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• The Semblance devs explain their platform-altering design process

  06-07-2018 23:35
  The developers behind Semblance sit down to share some insight on making smart puzzles and prickly platformers. ...
  
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• 3 years after it was announced, Longlegs star gives promising update on horror sequel They Follow: "I would stay positive, because I've heard some good news recently"

  03-02-2026 13:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  12 years on from the original movie, It Follows star Maika Monroe has a promising update on delayed sequel They Follow."Rumors have been spreading that it will be happening. So I would stay positive because I've heard some good news recently," Monroe told Entertainment Weekly. "So we'll see."Released in 2014, It Follows stars Monroe as Jay, a college student who finds herself stalked by a deadly sexually transmitted entity after having sex with her boyfriend for the first time. Director David Ro
  
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• As Nintendo Direct rumors swirl, updated Splatoon Raiders trademark releases copium that we may hear about the upcoming Switch 2 exclusive soon

  03-02-2026 13:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new trademark for Splatoon Raiders has sparked hopes that the series spinoff will re-emerge soon, perhaps even as part of a Nintendo Direct.Splatoon Raiders was announced on a random day last June via the Nintendo Today app – marking the first time Nintendo used it to confirm the existence of a brand new game. And despite a massive September 2025 Nintendo Direct taking place in the time since, we actually haven't heard anything about the first Nintendo Switch 2-exclusive Splatoon game si
  
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• Nintendo Switch overtakes the DS as Nintendo's best-selling console of all time, and with its sales figures still growing, it's closing the gap with the PS2

  03-02-2026 13:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Its successor may have launched last year, but the Nintendo Switch just became Nintendo's best-selling console of all time, finally surpassing the DS.Per Nintendo's newly updated sales figures, as of December 31, 2025, the Switch had sold 155.37 million units. That gives it a comfortable lead over the DS family, which sold a total of 155.02 million units across its lifetime, securing a figure that's only now been toppled.These figures also mean that the Switch is still closing its lead on the Pl
  
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• "Malicious" mod that deletes files spreading through Steam Workshop just like John Carpenter's The Thing, says dev of sandbox hit with 300,000 reviews: "It replaces them with itself. This is how it spreads"

  03-02-2026 13:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you're a People Playground player who uses mods, you might have noticed the Workshop is turned off. This is not an accident, as developer Mestiez removed it in lieu of discovering some form of infection that's spreading through game modifications - oh dear.On February 1, Mestiez posted an update on Steam explaining the situation. A "malicious addon" is making the rounds through the Workshop, leading to the removal of mods entirely for the time being, and instructions on how to run the game wi
  
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• Ms. Marvel star Iman Vellani rates Wonder Man 4.5 stars, with the disclaimer that "no Kevins and/or Feiges are currently present"

  03-02-2026 13:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ms. Marvel actor Iman Vellani might just be the MCU's biggest fan, and she really wants you to check out Wonder Man.The new show follows aspiring actor Simon Williams, who aims to score a role in the remake of superhero movie Wonder Man in a Hollywood that has banned superpowered actors. The only catch is, Simon himself has powers…"Watch Wonder Man," Vellani wrote on her Letterboxd account, complete with clapping emojis between each word. "And if that was not convincing enough, allow me t
  
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• The makeup team behind horror movie The Ugly Stepsister definitely earned their Oscar nomination, as one scene made them "want to vomit on set"

  03-02-2026 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Horror is finally getting the recognition it deserves, with many scary movies receiving Oscar nominations ahead of the 98th Academy Awards, including The Ugly Stepsister for Makeup and Hairstyling. But by the sounds of what the team went through on set, there's no doubt that the body horror definitely earned the nomination.Towards the end of the movie, after Elvira has mutilated herself to the limit in an attempt to make herself as beautiful as possible, the consequences of her actions begin to
  
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• "The loss of a studio is a huge blow": Christopher Nolan says he has "very, very significant concerns" about the Warner Bros. Netflix sale

  03-02-2026 12:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Christopher Nolan has spoken out about Netflix's purchase of Warner Bros. – and the director is "very, very" concerned about what what the sale could mean for the movie industry."We have very, very significant concerns about how this is all going to happen," Nolan said, speaking as newly appointed president of the Directors Guild of America (via Variety). "I think it’s a very worrying time for the industry. The loss of a major studio is a huge blow."In December 2025, Netflix announce
  
