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• PS6 development is "progressing as scheduled," Sony assures

  05-11-2026 14:03 via GamesRadar+
  
  Sony says that work on its "next-generation platform" – AKA the PS6 – is "progressing as scheduled," while sales of the PS5 keep on trucking, but at a pace that's lagging behind the PS4 at the same point in its own lifecycle amid the ongoing RAM crisis. During the company's FY2026 Q2 earnings call today, chief financial officer Lin Tao makes multiple references to the company's next console and its plans going forward."Looking ahead to next fiscal year, we aim to continue to enhance user eng
  
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• GTA 6 CEO says AI will make creating games easier, but "making a big hit" will be as hard as ever

  10-11-2026 01:48 via GamesRadar+
  
  Researching and writing this story gave me massive deja vu, because what Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said today about AI's evolving role in game development sounds like a re-wording of what every other C-suite executive has said about AI in game dev. In case you have somewhere to be, the TLDR is that Zelnick says AI will make game development easier but won't replace human creativity.I don't want to minimize the importance of Zelnick, the guy at the top of the company funding the biggest entert
  
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• Rockstar's owner expected GTA 6 to be big, but not this big: "The numbers will speak for themselves"

  09-11-2026 23:57 via GamesRadar+
  
  It's safe to assume Take-Two Interactive had some inkling that GTA 6 was going to be monumentally big. It did spend an estimated $1 billion funding development at Rockstar, after all. However, now that the company has had a few months to analyze pre-order data, which have made an estimated $730 million in sales, leadership says it wasn't expecting it to be this big.Take-Two says as much in its latest earnings presentation, which includes a section that reads: "Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI
  
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• Dev creates a tool to automatically inform Sam Altman of all the RAM sitting unused in your PC

  09-11-2026 22:53 via GamesRadar+
  
  Something you learn in 13 years of video game journalism is that some people react poorly to reading things they said. Being quoted can be scary. Now the words sound the way they did leaving your mouth, not the way they may have sounded inside your head. Anyway, OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman recently complained that his remarks on a podcast, in which he bemoaned the inefficiencies of RAM sitting in personal PCs and not cooking away in AI data centers, were "taken out of context." "From a global a
  
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• Nintendo of America invests in game preservation to save its history for "future generations"

  09-11-2026 22:43 via GamesRadar+
  
  Nintendo of America is one of many companies investing in game preservation, and a new job listing gives us some insight into what those efforts look like. The company is looking to hire a "digital archivist" to build a library of historical material that can last for generations."We are seeking a Digital Archivist, Historical Systems to support the preservation, organization, and accessibility of historical hardware and software information," the company says in its job listing. "This role will
  
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• New Blade Runner 2099 trailer sees Hunter Schafer go undercover as humanity's last hope

  09-11-2026 22:37 via GamesRadar+
  
  The final trailer for Prime Video’s Blade Runner 2099 has arrived, and it's the end of the world as we know it.In the brief clip, which can be viewed above, Replicants have taken over Los Angeles and are killing humans in broad daylight. Cora (Hunter Schafer) is humanity's last hope, as she volunteers to go undercover as a Blade Runner who is overseen by Olwen (Michelle Yeoh), a Replicant who is in the final weeks of her life."It's harder to look something in the eye than to kill it," Olwen sa
  
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• Hollow Knight: Silksong players jump at word of "free content packs" and "first giant expansion"

  09-11-2026 21:24 via GamesRadar+
  
  Hollow Knight: Silksong has a new physical edition, and early arrivals reveal a surprise message from developer Team Cherry regarding additional content coming to the game in the months and, seemingly, years ahead. Metroidvania marketing man Matthew Griffin reminds fans that "Hollow Knight: Silksong (Standard Edition) is arriving soon on November 10th." It comes with a user manual, a hand-drawn map, and reversible cover art. We're most interested in that user manual, which ends with a section on
  
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• Path of Exile co-creator worries Blizzard will go "too broad" with Diablo 5

  09-11-2026 20:51 via GamesRadar+
  
  It's only been a couple of months that we've known about the existence of Diablo 5, and as such there are a ton of open questions about the direction it'll take. Blizzard teased a few fundamentals during BlizzCon 2026, like the fact that it'll take place in a Sanctuary that's been completely overtaken by Diablo and his minions, and that there will no longer be any traditional towns or safe havens to hide from the bad guys. It's been clear to me that Blizzard is doubling down on the horror-driven
  
