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• We got a Rockstar doormat before GTA 6: Rockstar drops new merch for GTA, Red Dead Redemption, and Bully ahead of the holidays

  06-12-2025 01:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rockstar has released a bunch of new official merch including t-shirts, candles, pins, and even a doormat, presumably in anticipation of holiday shoppers, and shockingly, it has decided not to shadow-drop GTA 6 in tandem.Over on Rockstar's official website, the company announced and showed off its new gear, and unfortunately, there's quite a bit that I actually like. The Varsity Collection of sweatshirts, brandishing the Rockstar Games logo in a varsity yellow stitching, look classy in all three
  
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• Like some sort of handheld necromancer, this modder just transformed the Wii U Gamepad into a Switch Lite, and I both love and hate it

  08-12-2025 17:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  I am a certified Wii U enjoyer, but I'm not remotely sad about the Wii U gamepad being dead and buried. So, when I happened upon a handheld modder's project that resurrects the cursed controller using a Switch Lite, it's safe to say I was equally horrified and fascinated.Created by KOUZEX, the modder shows off their "Ultimate Switch U" console while detailing the process. As you can imagine, there's more to this project than shoving the Switch into a Wii U Gamepad shell, even if we are talking a
  
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• New Analogue 3D "Funtastic" console colors are inbound with matching controllers

  08-12-2025 17:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Analogue 3D only just arrived on the scene, but the 4K N64 maker just announced a bunch of new colors. Inspired by Nintendo's 2000s "Funtastic" retro console range, 8Bitdo has also conjured up matching translucent controllers, but equally excited to hear the regular edition will soon be back in stock.Available in "highly limited" quantities for $299, the "Analogue 3D Funtastic" range includes translucent orange, red, purple, teal, green, white, and smoke grey models of the FPGA N64 remake. T
  
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• Fallout and Elder Scrolls boss Todd Howard reads "a lot" of Reddit, says seeing fans' thoughts line up with what Bethesda is doing gives "confidence to lean in more on some of those things"

  08-12-2025 16:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you find yourself posting a lot about Fallout on Reddit, it sounds like there's a decent chance that Bethesda veteran Todd Howard has seen your thoughts, as he confirms that "I read a lot of it."In a recent interview with GameCentral (below) about season two of the Fallout TV series on Prime Video, executive producer Jonathan Nolan, co-showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet, and Howard are asked if they keep up with Fallout theories and discussions on Reddit. While Nolan and Robertson-Dworet aren
  
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• Zack Snyder shares another picture of Henry Cavill as Superman and hopes for "many more stories together"

  08-12-2025 16:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Zack Snyder has shared another photo of Henry Cavill on social media, as well as his hopes for "many more stories together.""Today marks a little milestone on this wild Instagram journey – 500k followers in just over two months!" Snyder wrote alongside the photo of Cavill. "I just want to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who’s joined along the way. For me, these characters are a kind of modern mythology, and I put a ton of reverence and respect into bringing them to life. Seeing
  
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• I tried a wireless sim racing wheel, but I'd only recommend it for junior racers this Christmas

  08-12-2025 16:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sim racing sounds great on paper, but unless you have a dedicated space for a cockpit chair, pedals, and a wheel, it demands a lot of faff. Setting it all up when you want to use it is a pain, making sure the pedals aren't going to slide away from you as you stomp down the brake is a classic problem, and bolting one of the best PC racing wheels to your desk could cause a monitor to vibrate its way to the floor.I really wish there were more accessible solutions out there, and thankfully, Turtle B
  
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• Ex-Sony boss Shuhei Yoshida says Japanese devs likely can't keep up with Chinese games: "They are made in an environment which allows for hiring a large number of personnel who can work long hours"

  08-12-2025 16:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Shuhei Yoshida, the former head of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios at PlayStation, thinks it's going to be tough for Japanese studios to keep up with the scale of development in China, which is powering rising hits like Genshin Impact all over the world. In part, that's because of "legal problems" that might prevent Japanese studios from hiring massive numbers of developers to work the same extensive hours they might at a studio like MiHoYo."The development speed in China is ama
  
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• Fallout 4 is actually "quite a hopeful story," according to Todd Howard, who believes the whole series is lowkey optimistic: "Every character, what will they do to survive?"

