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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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• Can't wait for the No Man's Sky dev's new game Light No Fire? Well, its latest and much smaller game is $1.49 in the Steam Spring Sale 2025

  15-03-2025 21:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hello Games is best known for its massively ambitious games about exploration thanks to No Man’s Sky, and that game has been constantly updated over the years to the point where it’s now so good that you forget how much of a disaster the launch was. The studio’s upcoming game Light No Fire looks to be just as overwhelmingly massive, with its reveal at The Game Awards 2023 giving serious No Man’s Sky reveal trailer vibes. However, for those looking for a nice compact adven
  
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• One of Hideo Kojima's most overlooked games is under $6 in the Steam Spring Sale 2025 to make the wait for Death Stranding 2 more bearable

  15-03-2025 19:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  The recent Death Stranding 2: On the Beach info blowout via the action-packed 10-minute trailer released last week has me fully invested in Hideo Kojima nonsense at the moment.Thankfully, the Steam Spring Sale has my back (and a killer instinct to bully my wallet into submission). Metal Gear Solid: The Master Collection is 30% off at the moment, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Definitive Experience is 40% off, and the original Death Stranding: Director’s Cut is 50% off, so there’s plenty of
  
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• The Russo brothers reveal that Marvel has an ingenious way of working out which actors they can use for upcoming Avengers movies

  15-03-2025 17:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avengers: Doomsday will be the biggest superhero team-up since Avengers: Endgame, so it's not surprising that the creative team behind the movie has difficulty keeping track of all the characters. Luckily for them, there is an ingenious system in place to help them — a set of baseball cards.The Russo brothers, who are directing both Doomsday and the follow-up Avengers: Secret Wars, have recently talked about this inventive way of working out which actors are available. They already used it
  
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• Wednesday star Jenna Ortega denies rumors of big Marvel role after her disappointing MCU debut 12 years ago: “I count that and I move on”

  15-03-2025 16:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jenna Ortega has set the record straight following rumors that she had landed an important role in the MCU. The Wednesday star actually debuted in the superhero franchise in Iron Man 3 with a tiny role, and apparently has no desire to come back."I did it once," she reminded Entertainment Tonight when asked about her involvement with the Marvel universe. "But it was one of the first jobs I ever did, and they took all my lines out," she added.Ortega was cast in the 2013 film, which was the third a
  
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• Deep Rock Galactic Survivors devs were scared the roguelike spin might not sell, but thankfully they have "one of the most active communities on the planet"

  15-03-2025 14:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Deep Rock Galactic Survivor's developers were quite nervous about putting a roguelike spin on the now-massive co-op shooter, but luckily for them, the drunken dwarves who spend their time mining on intergalactic rocks are a very active, dedicated bunch.Deep Rock Galactic Survivor, as you might be able to tell from the name alone, is an auto-shooting top-down roguelike in the same vein as Vampire Survivors. The DRG-themed twist here is that you play as dwarves running across procgen caves, all wh
  
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• "What if we […] make it 100% Japanese?": Silent Hill f producer worried Konami's horror series was "starting to feel too westernized"

  15-03-2025 13:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Silent Hill f is setting itself apart from its fog-soaked siblings with its rural Japanese locale, which was apparently chosen because producer Motoi Okamoto felt the horror series was losing its distinctly Japanese edge.While lifting the veil off of Silent Hill f, another third-person horror stuffed with psychological torment and twisted creatures, the developers also gave some insight into the project's inception."I believe the Silent Hill series was born out of blending the essence of Japanes
  
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• Silent Hill f trailer suggests Konami’s newest nightmare will bring back an iconic weapon central to every game in the franchise

  15-03-2025 13:47 via gamesradar.com
  Konami has finally given us a proper look at Silent Hill f since it was first revealed back in late 2022 (alongside the Silent Hill 2 Remake and that rough Silent Hill: Ascension thing), and it looks frankly terrifying. The trailer itself was mainly focused on the storyline and introducing us to the new protagonist Hinako Shimizu, without as much as a lick of gameplay. But since this is Silent Hill, fans have combed every millisecond of footage from the Silent Hill transmission and noticed a fam
  
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• Percy Jackson series gets unusually early renewal for season 3 before upcoming season 2 even airs