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• Major Helldivers 2 patch increases "intensity" of the highest difficulties, buffs all melee weapons, makes enemies better at aiming, and so much more

  03-02-2026 12:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  A major new patch for Helldivers 2 is live now, bringing a whole bunch of balance changes, a new tank vehicle, tweaks to enemies, increased challenge on its highest difficulties, and more. Oh, and also the bots have officially stolen Super Earth's planet-destroying space laser schematics, so, uh, that's concerning.Outlined in the latest patch notes, Helldivers 2's new update is adding the Bastion Tank to "roll over entrenched enemies" – it'll be available in-game later today alongside the
  
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• HBO boss confirms George R.R. Martin "definitely took a step back" from House of the Dragon

  03-02-2026 12:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  George R.R Martin wasn't really involved in House of the Dragon season 3, HBO boss Casey Bloys has confirmed.Instead, the Game of Thrones creator "took a step back" from the tension-filled prequel to focus on developing the small-screen take on his "favorite" A Song of Ice and Fire stories: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms."He definitely took a step back, and I would say he's definitely been focusing on Knight of the Seven Kingdoms," Bloys recently explained to Deadline. "And I will tell you one o
  
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• With over 17 million units sold and counting, it took Nintendo Switch 2 under 7 months to overtake the woefully underrated Wii U's lifetime sales

  03-02-2026 12:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Nintendo Switch 2 sold more consoles by the end of 2025 than the Wii U sold in its entire lifetime.The Wii U is such an interesting console to look back on, as not only does it feel like a test run for what the Nintendo Switch would eventually become, but – outside of the Virtual Boy – it's hard to think of a system Nintendo struggled with more. The actual game library was great – as evidenced by the fact pretty much every single one of its games came to Switch – but
  
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• Netflix didn't reign supreme in 2025 as Stranger Things loses to a kids' TV show as the most watched series of the year

  03-02-2026 11:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  One of Netflix's biggest series ever came to an end on New Year's Eve after taking over the whole winter period with gradual drops, but, in a bizarre turn of events, Stranger Things was not the most-streamed show of 2025.As found by Nielsen, the most-watched series on any streaming platform in 2025 was the animated kids show Bluey, which follows a Blue Heeler puppy named Bluey who goes on adventures with her younger sister, Bingo. With 45.2 billion minutes watched on Disney Plus over the year, t
  
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• This new Logitech G325 headset features an invisible beamforming microphone, and I'm not sure how to feel about that

  03-02-2026 11:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Logitech has just launched its new Logitech G325 Lightspeed Wireless gaming headset onto the world, but there's no traditional boom arm microphone to be found.
  Unlike the best gaming headsets out there, the new G235 features an integrated beamforming mic, which records sound coming from a directed cone-shaped area in front of the earcup and filters out any unwanted audio. The lack of a microphone that I can physically see and adjust as an audio nerd with a background in music studies has got my
  
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• Crunchyroll is raising subscription prices halfway through Jujutsu Kaisen's latest season

  03-02-2026 11:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Crunchyroll is following the trend of recent streaming price hikes by raising the cost of its membership tiers.From March 4, the Fan tier will cost $9.99/month (from $7.99), Mega tier will be set at $13.99/month and the Ultimate tier – which includes Crunchyroll's manga library and the ability to stream on six simultaneous devices – will now cost $17.99/month.For many anime fans, the price hike is coming at a bad time. After all, we're partway through a killer winter season of new an
  
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• Skyrim lead thinks it's "wiser" for Bethesda to use its Creation Engine for new games like Elder Scrolls 6, with Fallout 76 an example of why it's "extremely difficult" to swap

  03-02-2026 11:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Perhaps Bethesda Game Studios should stick to its trusty Creation Engine, despite many fans' calls for a swap to another framework like Unreal Engine – or, at least, former Skyrim lead designer and studio veteran Bruce Nesmith seems to think so.The ex-Elder Scrolls developer reveals as much during a recent interview with Press Box PR, first explaining that jumping from engine to engine is no easy feat. "What you have to realize is that if you were to switch engines, and I'll say this for a
  
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• "WE DID IT!": Highguard 5v5 is "here to stay," and players are psyched that the studio is doing what it should've done in the first place

