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• Project Q is PlayStation's dedicated cloud gaming device

  24-05-2023 23:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  PlayStation is getting a dedicated streaming device later this year.Announced earlier today on the PlayStation Showcase for May 2023, Project Q, as it's being called for now, is PlayStation's dedicated streaming device. It'll allow you to play any PS5 game on the go, wherever you are, and is basically PlayStation's play into the remote gaming space.We know that Project Q will come with an eight inch HD display screen, so you can already imagine the sort of space you're going to need for using th
  
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• After 13 years, a "new version" of Final Fantasy 7 is replacing the current version on Steam, and Square Enix hasn't explained what's different

  29-01-2026 20:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  The current version of the original Final Fantasy 7 on Steam has existed since 2013, but it's now going the way of the dodo, Square Enix has announced. "A new version" has been announced that'll replace the current version, but details are virtually non-existent as far as what's "new."In a new Steam update, Square Enix fully explained how the new Final Fantasy 7 will replace the current one and what that means for people who own the game, but stopped short of explaining what exactly is different
  
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• Resident Evil Requiem has "a different kind of replay value" than the rest of the series, director says: you can use Leon to steamroll the zombies you're too scared to deal with as Grace

  29-01-2026 20:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ever since Capcom confirmed the worst kept secret in Resident Evil fandom to be true - that Leon Kennedy is in fact one of the heroes of Resident Evil Requiem - the studio has really been emphasizing how much gameplay variety is opened up by having dual protagonists. Grace is the timid, anxious, newcomer while Leon is the battletested hot uncle who's perhaps become a little too cozy with his new ax.In a new interview with the PlayStation Blog, director Koshi Nakanishi revealed yet another layer
  
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• 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (January 30 - February 1)

  29-01-2026 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Our list of the best new movies and shows to watch over the weekend on streaming is packed with highly anticipated releases, from the return of Bridgerton to a new MCU show. As January comes to an end and we get ready to embrace the second month of 2026, it's important to have our watchlist up to date and full of must-see titles.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, which are the best stream
  
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• After 16 rocky years and a terrible attempt to crowdfund a Mega Man successor, troubled Japanese studio shuts down right after redeeming itself with an incredible cozy JRPG

  29-01-2026 19:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  After a decade-and-a-half mostly filled with missteps, Japanese developer Comcept is gone. The studio, founded by veteran Capcom developer Keiji Inafune, is best known for delivering bombs like ReCore and the infamous Mighty No. 9, but found some critical redemption in 2025's cozy JRPG hit, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time.The news was shared by Japanese outlet gamebiz (via Gematsu), which published a copy of a "notice of dissolution" for the company. "This company has been dissolved by
  
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• Resident Evil Requiem director wants you to think "what's wrong with you Leon?" when you see the hot uncle "swinging his bloody ax"

  29-01-2026 18:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Resident Evil Requiem director Koshi Nakanishi says that Leon Kennedy's choice of weapon in the upcoming ninth entry in the horror series was a conscious decision to make players question whether the returning protagonist is doing okay.In an interview with DenNicoFamiGamer that's been translated by GamesRadar+, Nakanishi discusses how Leon is returning as a much older man than when we last saw him.The team at Capcom were very conscious of the fact that he would have been through a lot of changes
  
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• Arc Raiders players think they've found a new duplication exploit, and based on the 40 Tempest blueprints I've seen I think they're onto something

  29-01-2026 18:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Exploits and glitches are inevitable in any game, and Arc Raiders may have another doozy of a duplication problem on its hands. Players of the extraction shooter have been taking out other raiders to find they were holding onto tons of replica blueprints, offering mounting evidence that people have figured out how to duplicate loot.Enter exhibit A, from the game's subreddit: someone was killed with 22 Tempest blueprints in their possession. No signs of how they did it, but the comments all belie
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke still doesn't like mean-spirited criticism amid Highguard backlash, but he recognizes "good games are being mutilated to turn them into money machines"

  29-01-2026 18:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate 3 studio boss Swen Vincke would really appreciate it if you weren't so mean.The Larian founder recently crusaded against what he thinks of as unfair criticism – an especially relevant topic now that PvP shooter Highguard is getting torn to chicken bits by people on Steam with under three hours of playtime. But Vincke tries to make it clear in a January 29 follow-up that it really is just unfair criticism he wants to set on fire."My point wasn't that I have an issue with criti
  