  15-03-2025 13:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Percy Jackson is in it for the long haul on Disney Plus, as the streamer just renewed Percy Jackson and the Olympians for season 3. The announcement arrives well ahead of the release of season 2, which is now set for December."From the moment Percy Jackson and the Olympians debuted, it was clear this series had struck a chord with fans of all ages," Disney Branded Television president Ayo Davis said in a statement (via The Hollywood Reporter).The series, based on Rick Riordan's book saga, receiv
  
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• All 55 of these games are under $5 in Steam Spring Sale 2025, which is just silly for Metroidvanias, RPGs, roguelikes, and more gems this good

  15-03-2025 13:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Steam Spring Sale is upon us, here to terrorize wallets and flood backlogs worldwide. And to save your poor wrists from having to scroll endlessly and find the best savings there are, my frail bones have the done the hard work for you, dear readers. Here are 55 sometimes incredible, at least good games under $5:
  Does what it says on the tin: American Truck SimulatorA mini open-world with heartfelt stories tucked away and secrets aplenty in A Short HikeSurreal RPG with online elements AtlyssSuper
  
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• Pokemon streamer builds a controller so bad that it takes them a full 80 minutes to walk to FireRed's first city

  15-03-2025 12:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  We pretty much perfected the video game controller when the DualShock launched back in 1997; pretty much every controller since has been some adaptation of that layout (or whatever weird thing Nintendo was up to). And it’s maybe because of that fact that we see so many people play through games with weird, unintended control methods. There’s the streamer who is better at Elden Ring with a DDR dance pad than I am with any controller, or the streamer who beat Elden Ring using a boxing
  
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• Spider-Noir star says the show might be released in black and white as it was shot like a "very genuine film noir"

  15-03-2025 12:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nicolas Cage's upcoming Spider-Noir series could be released in black and white as well as in color, according to star Lukas Haas.The show sees the return of the moody black-and-white Spider-Man variant from the beloved animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, with Haas playing one of the villain's henchmen."It was just an incredible project. Everybody involved was amazing. Brendan Gleason, he plays my boss. Just getting to, to do that noir thing. It was very genuine film noir, the way t
  
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• Breaking Bad star's new sci-fi horror movie debuts to an almost perfect score on RT as first reactions compare it to Event Horizon

  15-03-2025 11:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Shudder's upcoming sci-fi horror Ash, starring Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul and 3 Body Problem's Eiza González, is getting mostly good reviews ahead of its cinema release next week.Following its premiere at SXSW, the film currently sits at an impressive 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, an almost perfect score. Critics are praising its "razor-sharp visuals" and "ultra-violent" story, with some of them even comparing it to sci-fi classics like Alien and Event Horizon."Flying Lotus' Ash is a mind-ben
  
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• Mass Effect veteran's new sci-fi RPG Exodus introduces an alien race, and they're so hardcore they put the Krogans to shame

  15-03-2025 11:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Exodus has just unveiled a new alien species who sound hardcore enough to go toe-to-toe with Mass Effect's Krogan.If you've never heard of Exodus before, that comparison wasn't just my attempt at pitting two unrelated sci-fi worlds against each other to appease the SEO Gods. Exodus is the debut game from Archetype Entertainment, which was co-founded by some senior Mass Effect talent and former BioWare higher-ups James Ohlen and Chad Robertson, and the similarities aren't easy to ignore from ther
  
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• As Jurassic Park Survival, John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, and the Star Wars KOTOR remake remain MIA, Saber CEO promises "everything that we have talked about is still in development"

  15-03-2025 01:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been some time since we've heard from Saber Interactive on a number of its high-profile projects in development, but the company's CEO has assured they're all still being worked on.A year ago to the day, Saber Interactive split from its former parent company Embracer Group in a deal valued at nearly $250 million. Without the financial backing of the Swedish media giant and in the absence of updates on many of its most anticipated titles, it's natural to wonder if they're still in developmen
  
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• Horizon Zero Dawn star Ashly Burch responds to Sony's controversial AI Aloy by pushing for actor protections: "You have to compensate us fairly, and you have to tell us how you're using this AI"

  14-03-2025 22:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Earlier this week, footage of an AI-powered character prototype developed by Sony and modeled after Horizon Zero Dawn's Aloy leaked online. The game's community was immediately critical of the whole effort, and now Ashly Burch, the human actor behind Aloy's original performance, has published her own response."I saw the tech demo earlier this week," Burch says in an Instagram video. "Guerrilla reached out to me to let me know that the demo didn't reflect anything that was actively in development
  
