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• There's an unexpected Easter egg in Doom's armor that links him to Shang-Chi

  30-07-2026 11:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Never underestimate a Marvel fan’s attention to detail. In the case of the imminent arrival of Victor von Doom (Robert Downey Jr.) in Avengers: Doomsday, they’ve already noticed that the new nemesis of the MCU already has symbols for Thor’s hammer and Captain Marvel’s symbol on his cape buckles, but now an extra potential detail has been noticed that has since been easily overlooked.Over on Reddit, a Marvel fan did a side-by-side photo comparison between Doom and Shang-Ch
  
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• Spider-Man: Brand New Day fans can't get over Bruce Banner's "heartbreaking" storyline in the Marvel movie

  30-07-2026 13:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Hulk has a surprisingly emotional storyline in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and Marvel fans are finding it pretty upsetting. Spoilers for the Marvel Phase 6 film follow. Turn back now if you're not up to date! In the new film, which is out now in the UK, Peter Parker seeks Bruce Banner's help when his arachnid DNA begins to overwhelm him. It turns out Bruce wears an inhibitor on his wrist that controls the gamma radiation in his blood, and Peter uses it to build his own device that can suppres
  
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• Zach Cregger had final cut and "total freedom" on Resident Evil: "There's some imagery that is so f***ed-up and weird”

  30-07-2026 13:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  The tension is rising with every bit of fresh rotting footage that comes stumbling out of Zach Cregger’s next big project, Resident Evil — and that really is a good thing. From skydiving zombies faceplanting cars to oversized human-shaped mutations hiding out in sewers, the Weapons director’s venture into the popular survival horror franchise doesn’t look to be holding back, which makes sense given how wild he was allowed to go with it. Speaking to Empire about the new mo
  
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• Pragmata devs almost gave Diana a bob cut to save on the time and money it would take to animate her hair

  30-07-2026 13:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pragmata's supporting hero Diana has hair that's almost as tall as her body and apparently took a huge amount of effort to animate properly. In fact, Diana's head of hair was so demanding that developers working on this year's breakout action game actually considered giving her the cost-cutting, hair-cutting treatment.As reported on by Famitsu and translated by Automaton, character artist Kenji Irie and animator Serina Ohara spoke about the game's various bad hair days during the Computer Entert
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on Switch 2 is a "big technical challenge" because many Unreal Engine features "don't work," leads say, but Sandfall is "interested" in pulling it off

  30-07-2026 13:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you're holding out for the Nintendo Switch 2 port of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, sadly you might be waiting a while still. Developer Sandfall Interactive has confirmed it's still tinkering with putting the massive RPG on the console, due to technical constraints compared to other modern systems.Automaton took the time to ask Sandfall about the Switch 2 version in a new interview. "We are interested in looking for a way to do it, but it's too early for us to announce anything at this point,"
  
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• Hideo Kojima says he was "blown away" by surprise horror hit Backrooms, which reminds him of "pseudo-3D games from the 2D era"

  30-07-2026 12:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  He may be a little late to the game this time, but the king of Twitter movie reviews has spoken once again, and it sounds like Hideo Kojima is a fan of 2026 horror hit Backrooms. "I'm blown away," said Kojima over on Twitter. "It reminds me of pseudo-3D games from the 2D era, back in the dawn of RPGs and the Family Computer (NES), before polygons and textures existed… That sense of confinement. That feeling of anxiety. Both are revived here in live action. The art direction is clever, inc
  
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• The Pokemon Company and Sony donate almost $1 million in total towards relief and restoration efforts for areas affected by Japan's Kumamoto earthquake

  30-07-2026 12:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Pokemon Company and Sony have issued statements showing support for those affected by the shindo 7 intensity earthquake, which hit Kumamoto, Japan on July 28. The Pokemon Company has donated 100 million yen (approximately $612,000) and Sony at least 50 million yen (roughly $306,000) towards restoration and relief efforts for the region.Kumamoto prefecture was hit by the highest intensity earthquake on the afternoon of July 28. It claimed the lives of at least 34 people with hundreds more inj
  
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• The Rings of Power season 3 is bringing in Aragorn's ancestor and a hugely important Lord of the Rings character

