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• Remnant 2 dev says much-maligned Trait caps aren't going away

  28-07-2023 13:29 via GamesRadar+
  
  Remnant 2 devs have responded to one of players' biggest criticisms of the shooter sequel.Remnant 2 only launched in full earlier this week, but players near-instantly cottoned onto one aspect they didn't like. In the original game, the Traits players acquired weren't capped out at a maximum level, but this time, Remnant 2 places a limit on the amount of points players can put into individual Traits, as well as in Traits as a collective group.Players really aren't fond of this change. The Reddit
  
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• Resident Evil remakes skipped the first game because Capcom worried it "might not resonate"

  10-11-2026 23:01 via GamesRadar+
  
  Capcom's modern Resident Evil remakes are fantastic entry points for one of the most beloved survival horror series of all time, but it's always felt weird that the very first 1996 game still hasn't been given the full-blown third-person RE Engine treatment. Yes, there's a remake from 2002, but it's way more faithful to the original game than the much more recent remakes of Resident Evil 2, 3, and 4, featuring the classic tank controls and static camera from the series' origin. Basically, if you
  
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• Amid Bethesda takeover and Fallout pivot, Obsidian's finally making good on The Outer Worlds 2 DLC

  10-11-2026 22:54 via GamesRadar+
  
  The Outer Worlds 2 is finally getting its DLC. Obsidian has announced that Side Effects Guaranteed, the first of a "two-part expansion" series, will launch on December 2. The devs had been promising DLC since before launch as part of the RPG's $100 Premium Edition, but you'd be forgiven for worrying that those promises were forgotten amid the massive shakeup at the studio.The first part of Side Effects Guaranteed will offer a new region to explore on Eden, a boosted level cap with new perks grab
  
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• Sony's PC presence shrinks again as PlayStation Plus app shuts down

  10-11-2026 20:34 via GamesRadar+
  
  PlayStation's once ambitious plans for PC seem to have softened considerably in recent months with reports suggesting Sony is moving away from porting first-party games to PC as it has done with The Last of Us, Uncharted, God of War, and more. In another shift toward console exclusivity, Sony Interactive Entertainment is now pulling the PlayStation Plus app from PC due to a low user rate. The app will no longer be available to PlayStation Plus users on PC starting December 10."PlayStation believ
  
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• "There is no doubt that Persona influenced this title," series veteran says of his new RPG

  10-11-2026 19:18 via GamesRadar+
  
  The Persona series casts a heck of a shadow, so founding Atlus member Kouji "Cozy" Okada, widely known as a godfather to Shin Megami Tensei and branching series including Persona, accepts that his new game, Villion:Code, a school-set action RPG with genome editing baked into its DNA, is going to invite some comparisons. Speaking with GamesRadar+ in a new video interview, Okada says Persona definitely has definitely influenced his work, but so have the many, many other games he's worked on and cr
  
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• A week before GTA 6, Take-Two CEO is already teasing "what comes next" from Rockstar

  10-11-2026 19:15 via GamesRadar+
  
  We're now just over a week away from the launch of GTA 6, the first new game from Rockstar since Red Dead Redemption 2, and the first new entry in the Grand Theft Auto series since GTA 5. It's been a long, long wait for the studio's latest big game, but it seems Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick is already willing to tease Rockstar's next project."Rockstar has completed the development of GTA 6," Zelnick tells investors during Take-Two's latest financial results call. "That may not come as a surprise
  
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• Here's how to watch the Golden Joystick Awards 2026

  10-11-2026 19:00 via GamesRadar+
  
  Here's how to watch the Golden Joystick Awards 2026, as the longest-running gaming awards ceremony in the world returns for its 44th outing.The Golden Joystick Awards take place tomorrow, Wednesday November 11, with the livestream of this year's ceremony kicking off at 10:00 PT / 13:00 ET / 18:00 GMT / 19:00 CET. Hosted by Alix Wilton Regan, who's taking a break from bringing Lara Croft to life in Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, and with a whole suite of guest presenters from around the world o
  
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• Nintendo president rejects idea that the company hasn't had any new ideas to rival the Wii Remote