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• Silent Hill f's ESRB rating has zero chill: "Faces ripped apart," "a character burned alive inside a cage," and "entrails and sinew displayed on serving platters"

  14-03-2025 22:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Silent Hill f has been rated by the ESRB in the US, and the rating summary is one of the most explicit and intense I've ever seen.In case you missed it, the new Silent Hill f cinematic trailer gives a sneak preview of some of the abominations the hapless protagonist Hinako will have to face off against. The trailer had some of the most unsettling creatures I've ever seen in the Silent Hill series' long history, but this ESRB rating summary suggests it was just a taster of the full meal.It's wort
  
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• District 9 filmmaker Neil Blomkamp is working on a Starship Troopers reboot that goes back to the original 1959 novel

  14-03-2025 22:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Columbia Pictures has tapped District 9 filmmaker Neill Blomkamp to write and direct a new adaptation of Starship Troopers, per THR. According to the trade outlet, Blomkamp's new Starship Troopers will fully bypass Paul Verhoeven's 1997 film and its subsequent direct-to-video sequels, instead opting to return to the original source material of Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 sci-fi novel.This is an interesting decision, but not necessarily a surprising one, as Verhoeven's film is widely noted for its
  
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• Silent Hill f writer says many of the franchise's female characters experience "a great deal of suffering," so he wants his protagonist "to be able to make her own decisions, for better or for worse"

  14-03-2025 22:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Women in Silent Hill are smothered to death, bleeding from the waist down, and tortured by their fathers. It's not my idea of the perfect spring break, but sometimes it's unavoidable. So Silent Hill f, the newest title in Konami's survival horror series, won't make life any easier for its female protagonist, but writer Ryukishi07 at least vows to empower her."Up until now, I have played every Silent Hill game," says Ryukishi07, the mythic creator behind the When They Cry visual novels, in Konami
  
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• Jonathan Hickman will "revolutionize Marvel's galactic canon" in a new event that brings in the Hulks, Black Panther, Nova, and more

  14-03-2025 21:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jonathan Hickman, the architect of the new Ultimate Universe, is returning to the mainstream Marvel Universe with a transformative new four-issue event series titled Imperial, which Marvel promises will "revolutionize Marvel's galactic canon" and "lays the foundation for an entire new landscape of interconnected space-set stories."Hickman is joined by artists Federico Vicenti and Iban Coello on Imperial. The limited series throws the wider galactic societies of the Marvel Universe into disarray
  
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• Solo Leveling anime producer calls out "act of betrayal" after footage leaks ahead of latest episode: "It’s a shame”

  14-03-2025 21:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Solo Leveling producer Atsushi Kaneko has spoken out after the latest episode leaked online ahead of release."I appreciate your anticipation of our latest story. But...it is a real shame that the footage is leaked prior to broadcast and distribution," Kaneko wrote in a statement shared to Twitter."It is an act of betrayal to the creative staff and the fans who are looking forward to the show.I feel sorry for them. It's a shame."Comic Book Review says that "prominent leakers" shared images of sea
  
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• Valve "followed" 1.7 million Steam users for over a year, and now reports those gamers spent $20 million on microtransactions and another $73 million on games and DLC

  14-03-2025 20:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Valve monitored the activity of 1.7 million Steam users and found some pretty interesting stats about playtime and in-game transactions and purchases.In Steam's 2024 Year-in-Review writeup, Valve said it tracked the activity of 1.7 million customers who were first-time purchasers and bought one of the 20 biggest games of 2023. It used the big games to single them out, and "then we followed that cohort of new users," Valve says.Valve collected data that showed what those customers did on Steam fr
  
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• Just weeks later, Ubisoft walks back some disappointing Assassin's Creed Shadows news: it will be fully Steam Deck Verified "despite the fact the team thought it would not be the case"

  14-03-2025 19:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Shadows will be Steam Deck compatible and fully Verified at launch after all, Ubisoft has confirmed.This is a pretty big 180 from Ubisoft, which just weeks ago said in no uncertain terms that Assassin's Creed Shadows wouldn't be Steam Deck compatible at launch due to the mobile hardware's technical limitations. In a tech Q&A from February 12, Ubisoft technology director Pierre F said: "At launch, the game will not be compatible with Steam Deck, due to the fact it is below ou
  
