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• The next All-New, All-Different Captain Krakoa could be hiding in plain sight

  12-01-2023 22:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tucked among Marvel's most recent spate of news about its 2023 Free Comic Book Day titles was the announcement that the publisher's X-Men/Avengers FCBD special would include the next appearance of Captain Krakoa, the identity once used by Scott Summers as an alternate superhero persona from his usual Cyclops designation.Summers took up the mantle of Captain Krakoa for a few months to hide the secret of mutant resurrection from the public when he died in battle with numerous civilian witnesses. H
  
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• The prototype for Destiny 2's lovable robot dog is a freaking nightmare

  12-01-2023 22:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Game development: it's weird. Games are powered by shortcuts, time-savers, and stuff that by rights shouldn't work. However, this is no excuse for the knowledge that Bungie has inflicted upon me today. It turns out the creation of Destiny 2's lovable new robot dog, Archangel, started with a pink, gelatinous demon. Bungie released a development diary that absolutely no sane person asked for in its latest weekly blog post. "Our team has really been able to stretch their creativity when it com
  
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• Darth Vader stars in "brutal tales of terror" in Black, White, and Red limited series

  12-01-2023 22:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Darth Vader is considered one of the best and most striking villains in all of fiction - though he ultimately also qualifies as something of an antihero thanks to his overall character arc. And it's the protagonist side of the Dark Lord of the Sith that will come to the forefront in Darth Vader: Black, White, and Red, which brings Marvel's tradition of black and white mono-color anthology comics to the Star Wars Galaxy for a collection of "tales of terror set throughout the Dark Lord of the
  
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• Genshin Impact fans are entirely too horny for Alhaitham

  12-01-2023 21:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Genshin Impact update 3.4 is just days away, as is the release of Alhaitham, a Dendro sword user who's central to the Sumeru region's main story. His character teaser dropped just last night, and readers, I don't think I've ever seen this game's community react so unabashedly, frothingly horny. I've played Genshin virtually every day since its release, so I've weathered the hornyposting of characters like Yelan, Zhongli, Ayato, Yae, and countless others. But this is something else. Alhaitha
  
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• Cyclops - Captain Krakoa and the most famous superhero switcharoos

  12-01-2023 19:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Captain Krakoa - the identity given to the national protector of the mutant nation of Krakoa - started out as an alternate secret identity for Cyclops. But now that Scott Summers is back in his regular Cyclops uniform as part of the X-Men, it seems a new Captain Krakoa may soon be introduced as part of Marvel's X-Men/Avengers Free Comic Book Day 2023 one-shot.Cyclops is far from the only Marvel hero who has used more than one superhero (or villain) identity, nor the only Marvel hero whose s
  
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• After delaying Skull and Bones for the sixth time, Ubisoft promises new showcase for tomorrow

  12-01-2023 19:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ubisoft may have delayed Skull and Bones six times across several years, but the game is still lively enough to turn up for a new gameplay showcase apparently coming tomorrow, January 13. Skull and Bones' latest delay, which has pushed the game to a vague window of early 2023 - 24, was among the biggest disappointments in Ubisoft's latest financial report, the conditions of which reportedly saw the company "laughed at" in acquisition talks even before a controversial email from CEO Yves Gui
  
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• Groot gets a Year One style origin just as "Grootfall" hits the Guardians of the Galaxy

  12-01-2023 18:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  We're about to finally learn Groot's true origin, just as something bad happens to the tree-like hero in the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy 'Grootfall' relaunch, in a Year One style limited series simply titled Groot that delves into the early years of the plant-man with a plan. Writer Dan Abnett, who along with his former co-writer Andy Lanning helped launch the comic book version of the Guardians that has become a household name, returns to the world of the Guardians for the Groot four-
  
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• Oscars 2023 predictions: who will win Best Picture, Best Director, and the acting awards?

  12-01-2023 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Awards season is officially upon us. The Golden Globes may be in the rear-view mirror, but the Oscars are fast approaching. With so many big names being talked about, we’ve cut through the noise to offer up our own Oscars 2023 predictions in what feels like one of the most unpredictable lineups in recent memory.It also promises to be one of the closest Best Picture races in years. The Academy’s decision to expand the shortlist to 10 movies in 2022 allows for the spotlight to shine on
  
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• Bungie asked Destiny 2 players for feedback ahead of Lightfall, and boy did it get some

  12-01-2023 17:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Destiny 2 has had a pretty exciting 2023 thus far between Season of the Seraph's storytelling and a surprise update packing long-awaited quality of life changes like free-for-all armor mods. Looking to keep the ball going in the run-up to Destiny 2 Lightfall, Bungie's asked the community for a "feedback roundup" to ring in the new year, and put on your surprised face because the Destiny 2 community had a lot of feedback to give.Community manager Cozmo23 ignited this fire on Reddit just yesterday
  