  10-11-2026 18:46 via GamesRadar+
  
  Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has rejected the idea that the company hasn't had new gameplay ideas to rival the Wii Remote in the 20 years since its release. "It feels like we recently haven't seen any proposals for new approaches to gameplay that can rival the Wii Remote controller," one attendee at the latest Nintendo investors meeting observes. "Has developing new ways to play become less of a priority?"This prompted a response from Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa, senior managing
  
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• Death metal band refuses to let tour get in the way of WoW Forever, starts playing it during shows

  10-11-2026 18:39 via GamesRadar+
  
  In times past, being on road as a touring musician during a big game or expansion launch likely meant missing out until you were home. Not any more, as evidenced by the support for modern technical death metal giants Archspire making time for World of Warcraft: Forever while the band is performing on-stage.Video evidence was posted by the group on Instagram. The footage shows Justin McKinney, guitarist in support band The Zenith Passage, actively playing Forever on his Steam Deck right at side-s
  
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• Super Smash Bros lead Masahiro Sakurai says "there's no way" he can talk about what he's working on

  10-11-2026 18:28 via GamesRadar+
  
  Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai is up to something, but he's not ready to tell fans what that is. That's OK, though, because they're doing that part for him – though I suppose only he and his team know if anyone's actually got it right. Speaking during an interview for the Famitsu 40th Anniversary Festival (translated by Genki_JPN on Twitter, below), Sakurai is asked what he's working on right now – a question that makes the dev smile, but gives an incredibly short response: "Ther
  
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• Final Fantasy 14 patches "certain words" out of Keyboard Brawler, making it a bit less impossible

  10-11-2026 18:15 via GamesRadar+
  
  Final Fantasy 14 fans have spent weeks grappling with its new typing minigame, Keyboard Brawler, and the bots and impossible words it's been throwing at them – but Patch 7.58 has arrived, and it makes the Gold Saucer event a tad easier, thankfully.Keyboard Brawler is great, if you ask me, even if it can be challenging. Its limited-time nature means you'll want to grind it out as soon as you're able, however, before it departs in January and the new expansion Evercold takes hold of your attenti
  
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• GTA 6 preload starts today, but there might be a better way to clear your SSD

  10-11-2026 18:08 via GamesRadar+
  
  GTA 6 preload is officially underway, and in just a few hours your PS5 or Xbox Series X will know all of Vice City's secrets (it just can't tell you them until November 19). With a whopping 212GB file size, the latest instalment in Rockstar's blockbuster series is its heaviest yet, and that could spell disaster for your existing game library. If you managed to upgrade your PS5 SSD ahead of 2026's price inflation, I tip my hat. If not, you've got some difficult decisions to make around which game
  
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• PlayStation wins "hall of shame" award from consumer rights group

  10-11-2026 17:49 via GamesRadar+
  
  Choice, an Australian consumer rights organization, has named Sony Interactive Entertainment as one of its annual "hall of shame" award winners. Alongside a vocal group of gamers, Choice is calling out PlayStation for failing to give players ownership rights to digital games, a problem that will be much worse with the impending end of physical games on the platform.PlayStation wins "the Shonky Award for asking us to pay to play, but not own," Choice says in its write-up. According to Sony Intera
  
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• Marvel fans think an Avengers: Doomsday billboard spoils a major Thor plot twist

  10-11-2026 17:46 via GamesRadar+
  
  A new billboard for Avengers: Doomsday might have spoiled a major detail about Thor's powers in the movie. On the billboard, which you can see below, Thor is shown wielding yellow lightning. Usually, his lightning powers are a distinctive blue, which can be seen around Mjolnir on the billboard, which Steve Rogers is wielding. New banners for ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’ have been spotted in Shanghai. https://t.co/iCOsrgdumJNovember 10, 2026But, some Marvel fans think the billboard means Thor is goin
  
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• Skydance boss says AI could become "the biggest creative unlock in modern history"

  10-11-2026 17:43 via GamesRadar+
  
  Skydance boss David Ellison has spoken out about AI use in projects, not long after James Gunn and Peter Safran departed as heads of DC Studios.“I think when you zoom out and look at production, AI really has the potential to be the biggest creative unlock in modern history," Ellison said on Skydance's latest earnings call (via The Verge).Ellison then compared the breakthrough – if you want to call it that – to the emergence of CGI and special effects in the 1990s, name-checking both Juras
  
