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• Video: Devs sound off on the 2017 Indie Soapbox

  17-11-2017 22:23
  In the course of an hour ten indie devs from around the industry take the stage at GDC 2017 to share what's on their mind, tackling everything from taste (get some!) to self-care to indie rockers. ...
  
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• OneXPlayer adds another pricey handheld to the Arc G3 pile, and this one is $2,000

  27-08-2026 17:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  OneXPlayer just unleashed another Arc G3 Extreme handheld onto the battlefield, and shock, horror! It's two grand. You'll actually end up paying more for this new premium portable without the usual "early bird" discount, but even with that applied, it's another gadget most players probably can't afford. I have no doubts that the 8.8-inch OneXPlayer X2 Mini will serve as one of the best gaming handhelds out there. At least, that should be the case in terms of raw performance, as that Intel Arc G3
  
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• GTA 6: An Extended Look will be 26 minutes long and features gameplay captured on a PS5

  27-08-2026 17:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  After more than a week of nonstop leaks, we're finally getting our first, real official look at GTA 6 gameplay later today. GTA 6: An Extended Look will soon debut on Netflix, and ahead of the broadcast, the streaming giant has revealed both the runtime and a few details about its content.The Netflix page for the GTA 6 debut was recently updated to confirm that the event is 26 minutes long. "Captured entirely from in-game footage on PlayStation 5, this extended look at the next Grand Theft Auto
  
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• Persona 4 Revival is a faithful JRPG remake because the original's only gotten more relevant: "We live in an age where information is everywhere"

  27-08-2026 17:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Persona 4 Revival is sticking pretty closely to the original game because producer Kazuhisha Wada believes the classic has only gotten more relevant in the 18 years since one of the best RPGs first came out. Speaking to the official Xbox Podcast, series producer Kazuhisha Wada tried to clarify comments he previously made about wanting Persona to feel a little bit like poison. He says he "wasn't referring to shock value or provocative content" with those comments - he simply wanted to leave folks
  
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• Days before movies like Terminator 2 are pulled from PlayStation libraries, StudioCanal launches new catalog label to restore classic movies "as they were meant to be seen"

  27-08-2026 17:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Days before over 500 movies are set to be pulled from PlayStation libraries in several territories, StudioCanal has launched a new catalog that includes home entertainment and theatrical re-releases.Per a press release, StudioCanal Classics, which comprises of over 18,000 titles, is beginning its launch with worldwide theatrical re-releases of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Manhunter: The Final Cut, and Pan's Labyrinth (which the studio says is the "way they were meant to be seen: on the big scree
  
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• Dragon Quest's Yuji Horii realized his JRPG series was a "cultural phenomenon" when DQ3 had fans "lined up all night in the cold"

  27-08-2026 16:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dragon Quest series creator Yuji Horii has spoken about how surprised he was by the overwhelming success of the series' third entry. After moderate success with the first two games, the third thrust the series into the spotlight in a way that Horii never expected.In an interview with Famitsu that's been translated by GamesRadar+, Horii describes how he felt the series became a cultural phenomenon almost over night. "The first Dragon Quest was made in 1986, and two years later we made Dragon Ques
  
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• Xbox Series X25 Special Edition pre-orders go live today, here's where to grab the console and controller

  27-08-2026 16:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Menu(Image credit: Future)1. US pre-orders2. UK pre-orders3. Live updatesThe special edition Xbox Series X X25 is due to hit pre-order shelves today, and while we're still waiting for stores to open the floodgates empty listing pages are floating through the web.The translucent green device will shortly be up for grabs at a number of US and UK retailers, but at the moment Amazon is well and truly primed for launch. Usually one of the last retailers to jump on a pre-order bandwagon, I'm seeing a
  
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• Xbox Series X25 Special Edition pre-orders are live, here's where to grab the console and controller

  27-08-2026 16:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Menu(Image credit: Future)1. US pre-orders2. UK pre-orders3. Live updatesThe special edition Xbox Series X X25 is due to hit pre-order shelves today, and while we're still waiting for stores to open the floodgates empty listing pages are floating through the web.The translucent green device will shortly be up for grabs at a number of US and UK retailers, but at the moment Amazon is well and truly primed for launch. Usually one of the last retailers to jump on a pre-order bandwagon, I'm seeing a
  
