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• Squid Game season 2 beats Wednesday to have Netflix's biggest ever premiere week

  02-01-2025 11:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Squid Game season 2 is off to a massive start on Netflix, already becoming one of its most popular shows of all time – and breaking a record for the streamer's biggest-ever premiere week.The second season of the hit drama show was released on December 26, 2024, with seven episodes available to stream. A third and final season is due later this year.According to Netflix, season 2 scored 68 million views in its first week, making it the most-watched premiere week ever. That means it steals t
  
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• Elden Ring Nightreign is saying goodbye to FromSoftware's beloved messaging system

  04-01-2025 18:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Elden Ring Nightreign is carrying over a lot from its predecessors, but it's also saying goodbye to an iconic messaging system that's been a part of some of FromSoftware's most popular games. Elden Ring Nightreign's one and only trailer had so many familiar sights. The Lands Between. Some returning enemies. Bosses ripped straight from Dark Souls, like the Nameless King. But it also featured an equal amount of all-new stuff, from three-player co-op to an entirely new structure set across thr
  
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• Tetris some towns together in this cute city builder brought back to life by Kickstarter after the studio "had to let everyone go" last year

  04-01-2025 17:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  I love a good twist on Tetris. There's Tetris with sand. Tetris with hot wax. Tetris but it's an interactive documentary spanning the game's 40-year-history. And now, I was delighted to find out about a game that's essentially 'Tetris but city-building.'River Towns is the name of the game where you jump between levels to "place differently shaped buildings and make them fit into a limited area." Those buildings are basically shaped like Tetris blocks, so slotting them into just the right places
  
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• Balatro creator shares the GOTY love with other indie games while giving out a "very prestigious Golden Thunk award"

  04-01-2025 16:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Balatro is the rare indie game that made it mainstream, having sold millions of copies, gotten nominations at pretty much every major game of the year ceremony, and drawn a dedicated meme-loving fanbase. But solo-developer Localthunk hasn't stopped championing other indies all year, and he's now even given a shoutout to his favorites.On social media, Localthunk announced his "very prestigious Golden Thunk award for Game of the Year 2024" that'll hopefully become an annual tradition, and this yea
  
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• OG Minecraft creator "basically announced Minecraft 2" in the oddest way, but he won't "sneakily infringe" on Mojang's work

  04-01-2025 15:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Minecraft's original creator Markus 'Notch' Persson has seemingly announced that he intends to make a spiritual successor to the best-selling video game of all time in the oddest way possible.A few days ago on social media, Notch asked followers if he should continue making the "traditional roguelike" with "tile-based first-person" dungeon crawling that's currently in development, or whether he should ditch that to instead create a "spiritual successor thing to Minecraft" via a poll. Right now,
  
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• This slick Hades-style action roguelike with 92% positive reviews mysteriously vanished from Steam and the devs say they don't know why

  03-01-2025 23:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  A lovely-looking action roguelike in the vein of Hades called Realm of Ink has just disappeared from Steam, and even the devs themselves aren't sure why."We wanted to inform you that Realm of Ink has been removed from the Steam store," developer Leap Studio says in a blog post. "Unfortunately, we are currently unaware of the specific reason for this action, but we are doing our best to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. We understand that this may cause confusion and concern, and we since
  
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• Fallout creator Tim Cain reveals two playthroughs key to the RPG's history: his low-Int hero named Potato, and a mass-murderer who made them check "the entire game" again

  03-01-2025 23:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  I've always thought that the most rewarding role-playing games are the ones that account for a range of playstyles - everything from your standard claymore stuff to a pebble-only run, if the mood strikes - and Fallout creator Tim Cain agrees. Accommodating diverse player builds is part of what makes the original Fallout game so divinely satisfying. But trying to predict behavior from a class as wild as the deviant gamer is a difficult task, Cain suggests in a recent YouTube video discussing
  
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• Borderlands 4 studio Gearbox gave the devs custom cast iron skillets for Christmas because "we f***ing cooked"

  03-01-2025 22:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Borderlands 4 is due out in 2025, and if there's one thing we know about the upcoming looter shooter, it's that the devs at Gearbox are vocally quite proud of their work. How proud? Proud enough to give out custom cast iron skillets as Christmas presents because "we fucking cooked."That's according to senior writer Jordan Mychal Lemos - who previously worked on Ghost of Tsushima, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and the KOTOR Remake before coming to Gearbox - sharing an image of that custom pan on Twit
  
