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• The studio behind Saw is developing a live-action adaptation of terrifying horror video game Outlast

  30-10-2024 20:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Lionsgate is making a live-action adaptation of the survival horror game Outlast – and we are so ready.According to Deadline, Roy Lee (It, Barbarian, Late Night with the Devil, Strange Darling) is set to produce the feature-length adaptation, with Outlast writer J.T. Petty (The Burrowers, Hellbenders) set to pen the script.Outlast, a first-person psychological survival horror video game, was first released in 2013. The game follows an investigative journalist named Miles Ups
  
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• Spider-Verse star Daniel Kaluuya gives update on his standalone Spider-Punk movie

  07-12-2025 20:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  If there’s one thing that fans were left hungry for after Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, besides a third film, it was more of Daniel Kaluuya’s brilliant take on Spider-Punk, aka Hobie Brown. The laid-back Londoner who was keen to bring down the establishment stole the show, making it understandable why the Oscar winner was eager to explore the character further in a standalone story for the webslinger with a worn and torn costume.It was announced back in August that Kaluuya wou
  
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• Jon Bernthal promises a seamless switch between Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Punisher Special Presentation

  07-12-2025 14:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  It’s strange to think that, after a decade since his debut, Jon Bernthal’s Frank Castle will finally make his big screen appearance, facing off against Tom Holland’s Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. While details about the wall-crawler's next chapter in the MCU are still being kept under wraps, one thing we do know is that Bernthal’s bruiser of a vigilante will have his own story coming to Disney+ soon after, as a special presentation.Naturally, the expectation
  
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• Resident Evil Requiem's GameStop listing seemingly leaks a second playable character and, no, it sadly isn't Leon Kennedy

  07-12-2025 13:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ever since Resident Evil Requiem's initial reveal showed a return to Raccoon City, theories and rumors about series' icon Leon Kennedy being the game's second playable character have been pretty much everywhere on the internet. Now, in an interesting switcharoo, a leak suggests that, yes, RE9 does have a second playable character but, no, it isn't Leon. (Potential spoilers ahead!)A GameStop listing for Resident Evil Requiem's Deluxe Steelbook Edition on PC makes mention of one Rosemary Winters,
  
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• Assassin's Creed Shadows backlash won't stop Ubisoft from going down the dual-protagonist route in the future "if we have a good reason to do it"

  07-12-2025 13:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Shadows was the subject of both heated fan debate and gross toxicity from online culture war warriors, but associate game director Simon Lemay-Comtois recently said all the drama hasn't scared Ubisoft away from making a game with dual protagonists in the future if it makes sense to do so."Dual protagonists can be divisive along very strange lines, right?" Lemay-Comtois said of the discourse around Naoe and Yasuke in an interview with GamesRadar+. "It's not just a 'Well, I prefer
  
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• Halo's Cortana actor says the direction Bungie gave her for the FPS was to sound like "the girl next door" that you "wanted to hang out with, but you're not in love with"

  07-12-2025 13:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cortana, the blue AI that guides Master Chief through almost the entirety of the Halo series, is in many ways a larger than life character, capable of helping to save or nearly destroying the universe. But Bungie didn't give the character's voice actor much direction outside the fact that Cortana had to sound like "the girl next door" in the player's ear.Cortana's long-time voice actor Jen Taylor (who also has roles in Dota 2, Left 4 Dead, and played Princess Peach for almost a decade) appeared
  
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• Assassin's Creed Shadows lead teases "things that are set up" in the open-world RPG "should keep happening in other projects and evolve" thanks to the Animus Hub

  07-12-2025 12:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Shadows doesn't totally tie up every loose end it introduces, but don't worry too much about lacking closure. One of the open-world game's lead developers has explained that the RPG's new Animus Hub will serve as a connective tissue between Shadows and whatever the future of the series holds.To quickly catch you up, the Animus Hub basically functioned as a menu in Assassin's Creed Shadows that gave players a short synopsis of some previous AC games and let players launch them di
  
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• Alien star Sigourney Weaver gives another intriguing update on potential return as Ellen Ripley

  07-12-2025 11:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  While promoting her trip back to Pandora in Avatar: Fire & Ash, Sigourney Weaver has hinted that plans might be solidifying for a venture back to LV-426 as well. The star of four Alien movies gave an update on the secret script she discussed back in October, which would see Ellen Ripley back in the franchise, fighting facehuggers and ensuring their young are sucked out into space. Although just like a snooze in hypersleep, don’t expect it to be a quick thing.“You know, we’r
  
