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• Women of Marvel 2023 puts the spotlight on Silk, Black Cat, America Chavez, Kate Bishop, She-Hulk and more

  21-12-2022 23:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Women of Marvel has become a hallmark of Marvel Comics with a tradition of comics, podcasts, convention panels, and more. And in March, the branding returns to its comic book roots with Women of Marvel 2023 #1, an anthology one-shot that features numerous women creators and characters in a variety of stories.Along with the overall announcement, Marvel has also announced the details of three of the planned stories for the anthology one shot.First, Rebecca Roanhorse (writer of the recent Phoenix S
  
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• This promising deckbuilder looks like Slay the Spire with cyberpunk waifus

  21-12-2022 23:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Theseus Protocol is a promising deckbuilder that finally adds the one thing that Slay the Spire and its contemporaries have been missing: cyberpunk waifus.You'll spend your runs in Theseus Protocol working your way through the dystopian Mark City by - you guessed it - engaging in tactical turn-based card duels. You'll do the usual deck management stuff, but you can also turn the tide of the battles through positioning to dodge enemy attacks or forcing them to attack each other. Maybe the most no
  
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• One of this year's scariest horror games just came to Switch and it's only $6

  21-12-2022 23:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  2022 was filled with viral games boosted by countless reactions on Twitch and YouTube, and Dusk creator David Szymanski's Iron Lung, an undersea horror masterwork that you can beat in one short sitting, is one of the most ingenious and memorable of the bunch – and it's now on Switch where it's also just $6.Iron Lung launched on Steam in March and had a nice boom in the following weeks as folks like Markiplier, Power Pak, Pyrocynical, and Jacksepticeye picked it up on YouTube, praising the
  
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• Escapade takes the lead against a new villain team in New Mutants Lethal Legion

  21-12-2022 22:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Escapade, the trans superhero who debuted in June's Marvel's Voices: Pride #1 one-shot special is taking a lead role in an upcoming limited series titled New Mutants Lethal Legion, in which Escapade joins several classic New Mutants as they team up against a new Lethal Legion, which takes its name from the old school villain team that has been led by Ultron and the Grim Reaper among others. It seems New Mutants Lethal Legion, which is scheduled to run five issues, will take over for the ong
  
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• After a horrible launch and herculean comeback, Fallout 76 has passed 13.5 million total players

  21-12-2022 22:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fallout 76 has become one of the higher-profile comeback stories of the past few years. It was meant to be a bold multiplayer direction for a storied single-player IP, but while it previewed fairly well, it launched and reviewed pretty terribly – our Fallout 76 review described it as worn as the post-apocalyptic world it depicts – and it took Bethesda years to scrub the resulting stain off. Some players would no-doubt argue that the game's still not up to par, but after years of tria
  
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• Square Enix abandons microtransaction-packed Final Fantasy kart racer after just 9 months

  21-12-2022 22:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Chocobo GP, a kart racing spinoff of the Final Fantasy series, is already done getting updates after launching March 10 of this year – 286 days ago, to be exact.On Wednesday, Square Enix announced that Chocobo GP won't get any more "large scale updates, (e.g. new characters or new maps)" after season 5, which is live now. The game will still be playable for the foreseeable future, and rankings will continue without prize pass levels as they do between seasons, but the post-launch developme
  
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• Bearded women, war possums, Pokemon, and other unhinged Dwarf Fortress mods

  21-12-2022 22:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dwarf Fortress has been on Steam for two weeks, and the mod list on the Workshop is already beyond unhinged.Have you ever wanted to lead a troop of trained warrior marsupials into battle? The War Possums mod is here to - and I quote from the mod page - allow "your dwarves to train possums in the art of war." If you want to get pedantic about 'opossums,' mod creator Elsie will argue with you in the comments.Okay, that one's a bit silly, but what if you want historically accurate female dwarves? P
  
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• Patti LuPone joins the cast of Agatha: Coven of Chaos

  21-12-2022 22:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone is the latest performer to join the cast of Agatha: Coven of Chaos.According to Deadline, LuPone may be playing a witch in the WandaVision spin-off.It was previously announced that Heartstopper's Joe Locke,, Ali Ahn, and Maria Dizzia joined the cast, as well as Aubrey Plaza – the latter of whom is rumored to be playing a villain. Caulfield Ford will return as Dottie Jones, a resident of Westview that fell victim to Wanda's enchantments. Kathryn Hahn, of
  