  03-02-2026 01:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  When I played my first Highguard game last week, my literal first thought was: oh, there needs to be more players on this map. The 3v3 raid mode was fun enough, but the map is more than big enough to support, and even benefit from, 4v4, 5v5, or even 6v6 matches. Others felt the same, and so Wildlight very quickly added what was described at the time as a "limited-time" 5v5 mode, and now, the studio says that mode will be permanent.Over on Twitter, Wildlight says there were about the same amount
  
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• All of the Fallout games are heavily discounted on Steam right now, and maybe if you play each one 50 times over, Fallout 5 will be waiting for you when you're done

  03-02-2026 01:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  We might all be very old people by the time Fallout 5 comes out, but Bethesda has graced PC gamers with a bunch of great games to keep you busy until then: the entire Fallout series has been heavily discounted on Steam.As spotted by PC Gamer, Steam's Fallout Franchise Sale takes down the price of every game in the series by up to 75%, and there's a bundle with all of them, as well as every DLC ever released, included for just $77 - a whopping 68% down from its usual asking price.While the bundle
  
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• Alone in the Dark's influence on survival horror is so profound that it saved Resident Evil from being a first-person shooter – and now you can get the whole trilogy for free

  02-02-2026 23:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Modern survival horror sits in the shadow of Resident Evil, but Capcom's zombie classic didn't spring fully formed outta nowhere. Alone in the Dark is arguably the foundation of the genre's history, and with that in mind it seems appropriate that GOG is celebrating two years of renewed focus on preservation with a giveaway of the trilogy that kicked off uncountable nightmares.A trilogy collection featuring Alone in the Dark 1, 2, and 3 is currently available for free on GOG. Head over to the sto
  
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• I need every developer currently making a Soulslike to stop what they're doing and add this time-saving feature from Nioh 3: one-click level-up top-offs

  02-02-2026 23:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  The enormous Nioh 3 demo has impressed me in multiple ways so far, and one of the nicest additions to the Soulslike formula comes in the form of a tiny little button in the level-up menu: with no fuss, you can instantly use enough banked XP items to reach the threshold for your next level.I can't say with total certainty that this is the first Soulslike to ever add this feature, but I live in this genre and it's the first time I've ever seen it. And boy is it nice. It's like when Lies of P helpe
  
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• Ubisoft fires 13-year Assassin's Creed veteran just days after suspending him for speaking out against the company's return-to-office mandate: "This was not my decision"

  02-02-2026 23:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ubisoft announced a massive shakeup in January which, among many other things, forces employees to spend five days a week in the office. One Ubisoft developer, 13-year Assassin's Creed veteran David Michaud-Cromp, was publicly critical of the publisher's decision. He's now been fired.As part of the restructure announcement last month, Ubisoft said it "intends to return to five days per week on site for all teams, complemented by an annual allowance of working-from-home days." The company argued
  
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• Call of Duty is cracking down on cheaters ahead of season 2 and the launch of ranked play with "major technology innovations" and bans on third-party devices: "Cheating can cost more than a win"

  02-02-2026 22:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Activision is ramping up its perpetual battle against Call of Duty cheaters with significant new anti-cheat measures ahead of Black Ops 7 and Warzone season 2's launch later this week.In a new Call of Duty blog, Activision assures players – as much as it can, anyway – that it's taking action to ensure Black Ops 7 and Warzone ranked play is as fair as possible right at launch and that cheaters are sifted out before matches even start."Season 02 is almost here, and our top priority is
  
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• "What the f***" is Markiplier's Iron Lung movie doing earning $8.9 million in one night, wonders Iron Lung dev

  02-02-2026 22:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  At least one thing in the world is at peace: the oil and water of Christophe Gans' Return to Silent Hill and the new Iron Lung adaptation directed by YouTuber Markiplier has seemingly brought video game movies to a state of total equilibrium. Return to Silent Hill is, regrettably, a box office disaster, while Iron Lung made so much money on its opening night, not even its creator could believe it.Developer David Szymanski writes on Twitter, "What the fuck." According to Variety, Iron Lung nearly
  
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• Silent Hill 2 remake studio's new teaser isn't a comeback for infamous PS2 horror game Rule of Rose, or any other remake for that matter – "Nice guess"

  02-02-2026 21:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Last week, Silent Hill 2 remake developer Bloober Team launched a mysterious teaser site, with a countdown clock set to expire just after Valentine's Day. There's no obvious clue as to what this teaser is all about, but a rose image on the site gave some horror fans hope that a remake of the PS2 cult classic Rule of Rose was on the way. Today, Bloober's CEO crushed those dreams."Nice guess, but no," Bloober CEO Piotr Babieno says on LinkedIn (via FRVR) in response to the Rule of Rose rumors. "It
  
