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• Warzone 2 will transfer your COD Points - if you're on the same platform

  16-11-2022 13:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  When Warzone 2.0 launches later today, all your existing COD Points will transfer over - with a few caveats.As CharlieIntel reminded followers with the tweet below yesterday, your COD Points in all current Call of Duty games will transfer over to Warzone 2.0 today on November 16. However, you need to be playing on the same platform for Warzone 2.0 as Modern Warfare 2, or else you'll lose out on COD Points from the latter game.
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• Lego Snoopy is perfect, and I dare you to say it isn't

  18-02-2026 18:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  I don't care what any of you say, because the first Lego Snoopy set is perfect.Actually, I'm happy to make that official right now. The new kit – which is 964 pieces of unadulterated cuteness – features the hound himself alongside his bird buddy Woodstock, a few accessories, and his signature dog house. Lego Snoopy isn't a one-size-fits-all kinda model, either. Like many of the best Lego sets, you can pose it in a variety of ways, including Snoopy's iconic pose lying back and contemp
  
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• New Clair Obscur Expedition 33 photo mode had some “unexpected” issues during development, like deforming Gustave’s head and other “things we don’t want to show”

  18-02-2026 18:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's latest dev blog showcases the development of the recently added photo mode, including "some unexpected and quite funny issues", where characters would become "displaced or deformed."The post highlights Gustave, whose cheeks and chin have melted through his trousers to the floor, and Sophie, whose head is completely detached from her body. While these effects are apparently due to a bug due to characters existing off-screen for a while, there are other funnier intend
  
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• "Smol" - NZXT enters the small-form-factor world with a new H2 Flow ITX gaming PC case that takes the fight to Corsair

  18-02-2026 17:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  After debuting an immediately popular Mini-ATX gaming PC case in 2025, NZXT has doubled down on the smaller PC building market by unveiling its new H2 Flow chassis. For those of us who are rusty on PC size acronyms, ITX is the smallest size of desktop motherboard, which usually means a lot of quirks and unwelcome compromises while trying to cram the beefiest graphics cards, AIO coolers, and up-to-date components inside your gaming PC.As someone who tends to favour these smaller builds, I'm a suc
  
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• Arc Raiders streamer who helped popularize notorious dupe exploit says "oopsies" after getting off with a light warning, leaving fans to question if Embark is serious about fair play

  18-02-2026 17:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios is now taking action against players who used the recently patched duplication glitch that saw ducks get cloned en masse and Trigger Nades rain from the sky, but some are wondering why one popular streamer who helped the exploit surge in virality is getting away with a light warning.While not the first dupe glitch to appear in Arc Raiders, the one in question became essentially impossible to avoid last week before its hotfix, especially after gaining traction
  
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• "Your goldfish has been executed": Helldivers 2 support staff apparently don't take kindly to requests to join the Cyborgs, noting the "dissidence" against Super Earth

  18-02-2026 17:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Cyborgs are attacking in Helldivers 2. Do you understand what a threat to freedom they are? They'll turn us into meat puppets in their endless pursuit for power. They must be stopped and - defection? What? Now. No way. Not if you want to keep that goldfish, anyway.This is the reaction at least one player apparently got when they contacted Helldivers 2's dedicated support staff about jumping sides to join the Automaton empire. As one person found out, the response is swift, cynical, and wholl
  
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• Plane sequel reportedly cancelled after star Gerard Butler decided "last minute" that he "didn't want to go forward with it"

  18-02-2026 17:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  A sequel to Plane, appropriately titled Ship, has been cancelled at Lionsgate after star Gerard Butler reportedly just didn't want to do it."It just, last-minute, Gerard [Butler] decided he didn’t want to go forward with it and there wasn't a lot of discussion about it," star Mike Colter told The Direct. "He just… two weeks out, he pulled out and we were sort of left trying to figure out what to do. And eventually, that dissolved."Directed by Jean-François Richet, Plane stars
  
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• "You did it, we did it": Anime girl horror game with wrestling finishers finally gets Steam release date as Valve caves after ghosting indie dev who made it

  18-02-2026 17:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Solo developer Bad Wish Games has successfully cattle-prodded Valve into releasing their viral, PSX-style horror game Welcome to Doll Town on Steam after seemingly being abandoned by support staff."Ladies and Gentlemen, you did it, we did it," Bad Wish writes in a February 17 Twitter announcement. Welcome to Doll Town was originally meant to launch on February 13, but its new, Valve-approved February 20 release date is close enough. Bad Wish Games just seems glad to be out of the doghouse &ndash
  