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• 007: First Light devs were in a "really, really bad spot" with only "3 months to survive" before Hitman saved them

  29-01-2026 18:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  IO Interactive says it was in danger of having to close down before the decision to focus on Hitman for its 2016 release.Speaking to Game Informer, IO recalled facing trouble in the early 2010's after a string of original titles like Mini Ninjas and the Kane & Lynch duology. These were followed by 2012's Hitman: Absolution which was successful – but failed to meet Square Enix's expectations (stop me if you've heard that before). The studio went through substantial layoffs in 2010 and 2
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor agrees with Charlie Cox that mocap actors deserve more recognition: "It's quite hard to separate the two"

  29-01-2026 18:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Devora Wilde has backed up her Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 co-star Charlie Cox, arguing that performance capture workers need more recognition.A few months ago, Daredevil himself and the voice behind Expedition 33's Gustave told everyone to hold their praise and instead pass it on to the character's performance capture artist, Maxence Cazorla. "So any nomination or any credit I get, I really have to give to him, because I believe that the performance of that character is really down to him, and
  
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• Nintendo fulfills a 12-year-old promise by bringing non-binary characters and queer relationships to Tomodachi Life, and immediately breaks hearts by killing the game's screenshot-sharing features

  29-01-2026 18:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo giveth, and Nintendo taketh away – as evidenced by the rollercoaster surrounding today's Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Direct. The publisher fulfilled a promise it made over a decade ago by revealing that non-binary characters and queer dating options will be available in the upcoming life sim, only to immediately break the fandom's collective heart by announcing restrictions on screenshot-sharing functions.When the previous Tomodachi Life launched globally in 2014, Nintendo ca
  
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• Cherry's new XTRFY MX 8.2 Pro gaming keyboard has one nifty trick I haven't seen before, and it's about time

  29-01-2026 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cherry merged with XTRFY to start releasing its own gaming keyboards back in 2022, but since then nothing has truly wowed me. That was until the new Cherry XTRFY MX 8.2 Pro TMR showed up at my doorstep. The magnetic keyboard is one of the first mainstream gaming decks to use TMR sensing technology, but that's not what's initially turned my head.The XTRFY MX 8.2 Pro TMR is fully hot-swappable between both magnetic and mechanical switches. That's not something even the best gaming keyboards on the
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 director agrees with No Rest for the Wicked lead that Early Access is "a positive thing" for games like their two RPGs – when it works

  29-01-2026 17:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate 3 is arguably one of the most successful games to start its journey on Steam in Early Access, and developers like Ori and the Blind Forest's Moon Studios have looked to it as an example of why such a release model works so well.Thomas Mahler, CEO of Moon Studios – the very same team behind the recent chart-topper action RPG, No Rest for the Wicked – discusses as much in a recent online post responding to fans' concerns surrounding the choice to use the Early Access mode
  
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• "We were feeling like it was stale": Dispatch is styled like "a premium animated television show" because devs didn’t want players to reject it like Telltale’s Walking Dead

  29-01-2026 17:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  AdHoc Studios has explained why Dispatch ditched some of the game-y elements that were typically found in the previous Telltale releases.Speaking to Game Informer, AdHoc Studios co-founder Dennis Lenart explains that with Dispatch, it felt essential that it strip the adventure game-style settings: "We'd say, 'hey, you might really like this Walking Dead game or this Wolf Among Us game we're making,' and they would check it out and go'Ah, it kind of looks like a video game'."Lenart adds, "So with
  
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• Diablo veterans announce dark fantasy isometric action RPG that "represents everything we've learned" about the genre, and it's coming to early access

  29-01-2026 17:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Some tenured developers who worked extensively on the classic Diablo games have banded together to make a brand new isometric action-RPG. Darkhaven will be the debut release from Moon Beast Productions, and it's drawing on ideas fans of the team's prior work are likely to enjoy.Erich Schaefer and Brian Fitzpatrick, who worked on the first Diablo and the genre-defining sequel, and Philip Shenk and Peter Hu, who had prominent roles on Diablo 2, are among the devs constructing Darkhaven. Hellgate:
  
