07 May, 2026

“It gave us more opportunities for variety”: How Banjo-Kazooie helped the Nintendo 64 compete with PlayStation

During Rare’s Nintendo days, the studio made a habit of producing cutting-edge games on aging hardware. In late-1994, its pre-rendered platformer Donkey Kong Country allowed the sprite-focused SNES to compete with the polygon-powered PlayStation. However, a contemporary project codenamed Project Dream was struggling to find form. It too employed pre-rendered visuals, but was isometric rather […]

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KRAFTON Trims Organizational Fat to Boost Efficiency

KRAFTON is ramping up the intensity of a company-wide restructuring and workforce-efficiency drive. Following a “voluntary resignation option” aimed at rank-and-file employees, the company has now moved to direct headcount reductions and changes in employment arrangements targeting senior executives and office head–level appointees. In key business organizations such as publishing, in particular, internal chatter surrounding […]

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From Routine to Silent Hill f, the best horror games of 2025 were heart-pounding terrors that left me sweating with glee

2025 has been a weirdly brilliant year for horror. Not just in the usual “there’s a guy with too many teeth chasing me” way, but in the sense that developers keep finding new ways to ruin our sleep schedules. Some games are existential, some are grotesque, some are just about being trapped in a corridor […]

8 mins read

The Last Caretaker Is a Quiet, Emotional Take on Survival Crafting

There’s a particular loneliness to The Last Caretaker that sneaks up on you. Not the bombastic, end-of-the-world loneliness that so many post-apocalyptic games chase, but something quieter and heavier—the kind that settles in when you realize there’s no one left to thank you for doing the right thing. You are a machine, reawakened after humanity’s […]

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From Dispatch to Spilled and Peak, covering indie games every week in 2025 has been packed full of welcome surprises

As the keeper of the Indie Spotlight series here at GamesRadar+, I’ve had a close eye on the indie scene throughout 2025. From seeing the likes of Dogubomb’s Blue Prince land back in April and quickly become a wide-spread puzzle obsession, to the multiplayer majesty of Peak that dominated social media feeds in June and […]

7 mins read

The Most Unsettling Part of The Last Case of John Morley Is How Little It Lets You Off the Hook

There’s a particular weight that comes with reopening a case that everyone else has agreed to forget. The Last Case of John Morley understands that weight immediately, and it carries it carefully for the entirety of its brief, melancholy runtime. This is a noir detective story that isn’t interested in swagger or clever one-liners so […]

4 mins read

Somehow, Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition on Switch 2 has already plummeted 75% just in time for the holidays – you can get CDPR’s RPG masterpiece for just $17 right now

Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition was a Switch 2 launch game back in June with a $70 price tag, and even at that price, it was an easy recommend for people who’d been holding off on playing it due to the sorry state of the game at launch, but that price has now miraculously plummeted 75% […]

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