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• The Boys Season 5 teaser trailer hints at a horrific Homelander beatdown

  07-12-2025 11:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  After Karl Urban promised that “anyone is fair game” in the final season of The Boys, the brand new preview might suggest he certainly wasn’t kidding. Following the events of season 4 and Gen V season 2, we’re now at the endgame of the Boys-verse, and it’s clear that there’s no holding back, particularly from everyone’s favorite star-spangled psychopath, Homelander (Antony Starr).The new trailer shows what we can only assume to be a reluctant alliance be
  
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• Fallout and The Elder Scrolls boss Todd Howard's GOTY pick just so happens to be the current game of the year frontrunner Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

  06-12-2025 18:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  2025 is almost at an end, which means it's time to mentally compile our list of the best games of the year and get angry at online stranger's objectively wrong GOTY picks. And, now, we can all have opinions on Todd Howard's opinions since the Bethesda Game Studios boss recently crowned his own GOTY.Speaking to Eurogamer about his favorite games of the year, the Fallout and Elder Scrolls 6 steward name-checked Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 while also giving a shoutout to Death Stranding 2 and Kingd
  
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• Assassin's Creed Shadows associate director has a hot tip for the next Ubisoft studio taking on the franchise: "Pay more attention to parkour as its own pillar"

  06-12-2025 17:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Upcoming Assassin's Creed games are never too far off. Heck, even before Assassin's Creed Shadows came out nine months ago, Ubisoft were publicly talking about a number of other in-development titles on the horizon. But what wisdom would one of Shadows' lead developers give to the numerous other teams currently heads down on the stealthy-stabby series?"Pay more attention to parkour in future games as its own pillar," Ubisoft Quebec's and Assassin's Creed Shadows' associate game director Simon Le
  
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• Avatar: Fire and Ash producer seems to hint at unlikely alliance between Jake Sully and Quaritch, as Oona Chaplin's more villainous Varang takes on the Na'vi: "It's not as clear cut and dry for him"

  06-12-2025 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avatar: Fire and Ash is right around the corner, and it sounds like it's going to be on an even bigger scale than The Way of Water – and it might even feature an unlikely alliance."Quaritch has this hatred against Jake, but he's found it's not as clear cut and dry for him to just blow them all out of the water," producer Jamie Landau told SFX magazine. "Making this alliance with the Ash People really steps up the stakes. We've seen Jake go against RDA forces, but they're humans mostly, wit
  
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• Arc Raiders devs had ambitions for "boss fights in that same arena of Dark Souls, Monster Hunter" but quickly realized the Arc are too unpredictable

  06-12-2025 16:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  At one point during the development of hit shooter Arc Raiders, Embark Studios wanted to have big boss fights centred around pattern recognition in the same vein as Dark Souls or Monster Hunter, but the imposing robots that stalk the game's maps were far too unpredictable for that to work.Arc Raiders' technical designer Nora Silow said as much in a docuseries about the making of the extraction shooter, which you can watch below. "A lot of design philosophies, especially with enemy design, are re
  
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• Slay the Spire 2 devs literally flipped a coin to decide between a new game or a sequel to their genre-defining roguelike deckbuilder: "The rest is history"

  06-12-2025 16:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Slay the Spire's been a gigantic success since it first dropped, inspiring countless other deckbuilding roguelikes and giving developer Mega Crit the freedom to work on pretty much anything after. But with endless options laid out in front of Mega Crit, the devs instead put their fate in the hands of a simple coin toss, which is how we ended up with Slay the Spire 2.Mega Crit co-founder Anthony Giovannetti recently told PC Gamer the team had been experimenting with lots of "tiny projects [and] l
  
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• New Avenger Sebastian Stan teases that some might not survive Avengers: Doomsday

  06-12-2025 13:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  2026 might be a crammed year for MCU stories, but the one that all fans will have their eyes on will see the return of Robert Downey Jr., only not as we know him. Taking on the role of the Fantastic Four’s longtime foe, Doctor Doom, he’ll be leading the charge against Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in Avengers: Doomsday, and according to one of its stars, not all of them will make it to the end credits.During an appearance at the Tokyo Comic-Con (via ComicBookMovie), the former Winte
  
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• Homer Simpson breaks the bad news that The Simpsons Movie sequel is getting delayed

