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• When will we reopen the country? Antibody testing may help officials decide, experts say

  12-04-2020 19:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Surgeon General Jerome Adams said Friday that "most of the country" will not be able to open by May 1. How can antibody testing help?
  
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• Without Embracer, Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford "is performing magic tricks at birthday parties for a living," Saber CEO says in belated response to digs made in the looter shooter

  11-08-2026 12:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Saber CEO Matt Karch has belatedly weighed in on Borderlands 4 developer Gearbox taking shots at Embracer, a company that used to own both studios. According to Karch, "without Embracer, Randy is performing magic tricks at birthday parties for a living."A few weeks ago, Saber published a new trailer for its Crazy Taxi riff Rideshare Simulator. At first, there are few things that really catch the eye. The narrator – and our car driver – mentions coming across some odd folk in his line
  
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• Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis and Star Wars Galactic Racer headline Intel's Gamer Days freebie promos, but we're still waiting on some stores

  11-08-2026 12:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Intel's Gamer Days sale is back in action, and this year we have Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis and Star Wars Galactic Racer bundled in for free with select Intel machines and components. You'll have to wait until each title's release (October for Star Wars and a delayed February 2027 for Tomb Raider), but with a combined value of $119.98 these freebies are offsetting a few of 2026's pricing mishaps right now. The promotion began on August 10, hitting everything from gaming laptops to gaming PC
  
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• The Odyssey star hopes Christopher Nolan's rejection of CGI will change how Hollywood movies are made

  11-08-2026 12:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Odyssey star Himesh Patel thinks that Christopher Nolan's movie could help change moviemaking after its success with practical filmmaking techniques. The director is known for eschewing CGI where possible, using tricks like forced perspective and real sets for his movies."I know that Chris Nolan has been known for this for a long time, is his practically driven philosophy, doing as little as possible with CGI," Patel, who plays Eurylochus, told The Romesh Ranganathan Show. "He does use it in
  
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• Chris Evans reveals how they kept his involvement secret in Avengers: Doomsday, and it finally explains one of Marvel's most confusing leaks

  11-08-2026 12:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Chris Evans has revealed his Marvel codename used to keep secret his Steve Rogers return in Avengers: Doomsday, and it explains a confusing leak. Evans's return as Steve Rogers was kept tightly under wraps, until it was finally revealed in the first teaser for the Marvel Phase 6 movie. "Within the script, my character was called Luke Cage just in case things leaked," Evans shared at Fan Expo Boston, adding: "On the call sheets, I was called Luke Cage. Even on set, if I was going to set, they'd b
  
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• Beloved, long out-of-print horror board game is getting a revamp, and I can't wait

  11-08-2026 12:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  The fan-favorite second edition of Arkham Horror is coming back with improved rules, all-new art, and totally different graphic design for the cosmic horror board game. Revealed as part of developer Fantasy Flight's "Vault Series" that revives classic titles, Arkham Horror Remastered takes the long out-of-print second edition board game and gives it a drastic makeover for an October 2026 launch. While the visuals are different, its gameplay is still the same; the project has simply been "upgrade
  
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• Ayaneo reveals yet another GBA clone colorway, but I'm not sure why it waited until it sold over 15,000 handhelds sold to do so

  11-08-2026 12:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ayaneo is embracing a weird drip-feed strategy with its KONKR Pocket Advance. Not only did it break up its GBA clone handheld into a sprinkling of breadcrumb teasers post-launch, but it's now slowly revealing new colorways that apparently over 15,000 of you missed out on.Psst, there's already great GBA clones out thereThe KONKR Pocket Advance looks pretty neat, but there's already a bunch of GBA-inspired handhelds out there, including the Anbernic RG34XX that hits many of the same 2000s notes fo
  
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• Negan star says he almost walked away from The Walking Dead after Dead City season 2 because his character lost his "humor and charisma"

  11-08-2026 11:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Since being introduced in the unforgettable The Walking Dead season 6 finale, Negan has become a staple in the zombie franchise. But star Jeffrey Dean Morgan says there was one point when he almost walked away from the character."I felt like last year we really got bogged down in [The Walking Dead: Dead City] season 2. Negan especially, from my point of view, all I did was cry, and he’d lost his charisma and everything that made him Negan," said Morgan on the Happy Sad Confused podcast.Set
  