  30-07-2026 12:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 3 will cover several huge events in the canon, including focusing more on the "civil war brewing" in Numenor. As part of this storyline, the showrunners have confirmed that a major character will make an appearance: Elros.Speaking to Empire magazine, Patrick McKay revealed that Elrond's brother Elros will appear in a flashback scene. He'll be played by Elrond star Robert Aramayo as well and it will reveal more about the founding of Numenor.A half
  
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• Kevin Feige offers hope for Kingpin one day appearing in a Spider-Man movie, saying, "There are things to navigate"

  30-07-2026 12:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Now with four standalone adventures under his belt, it’s safe to say that Tom Holland’s Spider-Man has faced a wild array of villains up to this point. One big bad he has yet to square up against, though, is one that has spent more time in Hell’s Kitchen than wandering into Queens causing trouble. Vincent D’Onofrio has been very vocal about wanting to see Wilson Fisk aka The Kingpin square up against Tom Holland’s Spider-Man, but blamed studio rights for creating th
  
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• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Switch 2 remake rating suggests some changes, with its "suggestive themes" missing, and we can probably guess what that means

  30-07-2026 12:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Switch 2 now has an ESRB age rating, and if you can believe it… it's the same as last time. Mostly.Over on the Nintendo US website (spotted by Nintendo Life), the store page for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Switch 2 has been updated slightly, with an ESRB rating now included. This age rating is E10+ with "animated blood, fantasy violence" descriptors attached, which is the exact same rating The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D got bac
  
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• Microsoft CEO says Xbox has "the best IP" and "talented studios around the world," is confident it'll "return" to growth after its worst quarter in years amid mass layoffs

  30-07-2026 12:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Following Microsoft's plans to cut 3,200 employees at Xbox coming to light, it's been hard to imagine just how the company's – and, more specifically, its gaming branch's – future looks. According to CEO Satya Nadella, however, the future is bright. During an earnings call following a quarterly financial report, one that notably shows Xbox having had its worst quarter in terms of profits in years, the Microsoft lead shares as much.
  "When it comes to Xbox," he explains, "we are making
  
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• Spider-Man: Brand New Day fans have a theory about who knows Peter Parker's identity at the end of the movie

  30-07-2026 12:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Spider-Man: Brand New Day has finally swung into theaters this week, and naturally, now that the film has rolled credits (and with a chin-scratching post-credits scene to boot), the latest chapter of Tom Holland’s wall-crawling alter-ego has sparked some questions that might not have been answered in the movie. One plot thread that feels like it was left dangling involves the villain of the movie, or, more importantly, the ones responsible for creating this movie’s villain. Naturally
  
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• George R.R. Martin set a deadline for when he could be imprisoned for not finishing The Winds of Winter, and it was 6 years ago

  30-07-2026 12:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Many years ago, A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin promised fans could imprison him if the sixth book in the series, The Winds of Winter, hadn't arrived by a certain deadline – and that deadline is now six years in the past. "As for finishing my book… I fear that New Zealand would distract me entirely too much. Best leave me here in Westeros for the nonce," Martin wrote on his Not a Blog page in May 2019. "But I tell you this – if I don't have THE WINDS OF WINTER
  
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• Despite Spider-Man: Brand New Day's rave reviews, there was one cut of the movie that Tom Holland "hated"

  30-07-2026 12:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Before Spider-Man: Brand New Day hit the big screen, Tom Holland says there were multiple cuts of the new Marvel movie, including one he really didn't like. "What's really interesting is, we've seen loads of different cuts of this movie," said the Peter Parker star to Quotable. "One of the cuts was, they took all of the notes from all of the random people that saw the film, and they changed the movie. And then, we watched it, and we hated it."Holland didn't disclose what was exactly different ab
  
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• Palworld dev Pocketpair demonstrates that it's pro mods, even those cursed NSFW ones, by releasing a patch to improve their stability

  30-07-2026 11:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Palworld developer Pocketpair has launched a patch to improve mod stability less than 24 hours since its last patch. While the last patch focused on general bug fixes, this new update is specifically for the PC version of the game, and comes days after a studio lead acknowledged two NSFW mods on social media, so make of that what you will.The creature-collecting, survival-crafting game has supported mods since its early access release in 2024. However, the number of mods created for Palworld has
  
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• Spider-Man: Brand New Day villain says a "lot" of his scenes were cut and "more recognizable actors" were removed entirely

