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• Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P was unsure about referencing Final Fantasy 9 so heavily because it's a "masterpiece, and everyone has a strong emotional attachment to it"

  14-03-2025 16:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki 'Yoshi-P' Yoshida was unsure about adding so many Final Fantasy 9 nods to the MMO's Dawntrail expansion because the game is plainly "a masterpiece." Hear, hear.Final Fantasy 9's fingerprints are pretty much all over the MMO's latest expansion – locations like Alexandria Castle are central to both, you can draw clear parallels between certain characters, FF9's iconic sword-fighting minigame is definitely referenced in Dawntrail, and the expansion
  
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• "We hit this disgusting number that makes me feel sick": Palworld devs don't know why their survival game was so successful - "If we knew how to do it, we'd do it again"

  18-03-2025 01:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Palworld released in early access at the start of 2024 to immediate, headline-making success, selling 2 million copies in 24 hours and becoming the second game in Steam history to hit 2 million concurrent players. Despite rocky servers at launch and some messy business with Nintendo's lawyers over alleged similarities between Palworld and Pokemon, the game is widely considered a modern example of indie success, and the developers at Pocketpair still aren't quite sure of the ingredients in the ma
  
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• Nintendo's Palworld lawsuit "came as a shock" to Pocketpair because patent infringement was "something that no one even considered"

  18-03-2025 00:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo's lawsuit alleging patent infringement in Palworld was unexpected given the timing and subject matter, and nobody was more surprised than developer Pocketpair, who says "no one even considered" patent issues after the game cleared legal checks in Japan pre-release.Speaking at a Game Developer's Conference panel focusing on the hit survival game's explosive launch, post-launch troubles, and community strategy, Pocketpair communications director and publishing manager John 'Bucky' Buckley
  
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• For 30 years, PC gamers have been keeping this cult classic horror game based on a 58-year-old short story to themselves, but next week it's finally coming to consoles

  17-03-2025 23:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  The cult classic existentialist horror game I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is coming to PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch on March 27, taking it out of PC exclusivity for the first time since launch 30 years ago.Considering it's 30 years old and not necessarily widely known about, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is a 1995 video game based on the 1967 short story by Harlan Ellison of the same name. The game and story follow five different survivors making up the whole
  
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• Palworld dev reckons "very few companies could survive" a launch like theirs: "A lot of companies might crumble under the threats, under the pressure, under the negativity"

  17-03-2025 22:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Palworld launched in early access last year to a nearly unfathomable level of success for a relatively small studio – as well as no shortage of criticism. Communications director and publishing manager John Buckley reckons that many studios would've been crushed under the weight of that launch, but says Poketpair's work culture has held the studio together."Pocketpair really is a very, very friendly place," Buckley said in a recent panel at the Game Developers Conference. "It always has be
  
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• Penguin actor Colin Farrell could be going from villain to hero as the star of DC's Sgt. Rock movie

  17-03-2025 22:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Colin Farrell received major acclaim from critics and fans alike for his grimly vulnerable portrayal of Oz Cobb in The Penguin, but now he's eyeing the role of a DC hero in director Luca Guadagnino's Sgt. Rock film, according to THR.The role of Sgt. Rock - a grizzled but heroic World War II soldier whose exploits earn him a place in the history of the DC Universe - was originally reported to be held by Daniel Craig, who collaborated with Guadagnino on his film Queer. But Craig left the running f
  
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• No Man's Sky programmer shares the "first 3D world" he co-created at 18 years old, which was "a foundational step for me from there to No Man's Sky"

  17-03-2025 22:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  No Man's Sky engine programmer Martin Griffiths has just shown off an incredible historical curiosity: a 3D world demo that he co-created for Atari ST he co-created at 18 years old. He calls this demo "a foundational step" toward his eventual work on the massive space game."At 18 years old, around about 1990/91 and just a few years into learning 3D graphics I worked with a friend, the late Jose Commins to create our first 3D world on the Atari ST," Griffiths explains on Twitter. "It might seem p
  
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• Dragon Age The Veilguard's playtesters were initially confused about almost every aspect of the game's combat: "It's OK, sometimes we have to let it go"

