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• Split Fiction and It Takes Two director is already "fully focused" on Hazelight's next game, which the studio started work on around a month ago: "It's quite early"

  18-03-2025 11:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Split Fiction hasn't even been out for two full weeks yet, but director Josef Fares has confirmed that Hazelight Studios is already working on its next game, which he's "fully focused" on and "super excited" about.The latest co-op romp from the It Takes Two studio was an immediate success when it released earlier this month – after selling one million copies in only two days, it quickly cemented itself as Hazelight's fastest-selling game ever, and on Metacritic, it's currently the highest
  
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• Daredevil: Born Again episode 4 finally revealed the Marvel show's most mysterious character so far

  19-03-2025 03:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warning: This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again episodes 1-4.Daredevil: Born Again acts as both a soft reboot of the Daredevil story as well as a continuation of the beloved Netflix show. As a result, it can be a little tricky when characters are introduced to work out whether they're new additions or small roles you might have forgotten from years past.One such conundrum is Adam, who has been mentioned several times in the first few episodes as someone important to Vanessa Fis
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3's corporate overlord says news on the future of the RPG series is coming "in pretty short order"

  19-03-2025 01:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate IP owner Hasbro says news on the future of the beloved RPG series is coming soon.Speaking to IGN at this year's Game Developers Conference, Hasbro senior vice president of digital games Dan Ayoub suggested the company is still in the very early stages of working out where to take Baldur's Gate next, but added that it won't be long before we learn more."We're kind of working out our plans for the future and what we're going to be doing with that," Ayoub said. "And actually, in prett
  
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• Silent Hill 2 Remake devs spent many hours "watching, reading, discussing" fan theories about the iconic Labyrinth level and wanted to "incorporate as many" of them as possible

  19-03-2025 01:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Silent Hill 2's iconic Labyrinth area is one of the scariest and most challenging levels in both the 2001 classic and the 2024 remake, but it's also one of the least understood from a narrative perspective.Light spoilers for Silent Hill 2 Remake to follow, so turn back now if you haven't finished the main campaign and want to experience it blind.It seems intentional that the exact nature of the Labyrinth is left to players' imaginations in both games, which of course makes the whole area ripe fo
  
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• Jean Grey's "miraculous return" will solve an X-Men mystery that's been lingering for over 30 years

  18-03-2025 23:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jean Grey's upcoming "miraculous return" will solve an X-Men mystery that's been lingering since the '90s, as it's now been revealed that the character who was previously teased to be resurrected in the pages of May's Phoenix #11 will in fact be Sara Grey, Jean Grey's sister whose death left many lingering questions that have plagued the X-mythos since. Marvel has also now revealed the Dark Phoenix-esque cover to Phoenix #12 by Lucas Werneck, seen below.Phoenix #11 by writer Stephanie Phillips a
  
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• Assassin's Creed Shadows release time – the countdown to Ubisoft's Japan-inspired RPG is on

  18-03-2025 23:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  After several delays, the Assassin's Creed Shadows release time is finally near, so we're kicking off the countdown to Ubisoft's long-awaited RPG.The Assassin's Creed series has taken place in many different periods, from Renaissance Italy to Ancient Greece. Despite years of asking, though, fans have had to wait for Japan – until now.Thankfully, early reaction suggests the wait was worth it. In our Assassin's Creed Shadows review, we gave Ubisoft's latest a four-star score, saying the RPG
  
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• GTA 6 is "definitely gonna be a big economic boost for the games industry" that'll help "bring a lot more people back into the ecosystem," PlayStation indie boss reckons

  18-03-2025 22:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  The whole game industry is waiting for the launch of GTA 6, with some analysts hoping it'll put the gaming market "back on a growth trajectory." At the same time, a whole lot of developers are eyeing the game's as-yet-unconfirmed launch date because they don't want to get lost in Rockstar's shadow. One of the key figures in PlayStation's indie outreach efforts reckons that GTA 6 could help, not hinder, the potential of smaller games."[GTA 6 is] going to be the best, awesome, giant game for the y
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 builds on a "heritage of JRPGs" like Final Fantasy 7, 8, 9, and 10, but it's also "inspired by Sekiro" and taking pieces from deckbuilders

