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• US sanctions two N.Koreans over missile program: statement

  26-12-2017 19:50 via yahoo.com
  The United States on Tuesday sanctioned two senior North Korean officials over the country's ballistic missile program, the Treasury Department said."Treasury is targeting leaders of North Korea's ballistic missile programs, as part of our maximum pressure campaign to isolate (North Korea) and achieve a fully denuclearized Korean Peninsula," it said in a statement.The two officials were listed last Friday in a new United Nations Security Council resolution sanctioning North Korea, Treasury said.
  
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• Minecraft-inspired RPG Hytale, created by Minecraft multiplayer server devs, gets mod to make it look more like Minecraft

  16-01-2026 18:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Wearing its influences on its sleeve, Hytale doesn't shy away from how much inspiration from Minecraft goes into the RPG. But if the fantasy adventure's aesthetic wasn't similar enough to Mojang's blocky builder for you, a modder is already bridging the gap between the two games.As a quick history lesson, Hytale's roots go back to a Minecraft server in the mid-2010s. Eventually outgrowing that platform, developer Hypixel retained the block-based visual style as the project grew into its own dist
  
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• One of Steam's hottest top-sellers is the zombie apocalypse sim that previously dominated Steam Next Fest, and it's celebrating with a Dead by Daylight collab

  16-01-2026 18:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Quarantine Zone: The Last Check was a breakout hit at one of last year's Steam Next Fest events, garnering more than one million Steam Wishlists thanks to a hot demo, and its winning streak has only continued now that it's properly launched.For a game set in the thick of a zombie apocalypse, Quarantine Zone surprisingly doesn't cast players as a struggling survivor or a guns-blazing soldier. It instead riffs on indie classic Papers, Please by having players operate a military checkpoint that's i
  
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• Helldivers 2's upcoming Redacted Regiment Warbond has been delayed indefinitely as Arrowhead finds a "key issue that didn't meet our standards for a release"

  16-01-2026 17:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arrowhead Game Studios has announced that the Helldivers 2 Redacted Regiment Warbond – originally set to arrive next week on January 20, 2026 – has been delayed for an indefinite amount of time.Days after it was first announced, Arrowhead took to the Helldivers 2 Discord to explain: "During final testing for the Warbond, we found a key issue that didn't meet our standards for a release. We're taking some extra time to get it fixed, so the Redacted Regiment Warbond is going to be dela
  
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• New Lego Legend of Zelda set answers the prayers of fans who don't want to spend hundreds on the Deku Tree model

  16-01-2026 17:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Following teases and numerous leaks, the second Lego Legend of Zelda set has been revealed - and fans who are trying to save their rupees will be pleased, because it's a lot cheaper than the previous one.Lego The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - The Final Battle takes us back to the N64 game's boss fight. You know, the one where Ganondorf turns into a giant, dual-wielding pig monster? This version throws in the Adult Link minifigure we saw in the Deku Tree kit (which earned a spot on our best
  
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• Netflix boss says "we want to win" in the theatrical business, so the 45-day windows will remain after Warner Bros. sale goes through

  16-01-2026 17:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warner Bros will continue to have a 45-day theatrical window once the Netflix sale goes through, according to the streamer's co-CEO Ted Sarandos. Since the $82.7bn deal was made public, moviegoers have been worried about the survival of the cinema experience for Warner titles, which include the DC Universe, the Lord of the Rings franchise, and Harry Potter.Sarandos has now confirmed that there's nothing to be worried about. "I understand that folks are emotional about it because they love it and
  
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• Helldivers 2 players vote on which planet to fire our shiny new laser beam at, channelling Star Wars in a democratic move that couldn't possibly go wrong

  16-01-2026 17:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Helldivers 2 players can vote on which planet Super Earth will test out its newest weapon on, which is eerily similar to a big planet-exploding laser from some old movie I watched once.Last week, the government of Super Earth announced that it was working to convert the Democracy Space Station into a "macro-scale laser, capable of generating a high-yield beam optimized for mass Freedom dispensation." And in the week since the space station has been equipped with the Star of Peace, which is "a Da
  
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• Excitement for Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters raised and subsequently dashed by Steam glitch: "Don't do that, don't give me hope"

