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• BioWare hopes Dragon Age: The Veilguard brings the studio "back into the conversation as a top game studio" after Anthem and Mass Effect Andromeda flops

  01-11-2024 22:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dragon Age: The Veilguard is officially out in the wild, and BioWare is hoping its success will bring the studio back into the fans' good graces.A new Bloomberg report details Dragon Age: The Veilguard's turbulent development, which saw the project go through two internal reboots, first from a single-player RPG to a live-service game and then back to the single-player RPG that ultimately released on Halloween. BioWare boss Gary McKay told Bloomberg "a lot of things started to fall into
  
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• "LocalThunk is really rich now": 2 weeks after winning yet another GOTY award, Balatro sends Final Fantasy 16 star to accept award in "suspiciously arousing" Jimbo attire

  09-04-2025 01:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  "This is weird, isn't it?" asks Final Fantasy 16 actor Ben Starr, wearing full clown attire and accepting an award for Balatro, a game he had nothing to do with aside from appearing in an advertisement. And yes, Ben and dear readers, it is weird, so let me just explain what's happening here.Well, actually, that's pretty much exactly what's happening. Starr, who played Jimbo the clown in that bizarre Balatro live-action trailer, is accepting the roguelike's award for Best Debut Indie at the 2025
  
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• "I just want people to be able to enjoy the game": Earthbound legend Shigesato Itoi is "glad" the SNES JRPG got the English localization changes it did

  08-04-2025 23:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Super NES is known for legendary RPGs, and there are few as beloved as Earthbound, the quirky sci-fi JRPG that's spawned one of Nintendo's most enduring fandoms. A great deal of its success can be attributed to its charming dialog, which went through a thorough localization process to make it fun for English-speaking players. Original director and writer Shigesato Itoi is apparently quite happy with those changes.In a recently published conversation with Marcus Lindblom, who wrote the game's
  
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• Despite previously shooting down hopes for a Happy Death Day 3, it looks like director Christopher Landon is now "moving forward" with the horror sequel

  08-04-2025 23:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  In a surprise turn of events, Happy Death Day 3 is officially moving forward."The third movie is moving forward,” star Jessica Rothe announced during a double-feature screening of Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2U at American Cinematheque last night, with director Christopher Landon by her side in attendance (H/T BloodyDisgusting).Landon added, "It is moving forward."Happy Death Day, which first hit theaters in 2017, follows a college student who is forced to relive her death over and
  
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• From chicken jockey to "I am Steve," Minecraft director reflects on the viral moments that went mainstream: "People just really zeroed in on funny quotes"

  08-04-2025 23:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Minecraft Movie director Jared Hess says the pic has taken on a life of its own."Once the marketing over the last couple of months really started to kick into gear, and people just really zeroed in on funny quotes in the materials that resonated, it just took on a life of its own. But you can’t ever anticipate that," Hess told Deadline.A life of its own is an understatement given how many kids have been kicked out of theaters in the last four days (yes, it's only been four days since the
  
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• Mario Kart's infamous Baby Park was inspired by the 2002 Olympic ice skating track, and Nintendo knew it was going to be "a love-it-or-hate-it kind of course" even during development

  08-04-2025 22:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baby Park might just be the most infamous track in Mario Kart – a simple, NASCAR-style oval with very short laps that ensure the entire field is in constant chaos. It was first introduced in Mario Kart: Double Dash on the GameCube, and a recently translated interview on the game's development suggests that Nintendo knew just how controversial the track was going to be from the start."We knew fairly early on that we wanted to make a course like that," producer Shinya Takahashi said of Baby
  
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• How does Pocketpair spend all that Palworld money? Dev says they can take "risks" even if "we don't know what we're doing," trusting the CEO has "squirreled away enough to keep us alive"

  08-04-2025 22:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  We know that money makes the world go 'round, money can't buy happiness, money doesn't grow on trees, and a million other pithy things that remind us – however cruelly – that money is a hassle that comes with being alive. Well, unless you're Palworld developer Pocketpair, which is so flush with cash, it's allowed to recklessly flush its coffers down the toilet from time to time.Pocketpair community manager John "Bucky" Buckley told GamesRadar+ at GDC 2025 that Pocketpair is sort of "
  
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• Minecraft movie star Jennifer Coolidge says her on-screen romance with Nitwit the Villager was "like fire"

