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• Why Overwatch's Summer Games Are a Problem

  18-08-2016 20:58
  
  Now that the Summer Games event in Overwatch is coming to a close, I think it’s a great opportunity to reflect on what the event did well and what it got wrong. And moreover, what our feedback as a community means for the future of this game right now.
  First off, I’m in favor of recurring seasonal events, especially for games like Overwatch. The Summer Games provide new attractions for inactive players like Lucioball, rewards for active ones like exclusive skins, and give Overwatch a
  
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• Sam Raimi's Send Help was originally written as a psychological thriller, but the Evil Dead director couldn't help but make it funny during filming: "A lot of comedy showed up!"

  25-01-2026 21:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sam Raimi's new movie Send Help follows a woman and her sexist boss who find themselves fighting for survival on a deserted island after their plane crashes. Sounds pretty grim, right? Well, despite screenwriter duo Damian Shannon and Mark Swift's intentions for the story to be a psychological thriller, Raimi couldn't help but inject a healthy dose of black humor into the movie."It's so much in Sam’s wheelhouse. We worked with his editor, his long-time collaborator Bob Murawski, and Bob is
  
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• Playground Games' Fable has "kind of nicked" The Office's mockumentary-style interviews: "A lot of people assume we just did that for those trailers"

  25-01-2026 18:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  UK-based game maker Playground Games is really, really leaning into the Fable series' signature British wit, even going as far as copying the mockumentary-style interviews pioneered in countless comedy shows like The Office.Cast your mind back and you'll remember the Fable trailer that follows a giant version of Richard Ayoade (of The IT Crowd fame), while he sits down in an interview and waxes lyrical about the nature of heroes. Another has Matt King (AKA Super Hans from The Peep Show) doing th
  
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• Fable's reboot doesn't have morality-based character morphing and fans are divided: "It's what helped set Fable apart from other Middle Ages Western RPGs"

  25-01-2026 18:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  In a big departure for the series, the new Fable won't change your character's appearance based on your morality. So, you won't suddenly grow devil horns after attacking a group of innocents and you won't spawn an angelic halo for your good deeds either, but fans are pretty divided about the feature's absence.Playground Games' general manager and founder Ralph Fulton explained to IGN why morality-based character morphing was gone, arguing that in the new game, "there is no objective good and evi
  
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• Xbox Game Studios lead can't say when State of Decay 3 will rear its head again, but he "will certainly see a lot more of it in the coming year"

  25-01-2026 16:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  State of Decay 3 has been fairly quiet since its announcement five years ago, aside from one brief trailer aimed at its zombie-infested open world in 2024, but the head of Xbox Game Studios has given us a small update on how the survival game's progressing.When we sat down with Xbox Game Studios lead and former Rare boss Craig Duncan to talk about the publisher's multiplatform strategy and Developer Direct reveals, like the gorgeous deep dive on Fable, we took the chance to ask whether State of
  
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• Fable's new morality system is "entirely subjective" and "probably representative of how morality exists in the world that we live in today"

  25-01-2026 15:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Playground Games is doing a lot to adapt classic Fable in modern ways with its upcoming reboot, but that doesn't mean the Forza Horizon maker is being completely faithful. Classic Fable's binary good and evil morality has been hugely overhauled, for instance, partly to represent how "morality exists in the world that we live in today.""We talked about how it kind of felt like some games had moved on in a more sophisticated way to discuss morality," studio general manager Ralph Fulton told GamesR
  
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• The Super Mario Galaxy Movie second trailer really does look out of this world

  25-01-2026 15:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  As promised earlier this week, a fresh new look at the Mario Bros.' next big adventure has arrived via Nintendo Direct. What’s on show should be more than enough to get fans feeling giddy over another trip with that adorable plumber that sounds surprisingly like Star-Lord, and who is, coincidentally, heading out into the galaxy himself.Besides Chris Pratt reprising his role as the legendary hero in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, we've also got Anya Taylor-Joy back as Princess Peach, Charlie
  
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• The Super Mario Galaxy Movie second trailer finally reveals Yoshi and he's adorable