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• A Witcher dev accidentally sent one of the RPG's most important characters to the shadow realm, and a tester had to play the entire game again to save him

  18-02-2026 17:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  The original Witcher game hit a major testing roadblock after one of its designers accidentally consigned a notable NPC to the gamedev shadow realm to prevent him from ever showing up in a climactic cutscene.Artur Ganyzyniec, lead story designer on The Witcher 1, has recently been playing through the first game in the series, adding his commentary as he goes. During the final episode, which aired earlier this week, he recounted the story of a major bug that took hours of testing to fix.While che
  
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• Roguelike legend doesn’t know what consoles are even "viable" for his viral cat-breeding game Mewgenics, but Nintendo Switch 2 "seems like the front runner"

  18-02-2026 16:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mewgenics co-creator Edmund McMillen has commented on the roguelike's potential console ports, saying Nintendo Switch 2 will probably be first to the plate.While Mewgenics is tearing it up over on Steam as one of the most popular roguelikes to ever hit the PC storefront, console players are naturally feeling a bit left out from what seems like the first game of the year frontrunner of 2026 (before everyone inevitably gives it to GTA 6). And while its creator already confirmed the roguelike is he
  
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• Determined not to lose the Overwatch players it just won back, Blizzard turns on the free loot tap as server issues plague the hero shooter’s big return event

  18-02-2026 16:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Blizzard is offering Overwatch players in-game compensation after bugs prevented some from completing certain challenges during the Talon x Overwatch event. The completion requirements for other tasks will also be lowered to counteract time lost.A statement on Blizzard's forums informs players that anyone who completed at least one event challenge in the first week of the event will automatically receive in-game compensation. This will include all of the rewards from both faction base passes and
  
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• OG The Witcher lead thinks the Wild Hunt "will probably need to be changed" for the RPG's new remake because they were originally seen as wraiths – not "elves in armor"

  18-02-2026 16:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Although we have The Witcher 4 to look forward to, another exciting prospect is the remake of the first The Witcher that's also coming from CD Projekt Red. Details are relatively limited as of now, but a prominent writer on the original game believes a couple of alterations will be necessary, particularly around the Wild Hunt.In a video providing commentary on The Witcher in real-time, Artur Ganszyniec, the game's lead story designer, speaks about how the current team will likely revisit the myt
  
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• Discord competitor experiencing "incredible surge of new users" following the leading chat platform's controversial age verification announcement: "Hosting capacity has been reached in many regions"

  18-02-2026 15:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Voice chat and messaging platform TeamSpeak has revealed that it has reached its "current hosting capacity" in many regions, including the US, due to an "incredible surge of new users." This reveal comes shortly after its direct competitor, Discord, announced a new age verification policy.Posting on Twitter from the official account, TeamSpeak writes, "With the incredible surge of new users joining TeamSpeak and subscribing to communities, current hosting capacity has been reached in many region
  
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• After 4 years of no Luke Skywalker, Star Wars fans are plotting ways in which he can return to the franchise

  18-02-2026 14:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been four years since we've seen Luke Skywalker, and it's fair to say that Star Wars fans are not taking it well. They're so desperate to see the Force-wielding hero, in fact, that they've started plotting ways in which he could realistically return... from an animated series to recasting Mark Hamill."It's absolutely crazy that it's been over a decade since The Force Awakens and the most we've seen of Luke's Jedi Temple was one episode of a Boba Fett spinoff," one took to Reddit to note, pr
  
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• No Man's Sky's latest patch fixes a bug that's in the top 2 hardest issues the devs have ever had to solve in the survival game: "Apologies this one got through"

  18-02-2026 14:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mere days after No Man's Sky lead Sean Murray teased fans with safety vest emojis before releasing the survival game's massive Remnant update, Hello Games has launched a patch – and it apparently addresses one of the hardest bugs the team has ever fixed.Remnant brought everything from a Garry's Mod-esque gravity gun to spider mechs to the sci-fi survival game – and, sadly, a bug. Not just any bug, though. The bug of all bugs (or, well, one of two bugs that stand as such).Hotfix 6.22
  
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• Hideo Kojima can't help but flex his famous friends as he shares Metal Gear Solid 3 collector's edition book featuring "legendary" contributors like Guillermo del Toro: "The energy we had was incredible"