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• First reactions to Wuthering Heights call Emerald Fennell's new movie "a scorching hot and twisted tale" and praise Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie's chemistry

  29-01-2026 17:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first reactions are in for Emerald Fennell's new adaptation of Wuthering Heights after the movie's premiere in LA last night (January 28) – and they're overwhelmingly positive, praising the movie's visuals, craftsmanship, and the chemistry between its two leads.Fennell's follow-up to 2023's controversial Saltburn is "inspired" by Emily Brontë's 19th-century novel and stars Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie as doomed lovers Heathcliff and Cathy. The cast also includes Hong Chau (The W
  
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• Bethesda never wants to retcon Fallout lore, longtime writer says, only add to it "in a way that doesn't spit in the eye of what came before"

  29-01-2026 17:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  As Fallout continues to expand past the video games like a radioactive mushroom cloud, lead Bethesda writer Emil Pagliarulo says the company is incredibly against retconning existing lore, and keeping the Fallout universe together is actually one of the "biggest honours" of his role."In Fallout, [all of] the lore matters, and if you think it doesn't, the internet will remind you that it does," Pagliarulo explained in an interview with PC Gamer Magazine. "It's important to Fallout fans, whether s
  
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• RPG legend returns to the franchise he co-created 40 years ago as Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era's advisor, "adding to the guidance the team already receives from Ubisoft"

  29-01-2026 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  New World Computing founder and co-creator of the 40-year-old Might and Magic series, Jon Van Caneghem, is officially returning to the strategy RPG for the first time in decades. He'll act as creative advisor for the upcoming turn-based prequel Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.As a press release disclaims, this advisor role will only be in addition to "the guidance the team already receives from Ubisoft as the IP holder." In 2025, that IP holder announced a Might and Magic trading card game
  
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• Chainsaw Man manga release schedule: when is chapter 228 out?

  29-01-2026 16:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Chainsaw Man may be on a break in the anime world, but its manga is still rolling on with its incredibly frequent release schedule.If you're up to date with Denji's story, that means you're eagerly anticipating Chainsaw Man chapter 228. Below, we'll fill you in on exactly when you can expect Tatsuki Fujimoto's next chapter to drop, including which platforms to read it on.Need to know more about the anime adaptation? We have a Chainsaw Man season 2 guide, plus all the latest on Demon Slayer Infin
  
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• My friend was on the hunt for a pair of thumbsticks, and these KontrolFreek Switch 2 grips were my immediate go-to

  29-01-2026 16:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  The other week, one of my closest online friends sent me a message over Discord asking if I had any recommendations for thumb grips that would " stop the rubber from getting sticky" when they were using the official Switch 2 Pro controller, and I instantly thought of the Strawberry Sage Edition Kontrol Freek No-Slip Thumb Grips.Well, actually, I'm lying a bit. My actual first thought was that it felt pretty nice that I was the first and only person my friend came to when looking for Nintendo Swi
  
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• Split Fiction game director reveals he's seen the first version of the movie adaptation's script

  29-01-2026 16:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Split Fiction game director Josef Fares has provided a promising update on the upcoming movie adaptation – and he says he's spoken to star Sydney Sweeney, too."I got the first version of the script today but you know, there's so much talk in Hollywood. I usually say it like this, 'I believe it when I see it,'" Fares told Swedish publication MovieZine (via Dexerto)."I've had a meeting with her and she seems super chill," he added of Sweeney, saying that she's "hyped" for the project.Wicked
  
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• New Alienware Area-51 PCs with AMD X3D chipsets have landed on earth, and surprise, surprise, they cost more than my car

  29-01-2026 16:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dell just made good on its Alienware Area-51 AMD X3D announcement, as you can now grab the Ryzen range. The only issue is that, just like I said during CES 2026, the build does not remotely come in price peace, and while introductory discounts are trimming MSRPs down slightly right now, the RTX 5090 configurations cost up to $7,000.I'm going to be real with you: the Area-51 might be the best Alienware gaming PC you can buy, but I doubt many of you lovely readers will be looking at even the sligh
  
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• Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream gets April release date to round off 20-minute fever dream of a Nintendo Direct

  29-01-2026 16:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo has announced the release date for the upcoming life-sim Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream during a 20-minute Nintendo Direct focused on the game.Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream will launch for both Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 on April 16, 2026, so you won't have to wait too long before you can get your hands on it. The release date is just a tiny part of the Nintendo Direct for the upcoming life sim, with the rest of it being the kind of off-the-rails-fever-dream I did not ex
  