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• James Gunn is "incredibly relieved" amid surprise DC Studios shake-up, says characters will live on

  09-11-2026 19:26 via GamesRadar+
  
  James Gunn has released a separate, lengthy statement amid the news that he and co-CEO Peter Safran are no longer the heads of DC Studios."There have been so many highs along the way: releasing Superman and Clayface, making Peacemaker, reading the scripts to The People Vs., the entire process of Man of Tomorrow, which thus far has been the best filmmaking experience of my life, and numerous other moments," Gunn wrote on his personal Instagram account.Gunn also lamented that he "disliked the at-t
  
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• Shigeru Miyamoto: "There are two types of games - well-made games and interesting games"

  09-11-2026 19:00 via GamesRadar+
  
  Nintendo has dropped another banger. The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time Remake has arrived to fanfare almost matching the release of the 1998 original. But according to Shigeru Miyamoto, around the time that Link was coming face to face with the Great Deku Tree, Nintendo had been struggling to perfect the balance between innovation and execution.Speaking to Keni Eno in 1996 (via Shmupulations), shortly after the release of Mario 64 and a couple of years before Ocarina of Time, Miyamoto was
  
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• Clair Obscur is a "good example" of why Mass Effect 5 doesn’t have to cost $200 million, former BioWare lead says

  09-11-2026 18:48 via GamesRadar+
  
  A former Mass Effect lead has said that Clair Obscur is a good example of what a team could do with a lower budget Mass Effect 5.Last week BioWare co-founder Trent Oster said that saving Mass Effect 5 – after EA abruptly closed the beloved RPG studio last month – would cost over $200 million to happen due in part to fan expectations of a premium AAA experience, with him noting this would also factor into having "a bigger plan in place for the IP."Christina Norman – who was the lead cinemat
  
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• James Gunn is out at DC Studios, as former Marvel Studios executive takes over under Skydance

  09-11-2026 18:45 via GamesRadar+
  
  James Gunn and DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran are stepping down as the heads of DC Studios and will be replaced by former Marvel Studios executive Jeremy Latcham.Per The Hollywood Reporter, Gunn and Safran are out of the job from December 1, 2026. That's just over four years after the pair were appointed to the post. In that time, DC Studios has released three movies (Superman, Supergirl and Clayface) and four TV shows (Creature Commandos, Peacemaker season 2, The Penguin and Lanterns). Projects
  
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• James Gunn is out at DC Studios, as former Marvel exec takes over under Skydance

  09-11-2026 18:45 via GamesRadar+
  
  James Gunn and DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran are stepping down as the heads of DC Studios and will be replaced by former Marvel Studios executive Jeremy Latcham.Per The Hollywood Reporter, Gunn and Safran are out of the job from December 1, 2026. That's just over four years after the pair were appointed to the post. In that time, DC Studios has released three movies (Superman, Supergirl and Clayface) and four TV shows (Creature Commandos, Peacemaker season 2, The Penguin and Lanterns). Projects
  
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• Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 drove record sales for Nintendo, analyst says

  09-11-2026 18:28 via GamesRadar+
  
  Metallica and Korn are doing huge sellout tours, Godzilla is stomping through cinemas, and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is the hottest game going. It's 1998 all over again. The latter's really leaving a mark, moving the needle on Switch 2 sales to a considerable degree, thanks to that sweet limited edition console.Some analysis comes from Mat Piscatella, who is the senior director and video game industry advisor and analytics firm Circana. On Bluesky, he posts about how Link's classic ad
  
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• Auteurs like Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima "built this business," ex-PlayStation boss says

  09-11-2026 18:28 via GamesRadar+
  
  It's the "creative genius" of auteurs like Hideo Kojima that's responsible for "games we always remember," according to former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden, who says he's "never seen a good game built by committee."Speaking on The Trophy Room podcast (below), Layden – former president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment America as well as chairman of SIE Worldwide Studios – is asked if the games industry "overvalues" auteurs, with host Joe Moran specifically pointing to Metal Gear and
  
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• Days before GTA 6, crime game for "thousands" blows up despite "Mixed" Steam reviews and gen AI