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• Best Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stories

  21-12-2022 21:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - heroes on the half-shell! Turtle power!If you're a fan of a certain age, you read those words with a very specific cadence and rhythm in your mind, from the iconic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon theme song of the late '80s and early '90s.Younger fans will have their own touchstones for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, who have never been out of the public eye in some form of media or other for very long. But the entire TMNT media empire all started with
  
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• Half-Life 2 fans think this corpse model is based on a real body, so they're modding it out

  21-12-2022 20:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Half-Life 2 fans are convinced one of the game's models is based on some seriously gruesome real-life photos, and they're already modding it out.Before we go any further, in case the headline of this article wasn't enough of a trigger warning, we'll be discussing what appear to be grisly images of a real-life disfigured human corpse. We won't actually show or link to the image, but there will be a picture of a video game body which seems to be directly lifted from, or at least heavily based on a
  
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• Norman Osborn is not impressed with the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year "Goblin Mode"

  21-12-2022 20:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Goblin Mode (Noun, slang):  "a behavior that is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations."That's the Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the Year for 2022, an honorary dictionary entry given to a word or term that defines some aspect of the year, as voted by OED users.
  (Image credit: Marvel Comics)
  So does 'goblin mode' sound like Norman Osborn, the original Green Goblin/current Gold Goblin to you? Maybe not the
  
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• Netflix shares first look at Idris Elba in Luther: The Fallen Sun

  21-12-2022 20:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Netflix has unveiled the first look at Luther: The Fallen Sun.A feature-length sequel to the award-winning BBC drama, Lucifer: The Fallen Sun sees a gruesome serial killer terrorizing London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther (Idris Elba) sits behind bars. Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther decides to break out of prison to finish the job by any means necessary. The film also stars Cynthia Erivo, Andy Serkis, Jess Liaudin, Samuel Wi
  
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• Finally, you can get your weather and news through a Wii emulator

  21-12-2022 19:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you've been thinking that just typing 'weather' or 'news' into your browser is far too convenient a way to get information, I've got good news: the Dolphin emulator now supports the Wii's old informational apps.The Wii had a number of unique online features to help cement its place as the living room box of the mid-to-late 2000s, including apps like the Forecast Channel and News Channel. As advertised, those apps would let you get the news and weather through thoroughly Nintendo-like interfac
  
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• Stark Sentinels and Iron Man will play key roles in Marvel's Fall of X

  21-12-2022 18:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  While Stark Unlimited is entering the business of the extermination of mutants, Tony Stark himself will become one of the mutant community's staunchest allies in the pages of the just-relaunched Invincible Iron Man and the upcoming Fall of X X-Men event in the summer of 2023."New mutant-hunting sentinels upgraded with Stark technology will emerge and make their first moves against mutantkind" in the pages of Gerry Duggan and Juan Frigeri's new Iron Man series, says Marvel. The series relaun
  
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• Microsoft is now being sued by random gamers over its Activision Blizzard deal

  21-12-2022 18:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  With the US Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit against Microsoft just getting off the ground, the company's Activision Blizzard acquisition now faces another legal battle with an underdog opponent: a bunch of gamers. As the Joseph Saveri antitrust law firm explains, on December 20 it and the Alioto Law Firm filed a private lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California "on behalf of plaintiffs who would be adversely affected by reduced competition in the video game
  
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• Warzone 2's Building 21 is already closed, but "will be operational within the week"

  21-12-2022 18:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  After a lengthy wait for Building 21 to open in the Warzone 2 DMZ, it's already closed again, and it seems the building will remain on a rotating schedule for the foreseeable future.DMZ Building 21 is basically a special area that you can access with access cards found in the standard Al Mazrah map. The map offers much tougher enemy encounters alongside a big reward in the form of the Silver Tox Chimera weapon blueprint. Building 21's addition was noted as part of the Season 1 Reloaded update la
  
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• Forspoken dev promise more improvements including HDR fix after mixed demo feedback