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• "Action RPGs kind of outsell classic RPGs": Fallout OG Tim Cain says AAA RPGs default to violence because it sells, so support non-violent options when you get 'em

  03-01-2025 21:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Violent video games don't create neck spasms and murderers the way so many people seem to assume, but they are undeniably prevalent in the gaming industry. According to Fallout creator Tim Cain, there's an obvious reason for that.  "If you look at, like, the Steam top 50 or top 100 [most played games]," Cain says in a new YouTube video dissecting the topic of violent RPGs, "you see an awful lot of action, violent-oriented games. The companies don't make them because they feel like it. They
  
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• 2 months later, Assassin's Creed Origins is getting pounded with negative Steam reviews because the Windows update that broke it still isn't fixed

  03-01-2025 19:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  In 2024, Microsoft started rolling out Windows 11 version 24H2, and devs and players both quickly discovered that this update was wreaking havoc with a number of Ubisoft games. While some games have been fixed, issues still abound in the trilogy of Assassin's Creed Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla, and the first of those titles in particular is paying the price on Steam.On November 22 last year, Microsoft confirmed that a handful of Ubisoft games were prone to "become unresponsive while starting,
  
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• Perhaps forgetting his game is a loaded parody of fascism, Helldivers 2 director says, "Make good games, don't make a contemporary political statement"

  03-01-2025 18:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Helldivers 2 creative director and Arrowhead CCO Johan Pilestedt, the creative lead on a game built around the idea of wearing a caricature of fascism like a Halloween costume, reckons game developers should simply "make good games, don't make a contemporary political statement."This Twitter discussion, which has now predictably spiraled into reply fights between the people confused by Pilestedt's statement and those encouraged by it, started with Pilestedt teasing Arrowhead's next game. "I am w
  
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• Before Nintendo hired Shigeru Miyamoto, it tried to patent the kid's toy he made and brought to his interview: "I remember thinking, 'this is a shrewd company!'"

  03-01-2025 18:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  These days, Shigeru Miyamoto's creations are synonymous with Nintendo itself, but there was once a time when even Miyamoto was just a college kid interviewing for a job just like anybody else. He brought a portfolio of his work to Nintendo for that interview - and it seems the company tried to patent one of the items he showed off well before it had officially hired him.Miyamoto graduated from industrial design university with thoughts of designing home appliances, or toys and playground equipme
  
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• Less than a year after launching 2024's best live service, Helldivers 2 creative director has already started working on "the next Arrowhead game"

  03-01-2025 17:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arrowhead Game Studios' CCO is already working on the team's next game after the mega-success of Helldivers 2.Former Arrowhead CEO turned CCO and Helldivers 2 creative director Johan Pilestedt took to social media just before the new year to ask players what their "expectations and desires" were for whatever the studio cooks up after - or maybe even alongside - its smash shooter success."I am working on the high concept, but I would love to hear your speculation," he tweeted. "High concept" prob
  
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• The Witcher 4 NPCs will offer a "more immersive experience" than other CD Projekt games: "We are trying to push the bar here"

  03-01-2025 17:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Games like The Witcher 3, which was at one point stocked with NPC clones, and Cyberpunk 2077, whose NPCs were mechanical upon launch, have made it so developer CD Projekt Red has a middling track record when it comes to non-playable characters, but The Witcher 4 could reverse the curse.  "We have this rule," game director Sebastian Kalemba tells Gamertag Radio co-host Parris Lilly in a recent interview, "to make every single [The Witcher 4] NPC looking like they're living, with their own st
  
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• Seven director David Fincher shares what was actually in the box, though he says "you don't need to see what's in the box if you have Morgan Freeman"

  03-01-2025 17:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  What's in the box? It's one of the most famous questions asked in cinema, and Seven director David Fincher has answered it for real.In the dramatic scene, Brad Pitt's Mills demands to know what's in a box delivered to him on the orders of Kevin Spacey's murderous John Doe, which Morgan Freeman's Somerset opens. Inside is the severed head of Gwyneth Paltrow's Tracy – we never see it, but it's obvious that this is the grisly discovery made by Somerset.Since Seven (one of the best thriller mo
  