  09-11-2026 18:25 via GamesRadar+
  
  There's no shortage of viral multiplayer games to be found on Steam, from the Prop Hunt-like Meccha Chameleon to older gems like Lethal Company – and, now, Rob Run.If you've not yet heard of it yourself, Rob Run is, as per its official Steam page, "a brutal crime sandbox featuring thousands of players."
  It's a sort of virtual take on cops and robbers, it seems, having folks take on the role of either police officers or… well, the criminals that they're pursuing. As you can imagine, this prem
  
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• "We don't want that scenario": Skyrim had to change a major Oblivion problem, says Todd Howard

  09-11-2026 18:00 via GamesRadar+
  
  Years before The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel, Todd Howard explained how Bethesda's progression philosophy had changed between Oblivion and Skyrim.Speaking to Official PlayStation Magazine in Spring 2011, Howard explained what was changing in his hot new RPG, Skyrim, which was set to release later that year. In Oblivion, he said, they'd learned that players repeatedly got buyers' remorse when it came to picking their skill paths."What we found in Oblivion is that you start the game and you pick wha
  
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• WoW: Forever fans say Horde is destroying PvP, beg Blizzard to address the MMO's "faction imbalance"

  09-11-2026 17:36 via GamesRadar+
  
  World of Warcraft: Forever continues to soar, boasting Blizzard's biggest concurrent player launch in its MMO's history – but it hasn't come without controversy, especially in PvP, where players report a heck of an imbalance.So, what imbalance would that be? Well, it has to do with the game's two factions – because of course it does.You've got the Alliance and the Horde, each encompassing unique races (and within them, unique racial abilities that prove more powerful in either PvE or PvP), a
  
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• Hideo Kojima has high praise for season 2 of Netflix's Keira Knightley-led spy thriller

  09-11-2026 17:27 via GamesRadar+
  
  Hideo Kojima is back with another review, and this time it's for Netflix spy thriller series Black Doves."'Black Doves' was so good that I ended up binge-watching the rest of Season 2 in one sitting," Kojima wrote on Twitter. "Season 1 was great, but Season 2 takes it to a whole new level. For fans of British spy thrillers, this is an absolute treat. The story beautifully captures the lies, love and hate, sadness, loneliness, and loyalty of spies and assassins, building up to an action-packed fi
  
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• Skyrim vet says it "felt good" playing Baldur’s Gate 3 because decisions had "actual consequences"

  09-11-2026 17:24 via GamesRadar+
  
  Having spent decades working on Bethesda games, including many of The Elder Scrolls and Fallout releases, Bruce Nesmith knows a thing or three about solid RPG design. Naturally, then, he became enthralled by Baldur's Gate 3 just like the rest of us, largely because of how it rejected principles of his former workplace.In an interview with The Examined Game, Nesmith discusses what he enjoyed about Larian Studios' take on the world of Dungeons & Dragons. "Bethesda Games have always had the phi
  
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• Rockstar spins the GTA 6 wheel again and lands on comically large music festival

  09-11-2026 17:21 via GamesRadar+
  
  Rockstar Games and PlayStation are hosting a festival dedicated to the music of GTA 6 on the game's launch weekend, featuring the game's composer, Justice.It's wild to say, but here we are: GTA 6 is releasing next week. 13 years of waiting, GTA Online microtransaction spending, and "we got x before GTA 6" jokes, and the game is almost out. It's safe to say that GTA 6 will be the biggest single video game launch of all time when it finally arrives – and I'd be shocked if that weren't the case.
  
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• GTA: Tokyo saw Rockstar negotiate with a Japanese studio, former Grand Theft Auto lead says

  09-11-2026 16:58 via GamesRadar+
  
  Decades before GTA 6, Rockstar Games was considering getting a Japanese studio to develop the now-abandoned GTA: Tokyo, according to a former technical director on the series, but he reckons that there's "so much Americana inherent in the IP" that it might not have worked, anyway. It sounds like we were so close – yet so far – from getting GTA: Tokyo. A trademark for the title was filed by Rockstar owner Take-Two Interactive back in late 2003, after the release of Vice City, but was later li
  
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• Star Wars fans are once again debating one of the saga's biggest plot holes

