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• The Witcher 4 dev is "still predominantly using people" over AI in development, says CEO, but "everybody has to make those judgments on their own"

  02-09-2026 23:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you're stressed about AI slop creeping its way into The Witcher 4, fear not, CD Projekt Red says it's still using humans as its primary means of developing games, even if robots are seemingly replacing people at an alarming rate everywhere else.During CDPR's latest earnings call, joint CEO Michał Nowakowski was asked to explain the company's current approach to AI in game development, and he toed the line in a similar way to most executives from major studios. Essentially, he acknowledge
  
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• Onimusha: Way of the Sword continues the 2026 hot streak Capcom started with Resident Evil Requiem and Pragmata by selling 1 million copies in a single day

  07-09-2026 12:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Capcom has announced that Onimusha: Way of the Sword has sold one million copies in its first day, continuing the publisher's 2026 hot streak.Even with the sheer amount of major games that have been released this year, and even with the monolith that is GTA 6 standing over every release as it will inevitably be the best-selling and likely most-awarded game of the year, it's hard to argue that anyone has had a better 2026 than Capcom. Obviously, Resident Evil Requiem is the publisher's marquee ti
  
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• "Took my interest in the set from 0 to 100": Lego Astro Bot leaks as a free gift for the PlayStation kit

  07-09-2026 12:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  We've just got our first look at a leaked Lego Astro Bot set, and fans are already heartbroken that it may not be widely available.It's been rumored for a long time that the new PlayStation kit (which already has hidden secrets I think fans are gonna love) would come with a free Lego Astro Bot model when bought direct from Lego, and it seems that hunch was on the money. The kit has been shown off early on reddit via Essential Japan, and the common consensus is that it rocks."This is too good to
  
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• Robert Pattinson describes The Batman 2 as a "radical retelling" of Batman, and fans think that means he's joining the DCU

  07-09-2026 12:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  It sounds like the almost six-year wait will be well worth it, as Bruce Wayne star Robert Pattinson says that The Batman 2 is very different from the first movie."It’s just amazing. It’s quite a radical change to the script," said Pattinson at the Venice Film Festival (via MYmovies), noting that the sequel goes into "another tonally different direction… even when I'm just looking at the playback on certain things, it looks different to the first one." Pattinson added, "It's di
  
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• As Sony plans to kill discs, PS3 emulator RPCS3 is bringing them back – you can now play physical games on PC straight from your disc drive

  07-09-2026 12:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  PS3 emulation has taken a big step forward as open-source emulator RPCS3 now allows users to play their physical games on PC straight from a disc drive.As announced on Twitter, RPCS3 says: "Owning your games as physical media allows you to play games released as far back as 20 years ago without relying on any servers!"Users will need a compatible Blu-ray disc drive for it to work, of course – RPCS3 has a full list on its site, and there are plenty of working options available. On Twitter,
  
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• Square Enix's "graphical goal" for Final Fantasy 7 remakes was 2005 spin-off film Advent Children as it's the "ideal version" of the 29-year-old JRPG

  07-09-2026 12:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Square Enix turned to Final Fantasy 7 spin-off film Advent Children to inform how the remake trilogy should look, partly because the developers believed fans found it to be the "ideal vision" of the OG JRPG.As part of a PAX West panel that delves into how the trilogy was designed, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director Naoki Hamaguchi explains why Advent Children was the "graphical goal.""For many fans, we can say that Advent Children is remembered as an ideal vision of Final Fantasy 7," he says. "
  
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• Nicolas Cage gives classiest possible response to Spider-Noir cancellation

  07-09-2026 12:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  After news broke that Spider-Noir has been cancelled after just one season, star Nicolas Cage has given the classiest possible response. "For me, one season is perfect, having said what I wanted to say with this dangerous, innovative, pop-art Spider-Man," Cage said in a statement (via TheWrap). "Onwards, upwards, inwards."Spider-Noir follows Ben Reilly (Cage), a private investigator in '30s New York City, who also happens to have web-slinging powers. The show was well received, with a 92% critic
  
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• Lanterns episode 4 seemingly reveals the identity of the Manhunter, but fans think it could be a misdirect

