26-01-2026 18:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  World of Warcraft developer Blizzard has just released its pre-patch for the gigantic Midnight expansion, and it is predictably infested with a variety of bugs ranging from big, small, or… gray.Many World of Warcraft players accept the MMORPG's often messy pre-patches as a loved one's quirk – nobody's perfect, after all, and Blizzard has at least been actively monitoring the Midnight pre-patch's known issues. But there really are a lot of them this time.Popular WoW guide site Icy Ve
  
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• Arc Raiders' next big update is out tomorrow, and we were all wrong about the new map condition: Buried City gets covered in birds, and there's a "long-term" Arc trophy display handing out "rarer blueprints"

  26-01-2026 18:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  The big Arc Raiders Headwinds update arrives Tuesday, January 27, adding a surprise Buried City map condition, a new raider project that's all about hunting big Arc, new party settings, and a strange matchmaking option.Headwinds kicks off the 2026 roadmap revealed this month. The new matchmaking option, exclusive to players at level 40 or above, is "Solos vs Squads," letting solo players opt into the team queue if they really want to challenge themselves (or die). I, too, struggle to see why you
  
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• Despite landing 16% on Rotten Tomatoes, Return to Silent Hill director says he wants to make more: "I can see that plenty of people are thinking I'm doing a pretty good job"

  26-01-2026 18:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Return to Silent Hill might not be faring well with critics, but that hasn't stopped director Christophe Gans from wanting to helm another movie adapted from the hit horror game franchise.This latest film isn't his first foray into the Silent Hill universe, either: he directed another take on the source material in 2006, aptly titled Silent Hill."If I have the opportunity, we'll come back to Silent Hill once more," he told Variety. "I'm not looking at Silent Hill only as a great video game. I'm
  
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• Arc Raiders' new matchmaking option is a big letdown that almost nobody will use: "Solos vs Squads" lets you sign up to lose 1v3 fights in exchange for bonus XP

  26-01-2026 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios has revealed the big Headwinds update coming to the game on Tuesday, January 27, and the leading act is a new matchmaking option exclusive to level 40+ players called "Solos vs Squads." It's exactly what it sounds like: high-level solo raiders can choose to jump into lobbies full of three-player teams if they are simply that desperate to die.The point of this new mode is to add "higher-stakes encounters" to Arc Raiders, Embark says in a press release. "Experi
  
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• Blizzard's teases "the next chapter" for World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone, and Diablo, as StarCraft fans enter year 11 of their desperation

  26-01-2026 17:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Blizzard has announced two weeks worth of events highlighting major updates to many of the studio's most notable games, with showcases dedicated to World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone, and Diablo. But for StarCraft fans now entering their 11th year of desperation for the next entry in the beloved RTS series, the news is a little bit painful.The studio repeatedly uses the phrase "the next chapter" to describe this series of showcases, which begin later this week and run through February 11.
  
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• Director of new zombie horror heaps praise on Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, as he says it's "unavoidable" not to be influenced by the franchise: "It runs deep in my roots"

  26-01-2026 17:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Zak Hilditch has heaped praise on Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, admitting that he found it "unavoidable" not to be influenced by the hit franchise when he made new zombie horror We Bury the Dead."Not only did it revolutionize the zombie movie, I think it revolutionized cinema," the writer-director, who's perhaps best known for helming Netflix's 2017 Stephen King adaptation 1922, gushes to GamesRadar+. "That idea of elevated genre that then started banding about was leveled right at 28 Days Later.
  
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• Kingdom Come: Deliverance devs considered using Robin Hood's England or medieval Germany for the action-RPG, but Warhorse ran into a problem - the team "knew nothing" about those eras

  26-01-2026 17:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Like its follow-up, Kingdom Come: Deliverance is set in the Kingdom of Bohemia at the dawn of the 1400s. This backdrop makes sense for a myriad of reasons, but developer Warhorse Studios humored other options, they just required a bit too much work.Medieval Germany or the era of England that featured Robin Hood (also sometime during the 15th century) were the forerunners. Both are attractive propositions for a game, especially an involved action-RPG with a heavy emphasis on historic realism. But
  
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• New supernatural horror Undertone is being called "one of the scariest movies ever" and drawing comparisons to Paranormal Activity – and, luckily, the director is moving onto that franchise next

