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• WWE 2K18 Has a PC Release Date

  25-09-2017 20:42
  For the first time in the WWE 2K series' history, WWE 2K18 will be released on PC at the same time it is being released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The latest game in the popular pro wrestling series will be available on Steam, and at other PC game retailers, starting October 17.
  Both the standard and deluxe editions of the game will be available on that date. However, PC games will not have the ability to take advantage of the Early Access Deluxe Edition perk. That being said, if you preord
  
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• Indie pirate game overtakes Pragmata with swashbuckling Sea-of-Thieves-meets-Rust Steam Next Fest demo as devs celebrate 1 million wishlists: "A few weeks ago, we couldn't even have imagined this"

  24-02-2026 15:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Windrose, a new pirate-themed open world survival crafting game that lets players fight on both land and sea, has overtaken Pragmata during Steam Next Fest with its free demo – and landed on over a million wishlists to boot.Steam Next Fest is here, which means plenty of demo-shaped shenanigans are upon us as players discover what might just be their next favorite game – and I'd say Windrose will be that game for many folks, judging by how the event is going so far.
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• Toy Story 5 actor says to "bring tissues" when going to see the new animated sequel, and now we're scared

  24-02-2026 14:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  It sounds as though Toy Story 5 may be the most emotional installment yet, as the voice actor behind Bonnie's mom warns fans to prepare themselves.Whilst announcing her return in the upcoming animated sequel, voice actor Lori Alan posted on Twitter, "See you June 19! And bring tissues. Love, Bonnie's Mom."Immediately, we are wondering what in Toy Story 5 might make moviegoers cry. Throughout the franchise, the saddest moments have come from characters saying goodbye or leaving each other, such a
  
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• "There are a zillion demos in this Steam Next Fest," Palworld lead says, and "I don't feel very compelled" to check out any that feature AI art

  24-02-2026 14:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  John 'Bucky' Buckley, head of publishing and communications at Palworld developer Pocketpair, has spoken out about the numerous demos that are part of Steam Next Fest that feature AI art as their main promotional image, better known as a capsule.Steam Next Fest has just begun, featuring almost 4,000 demos of upcoming games. As the event will run for just a week, it would be impossible to try them all, or even play just the ones you're interested in. With no limit to the number of demos you can d
  
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• Neve Campbell says Scream 7 won't be "as gory" as Scream 5 and 6, and feels like those sequels went "off path" from Wes Craven's original vision

  24-02-2026 13:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Original Scream star Neve Campbell has promised that Scream 7 will return to what franchise creator Wes Craven had in mind for the slasher saga after recent sequels went a little "bit far" in terms of levels of gore."I had felt that those last 2 were sort of, uh, went in a direction that was sort of off path with Wes, with how he did gore, or how he did the killings," said Campbell in an interview with Evolution Of Horror. "I had felt that, for my personal preference, it was a bit far. If it&rsq
  
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• Embark takes the nerf bat to Arc Raiders' Venator once more as "it's still dominating in PvP," and while we're at it, the Kettle and Stitcher are also getting reined in

  24-02-2026 13:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arc Raiders' Shrouded Sky update is now here, but alongside the new content (and, uh, beards), patch 1.17.0 is bringing a whole bunch of balance changes, including nerfs for the Venator, Stitcher, and Kettle.The Venator was already nerfed once back in patch 1.3.0 last November, but in the latest patch notes, Embark says it's "kept an eye on our data to see how it performs." Now, the team admits that "many of you have raised concerns that it's still dominating in PVP, and our data has shown that
  
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• A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms author George R.R. Martin didn't want the show to "confirm one way or another" if Dunk is really a knight: "Can you earn it, even if you've never been given it?"

  24-02-2026 13:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 1 has concluded, and it's safe to say there's one big question on every viewers' lips: so, is Dunk actually a knight? Well, according to showrunner Ira Parker, the answer to that was deliberately left "ambiguous" in the spin-off by request of Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin.In episode 6, titled 'The Morrow', we see Duncan (Peter Claffey) ask his mentor Ser Arlan (Danny Webb) why he never knighted him in a flashback – only to never receive an
  
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• Scary Movie 6 has modern horror in its sights, with Sinners, Weapons, and A Quiet Place being spoofed

  24-02-2026 13:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Scary Movie 6 won't be relying on the classics when it slashes its way through various spoofs in the horror-comedy's belated return.Instead, according to Dread Central, there will be plenty of standouts from the recent horror renaissance in its sights, including Best Picture nominee Sinners, Zach Cregger's Weapons, and A Quiet Place.The first Scary Movie, released in 2000, made its name with a whipsmart parody of Scream, while sending up various horror tropes and stereotypes.Multiple sequels fol
  