  07-09-2026 12:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Lanterns episode 4 is another corker, and seemingly answers one of several major mysteries in the DCU show: Who is the Manhunter? But fans aren't sure if there's still more to the case of a killer, shapeshifting alien lifeform hiding in plain sight.Warning: full spoilers for Lanterns episode 4 follow.In Lanterns episode 4 'The Weenie', it is revealed that Zoe Macon is the Manhunter hiding out in Rushville. While Zoe doesn't technically verbalize her true identity, many things point to this, most
  
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• Despite dying twice, Vision's MCU story might not be over as Paul Bettany teases VisionQuest is "a really exciting springboard"

  07-09-2026 10:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  It sounds like we could see Paul Bettany's Vision again after VisionQuest, as the actor teases the upcoming Marvel show sets up a new future for the synthezoid. "We start off the show where we left him as White Vision, who has been repurposed as a weapon," Bettany told SFX magazine. "I think that where we get to at the end of this, he's clearly escaped the confines of whoever repurposed him, and he is looking for agency. By the end of our show, I think you'll see that it's a really exciting spri
  
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• Resident Evil movie's T-Virus will cause "unique behavioural" changes that don't appear in the games

  07-09-2026 07:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Resident Evil movie's connections (or lack thereof) to the beloved Capcom video game series have been much discussed. But even if Leon and co. won't be popping up, we know that the new movie will feature the Umbrella Corporation and the T-Virus, and it sounds like writer-director Zach Cregger is evolving the latter in some interesting ways.Alongside your garden-variety zombies, there are fleeting glimpses of gnarlier creatures in the Resident Evil movie trailer, several of which appear to de
  
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• Despite being billed as the conclusion to the WandaVision trilogy, VisionQuest showrunner says it's more of a sequel, and he has ideas for more seasons

  07-09-2026 01:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  VisionQuest is set to be the end of the WandaVision trilogy on Disney Plus, but that wasn't how showrunner Terry Matalas approached it.Asked if he was told to create a story that completed the trilogy, which also features WandaVision and Agatha All Along, he reveals this wasn't his initial brief. "No, not really. I would say, if anything, it’s definitely more of a sequel to WandaVision in a lot of ways," he told SFX magazine in the new issue, which features the Disney Plus show on the cove
  
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• VisionQuest showrunner says the new Marvel TV show will offer a new, heartbreaking perspective on Iron Man's death

  06-09-2026 23:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  VisionQuest showrunner Terry Matalas will approach Iron Man's death in Avengers: Endgame from an AI perspective."It brought all these really interesting questions that we get to bring to the surface here when we bring them all together," Matalas told SFX magazine in the new issue, which features the Disney Plus show on the cover. "Like, FRIDAY was there when Tony Stark died. What’s that like for an AI, to not be able to protect the one they’re programmed to protect? I guess the [bigg
  
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• Dune: Awakening lead says the MMO can be "a really great" solo experience, but if players "expect it to be like The Last of Us, they're probably barking at the wrong tree"

  06-09-2026 16:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dune: Awakening's new single-player mode could be a great way to experience the MMO-survival mashup's story by yourself, but don't jump in expecting a The Last of Us replacement.Developer Funcom has been hard at work translating its beloved online game into a single-player context, with a new mode coming out alongside Dune: Awakening's console release later this month. We asked chief creative officer Joel Bylos about what fans should expect from the new mode in an interview from Gamescom - and i
  
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• After Persona 3 Reload, Atlus "put all the effort into making a full remake" of Persona 4 Golden: "Let's take all the lessons we learned"

  06-09-2026 15:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Atlus took everything it learned from Persona 3 Reload and went all out for Persona 4 Revival, according to series producer Kazuhisa Wada.In a move that was a little controversial at the time, Persona 3 Reload actually remade the original Persona 3 rather than the expanded Persona 3 Reload release. Some content introduced in the re-release eventually made its way into Persona 3 Reload thanks to the Episode Aegis expansion (and a few unofficial mods), but things are different this time around.Per
  
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• Square Enix wants to turn Final Fantasy 7 into "an IP with an ever-evolving future" beyond the FF7 Remake trilogy

  06-09-2026 15:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 7 Revelation might be wrapping up a trilogy of remakes next year, but publisher Square Enix doesn't seem to be done with Cloud and his ragtag group of eco-warriors just yet. In a PAX West panel called 'From Reunion to Resolve,' the trilogy's game director Naoki Hamaguchi spoke about his goals for the project and beyond. The Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy wasn't simply an opportunity to remake an all-time classic game - despite its name - but "an effort to pass Final Fantasy 7 onto
  