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• Xbox Series X X25 Special Edition pre-orders go live today, here's where to grab the console and controller

  27-08-2026 16:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  The special edition Xbox Series X X25 is due to hit pre-order shelves today, and while we're still waiting for stores to open the floodgates empty listing pages are floating through the web.The translucent green device will shortly be up for grabs at a number of US and UK retailers, but at the moment Amazon is well and truly primed for launch. Usually one of the last retailers to jump on a pre-order bandwagon, I'm seeing a full listing ready and waiting for some numbers and pre-order buttons. Me
  
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• Possibly the last major Elden Ring patch buffs a ton of weapons and seems to fix one of the biggest complaints since launch

  27-08-2026 16:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Elden Ring patch 1.17 will arrive Friday, August 28, alongside the new Tarnished Pack DLC, adding a few classes, cosmetics, NPC events, and buyable items. The patch notes from publisher Bandai Namco are more substantial than expected, and chock-full of buffs. The Tarnished Pack itself adds the Idus Knight and Heavy Knight starting classes, three outfits for your mount Torrent, NPC invasions in Caelid and Leyndell, and some "weapons that can be purchased from merchants or found in the Lands Betwe
  
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• The Witcher 3 hasn't had an expansion in 10 years because "good things take time" and Songs of the Past was dead for a while, says CD Projekt Red dev

  27-08-2026 16:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Earlier this week, Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026 gave us our first look at The Witcher 3 Remastered and as CD Projekt Red's huge new DLC for the RPG, Songs of the Past – an expansion that's apparently existed in theory for quite some time now.Fool's Theory, the studio partnering with CD Projekt Red for the expansion's development, reveals as much in an interview with Eurogamer, explaining that The Witcher 3 team had in fact conceptualized Songs of the Past "years" ago – but "had t
  
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• Marvel fans want Secret Invasion decanonized from the sacred timeline: "[It] genuinely did so much damage to Nick Fury and Rhodey"

  27-08-2026 16:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Three years later, Marvel fans want Disney Plus series Secret Invasion erased from MCU canon because of how it changed Rhodey. The discussion started when one Marvel fan took to Twitter and said that they think the 'Rhodey' who comforts a dying Tony Stark at the end of Avengers: Endgame is actually the real Rhodey. Another replied, "They should straight up just say Secret Invasion doesn’t exist in the main timeline. I’m not even joking. No one will give Feige shit for coming out and
  
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• The Division 2 is getting a Central Park-focused expansion and crossplay that took 7 years because Ubisoft had to rebuild parts of the game

  27-08-2026 16:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  It may have taken seven years, but The Division 2 is finally getting crossplay. On top of that, we have more details on the latest expansion for Ubisoft's dystopian online action game, which adds a true New York City landmark.First thing's first, though: crossplay. It's happening, at long last. The option is available across all platforms, and it'll be enabled by default. Clan size is going up to 100 to allow everyone to play together, and it'll launch in November. Clans will also be imported ov
  
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• Persona 6 producer doesn't want "to make games for the global market," only something "we ourselves genuinely find exciting"

  27-08-2026 15:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  The teams behind Persona 6 and Persona 4 Revival have apparently never made games with the goal of appealing to "the global market." The fact that Atlus' RPG series about Japanese high-schoolers has traveled across the world is only a happy accident.That's according to Kazuhisa Wada - the general producer of the entire franchise, including the upcoming Persona 6 and Persona 4 Revival - who recently spoke to the official Xbox Podcast about how he views the series' growing success in overseas mark
  
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• Google's new Pokémon Sleep special edition Fitbit slaps Pikachu on your wrist

  27-08-2026 15:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pokémon is coming to your wrist, no not in the Pokemon Go wearable we've all been asking for for years, but in the form of a special edition Fitbit Air. Google announced the collaboration today, bringing a Snorlaxian blue aesthetic to its 2026 release with a launch date set for September 15 and pre-orders live right now. The $129.99 device originally launched back in May as a lightweight health tracker built with Gemini's AI features in mind. The Pokémon Sleep version functions exa
  
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• Blaze is bringing back a mystery Evercade cartridge that you may have missed the first time around