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• Ryan Coogler's X-Files reboot finds its star and showrunner as the pilot gets the greenlight at Hulu

  24-02-2026 12:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ryan Coogler's X-Files reboot is finally officially moving ahead: the show has received the greenlight for a pilot at Hulu.I Saw the TV Glow and The Woman in the Yard star Danielle Deadwyler will co-lead but, interestingly, Coogler won't be the showrunner – that'll be Jennifer Yale, Deadline reports. The Oscar-nominated director of Sinners will write and direct the pilot, instead.Yale has previously worked on shows like Legion, Outlander, and Apple TV's See, and last year she was the showr
  
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• The Simpsons Hit and Run studio resurfaces, and it's taken no time at all for fans to demand a remaster or sequel to the beloved GTA-style spin on Springfield

  24-02-2026 12:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Don't get too excited, but it appears something is going on with Radical Entertainment, the company that gave us Prototype, Scarface: The World is Yours, and the iconic The Simpsons Hit and Run. A relaunch of some sort may be underway, as a redone website teasing a potential comeback has been uncovered.New Radical Games is the moniker under which this era is known. "It all started with Radical Entertainment back in 1991," says the official site. "Fast forward to 2025 and we have amassed invaluab
  
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• Timothée Chalamet says Dune: Part 3 is "the eeriest" entry in Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi saga so far: "It’s a big swing"

  24-02-2026 12:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Timothée Chalamet has spoken up about Dune: Part Three, and it sounds as though he has been able to explore his character Paul Atreides on a much deeper level this time around in the third installment, which the star calls the creepiest yet."On this third one, all the great shit you see on screen is from freedom of movement and freedom of choice," said Chalamet to Matthew McConaughey at Variety and CNN’s town hall event at the University of Texas. "And with Denis, we really had a go
  
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• Weeks after Nioh 3's release, developer Team Ninja is being split into 3 as Koei Tecmo confirms major restructure

  24-02-2026 12:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Koei Tecmo has announced restructuring at Team Ninja, with one division of the studio being transferred to Atelier developer Gust.In a statement (translated via Automaton) Koei Tecmo announces that Team Ninja Division 1 is being transferred to Gust – the studio known for its Atelier franchise – as the studio's Division 2. Meanwhile, the remainder of Team Ninja Division 2 will be split into a new Division 1 and Division 2 for the studio.Team Ninja Division 1 was led by Yasunori Sakuda
  
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• The Witcher 4, Cyberpunk 2 developer CD Projekt Red scoops up more industry talent as a Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 cinematics dev joins the team

  24-02-2026 12:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Lucie Hennet, one of the cinematic animators who worked on Sandfall Interactive's record-breaking J'RPG, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, has joined CD Projekt Red's Warsaw studio under the same job title.Hennet spent two years on-site with Sandfall, first as an intern and then as an independent contractor, working on the game's gorgeous cinematics. Among the turn-based RPG with a distinctly French twist's long, long, long list of awards, you'll find prizes for cinematic categories like Best Storyte
  
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• Yoko Taro's Evangelion trailer has fans thinking it's a sequel – but not as you know it

  24-02-2026 12:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Yoko Taro's Evangelion series arrived out of nowhere and, now, the clue-finding mission begins.Is it a new series, re-imagining, sequel, or all of those rolled into one experimental masterpiece? The first Evangelion trailer, it seems, may have the answer.The teaser, which you can see below, features a disparate set of images, scored by Keiichi Okabe's haunting soundtrack.Official teaser trailer for the new 'Neon Genesis Evangelion' anime series • 'Nier' franchise creator Yoko Taro is writin
  
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• New Xbox boss says "I don't pretend to be the best gamer," but that's not her goal, anyway: "My focus is to make Xbox the best place to play, return to our roots, ship great things, and become stronger"

  24-02-2026 12:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Xbox's new CEO has responded to suggestions that she could be faking her Twitter posts to better fit in with the gamer crowd, which she knows "would be a terrible idea and wouldn't work," but she admits that, yes, her gamertag was only created "recently to learn and understand this world."Last week, it was announced that Phil Spencer is retiring from his role as the CEO of Microsoft Gaming, with Xbox president Sarah Bond resigning, too. It's a huge leadership shakeup, and even more questions wer
  
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• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 studio co-founder reportedly steps down as creative director to focus on turning the RPG series into a movie or show