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• Rockstar boss says GTA 6 doesn't just let you easily walk around with guns because GTA 5's approach doesn't work "at this resolution"

  06-09-2026 14:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  In a new move for a series that has traditionally let players treat its world like a playground, GTA 6's NPCs will organically react to Lucia and Jason if they have their guns withdrawn. Rockstar North's joint boss and development lead Rob Nelson has explained the change was made because GTA 5's approach no longer works with 2026's tech.As we saw briefly in the GTA 6: An Extended Look showcase, some of the world's inhabitants will walk away cautiously if they spot you with a handgun gripped tigh
  
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• 38 years of love later, a couple is remaking their Zelda-inspired NES gem and putting it on Steam after learning it's a cult classic

  05-09-2026 19:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  In 1988, a game called The Battle of Olympus hit the Famicom, arriving a few years later globally on the NES. It didn't make much of an impression at the time, garnering mediocre sales as it was brushed off as yet another fantastical platformer on the console. But over the years, it's become a cult classic – something the husband-and-wife duo behind the game were seemingly shocked to learn decades later.That's why Reiko and Yukio Horimoto are now at work on a faithful remake of Battle of O
  
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• Fable devs originally had a tool to randomize the RPG's 1,000 NPCs that "would have saved us so much time," but that "just didn't make as much sense"

  05-09-2026 17:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Fable reboot's whimsical fantasy world is full of 1,000 NPCs who are each handmade by the developers at Playground Games, but that's not always how the new feature was handled. Originally, the devs randomized everything about the Living Population and, as you can imagine, that made much less sense.Speaking to GamesRadar+ about the series' incoming comeback, game director Ralph Fulton delved a bit deeper into Fable's Living Population - the villagers and business owners and bums and criminals
  
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• With Pokemon Bank's demise on the horizon, one modder makes their own adapter to move Pokemon from GBA to Switch consoles

  05-09-2026 15:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  One of the most unique things about Pokemon has always been the ability to transfer your pocket monsters between different hardware generations and across 30 years of games. Now, with Pokemon Bank's impending shutdown next year, one modder has created a working adapter to move creatures from the GBA to the Switch.The Pokemon Company recently announced that Pokemon Bank is ending service on February 26, 2027. That means several life-long Pokemons could be permanently stranded on the Nintendo 3DS
  
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• Persona 4 Revival will integrate Marie more naturally than she was in Persona 4 Golden: "She needs to be here from the beginning"

  05-09-2026 14:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Persona 4 Revival will take the time to introduce Marie into the story more naturally than she was in Persona 4 Golden, the expanded PS Vita version of the classic game.One of the Velvet Room denizens, Marie isn't the most popular character within the fandom - she's a little withdrawn, she wasn't included in the base game, progressing her storyline is vital for accessing some late-game sections even though the game doesn't tell you that, and the way she's folded into the story was a bit awkward
  
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• GTA 6 is a bit too real for me - Rockstar will punish you if Jason and Lucia don't get a good night's sleep: "We track lots of things"

  05-09-2026 13:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Looks like GTA 6 might get a little too real for anyone who makes a habit of saying 'one more game' three games ago until, whoops, it's 3am on a workday.Rockstar Games has played around with simulating mundane, routine tasks in the past. Plenty of times, in fact. GTA San Andreas famously let main man CJ's weight fluctuate depending on how much he exercised or how regularly he stuffed his face with fast food. Red Dead Redemption 2 borrowed that weight management with Arthur Morgan, but also let t
  
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• Iconic Silent Hill artist Masahiro Ito says he "probably would have been happier" if he hadn't "sacrificed" his love life for Pyramid Head

  05-09-2026 01:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  "The 8 years I spent developing Silent Hill 1, 2 & 3 at Konami, I gave up on getting a girlfriend," reads a new tweet from Masahiro Ito, the legendary Team Silent artist best known for designing Silent Hill 2 antagonist Pyramid Head. The tweet largely echoes something Ito said back in 2024 about not having the time for a girlfriend when he was working at Konami, but now he straight-up suggests he regrets sacrificing his love life for the his work."Never even went on a single date w/ a lady,"
  
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• PlayStation's Peter Parker actor has pushed Insomniac to put Deadpool in Spider-Man 3: "I would like to believe that they got the idea from me"