  18-03-2025 22:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a modern take on the classic JRPG formula that's stunned with its gorgeous visuals and obvious tribute to the turn-based Final Fantasy titles of old. But those aren't the only inspirations French developer Sandfall Interactive is citing. The game also owes a major debt to From Software's big hitters and even takes a page from deckbuilding games.Speaking to GamesRadar+ in an interview at the Game Developers Conference, producer and studio co-founder François
  
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• Silent Hill 2 remake dev says Bloober played up the original's iconic toilet scene to punish its protagonist for being a bad husband: "The theme here is disgust"

  18-03-2025 22:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Silent Hill 2 is overrun with monsters – their flesh taut and torn, blood or rust seeping from the cracks – but I've always been most viscerally opposed to that one scene where James sticks his hand in a rancid toilet bowl. In its Silent Hill 2 remake, developer Bloober decided that this was the best method to punish James for his wife-hating ways: dirty holes.While discussing level design at GDC 2025 [spoilers to come], Bloober's senior level designer Anna Oporska-Szybisz described
  
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• Christopher Priest returns to Black Panther after 22 years alongside Marvel Knights architect Joe Quesada for a story that foretells the future of the Marvel Universe

  18-03-2025 21:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Writer Christopher Priest revolutionized and revitalized the Black Panther in his acclaimed run on the title when it was part of the Marvel Knights imprint, from 1998-2003. Now, over 20 years later, Priest is returning to Black Panther - and to Marvel Knights - for a story that shows what one possible future of the Marvel Universe could look like.For the six issue limited series, titled Marvel Knights: The World to Come, Priest is joined by artist Joe Quesada, one of the original architects of t
  
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• Palworld community manager admits the survival game is "ripe for toxicity" and has a simple solution: "You just call 'em losers and you kick 'em"

  18-03-2025 19:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Palworld studio Pocketpair has a very simple solution for dealing with toxic players: kick them out of the game and call them losers. And just like that, all of a sudden, I want to play some Palworld.Speaking at Game Developers Conference 2025, Palworld community manager John 'Bucky' Buckley touched on the pervasive issue of shitty people playing online games. It's something every developer behind an online game has to deal with, but even with 32 million players to manage, Bucky and Pocketpair a
  
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• After 28 years, competitive GoldenEye players have documented what happens when you tie in the N64 FPS: "We experienced something that was only theorised"

  18-03-2025 19:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  28 years after its original launch on N64, GoldenEye still has a few mysteries left to unravel. Members of the game's competitive scene have, after all these years, just discovered what happens in the extremely unlikely event that a multiplayer match ends in a tie."Last night we were playing GoldenEye Netplay and we experienced something that was only theorised, never actually seen before all this time playing online," Graslu00 says on Twitter. "We both shot and hit at the exact same frame when
  
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• New Daredevil: Born Again season 2 behind-the-scenes photo sees Karen Page actor Deborah Ann Woll wearing an absolutely baffling wig

  18-03-2025 18:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Some new photos from the set of Daredevil: Born Again season 2 have hit the internet - and they're interesting, that's for sure.In the photos, which can be viewed below, Deborah Ann Woll, who plays Karen Page, is seen donning a rather cheap-looking, red wig - and given that she's blonde in the comics, we're not sure what the context here could be. Charlie Cox is also smiling, standing next to her (which is a surprise given what transpires in the first two episodes of Daredevil: Born Again). Eith
  
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• 'No-one wants to play a Match-3 game': Prolific indie dev made his Match-3 Metroidvania to "definitively prove" his publishers wrong

  18-03-2025 18:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Xalavier Nelson Jr., the boss of indie studio Strange Scaffold, has overseen plenty of weird and wonderful games. From Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator to Clickolding to El Paso, Elsewhere and I Am Your Beast, you never know what he and the team are going to make next. Cue Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3, the "match-3 survival horror comedy RPG metroidvania you didn't know you needed."We caught up with Nelson Jr. at GDC to ask him the question on everyone's mind: why make a match-3 game i
  
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• Hades 2's 1.0 release date is still a mystery, even to its devs: "Whenever that will be"

  18-03-2025 18:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hades 2 was released into early access just under a year ago, and since then it's been pretty popular on PC and Mac. Supergiant Games just released a massive new update for the game last month that included a "final confrontation" boss fight. With such a big thing being added, it may seem like the game is pretty close to that fated 1.0 release, but those of you waiting to play the game on console or just waiting for it to leave early access may be holding on for longer than you'd hope.At the Dop
  