  24-02-2026 11:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Daniel Vávra, co-founder of Warhorse Studios and a lead behind Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 as well as its 2018 predecessor, is reportedly no longer working as creative director – on the contrary, he has reportedly stepped down to focus on a televised adaptation of the RPG series.The news comes via CzechCrunch (translated by DeepL and Google), where studio CEO Martin Frývaldský explains that Vávra has a new role – the creation of a live-action Kingdom Come
  
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• "If we only cared about money, we wouldn't ship on anything but Steam," says head of indie empire New Blood, but "we hate money, and we love our players" so the devs put up with the "pain" of consoles

  24-02-2026 01:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  New Blood Interactive co-founder Dave Oshry says Steam is far and away the most financially viable platform for the publisher's games, and that the only reason they still port games over to consoles is to please their fans.The famously candid Oshry recently told RPG Site that porting games to consoles is "a pain in the ass" that yields "so much less" in sales than Steam, a platform that allows you to "do anything in real time compared to having to wait weeks or go through certifications." So, wh
  
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• Assassin's Creed 3 director says Ubisoft held back on the ship-sailing stuff until Black Flag because they were worried the tech "wouldn't work," and I have to say that was 100% the right call

  24-02-2026 00:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Commanding a ship in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag is a sublime experience to this day – you'd hope so in a game about pirates – but I don't remember the sailing-based missions in Assassin's Creed 3 being nearly so mechanically refined. As it turns out, Ubisoft felt the same way, as Assassin's Creed 3 creative director Alex Hutchinson has revealed the studio wasn't confident enough in the tech to make it a bigger part of the game.Talking to PC Gamer, Hutchinson said "there was a who
  
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• Netflix's Devil May Cry season 2 shares new look as showrunner promises an unpredictable follow-up: "I dislike when successful shows turn into comfort food"

  23-02-2026 23:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Netflix has shared a new look at Devil May Cry season 2, with showrunner Adi Shankar doubling down on his previous comments that it's going to be "very different" from the first."I’m allergic to formula. I dislike when successful shows turn into comfort food," Shankar said in a new press release regarding the second season. "Devil May Cry won’t be TV that loops. My mission for Season 2 was to capture the feeling of a 2000s film franchise entry where the audience can’t predict t
  
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• "The future of preservation is decided by players who give a s***," GOG asserts as it reiterates its 18-year mission to make games "live forever"

  23-02-2026 23:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  GOG continues to offer DRM-free games with a big commitment to game preservation even now, 18 years after its launch, but the PC storefront has seemingly only lost ground to Steam over the years. Its mission is easy to root for, but one indie publishing powerhouse notes that it takes gamers really caring for preservation to be worth investing in. That, it seems, is a concern GOG shares.GOG was once purely a site for good old games – hence the name. Dave Oshry, CEO of Dusk publisher New Blo
  
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• "Made by many of the original creators of Diablo and Diablo 2" are big words for an action RPG, but the Steam Next Fest demo for Darkhaven feels like sampling bread by eating raw flour

  23-02-2026 23:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  What am I to make of Darkhaven, a still-Kickstarter-ing action RPG "made by many of the original creators of Diablo and Diablo 2" that's now gotten an "intentionally unconventional" demo as part of Steam Next Fest? The demo is so unconventional, I fear, that it isn't very compelling, and so this question's been weighing on me after reaching the "thanks for playing" stage of this primordial vertical slice.Dropped unceremoniously into a rocky camp in a grassy field, I start the Darkhaven demo as I
  
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• New Star Wars boss Dave Filoni doesn't hate Andor, according to creator Tony Gilroy: "There's no Andor without the Mandalorian"

  23-02-2026 22:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Andor creator Tony Gilroy says there's no beef between him and Dave Filoni – or Jon Favreau, for that matter."No," Gilroy responded when asked by The Hollywood Reporter if there was any truth to the rumor that Filoni wasn't a fan of Andor. "We’ve only met a couple times, and we’ve only had a half-a-dozen conversations over the last ten years. Seriously. I saw Jon Favreau at a scoring session once. We’ve always gotten along with those guys, and we’ve never had anythi
  
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• Blizzard's never done this before, but World of Warcraft devs say they ditched combat addons to make raids harder strategically – not to "shoot more bullets at you"

  23-02-2026 22:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Before World of Warcraft devs at Blizzard release the hugely anticipated Midnight expansion introducing customizable houses, they had to do some housekeeping. They severed the MMORPG's compatibility with players' dear addons in a pre-patch that totally redesigned classes, and, devs now say, the way raids work.WoW lead encounter designer Dylan Barke tells our friends at PC Gamer in a new interview, that, without addons, there are raid mechanics "that are possible in Midnight that might not have b
  
