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• Warp to Strange New Worlds with the new issue of SFX

  17-05-2023 11:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Captain Pike, Mr Spock and Number One are on the cover of SFX 366, as we look forward to the return of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.Below we run down some of the highlights of the issue. UK readers, don't forget: you can use this store locator to find a stockist near you, or order a copy online for the same price it is in the shops.  
  Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
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  The crew of the Enterprise are back, for more good old-fashioned episodic adventures. In an eight-p
  
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• Final Fantasy and Star Wars have the same problem, says former Square Enix exec: fans are getting older, and young people aren't interested

  03-06-2026 23:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Twitter feed of former Square Enix business director Jacob Navok is a treasure trove of arguments that I don't entirely agree with, but I find myself nodding along to his comparison of Final Fantasy and Star Wars. In essence, he says, both series have the same problem: the established fan base is getting older, and what should be the new fan base is very small. Navok shared a report, citing Variety, which noted that Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu has not gone down well, struggling at t
  
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• Splinter Cell designer Clint Hocking says "I don't think I could ever do better" than Chaos Theory, so he'll never return to the stealth series

  03-06-2026 23:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Some people worry they peaked in high school – but Ubisoft veteran Clint Hocking thinks he reached a summit with the adored 2005 stealth game Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, and he's OK with that. He never wants to make another Splinter Cell game again. Hocking tells FRVR in a new interview, "I'm just happy to have made a really, really amazing game that's probably the best – I don't think it's my best game –" that title belongs to Far Cry 2, he says, "but I definitely feel like i
  
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• God of War Laufey star Deborah Ann Woll says "Kratos gameplay is so fantastic because he's such a heavy hitter," but new protagonist Faye is "just as strong and just as good a warrior"

  03-06-2026 22:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sony Santa Monica stole the show at last night's State of Play with 20 minutes of gameplay footage from the newly announced God of War Laufey, the next installment in the studio's reboot series. The not-prequel stars a brand new protagonist in Kratos's second wife and Atreus's mother, Faye, and her distinctly agile move set was put on full display toward the end of the showcase, revealing a huge contrast with Kratos's brawny, lumbering movement.In a 'meet the cast' video accompanying God of War
  
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• 8 years after Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick went shirtless with his 8% body fat physique, he's now a playable wrestler in WWE 2K26

  03-06-2026 22:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick is about to have a very big year with the impending launch of GTA 6 – which, depending on who you talk to, will either be the biggest video game release of all time or the biggest cultural event in all of human history. (No pressure.) For Zelnick himself, however, that surely pales in comparison to the accomplishment he's spent years preparing for: becoming a virtual WWE superstar.Yes, Zelnick was quietly added to the WWE 2K26 roster in a free update earlier to
  
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• This game took over Steam and was accidentally given away for free, now the devs say it "will be removed from the store"

  03-06-2026 22:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  In April 2016, developer Tecopark released the original version of Pico Park, a 2D multiplayer puzzle game that's grown into a hugely popular franchise that technically includes three games. That first version is Pico Park: Classic Edition, a simpler and smaller incarnation of Pico Park and its sequel Pico Park 2. In October 2025, the devs accidentally made the Classic Edition free-to-keep forever, planning to switch to a paid plan but forgetting they "can never go back" after flipping the switc
  
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• "Not every publisher" is running away from GTA 6 and making September a nightmare of game releases, Devolver Digital reminds everyone

  03-06-2026 22:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  GTA 6 has been looming over the video game industry for so long, I'm starting to think of it as a force of nature rather than a Rockstar game where you can steal cars. Its impact on the human condition seems seismic, bigger than the most powerful earthquake – it's caused some fans to reincarnate as Nostradamus and use the planets to divine when the next GTA 6 trailer is dropping, and it's intimidated countless publishers into reshuffling release dates solely to avoid its November 19 launch
  
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• After 26 years of RPGs, Obsidian legend Josh Sawyer admits he's still trying to make a good armor system

  03-06-2026 20:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Current Obsidian design director and RPG veteran since the early aughts Josh Sawyer has been making games in some capacity for more than 25 years, but he's still working on creating an armor system he likes as much as the one in the 1992 RPG Darklands.Sawyer is a known Darklands obsessive, having cited it as one of the main inspirations for his 2022 historical RPG Pentiment, and he's also talked about it in numerous videos on his YouTube channel, so it's no surprise that he holds poor old Avowed
  