  17-03-2025 21:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dragon Age: The Veilguard offers intricate, magic combos so you and the companions in your party can feel like the strongest elves of the millenia, but the action RPG's early playtesters found the game's initial user interface more confusing than empowering.During a panel at GDC 2025 today, BioWare's former lead UX designer Bruno Porrio discussed the Veilguard team's multiple attempts to make the game's complex combat more intuitive to their disoriented playtesters, who sound like they were suff
  
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• Robert De Niro talks embodying his "mythological" gangsters in The Alto Knights, whose real conflict inspired The Godfather

  17-03-2025 21:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Alto Knights is a gangster story that revolves around two larger than life figures: Frank Costello and Vito Genovese. Both were at different times known as the 'Boss of Bosses' in the American Mafia, and, in The Alto Knights, they're both played by Robert De Niro."A lot of the history of what they actually were known for, what they did, looking at videotapes and stuff, there was not as much as I thought there would have been," De Niro tells us when we meet with him in London. "But there was
  
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• Saber Interactive CEO says Saints Row had to die because the games were too expensive: "The days of throwing money at games other than the GTAs of the world is over"

  17-03-2025 20:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Saber Interactive Matthew Karch has given his two cents on the apparent quiet death of the Saints Row franchise, saying the games got too expensive and lacked direction.In an interview with Stephen Totilo for Game File (paywalled), Karch said "the Saints Row team is gone" and explained his assumptions on why the series isn't likely to get a new installment any time soon."They were so expensive for what they were," Karch said. "They didn't know what they were building. They didn't have any real d
  
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• World of Warcraft's latest raid race ends in disappointment after 12 days with a final boss so lackluster the team who won was visibly confused to have beaten it

  17-03-2025 19:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Team Liquid has won the World First race for World of Warcraft's latest Mythic raid, but that victory came with such an anticlimax that much of the crew was left visibly confused about whether or not they'd just won.Season 2 of The War Within kicked off on March 4, opening the race to World First for the Mythic tier of the Liberation of Undermine raid. Over the course of the weeks that followed, a number of different teams got World First clears of the raid's various parts – Melee Mechanic
  
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• 8 years later, Super Mario Odyssey players are still getting awed by the discovery that you can destroy metal crates by turning into a bird and pecking them 200 times

  17-03-2025 18:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been almost eight years since Super Mario Odyssey arrived for the Nintendo Switch back in 2017, and still to this day players are tearing the game apart, turning it into one of the most impressive speedrun games of all time (just behind its grandpa, Super Mario 64).It's gotten to a point now where new discoveries about the game are few and far between, with the current speedrun record sitting at just under an hour by Tyron18. But with this level of speedrun optimization and the lack of a pr
  
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• Skyrim and Fallout veterans' new open-world RPG is now a roguelike that's not open-world, after funding issues brought the team "down to a skeleton crew"

  17-03-2025 18:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Unfortunately, not even a star-studded roster can guarantee funding for video games these days. Wyrdsong, originally planned as an open-world RPG from former Bethesda developers who'd worked on Skyrim, Fallout, and The Outer Worlds, has had to scrap a lot of its original plans and drop down to a "skeleton crew" so the remaining devs can keep working while they try to secure funding.In an interview with our friends at PC Gamer, Wyrdsong developer Something Wicked Games co-founder Jeff Gardiner ex
  
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• Mortal Kombat 2 director teases the return of characters that were killed in the first movie: "There are ways to bring dead characters back"

  17-03-2025 18:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  As the first look at Karl Urban's Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat 2 just dropped, we also got another big update about the upcoming sequel. The confirmed cast includes two returning stars, Josh Lawson and Max Huang, even though their characters, Kano and Kung Lao, were killed in the 2021 movie.Ed Boon, Mortal Kombat co-creator and head of gaming developer NetherRealm Studios, teased the surprising return of these characters during an interview with Entertainment Weekly, and offered a mysterious exp
  
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• Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy says his Star Wars show is trying to be "more serious about this sh*t than anybody ever has been"

  17-03-2025 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Andor is probably the most serious of all the Star Wars shows, so it's no surprise that its showrunner, Tony Gilroy, takes the galaxy far, far away very, very seriously."That’s been our attitude all the way through: not to be cynical, and to take it more seriously than anybody ever took it," Gilroy told Gizmodo. "Even while we're changing – some people feel as though it's changing a lot – but even while we're changing the grammar of what you can do, we're trying very rigorously
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 animation impresses Larian Studios, prompting one dev to say "mature" animation of the RPG "would pop the f*** off"