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• Peter Parker must face the unbearable truth as The 8 Deaths of Spider-Man continues

  03-01-2025 17:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  The current run of Amazing Spider-Man is drawing closer to its conclusion, with a relaunch and a new #1 confirmed for April. Before then, however, Peter Parker must continue the life or death (mostly death) mission assigned to him by Doctor Doom. Bearing shiny new armor that gives him access to the mystical arts, Spidey has been appointed as Earth's new champion in the Covenant of Cyttorak, which means taking on and defeating a host of scions to save the world. The only trouble is that means he
  
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• Helldivers 2 players beat the Illuminate back but they're still freaking out citizens, so High Command wants to build a surveillance center which definitely won't be used for spying

  03-01-2025 16:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  The fight for managed democracy is one that never stops, especially now that Helldivers 2's galactic war rages on not just against the Automatons and Terminids, but the Illuminate too. Super Earth's soldiers have been fighting against the new (old) threat valiantly, but High Command has now set its sights on the construction of a new freedom-loving building.Our latest Major Order is here, and it calls for the liberation of the Automaton-occupied planet of Mastia, which is soon set to be home of
  
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• James Gunn says we won't see Batman's origin in the DCU: "We don't need to hear the origin story again"

  03-01-2025 16:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Batman has debuted in the DCU thanks to Creature Commandos – and, according to James Gunn, we won't be seeing his origin story again.Of course, Batman has probably one of the most famous superhero origins of all time, meaning we don't really need to see the tragic death of the Waynes play out on screen once more."He already exists in this universe, just like when we come to the Superman movie and we see that Superman already exists, he's already known by the people in Metropolis," Gunn tol
  
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• "6 years of work leaving the nest": Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is already making its way into the hands of reviewers, and one dev is "nervous but also excited AF"

  03-01-2025 16:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  With little over a month to go until Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, developer Warhorse Studios is gearing up to distribute codes to reviewers and leave everything "in the lap of the Review-Gods," something which global PR manager Tobias Stolz-Zwilling is understandably rather nervous about.In a tweet posted yesterday, Stolz-Zwilling confirms that review codes for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 are being sent out "in the next few days," which is "four weeks ahead of release" on February 4. "From now o
  
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• A Balatro crossover, GOTY nods, and near-perfect reviews propelled one of 2024's hidden gems to its highest selling day months after launch

  03-01-2025 15:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  1000xResist was one of the best but sadly overlooked games from last year, though the dystopian sci-fi adventure's fortunes might now be turning as the game reached its highest sales day ever, a whole seven months after coming out.Developer Sunset Visitor says as much in a new post on Good Twitter, writing that 1000xResist sold more on New Years Day than any other day in its brief history, including its launch on May 9, 2024. "To everyone who has recommended, spoken or written about 1000xResist.
  
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• Creature Commandos just gave us our first look at the DCU's Gotham City – and a glimpse of Batman

  03-01-2025 15:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  We have our first look at the DCU's new version of Gotham City, and a brief glimpse at Batman – in animation, anyway, thanks to the latest episode of Creature Commandos (consider this your spoiler warning if you're not up to date with this week's episode yet!).The new series, which is airing weekly on Max, is the first project in James Gunn's DCU Chapter One: Gods and Monsters. It follows a ragtag team of monsters assembled by Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) to carry out missions that are too
  
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• The Squid Game season 3 release date might have been accidentally leaked – by Netflix

  03-01-2025 13:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Netflix might have just revealed the Squid Game season 3 release date early – and the hit show could be returning in just a few months.According to Forbes, Netflix Korea shared a video that temporarily included a release date of June 27, 2025. That would be just six months after Squid Game season 2, which released on December 26.That's a very fast turnaround, especially considering the massive gap between season 1 and season 2. But, season 3 is acting as more of a part 2 than a whole new s
  
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• Vanilla Skyrim reaches a whopping 2 billion mod downloads, surpassed only by Skyrim: Special Edition's 6.2 billion record

  03-01-2025 13:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Skyrim is the game that just keeps giving - or the game that just won't die, depending on how much you love its memeable world - as the base game has now reached a whopping two billion mod downloads.As beloved as Bethesda's immortal RPG is, the base game can be kind of rough in certain areas. So it didn't take long for players to start tinkering themselves, circa 2011, with fixes and graphical improvements and quality-of-features. But Skyrim mods have since evolved. There's a mod for everything.
  