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• GTA 5 is still selling millions a year, letting Rockstar do whatever it wants with GTA 6: analyst estimates 1.8 million just on PS5 in 2026

  03-06-2026 19:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you're wondering how Rockstar's managed to financially justify holding back GTA 6 through all these delays, you don't have to look much further than GTA 5. Rockstar's last Grand Theft Auto title is continuing to sell by the millions even now, over a decade later, and a new estimate puts a more particular point on just how much GTA 5 continues to sell.GTA 5 sold 387,000 copies on PlayStation last month, contributing to a total of 1.8 million units sold on PS5 for 2026, according to Alinea's la
  
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• Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is still the OG game fans remember, but "reimagined in ways that weren't possible 30 years ago and with new surprises woven in"

  03-06-2026 18:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  We'll be taking a step back in time, literally and figuratively, come next February when Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis launches. A complete remake of Lara Croft's first adventure, Legacy of Atlantis allows new perspectives on the genre-defining release, but still packaged in a way fans will recognize."This is the adventure fans remember: reimagined in ways that weren’t possible 30 years ago and with new surprises woven in," Michael Lovan, global head of content and community at Amazon Ga
  
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• After Silent Hill f combat discourse, Silent Hill Townfall goes all-in on stealth as "evasion is your only option" sometimes

  03-06-2026 18:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  During yesterday's PlayStation State of Play showcase – the first big event to come out of this year's Summer Game Fest – we got a new glimpse at Silent Hill: Townfall, as well as our first word of its precise release date of September 24, 2026.It was a big moment for longtime fans of Konami's beloved horror game series, as Townfall marks a very different entry to Silent Hill – and one that features a greater emphasis on stealth-based gameplay, apparently.
  As per Sony's officia
  
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• Marvel's Wolverine lets you turn off the extreme blood and gore proudly shown at PlayStation's State of Play: "We didn't want to go over the top"

  03-06-2026 18:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel's Wolverine developers say violence is an integral part of the game, except you will be able to turn it off anyway if you fancy.Speaking with IGN,game director Mike Daly explains: "From the inception of the project, we knew that the number one most important thing was to bring the Wolverine fantasy to life. Not just that, but make it the ultimate Wolverine fantasy." He adds, "it was clear that violence was a key part of that." Because yes, while Insomniac's take on Spider-Man does have a
  
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• Thanks to GTA 6, Ubisoft's new Rayman is once again launching in "nearly the same month" as a new GTA and in the same year as Assassin's Creed: Black Flag

  03-06-2026 18:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rayman Legends Retold devs say it's a mere coincidence that 13 years later, Rayman Legends Retold is launching around the same time as a new GTA and Assassin's Creed Black Flag.It's 2013, Rayman Legends was released a few weeks before the new GTA game, and now it's 2026, and Rayman Legends Retold is about to release a few weeks before the new GTA game. But that's not all for Ubisoft's 2013 lineup, as – despite being one of the AAA companies that typically doesn't remake games all that much
  
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• "The X-Men don't exist" in Marvel's Wolverine, and there's no Spider-Man either, Insomniac Games lead clarifies

  03-06-2026 18:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Given the presence of both Jean Grey and Mystique in Marvel's Wolverine, you'd be forgiven for thinking the game might feature a whole team of students from Xavier's School for Gifted Children. Alas, that's not the case, as this is all about Logan, and we shouldn't expect a maelstrom of X-Men throughout the game's story.At least, that's what Marcus Smith, creative director on Wolverine, told Eurogamer. "The important thing, I guess, is the X-Men don't exist in our game," he says. "We wanted to f
  
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• PUBG creator Brendan Greene halts development on "realistic Minecraft" survival game, plans to make it free and is looking into refunds

  03-06-2026 18:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  PUBG creator Brendan Greene – AKA PlayerUnknown – has announced that development is being "halted" on his early-access survival game, Prologue: Go Wayback, amid restructuring at his studio, PlayerUnknown Productions. Prologue: Go Wayback was released into early access last November on Steam. Greene once threw out the phrase "realistic Minecraft" as one way to describe it – players explore procedurally generated landscapes with no guides or markers to guide them, not to mention
  