  17-03-2025 17:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  As Larian Studios gears up to release the long-awaited Patch 8 for Baldur's Gate 3, fans are remaining as creative as ever with projects like custom campaigns and short animations for the RPG – one of which has caught the developers' attention.The animation in question, an 18-second-long clip of party banter shared between beloved Baldur's Gate 3 companions Karlach and Shadowheart, was created by 2D animator Claire. It features dialogue between the two characters including the accompanying
  
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• Marvel Rivals devs reveal Season 2 is already completed, and that the studio has already completed designs for Season 3 and 4

  17-03-2025 17:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel Rivals already has a massive roster of heroes (and like three villains) across the wider Marvel universe. And since launch we've had the entire Fantastic Four with Marvel's first family joining the roster over the last couple of months. And while we won't be getting four every season, the game's director confirmed the game is getting a new hero every six weeks, which is a far cry from Overwatch's first year, which had four in total. With the sheer volume of characters who have been leaked
  
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• 28 years after Final Fantasy 7 introduced a generation to the concept of waifus, Tetsuya Nomura says Tifa's popularity is "not just about appearance"

  17-03-2025 17:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Over a year after the launch of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Tifa Lockhart has been awarded the title of "best character" at the fan-voted Famitsu Dengeki Game Awards for 2024. While Tifa has become one of the go-to video game crushes for multiple generations of players, Tetsuya Nomura – who served as character designer on the original Final Fantasy 7 and now directs the remake series – says her appeal is about far more than her looks."Thank you for voting for Tifa," Nomura says in a sta
  
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• God of War TV show writer reveals Amazon has already ordered two seasons, and that he can’t play the video games at all

  17-03-2025 17:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  It seems Amazon’s got a lot of confidence in its God of War show, since two seasons have been ordered. This comes from Ronald D. Moore, a highly successful TV writer and producer, who's currently overseeing the journey of Kratos to the small screen, even if he can’t make heads or tails of the video games.Moore made an appearance on The Sackhoff Show with Katee Sackhoff, where his current workload came up. "Right now I'm working on the adaptation of this video game called God of War,
  
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• Sick of waiting for GTA 6, one modder has put its map into GTA 5, and you can try it out right now

  17-03-2025 17:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  One dedicated Grand Theft Auto fan is sick of waiting for GTA 6, so they've modded an interpretation of its map into GTA 5.As spotted by VG247, YouTuber Dark Space shares a video detailing the map they've added to GTA 5 that's based on the snippets we saw in the GTA 6 trailer. We got a glimpse of white sand beaches, luxurious beachfront properties, and some slightly more rural swampland, but Dark Space is quick to point out that this modded map contains a lot of speculation and is in no way offi
  
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• Sadie Sink addresses Marvel casting rumors after Jean Grey and Spider-Man 4 reports

  17-03-2025 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sadie Sink has broken her silence on those Marvel casting rumors, after Deadline reported that she was joining the cast of Spider-Man 4.Her casting was announced last week – although Marvel and Sony have yet to confirm it – and the rumor mill has gone into overdrive. Some fans thought she might be playing Gwen Stacy or a multiverse variant of Mary Jane Watson, but the most popular theory was that she'd be playing another redhead: the X-Men's Jean Grey."I mean, this is news to me," Si
  
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• Viewers are raving about Stephen Graham's hard-hitting new Netflix crime drama with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score: "Some of the best TV I've ever seen"

  17-03-2025 16:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Every once in a while, Netflix releases a miniseries without much fanfare, and it's so good it ends up becoming a streaming hit by its own merits. It happened with Baby Reindeer last year, and now it's happening with the harrowing drama Adolescence, starring Stephen Graham and The Crown star Erin Doherty.The four-episode series focuses on a 13-year-old boy who is accused of the murder of a classmate. His family, his therapist, and the detective in charge of the case try to find out what really h
  
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• The first look at Karl Urban's Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat 2 is here – and he's already a hit in early screenings

  17-03-2025 16:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first look at Karl Urban's Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat 2 has arrived, with the game franchise's co-creator Ed Boon teasing a "fresh" take on the Kombatant, who is best known for his brash, obnoxious personality and back catalog of B-movies such as Ninja Mime and The Gist of My Fist.Thanks to Entertainment Weekly, we now have a glimpse at a snarling Johnny Cage, sporting his trademark shades.
  Our 'Mortal Kombat 2' exclusive first look reveals Johnny Cage, Kitana, Shao Kahn, and Scorpion's re
  