  08-04-2025 22:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jennifer Coolidge says she was a little bit skeptical about making out with a Minecraft villager before she got to set - then the passion started."Sometimes you show up to a movie and you read the script and they haven't cast your lover yet and then you show up and you're like 'I don't know if I really want to make out with him'," Coolidge told BBC Radio 1. "But when I saw what Nitwit looked like and what Bret McKenzie looked like and the combination of the two. I mean, it was just like fire."A
  
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• Wildly successful Balatro publisher says more indie devs need funding "that isn't based on making a ridiculous amount of money back"

  08-04-2025 22:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Balatro publisher Playstack is undoubtedly thrilled with the success of the poker roguelike phenomenon, which recently zipped past five million units sold, and head of discovery Patrick Johnson has some advice for other publishers looking to support indie developers.Inverse recently rounded up a group of winners from the Game Developers Conference and Independent Game Festival Awards and asked them what they think publishers could be doing to help the indie scene flourish. Johnson's answer was s
  
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• "This isn't Ubisoft": Former Nintendo PR managers say the company's mantra of "respect the value" is why Switch games "don't go on sale"

  08-04-2025 20:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  A pair of former Nintendo employees have shared their unique perspectives on why the company's games are priced the way they are and why they never go on sale.Even among notoriously tight-lipped video game companies, Nintendo is famous for being cagey, leaving a lot of the company's inner workings shrouded in mystery. That's why, when two people with such intimate knowledge of the company's marketing strategy share some insights, it's worth paying attention.In the wake of the Switch 2's reveal,
  
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• Blizzard details full Diablo 4 roadmap for 2025 with teasers for seasons 9 and 10, reconfirms a new expansion for 2026, and hints at multiple "new IP collabs"

  08-04-2025 19:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Blizzard has just unveiled a fresh Diablo 4 roadmap for 2025, including some early details on seasons 9 and 10 alongside reconfirmation that the next expansion is coming in 2026 and hints at a few other mysterious updates, including some "new IP collabs."Those new crossovers, which are scheduled to appear during season 8 in Q2 and season 10 in Q4, might spark fears that Diablo 4 is turning into Fortnite, but Blizzard promises that the collaborations will "meld the Diablo universe with universes
  
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• 22 years ago, the worst game of all time launched to a Metacritic score of just 8, and now it's on Steam with 83% positive reviews from a whole new generation of garbage lovers

  08-04-2025 18:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  ET. Superman 64. Gollum. There are a whole lot of games in the running as "the worst of all time," but none of them hold a candle to Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, a broken mess of racing game that launched to a Metacritic score of just 8 out of 100 back in 2003. Today, it was finally re-released on Steam, where it's apparently finding a whole new audience of ironic fans ready to appreciate the finest garbage gaming has to offer.The Steam release of Big Rigs was announced a few weeks ago to no
  
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• After 4 months without an update, Lethal Company is back in business after its creator was “inspired” by playing Steam competitor Repo

  08-04-2025 18:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  The last Lethal Company update was in December, 2024, but now that its creator Zeekerss has spent the last few weeks playing Repo, a similarly absurd multiplayer indie horror game, they're getting to work on the next patch."So for the past couple weeks, Repo has been the game for me and my friends to play non-stop," writes Zeekerss in a free Patreon post that just unlocked. "The single best thing about Repo on the surface, maybe it is the large items which need to be carried by multiple players,
  
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• Palworld developer Pocketpair's publishing arm reveals its next game – a "gorgeous (and somewhat spooky?!)" truck adventure with a "small town mystery"

  08-04-2025 18:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pocketpair Publishing has revealed the next indie game in its publishing portfolio, Truckful – a "car delivery adventure game" that sounds like it's housing an eerie twist.The publishing branch of Palworld developer Pocketpair opened its doors back in January, when it revealed its goal to "provide comprehensive support for game development through funding and publishing for indie developers and studios." At the time, Pocketpair confirmed that it was partnering with Tales of Kenzera: ZAU de
  
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• The White Lotus creator Mike White says a cut scene from season 3’s finale saw sparks fly between two characters who we never saw meet: "It had a little bit of a rom-com vibe"

  08-04-2025 18:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  The White Lotus season 3 has just come to a close with a fiery and emotional ending. However, creator Mike White has revealed that the last episode was actually supposed to include a romantic side storyline between two young characters who never actually meet in the series, Piper and Belinda’s son Zion."There’s this whole scene where she’s like, ‘It’s true. Saxon is right about this one thing. I need to get this over with.’ And you know how after she leaves th
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 fans can finally marry Astarion thanks to a new update for Baldur's Village, the Stardew Valley mod approved by Larian Studios lead Swen Vincke himself