  25-01-2026 15:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  As promised earlier this week, a fresh new look at the Mario Bros.' next big adventure has arrived via Nintendo Direct. What’s on show should be more than enough to get fans feeling giddy over another trip with that adorable plumber that sounds surprisingly like Star-Lord, and who is, coincidentally, heading out into the galaxy himself. Oh, and he's got a new dinosaur friend.Besides Chris Pratt reprising his role as the legendary hero in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, we've also got Anya Ta
  
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• Tom Cruise movie Digger is “nothing like that experience I've ever had before” according to Rogue One star Riz Ahmed

  25-01-2026 11:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  The stupidly talented Riz Ahmed has recently spoken out about the wonders he’s witnessed while on the set of Digger, the new film from director Alejandro G. Iñárritu. After putting together unthinkable projects like one-take wonder, Birdman, and the beautifully bleak western, The Revenant, the director’s new film is a wild and completely original tale, which is a rarity for Cruise, who hasn’t told an original non-IP-based story in over ten years.Digger follows Cru
  
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• Dragon Ball Super: Beerus set to "enhance" Battle of Gods in new anime

  25-01-2026 10:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you thought a new Dragon Ball Super anime was all we were getting this weekend, then you’re in for a wonderful surprise. Besides Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol getting the greenlight at the Dragon Ball Genkidamatsuri event, it’s been announced that the hide-and-seek-hating God of Destruction, Beerus, is also getting some attention in an all-new anime that will revisit his introduction.Released in 2013, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods marked the first appearance of Beerus, wh
  
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• The Strangers – Chapter 3 star hits back at horror fans who slammed Chapters 1 and 2 for not feeling like finished movies: "They're not!"

  25-01-2026 09:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star of the new Strangers trilogy Madelaine Petsch has responded to complaints that previous Chapters 1 and 2 felt unfinished, and hopes that Chapter 3 will give horror fans the answers they are looking for."With the first two films, the biggest complaint I received was 'It doesn't feel like a finished film,'" said Petsch in an interview with SFX Magazine. "And the answer is 'Because it's not!' It's act one, act two, and act three of a giant story. I've never seen that done before, where you're
  
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• New Dragon Ball Super anime announced

  25-01-2026 08:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stock up on your senzu beans and make sure to get some stretches in, as a huge announcement has just been made regarding a brand new Dragon Ball Super anime that’s heading our way. The news was revealed during the Dragon Ball Genkidamatsuri event in Japan, which featured voice actor Masako Nozawa and Dragon Ball producer Akio Iyoku turning up to make an appearance.Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol will be set after the events of Dragon Ball Super’s Universe Survival Arc. This ne
  
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• Spider-Man director Sam Raimi gives thoughts on returning to the franchise

  25-01-2026 07:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  It’s been five years since Tobey Maguire slipped back into his red and blue suit as what many deem the OG Spider-Man (we see you, Nicholas Hammond) in Spider-Man: No Way Home. Ever since then, fans have had high hopes that his take on the wall-crawling menace would swing back into action under the direction of Sam Raimi, potentially giving us the fourth chapter from their take on the character that we never ended up getting. Well, now the director himself has finally cleared up just when w
  
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• Fable lets you enter and even buy any building in its world because that was one of the "requirements that we took from the original games," dev says

  24-01-2026 18:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  The new Fable, this time rebooted by Forza Horizon maker Playground Games, is surprisingly faithful to Lionhead Studios' original classics despite coming more than a decade after the last mainline game, right down to the fact that you can become a property hoarder and buy every single building in the open world of Albion. But the studio's general manager says the feature was basically one of the "requirements" the devs held on to from the first trilogy.Being able to buy any building of course le
  
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• After 5 years, GOG lead says removing cult horror game Devotion from the store is a situation that "remains difficult to reflect on"

  24-01-2026 17:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Digital PC gaming storefront GOG has finally reflected on its decision to delist Devotion five years ago due to political pressure, admitting that the move might have come "at a cost to our credibility."Maciej Gołębiewski, the store's managing director, recently caught some flack for claiming the company was "always ready to take a stand on the right values" in an interview with Eurogamer, after the storefront had resisted pressure and defended controversial indie horror Horses last mo
  
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• Minecraft-like RPG Hytale's second big update adding necromancy is already out as devs work on "several updates in parallel"

  24-01-2026 16:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hytale's only been in early access for 11 days or so, but the dev team have been pumping out patches and updates like there's no tomorrow with no plans to slow down. Just today, the Hytale team released its second update since launch, this time adding necromancy and lots of customization options.The Hytale patch notes lists a whole bunch of new avatar customization options, such as masks, hairstyles, and a toggle to let players change whether their helmet or headpiece is visible.There's a bunch
  
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• Fable's open world contains over 1,000 NPCs, much to the horror of the RPG's art team who had to make a bed for each one of them: "They need what now?"