  21-12-2022 18:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Forspoken PS5 demo has received a number of changes following player feedback. As revealed by the game's official Twitter account, Forspoken's developer Luminous Productions has taken player feedback onboard and made a range of improvements to the game's PS5 demo. The tweet reads: "We're listening to all your feedback and can confirm that the full game will have increased text size, button mapping and will fix the HDR issues that some players are experiencing."It's clear to see, from th
  
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• Here's when the Steam Winter Sale 2022 starts

  21-12-2022 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you're wondering about the exact Steam Winter Sale start time, you've come to the right place.The Steam Winter Sale is due to kick off tomorrow on Thursday, December 22, and it will be hanging around until exactly January 5, so there's a fair while to get in on the deals. The exact Steam Winter Sale start time is precisely 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6 pm GMT, provided Steam's servers hold up under the pressure of everyone trying to take advantage of the deals.Just in case it wasn't clear, the Steam W
  
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• Top Gun: Maverick is the best movie of the year – we spoke to director Joseph Kosinski about what's next

  21-12-2022 17:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Top Gun: Maverick is the best movie of 2022! There was no other picture that thrilled quite like Pete Maverick's return to the skies, filled with kinetic, heart-stopping set-pieces that utilized Tom Cruise's willingness to do almost anything for the perfect shot. It's a rare sequel that did everything right – and we spoke to director Joseph Kosinski about the worldwide reaction to his masterpiece. Here's the Q&A.
  Total Film: Congratulations, Top Gun: Maverick is Total Film’s
  
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• The 25 best movies of 2022

  21-12-2022 17:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Multiverses collided, the Bat-signal shone, and a certain Maverick took to the skies; the past 12 months have been some of the most interesting in cinematic history, and the best movies of 2022 reflect just that. Despite franchises dominating the box office, auteur filmmakers took bigger and bigger swings, the likes of Jordan Peele and Robert Eggers making big-budget blockbusters that challenged wider audiences and won our hearts. Netflix proved a safe haven for directors trying new ideas,
  
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• Mary Jane Watson is now a superhero - that's the headline

  21-12-2022 17:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  First, she was a mom...Now Mary Jane Watson is a superhero.This is not a drill.Mary Jane Watson is a mom and a superhero.
  Mary Jane & Black Cat #1 cover (Image credit: Marvel Comics)
  That's the main thrust of December 21's Mary Jane & Black Cat #1 by writer Jed MacKay, artist Vincenzo Carratù, colorist Brian Reber, and letterer Ariana Maher, the start of the Dark Web tie-in five-issue limited series.Sure, Spider-Man's ex-wife and long-time love interest MJ and Felicia Hardy a
  
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• Final Fantasy 16 sleuths are piecing together its map using trailers

  21-12-2022 17:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 16 fans are mapping out the game's world using trailer footage and teasers.So far, at least, we've received three full trailers for Final Fantasy 16, as well as a bunch of promotional artwork, screenshots, and a glimpse of a map. Fans of the upcoming RPG have bundled all this information together and attempted to stitch together Final Fantasy 16's whole world as it appears in the final game.We've always known Final Fantasy 16's world is called Valisthea, but we've never seen an ove
  
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• Epic's next free game is a visually stunning Lego puzzler, but you've only got 24 hours to grab it

  21-12-2022 17:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Lego Builder's Journey is a fun, breezy little puzzler that also happens to be one of the best-looking games ever made - and it's the latest free game from the Epic Games Store.You can grab Lego Builder's Journey on the Epic Games Store promotion page from now until Thursday, December 21, at 8am PST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT. If you haven't taken advantage of previous Epic freebies, you'll basically 'buy' the game at a zero-dollar price, and it'll remain in your library forever just like any game you
  
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• The Overwatch 2 team knows you all want a flamethrower hero, they're just "difficult" to create

  21-12-2022 17:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Overwatch 2 team has acknowledged fans' requests for a flamethrower-themed hero but says one would be "difficult" to create. In an interview with GameSpot, the lead hero designer of Overwatch 2, Alec Dawson, and art director Dion Rogers discussed the possibility of a flamethrower hero and what other ideas they have for the game's characters in the future. "I always ask Alex for a flamethrower hero," Rogers says, "but it's a difficult hero to create in our game." The art director did exp
  