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• Enormous GTA 5 mod adds GTA 4's Liberty City as a fully functional map, with a working subway, traffic, and even the notorious swing set glitch

  03-01-2025 13:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  We've been waiting so long for GTA 6 that we've now been given the next best thing to a GTA 4 remake, all thanks to this enormous GTA 5 mod that's revived and revitalized Liberty City. The mod is called The Liberty City Preservation Project, and it does exactly what its name suggests by bringing back the whole Liberty City map to explore and get lost in. As well as the locations themselves, it also aims to include all manner of other things like pedestrians, vehicles, radio stations, and mo
  
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• David Fincher was once in talks to direct Harry Potter, but his "creepy" version didn't align with Warner Bros.' vision

  03-01-2025 13:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  David Fincher has revealed that he once met with Warner Bros. to discuss directing a Harry Potter movie – but the Se7en director and the studio reportedly had conflicting visions for the project."I was asked to come in and talk to them about how I would do Harry Potter," Fincher told Variety. "I remember saying, 'I just don't want to do the clean Hollywood version of it. I want to do something that looks a lot more like Withnail and I, and I want it to be kind of creepy.'"That wasn't exact
  
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• Andrew Garfield denies being signed up for Spider-Man 4, but also knows "no one’s gonna trust" him after No Way Home

  03-01-2025 12:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Andrew Garfield is denying being in Spider-Man 4, although he knows no one will believe him after his 'surprise' role in Spider-Man: No Way Home.Garfield repeatedly denied starring in No Way Home, though, of course, he was one of the three Spider-Men in that movie. Lately, rumors have abounded that he'll be back as Peter Parker in the upcoming Spider-Man 4."I'm gonna disappoint you," he told GQ. "Yeah, no. But I know no one's gonna trust anything I say from now on."But, Garfield didn't rule out
  
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• BioShock's Ken Levine calls his most iconic FPS "a very, very long corridor," but his next game Judas is "made very, very differently"

  03-01-2025 12:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  You don't often see game developers knock down their most iconic work, but Ken Levine recently called his famous, sometimes infamous, shooters "basically a corridor" while hyping up his next BioShock-but-in-space game Judas.That comes from a chat with Gameindustry.biz where Ken Levine broke down how he wants Judas (the game) and all the characters living inside its utopian/dystopian space colony ship to remember and react to all the little things the player might do."BioShock and BioShock Infini
  
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• Marvel Rivals devs lift bans on players mistakenly banned for cheating: "We do not and will not ban players who are playing fairly"

  03-01-2025 11:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel Rivals developer NetEase Games admits that a number of players have recently been hit with bans for cheating… even though they'd not been cheating at all. According to community manager 'James' in the game's official Discord server, this has proven to be a problem for those playing Marvel Rivals in compatibility layer programs – software designed to allow users to run things like games on a different operating system to the one it was written for. For example, you might
  
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• Solo Leveling season 2 release schedule – when is episode 1 on Crunchyroll?

  03-01-2025 11:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Solo Leveling season 2 is almost here. The next chapter in Sung Jinwoo's story, titled Arise from the Shadow, is premiering on Crunchyroll this January.But if you've been following along with your favorite anime shows for a while now, you'll know how acutely difficult it is to pinpoint exactly when and where new episodes are dropping.To guide you, we've put together a cheat sheet on Solo Leveling season 2, episode 1's release plans. That includes the release date and streaming time on Crunchyrol
  
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• AGDQ 2025 kicks off this weekend promising Elden Ring on a saxophone and a 6-hour Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth speedrun, but I'm tuning in for two of the worst games ever made

  02-01-2025 23:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new year is here, which means we're in the midst of that joyous time where the entire gaming community says in one voice: "oh crap, AGDQ starts this weekend!" Yes, the charity speedrunning event has once again crept up on us all, and there's a whole lot of fun stuff on the schedule - which, for sickos like me, includes some of the worst games ever made.AGDQ 2025 starts on Sunday, January 5 at 8:30am PT / 11:30am ET / 4:30pm GMT with a brief kickoff show, followed by a full run of Pikmin on Swi
  
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