  27-08-2026 14:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Blaze has a habit of discontinuing Evercade cartridges, but the console company is bringing back a legacy collection. While we'll find out which compilation is getting re-released on Friday, it's a sign that it can and will bring back physical games you may have missed. In an Evercade teaser post headlined "Something is coming... back!", the retro console makers confirm a legacy cartridge will return on Friday, August 28. By my count, 19 physical games are now marked as "legacy", including the N
  
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• Tides of Annihilation devs are "continuously monitoring new developments" in AI technology, but will be using the techniques they "are the best at" in development instead

  27-08-2026 13:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  The team at Eclipse Glow Games, the studio behind the upcoming single-player fantasy adventure Tides of Annihilation, says that devs are using "traditional methods" to make the game, based on the developers' years of experience in the industry. While they claim to be "paying attention" to AI technology, they say they want to use the techniques they have the "most expertise in."In an interview with Game*Spark that's been translated by GamesRadar+, Eclipse Glow Games describes the studio's philoso
  
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• Speedrunner turns one of Metal Gear Solid 4's biggest bosses into a total pushover using the power of Master Collection Vol 2's enhanced framerate

  27-08-2026 13:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Metal Gear Speedrunner has discovered that the higher framerate in Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol 2 has made one of the series ' most iconic boss fights a cakewalk. Sure, it's almost 20 years old, but Metal Gear Solid 4 spoilers ahead for anyone about to experience it for the first time through the Master Collection. Metal Gear Solid 4 may be a bit messy, but there's one thing it nails: nostalgia and fan service – before nostalgia bait became all the rage. Returning to Shadow Mos
  
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• Vision knows that Wanda is dead during VisionQuest as he's "watched all the [Marvel] movies"

  27-08-2026 13:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Vision knows Wanda's fate, VisionQuest showrunner Terry Matalas has revealed. The version of Vision returning in the new show is White Vision, who has Vision's memories but is a new version of the synthezoid created during WandaVision. Wanda, meanwhile, seemingly died in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness – and, since Vision hasn't been seen since the WandaVision finale, it was reasonable to assume he might not know what happened to her. As it turns out, though, Vision knows, as r
  
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• Street Fighter director says he didn't want to make an "off-the-shelf" video game movie: "I was brought on to make something that didn't feel conventional"

  27-08-2026 13:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Street Fighter has a patchy history on the big screen, to say the least, but the latest adaptation is doing things a little differently, according to director Kitao Sakurai.If the irreverent Street Fighter trailer and the movie's wild casting choices are any indication, it's a film that isn't taking itself too seriously, and that's by design. "Everybody wanted to get behind creating a movie that had a very distinct tone and approach, that didn't feel like an off-the-shelf video-game movie," Saku
  
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• The Uprising distributor denies it's a Robin Hood movie in one of the year's oddest controversies

  27-08-2026 13:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Just days after US marketing revealed Andrew Garfield’s upcoming historical drama The Uprising as a Robin Hood movie, its UK distributor has denied any connection. Earlier this week, Focus Features started to share promotional material for The Uprising with the byline 'Witness the Rise of Robin Hood, ' seemingly out of the blue. This took everyone by surprise as the movie has not revealed any connection with the outlaw thus far. In fact, the film is actually set during the Peasants’
  
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• Kingdom Hearts 4 script "almost twice as big" as KH3's, Tetsuya Nomura says: "There were more parts that I wanted to include, but I was already pushing it"

  27-08-2026 13:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Kingdom Hearts series writer and director Tetsuya Nomura says the script for the upcoming fourth entry in the series is almost twice as long as the last numbered entry, and yet there were still more parts he wanted to include but was unable to.In an interview with Famitsu that's been translated by GamesRadar+, Nomura talks about the voice actors and recording schedule for Kingdom Hearts 4. The Japanese voice cast is apparently already complete, while the English cast is reportedly 60 - 70% throu
  
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• Nodusfall isn't a gacha game, Mihoyo confirms, because unlike Genshin Impact you'll unlock characters "through continued play" instead

  27-08-2026 13:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  The next miHoYo joint was revealed as part of Gamescom 2026's Opening Night Live, and it's a bit different from Genshin Impact and Zenless Zone Zero. Rather than being all cutesy and anime, it's more gritty fantasy, but it's not just the visuals that are different - gacha mechanics aren't as prominent either.The game is called Nodusfall, and it's essentially the HoYoverse's answer to Monster Hunter, emphasizing big encounters you can tackle solo or in a group. Although the release is still using
  