  16-01-2026 17:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Given last year's Oblivion remaster and the renewed interest in Fallout thanks to Amazon's TV show, Bethesda doing remasters of Fallout 3 and New Vegas seems extremely likely at some point in the near future. For the time-being, however, they remain hypothetical, and fans of the post-apocalyptic franchise just suffered a dose of false hope when a Steam glitch indicated something may be happening.As noticed by a user on Reddit (via PC Gamer), recently, you couldn't leave Steam reviews on Fallout
  
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• Fallout co-creator is glad his RPGs are remembered as "flawed masterpieces" rather than "very buggy games," but warns devs that adding more features will always make other parts of their games worse

  16-01-2026 17:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tim Cain's most enduring work is certainly Fallout, the classic RPG he created the concept for and led development on. But he's also known for a trio of cult classics he developed at Troika Games, the studio he co-founded with other Fallout veterans. Arcanum, The Temple of Elemental, and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines are all remembered as wildly ambitious RPGs held back by their technical flaws, and Cain says those two things go hand in hand."Here's the real thing that everybody has
  
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• Stating no lies, RuneScape CEO says the MMO's players "used to be angsty 16-year-olds listening to Breaking Benjamin. Now it's 33-year-old accountants and CEOs who've got 41 minutes in an evening"

  16-01-2026 17:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  RuneScape, collectively, is officially 25 years old. In many ways, nothing has changed for the evergreen sandbox MMO. The most popular branch, Old School RuneScape, is very deliberately sticking to the principles of the 2007 version of the game while adding in an impressive amount of new content, including the first new skill in over a decade.Yet linear time marches on. Much like the average gamer, RuneScape's audience has gotten older. So much older, in fact, that CEO Jon Bellamy of developer J
  
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• Fallout season 2 ratings are down from season 1's record-breaking debut – mainly because they had completely different release strategies

  16-01-2026 17:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Fallout season 2 premiere had a significantly lower viewership than its predecessor, but that makes sense. After all, Prime Video's release strategy for both installments couldn't have been more different.Nielsen's streaming stats (via The Hollywood Reporter) show that the new season of Fallout accumulated 794 million viewing minutes on Prime Video during the week of release (December 15-21), which, compared to the 2.9 billion minutes achieved by season 1, might seem like a huge step down. S
  
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• After 27 years at Ubisoft, The Division boss Julian Gerighty leaves for Battlefield Studios while devs promise "an ambitious, unchanged commitment" to The Division 3

  16-01-2026 16:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Legendary Tom Clancy's The Division lead Julian Gerighty, who's worked at Ubisoft in some capacity since 1999, will soon leave the military looter shooter for Battlefield Studios under EA.This move comes a little over a week after Ubisoft announced it would "improve efficiency and reduce costs" by closing its recently unionized Halifax studio, impacting 71 positions, and a month after Battlefield lead Vince Zampella's tragic death. About the major change, Gerighty writes on Twitter, "It's time f
  
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• Disney delists 14 Steam games without warning, with movie licensed games and LucasArts titles getting the axe

  16-01-2026 16:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Disney has suddenly delisted 14 games without warning, so if you were waiting for a deep sale on Disney Planes, you're sadly out of luck.When it comes to delisted games, there's no one quite like Disney. While usually the fault of licenses with other publishers running out, like with older Marvel vs Capcom releases or 2014's Deadpool, there's a ton of games under the Disney banner that just do not exist anymore. And when you count Fox titles like the myriad of Simpsons games and the banger X-Men
  
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• Mass Effect 5 is going to release "a long time" after Dragon Age: The Veilguard because BioWare has become a "one project studio," veteran suggests

  16-01-2026 16:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former BioWare executive producer Mark Darrah, who was at the famed studio for more than two decades while running the Dragon Age franchise, has suggested that Mass Effect 5 might actually benefit from being the only game on the developer's plate even if it means the gap between BioWare releases is longer.For years, BioWare juggled multiple projects at the same time. The original Mass Effect, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, and Dragon Age: Origins were all in different stages of producti
  
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• Garry's Mod and Rust studio lead says "games should never die" as Amazon MMO New World prepares to shut down for good, and fans are fully behind the idea of a Hytale-style rescue

  16-01-2026 15:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  We knew it was happening, and now we have a date: Amazon's New World is being shut down on January 31, 2027. As people lament the fantasy MMO's demise, Alistair McFarlane, the chief operations officer and company director of Facepunch Studios, the company behind Rust and Garry's Mod, appears to be trying to organize some form of preservation for the dying game.He made his apparent bid on Twitter. "$25 million, final offer," he states, tagging Amazon Game Studios. He adds in a separate tweet: "Ga
  