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• GTA 6 is officially the "most pre-ordered game" in PlayStation and Xbox store history

  10-11-2026 17:28 via GamesRadar+
  
  Perhaps unsurprisingly, GTA 6 is reportedly the most pre-ordered game of all time, with Sony and Microsoft confirming that's at least the case for the PlayStation Store and Xbox Store. Market intelligence firm Sensor Tower has reported via its sales tracker that GTA 6 has sold an estimated 9.69 million copies through pre-orders ahead of the game's launch next week. Per its data, GTA 6 has already made just shy of a billion with $942 million in revenue. Unsurprisingly, given its larger install ba
  
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• Skyrim lead doubted Todd Howard’s constellation-based skill system, and then the RPG came out

  10-11-2026 17:23 via GamesRadar+
  
  Making games like Skyrim requires a lot of collaboration. Disagreement is inherent to such projects, and in one instance, a tenured Bethesda developer remembers not seeing Todd Howard's vision for character progression before players demonstrated it was the right course to take.Bruce Nesmith, a designer who worked on Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim at Bethesda, explained the situation on The Examined Game podcast. "Todd had this vision for how the constellations would reflect your skills," he sta
  
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• Half-Life 2 Episode 3 source code leak reveals more of Valve's apparent plans for a sequel

  10-11-2026 17:19 via GamesRadar+
  
  There are rumblings in the world of Gordon Freeman. No, it's not the sudden release of Half-Life 3, but instead another leak of apparent code from a version of Half-Life 2: Episode 3, revealing details of what Valve was experimenting in the latent follow-up.The Valve-dedicated social media account GabeFollower posted the findings. They posted a screenshot of the source code for Episode 3, showing a couple of insights into the game's development.The big takeaways this go round lie in the weapons,
  
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• Big Walk devs admit to gen AI use, worry that they're part of the problem amid backlash on Steam

  10-11-2026 17:12 via GamesRadar+
  
  Indie darling Big Walk has found itself in hot water as developer House House admits to previously undisclosed AI usage "in the final stretch" of its co-op game's development, which it says touched "well under 0.1%" of the code. This has surfaced after a statement from a group of jurors on the Independent Games Festival (IGF) was shared on Bluesky, acknowledging the "significant increase in the number of submitted games developed with generative AI tools" for the upcoming awards show. The group
  
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• World of Warcraft: Forever devs know faction restrictions in PvP are "frustrating," but are doing them anyway

  10-11-2026 17:09 via GamesRadar+
  
  World of Warcraft: Forever has suffered a bit of a PvP debacle since its official release last week, with faction imbalance drama hitting a high – but Blizzard is working to remedy it.Yes, the studio is well aware of the issue – one that, if you're out of the loop yourself, has seen folks complaining about everything from too many Horde players to unplayable PvP realms – and a recent update on its official forums proves as much.
  "It's vitally important that the PvP rulesets in WoW: Forever
  
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• GTA 6 won't run at 60fps on PS5 Pro, but Sony's console still has an exclusive: ray-traced shadows

  10-11-2026 15:43 via GamesRadar+
  
  GTA 6 will push PS5 and Xbox Series X|S to "their absolute limits," Rockstar Games says, but that doesn't mean we'll see the game run at 60fps on either platform. In a new blog post shared today as GTA 6 preloads kick off for those who've pre-ordered digitally, Rockstar discusses what we can expect from the upcoming blockbuster's performance on your platform of choice. However, as previously anticipated, the devs have now confirmed a 30fps cap on both consoles."Grand Theft Auto 6 has been fully
  
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• With AI usage on the rise, Nintendo exec says "it is important to offer unique entertainment experiences"

  10-11-2026 14:16 via GamesRadar+
  
  A Nintendo exec has stressed the importance of creating the company's signature experiences with the rise of AI development. During a recent investors' meeting attended by multiple Nintendo employees, a question was asked about the company's emphasis on game quality, noting that this, in turn, "seems to be lengthening the development period for each title." The question then poses how Nintendo plans to balance creativity with business management.Yusuke Beppu, senior executive officer and corpora
  
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• Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake win proves price hike isn’t slowing momentum, Nintendo president says