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• Marvel's Spider-Man 2 makes $11m in 2 weeks on PS5 and Steam thanks to Brand New Day, reports analyst: "One of the clearest transmedia halo effects we've ever measured"

  11-08-2026 11:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been nearly three years now since Marvel's Spider-Man 2 first launched back in 2023 on PlayStation 5, and over a year since it dropped on PC – but it's seeing quite a spike in players now, and it might all be thanks to Spider-Man: Brand New Day.The latest movie in Tom Holland's lineup of Spider-Man adaptations has been making rounds in theaters for a couple of weeks now, already standing as the highest-grossing movie of the year – but it's not just having an impact on the film e
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Clea actor finds it "fascinating" that RPG fans give her character "more grace" than Baldur's Gate 3's Lae'zel

  11-08-2026 11:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite playing "questionable" characters in both Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, voice actor Devora Wilde says she found it "fascinating" how differently the pair were treated by fans.Speaking to IGN, Wilde says, "What I've found is that even though Clea is a questionable character, people have been willing to give her more grace - a lot more grace - than people have with Lae'zel. And I find that so fascinating."Players' comments and reaction across the two games differ substan
  
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• The Walking Dead star Jeffrey Dean Morgan lost a role in Reservoir Dogs to Quentin Tarantino: "I still can't believe it"

  11-08-2026 11:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jeffrey Dean Morgan has recalled losing out on a Reservoir Dogs role to the director himself, Quentin Tarantino.Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Morgan revealed he was up for the role of Mr. Brown, one of the anonymous crew set to pull off a daring diamond heist.As he tells it, Morgan felt he aced the audition. "I did the scene, and he was like Quentin, very excited, leaning forward in his chair, doing his whole thing," Morgan said.The Walking Dead star continued, "He pulled me into t
  
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• Cut Spider-Man: Brand New Day cameo star Rosario Dawson said she had a social media post with her grandson "ready to go" before she found out it was axed

  11-08-2026 11:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rosario Dawson has addressed her cut Spider-Man: Brand New Day cameo, revealing she had a post ready to go on Instagram before she heard the news. The actor, who plays Claire Temple in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, was due to appear in the new film before her part was ultimately left on the editing room floor."When I tell you my post was already ready with my BTS, with my grandson wearing all his Spider-Man stuff because he loves Spider-Man, then I got the email," she told the crowd at Galaxy C
  
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• After 10 years of No Man's Sky updates, Sean Murray says "if people keep playing it, I could work on this forever"

  11-08-2026 10:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Somehow, No Man's Sky is 10 years old. I remember its launch like it was yesterday, walking across the street to Game Store™ from my then-place of work, the heels of my shoes threatening to melt into the gravel on another sweltering August in Phoenix afternoon, nonetheless determined to pick up the new space survival game everyone was talking about. It was a little barebones, but I loved the sense of vast loneliness and freedom of exploration. Today, it's like a whole different game, and i
  
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• Bethesda veteran says Oblivion Remastered can't be called a remake, unlike Final Fantasy 7 and Resident Evil 2 which are "completely new games"

  11-08-2026 02:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Last year's The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered did a lot more than slap a fresh coat of paint on the 2006 RPG, with environments (but not necessarily character models) that look straight out of a 2026 AAA release, but as anyone who's played the original game knows, it's still very much Oblivion, lovable jank and all. While there was a lot of deliberation about what and what not to modernize during development, Todd Howard and co. drew a hard line between remaster and full-blown remake, opt
  
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• Chill shop sim about repairing off-brand PS1s makes its budget back "within 12 hours" and earns $3 million days after launch

  10-08-2026 23:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  You run an electronics shop in mid-'00s Tokyo, and it's your job to meet with all kinds of oddball anime characters and repair off-brand PS1s and Polaroid cameras for them. That's the pitch for ReStory, and if that pitch has you rushing to check out this new indie game on Steam, you're not alone.ReStory launched on August 6, and within 12 hours it had already made its budget back. That's according to Alex Nichiporchik, CEO of publisher tinyBuild, who shared some detailed stats about the game's r
  
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• 2 years later, famous Palworld bug returns in 1.0 to bless players with a giant Sekhmet "at least 200x her normal size"