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• After 4 years of silence, dinosaur survival horror game The Lost Wild emerges with a promise to make good on its director's Alien: Isolation experience

  03-06-2026 18:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  One of my low-key favorite reveals from last night's PlayStation State of Play was The Lost Wild, a dinosaur-infested survival horror title developed by Great Ape Games and published by Annapurna Interactive. It had been so long that I'd managed to forget that The Lost Wild was actually first revealed way back in 2022, but the new trailer and accompanying details have me beyond excited for what these devs are cooking up.Gary Napper serves as game director on The Lost Wild, drawing on his time he
  
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• God of War will "always tell stories about Kratos," says Sony Santa Monica creative lead Cory Barlog, but God of War Laufey gives devs a chance to surprise you

  03-06-2026 17:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  God of War Laufey will be the first time the series abandons its titular god Kratos and focuses instead on someone else's magic – in this case, Kratos' dead wife Laufey, or Faye, as the giantess navigates the perilous afterlife run by power-starving deities. The 20 minutes of footage developer Sony Santa Monica shared at PlayStation State of Play June 2026 makes the game look prettier than usual, with so many sparkles, purple flowers, and exceptionally cool aerial combos, but head of creat
  
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• Noctua is launching a mouse with an upward-firing fan in it, so your gaming sessions will never be sweaty again

  03-06-2026 17:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Noctua's Computex booth looks exactly as you'd expect it to, with the brand's signature brown color sticking out like a beautiful sore thumb in a tech conference that's bursting with RGB, bizarre PC cases, and massive demo spaces. But this brand's showing might be the most impressive I've come across. There are revolutionary cooling innovations to be seen, but I never thought one of them was going to be for my hand, in the form of a gaming mouse.Honestly, I saw so many cool things at this booth
  
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• After deciding it's "not an MMO," Dune: Awakening is adding a single-player mode: "Easily one of the most requested features"

  03-06-2026 17:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Emerging from an identity crisis, Dune: Awakening developer Funcom concluded last month that the game is "not an MMO" but rather a "complicated" survival game with online play. The big announcement out of Tuesday's PlayStation State of Play show – not God of War Laufey, the Dune news – leans into this not-an-MMO future, with a single-player mode coming to the game in September. On September 22, Dune: Awakening will launch on PS5 and Xbox Series X, with single-player coming the same d
  
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• "Kefka is the ultimate troll": Final Fantasy 14's top raiders are being hoodwinked by a returning JRPG icon proving to be the most annoying Ultimate boss yet

  03-06-2026 17:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 14's most hardcore players have spent the last day or so grappling with patch 7.51 and its newly introduced Kefka-themed Ultimate raid – a raid that takes everything folks know about the MMO's mechanics and throws it into the wind.In case you weren't around for Stormblood and its Sigmascape line of Savage raids (or Final Fantasy 6, from where the boss originates), Kefka terrorized Final Fantasy 14 fans with his chaotic mechanics and confusing puzzles for quite some time back
  
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• 23 years later, Lord of the Rings fans think they've spotted a big Return of the King plot hole

  03-06-2026 17:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  While we wait for the new Lord of the Rings film to arrive, what better way is there to pass the time than pore over every detail of the Peter Jackson trilogy? However, as one viewer found on the latest rewatch, it can cause you to spot some slightly frustrating inconsistencies.Redditor Significant-Owl7994 shared their confusion over one particular plot hole in The Return of the King. It all revolves around the scene when Frodo and Samwise end up in Shelob's lair on their journey to Mount Doom.
  
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• Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis was made with AI, Steam page reveals, but any assets made using the controversial tech "were either replaced or refined by humans"

  03-06-2026 16:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Lara Croft returns in Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis early next year, but her latest escapade is being soured somewhat by the presence of AI within the game's development. Fans made the discovery through the Steam page for the release, where the mandatory disclaimer gives some insight into the extent of the tech's presence.On Valve's store, if you scroll down on the listing for Legacy of Atlantis, you can find the boilerplate warning. "AI-assisted tools were used during development to support s
  
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• The Casetify Tamagotchi collab has lit the fires of my 90s kid heart, with its nostalgia-fueled exclusive toy