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• The Walking Dead: Dead City season 3 set pics tease heartbreaking cameo from one of the horror franchise's OG characters

  16-01-2026 15:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Looks like The Walking Dead: Dead City season 3 is gearing up to break our hearts, with recently captured set pics revealing that Emily Kinney's Beth is going to have a cameo in the new batch of episodes.In a bunch of snaps posted to X by @TWDUfilming, we can see Maggie actor Lauren Cohan and Kinney shooting a scene in Central Park. Judging by the regular clothes they're sporting, the takeaway coffee cups they're holding, and all the un-undead extras, it seems set to be a dream sequence. Makes s
  
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• Severance star is sent down a paranoid rabbit hole in first look at new horror movie

  16-01-2026 14:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first look at new psychological horror Sender has been unveiled, featuring Severance star Britt Lower.In the new image, Lower's character is hunched over a laptop surrounded by piles of cardboard box packages. The film's synopsis is as follows: "After receiving a series of packages containing unnervingly personal items, a woman tumbles down a paranoid rabbit hole to find her mysterious sender."Check out Lower and her creepy parcels below.First look at ‘SENDER’, starring Britt Low
  
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• Animal Crossing: New Horizons fans are a little disappointed about Slumber Islands' building limitations: "Everything is exactly the same as changing my own island"

  16-01-2026 13:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Animal Crossing: New Horizon's 3.0 update and Nintendo Switch 2 Edition are both out, putting a smile on the faces of villagers everywhere who feared the game had long been abandoned. But the new content isn't a total slam dunk as some fans aren't too smitten with the Slumber Islands.Slumber Islands are essentially a freeform sandbox or 'creative mode' for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, introduced in this week's free 3.0 update, letting players freely decorate an empty island stuck in an alterna
  
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• It: Welcome to Derry star Bill Skarsgård explains Pennywise's very confusing ability to time travel: "You can interpret it a thousand different ways"

  16-01-2026 13:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pennywise actor Bill Skarsgård has revealed his take on the evil clown's ability to time-travel in Stephen King spin-off It: Welcome to Derry, and it sounds super complicated.At the end of It: Welcome to Derry season 1, we learn that despite the season being set 27 years after the first It movie and 54 years before It: Chapter 2, Pennywise has already experienced everything that happened in 1989 and 2016, despite currently being in 1962. He is targeting the kids in the series so that those
  
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• Hyperkin says an N64 handheld could happen "potentially in the future", and the idea of portable cartridge support excites me

  16-01-2026 13:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  The idea of an N64 handheld with physical cartridge support sounds ambitious, but retro console maker Hyperkin says it's a possibility. Yes, and the company does say it won't happen "in the next year or two." Nevertheless, this is a sign that a portable way to play physical Nintendo 64 games is being considered.The revelation comes off the back of yesterday's Mega95 update, with Hyperkin directly responding to one fan questioning if we'll ever "see an N64 handheld." While the remark was in respo
  
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• New Lucasfilm bosses are "very much onboard" with a new Star Wars trilogy taking us into 2030

  16-01-2026 13:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  With the news that Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down as Lucasfilm president, plenty of updates on the Star Wars galaxy have also been revealed.One of the most exciting is that new Lucasfilm bosses Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan are fully behind the brand new trilogy from Simon Kinberg."I know that Dave and Lynwen are very much on board with what Simon's doing, and that would be a new trilogy," Kennedy told Deadline. "In the timeline of things, that takes you well into 2030 plus. So that's really
  
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• Resident Evil Requiem is being called "the most brutal RE game ever made" after gameplay shows Leon exploding zombie heads in the most over-the-top ways: "It's awesome"

  16-01-2026 13:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fans are reacting to the level of violence on show in Resident Evil Requiem, and think it may be the most brutal Resident Evil game yet.Last night's Resident Evil Showcase showed off a ton of new gameplay and details about Resident Evil Requiem, including the reveal of a "classic" mode that forces Grace Ashcroft to use ink ribbons to save the game, and uhh… watches? Notably, the developers denied ever denying Leon would be in the game, but did note they originally tried to make a horror g
  
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• Kathleen Kennedy has "no regrets" over Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, but doesn't think there's interest "right now" in making a new movie