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• Xbox co-founder says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has "a hammer called gen AI" and "there's a nail with an Xbox logo on it"

  23-02-2026 22:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  For Seamus Blackley, who oversaw the creation of the Xbox console and brand in the late '90s and early '00s, the Xbox leadership shakeup has put the writing on the wall. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is all-in on generative AI, and in Blackley's estimation, that's why he's put an AI executive in charge of the gaming business.Microsoft has made "an unprecedented monetary and strategic bet," Blackley told GamesBeat. "This is a company that's trying to recontextualize the way we think about technolog
  
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• Marathon looks miles ahead of Arc Raiders in one key area: "Anyone found to be cheating will be permabanned from playing Marathon forever, no second chances"

  23-02-2026 20:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios is slowly building a reputation for being soft on cheaters after promising action but seemingly preferring to hand out polite warnings. But Bungie, whose PvPvE extraction shooter Marathon launches March 5, already doesn't have time for that.The Destiny 2 studio discusses its plan for Marathon cheaters in a new post on its website, and I'll tell you right now, people, it's not soft. In short, "Anyone found to be cheating will be permabanned from playing Marath
  
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• What if Bloodborne was on PS2? Dark horror No Vacation for an Executioner is so old school even the dev insists you try the free Steam Next Fest demo before buying "to make sure you like this control style"

  23-02-2026 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  No Vacation for an Executioner feels like a PS2 survival horror game that never actually existed. Almost certainly inspired by FromSoftware's Bloodborne, it's another bit of proof that yearning for a Bloodborne PS5 remake is a little bit tired, and that the wired option is for a demake. While Bloodborne PS1 gave us the goods in the style of Sony's debut console, the completely original No Vacation for an Executioner, which I've been playing during Steam Next Fest, translates the horror vibes int
  
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• What if Bloodborne was on PS2? Dark horror No Vacation for an Executioner is so old school even the dev insists to try the free Steam Next Fest demo before buying "to make sure you like this control style"

  23-02-2026 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  No Vacation for an Executioner feels like a PS2 survival horror game that never actually existed. Almost certainly inspired by FromSoftware's Bloodborne, it's another bit of proof that yearning for a Bloodborne PS5 remake is a little bit tired, and that the wired option is for a demake. While Bloodborne PS1 gave us the goods in the style of Sony's debut console, the completely original No Vacation for an Executioner, which I've been playing during Steam Next Fest, translates the horror vibes int
  
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• James Gunn explains his comic influences for Man of Tomorrow's Brainiac, including the classic story he won't be adapting

  23-02-2026 19:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  James Gunn is opening up about his inspirations for his upcoming interpretation of Superman's arch-enemy Brainiac in upcoming sequel Man of Tomorrow. The filmmaker says he's drawing straight from Brainiac's comic history, but not necessarily adapting a single story."Fun story but not really, no," Gunn says on social media when asked if '90s Superman crossover story Panic in the Sky, in which Brainiac is the main villain, would be adapted in Man of Tomorrow. "More specifically: I read almost ever
  
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• "Demon child" star of Mike Flanagan's Exorcist movie "doesn't think" he'll ever watch the original as he reveals filming starts in a few weeks

  23-02-2026 19:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  As cameras are set to roll in just a few weeks, the child star of Mike Flanagan's new Exorcist movie Jacobi Jupe says he has no plans to watch the original 1973 film – and we don't blame him."Even if I was old enough, I still don't want to see it [because] it's really scary," Jupe, 12, told Deadline on the red carpet for the BAFTAs, confirming that he "doesn't think" he'll ever watch it. "I've seen pictures."Jupe is part of a stacked cast that includes Diane Lane, Scarlett Johansson, and C
  
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• "A floating nightmare": Arc Raiders' big Shrouded Sky update has 2 new Arc, a big Dam Battlegrounds change, confirmed beards, and even an outfit for the friendliest players

  23-02-2026 19:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  The big Arc Raiders Shrouded Sky update, out Tuesday, February 24, has even more new stuff than many players anticipated. On top of the hurricane map condition, which has been confirmed to be a permanent rotation option for Blue Gate, Buried City, Spaceport, and Dam Battlegrounds, Embark Studios has revealed two new Arc machines coming in the update, confirmed the heavily teased and long-awaited beards, shared a new raider project and deck, and dropped a map update for Dam Battlegrounds.The new
  
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