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• Animal Crossing: New Horizons player goes full Blathers mode after discovering critters living in deep sea creature

  12-01-2023 17:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite releasing almost three years ago, Animal Crossing: New Horizons players have discovered something new about the Venus' Flower Basket sea creature. As spotted in the Animal Crossing subreddit, the deep sea creature known as a Venus' Flower Basket - which is based on the real-life sea sponge - just got even more real after one player discovered a couple of tiny shrimp living inside of it. Something that isn't immediately obvious when caught or displayed in the museum. 
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• Destiny 2 players capture its final moments on Google Stadia

  12-01-2023 17:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Destiny 2 players have captured the MMO's last moments on Google Stadia, archiving them online for all who're curious to see.As Turqeee spells out on Reddit, many players turned up for the last hoorah; some just hung out in the Tower to soak in the loot-'em-up’s final moments, whereas others held dance parties in Zavala’s office. Elsewhere, you had people jump into the Crucible to get one last match in before the so-called Second Collapse. The way it all ends is somewhat eerie &
  
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• Assassin's Creed Mirage's "more intimate scale" was directly shaped by fans exhausted with enormous RPGs

  12-01-2023 17:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed fans helped shape Ubisoft's decision to create the "more intimate" world of Assassin's Creed Mirage.Speaking to GamesRadar+ as part of our Big in 2023 showcase for Assassin's Creed Mirage, creative director Stéphane Boudon said that while "a convergence of several inputs" helped shape the creation of Mirage, the first in their mind is the voice of the community. "Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla. They are all great games with the promise to live an epic journey in a strong fant
  
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• Skull and Bones is a myth but this anime sailing game is real and everyone in it is hot

  12-01-2023 16:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Skull and Bones is currently caught in a delay whirlpool somewhere in Ubisoft's corporate Charybdis, so it's lucky that aptly named naval adventure Sailing Era has come to Steam carrying a boatload of oceanic exploration, capitalism, and hot anime characters to fill the maritime hole in your heart. Sailing Era hit Steam just yesterday via Chinese publisher bilibili and developer GY Games, and it's apparently coming to Switch and PlayStation later this year. It's got a free demo, too. 
  
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• Assassin's Creed Mirage is bringing the series back to its roots for the modern era

  12-01-2023 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Mirage signals a welcome return to the roots of the series. Since first taking a leap of faith with Altaïr in 2007, Ubisoft's stealthy saga has seen a myriad of changes and evolutions, with the most recent outings Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Assassin's Creed Odyssey putting us in expansive open-world historical playgrounds that lean into the RPG genre. After several iterations that share a sizable scope, Mirage is taking a refreshing step back to deliver a more tightly fo
  
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• Anticipated indie Season: A Letter to the Future gets a hypnotizingly beautiful new story trailer

  12-01-2023 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Season: A Letter to the Future has received a new story trailer ahead of its January release date. In this trailer, we're introduced to some of the characters Estelle will meet on her journey to preserve the world's memories before a cataclysm washes everything away. Based in a strange valley, players will meet the last remaining inhabitants of the area including a widow, her son called Kochi, an old artist known as Maytora, a community organiser, and a reclusive monk named Easel. This
  
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• Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's second major update fixes more bugs

  12-01-2023 15:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pokemon Scarlet and Violet update 1.2 is expected late next month, and will aim to fix more of the bugs and performance issues that have plagued the game since launch.Earlier today, Nintendo shared more information about the game, outlining the evolutions of the Pokemon Scarlet and Violet starters, the gym leaders players will face, and more details about the Paradox Pokemon discoverable throughout the Paldea region.The press release ended by confirming that a second software update would be com
  
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• Eternals star Kumail Nanjiani defends Martin Scorsese’s right to call out Marvel

  12-01-2023 15:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Martin Scorsese’s Marvel comments are still causing controversy, though one Marvel star says they still admire the director. Eternals actor Kumail Nanjiani defended the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s right to say whatever he likes about superhero movies, even if he doesn’t agree with it."I obviously love the movies Tarantino makes or Scorsese makes," Nanjiani told Esquire. "And I may disagree with Scorsese's opinion on superhero movies, but I mean, who else has earned the right to h
  
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• Michelle Yeoh's Star Trek spin-off series is still in development – four years after it was first announced

  12-01-2023 14:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  It may be four years since a Star Trek spin-off series about Section 31 starring Michelle Yeoh was first announced, but don't worry, it's still on its way to our screens. According to Paramount Streaming chief programming officer Tanya Giles, there have been conversations about the series and it's "still in development" (via TVLine).  Yeoh played Captain Philippa Georgiou aboard the USS Shenzhou in the Paramount Plus series Star Trek: Discovery. The character was killed off early on in
  