  10-08-2026 23:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Two years ago, right around the time of Palworld's early access launch, we reported on a highly amusing bug that caused a Lucky Vixy to balloon in size and take up an entire base. Well, Palworld's 1.0 update is truly a full-circle moment for the game and GamesRadar+, as here we are more than two years later covering the return of the gigantic Pal bug, which we love."I picked up Sekhmet and she became bald (until thrown down) and at least 200x her normal size," reads a post from Reddit user Ranid
  
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• As GTA 6 anticipation builds and the games industry buckles, Take-Two boss says "I don't love winning by attrition, but I'll take it"

  10-08-2026 23:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  With EA officially private under Saudi ownership, Rockstar owner Take-Two is now comfortably the largest publicly traded game company in the US, as GamesBeat points out in a recent interview with T2 CEO Strauss Zelnick. On this point, Zelnick says, "I don't love winning by attrition, but I'll take it." Zelnick examines the landscape of the games industry, which has been rattled by ceaseless layoffs, record acquisitions, widespread cancellations, persistent funding droughts, and other systemic is
  
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• "It's time to sue Sony": Stop Killing Games joins lawsuit over PlayStation's digital "monopoly" amid death of physical games

  10-08-2026 22:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stop Killing Games has joined an ongoing legal effort in the Netherlands pushing against PlayStation's alleged "monopoly" over digital game sales on its platform. While the lawsuit primarily concerns digital game pricing, the end of physical media has exacerbated worries over Sony's ability to fix its own prices.A Dutch consumer rights organization called Stichting Massaschade & Consument has been preparing this lawsuit since 2024 as part of its "Fair PlayStation" campaign. "Sony has a monop
  
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• Xbox finally fixes bug that made it impossible to play physical games while exec promises "to improve reliability of our products"

  10-08-2026 22:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Xbox has apparently fixed the bug that contributed to some players being unable to launch games, including those on physical discs, in a new update it's deploying. Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet hopes the fix sticks – and that Xbox products in the future won't be so sensitive.Van Vliet is one of Xbox Game Studios CEO Asha Sharma's many new executive recruits – he's been the CTO since May, and he oversaw Microsoft's Azure OpenAI business product before that. So no wonder he sounds nervous.
  
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• Overwatch's huge "battle pass revamp" is out tomorrow and makes things a lot more complicated but, seemingly, better

  10-08-2026 22:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  If the Overwatch battle pass already made your eyes glaze over with its multilayered doodads and rewards, cover your eyes now, because Blizzard is about to make it substantially more complicated – but also better, if Blizzard plays its cards right. The Overwatch "battle mass revamp" will arrive tomorrow, August 11, as producer director Chris McCabe explains in a newly minted blog post. You can also see a bit of the new BP in action in the new Season 4 trailer (below).With it, Blizzard is s
  
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• Oblivion intern tried to outsmart Bethesda's AI and was stunned when his apple murder strategy actually worked: "I can't believe you accounted for this"

  10-08-2026 20:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  One of the most delightful elements of a good open-world RPG is the way you can bend and sometimes break systems to your will, giving you the freedom to approach and think about obstacles independently from the intended design. The Elder Scrolls games have been masterclasses in emergent gameplay for decades, as evidenced by a fun new anecdote from Bethesda Game Studios veteran and The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered art lead Dan Lee, who joined the studio shortly after OG Oblivion's announc
  
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• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic devs were so committed to the RPG's bad language that they spent a day watching the films to prove Lucasfilm wrong

  10-08-2026 19:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  One Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic dev spent an entire day scrubbing through the films in search of a specific word that Lucasfilm said the RPG team wasn't allowed to use.In an interview with FRVR, BioWare's Mark Darrah - who didn't work on KOTOR but was active at the studio and eventually helped make MMO The Old Republic - said that Lucasfilm had a specific problem with the RPG's language. Specifically, they didn't like the use of the word 'damn', which they claimed wasn't something tha
  
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• "I think we have to do" Persona 1 and 2 Remakes, says Persona 4 Revival producer