  05-09-2026 01:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  If we end up seeing Deadpool in Marvel's Spider-Man 3, it would seem we have Peter Parker actor Yuri Lowenthal to thank, at least partly.Talking to The Movie Dweeb on Instagram, Lowenthal was asked to comment on a potential Wolverine and Spider-Man collab in Insomniac's next open-world Spider-Man game. Insomniac is currently hard at work prepping for the release of Marvel's Wolverine, out September 15, but considering the success of Spider-Man, the standalone Miles Morales game, and Spider-Man 2
  
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• Spider-Noir canceled after one season at Prime Video despite receiving 11 Emmy nominations

  05-09-2026 00:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite critical acclaim and a slew of Emmy nominations, Spider-Noir will not be returning for a second season at Prime Video. Per Deadline, it seems like Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television expected bigger streaming numbers when making their decision. But given recent reports that the first season's budget was somewhere around $400 million, I can see why the studios might've needed the show to become a megahit in order to justify spending that money on a second season.Amazon and Son
  
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• GTA 6 driving is "the best parts" of GTA 4 but with "the accessibility of GTA 5," says Rockstar boss

  04-09-2026 23:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's nearly impossible to nail down any one feature or mechanic that defines a Grand Theft Auto game, but the two specific suggestions from the title are thievery and driving. My memories of the early GTA games from my childhood, Vice City and San Andreas, are largely comprised of stealing stuff, cruising around listening to 2Pac, and mowing down innocent citizens, a horde of cop cars blaring sirens in the rearview. Driving is essential to a GTA game, so it makes sense that it's a huge focus in
  
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• Dungeons and Dragons 2 is still moving forward with a finished script, but it needs a new studio

  04-09-2026 23:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  A sequel to Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is still in the works... but it needs a new home."I think Hasbro is a big believer in it, and if they can figure out a studio partner to make it work, they’ll want to proceed," co-director John Francis Daley said on The Discourse Podcast.The 2023 movie, written and directed by Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, follows a bard named Edgin Darvis (Chris Pine) and barbarian Holga Kilgore (Rodriguez), who enlist a team of unlikely heroes –
  
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• Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is "not going to shoot my dog," says now-independent Double Fine boss Tim Schafer, who initially opposed Microsoft ownership because "you guys love closing studios"

  04-09-2026 23:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Double Fine has just regained its independence as a studio after seven years at Microsoft, who founder Tim Schafer initially didn't want as a dad anyway. But things seemed OK until new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma stepped in for Phil Spencer. "No one puts Double Fine out of business except for me," Schafer tells Bloomberg in a new report. "Asha's not going to shoot my dog. I'm going to shoot it. But I'm not going to shoot it because it's going to do great. A lot of people want to walk the dog." It's a g
  
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• "Palworld's not finished": With update 1.1 coming, Pocketpair lead says "we're doing something players have been screaming at us to do" after the "soft prologue" of 1.0

  04-09-2026 22:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Palworld update 1.1 is on the way, and while it won't be another 1.0-sized overhaul, Pocketpair comms and publishing lead John Buckley says the next big patch is doing "something that players have been screaming at us to do."Speaking with GamesRadar+ at Gamescom 2026, Buckley examines the shift in development at Pocketpair following the release of Palworld 1.0. He says the studio's overall process and outlook are "very, very different" today."It was a big sigh of relief that we got it out and it
  
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• Court sentences disgraced Old School RuneScape dev who stole players' gold and "banked more than £364,829 in cash"

  04-09-2026 21:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former Old School RuneScape developer Andrew "Mod Jed" Lakeman has been sentenced for stealing gold from player accounts following several years of investigation and litigation. The Cambridgeshire Constabulary recently published a report covering the sentencing and history of the crime. With his arrest in July 2019, Lakeman was charged with "unauthorised computer access with intent to commit other offences, theft by employee, conceal / disguise / convert / transfer / remove criminal property and
  
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• Silo Season 4 release date revealed with action-packed first trailer

  04-09-2026 21:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for Silo season 4 has arrived, and the final season of the hit Apple TV Plus show is coming sooner than you'd think.In the brief clip, which can be viewed above, we see one of the most important moments of the entire series: Juliette suddenly runs into a strange man, and demands that he reveal his identity. The man, who doesn't seem to remember much of anything, is none other than Congressman Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman), one of the creators of the silo project. Season 3 intr
  
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