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• The Traitors US is coming to BBC iPlayer tomorrow

  12-01-2023 14:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Itching for more backstabbing, roundtable debates, and cloaked conversations? If so, you'll be glad to know that BBC iPlayer has acquired the rights to The Traitors US – and the show is set to start streaming on the platform very, very soon.Just a few weeks after the hit UK series, which is hosted by Strictly Come Dancing's Claudia Winkleman, concluded, it has been confirmed that the entire boxset of The Traitors US will be made available to watch on Friday, January 13 – just one day
  
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• Matt Reeves says the Penguin spin-off show will set up The Batman 2

  12-01-2023 13:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Matt Reeves has said the Penguin spin-off show will directly link to The Batman 2. The HBO Max series is set to star Colin Farrell as the villain – he first played the character in The Batman. "There's actually a whole little fabric of things we're wanting to do, the way we're doing with [the] Penguin and how that comes back into how that will lead into the sequel, and what that sequel is going to be," Reeves told Collider. He also gave a quick production update: "We are very, ve
  
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• Ubisoft reportedly "laughed at" in acquisition talks as CEO criticized for putting responsibility on staff

  12-01-2023 13:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ubisoft was reportedly "laughed at" during acquisition talks, and the company's CEO is apparently placing responsibility on employees after several canceled projects. Following the news that Ubisoft has delayed Skull and Bones yet again and axed three other projects, Giant Bomb's Jeff Grubb has claimed that the company was "proposing acquisitions and mergers with other similar companies" but that "it mostly got laughed at." It's not been a great year for Ubisoft who, following the three can
  
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• New PS5 update adds support for costly DualSense Edge controller

  12-01-2023 13:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new PS5 system update has dropped, adding support for the console's fancy PS5 DualSense Edge wireless controllers.Earlier today, Sony announced the release of PS5 update 22.02-06.50.00. As well as the now-regular message that "this system software update improves system performance," the post announces that "the DualSense Edge wireless controller is now supported."The DualSense Edge is intended as a significant upgrade to the traditional DualSense controller. Announced last year, the main idea
  
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• Netflix's new series Lockwood & Co. is Ghostbusters meets Enola Holmes in first trailer

  12-01-2023 13:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Netflix has released a trailer for its new supernatural drama from Attack The Block’s Joe Cornish. The first extended look at the series based on the popular books by Jonathan Stroud teases a spooky detective show.The show is set in an alternate world overrun by ghosts where teenagers are the key to hunting them down. As the only members of society who can detect them, and therefore neutralize their risk, they’ve become exploited by adult-run agencies using them for the dangerous wor
  
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• Persona dev relaxes spoiler restrictions on P3P and P4G after Persona 5 Royal backlash

  12-01-2023 12:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Unlike Persona 5 Royal, you'll be able to stream and capture Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden story content without developer Atlus sniping you over specific spoilers. That comes from Atlus's recently published streaming and media distribution guidelines (thanks, Persona Central), where the developer explains that you're free to stream or create video content around whatever parts of the game you fancy. That said, Atlus does request you do people the courtesy of including a spoiler t
  
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• Ke Huy Quan is open to a Goonies sequel – but reveals why it hasn’t happened yet

  12-01-2023 12:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ke Huy Quan has explained why The Goonies 2 has never been made, despite several attempts to give the 1980s adventure classic the sequel treatment.Quan, who played gadget whiz Data in The Goonies, told IndieWire, "We had numerous scripts, but there was not one script that felt it could live up to what the original was. Sadly we lost the captain of our ship [director Richard Donner, who passed away in 2021], and I really don’t know if there’s going to be a Goonies 2, but I would reall
  
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• Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker is Netflix's next big title as crime doc tops streaming chart

  12-01-2023 12:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Everyone knows Netflix subscribers love a bit of true crime, so it's hardly a surprise that The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker, a new addition to the platform, has jumped to the top of its UK streaming chart in just two days.The film, which premiered on January 10, centers on the rise and fall of nomad Caleb Lawrence "Kai" McGillvary, who became a viral sensation back in February 2013, when he supposedly saved a woman's life after she was grabbed by the man he had been catching a ride with across C
  
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• M3GAN director explains why the movie's original ending was changed

  12-01-2023 12:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  M3GAN, the viral horror sensation about an AI doll who takes on a life of her own, originally had a slightly different ending that had to be changed for "logistical" reasons. Warning: there are major M3GAN spoilers ahead, so proceed with caution if you haven't seen the movie yet and don't want to know what happens. "They had this battle with [motion capture robot] Bruce, and there was gonna be one more part of it where they thought they'd got away, and Bruce essentially… They leave t
  