  16-01-2026 13:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny not being the treasured title Lucasfilm were looking for, outgoing president Kathleen Kennedy isn't definitively letting Harrison Ford's wisecracking hero hang up his whip just yet.Speaking to Deadline about the audience response to Dial of Destiny (which grossed under $400 million at the box office), Kennedy remarked, "I have no regrets about that because Harrison [Ford] wanted to do that more than anything. He did not want Indy to end with the four
  
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• Where to pre-order the Hyperpop PS5 DualSense controllers and console covers in the US and UK

  16-01-2026 13:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  The PS5 Hyperpop Collection has popped onto PS Direct, bringing the first new limited edition looks to the PS5 lineup. Unveiled earlier this month, this new limited edition release is rolling out on March 12, 2026. But those in the US and UK can pre-order the collection ahead of time right now.The collection in question features eye-striking new Techno Red, Remix Green, and Rhythm Blue PS5 controller colors, which are available for $84.99 / £74.99 at PS Direct US and UK. With this new drop
  
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• Where to pre-order the Hyperpop PS5 DualSense controllers and console covers

  16-01-2026 13:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  The PS5 Hyperpop Collection has popped onto PS Direct, bringing the first new limited edition looks to the PS5 lineup. Unveiled earlier this month, this new limited edition release is rolling out today, but those in the UK can already pre-order the collection, which is due to release on March 12, 2026.The collection features eye-striking new Techno Red, Remix Green, and Rhythm Blue PS5 controller colors, which are available for $84.99 / £74.99 at PS Direct US and UK. With this new drop, th
  
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• The Hunt for Ben Solo movie may not be scrapped after all, as Lucafilm boss Kathleen Kennedy says "anything's a possibility" going forward

  16-01-2026 13:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Unlike Kylo Ren, Adam Driver's The Hunt for Ben Solo movie may not be dead after all.Back in October 2025, the actor revealed to the Associated Press that he, Steven Soderbergh, and The Bourne Ultimatum's Scott Z. Burns had once pitched a post-The Rise of Skywalker film that'd center on the Star Wars villain – and that Disney CEO Bob Iger and co-chairman Alan Bergman ultimately rejected it.Now, Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy has given us new hope that it might someday see the light of day
  
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• Zootopia 2 director says the original animation was almost very different: "That movie was almost like a James Bond adventure on an island"

  16-01-2026 13:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  While Zootopia 2 keeps getting closer to breaking into the list of ten highest grossing movies of all time, we just found out that Disney's original animated movie could have looked very different – like a James Bond-type spy movie set on an island.According to original co-writer and the sequel's co-director Jared Bush, the story was going in a different direction when he was first welcomed into the creative team for Zootopia. "When I first got here, he [Zootopia director Byron Howard] had
  
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• Lucasfilm's departing boss Kathleen Kennedy provides less-than-promising updates on several Star Wars movies that are seemingly still in development hell: "I think the ones by Taika [Waititi] and Donald [Glover] are still somewhat alive"

  16-01-2026 12:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  As Kathleen Kennedy departs as Lucasfilm president after 14 years, she's provided a few updates on long-gestating Star Wars movies – but they're probably not as optimistic as you'd hoped for."[James] Mangold’s is really on the back burner as is [Steven] Soderbergh’s," Kennedy told Deadline in her exit interview. "I think the ones by Taika [Waititi] and Donald [Glover] are still somewhat alive. That’s going to really be up to the new team to figure out."Mangold's movie was
  
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• Fallout 5's "obvious" setting would be New Vegas, says Fallout: London lead, but it's not the location he'd choose: "I would say Texas"

  16-01-2026 12:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  With every new Fallout game, we get to play in a new corner of Bethesda's post-apocalyptic world, and it's always a big point of conversation: Which state or city will we see in radioactive ruins this time? The project lead behind Fallout: London unofficially took the series across the pond, but he has some other settings on his wishlist for whenever Fallout 5 inevitably comes out.Speaking to Esports.net, Team Folon's Dean Carter says that the "the obvious place to go next is back to New Vegas"
  
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• Welcome to Derry creator shares big plans for his IT supercut, and even has Stephen King's blessing: "It really is a dream come true"

  16-01-2026 12:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  IT director Andy Muschietti has spoken more about his IT supercut combining the 2017 and 2019 movies, and it sounds as though he has author Stephen King's blessing."Do you know what he asked me about it a month ago? Stephen King. He said, 'How's the super cut going?'' [I said] 'Great. Because it really is a dream come true to put the two films into a single narrative piece,'" said Muschietti in a recent interview, which has since been posted on Twitter.Muschietti plans to add more "sections" to
  
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