  24-01-2026 16:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  The upcoming Fable reboot is approaching the original trilogy's whacky life sim elements in an interesting way. Developer Playground Games has handcrafted 1,000 NPCs and dubbed them 'The Living Population' since each of them will apparently react to your heroic or evil landlording deeds differently, much to the horror of the studio's art department, who were then tasked with making 1,000 beds, give or take a few.Speaking to GamesRadar+ about the ambitious fairytale game, studio general manager R
  
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• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters producer says season 2's "exciting" new Titan is "something we haven't seen before"

  24-01-2026 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  One Monarch: Legacy of Monsters producer has teased the upcoming Titan X in season 2.If, like us, you're already monstrously excited for the next instalment of Apple's Godzilla spin-off, then you probably don't need much more convincing. Still, the words of producer Tory Tunnell might have you wishing you had spent the last few months in the Hollow Earth so time could run a little quicker."It's really exciting to launch a new monster here, and with [VFX supervisor] Sean [Konrad's] collaboration,
  
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• Chris Pratt wanted an actual bot to play his AI co-star instead of Dune's Rebecca Ferguson

  24-01-2026 12:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Some stars would jump at the chance to star opposite Rebecca Ferguson, but Chris Pratt originally considered taking a different route when it came to his latest film, Mercy.The new futuristic movie, which is led by the MCU and former Jurassic World star, sees Pratt as a police officer accused of murdering his wife. With his life on the line, our hero gets strapped to a chair and interrogated by an artificial intelligence (Ferguson), who will listen to his plea and decide whether he’s guilt
  
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• Hawkeye season 2 gets a less than promising update from Marvel producer

  24-01-2026 11:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  It seems that while Jeremy Renner’s Avenging Archer might be known for always finding his target, a second season of Hawkeye is one that he seems likely to miss.Originally, it was revealed that plans were in place to reunite us with Clint Barton, but Renner was reluctant due to salary issues. Flash forward to November 2025, and the actor expressed his enthusiasm to draw his bow back again as the hero he’s been playing since 2011, but that it’s "not really my decision to make.&r
  
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• I've played Warhammer for years, but sets like Kill Team: Shadowhunt flip the script enough to keep me locked in

  24-01-2026 11:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Even with the best will in the world, it's easy for a long-running game to grow stagnant – but no-one seems to have told Kill Team that.While it's never going to knock Warhammer 40K off its perch and stock remains an issue, this more streamlined skirmisher continues to swing for the fences with every release. The Bheta-Decima oil rig setting may have been controversial in competitive Kill Team circles, but it gave sessions a drastically different feel and became a breeding ground for memor
  
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• Resident Evil star says Zach Cregger's upcoming video game adaptation is a "comedic" and "crazy" origin story

  24-01-2026 10:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you enjoyed nervously laughing at how much Zach Cregger scared the snot out of you with his exceptional horror, Weapons, last year, then you’ve got a lot to look forward to when it comes to his new Resident Evil movie. In a recent interview with Screen Rant, True Detective: Night Country, and the star of the new film Mercy, Kali Reis, hinted at the kind of tone we can expect when Raccoon City goes under new management. As it turns out, while absolute terror will be a top priority, Cregg
  
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• The Nun director's new horror movie Whistle features a death scene that's so "insane", he'd never seen anything like it on screen before: "I had to reread it"

  24-01-2026 08:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  New horror movie Whistle features a death scene so "insane", director Corin Hardy had to go back and reread it during his first peek at the script.Starring Shaun of the Dead's Nick Frost, Yellowjackets' Sophie Nélisse, and Deadpool and Wolverine's Dafne Keen, the film centers on a group of high school students who unwittingly attract the attention of the Grim Reaper when they blow on an ancient Aztec instrument.Having initially believed that the whistle conjured spirits, they learn the ha
  