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• Glass Onion is now Netflix's fifth biggest film of all time

  12-01-2023 12:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery has become Netflix's fifth biggest film of all time, per the streamer's own top 10. The film previously ranked at number 10, knocking The Kissing Booth 2 out of the list. The Knives Out sequel sees Daniel Craig return as private detective Benoit Blanc, with an all new cast of suspects as a murder mystery unravels in the ostentatious home of Edward Norton's tech billionaire Miles Bron. Dave Bautista, Jessica Henwick, Kate Hudson, Janelle Monáe, Kathry
  
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• Lost Ark bot ban wave knocked 200k off the MMO's player count

  12-01-2023 12:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  MMO Lost Ark has lost over 200k of its player count following a bot ban wave earlier this week. As reported by Lost Ark fan account @lostinarkesia, the game was reaching 323,725 players on January 9 but by January 10, it had dropped to 101,550 - that's just over 200k bots wiped out. This should make the game more enjoyable for actual players who have been dealing with bots and disconnects present in the game for a while now. Another indicator of this bot ban is the amount of level 1 -
  
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• William H. Macy latest star to join Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

  12-01-2023 12:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  William H. Macy has been cast in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, the latest movie in the franchise from 20th Century Studios. Per Deadline, it hasn’t yet been confirmed who the Fargo actor will be playing in the movie, but he’s joining an all-star cast for the picture.Announced so far are The Witcher’s Freya Allan, It actor Owen Teague, and The Orville’s Peter Macon. The Maze Runner’s Wes Ball is directing, with the screenplay by Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa, Amanda
  
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• God of War's Kratos voice actor won't let anyone stand in the way of his live-action dreams - not even Dave Bautista

  12-01-2023 11:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  The voice of Kratos is making it clear that he's still gunning for the role in the God of War TV series - by taking lighthearted swings at wrestler-turned-actor Dave Bautista.In a tweet yesterday, Christopher Judge, who voiced and motion-captured Kratos in God of War and God of War: Ragnarok, responded to an article suggesting Dave Bautista - star of Guardians of the Galaxy and Glass Onion - should play the role. 
  … and it’s been said I can’t read a room 🤷🏾
  
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• Matt Reeves has been writing The Batman 2 script and he’s "really excited" about the sequel

  12-01-2023 11:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Matt Reeves has given a promising update for The Batman 2 – amid a backdrop of major DC shake-ups."We're deep in it and my partner and I are writing, Mattson [Tomlin] and I are writing, and it's really exciting, and I'm really excited about what we're doing," Reeves shared during an interview with Collider.Reeves added that he’s also "really excited to be doing that with [Robert Pattinson], because I just think he's such a special person and actor."The Batman sequel was announced at
  
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• Vikings: Valhalla season 3: everything we know about the new season on Netflix

  12-01-2023 09:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Netflix viewers will know only too well the anxiety that springs up after finishing a new season of a dynamite show. Vikings: Valhalla fans should have no such worries – a third season has already been officially confirmed (and filmed), meaning we can confidently say we’ll see the next chapter in Leif and Freydis’ Scandinavian saga very soon.Despite it being early days – and not long after the release of the second season – we already know a tiny bit about Vikings:
  
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• Vikings: Valhalla season 2 ending explained: your biggest questions answered

  12-01-2023 09:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Vikings: Valhalla season 2 signed off in typically barbaric fashion: main characters were slain, power dynamics shifted, and the Netflix series even introduced a location that could be pivotal for seasons to come.Now that the dust has settled, we’re here to break down the key talking points from the Vikings: Valhalla season 2 ending – from Constantinople to Kattegat (and beyond). Join us as we dive deeper into each major event from the season finale, what it all means, and speculate
  
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• Marvel Comics characters to watch in the MCU in 2023

  12-01-2023 01:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  An exciting new Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania trailer is setting the stage for Marvel Studios' 2023 films and streaming series with a deeper look at Kang the Conqueror as well as our first look at the MCU version of MODOK, and some glimpses of Cassie Lang in action as a superhero.
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  But those characters are just the tip of the iceberg of the new and returning characters who are set to debut or take on new and elevated roles in the MCU in 2023. With a slate o
  
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• Marvel and Star Wars celebrate Black History Month with variant covers

  12-01-2023 00:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel and Lucasfilm will celebrate the Black heroes of a galaxy far, far away in a series of February variant covers timed to Black History Month.
  Star Wars #31 Black History Month variant cover (Image credit: Marvel Comics )
  Ten variant covers on all of Marvel's February Star Wars comics by artist Mateus Manhanini will highlight Black characters throughout the franchise, including films, streaming series, and Marvel comic books."When we asked Mateus if he'd be interested in designing a set of
  
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