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• Resident Evil 4 Remake patch fixes blur on PS5 and bad controls on Xbox

  07-04-2023 23:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new Resident Evil 4 Remake patch has landed alongside today's Mercenaries update, and it fixes the two biggest lingering issues with the game on the new consoles: PS5's blurriness and Xbox Series X/S's massive controller deadzone.The patch notes are pretty light, but here are the two relevant bits. On PS5, "a graphics rendering process which resulted in certain environmental details looking blurry has been fixed." This issue is fairly subtle, and you might not have noticed it unless you've see
  
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• Monster Energy has even gone after Pokemon and Monster Hunter for daring to use the word 'monster'

  07-04-2023 23:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  A few days ago, Monster Energy started beef with yet another indie developer because it was using the exceedingly common word 'monster' in the name of its game, Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals. This wasn't the company's first trademark dispute, but it put Monster Energy back in the spotlight long enough for some folks to dig up old trademark objections filed against Monster Hunter and even Pokemon – that is, Pocket Monster – in Japan.These records surfaced via Japanese outlet
  
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• Comic and Tarot icon Rachel Pollack dies

  07-04-2023 23:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Writer and Tarot expert Rachel Pollack has died at the age of 77, according to a public Facebook post from her wife Judith Zoe Mateen. She was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma in July 2022, and moved into home hospice care in March.Pollack was well known for her work in comics on titles such as Doom Patrol and The New Gods, as well as for her work as an expert in the art of divination through the use of Tarot cards. The first openly trans writer in mainstream comics, Pollack also created the fir
  
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• The Last of Us Part 1 PC players say it's still crushing their CPUs even after a 14GB performance patch

  07-04-2023 22:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Last of Us Part 1 on PC has released yet another performance patch, but players largely report that the big issue affecting CPU usage persists.The latest Last of Us Part 1 patch for the PC port reportedly weighs in at around 14 GB provided you're caught up on the earlier updates. According to the official patch notes, it targets "performance, user experience, visuals, and more," and includes "platform and hardware-specific fixes."The notes detail a laundry list of fixes for specific crashes,
  
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• Sex/Life canceled after two seasons at Netflix

  07-04-2023 22:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sex/Life has been canceled after two seasons at Netflix.Sex/Life is a drama about what happens when a suburban mother of two (Sarah Shahi) takes a fantasy-charged trip down memory lane that sets her very married present on a collision course with her wild-child past. The series also stars Mike Vogel, Adam Demos, and Margaret Odette, with Stacy Rukeyser serving as showrunner. The series is inspired by the book 44 Chapters About 4 Men, written by BB Easton.The news comes not only after star Sarah
  
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• Fall of X expands with Dark X-Men, Realm of X, and more to come

  07-04-2023 21:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel Comics is unveiling a fast and furious string of announcements detailing the six upcoming 'Fall of X' era X-Men titles that were teased at MegaCon 2023. Following the announcement of Astonishing Iceman, Marvel has now offered up the full details of two more new 'Fall of X' titles to be added to the X-Men line - with more announcements seemingly to come at a similar pace.First up, there's Dark X-Men, which revives an old, rarely used X-Men spin-off name. But rather than the origi
  
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• Treyarch admits Call of Duty's anti-cheat progress "may not be enough for players"

  07-04-2023 20:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Call of Duty developer Treyarch has acknowledged criticisms around the Ricochet anti-cheat software, admitting it "may not be enough for players."Activision made a lot of noise when it announced its Call of Duty and Warzone Ricochet anti-cheat security system back in 2021, touting its kernel-level driver as a "a broad enhancement to the security" of the online games and an advanced tool to help the developers stay a step ahead of the cheaters. The security system has since bred some amusingly no
  
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• This Zelda: Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod is so good that Nintendo's taking down videos of it

  07-04-2023 20:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild now has online multiplayer thanks to YouTuber PointCrow and a dedicated group of modders, but Nintendo's already taking action to try and stop the publicity.Back in November 2021, PointCrow offered a $10,000 "bounty" for any mod team up to the task of implementing multiplayer for Breath of the Wild. By July 2022, modders AlexMangue and Sweet had claimed the bounty and gone to work for PointCrow, developing the mod to the point where they were publishing le
  
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• Newly discovered Resident Evil 4 Remake speedrun strats are also great for normal players

  07-04-2023 19:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Resident Evil 4 Remake is a faithful recreation of the classic game, but it's also added or adjusted some environments and systems to refresh things. Speedrunners have been digging into those changes while reconfirming strategies from the original game, and they've already found some tactics and time-savers that can come in handy even when you aren't racing against the clock. Minor spoilers for some Resident Evil 4 Remake levels ahead.  Speedrun guru WaifuRuns recently released a fabul
  
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• Astonishing Iceman sends Bobby Drake on his own special mission for Fall of X

  07-04-2023 18:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  After showing the title at MegaCon, Marvel Comics has now revealed the full details of its upcoming Astonishing Iceman ongoing series. Written by Steve Orlando with art from Vincenzo Carratù, Astonishing Iceman will spin out of the events of July's X-Men: Hellfire Gala #1 which kicks off the 'Fall of X' era, in which Krakoa as we've known it for the last several years will undergo big, dangerous changes that spell hard times ahead for mutantkind.Along with the 'Astonishing' moniker in the
  
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• Andor season 2 set for August 2024 as new footage debuts

  07-04-2023 18:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Andor season 2 is expected to hit Disney Plus in August 2024, according to creator Tony Gilroy.During the Star Wars Celebration Europe fan convention today, Gilroy announced that Andor season 2 is set to shoot through through August 2023, and a year of post-production is planned. As a result, he estimates that the show will likely be ready to launch in August 2024.A brief bit of new footage was shown at the convention, though it has not yet been made public. It does continue the gritty tone of t
  