  26-01-2026 17:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  New supernatural horror movie Undertone has debuted to rave first reactions at Sundance Film Festival.The movie follows the skeptical host of a paranormal podcast (played by Nina Kiri) who moves back home to care for her dying mother. While there, she starts receiving recordings from a married couple, which make her increasingly fearful and paranoid."UNDERTONE got me good. Crazy scary with incredible sound design," wrote critic Cody Dericks. "A really impressive directorial showcase, staying eff
  
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• The new hero for my favorite Warhammer 40K army looks great, and it confirms my suspicion about what comes next

  26-01-2026 17:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's only been a week or so since the Warhammer 40K Iron Warriors tease at the end of January's preview show, but we're already getting a glimpse of what's next.Following the trailer seen during 2026's New Year Warhammer Preview, the Chaos Space Marines are being reinforced with Kravek Morne – an Iron Warriors Warsmith who's built like a brick shithouse crossed with a bank vault. Clad in Cataphractii Terminator armor from the Horus Heresy and covered in enough extras to earn him the nickna
  
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• Ben Kingsley's Trevor Slattery was originally going to be the star of his own MCU project before it was "mixed" with Wonder Man

  26-01-2026 17:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  The MCU's latest streaming series Wonder Man is all about actor Simon Williams connecting with Trevor Slattery, the infamous thespian known for impersonating the Mandarin in Iron Man 3. That partnership may seem like a natural fit, but the stories of Simon and Trevor as actors in the Marvel Cinematic Universe were almost split across two separate projects before being "mixed."The pairing winds up being a match made in heaven, with Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Simon Williams) and Ben Kingsley (Trevor S
  
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• Game of Thrones fans are praising A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms for "finally" getting one key detail from George R.R. Martin's books right

  26-01-2026 17:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Game of Thrones fans are celebrating one key detail from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, because it "finally" gets something right from the books that the other shows haven't.In the latest episode of the new show, we're briefly introduced to two members of the Kingsguard, the elite team of knights who protect the royal family with their lives. Their armor in the show is bright white, which matches the way George R.R. Martin describes it in the books. In Game of Thrones, the Kingsguard armor is g
  
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• Cold Storage director says Stranger Things star Joe Keery is "absolutely brilliant" in the upcoming sci-fi comedy: "Almost too good to be true"

  26-01-2026 17:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cold Storage director Johnny Campbell has high praise for star Joe Keery in the upcoming sci-fi comedy."I think he's an utter superstar," Campbell says in the new issue of SFX Magazine. "Frankly, he was absolutely brilliant – extremely professional but also inspiring. He was a joy to work with. He's obviously been through the mill with Stranger Things, but he's just an all-round lovely guy. Almost too good to be true."The film, written by Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp, follows Tra
  
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• "DEI only improved things" at Ubisoft, says former employee "stunned" at "misinformation" claiming diversity, equity, and inclusion to blame for Assassin's Creed studio's drop in share prices

  26-01-2026 17:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  One former Ubisoft employee says he's "stunned that there are still people spreading misinformation" such as "DEI is the reason why Ubisoft's stock price fell," stating that "DEI only improved things" at the company.Last week, Ubisoft share prices plummeted significantly (thanks, Reuters) after the company announced a "major reset," including the cancellation of six games and the delay of seven others. As reported by Automaton (and translated by GamesRadar+), Kensuke Shimoda – a former gam
  
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• Fable developer Playground Games first spoke about "doing something" other than Forza Horizon back in 2017, and were quickly sold on the iconic RPG when it came up: "I could think of nothing else"

  26-01-2026 16:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Forza Horizon developer Playground Games wanted to branch out from its racing series for almost a decade, and are finally doing so with Fable."The first conversations we had about doing something other than Forza Horizon and building a second team go right the way back to the year after we shipped Forza Horizon 3," says Ralph Fulton, Playground's general manager, in an exclusive interview with GamesRadar+. And while Forza Horizon 3 "had gone really well in pretty much every dimension," as the "t
  
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• Step aside, Animal Crossing: Loveably weird life sim Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is getting a dedicated Nintendo Direct this week

  26-01-2026 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is getting its own dedicated Nintendo Direct this week, showing off around 20 minutes of details about the delightfully bizarre upcoming life sim.Last year, over 12 years since Tomodachi Life was first released (a sequel to the Japan-exclusive Tomodachi Collection), Nintendo unveiled the upcoming sequel in an announcement so earth-shattering that its Japanese Twitter post ended up receiving more likes than the reveal of the Switch 2. Needless to say, the return o
  
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• Frieren is back, but where are those official Hyperkin Nintendo Switch accessories?