  18-02-2026 14:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hideo Kojima is reminiscing over the Metal Gear Solid 3 Premium Package, and the impressive list of contributors for its included book.Metal Gear Solid 3 is the best game ever made if you ask me (which you should, because it's true). Over 20 years later, there's a reason the game that was the worst-selling Metal Gear Solid game of the original four entries is one people still talk about to this day, and the one Konami elected to remake with 2025's Metal Gear Solid Delta. And even though he's no
  
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• The Virtual Boy is officially back, but I've got bad news for those of you without the new Switch 2 goggles

  18-02-2026 13:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  I've finally got the new Virtual Boy for Switch 2 parked in front of my face, and I'm pleasantly surprised. Technically speaking, it's not an outright remake of what absolutely isn't Nintendo's best retro console ever, and I was sceptical about the accessory's reliance on the gaming handheld. Yet, it turns out sticking your face up to the portable's screen using lenses actually works a treat, but Ninty really doesn't want you playing without the goggles.Technically speaking, you can load up the
  
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• A new animated steampunk Western show is coming to Netflix from the studio behind X-Men '97

  18-02-2026 13:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  After the success of shows like Long Story Short and Splinter Cell: Deathwatch in 2025, Netflix is continuing to up its adult animation output in 2026. The latest new show to be announced by the streamer is Bass X Machina, a steampunk Western starring Into the Spider-Verse's Brian Tyree Henry.Per the show's official synopsis, "Bass X Machina is set in a lawless Steampunk West overrun by brutal outlaws, machines, and supernatural terrors, where a father is forced to become judge, jury, and execut
  
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• R-rated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie isn't "off the table", says franchise co-creator: "I think it will happen"

  18-02-2026 13:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Even though the Last Ronin Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was scrapped, franchise co-creator Kevin Eastman thinks it might still happen.The comic follows Michaelangelo on a mission to avenge the deaths of Master Splinter and his brothers. An R-rated, live-action adaptation was in the works, and though it was shelved last year, another live-action movie is planned."I don't think the movie's off the table," Eastman told Entertainment Weekly of The Last Ronin. "I think it's just delayed."The or
  
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• Battlefield 6 Season 2 delay "broke that pace" of the FPS' "smooth launch," lead dev admits, but hopes the update will be "the foundation going forward"

  18-02-2026 13:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Battlefield 6 Season 2 is finally here, and producer Phil Girette thinks not only is it the FPS' "strongest season" so far, but it's also going to be "kind of the foundation going forward," hopefully making up for its delay's disruption to the game's "smooth launch."Battlefield 6 Season 2 was meant to launch last month, but Season 1 ended up being extended to "allow extra time to further develop and refine Season 2 as a result of community feedback." Speaking in a recent interview with TechRadar
  
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• Barbarian star hunts down her husband's killer in new Psycho killer clip, and it reminds me of the basement scene in The Silence of the Lambs

  18-02-2026 13:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  2026 has been a great year for horror so far, but it's only going to get more gruesome as new slasher Psycho Killer creeps closer to the big screen. By the looks of a new clip, we're in for a wild ride.In the newly released snippet of Psycho Killer shared by 20th Century Studios on Twitter, Barbarian star Georgina Campbell searches a dingy motel room, where she spots a few chilling details. However, just as she edges closer to the bathroom with her gun drawn, the masked killer jumps out at her,
  
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• Bethesda turns Skyrim's rough Switch 2 launch around with an update that quietly adds 60fps mode, leaving fans on the floor: "I wanna cry, it's beautiful"

  18-02-2026 13:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  After a pretty disastrous launch, Bethesda is making some strong improvements to Skyrim on Switch 2. A new patch actually brings a rather momentous improvement, because it unlocks 60fps on the RPG, and players cannot believe their eyes.In the patch notes for update 1.2 on Switch 2, the top feature is a 60 Hz mode that lets you select to either "Prioritize Visuals" or "Prioritize Performance." Relatively innocuous on its face, the latter does something magic: it unlocks 60fps, in both docked and
  
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• Daniel Radcliffe doesn't want the new Harry Potter actors to always be asked about him, Emma Watson, or Rupert Grint: "I would like not to be some weird spectral phantom"