  08-12-2025 15:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  On the surface, the Fallout series mightn't seem particularly optimistic, taking place in a post-nuclear wasteland, as it does. Todd Howard, Bethesda boss and director of two entries in the franchise so far, believes they're ultimately quite inspiring, in their own way.He explained his logic during an interview with GameCentral. "Fallout 4 is quite a hopeful story, and I think that’s a thread underneath it all," he says. "Through it, every character, what will they do to survive? Do you ag
  
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• Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake reveal could be imminent, fan theory suggests, as Steam updates could point to Ubisoft being up to something following recent release window rumors

  08-12-2025 15:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Could Ubisoft be gearing up to finally announce a Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag remake? One fan theory suggests that could be the case, as the original game has been receiving regular behind-the-scenes updates on Steam.One of the biggest open secrets in games as of late is that an Assassin's Creed 4 remake is apparently on the way. Ubisoft already confirmed remakes of "older Assassin's Creed games" are in the works, and Edward Kenway actor Matt Ryan dropped a not-so-subtle hint that Black Flag
  
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• Razer's levelled-up Gengar PC collection is an almost perfect Pokemon set, but where is that keyboard?

  08-12-2025 15:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  The official Razer Pokemon Gengar Collection launched exclusively in Asia last year, and ever since I first caught a glimpse of the pretty and purple peripherals, I dreamt it would release elsewhere. My dream finally became a reality when the Gengar Kraken Kitty V2 headset launched in the US and UK earlier this year, but the rest of the collection had yet to show its grinning face.Razer finally released the matching Gengar Edition Cobra gaming mouse and the Gigantus V2 mouse mat during October t
  
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• Warner Bros. founder's grandson says the studio's Netflix sale "does not sit well with me": "The idea of only making 'content' is such a low bar for the medium of film and TV"

  08-12-2025 13:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  The grandson of Warner Bros.' founder Jack Warner has expressed concerns over the studio's sale to Netflix, and what it means for the future of its film distribution."The potential sale of WBD does not sit well with me," Gregory Orr told The Hollywood Reporter last week, before the sale was confirmed on Friday (December 5). "The industry stands at a crossroads and Netflix does too. It would be buying the deep assets of WB, which includes a successful creative management team and an unmatched the
  
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• Lords of the Fallen boss says the viral Game Awards teaser isn't pointing to the Soulslike RPG's sequel, but "devs are praying" it's something from FromSoftware

  08-12-2025 13:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Folks, we can cross off yet another game from the list of things that The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley may or may not be teasing with his mysterious statue, as Lords of the Fallen studio's CEO denies it pointing to CI Games' upcoming Soulslike sequel.As we get ready for The Game Awards later this week, the internet has been flooded with speculation over what Keighley might be hinting at. Ever since he shared a picture of some kind of door-like statue (starring a bunch of skeletons) with the w
  
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• David Corenswet says he was "really was not expecting" to even get an audition for Superman, and thought the call was for Top Gun 3: "It feels completely impossible"

  08-12-2025 13:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  It is not a huge surprise to hear that David Corenswet was shocked when he first found out he had been cast as Superman, but the star thought the role was so out of reach that when he got a call back to audition, he thought it was for Top Gun 3."When I got the audition, I was standing on a ladder changing a light fixture. My agent said, “We think you know what this is about." I said, "Is it Top Gun 3? What am I waiting for?" said Corenswet to Wicked: For Good star Jonathan Bailey, as part
  
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• After beating Superman, Zootopia 2 has now outgrossed Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle and Jurassic World Rebirth with a massive $915.8 million

  08-12-2025 13:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Zootopia 2 has already outgrossed Superman, and now it has surpassed Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle and Jurassic World Rebirth, too.The animated Disney sequel currently stands at a worldwide total of $915.8 million, per Deadline. That means it has sailed past Demon Slayer's $768.9 million and Jurassic World Rebirth's $868.9 million. It also has A Minecraft Movie's $957.9 million in its sights, since Deadline predicts Zootopia 2 will hit the billion-dollar mark this week.That's not a huge surprise
  
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• Not even Hideo Kojima knows what his new horror game OD will be like, but it'll be different from Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding: "I can't say exactly what it is yet, nor do I know if it will work out"

  08-12-2025 12:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Metal Gear and Death Stranding mastermind Hideo Kojima isn't one to rest on his laurels. Despite Death Stranding 2 coming out this year, he's knee deep in another project, the mysterious horror game OD. Ambitious and star-studded, OD is such a swing for Kojima Productions, he's not actually sure how it'll pan out."I can't say exactly what it is yet, nor do I know if it will work out," he tells ananweb, as translated by Automaton. "We've created stealth games and delivery games which were unlike
  