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• Jack Ryan season 3 launches with major audio issues that are making it "unwatchable"

  21-12-2022 16:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Prime Video has released Jack Ryan season 3 a day early, but viewers are reporting audio issues that have rendered the episodes 'unwatchable.'"Jack Ryan Season 3 is out. However Amazon Prime hasn't fixed the audio sync. Pretty bad when you have to change the output to fix the issue yourself," one viewer tweeted, along with an accompanying video that shows the audio out of sync. In the clip, the viewer changes the audio settings on his own TV in order to fix the problem. Another user shared that
  
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• James Cameron filmed Avatar sequels at the same time to avoid the "Stranger Things effect"

  21-12-2022 16:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  James Cameron has revealed that one of the reasons he wanted to film the Avatar sequels back-to-back – that's Avatar: The Way of Water, Avatar 3, and some of Avatar 4 at the same time – was to avoid "the Stranger Things effect" where the child actors look much older than their characters. "Otherwise, you get – and I love Stranger Things – but you get the Stranger Things effect where they're supposed to still be in high school [but] they look like they're 27," Cameron
  
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• The 10 most-anticipated movies of 2023 have been revealed

  21-12-2022 16:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 has been voted Most Anticipated Movie of 2023 according to an annual Fandango poll.Around 5k moviegoers voted in the poll, which put new DC head James Gunn's last Marvel project in first place (via Deadline). These are the top ten in order of most anticipated to least:
  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3Spider-Man Across the Spider-VerseAnt-Man and the Wasp: QuantumaniaJohn Wick: Chapter 4Indiana Jones and the Dial of DestinyAquaman and the Lost KingdomMission: Impossib
  
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• The 10 most-anticipated movies of 2022 have been revealed

  21-12-2022 16:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 has been voted Most Anticipated Movie of 2023 according to an annual Fandango poll.Around 5k moviegoers voted in the poll, which put new DC head James Gunn's last Marvel project in first place (via Deadline). These are the top ten in order of most anticipated to least:
  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3Spider-Man Across the Spider-VerseAnt-Man and the Wasp: QuantumaniaJohn Wick: Chapter 4Indiana Jones and the Dial of DestinyAquaman and the Lost KingdomMission: Impossib
  
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• Nintendo Year in Review: Pokemon, more Pokemon, and solid sequels

  21-12-2022 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo has, somewhat quietly, had a pretty packed year. Even if you only count first-party releases, it’s been busy from start to finish. Nothing has taken over the world quite like Animal Crossing: New Horizons did on release in 2020, but nothing could really measure up besides The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – which has been delayed once again into 2023.And yet, Nintendo still managed to put out two iterations of Pokemon this year. Pokemon Legends: Arceus finally proved
  
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• James Gunn says DC projects outside the main universe are "actively happening"

  21-12-2022 15:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  James Gunn has confirmed that DC projects set outside of the main DCU are in the works. The cinematic universe has been in flux ever since Gunn and producer Peter Safran were appointed co-CEOs of DC Studios. "That is actively happening," Gunn wrote on Twitter, in response to a fan asking about the possibility of Elseworlds stories – AKA, movies set outside of the main canon. Several projects that are technically Elseworlds stories are already publicly in the works. Matt Reeves' T
  
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• New Netflix ad-supported tier isn't a success justyet

  21-12-2022 14:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Netflix Basic with ads, the new, cheaper, ad-supported tier of the popular streaming service, isn't proving popular with new subscribers.According to subscription analytics firm Antenna, only 9% of new sign-ups to Netflix have been on the new tier Since it launched one month ago, The Wall Street Journal reports. The company says that around 0.2% of all Netflix subscribers in the US are on the new, cheaper plan, which costs $6.99 per month. Netflix Standard, the next tier up, is $15.49 per month.
  
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• New Netflix ad-supported tier isn't a success just yet

  21-12-2022 14:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Netflix Basic with ads, the new, cheaper, ad-supported tier of the popular streaming service, isn't proving popular with new subscribers.According to subscription analytics firm Antenna, only 9% of new sign-ups to Netflix have been on the new tier Since it launched one month ago, The Wall Street Journal reports. The company says that around 0.2% of all Netflix subscribers in the US are on the new, cheaper plan, which costs $6.99 per month. Netflix Standard, the next tier up, is $15.49 per month.
  