  18-02-2026 13:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Original Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe has one request to help the new actors in the HBO adaptation settle into their magical roles.After discussing calls to protect the new Harry Potter actors from outside noise in an interview with Screen Rant, Radcliffe commented, "If everyone really means that… one of the things you can do is not ask [them] about us – me, Emma [Watson], and Rupert [Grint] – all the time. I would like not to be some weird spectral phantom in these chi
  
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• New God of War game Sons of Sparta's early Metacritic score places it as the worst in the series, with even the divisive Ascension over 10 points higher

  18-02-2026 12:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  God of War Sons of Sparta's Metacritic score has landed after some early reviews, and so far it's not doing quite as well as the other games in the series.When it comes to open secrets, I don't think there was anyone who didn't know that a 2D God of War game was on the way after what felt like years of rumors, and finally at the PlayStation State of Play last week, Mega Cat Games' God of War Sons of Sparta was shadowdropped featuring a younger Kratos and his brother Deimos as they trained to bec
  
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• Even Chris Hemsworth thinks that they "took the piss" with how goofy Thor: Love and Thunder was: "We were just trying something different"

  18-02-2026 12:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Chris Hemsworth reckons they should have been more "careful" not to take Thor: Love and Thunder's goofy tone too far.During an appearance on the Smartless podcast, the Marvel actor candidly claimed that they "took the piss probably a little too much" with the movie, explaining that they were egged on to push the irreverent humor even further following the reception to its predecessor, Thor: Ragnarok."There's variations. But you do have to be careful because when we made Ragnarok, it was quite a
  
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• Mario fans are trying to work out who the mysterious character is in the new Super Mario Galaxy teaser: "Is that Fox?"

  18-02-2026 12:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  After adding Yoshi and Mouser to its already stacked cast list, it looks like The Super Mario Galaxy Movie may include even more surprise Nintendo cameos, as fans try to work out just who is lurking in the most recent teaser trailer.On February 17, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie released a 30-second-long teaser on Twitter, giving us another look at the upcoming sequel. However, in one frame, there seems to be a new figure standing next to Yoshi wearing a khaki green jacket with white sleeves and a
  
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• Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined convinces Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi to do the unthinkable and drop FF14, at least for now: "Somehow I eventually cracked"

  18-02-2026 12:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hironobu Sakaguchi, the legendary JRPG director behind all of your favorite games in the genre like Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, and Vagrant Story, says he has dived into the latest Dragon Quest entry, explaining that his username 'Auuo' started as his in-game name in the first game of the series.Posting to Twitter, Sakaguchi shares a screenshot of his Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined character, claiming that he "cracked" less than two weeks after the remake's release. As translated by GamesRadar+, h
  
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• Fans are realizing the Scream 7 timeline makes no sense, as the film introduces Sidney's grown-up daughter

  18-02-2026 12:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  With Scream 7 around the corner, fans are puzzling over its biggest mystery, and it has nothing to do with the identity of Ghostface.The film is set to introduce Sidney's grown-up daughter, Tatum, played by Isabel May. The problem is, that would mean Tatum was born before Scream 4, which has fans speculating how that can be possible.After all, no mention is made of Sidney's daughter at any point in the fourth film or beyond, and when we last saw Sidney in Scream 5, she had children, but they app
  
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• Netflix joins the fight against Seedance 2.0, with the streamer targeting AI-generated Stranger Things and Kpop Demon Hunters videos: "[We] will not stand by and watch ByteDance treat our valued IP as free, public domain clip art"

  18-02-2026 12:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hollywood's battle against AI video generator Seedance 2.0 continues.After the actors' union SAG-AFTRA condemned ByteDance, the company behind Seedance 2.0, earlier this week, Netflix has joined Warner Bros., Paramount, and Disney in standing against the Beijing-based brand.Netflix "will not stand by and watch ByteDance treat our valued IP as free, public domain clip art," the streamer wrote in a cease and desist letter yesterday (via Deadline). It's specifically concerned with AI-generated vide
  
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• Arc Raiders' February update gets a release date as players brace themselves for a new map condition, Arc threat, and more when Shrouded Sky launches next week

  18-02-2026 12:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arc Raiders' big February update, Shrouded Sky, now has an actual release date, and after Embark previously teased it'd arrive at some point next week, you'll be pleased to know it's coming sooner rather than later.With an extremely short teaser that gives very little away, Embark now reveals that Arc Raiders Shrouded Sky will launch on February 24, so there's less than a week to wait. That's bound to be a relief for anyone itching for new content, as the studio noted just yesterday that "there'
  
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