  26-01-2026 15:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  This time last year, Hyperkin announced it was producing a series of stunning Nintendo Switch peripherals based on the immensely popular anime, Frieren Beyond Journey's End. Yet, one year on, while the anime has returned for season two, the accessories are still nowhere to be found.The accessories were originally revealed on the official Hyperkin X (Twitter) page in January 2025 and showcased a pair of stunning Nintendo Switch controllers and cases that were draped in official art of everyone's
  
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• It took Bethesda "several months" to get Fallout 3's Liberty Prime to do what he's told and stop fighting random NPCs: "It's all we're asking you to do, sir"

  26-01-2026 15:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  The mighty Liberty Prime stomps through both Fallout 3 and 4 at particular intervals, causing absolute chaos, as giant robots tend to do. In a delightfully meta twist, it turns out the devs at Bethesda had just as much trouble wrangling the four-limbed weapon as anyone in the post-apocalyptic RPGs."We spent months trying to get him to walk this very specific path. Months…" Angela Browder, associate producer on Fallout 3, now studio director at Bethesda, tells PCGamer. "'It's all we're ask
  
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• Pokemon dev Game Freak says it wasn't trying to make an anti-Pokemon game with its flashy new action RPG Beast of Reincarnation: "It just happened"

  26-01-2026 15:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Beast of Reincarnation director Kota Furushima says that Game Freak's upcoming action RPG wasn't consciously developed to be in a completely different genre and style from the company's other games, such as the Pokemon series.In an interview with Famitsu, translated by GamesRadar+, Furushima discusses how the team at Game Freak landed on the idea of creating a realistic-style action RPG, particularly since it isn't similar to anything the studio has worked on before."The truth is that we never h
  
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• Director of zombie horror We Bury the Dead admits that the "last thing" he added to the script were the zombies: "You better have something new to say, or get out of here"

  26-01-2026 14:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  On paper, new horror movie We Bury the Dead is a zombie movie; it's big on post-apocalyptic vibes, as it charts a woman's desperate search for her husband after an experimental weapon is detonated in Tasmania and turns locals into violent, walking corpses. Its moving, melancholic focus on the brain-chomper's cut-short time, though, feels more in-keeping with a ghost flick.It's not a big surprise to learn, then, that the final thing writer-director Zak Hilditch added to the script were the undead
  
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• The SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless is back under $300, but it's got some healthy competition

  26-01-2026 14:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  The SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro has just dropped below that sweet $300 price mark, and that's definitely a deal that's worth your attention.The flagship pair of cups continues to top our best gaming headset list even in 2026, thanks to its mighty sound, multi-platform compatibility, hot-swappable batteries that eliminate charging woes, and its high-quality retractable mic. If that all sounds good to you, you can grab it for $299.99 at Best Buy right this very second, saving $80 off its full pric
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 modder pillages the depths of Early Access to bring "over 100 conversations and more than 1,000 lines of voiced dialogue back from the dead"

  26-01-2026 14:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  A modder has restored some of the cut early access content from Baldur's Gate 3, including more than 1,000 lines of dialogue.As spotted by Rock Paper Shotgun, NexusMods user HyperspaceTowel – who previously released early access content bit by bit previously – has released the "Early Access Scenes Restored" mod, which brings back scenes, encounters, and NPCs that were cut from the final release of the 2023 RPG. This includes "over 100 conversations and more than 1,000 lines of voiced
  
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• New Dragon Ball game coming in 2027 features character designs from late series creator Akira Toriyama, and could be a new Xenoverse game given the timeframe

  26-01-2026 13:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  A brand new Dragon Ball game has been confirmed at the series' 40th anniversary event, with a character designed by series creator Akira Toriyama, who passed away in 2024.At Dragon Ball Genkidamatsuri – the series' 40th anniversary event – this past weekend, the series received a ton of news. Not only will the Dragon Ball Super anime be continuing into the Galactic Patrol arc, but the anime's first arc – that retold the 2013 movie Battle of Gods – will be remade as Dragon
  
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• Spider-Man director Sam Raimi reveals he tried to make a Batman film but "couldn’t get the rights"

  26-01-2026 13:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Director of the beloved 00s Spider-Man trilogy Sam Raimi has admitted that he once thought about switching sides from Marvel to DC to direct a Batman movie.“I love Batman. I tried to make a Batman film. I couldn't get the rights," said the Evil Dead helmer to Movie Web. "I love The Shadow. I also couldn't get the rights to that one. Superman's always been one of my favorites. Yeah, there's a tremendous amount of DC characters that I love." It is not clear what type of Batman film Raimi wan
  
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