  08-04-2025 18:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  The creator behind the massive Stardew Valley mod merging ConcernedApe's farming sim with Baldur's Gate 3 has released a brand-new update, finally allowing Astarion stans to marry the vampire elf of their dreams.Baldur's Village, as the mod is aptly dubbed on Nexus Mods, acts as a fan-created expansion, bringing a bit of the Baldur's Gate 3 world and its quirky inhabitants to Stardew Valley. The mastermind behind the mod, Xun, has had quite a journey since its release, as it caught the attention
  
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• Nintendo Switch 2 MicroSD Express Cards are already up for grabs

  08-04-2025 17:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Nintendo Switch 2 doesn't launch until June 5, but you can already pick up some compatible microSD Express cards for all your Switch 2 game installs, screenshots, and game captures. Right now, brands like Lexar and SanDisk have their own compatible express microSD cards available from $44.99 at Amazon - no pre-order invites required.With the best Nintendo Switch SD cards not compatible with the upcoming handheld, these new express cards are mandatory if you want more storage for your Switch
  
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• Minecraft movie director says sequel will “without a doubt” feature fan-favorite character Alex alongside Jack Black’s Steve

  08-04-2025 17:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mild spoilers for A Minecraft Movie below!A Minecraft Movie sequel is underway - and fans can expect to see another main character from the games featured in the follow-up pic."The character we teased is Alex, the other massively critical character in Minecraft," director Jared Hess told Deadline. "It’s Steve (Black) and Alex, and so that’s the one that we will be bringing to the table without a doubt." (Hess also sadly commented that we most likely won't ever be getting a Napoleon D
  
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• The man who brought Tetris to the world was "p***ed off" when Nintendo made Dr. Mario: "It's not as good"

  08-04-2025 17:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  While legendary puzzle game Tetris was created by Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov, it spread around the world largely thanks to the efforts of Henk Rogers of Bullet-Proof Software. Through a complicated series of negotiations with Russian authorities in the late '80s – which are now the subject of a feature film – Rogers secured the rights that led to the iconic Game Boy and NES versions of Tetris from Nintendo. That seems to be part of why he was "pissed off" when Nintendo made i
  
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• Nintendo hopes "having the freedom of mouse control" with the Switch 2 Joy-Con will help more PC developers "bring their games" to the new console

  08-04-2025 16:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  As Nintendo gears up to release its long-awaited new console, the Switch 2, fans wonder how its new Joy-Con system and its built-in mouse controls will work – a system that might just help more games make their way off of PC.Speaking in a recent interview with IGN, Nintendo of America vice president of product and player experience Bill Trinen explains how the new Joy-Con mouse controls are something "you can't do with any other console, you can't do on PC" – and why they could bridg
  
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• Bill Skarsgård's "hardcore" Pennywise is heard but not seen in new sneak peek of horror prequel series It: Welcome to Derry

  08-04-2025 16:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Max isn't clowning around with its new look at upcoming horror prequel It: Welcome to Derry, even if Bill Skarsgård's Pennywise is nowhere to be seen...In the fresh sneak peek, which was packaged inside the streamer's latest Coming Soon promo, we briefly see the show's version of the Losers Club – whose identities are being kept secret for now – walking their bicycles under a railroad track, before it cuts to a scene of a young girl ominously stating: "I did hear voices."We the
  
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• Hades 2 is coming to Switch 2 before any other console, and devs say "we know we can push some of the graphical features"

  08-04-2025 16:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hades 2 is getting its first console launch on the Nintendo Switch 2, and the developers at Supergiant Games have praised the system, saying "with the extra power of Nintendo Switch 2, we know we can push some of the graphical features." They also revealed that Hades 2 is coming to Switch 2 before other consoles.Hades 2 should look better than ever thanks to the extra juice the Switch 2 has. In a new Creator's Voice video shared to Twitter, the game's development team talks through porting the e
  
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• Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker talks bringing back Will Poulter's Bandersnatch character for season 7 and whether he'd revisit other episodes: "There's other characters I'd bring back, and other scenarios I'd re-explore"