  09-11-2026 16:15 via GamesRadar+
  
  Star Wars fans are once again debating a pesky plot hole in A New Hope, which still doesn't make sense some 49 years later.In A New Hope, Luke Skywalker and his uncle Owen Lars bring home two droids: R2-D2 and C-3PO. In the scene, the pair appears to be meeting the droids for the very first time. It's revealed in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, however, that Owen not only knew C-3PO, but that the droid lived in Owen's home for quite some time. So why doesn't Owen recognize him later in Episode
  
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• Zelda: Ocarina of Time becomes the biggest physical launch of 2026 in the UK so far, analyst reports

  09-11-2026 16:09 via GamesRadar+
  
  It takes a certain kind of industry power to set records using the same game twice. According to early estimates, that's exactly what Nintendo has managed with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, especially in terms of physical sales.Christopher Dring of The Game Business has some numbers around the redux of Link's time-traveling battle to save Hyrule. Right off the top, the Ocarina of Time remake is the second biggest launch of a Zelda game in Britain in terms of physical copies.When y
  
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• WoW: Forever devs address dungeon XP backlash with 50% boost – but fans of the MMO aren't satisfied

  09-11-2026 15:55 via GamesRadar+
  
  Although World of Warcraft: Forever has brought back a record number of lapsed players and boasts the biggest concurrent player launch in the MMO's history, fans aren't entirely pleased with it – or, at least, not with Blizzard's treatment of dungeons.The point of contention here isn't Forever's inclusion of dungeons or the way that any of the nine new group activities play out – it's to do with the heavy nerfs that Blizzard applied to experience points players can gain from killing enemies
  
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• Arkham Horror Remastered crowdfunder is so popular the community has kept it going for 108 extra hours

  09-11-2026 15:51 via GamesRadar+
  
  It seems like the board game community is really keen on Arkham Horror Remastered, because the crowdfunding page has been kept going for an extra 108 hours past the original deadline thanks to their support. It's only been a couple of months since this revamp of the beloved, long-out-of-print horror game was announced, but the project has gone from strength to strength. Arkham Horror Remastered quickly hit its crowdfunding goal after its Gamefound campaign went live, and now – thanks to the 'E
  
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• Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake files may hint at Master Quest DLC and Majora's Mask remake

  09-11-2026 15:09 via GamesRadar+
  
  The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake reportedly features files that not only tease a Master Quest expansion for the remake but also a Majora's Mask remake.While The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake has done very well in terms of reception – having the highest Metacritic score of 2026 and the highest-ever user score on the site – there has been one bit of criticism leveled at it through most reviews of the game. Namely, the remixed Master Quest – which debuted with the GameCub
  
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• A sequel to underrated 2007 Stephen King adaptation 1408 is in the works with original stars returning

  09-11-2026 15:03 via GamesRadar+
  
  Almost two decades after the 2007 movie adaptation brought Stephen King's 1999 supernatural novel 1408 to life, a sequel is in the works. As reported by Variety, the sequel is being led by original director Mikael Håfström, with stars Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack set to return, though the pair are still negotiating the terms. The upcoming movie has already added two new faces too: Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood and Stranger Things actor Natalia Dyer. Based on King's short story of the
  
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• Attention Zelda fans! Hallmark Keepsake ornaments are cheaper than ever at Amazon, and Link's waiting

  09-11-2026 14:21 via GamesRadar+
  
  Hallmark Keepsake ornaments grow every year, and luckily for gamers, we usually get some iconic consoles, dioramas, and figures from classic PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo history books. With the holiday season upon us, Amazon has taken the chop to some of the brand's older releases, with a particularly interesting discount for Zelda fans.If your 2026 holiday season is going to be ruled by Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Remake, you know Link will need to be scaling that tree. Amazon has the Te
  
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• Comically large Nier: Automata file size has been fixed on PC as official account offers "apologies"

  09-11-2026 13:57 via GamesRadar+
  
  After a supposedly small update sent NieR: Automata's PC file size skyrocketing from a modest 50GB to over 366GB, the devs have finally been able to fix things so the action RPG won't eat up all your storage space.The update in question arrived last week, and added Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean as extra languages. All valuable additions, of course, but unfortunately, things clearly didn't go quite to plan with the patch, with the game inexplicably becoming 600% bigger in th
  
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