  30-07-2026 11:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Billy Clements, who plays Ramrod in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, has revealed that he originally had a more fleshed-out role in the new Spider-Man movie.Clements – who also portrayed 'The Russian' in Deadpool and Wolverine – wrote on Instagram of his experience, "A lot of Ramrod's stuff was cut, but they had to cut out 3 hours and a lot more recognised actors were totally cut out… Really happy to be there if only for a bit."The actor also added that he studied all of Ramrod's co
  
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• 200 million new Xbox players weren't enough to offset falling revenue in its latest fiscal year, CEO says: "We need to close that gap"

  30-07-2026 11:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  200 million new players coming to Xbox and its games weren't enough to drive growth in the company's business, according to CEO Asha Sharma. Xbox just had its worst quarter in years, no thanks to a 10% fall off in revenue from "content and services" and a 13% drop in hardware revenue over the last few months of Microsoft's 2026 fiscal year. Despite all of those flailing stats, Sharma says a ton of new people checked out the gaming division's stuff, actually."In [fiscal year 2026], over 200 milli
  
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• First reactions to Mike Flanagan's Carrie series call it a "powerful" Stephen King adaptation and "not at all what you are expecting"

  30-07-2026 10:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Good news Stephen King fans, it looks like we can put doubts over horror master Mike Flanagan's upcoming Carrie adaptation firmly to bed, as the show has earned extremely positive reviews from a select number of critics who were able to see the series premiere over two months early. "I saw the first two episodes of Carrie today, and any doubts I might’ve had vanished just a few minutes in," said Slash Film's Bill Bria. "Mike Flanagan is working his adaptation magic once again. Summer H. Ho
  
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• Spider-Man: Brand New Day star Zendaya felt MJ wasn't "weird" enough in an early draft so changed a key Punisher scene

  30-07-2026 10:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Spider-Man: Brand New Day went through several changes before it made it to the big screen, including some tweaks from MJ star Zendaya. In a new interview, she revealed she wanted to have an "MJ pass" on the script. "I remember reading a draft. We wanted to mature the characters, obviously, but I remember when I read it, I was like she’s too, for lack of a better term, normal," she told Entertainment Weekly. "I was like, 'Where did all her weirdness go?' We gotta do like an MJ pass of the
  
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• PlayStation ditching physical games is "a bridge across the bad years" of high hardware costs, analyst says, but it means "casuals and youngsters will drift off to mobile, PC, and free-to-play even faster"

  30-07-2026 02:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Early this month, PlayStation briefly edged out Xbox in the race for most figurative rakes stepped on by announcing the end of physical game production in 2028, and a prominent industry analyst says there are more risks for Sony to worry about than its current PR crisis."PlayStation going digital in 2028 is more of a stopgap than a strategy, I reckon," says Alinea Analytics' Rhys Elliott on Twitter. "This is short-term margin harvesting during a rough period. It's PlayStation buying time. The be
  
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• Stardew Valley "3DVR" mod looks like a whole different game, is "fully playable" and compatible with all of your existing mods

  30-07-2026 00:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stardew Valley's wonderfully active modding scene has brought PC players many, many unofficial delights over the years, like the addition of a bear mount or, bless it, a mod that lets you see where all of your neighbors are on the map at any given moment. The latest marvel coming courtesy of a dedicated Stardew modder looks like a whole new game, one with a 3D world, a first-person perspective, motion controls, and VR compatibility."Play Stardew Valley in Full 3D or VR with Motion Controls," say
  
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• It's been weeks since The Odyssey was released but this debate is still raging on: Is Athena real?

  29-07-2026 23:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Christopher Nolan's take on The Odyssey has sparked a few different debates, but fans are still wondering whether or not Zendaya's Athena was a manifestation of guilt, or physically aiding Odysseus like Homer's epic poem.The question was posed in the subreddit r/ChristopherNolan, and given the way she's portrayed in the film... it's more than valid. In the epic poem, she appears as a sort of mentor and protector to Odysseus on his journey home. She disguises him as an old man when he returns to
  
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• Xbox just had its worst quarter in years

  29-07-2026 23:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Xbox is not doing well. On the back of seismic layoffs in its gaming brand, Microsoft reported a 10% decline in Xbox "content and services revenue" in its fourth-quarter report for the 2026 fiscal year, making this the worst quarter for Xbox revenue since the first quarter of FY2024.Xbox hardware revenue, specifically, was even weaker, falling 13%. Total Xbox revenue came in at $4.983 billion for the quarter, which is the lowest reported since Q1 2024's $3.919 billion. For comparison, the previo
  