  10-11-2026 14:14 via GamesRadar+
  
  Nintendo says The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake is "off to a great start" and the 40th Anniversary Edition Switch 2 console has also been "very positive," heading off speculation from an investor that price hikes may be hurting momentum.Taking questions as part of its latest financial briefing, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa is pressed on how well the Switch 2 is selling its wares after the console's price jumped to $500 earlier this year. Investors reckon things are slowing down
  
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• GTA 6 CEO says AI-generated recomps are making piracy concerns "more of a challenge"

  10-11-2026 13:48 via GamesRadar+
  
  Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has acknowledged the influx of AI-assisted game decompilations appearing online ahead of Rockstar Games releasing GTA 6 next week. Recent months have seen a huge increase in the prevalence of vibe-coded AI-led recompilation projects. From Crash Team Racing to The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, it seems that projects like this are now using AI more often than not – and while they might be releasing faster, the tech leaves a bad taste in the mouth for many.This h
  
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• Marvel fans want James Gunn back after his DC departure: "Start drafting the script for Guardians of the Galaxy 4"

  10-11-2026 13:15 via GamesRadar+
  
  After four years, James Gunn is stepping down as DC Studios co-CEO alongside Peter Safran, but Marvel fans are taking this as a win, as many want the Guardians of the Galaxy director to come back to the MCU. "Kevin Feige, it's time to bring James Gunn back into the fold," said one fan on Reddit just hours after the news broke. Others seem to agree, as another added, "The people acting like Gunn is awful and don’t want him returning to Marvel are fucking crazy. All three Guardians of the Galaxy
  
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• Marvel fans think Paul Bettany's Vision has the best lines in the MCU

  10-11-2026 12:57 via GamesRadar+
  
  As VisionQuest nears its end, Marvel fans think Paul Bettany's Vision has delivered some of the best dialogue in the MCU. "Paul Bettany aka The Vision has THE best lines," a fan writes on Reddit, quoting the likes of "what is grief, if not love persevering" and "You have placed me on a pedestal so impossibly high, and not to honor me, not to honor me! But to spare yourself the effort of the climb.""They're not as lengthy as [Stellan] Skarsgård's in Andor, but wow do the writers serve Bettany up
  
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• As Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake appears on PC, Nintendo tries to stop the cause dead in its tracks

  10-11-2026 12:52 via GamesRadar+
  
  Weeks after the Switch 2 was jailbroken for the first time, Nintendo's latest system update has reportedly patched the exploit that could have allowed users to mod and dump games, putting a stop to those activities… at least for now.The initial jailbreak in question was always limited. Legitimate game-programming app SmileBASIC 4 – which could be downloaded straight from the Switch eShop prior to this whole debacle – could essentially serve as a gateway for exploits that could let folks ac
  
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• Blizzard says "some zones had become too crowded in WoW: Forever," lowers population in worst areas

  10-11-2026 12:47 via GamesRadar+
  
  It's no secret that World of Warcraft: Forever is proving one of Blizzard's most popular MMO releases already, boasting its biggest concurrent player launch – but it's a bit too popular for some, with many zones suffering from over-congestion as a result.The topic has come up time and time again. There are countless threads online flagging how overpopulated WoW: Forever feels, especially in areas like the Redridge Mountains and Duskwood. It's one of the more common gripes folks have voiced sin
  
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• Take-Two boss isn't worried about GTA 6 players jailbreaking PS5 consoles and modding it

  10-11-2026 12:39 via GamesRadar+
  
  There aren't many sure bets in video games, but GTA 6 is definitely one of the few you can guarantee will be a big launch. The powers that be looking after Rockstar's long-awaited sequel are so confident, the prospect of players modding their games to circumvent the studio's paid-for services doesn't scare them whatsoever.Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two, addressed the issue during a shareholder Q&A. "Our purchase of FiveM reflected our support of certain consumers' desires to engage as a cr
  
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• Nintendo "bearing" Switch 2 manufacturing costs to avoid price hikes – for now

  10-11-2026 12:16 via GamesRadar+
  
  Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa says the house of Mario wants to keep the Switch 2 price as is despite surging hardware component prices. That said, there's only so long that can continue before a change of heart is considered.Speaking to investors following an earnings report, the suits at Nintendo take a question regarding their thoughts on hardware and software pricing. Everything is getting more expensive, so at what point does Nintendo factor price increases into their planning?When it
  
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