  08-04-2025 16:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Black Mirror has always been an anthology show. Since the first season aired back in 2011, each season has consisted of entirely unrelated episodes, with no callbacks between seasons, either. Season 7 has changed all that, though.Will Poulter's eccentric game designer Colin Ritman was a character in 2018's interactive Black Mirror movie, Bandersnatch, but that wasn't the last we'd seen of him, it turns out. He makes an appearance in the fourth episode of season 7, 'Plaything', when games journal
  
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• After Final Fantasy 9 remake hopes were crushed by the Switch 2 Direct, Square Enix reignites the hype with a cryptic post: "If you know, you know"

  08-04-2025 16:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 9 remake hopes may have been crushed during the recent Nintendo Switch 2 Direct, but the dream will never die, because Square Enix is acting rather mysterious on social media, and fans aren't sure if it might be teasing the return of the 2000 JRPG for real this time.Rumors of a Final Fantasy 9 remake are nothing new – they've been floating around for years at this point, and Naoki 'Yoshi-P' Yoshida, producer of FF14 and FF16, is well aware that people want it to happen, altho
  
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• Nintendo confirms you'll have to pay a monthly or yearly fee to use the Switch 2's C button once the free trial period is up

  08-04-2025 14:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo confirms that we'll have to pay to use the Switch 2's built-in voice chat and screen-sharing features, essentially making the C button useless unless you pay an extra $20 per year for Nintendo Switch Online.If you missed the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct news, let me catch you up. The mysterious C button actually opens up the system's chat features. Much like Discord, you can join group audio calls, share your screen so friends can watch your gameplay, and even buy a camera that will then ov
  
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• Woody Harrelson turned down one of the most talked-about roles in The White Lotus season 3 – because of his own real-life vacation

  08-04-2025 14:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Woody Harrelson almost starred in The White Lotus season 3, but dropped out due to scheduling issues. It turns out, however, that the scheduling clash in question was with his own vacation.The True Detective and Hunger Games star was originally up for the role of Rick Hatchett, who was ultimately played by Walton Goggins. Rick is on vacation at the White Lotus with his younger girlfriend Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood), but has a dark secret that motivated his trip to Thailand. Harrelson then signed on
  
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• A Minecraft Movie says the film was supposed to feature "hilarious" sequences and a "bunch of crazy booby traps" designed by a popular Minecraft YouTuber

  08-04-2025 13:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Minecraft Movie is packed with lore from the Mojang Studios game, but director Jared Hess says it was supposed to include a few more references that unfortunately had to be cut due to timing issues, including a build from one of the most popular Minecraft YouTubers."Yeah, there were a ton of fun sequences we wanted to do," Hess said to TechRadar. "Mumbo Jumbo, who's a Redstone genius, was working on a great scene that we just couldn't do." Mumbo Jumbo is one of the most influential creators in
  
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• Schedule 1 update releases in beta on Steam, adding everything from golden toilets to a new pawn shop so you can sell anything that's not drugs too

  08-04-2025 13:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  After launching into Early Access on Steam last month and going viral nearly instantly with thousands of stellar reviews following, Schedule 1 is gearing up for one of its biggest updates yet with a beta branch release.While Schedule 1's success hasn't all been smooth sailing, especially considering the recent alleged copyright investigation opened by Drug Dealer Simulator's own developers, it's undeniably been an impressive one. The indie game is smashing Steam charts left and right, standing a
  
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• The team behind Netflix's surprise hit Adolescence is remaking a nuclear war drama that terrified an entire generation

  08-04-2025 13:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  The production company behind Adolescence is remaking a harrowing nuclear war drama.Per Radio Times, Warp Films is set to turn Threads into a TV series. The film, released on BBC Two in 1984, chronicles a nuclear attack on the UK city of Sheffield (Warp Films is also based in Sheffield). It's an incredibly bleak look at the attack itself and the ensuing fallout, and it has a reputation for terrifying those who've seen it. You can watch it now on BBC iPlayer."Threads was, and remains, an unflinch
  
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• Hideo Kojima says Solid Snake's "silent 'tough guy'" personality in Metal Gear 1 was the result of technical limitations

  08-04-2025 13:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hideo Kojima explains that there's a reason behind Metal Gear protagonist Solid Snake's cool, strong, and silent personality in the first game, but it was actually because of technical limitations rather than a creative decision.As translated by Automaton, Metal Gear director Kojima recently wrote an essay for the An An magazine website to discuss voices and voice acting in games, in which he notes that when he entered the games industry in 1986, "games still couldn't speak. Characters did not h
  
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