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• God of War's 20th anniversary announcement comes without a remaster, but PlayStation is giving us some sick new God of War Ragnarok skins and a 67-inch Jörmungandr plush

  14-03-2025 19:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  The 20th anniversary of the God of War series is upon us, and PlayStation has just announced a range of new merch and updates to celebrate – but, sadly, the announcements do not include the long-awaited remaster of the original PS2 and PS3 games.On Thursday, March 20, the Dark Odyssey Collection is coming to God of War Ragnarok as a free update on PS5, PS4, and PC. "Inspired by the working name of God of War (2005) and the skin that originally appeared in God of War II as a reward for beat
  
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• Ubisoft is reportedly laying the groundwork for a new company unit focusing on its most valuable series, including Assassin's Creed

  14-03-2025 18:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ubisoft is apparently up to some business-shaped shenanigans behind the scenes as it's reportedly considering launching a new part of the company that would house some of its main intellectual property, notably including Assassin's Creed.This comes from a new Bloomberg report, in which anonymous sources familiar with the situation have claimed that Ubisoft is looking for investors to support this so-called "IP unit," which apparently hasn't actually been formed yet. It's not actually clear what
  
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• Wednesday star Jenna Ortega and Escape Room's Taylor Russell in talks to lead reboot of beloved '90s thriller

  14-03-2025 18:30 via gamesradar.com
  
   Jenna Ortega and Taylor Russell are in talks to lead an upcoming reboot of iconic 1992 erotic thriller Single White Female, according to a report published by The Insneider on March 14.The Hollywood Reporter later confirmed the news, though the publication stated that Sony, the studio thought to be working on the project with Elizabeth Gabler’s 3000 Pictures, offered no official comment.Starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Bridget Fonda, the original found inspiration from John Lutz's 1
  
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• Super Nintendo consoles have been quietly overclocking themselves for 35 years, but it took until 2025 for the SNES fandom to notice

  14-03-2025 18:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been 35 years since the SNES first launched as the Super Famicom in Japan, complete with a sound chip designed by the father of PlayStation himself, Ken Kutaragi. Over the past few weeks, Super Nintendo fans have made a curious discovery – that chip has been quietly overclocking itself over the decades, making SNES consoles run ever so slightly faster than they did back in the day.The idea that "SNES consoles seem to be getting faster as they age" was posited back on February 26 via T
  
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• Capcom promises "lots in store" for Monster Hunter Wilds beyond just "the planned title updates," not to mention the "series as a whole"

  14-03-2025 17:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  As Capcom continues working towards its first free update for Monster Hunter Wilds, with new monsters like Mizutsune coming to the action RPG, the game's lead developers say there's more in store for the new game – and the series as a whole, too.Speaking in a recent video message on Monster Hunter Wilds, producer Ryozo Tsujimoto, art director Kaname Fujioka, and director Yuya Tokuda teased new content and announcements to come. Looking to the future of Wilds, Tsujimoto tells fans to "keep
  
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• New Nintendo patent implies veteran Splatoon developers are behind that mystery Minecraft-like game playtested last year

  14-03-2025 17:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  We finally have some clue as to what Splatoon's creative leads are working on behind Nintendo's well-secured doors.Last year, the company recruited fans themselves to test a "mystery" Nintendo Switch Online feature with a Playtest Program that filled up within seven minutes. The publisher was then quickly reminded of why it doesn't usually let anyone peek behind the curtain as leaks started flooding the internet almost immediately, describing what sounds like a playtest for a Minecraft-esque gam
  
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• It Takes Two sold over 20 million copies and won GOTY, but Hazelight's Josef Fares says "all the numbers looked really, really bad" before the co-op studio became "this really big developer"

  14-03-2025 17:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Josef Fares – founder of Hazelight Studios and director of game of the year winner It Takes Two, as well as the massively popular Split Fiction – looks back on his past games and tells us their "numbers" really weren't good."Here's the thing: there was always a big, big risk in the beginning," Fares says in an interview with the Edge newsletter. "But I have extreme confidence in what we do. I trust in the core [of the idea]. Brothers, A Way Out, It Takes Two – all the numbers l
  
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