  06-12-2025 12:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Our second big-screen trip to Springfield is being pushed back a bit after an announcement that the sequel to The Simpsons Movie is being delayed by a month and a half. The news comes directly from the town’s favorite frighteningly dopey father, Homer Simpson, who appeared on a social media post waving a flag to break the news. “An all-new movie from The Simpsons, now coming to theaters Labor D'OH Weekend, 2027!” the post declared, with Homer somehow piercing his own foot with
  
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• Avengers: Secret Wars will include the appearance of Black Panther hero

  06-12-2025 11:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  We might have an idea of who is set to appear in Avengers: Doomsday, but the guestlist for Avengers: Secret Wars is being kept under even tighter wraps (the clue is in the title, after all). One name reportedly joining the ranks of the impending battle is Stranger Things star Sadie Sink, whose mystery role in Spider-Man: Brand New Day has yet to be confirmed. Now we can add another name to the pile: Black Panther herself, Letitia Wright, has revealed she’ll be making an appearance too.In a
  
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• James Gunn shares thoughts on the DCU following the Netflix Warner Bros. deal

  06-12-2025 11:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Streaming giant Netflix has shaken up Hollywood once again this week, following its purchase of Warner Bros, with everyone and their cinephile aunt having an opinion on the matter. It’s understandable, really. Concerns about the future of theatrical releases from the now-acquired studio are high after Netflix boss Ted Sarandos expressed his dislike for "long exclusive windows." One key pair that has weighed in on the issue, however, are James Gunn and Peter Safran, the co-heads of DC Studi
  
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• We got a Rockstar doormat before GTA 6: Rockstar drops new merch for GTA, Red Dead Redemption, and Bully ahead of the holidays

  06-12-2025 01:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rockstar has released a bunch of new official merch including t-shirts, candles, pins, and even a doormat, presumably in anticipation of holiday shoppers, and shockingly, it has decided not to shadow-drop GTA 6 in tandem.Over on Rockstar's official website, the company announced and showed off its new gear, and unfortunately, there's quite a bit that I actually like. The Varsity Collection of sweatshirts, brandishing the Rockstar Games logo in a varsity yellow stitching, look classy in all three
  
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• After the success of Fallout, Bethesda boss Todd Howard says an Elder Scrolls TV series "can't be ruled out"

  05-12-2025 23:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Bethesda's venerable sci-fi RPG franchise Fallout has made a huge splash as an Amazon Prime streaming series, and now the video game studio's boss Todd Howard says its fantasy-focused Elder Scrolls series could be up next - but maybe not for a while.Howard tells Eurogamer that he "can't rule in or rule out an Elder Scrolls thing in the future," but like the Fallout show, it might be a "10 year" process."I will say this, the Fallout journey was like a 10 year one," After Fallout 3, people were as
  
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• The sequel to the one of the worst games of all time failed its Steam review and hasn't gotten a response from Valve, so it's been delayed: "Come on Steam, you guys are busting my balls here"

  05-12-2025 23:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hong Kong 2097, the official sequel to one of the most infamously offensive games of all time, has been delayed after failing its Steam certification and seemingly being ghosted by Valve.Kanipro's sequel to Hong Kong 97, itself explicitly designed to be "the worst game possible," was announced back in October with a trailer paying tribute to the original unlicensed '95 floppy disk atrocity, which I'll remind you stars a heroin-addicted relative of Bruce Lee named Chin and charges him with massac
  
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• Xbox breaks my heart every day there's no Banjo-Threeie announcement, but this Banjo-Kazooie fan game fills the gap and even has praise from Rare and the OG devs: "Incredible work"

  05-12-2025 23:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  I imagine we all have that one video game franchise revival we keep hoping for every time announcement season comes around – a little flame in your heart for the return of a nostalgic favorite you loved as a kid. For me, that's Banjo-Kazooie. I've nearly given up hope that Xbox will ever deliver the Banjo-Threeie I've waited 25 years for, but luckily, one fan developer is helping fill the gap with an incredible tribute game in Dreams.Dreams is, of course, the whimsical game creation tool b
  
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• "This still does not compare to the kind of audience we would have on Steam": Horses lead says ban virality helped sales "but we're not out of the woods," and he fears "self-censorship" with future games