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• Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's competitive scene is being dominated by a wee crow first introduced over 20 years ago

  21-12-2022 14:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's competitive battles are being dominated by one of its most unassuming creatures - a hat-wearing crow. As pointed out by Hopcatsmash on TikTok, the Dark/Flying-type Pokemon Murkrow is currently the second most popular Pokemon to use in competitive play in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. You'd be forgiven for not expecting this little crow to be a crowd-pleaser - in fact, the little monster's stats are pretty bad, but somehow this little guy is being picked by players
  
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• Warzone 2 duo detonate nuke despite using starting pistols only

  21-12-2022 13:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Two Call of Duty: Warzone 2 players detonated a nuclear bomb while only using the starting pistol.As spotted by the Twitter account Modern Warzone, streamers Fifakill and LG bbreadman achieved the near-impossible in Warzone 2. The pair won five games in a row with merely the game's starter pistol before successfully detonating a nuclear bomb in the sixth game.
  Warzone streamers @Fifakill_ and @bbreadmanW have just managed to get a nuke while ONLY using the starting pistol. 🤯 pic.twitter.
  
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• Avatar: The Way of Water is holding strong at the box office

  21-12-2022 13:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avatar: The Way of Water is holding strong at the box office after debuting below predictions. While the film was expected to bring in around $525 million globally across its opening weekend, it actually made $435 million, but analysts are predicting mighty legs as it continues to make huge numbers over the week. Per Deadline, Avatar 2 had grossed $497.1 million total through Monday, December 19, and the film has now passed the $500 million mark – a separate report from the publicatio
  
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• Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin's final DLC has guns, punching, and chaos

  21-12-2022 13:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin gets its final DLC chapter in January, and the trailer goes hard.Square Enix announced the final DLC chapter for Final Fantasy Origin, called Different Future, earlier today, December 21. The final post-launch content will debut on January 27, 2023, on all platforms, and as per usual with Final Fantasy Origin, the trailer goes big on destruction and kickass action.
  Even the brightest light can cause the darkest of shadows.Different Future - the final ex
  
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• Upcoming DC movies: every DCU film coming soon

  21-12-2022 13:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's all change for the upcoming DC movies. As DC Studios co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran move full steam ahead with their plan for the DCU, the future is in flux and question marks hang over multiple projects. But, with a plan coming together, we can expect plenty more new DC movies on the horizon – though particulars for the future of the cinematic universe are firmly under wraps for now. The most recent DC offering was Black Adam, which starred Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as the
  
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• Quentin Tarantino helped convince Timothy Olyphant to return for Justified

  21-12-2022 12:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Justified is making a return in 2023 and it’s now been revealed that director Quentin Tarantino had a part to play in its unlikely comeback.Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, co-showrunner Michael Dinner explained the long history of adapting Elmore Leonard’s seminal crime novel City Primeval – which features a detective on the trail of ‘Oklahoman Wildman’ Clement Mansell in Detroit."A lot of people had wanted to make this book before," he said. "It almost got made b
  
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• Revenge of Others is the Disney Plus K-drama you need to be watching

  21-12-2022 12:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Revenge is a dish best served by someone else, at least that's what the characters of Revenge of Others, the new Disney Plus drama, believe. Once you’ve watched this Korean series, you will be plotting the demise of everyone who ever wronged you – and fearing everyone you made even mildly upset.Revenge of Others centers on a group of troubled students who are on a mission to get even with each other, usually in gruesome ways. The show mainly focuses on Ji Soo-heon (All Of Us Are
  
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• James Mangold says we'll find out what happened to Indy's son in Indiana Jones 5 – and hints at what the Dial of Destiny is

  21-12-2022 12:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Indiana Jones 5 – officially titled Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny – will clear up one franchise question that's been unanswered since its cast was announced: what happened to Indy's son? Director James Mangold, who's taking over from Steven Spielberg, told EW that audiences will "find out what happened" to the motorcycle-riding Mutt Williams, who appeared in 2008's The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull played by Shia LaBeouf. The character won't appear in the new sequel, howe
  
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• Fortnite's broken Deku Smash ability is gone, for now