  03-06-2026 16:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Tamagotchi was one of the best toys from the '90s. That's not just the nostalgia in me talking as 30 years later, Bandai is still dishing out versions of the iconic digital pet. You can pick up everything from officially licensed versions featuring characters like Star Wars' Grogu to the newer Tamagotchi Paradise, which includes a full-color display, and now, there's an official smartphone collab out there to collect too.Bandai Namco teamed up with phone accessories brand Casetify to launch
  
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• CD Projekt Red veteran answers for the crime of The Witcher 3's Skellige, says they tried to add more question marks but couldn't

  03-06-2026 16:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Between The Witcher 3's Skellige isles and the Trial of the Grasses, it's hard to say which caused Geralt more pain. The area is notorious among completionists for being both incredibly dense and remarkably fruitless – packed with question marks to hunt down to tidy up the map, including a lot in the freakin' sea, but not overflowing with interesting or valuable stuff to find. Paweł Sasko, a CD Projekt Red veteran now known as associate game director of Cyberpunk 2 and previously as l
  
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• Avengers: Doomsday directors praise top-secret Doctor Doom costume as their MCU favorite, but remain cryptic as to why: "You'll have to see"

  03-06-2026 16:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avengers: Doomsday directors Joe and Anthony Russo have praised the under wraps costume of Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom, but stopped short of revealing details about the villain's outfit.Speaking at SXSW London (via Variety), the Russos declared Doctor Doom's get-up as their favorite from the Marvel movies they have directed (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame precede the upcoming Doomsday).Joe Russo, though, wasn't k
  
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• Like The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2, CD Projekt Red's new IP Hadar is "an emotional, open-world experience"

  03-06-2026 16:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Witcher and Cyberpunk studio CD Projekt Red has teased a couple more details about its upcoming new IP, Hadar, which is set to be an "emotional, open-world experience."Very little is known about Hadar, which was first announced back in 2022 when it was "in the earliest stages of the creative process." The team is clearly making steady progress, though – this March, CD Projekt joint CEO Michał Nowakowski stated that "the team has established the foundations of this entirely new IP,
  
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• Ubisoft is planning a new, "more adventurous 3D Rayman" game – but only if "everything goes well" with its Rayman Legends Retold remake

  03-06-2026 16:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  One Rayman lead at Ubisoft says that a new 3D Rayman is hopefully going to happen eventually, although it's not confirmed to be the next game in the series.Speaking to GamesRadar+, Rayman Legends Retold brand producer Loïc Gounon explains that when Rayman Origins released, there was a trend of "smaller games, more agile 2D, multiplayer" with the likes of New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Donkey Kong Country Returns. "I think what we're seeing now with Astro Bot, with new 3D platformers, there i
  
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• The Russo brothers say Secret Wars is officially in pre-production, but admit they're still working on Avengers: Doomsday

  03-06-2026 15:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avengers: Doomsday may be edging ever closer, but it seems like it's not very near completion yet. In a new interview, the directors, Joe and Anthony Russo, shared that they're still hard at work on the Marvel Phase 6 movie as well as building up production on their second feature, Avengers: Secret Wars."We're doing some work still on Doomsday and will be until probably they rip it out our hands in November," Joe Russo told Deadline at SXSW London. "That just means they have to give it to other
  
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• Matthew Lillard isn't happy with animation hiring big names over voice actors: "The idea that they keep hiring crappy celebrities to carry huge films is killing us"

  03-06-2026 15:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Scream and Scooby-Doo actor Matthew Lillard has taken aim at Hollywood's tendency to populate animated movies with certain big-name actors who are "not able to carry a part" instead of voice actors."I think Hollywood has made a huge mistake by hiring actors that are not able to carry a part with [their] voice. As an actor, you have full function, your face, your body, you have all these things that you can play on when you're on the screen, but a voice actor has only their voice to work," Lillar
  
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• These incoming Anker Pokemon earbuds have got me charged up for all the wrong reasons

  03-06-2026 14:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tech brand Anker, known for its portable chargers designed for everything from your smartphone to your gaming laptop, announced a new range of Pokémon-themed products, including a set of adorable Pikachu and Eevee earbuds.These best gaming earbud contenders were unveiled as part of the Anker Power Conference 2026 on May 27, and are inspired by Pikachu and Eevee, going as far as to include subtle silhouettes of the classic Gen 1 Pokemon on their charging cases. Their Pokemon inspirations d
  
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