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• Final Fantasy 7 Revelation is heading for a more mature rating than Remake and Rebirth, and I'm willing to bet Cid's ceaseless swearing has something to do with it

  27-08-2026 13:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 7 Revelation is expected to be slapped with an M for Mature age rating by the time it comes out next year, unlike FF7 Remake and Rebirth's slightly more tame ratings - and I'm guessing the inclusion of the bad-mouthed chain-smoker Cid as a permanent party member has something to do with it. Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth both launched with T for Teen ESRB ratings. Neither game had anything too frisky aside from the occasional swear word or very rare sight of a k
  
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• Double Fine made Brutal Legend free for a fitting 666 minutes in tribute to Tim Curry, who played the game's antagonist

  27-08-2026 13:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  In honor of Tim Curry, Double Fine made its heavy metal hack-and-slash RTS Brutal Legend free for 666 minutes. While he's best known for his live-action roles in films like The Rocky Horror Picture Show and It, Tim Curry – who sadly passed away earlier this week at the age of 80 – was a prolific voice actor. And while his role in the likes of Jimmy Neutron and The Wild Thornberrys are naturally beloved, his relatively fewer video game roles are iconic in their own right. Of course, h
  
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• One Piece creator keeps delaying the inevitable and doesn't think the manga will end until at least 2030

  27-08-2026 12:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda has given a more specific timeline on when his long-running manga could end.As reported by Otaku Art, this year's One Piece Day saw Oda provide fans with an update on One Piece's future as it hurtles towards its final arc.According to the outlet, Oda has outlined plans for One Piece to last for at least four more years, taking it up to 2030.Adding further fuel to the fire, the 17th One Piece movie, BAAD, is now slated for release in 2029. Either way, One Piece, bot
  
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• Secretlab's new Spider-Man gaming chair includes a venomous nod

  27-08-2026 12:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Secretlab has just released its latest Titan Evo special edition, and its first partnership with Marvel. The Spider-Man variant of one of the best gaming chairs comes decked in out in Peter Parker's red suit, but this isn't a bold eyesore. That marled design and darker red keep things slightly more muted than most Spider-Man merch on the shelves right now. Take a closer look at the flanks of the backrest, and you'll spot Venom's tendrils creeping towards the center as well. Secretlab has a long
  
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• The Marvels star Iman Vellani has a theory that Loki will play a key role in Avengers: Doomsday

  27-08-2026 12:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ms. Marvel star Iman Vellani is co-hosting a new podcast in the lead-up to Avengers: Doomsday. Appearing alongside YouTuber Frank Alvarez, the first episode sees them revisiting The Avengers (2012), and Vellani shared how she thinks it may be connected to the upcoming Doomsday.Asked by her co-host whether she thinks anything in this movie will be called back to, she replied: "I strongly believe Loki is going to. I mean, he's God of Stories now? What an arc; this man has been killed and redeemed
  
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• Despite reports, James Gunn says DCU Batman movie The Brave and the Bold is "in no way on hold"

  27-08-2026 12:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite a rumor that DCU Batman movie The Brave and the Bold is on hold, James Gunn has clarified that the film is still in the pipeline. The film is set to be directed by The Flash and It: Welcome to Derry helmer Andy Muschietti, and a claim that the director had said the film was on hold until after the Warner Bros. and Paramount merger was settled recently hit the internet. "It doesn't sound like something Andy would have said but the project is in no way on hold," Gunn wrote on Threads. News
  
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• After Olden Era, Ubisoft says Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Remake is "part of a bigger strategy" to revive the "dormant" strategy series

  27-08-2026 12:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  After a full decade without a new Heroes of Might and Magic game, Ubisoft is suddenly reviving the beloved strategy series on multiple fronts. It started with Olden Era, which launched to strong reception on Steam Early Access back in April, and it's continuing with Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Remake, which was just announced at Gamescom Opening Night Live. As it turns out, both games are part of one big roadmap to bringing the series back to life.At Gamescom, we asked creative director Jean Fel
  
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