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• Bayonetta Voice Actor Hellena Taylor Says She Didn't Reprise the Role in Bayonetta 3 as She Was Only Offered $4,000

  15-10-2022 18:26
  
  Bayonetta voice actor Hellena Taylor has shared that she didn't reprise the role for Bayonetta 3 as she was offered only $4,000 to do so. Furthermore, she has asked fans to boycott the game and donate to charity instead.Taylor took to Twitter to share a few videos of her speaking to a camera and share her side of the story following the announcement that Mass Effect's Jennifer Hale would be replacing her in Bayonetta 3. Taylor has voiced the character since the original game, and couldn't stay s
  
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• I Played a Video Game About a Dungeon in Purgatory Filled With Nihilistic Adventurers and Then I Wrote This Article

  15-10-2022 16:00
  
  For the last nine years or so, Damien Crawford has been making games they don’t think people would want to play.Crawford is the sole developer and head of Cannibal Interactive. They’ve made over 20 games through the label, most of which have been released primarily on itch.io. They came to game development after several years of struggling to fit into other jobs such as fast food and mundane government work. A relationship falling through and a need to cut loose from parental support
  
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• Nintendo Switch Sports Online Play and Save Data Backup Are Currently Down

  15-10-2022 09:28
  
  Following a bug found in its Ver1.2.1 update, Nintendo has taken the Nintendo Switch Sports servers offline while it works to fix the problem. This means online play and save data backup are both currently down.Nintendo shared the update on Twitter, saying this bug has been causing the game to close during the pre-match loading screen for some players."A bug has been found in the #NintendoSwitchSports Ver1.2.1 update which causes the software to close during the pre-match loading screen," Ninten
  
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• Overwatch 2 Has Reached Over 25 Million Players In Its First 10 Days

  15-10-2022 08:48
  
  Overwatch 2 has reached over 25 million players in its first 10 days and it has already achieved a "daily player base spread near-even across EMEA, Asia, and the Americas that’s nearly triple the previous daily player peak from the original Overwatch."Blizzard announced the news in a press release and it arrives following a rough launch for the free-to-play game. Despite the issues, players have continued to show up in droves."The launch of Overwatch 2 has been such an important moment for
  
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• Gotham Knights Will Only Run at 30 FPS and Will Offer No Performance Mode on Consoles

  15-10-2022 08:20
  
  When Gotham Knights arrives on consoles on October 21, it will do so with no performance mode and it will run at only 30 FPS.As spotted by those like Wario64 on Twitter, the news was shared by Gotham Knights executive producer Fleur "Flaoua" Marty in the game's Discord channel, and she wanted to take the time to address this question for console players."I know many of you are wondering about the availability of a performance mode for Gotham Knights on consoles," Marty wrote. "Due to the types o
  
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• Pokemon Go Halloween 2022 event adds Mega Banette

  15-10-2022 01:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  The annual Pokemon Go Halloween event is upon us, and studio Niantic has revealed what to expect from the first part of this not-so-spooky two-part event.According to Niantic, part one of Pokemon Go Halloween 2022 kicks off on October 20 at 10am local time and runs until the same time on October 27. The big addition is Mega Banette, which qualifies as a Halloween Pokemon almost solely by virtue of being a Ghost-type, but hey, I'll take it. When the first part of this year's Pokemon Go Halloween
  
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• Secret Invasion explained

  15-10-2022 00:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Secret Invasion is one of the most significant Marvel Comics events of all time, with the 2008 crossover stretching through nearly the publisher's entire line along with a host of tie-ins. And now the story of a hidden infiltration of Skrulls in the Marvel Universe is coming to the MCU as a 2023 Disney Plus streaming series that brings back Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury, Cobie Smulders' Maria Hill, Ben Mendelson's Talos, and more.Given the original comic story's daunting nature (which you can mo
  
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• Gotham Knights is getting a free 4-player co-op mode

  15-10-2022 00:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Gotham Knights is adding a standalone 4-player co-op mode in November, and it'll be part of a free update for everyone who owns the game.Studio WB Games Montreal surprise-revealed the new online-only mode in a tweet on Friday afternoon, revealing its title - Heroic Assault - in a brief animation. The co-op mode is completely separate from the main campaign, which only supports 2-player co-op for the moment, and it launches on November 29.
  Gotham has thrown down a new gauntlet. Heroic Assault, th
  
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