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• Marathon is a greatest hits of '90s futurism, according to Bungie lead, who says the shooter was "deeply inspired" by wild PlayStation ads and "translucent DualShocks"

  02-02-2026 20:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  If it were a person, Marathon seems like it would spend the most time out of its house after 1AM. Its characters wear chunky, neon helmets that make them look like grasshoppers at Coachella, and its official music is all electronica that would sound better in a humid basement, because, according to Bungie global franchise director Philip Asher, the upcoming extraction shooter is largely influenced by late '90s debauchery.He says so in a Twitter exchange with Michael Douse, publishing director at
  
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• Dragon Quest visionary Yuji Horii is getting his own RPG-style manga detailing his journey to creating the iconic JRPG series

  02-02-2026 20:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  JRPG visionary and Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii is receiving one of the highest honors that can befall a video game developer: he's getting his own manga chronicling his life and career.Per Automaton, Dragon Quest Creator Yuji Horii: New Educational Manga Biography (Automaton's translation) releases on February 24. Being published by Shogakukan, the manga will reportedly explore Horii's life from his early days living on Awaji Island in Japan all the way to his current position as CEO of Armo
  
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• Whistle director says he's "never known chemistry" like Sophie Nelisse and Dafne Keen's in the new queer supernatural horror: "It worked so perfectly"

  02-02-2026 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  New horror movie Whistle may give the Final Destination franchise a run for its money when it comes to elaborate death scenes, but it's not all blood and guts. So much so in fact, director Corin Hardy describes the scary flick as The Ring meets The Breakfast Club, as it sneaks a genuinely heart-warming romance in amongst all the gooey, gory terror.Written by Owen Egerton (Mercy Black), it follows Chrys (Marvel's Dafne Keen), as she moves in with her cousin following the death of her father. It d
  
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• The Elder Scrolls fans fire back at Skyrim lead's fightin' words: Morrowind "manages to hold up better than Skyrim" and Oblivion's Attribute system was great, actually

  02-02-2026 19:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  When former Bethesda dev and Skyrim lead Bruce Nesmith said, in so many words, that Morrowind is outdated and Skyrim is refreshingly streamlined, I don't think he meant to ignite a feud within the fandom of one of the most beloved RPG series in video games, but boy has he. Recent comments on the direction of the series – from, let's be clear, a veteran designer with clear respect for the IP – stoked fierce defense of what The Elder Scrolls has been in the past, and underneath some dr
  
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• Arc Raiders' second Expedition window ends in just 23 days, but Embark still hasn't told players what they need to prepare: "Please tell us"

  02-02-2026 18:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's Expedition month in Arc Raiders, with just over three weeks left before dedicated players send their characters off for a soft reset.Although many are ready and waiting for the opportunity to unlock the special equipment and extra skill points, they're getting a little antsy, because Embark's been mute on the specific pricing this time around.See, unlocking an Expedition requires a considerable amount of resources. You need all sorts of materials to fulfil the different stages of building y
  
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• Cyberpunk 2 lead says first-person POV "was better" for Cyberpunk 2077, as third-person is "for more defined characters" like The Witcher 3's Geralt and God of War's Kratos

  02-02-2026 18:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first-person perspective CD Projekt Red employs in Cyberpunk 2077 works pretty well – and a large reason why, according to Cyberpunk 2 creative director Igor Sarzyński, has to do with the game's overarching narrative design.It's difficult to grapple with the first-person perspective if you're used to other games like The Witcher 3, in which you view things from a third-person point of view, but Sarzyński thinks it was the best option for Cyberpunk 2077.
  "Purely from narrative
  
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• Nioh 3 might come to Xbox for the first time in the nearly 10-year-old franchise as a flashy new trailer confirms 6 months of PS5 exclusivity

  02-02-2026 18:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Nioh series could potentially be making its Xbox or Nintendo debut with Nioh 3 as Sony confirms six months of exclusivity.Nioh has silently been one of the best PlayStation console exclusives for almost a decade now, with both it and its sequel being beloved FromSoftware-inspired action games from the makers of the also-extremely-difficult Ninja Gaiden series. The games were published by Sony outside of Japan, which explains why they were only ever released for PS4, PS5, and PC over the year
  
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