  10-08-2026 19:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Persona 4 Revival producer and Persona series veteran Kazuhisa Wada says "we have to do" Persona 1 and 2 remakes at some point.Speaking with GamerBraves, Wada maintains his position as the patron saint of the very few people who still remember that Atlus' most popular JRPG series did not begin with Persona 3, but rather with Revelations: Persona, Persona 2: Innocent Sin, and Persona 2: Eternal Punishment. Asked about remakes of the original Persona games, Wada responds, "At this point, I can't s
  
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• 25 years later, Hideki Kamiya says he'd make another Devil May Cry game just to clear up some deep-cut lore

  10-08-2026 19:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been seven years since the last Devil May Cry game was released, and 25 years since legendary developer Hideki Kamiya was at the helm of the series. Kamiya moved onto other projects after directing the original DMC, but he's now teasing fans on social media with the possibility of a return to the series – an idea that's all the more tantalizing given his recent reunion with Capcom.Over the weekend, a fan asked Kamiya on social media about some deep cut lore in the original Devil May C
  
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• No Man's Sky lead planned to show more Light No Fire, but "why do any marketing" when it's already topping Steam wishlists

  10-08-2026 18:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  In a complete 180 from its notoriously hype-driven marketing strategy for No Man's Sky, Hello Games has been quiet about its next release, Light No Fire. The studio's chosen not to do any major showcases – partly because it doesn't need to.Sean Murray, Hello Games' founder, explained to Kotaku in a new interview that Light No Fire has hardly appeared since 2023 because, "We've like shot up the Steam wishlist charts; we're like number two on there," he says. "And I was just like, 'OK, that'
  
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• Terraria's biggest mod, Calamity, is shutting down after 10 years over what the makers call a "troubled past" and "irrecoverably tainted reputation"

  10-08-2026 18:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's officially the end of an era, folks – beloved Terraria mod Calamity is officially coming to a close, with developers confirming they'll no longer be continuing development on the fan project from here on out.Terraria first launched on PC in 2011, with Calamity following in 2016. It quickly grew to become the survival-sandbox game's most iconic mod, with millions of downloads worldwide.
  Heck, it's even spurred spin-off mods (don't ask me how many I've browsed myself) and a downright ma
  
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• Gearbox owner Take-Two is "thrilled" with Borderlands 4 even though some fans weren't thrilled with it at launch

  10-08-2026 18:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Borderlands 4 had a lot of trouble on PC even months after its September 12, 2025 launch date – and some players still complain about its lack of optimization – but it still sold well, so parent company Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick isn't concerned for the future of Gearbox's looter shooter franchise. Zelnick tells IGN plainly that the game's commercial "performance has not affected our plans at all." He references Borderlands 4's ongoing Bounty Pack launches, its paid DLC with cosme
  
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• With an even bigger caveat than Capcom and Sony, Square Enix reports 90% of its game sales are digital ahead of Final Fantasy 7 Revelation release

  10-08-2026 18:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  The games industry will undergo a sea change in early 2028, with Sony ceasing production of PlayStation discs. Despite the pushback on this decision, it remains in place, and data from Square Enix certainly affirms that the gaming audience is already going digital.According to the company's latest earnings report, significantly more players are already purchasing their games digitally. In a slide breaking down units sold across video games in digital entertainment, we can see that 90.11% of all
  
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• "Expect fake messages" - Valve's EU shipping partner suffers a data breach, so if you bought a Steam Machine or Steam Controller, you may need to be on guard

  10-08-2026 18:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Customers who bought a Steam Controller or Steam Machine in Europe may have had their data stolen, as Valve has issued a warning to its customers in the region telling them to "expect fake messages". Thankfully, no one who ordered the best PC controller or best gaming PC contender has had their payment details breached, but more basic information could still lead to trouble. "Between July 29 2026 and August 1, 2026, a cyberattack hit CEVA Logistics, the company that ships Steam hardware to custo
  
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• With gen AI assets cut from Assassin's Creed creator's new game demo, lead admits "we didn't even realize it was AI anymore because we were used to seeing it"

  10-08-2026 18:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Patrice Désilets has doubled down on promises to remove all AI-generated assets from 1666: Amsterdam and stop using them altogether, with the developer apologizing for the slip and providing reassurance that it won't happen again."We live in a world full of AI. Let's be honest, just between ourselves," Désilets says. "But there were some [aspects] that we didn't retouch enough in the pipeline, and since then, we made sure that there will not be any use of AI anywhere in the game."T
  
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