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• On a scale of Bloodborne dodge to Sekiro parry, Soulslike RPG The First Berserker: Khazan seems dead in the middle: "Players can choose the defensive approach that best suits their skill level and playstyle"

  18-03-2025 18:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  As promising soulslike action RPG The First Berserker: Khazan gears up for its release, its creative director says that players will be able to lean into whatever defensive option they fancy, regardless of whether they're a Sekiro-hardened parry master or someone who prefers to dodge anything and everything.Asked if combat is intended to focus more on parrying or dodging, creative director Junho Lee tells GamesRadar+ that the action RPG is "designed to let players utilize both blocking and dodgi
  
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• Pac-Man and Tetris are "the two most important games of all time," says Bethesda lead Todd Howard, with Doom and Super Mario Bros. standing as the most "influential"

  18-03-2025 18:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Bethesda Game Studios lead Todd Howard has named what he sees as the "most important" and "influential" games of all time, and his picks range from Tetris to Doom.Speaking to the BAFTA Games Awards in a recent Q&A, Howard answers first with what he thinks are the two most important games to ever exist – Tetris and Pac-Man, according to the Bethesda head. "First I think," begins Howard, "the two most important games of all time are Tetris and Pac-Man for what they do for gaming overall
  
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• The Assassin's Creed Shadows metacritic score is here, and it's level with Valhalla

  18-03-2025 18:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Assassin's Creed Shadows metacritic score has arrived ahead of the game's release later this week.Despite enough delays to trigger a shareholder protest and almost a year of the devs having to defend their decision to include the real-life samurai Yasuke as a playable character, Assassin's Creed Shadows looks to have turned out to be really good.In our GamesRadar+ Assassin's Creed Shadows review, Andrew Brown gave the game four stars, calling it "Ubisoft's best RPG to date." He says "Assassi
  
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• New look at Monarch season 2 drops as production on the Godzilla show wraps

  18-03-2025 18:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2 has now wrapped filming, which means we can expect new episodes to arrive soon. The show's production company Legendary Television shared the news on social media along with a new image that shows the main cast on set.Ren Watabe (Kentaro), Takehiro Hira (Hiroshi Randa), Kiersey Clemons (May), and Emmy-winning Shogun actress Anna Sawai (Cate Randa) are featured in the new pic, which shows part of a ruined Monarch base surrounded by trucks branded with the Apex
  
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• A canon spin-off of beloved JRPG series Xenosaga was once feared to be lost media, but 21 years later, it's been preserved and is finally getting a fan translation

  18-03-2025 17:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  After 21 years, a Xenosaga game once thought to be lost media has been found and preserved online. Xenosaga: Pied Piper, originally released for Japanese phones in 2004, has been a sort of white whale for series fans for years, but a burgeoning preservation scene around Japanese mobile games has made sure this JRPG is not lost to history.Xenosaga: Pied Piper is a spin-off of the cult classic PS2 JRPG trilogy from Monolith Soft and Namco, telling the backstory of the cyborg Ziggurat 8. It's a tra
  
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• 6 years and 1 prolonged delay later, Xbox is still calling "incredible" Hollow Knight: Silksong one of its "upcoming games"

  18-03-2025 17:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hollow Knight: Silksong is more or less a ghost. Developer Team Cherry has been offering only sporadic updates on the Metroidvania sequel since 2019, so, to eager fans, it might as well not exist, but distributor Xbox is apparently still confident the game will show."Looking ahead, our lineup is incredible with upcoming games," Xbox says in a new press release about its ID@Xbox program, which lets indie developers self-publish their games on Xbox consoles. "Like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Desc
  
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• "I'm not trying to escape s**t": Brennan Lee Mulligan on why D&D isn't escapism to him

  18-03-2025 17:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  I imagine plenty of us would agree that they play D&D for escapism, but not Brennan Lee Mulligan. The legendary Dimension 20 Dungeon Master would like to stare into the void, and he's OK if the void stares back."I'm not trying to escape shit," Mulligan says when we talk about Exandria Unlimited: Divergence and D&D. "I keep hearing about escapism. I'm not plunging into the heart of Fantasia to the seat of the throne of the Childlike Empress to do anything other than find the secret wisdom
  
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• Sci-fi JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition is tied with Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 as the 3rd highest-rated game of the year on Metacritic so far