  05-12-2025 23:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  News and discussion ignited by Steam and the Epic Games Store banning arthouse horror game Horses has boosted sales of the game on stores like GOG, but developer Santa Ragione says this is at best partially offsetting the loss of the platform-defining Steam audience.At the time of writing, Horses is ranked second under "Bestselling (recently)" games on GOG.Speaking with The Verge, Santa Ragione cofounder and Horses producer Pietro Righi Riva says "all this attention" has brought some relief. "I'
  
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• The original 1977 Star Wars returns to theaters for a "once-in-a-generation event" to remind everyone who shot first

  05-12-2025 22:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  These are the droids you're looking for, actually. Star Wars, in all of its original 1977 glory, is headed to theaters for its 50th anniversary.Sadly, this does mean that we'll have to wait two years, given that the release date is on February 19, 2027. This will also be the first time that the original cut of Star Wars has been shown in a theater in nearly 47 years. You read that right. Gizmodo also reports that the film may be coming to IMAX theaters as well, though this hasn't been officially
  
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• Hulk "smashes history" as he faces off with dinosaurs in his quest to defeat literally everything in a fight

  05-12-2025 22:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hulk: Smash Everything is all about the not-so-jolly green giant attempting to defeat, well, everything. And in Hulk: Smash Everything #2, he's taking on "history" as he tangles with dinosaurs in the prehistoric era.We've got an early preview of pages from Hulk: Smash Everything #2 by writer Ryan North and artist Vincenzo Carratu showing off not just Hulk's battle with a horde of dinos, there's also an appearance by his arch-foe the Leader disguised as Doctor Strange, having previously used this
  
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• Fallout boss Todd Howard reassures New Vegas fans that the Amazon TV show built an "incredible" set for season 2: "Their ability to pull it off on the scale, so much of it practical, it was incredible"

  05-12-2025 22:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Amazon will soon premiere its Fallout season 2 on December 17, and pre-existing fans of the apocalyptic RPG series are likely curious to see how it showcases New Vegas. Well, here comes Bethesda director Todd Howard to the rescue."I mean, look, the scale of New Vegas as a proper set is incredible," he assures fans in a new interview with Future Games Show. The toasted wasteland will be the main setting for the Fallout TV show's second season, which a teaser trailer suggests picks up after Lucy (
  
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• The Duffer Brothers say that surprise character return in Stranger Things "immediately changes the tone" in season 5 Vol. 2: "I think it'll be surprising for people to see how she ultimately fits into the story"

  05-12-2025 21:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  That surprise return of Eleven's 'sister' in Stranger Things season 5 Volume 1 had some fans (me) in tears – and the Duffer brothers say this is only just the beginning of her"It will be a very different dynamic going into the second volume," Matt explains in the latest issue of SFX magazine. "Kali shifts things a lot for Eleven, and I think it'll be surprising for people to see how she ultimately fits into the story. We're excited about that, because it immediately changes the tone. And o
  
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• Elder Scrolls and Fallout boss Todd Howard says AI is a useful "tool" in game dev, but "not in generating things" because "the human intention of it is what makes our stuff special"

  05-12-2025 20:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Bethesda Game Studios executive producer Todd Howard says there's a place for AI in video game development, but not of the generative variety, thank goodness.In an interview with Eurogamer, Howard tread carefully through the minefield that is AI in video games discourse, stressing the irreplaceability of human creativity, but clarifying that AI can be a useful "tool" in game development, specifically to help with iterative processes that would take a lot longer by human hand."I view it as a tool
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Gustave actor Charlie Cox says he was "nervous" to play the RPG, which might be why he still hasn't touched it: "I don't actually know what the story is"

  05-12-2025 19:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 cast member – and Marvel's proud superhero Daredevil – Charlie Cox probably still hasn't played Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and I'm not surprised. Like countless JRPG virgins before him, the Gustave actor was worried about how many hours it would zap from his life.*Spoilers for an early twist in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to follow. If you haven't played through Act 1 yet, and don't want anything spoiled, turn around now.*"I'm so excited to play this gam
  
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• Manor Lords publisher is "very delay-friendly" because "we don't ever want to push a game out too early"

  05-12-2025 19:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Indie publisher Hooded Horses has built quite a catalog of excellent strategy games from small developers, including titles like Against the Storm and Manor Lords. A core part of the company's business plan is sustainable growth – which means they're very open to making sure games aren't pushing long-term players away by releasing in an unfinished state."Part of the Hooded Horse ethos is making sure games are ready when they launch," Hooded Horses president and CFO Snow Rui tells career de
  
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