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• Capcom expects 95% of its game sales to be digital in the next year, and it's pretty much already there thanks largely to PC gaming

  29-07-2026 23:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Capcom's latest financial result is acting as a glass filled to the precise half-way mark in the physical media debate. On the half-empty side? Overall game sales are now more than 93% digital, and Capcom expects that share to grow even higher next year. For those who take a half-full outlook, though, the digital share of console game sales isn't nearly as extreme.Capcom sold 1.6 million physical games in the three months running from April through June 2026, which included the launch of Pragmat
  
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• Japanese fighting game for Switch 2 requires you put a Joy-Con in your pants and enter the "Butt Ass Zone," which isn't what you think it is

  29-07-2026 23:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Japanese fighting game Ketsu Battler, or "Butt Battler" in English, makes you put a Joy-Con in your pants in order to play it, which I guess I'm supposed to be happy about. A big update due July 30 will make it so players should shake the Joy-Con in their pants extra hard to be truly strong and win the game. Last summer, Ketsu Battler devs warned Switch 2 players that the game originally made for Nintendo Switch might make their butts that have Joy-Cons in them "unexpectedly overpowered" due
  
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• An overlooked Palworld ability lets you instantly revive your Pals without waiting around for 10 minutes

  29-07-2026 22:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  You never have to mourn your friendly Pals for too long in Palworld, though developer Pocketpair certainly makes you miss them with its requisite 10 minutes of waiting for dead Pals to revive. Though, the lily-headed Lyleen, who's so full of love, doesn't think you should kick rocks until your friends come back. Players have discovered the healing creature can make fallen Pals instantly gasp back to life instead."NEVER wait 10 minutes for your pals after they die in Palworld," gaming content cre
  
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• Yelena's cameo in Spider-Man: Brand New Day finally answers one of the MCU's biggest questions about the Avengers

  29-07-2026 21:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Regardless of its ups and downs, one issue has plagued the Marvel Cinematic Universe for years. A question that crops up every time a superhero team or a standalone hero faces a threat mere blocks away from where another heroic ensemble or crime fighter is known to operate: why aren’t heroes crossing paths more often, and why aren’t they helping them out when they do?It’s this little setback that presents itself in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, when the wall-crawler (Tom Holland)
  
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• Spider-Man: Brand New Day finally answers why the Hulk isn't in Avengers: Doomsday

  29-07-2026 21:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mark Ruffalo's Hulk has been an Avengers mainstay ever since 2012's Battle of New York, smashing up foes and proving to be one of the heaviest hitters in Earth's Mightiest Heroes all-conquering lineup.As of right now, though, Hulk won't appear in Avengers: Doomsday. Ruffalo wasn't part of last March's hours-long cast reveal, while San Diego Comic-Con came and went without so much of a word about the Jade Giant's MCU future.But the Hulk is in Spider-Man: Brand New Day – and at least offers
  
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• Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto says PCs were once "held in higher regard than consoles," so the NES was made to bridge "the gap" – "It wasn't just a toy"

  29-07-2026 21:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo fellow and Mario's dad Shigeru Miyamoto has said that the company felt the NES – known as the Family Computer or Famicom in Japan – challenged the perception that home consoles were "just toys." Originally released in 1983, it was officially part of the third generation of home consoles, but broke away from the pack with its innovative games.In an interview with Famitsu, that's been translated by GamesRadar+, Miyamoto speaks on Nintendo's move from creating arcade cabinets t
  
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• Despite Battlefield 6 layoffs, EA paid its CEO 305x more than its average employee last year thanks to an $8 million bonus increase — and he could net another $125 million in severance as buyout looms

  29-07-2026 19:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  EA managed to act a little morose earlier this year when it forced Battlefield 6 studios into "realignment" and laid off workers, but it seems CEO Andrew Wilson is doing fine. The executive made 305-times the average EA employee's salary in fiscal year 2026. The publisher explains, in a newly amended annual report (thanks, Eurogamer), that "the annual total compensation of our median employee was $126,612," while "the annual total compensation of Mr. Wilson, was $38,649,984." That's $8,120,149 m
  
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