  18-03-2025 17:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  In a huge win for JRPG fans everywhere, Xenoblade Chronicles X's souped-up Switch port is a certified banger, and is so dang good that it's currently tied as the third highest-rated game of the year so far on Metacritic.Once an underrated Wii U banger left behind on Nintendo's previous-gen console, Xenoblade Chronicles X is pretty dang different to every other game in the Xenoblade series, but in some of the coolest ways possible. Not only does the sci-fi JRPG take place in a stunning and utterl
  
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• The first teaser for the Severance season 2 finale episode hints at one of the biggest mysteries of the show

  18-03-2025 17:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Apple TV Plus is releasing the last episode of Severance season 2 this week, and fans are hoping to finally get some answers to the show's biggest mysteries. A first teaser for the finale just hinted at one of the most prominent ones, but don't expect any revealing clues, as it's just as mysterious and weird as we'd hoped.The 10-second clip shows a goat being transported in a trolley through the white hallways of Lumon's severed floor. Yes, that's it. Of course, we weren't expecting more details
  
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• After months of radio silence regarding Ark 2, Studio Wildcard finally makes mention of the upcoming survival game sequel once more

  18-03-2025 17:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Five years have passed since Studio Wildcard first unveiled that Ark 2 was, in fact, coming, with no signs of the survival game sequel in sight since then yet – but a new mention from the developer means it's indeed still alive and kicking.There hasn't been much news surrounding Ark 2 in, well, literal months. The last significant mention of the sequel was this past August when Xbox announced a playable demo of the game only to immediately pull it, leaving a note stating that "Ark 2 was or
  
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• Even as costs spiralled to $100m, founder of shuttered Wonder Woman studio says "I don't think I ever really considered the possibility that it would shut down one day"

  18-03-2025 17:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Monolith Productions, the studio behind iconic games like Fear and Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor that brought us the Nemesis system, was shut down by owner Warner Bros. last month, and its co-founder says they never saw it coming despite the game reportedly costing over $100 million and being nowhere near ready for release.In an interview with the Guardian, founding member of Monolith Garett Price says, "I don't think I ever really considered the possibility that it would shut down one day." Ne
  
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• Disney Plus is adding a channel that plays The Simpsons 24/7 - and this is exactly what the world needs right now

  18-03-2025 17:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Disney Plus is adding a 24-hour streaming channel that plays episodes of The Simpsons on a continuous loop - and thank god for that.Starting today, Disney Plus subscribers can watch 767 episodes of The Simpsons across seasons 1-35 programmed in chronological order - which totals out to some 300 hours of continuous streaming time."The Simpsons Stream will deliver a SIMPSONS marathon all day, every day - no matter when you tune in, this ultimate Simpsons binge will be there," showrunner Matt Selma
  
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• Saber CEO knew Space Marine 2 would be a success after playing it for over 300 hours, but he was still surprised when it sold 6 million copies

  18-03-2025 16:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 turned out to be a massive success when it launched last year. So much so that Saber Interactive's CCO Tim Willits said it "changes everything" for the company and that it's the fastest-selling game he had ever worked on (including the likes of Doom and Wolfenstein). Fans loved its Xbox 360 throwback style, and no wonder it was almost refreshing in its oldness.Even if many of us were surprised how well the game did as a sequel to a then 12-year-old game, Saber In
  
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• Modretro teases FPGA Nintendo 64 console that could solve my current HDMI woes

  18-03-2025 16:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  2025 looks to be a big year for the Nintendo 64, as Modretro looks set to make its own FPGA console that will run N64 games. For now, the minds behind last year's Chromatic Game Boy are keeping the specifics under wraps, but I'm excited about the prospect of an affordable system that will help me play all my physical cartridge favorites using HDMI.Teased via a Tweet by Modretro founder Palmer Luckey, the new Nintendo 64 in question is the "M64." Yes, I see what they did there, but other than two
  
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• Silent Hill 2 remake director had no choice but to make Pyramid Head "more aggressive and faster" during his iconic fight: "We've been losing something, but we've been gaining something, too"

  18-03-2025 16:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  I couldn't care less about the perpetually single, square jaws who slurp raw steak and snort protein powder for the sake of their restrictive masculinity; to me, a real man is the physical manifestation of subconscious guilt and stalks the dilapidated halls of a tarry mind while maintaining his effortless six pack by toting a very menacing – and certainly tetanus-inducing – megalithic knife. So, that's why I love Pyramid Head, especially after Silent Hill 2 remake developer Bloober h
  
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