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• Diablo meets Stardew Valley in this action-RPG about descending into a procgen dungeon before coming out to rebuild a ruined town

  29-01-2026 16:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  If there's one surefire way to make my ears perk up and my wishlist grow, it's by telling me a game is 'like Stardew Valley but...' There's already Stardew Valley but in the Stone Age. Stardew Valley but this time it's also Sailor Moon. Stardew Valley but there's also a murder mystery. And that's exactly what happened with Emberville, a game that sits at a comfy midpoint between Stardew Valley and Diablo.Emberville's been in development for a while now, but co-creative director and popular strea
  
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• World of Warcraft lead teases there'll be "a lot of death" for "important characters" during the MMO's Worldsoul Saga, so pray for your favorites

  29-01-2026 15:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  This year's Midnight expansion marks the second act of World of Warcraft's universe-altering Worldsoul Saga, and there's tragedy on the way, whether it arrives now or slightly later. Designed to mark 20 years of the MMORPG, there will be casualties in the epic multi-part story, and chances are at least one of your faves might be among them."There will be important characters that do not survive the trilogy," Maria Hamilton, design director on World of Warcraft, explained to PC Gamer. "It'll be a
  
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• 5 years after it was announced, the live-action Gundam movie finds home at Netflix – and The Housemaid and Street Fighter stars are up for lead roles

  29-01-2026 15:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  The long-delayed Gundam movie may see the light of day after all, with Netflix reportedly nabbing the distribution rights to the first-ever live-action feature.According to Deadline, the streamer is on board to develop the film further – and has even tapped Sweet Tooth showrunner Jim Mickle to write and direct. The Housemaid's Sydney Sweeney and Noah Centineo, who'll soon be seen in video game adaptation Street Fighter, are set to star, too.Mickle is geared up to produce alongside his Nigh
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead says "game development runs on optimism" as the industry comes to Highguard's defense following a messy launch: "It is easy to celebrate failure"

  29-01-2026 14:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Highguard, the new free-to-play shooter from Wildlight Entertainment, hasn't exactly been in the limelight for a good reason the past few days, racking up "Mostly Negative" reviews on Steam in hours – but fellow developers are stepping up to the plate in the game's defense.Just yesterday, Baldur's Gate 3 director and Larian Studios lead Swen Vincke said, "I don't like people s***ing on things" as "it's easy to destroy things, it's a lot harder to build them" – a sentiment other devs
  
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• Hytale devs looking to "speed up production" with weekly pre-release updates as the team aims to be "more adventurous" with patches

  29-01-2026 14:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Simon Collins-Laflamme, CEO of Hypixel, has released a statement that outlines the studio's pre-release plans going forward, including a weekly update schedule and an approximately monthly release schedule, which is designed so that the team spends "more time building, [and] less time shipping."Making the statement from his Twitter account, Collins-Laflamme makes a distinction between the weekly pre-release updates and larger and more sporadic release patches. "Going forward, we’ll use the
  
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• Matthew Lillard says his Stu Macher Scream 7 return is "a gamble of legacy," but he was "openly campaigning" for a comeback for years

  29-01-2026 13:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Matthew Lillard will soon be returning as Stu Macher in Scream 7, which, despite being something he's wanted for a long time, still gives him some nerves."It didn't really matter to me in what capacity Kevin [Williamson, director and original writer] wanted me to come back. At the end of the day, I think the reason I was so excited about it was 'cause I had been fighting to come back. I was openly campaigning for years," Lillard told Entertainment Weekly.But, he's still worried how it might go d
  
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• Sinners director Ryan Coogler has filled in the gaps on what went down between Smoke and Stack before they left for Chicago

  29-01-2026 13:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Director Ryan Coogler has finally shed some light on what happened to Michael B. Jordan's enigmatic twins Smoke and Stack before the events of Sinners.At the start of 2025 vampire movie Sinners, we meet twins Elijah and Elias Moore, better known as Smoke and Stack, who return to their hometown in Mississippi looking to start over after making it big in Chicago. However, though we can read between the lines, they never really address why they dipped out in the first place."They killed their fathe
  
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