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• Robert De Niro talks playing dual roles in his new gangster movie from the co-writer of Goodfellas and Casino – and his surprising personal connection to the film

  17-03-2025 16:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Alto Knights sees Robert De Niro play opposite none other than himself, embodying the dual roles of infamous crime bosses Frank Costello and Vito Genovese.It's a tale of childhood friendship turned to bitter rivalry and betrayal, based on the real history of the downfall of the American Mafia. De Niro, of course, is no stranger to the genre, having starred in some of the greatest gangster movies ever made – Goodfellas, The Irishman, Casino, and The Godfather Part 2, to name a few &ndas
  
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• Japanese locals show that the real-world inspiration for Silent Hill f's new town can be just as scary as the game

  17-03-2025 16:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  We finally got our first proper look at Silent Hill f – after over two years of radio silence since Silent Hill f's reveal – last week with a brand new trailer dropping as part of the Silent Hill Transmission livestream. The game already looks pretty damn scary, even by Silent Hill standards, and considering it's the first game in the series to get an 18+ rating in Japan, as well as the fact that the ESRB rating mentions the likes of "a character sawing off her own arm," "faces rippe
  
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• Jenna Ortega says Wednesday season 2 features a slasher themed episode and compares one moment to Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket

  17-03-2025 16:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Wednesday season 2 will be packed with horror-movie references, "bizarre" visuals, and an entire slasher-themed episode, according to star Jenna Ortega.With the Netflix show set to return this year, Ortega has offered some details of what we can expect of the new season, and it sounds very exciting. "Visually, I can say we have some of the most fun we've ever had," she told Collider while promoting her new film, Death of a Unicorn."It's crazy to talk about one frame like this, but there is a fra
  
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• Jared Padalecki opens up on the "effing terrifying" experience of joining The Boys season 5 – and the possibility of a Supernatural reunion with Jensen Ackles

  17-03-2025 15:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jared Padalecki has opened up about the "terrifying" experience of joining The Boys season 5 – and why he's unsure if he'll get an on-screen reunion with former Supernatural co-star Jensen Ackles."I don’t know a whole lot about it, which is effing terrifying," Padalecki told Business Insider of the Prime Video series' final season, which is currently filming.That, unfortunately, extends to whether he'll be sharing scenes with Jensen Ackles.Ackles, who should be returning as Soldier B
  
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• John Lithgow teases his character's return in new Dexter series: "Turns out he didn't die after all"

  17-03-2025 14:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  John Lithgow has teased the return of his Dexter character, known as the Trinity Killer, in new sequel series Dexter: Resurrection."I just went back to do a day," Lithgow told Variety. "They’re rebooting the entire Michael C. Hall version of Dexter. And it turns out he didn’t die after all. I come back sort of as a phantom, as he gradually comes to life on a hospital bed."Lithgow's character Arthur Mitchell was the main villain of Dexter season 4, which aired in 2009. A church deacon
  
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• As the wait for more Deltarune continues, Undertale goes on sale for just $1 on Steam and reaches a new peak player count after 10 years

  17-03-2025 14:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  As the spring Steam sale carries on with Undertale selling for just $1, solo developer Toby Fox shares that the 2015 RPG has just hit a major milestone 10 years after its release – a new peak player count.Revealing the impressive new peak in a recent post, Fox celebrates the fresh influx of players and hints that the unmissable $1 sale still has "a few more days" to go now. "Since going on sale on Steam for only $1," writes the dev, "Undertale reached a new peak of concurrent players for t
  
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• Qualcomm just revealed its latest Snapdragon chips, and the G3 Gen 3 will power what could be my dream 3DS handheld

  17-03-2025 14:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new trio of Qualcomm Snapdragon chips are on the way, and as a handheld lover, I'm pretty hyped. The G3 Gen 3 specifically looks to take next-gen Android devices to new performance heights with ray tracing abilities, while its G2 and G1 siblings will cover the low power side of things. However, I am naturally most excited for one device in particular that'll help keep the 3DS dream alive in 2025.Set to debut this year, the Qualcomm Snapdragon G3 Gen 3 will arm some of the best gaming handheld
  
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