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• Palworld lead hits back at claims Pocketpair "dgaf" about its survival hit, jokes "we should drop 1.0 right now, add loot boxes, disable singleplayer, online only then shut it down in 12 months"

  24-01-2026 01:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Palworld's famously outspoken publishing lead John "Bucky" Buckley has responded to those accusing Pocketpair of abandoning its popular open-world survival crafting game, arguing that the updates released and planned in the two years the game's been in early access prove those claims wrong.Over on Twitter, where Bucky likes to share his musings on all sorts of industry issues, the developer quote-tweeted someone claiming Pocketpair "dgaf" about Palworld anymore and that it's become "quite obviou
  
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• Legendary Master Chief actor says he didn't like doing voice work for Halo 5's misleading ads because it made it harder to "stay true to the character"

  24-01-2026 01:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  The iconic voice of Master Chief in Halo, Steve Downes, has spoken out about Halo 5's weirdly misleading promotional videos... more than 10 years later.In case you weren't around or have forgotten, before Halo 5's release in 2015, 343 and Microsoft released various trailers and promotional videos showing all sorts of stuff that would end up not being included at all and in some cases was seriously misleading, specifically Master Chief's relationship with the game's other playable protagonist, Sp
  
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• "We probably should've done something sooner": World of Warcraft director says the MMO's addon changes have been a long time coming, but better late than never

  23-01-2026 23:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  The pre-patch for World of Warcraft: Midnight has rolled out ahead of the expansion's launch in March, and that means the first stage of Blizzard's big revision to UI addons is here. The devs have presented this change as a way to "level the playing field" for players, but there's always been a big question lingering: why now?Addon use goes all the way back to WoW's beta days, senior game director Ion Hazzikostas tells our friends at PC Gamer. "What we started to see 10 years later in Warlords o
  
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• Fallout lead says "spaghetti code" has nothing to do with being a "stupid, lazy programmer" – it happens when developers aren't given enough time: "I'd love to tell you this was hypothetical. It's not"

  23-01-2026 23:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fallout co-creator Timothy Cain wants you to know that unreadable, so-called "spaghetti code" in video games isn't a matter of discipline or genius – developers just never have enough time to do their jobs.He knows this fact well. The former Interplay developer illustrates in a new YouTube video, with an example, he says, "I'd love to tell you [...] was hypothetical. It's not.""Let's say you're working on a game. Let's say it's a role-playing game! Hmm," Cain begins, not-hypothetically. "A
  
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• 13 years after the last installment, Madoka Magica 4 has been delayed once again with fans calling it "the GTA 6 of anime movies"

  23-01-2026 22:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Madoka Magica 4, aka Walpurgisnacht: Rising, has been delayed once again – and some fans are convinced that it might just never come out."We had planned to release the film starting from February 2026, but due to production circumstances, we will be changing the release date," the official Madoka Magica Twitter account wrote. "We will provide further details regarding the new release date within February 2026."The first two Madoka Magica films, Beginnings and Eternal, were released in 2012
  
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• As Beyond Good and Evil fans enter their 18th year of hell, Ubisoft somehow insists the sequel is still in development amid its massive restructure

  23-01-2026 22:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Somehow, Beyond Good and Evil 2 continues to survive wave after wave of turmoil at Ubisoft. First announced way back in 2008, the game's been in various stages of development ever since, and fans have now been waiting 18 years to see it take shape. You might think that, surely, this project would've been one of the casualties of Ubisoft's massive restructure. But no – the publisher insists that the game is still in the works.When it broke down the restructure earlier this week, Ubisoft lis
  
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• Warhorse says it had to ditch historical accuracy for Kingdom Come: Deliverance's crime system as it'd be "too harsh" on "peasant boy" Henry – "Any crime would be punished very severely"

  23-01-2026 22:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you ever get frustrated playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance or its 2025 sequel, just know that things could've been a lot worse had Warhorse decided to make the game's crime system historically accurate.Just think about it. Henry's got enough on his plate as it is. By the beginning of the second game, his hometown is in ruins, his parents are murdered, and he's being thrust against his will into the middle of a brutal conflict between warring kings. The last thing he needs are guards ready to h
  
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