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• EA Sports close to finalizing a deal with the English Premier League

  11-02-2023 21:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  EA is reportedly "closing in" on a $588m (£488m) commercial soccer/football deal with the English Premier League.According to a new report by Sky News, 20 of the UK's biggest soccer/football clubs were briefed yesterday about a proposed six-year deal with EA Sports that is "close to being finalized". An anonymous executive told Sky News that the deal would deliver "more than $96m/£80m annually" in a bid to retain one of soccer's biggest draws, the Premier League. According
  
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• Double Fine's documentary series PsychOdyssey takes us through the highs and lows of development

  11-02-2023 20:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Double Fine Productions and 2 Player Productions have released Double Fine PsychOdyssey, an "unprecedented documentary experience seven years in the making".Documenting the development of Psychonauts 2, the free series - which can be seen in full on YouTube and will take you the best part of a full day to get through - is described as "the direct continuation of the acclaimed series Double Fine Adventure, and offers even deeper insight into the passion, humor, and heartbreak of video game develo
  
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• Assassin's Creed Origins director leaves Ubisoft

  11-02-2023 13:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Origins director Jean Guesdon is leaving Ubisoft after 17 years with the world-renowned company."2023 will start for me with the end of a bit more than 17 formidable years at Ubisoft Montreal," Guesdon explained via a post on their LinkedIn page. "I can’t express how much I owe to this unique company,” they added. “So many people met, so many skills learned, and so many projects shipped. And Assassin’s Creed, of course, Assassin’s Creed."Thank
  
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• Alan Wake 2 is now "playable from start to finish"

  11-02-2023 11:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  The team behind Alan Wake 2 has confirmed that the game is in "full production" and "is playable from start to finish". Remedy Entertainment updated us on its progress in its most recent Investors Report. Whilst acknowledging a "revenue decline" in the last quarter of the 2022 financial year, the studio says that "the extended scope and budget related to the development of Alan Wake 2" should make for better results this year."Alan Wake 2 is in full production. The game will soon have all c
  
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• The Last of Us episode 5: The biggest changes between the HBO show and the PlayStation game

  11-02-2023 04:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Last of Us episode 5 is undoubtedly the most explosive installment of the HBO adaptation yet – and just like episode 3 did, it takes some creative liberties as it adapts the middle section of the beloved PlayStation game.In last week's installment, we saw Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Joel (Pedro Pascal) hole up in Kansas City, a location not seen in the game – though much of the events that play out match what goes down in Pittsburgh in the source material. At the very end of 'Please
  
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• The D&D movie's Super Bowl spot has both dungeons and dragons

  11-02-2023 01:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  In its new Super Bowl TV spot, the new D&D movie, properly titled Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, sure looks a lot more faithful to the RPG than the 2000 adaptation - even if that's not a high bar to clear.Debuting a few days ahead of the big game on Sunday, the new Dungeons & Dragons movie TV spot is an action-packed mini-trailer featuring star Chris Pine warning of "the greatest evil the world has ever known" and then immediately having his fears vindicated. Fire-breathin
  
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• The forgotten Super Monkey Ball game that launched the iPhone app store has been preserved with a new emulator

  11-02-2023 00:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  In 2017, Apple's introduction of iOS 11 effectively killed thousands upon thousands of games and apps built for the early generations of iPhones and iPads. Now, a new emulator is aiming to bring them back.That emulator is called touchHLE, and it launched earlier this month. The 'HLE' stands for 'high-level emulator,' which essentially means that it's more focused on getting old games and apps running well on modern hardware than it is in recreating the idiosyncrasies of the iPhone hardware itsel
  
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