  21-12-2022 12:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fortnite has disabled the Deku Smash ability in an attempt to resolve an issue.As per the announcement via the tweet below, earlier today on December 21, the Deku Smash ability was taken out of Fortnite with immediate effect. Currently, there's no word on what issue exactly Epic Games is hoping to resolve by taking out the ability from the battle royale game.
  We have disabled the Deku Smash ability due to an issue. pic.twitter.com/jVCjcYKAslDecember 21, 2022See more
  Right now, Epic also hasn't g
  
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• Reported 2D Mario game could have the first playable Peach in a mainline game in 35 years

  21-12-2022 12:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  The rumoured 2D Mario game has reportedly recently wrapped up development and is still set to release next year, according to a well-known leaker. Blogger Zippo, who has shared various Nintendo leaks over the years, has shared more about the rumoured 2D Mario game they previously revealed earlier this year. According to the original leak, Nintendo is currently working on a new 2D Mario game, although similar to the New Super Mario Bros. series, this game will apparently be "its own thing" a
  
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• Dwayne Johnson finally confirms Black Adam's fate in the new DC universe

  21-12-2022 12:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dwayne Johnson has finally addressed his DCU future as Black Adam amid a major shake-up as DC Studios co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran take charge. The future of Black Adam was in doubt after a report indicated it most likely wouldn't be getting a sequel, but, thanks to Johnson taking to Twitter, the fate of the anti-hero is clear. "James Gunn and I connected, and Black Adam will not be in their first chapter of storytelling. However, DC and [Johnson's production company] Seven Bucks hav
  
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• James Gunn assures fans there will be no more "studio interference" when it comes to DC movies

  21-12-2022 12:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  DC movie fans no longer need to be worried about "studio interference", James Gunn has assured. The filmmaker has been responding to various tweets from curious cinemagoers over the last few weeks and recently, he replied to one that asked him to expand on the claim that higher-up meddling is a thing of the past. Addressing a fan on the social media site Mastodon, Gunn said that he has more control over the cinematic universe than Zack Snyder ever did, as he and his partner Peter Safra
  
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• Zachary Levi shuts down Shazam recasting rumors

  21-12-2022 11:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite DC’s ongoing shake-up, it appears that Zachary Levi’s Shazam is going nowhere – at least for the time being.Taking to Twitter in response to increased whispers about his superhero role being recast, Levi said, "Oooh, I really wouldn’t go believing everything you see on the internet. I’m Gucci, Ash. We all Gucci."If true, that’s a far cry from the fates of many big names at the forefront of James Gunn’s new DC universe.A younger Superman, set to a
  
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• Dark and Darker is Escape From Tarkov wrapped in Skyrim aesthetic, and it's blowing up on Steam

  21-12-2022 11:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dark and Darker is the latest game to take Steam by storm, with good reason.The game from developer Ironmace isn't even out yet, and might not be for another year, with a target Q4 2023 release date on its Steam page. Dark and Darker is currently in its third alpha playtest, but it's already amassed a peak concurrent player count of 52,576, according to SteamDB.The formula that's propelled Dark and Darker to such heights is a riff on PvPvE combat, somewhat like Escape From Tarkov. You form up a
  
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• Take-Two takes down Goat Simulator 3 ad showing leaked GTA 6 footage

  21-12-2022 01:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Take-Two Interactive has issued a takedown notice after Goat Simulator 3 released an ad showing footage from September's massive GTA 6 leak.In case you missed it during its tragically brief life on YouTube and other platforms, an official Goat Simulator 3 ad gave a hilarious overview of an NPC named Shaun. It was just a cute little promotional video meant to get eyes on the sequel in a way that's consistent with the Goat game's goofy, off the wall tone. Unfortunately though, the developers took
  
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• This Battletoads & Double Dragon SNES re-release looks like the raddest Christmas gift of '93

  21-12-2022 00:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Limited Run Games has revealed an officially licensed SNES re-release of the 1993 beat 'em up Battletoads & Double Dragon, and my five-year-old self and 32-year-old self are both screaming simultaneously.Pre-orders are open now for the beautiful collector's edition, but they'll only be available for another week, so don't delay if you want to secure your copy. If you haven't played Battletoads & Double Dragon, well, then you probably wouldn't be here reading this in the first place, but
  
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