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• Fallout season 3 expected to start filming next summer as director Jonathan Nolan criticizes TV's "unfortunate trend" of widening the gap between seasons

  08-12-2025 12:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ahead of the release of Fallout season 2 next week, the show's executive producer Jonathan Nolan has addressed the timeline for the next installment, and he has great news for fans – filming for the new episodes is expected to start next summer, which could mean a 2027 release date."With regards to production, we're hoping to be shooting again next summer," Nolan told IGN. "We'll see if that all comes together, best laid plans, and all. But I'm excited that, though the scope of the show fe
  
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• Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada is leaving Bandai Namco after 31 years: "I felt this was the most fitting moment to bring one chapter to a close"

  08-12-2025 12:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Longtime Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada is leaving Bandai Namco at the end of 2025 after a 31-year stint at the company.Harada, who has been with the series since the beginning and directed Tekken 3, Tag Tournament, 4, 5, and 7 – and produced a number of Bandai Namco titles – announced his departure on Twitter, saying, "With the Tekken series reaching its 30th anniversary – an important milestone for a project I've devoted much of my life to – I felt this was the
  
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• James Gunn wanted to make one change to David Corenswet's Superman performance that the actor refused to back down on: "I was like, 'No!'"

  08-12-2025 12:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Superman star David Corenswet says that director James Gunn had one note about his performance that he refused to take on board – and it involved Superman and Lois' climactic levitating kiss."I was like, “Oh, shit” when I saw your kiss at the end [of Superman]," Wicked: For Good's Jonathan Bailey said to Corenswet during Variety's Actors on Actors. "My favorite moment of chemistry is the chuckle."The movie's final showdown between Superman and Lex Luthor is followed by the film
  
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• Stephen King fans say It: Welcome to Derry has the "greatest depiction of Pennywise in any media format," making up for It: Chapter 2: "Mr. Muschietti, I’m sorry for doubting you"

  08-12-2025 12:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  With the finale now less than one week away, fans are celebrating Bill Skarsgård's performance as Pennywise in It: Welcome to Derry, saying episode 7 includes one of the best interpretations of Pennywise the Clown ever seen on screen.Warning, the following contains slight spoilers for It: Welcome to Derry episode 7, so turn back now if you have not yet caught up, but make sure to read our spoiler-free It: Welcome to Derry review first.The penultimate episode of It: Welcome to Derry, titled
  
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• Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 lead says the Highwind is an important part of the upcoming RPG, and it sounds like Square Enix is close to deciding on a name

  08-12-2025 12:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 may not have an official name yet, but its leads are honing in on it, and are set to make their decision by the end of the year.Speaking in an interview with YouTube content creator Julien Chièze (below), Final Fantasy Remake co-director and Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi confirms that – at the time of the interview – he and Tetsuya Nomura (also co-director on Remake, and creative director of Rebirth) were weighing up two different options for t
  
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• Five Nights at Freddy's 2 had the second-biggest opening weekend of the year for a horror movie at the box office, but fell short of the first film

  08-12-2025 11:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Horror movies are having a spectacular year at the box office, with Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 becoming the latest record-breaking success in the genre. During its first weekend, the sequel grossed $63M domestically and $109M worldwide, becoming the second-biggest horror opening of the year only after Conjuring: Last Rites.Per Deadline, the film has also snatched the biggest opening for a post-Thanksgiving theatrical release, the top opening for a December horror release – beating Scr
  
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• Some KPop Demon Hunters fans have noticed mysterious "bonus content" coming soon on Netflix

  08-12-2025 11:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Some KPop Demon Hunters fans might have discovered hidden bonus content on Netflix.A fan took to Twitter to share a screenshot of their Netflix page, which, after they searched for KPop Demon Hunters, revealed a blank space for "KPop Demon Hunters Bonus Content." While we can't find the same title on the streamer, they also screen recorded their search for the mysterious bonus content, which shows the title appearing.YALL THE FUCKING KPDH SHORT IS COMING. pic.twitter.com/c2ekSC21imDecember 6, 20
  
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• James Gunn shares the first Supergirl teaser ahead of the full trailer, and it already looks very different to Superman