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• New Indiana Jones trailer unveiled at Star Wars Celebration 2023

  07-04-2023 18:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new trailer for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny has arrived.In the brief clip, which can be viewed above, The Rolling Stones hit "Sympathy for the Devil" plays as Harrison Ford's Indiana rides a horse through a subway station – and tries to outrun an oncoming train."You've taken your chances, made your mistakes, and now, a final triumph!" Helena Shaw tells her godfather Indiana.Set in 1969 at the heart of the Space Race, Indy is off on a new adventure with his goddaughter Helena Sh
  
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• Resident Evil 4 Mercenaries players bummed by missing characters, but glad Hunk is still OP

  07-04-2023 17:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Resident Evil 4 Remake's free Mercenaries DLC is here, and players have already put the mode through its paces. Everyone's been disappointed to discover that it's missing some characters and a map from the original, but at least Hunk is kicking more ass than ever.The new Mercenaries mode features four playable characters (Leon, Luis, Krauser, and Hunk) and three playable stages (Village, Castle, and Island). Luis is brand-new for the remake, but he's replacing two fan-favorites from the original
  
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• Three new live-action Star Wars movies have been announced

  07-04-2023 17:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Three new live-action Star Wars movies are on the way from James Mangold, Dave Filoni, and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.The news comes from Star Wars Celebration London, where Total Film is on the ground. First up, Mangold (Logan, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny) is directing a movie in the deep past about the first Jedi to wield a lightsaber. "When I first started talking to [Kathleen Kennedy] about doing one of these pictures, what occurred to me was thinking about what kind of genre of mo
  
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• Andor: everything we learned from the Star Wars Celebration panel

  07-04-2023 17:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  The crew behind Andor took to the main Star Wars Celebration stage to talk about the making of the Star Wars show, sharing some behind the scenes secrets and stories about how the series came into being. Showrunner Tony Gilroy, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, star Diego Luna, composer Nicholas Britell, editor John Gilroy, production designer Luke Hull, and costume designer Michael Wilkinson were on hand to share their insight. We've rounded up the major things we learned from the pane
  
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• Resident Evil 4 Remake adds microtransactions so you can pay to ruin the best part of the game

  07-04-2023 16:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Out of nowhere, Resident Evil 4 Remake slipped in some blatantly pay-to-win microtransactions to go with its much-anticipated Mercenaries DLC, so now you can pay just $2.99 to ruin the best part of the entire game. Resident Evil 4 is a game about guns, and feeling those guns get stronger as you upgrade them is one of the most satisfying loops in any survival horror game. Hoarding treasures for max gem value, carefully budgeting your limited money, agonizing over whether to upgrade your mag
  
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• Daisy Ridley returning as Rey in new Star Wars movie set 15 years after Rise of Skywalker

  07-04-2023 14:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Lucasfilm has announced that Daisy Ridley is set to return as Rey in an upcoming movie. During Star Wars Celebration 2023, the studio revealed that the fan-favorite character, who first appeared in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, will be seen again in a new film set 15 years after the events of The Rise of Skywalker.Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is lined up to direct the flick, which centers on Rey, now a Jedi master, as she trains Force newbies at a Jedi Academy. This wasn't the only movie confirmed
  
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• Ahsoka set for August 2023 release date as first trailer debuts at Star Wars Celebration

  07-04-2023 13:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for The Mandalorian spin-off Ahsoka is here – and it turns out we won't have to wait too much longer for the whole show to arrive on Disney Plus. During Star Wars Celebration 2023, Lucasfilm confirmed the series will premiere in August 2023, all while teasing what's to come from the Rosario Dawson-led outing.As you may have guessed, the upcoming series will follow Ahsoka Tano, played by Dawson, who previously played the role in both The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fe
  
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• Skeleton Crew first look unveiled at Star Wars Celebration - and it looks like the franchise's answer to The Goonies

  07-04-2023 13:35 via gamesradar.com
  
   Star Wars Celebration 2023 attendees were treated to a first look at Skeleton Crew over the weekend – and it looks like the franchise's answer to The Goonies. During the panel, the show's full line-up of directors was confirmed, including Spider-Man helmer Jon Watts and Bryce Dallas Howard.Giving off big Amblin and vibes, the clip, which has not yet been released online, opened with young students clamoring to learn more about the wider galaxy before they're seen running away from th
  
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• The Mandalorian creators talk bringing Ahmed Best back – and tease "resolution" in season 3's final episodes

  07-04-2023 13:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jon Favreau has explained why they brought Ahmed Best back to the franchise in The Mandalorian season 3. The showrunner took to the stage at Star Wars Celebration 2023 to chat about the Jar Jar Binks actor's casting – and brought along some pals to discuss what's to come in the show, too. "He's someone who's always been there with us," Favreau said, remembering when he and executive producer Dave Filoni were discussing who could save baby Grogu in the latest batch of episodes. "The ap
  
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• First The Acolyte footage debuts at Star Wars Celebration 2023

  07-04-2023 12:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star Wars Celebration attendees were treated to a first look at The Acolyte this weekend, while Lucasfilm confirmed that the eagerly anticipated TV series will release on Disney Plus in 2024. While the footage has yet to be unveiled online, GamesRadar+ were on the ground... The clip opened on young Padawan being trained by Lee Jung-jae's mysterious character, who says:  "The force is powerful, It is power, we must respect."Evil and darkness looks to lurk around everything corner. "This
  
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