  08-12-2025 11:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ahead of a trailer arriving later this week, DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn has shared a brief teaser for Supergirl – and already, it couldn't look more different to Superman.In the clip, which you can see below, we see Milly Alcock's Supergirl sitting in a field as a spacecraft of some kind lands near her. She's wearing jeans, a coat, and sunglasses instead of her costume, and she looks totally unbothered by whatever's going on.Teaser trailer this week. #Supergirl pic.twitter.com/R9a44CwIPr
  
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• The Witcher star Freya Allan is glad the show relied on the books to adapt the slaughter of the Rats: "There are sometimes certain things that Netflix is afraid to bring to life"

  08-12-2025 11:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Witcher star Freya Allan has addressed the brutally violent end of season 4, saying that she's "glad" Netflix "stuck to the books" for that pivotal scene.You can read all about what happened in our The Witcher season 4 ending explained, but if you haven't caught up with the show yet, you might want to stop reading – we're going to talk heavy spoilers now.In the last episode of the season, The Rats go face to face with the bounty hunter Leo Bonhart (played by Sharlto Copley), and they g
  
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• Fallout season 2 will "avoid" outright confirming which New Vegas ending is canon because "we didn't want to contradict anyone's experiences playing the games"

  08-12-2025 10:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fallout's co-showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet has revealed that the New Vegas-set second season of the show won't reveal which of the endings from 2010's Fallout: New Vegas is canon."The discussions [Bethesda's] Todd [Howard], [executive producer Jonathan Nolan], and [co-showrunner Graham Wagner] and the whole creative team had was that we wanted to avoid making one particular ending correct [from] any of the games," Robertson-Dworet tells GamesRadar+.For the avoidance of doubt, both Todd Howa
  
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• It: Welcome to Derry episode 7 finally settles Stephen King fans' 40-year Bob Gray debate

  08-12-2025 04:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Well, it's official: Bob Gray was a real person. Over the 40 years since It was published, Stephen King fans have tirelessly debated where the human-sounding name the eponymous evil entity occasionally might have come from – and it turns out, the answer is heartbreaking.Many assumed "Bob Gray" was just another guise the shapeshifting It adopted in order to move more stealthily around Derry, a costume, just like Pennywise. Said theory was backed up, somewhat, by an admittedly confusing scen
  
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• Spider-Verse star Daniel Kaluuya gives update on his standalone Spider-Punk movie

  07-12-2025 20:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  If there’s one thing that fans were left hungry for after Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, besides a third film, it was more of Daniel Kaluuya’s brilliant take on Spider-Punk, aka Hobie Brown. The laid-back Londoner who was keen to bring down the establishment stole the show, making it understandable why the Oscar winner was eager to explore the character further in a standalone story for the webslinger with a worn and torn costume.It was announced back in August that Kaluuya wou
  
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• Jon Bernthal promises a seamless switch between Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Punisher Special Presentation

  07-12-2025 14:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  It’s strange to think that, after a decade since his debut, Jon Bernthal’s Frank Castle will finally make his big screen appearance, facing off against Tom Holland’s Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. While details about the wall-crawler's next chapter in the MCU are still being kept under wraps, one thing we do know is that Bernthal’s bruiser of a vigilante will have his own story coming to Disney+ soon after, as a special presentation.Naturally, the expectation
  
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• Resident Evil Requiem's GameStop listing seemingly leaks a second playable character and, no, it sadly isn't Leon Kennedy

  07-12-2025 13:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ever since Resident Evil Requiem's initial reveal showed a return to Raccoon City, theories and rumors about series' icon Leon Kennedy being the game's second playable character have been pretty much everywhere on the internet. Now, in an interesting switcharoo, a leak suggests that, yes, RE9 does have a second playable character but, no, it isn't Leon. (Potential spoilers ahead!)A GameStop listing for Resident Evil Requiem's Deluxe Steelbook Edition on PC makes mention of one Rosemary Winters,
  
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• Assassin's Creed Shadows backlash won't stop Ubisoft from going down the dual-protagonist route in the future "if we have a good reason to do it"

  07-12-2025 13:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Shadows was the subject of both heated fan debate and gross toxicity from online culture war warriors, but associate game director Simon Lemay-Comtois recently said all the drama hasn't scared Ubisoft away from making a game with dual protagonists in the future if it makes sense to do so."Dual protagonists can be divisive along very strange lines, right?" Lemay-Comtois said of the discourse around Naoe and Yasuke in an interview with GamesRadar+. "It's not just a 'Well, I prefer
  
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