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• Zelda fans are preparing for a Tears of the Kingdom bombshell on par with Breath of the Wild's final trailer

  12-04-2023 23:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  The final trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is set to go live on April 13, and in the hours leading up to its launch, fans are preparing - or at least hoping - for a bombshell on par with the final Breath of the Wild trailer.If you missed news of the final Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has announced that it's "roughly three minutes long" and will be livestreamed through YouTube at 7am PT / 10am ET / 3pm BST, 29 days before the launch of the game. We have no idea what
  
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• Diablo 4's battle pass will take "roughly 80 hours" to complete

  12-04-2023 22:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 4's battle pass should take around 80 hours to complete, Blizzard has revealed.In a recent group interview (via PC Gamer), associate game director Joe Piepiora detailed the amount of seasonal content players can expect from the Diablo 4 battle pass."Right now, the battle pass, when you're figuring in completing the season journey alongside doing other content in the game, you're looking at roughly 80 hours worth of time invested to complete the entirety of the battle pass," Piepiora said.
  
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• Meet the new archenemies of the Avengers

  12-04-2023 22:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Avengers are about to enter a new era in comics starting in May with the launch of a new volume of their ongoing title from writer Jed MacKay and artist CF Villa. And along with the new creative team and new roster, the Avengers are facing off with some brand new cosmic villains known as the Ashen Combine.Here's how Marvel describes the members of the Ashen Combine, who each have bizarre abilities the likes of which the Avengers have never faced:
  LORD ENNUI, "an embodiment of atrophy who dra
  
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• Sorry Redfall, I'm not going back to 30FPS console games

  12-04-2023 22:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Today, we learned that Redfall is going to hit Xbox Series X/S without a Performance Mode, locking the game to a 30FPS Quality Mode until a patch arrives sometime after release. Now, I need to speak to Redfall directly here: You look awesome, and I've spent a lot of years loving console games that ran at 30FPS - or worse. But PS5 and Xbox Series X have given us a glimpse of a glorious future where console games can run at 60FPS, and I'm not willing to give that up now.Obviously, 60FPS performanc
  
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• Sony quietly kills the PlayStation Store's most annoying 'feature'

  12-04-2023 21:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sony seems to have quietly stopped sending email receipts for free games and DLC claimed through the PlayStation Store.As first spotted by PlayStation Lifestyle and a number of observers on Reddit, the latest batch of free PS Plus games doesn't appear to be sending email receipts like the service did with all previous releases. It's unclear whether Sony has formally ended receipts for free games and DLC or if it just hasn't been sending them out in error, but we can confirm we aren't getting the
  
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• Diablo 4 boss clarifies seasonal story content: "Not a new campaign"

  12-04-2023 21:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 4's seasonal releases will introduce some new story content, but franchise boss Rod Fergusson says it won't be on the level of a campaign.Fergusson took to Twitter with an eye for "managing expectations" after "seeing some people misinterpreting" a recent Diablo 4 cover story from Game Informer. "The story that [associate game director Joe Piepiora] refers to in Seasons are new quest lines that help to provide context to new seasonal mechanics - not a new campaign," Fergusson clarified.&n
  
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• The Harry Potter TV show is official and will run for 10 years

  12-04-2023 20:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  HBO Max has made the Harry Potter TV show official with a full announcement during today's presentation.We've been hearing plenty of rumors and reports about the first-ever Harry Potter TV series since 2021, but this is the first time we've heard the news straight from the source. And it turns out most of the rumors were true: The series will adapt each of the seven Harry Potter books into its own season and introduce a whole new cast to a new generation of Wizarding World fans.In its announceme
  
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• HBO orders Game Of Thrones prequel A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

  12-04-2023 20:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  HBO has given a series order to A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, a new Game of Thrones prequel.The upcoming series is a set century before the events of Game of Thrones and follows two unlikely heroes, a  young, naïve but courageous knight named Ser Duncan the Tall, and his diminutive squire, Egg. Set in an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne and the memory of the last dragon has not yet passed from living memory, the show aims to explore great dest
  
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• Batman spin-off series The Penguin goes full Scarface in its first teaser trailer

  12-04-2023 20:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  HBO Max's The Batman spinoff series, based on Colin Farrell's The Penguin, has debuted its first footage and teaser trailer. The preview was revealed during the HBO Max presentation introducing its new subscription service, simply titled Max, which combines the HBO Max and Discovery+ services.*Spoilers for The Batman to follow - turn back now if you aren't caught up!*
  (Image credit: Warner Bros./DC)
  The Penguin series serves as a direct sequel to the 2022 film The Batman. In that movie, Pa
  
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• Mark Waid tells Superman: Birthright spiritual sequel and flashes back to the original Teen Titans in new DC titles

  12-04-2023 20:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  DC has announced a pair of new titles from Mark Waid, including a spiritual sequel to his story Superman: Birthright and a spin-off of his current Batman/Superman: World's Finest title.First up, Waid and artist Emanuela Lupacchino will delve into the history of the Teen Titans for World's Finest: Teen Titans, spinning off from Waid and artist Dan Mora's ongoing World's Finest title.In World's Finest: Teen Titans, the original five Titans - Robin, Wonder Girl, Speedy, Kid Flash, and Aqualad - are
  
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• HBO Max and Discovery Plus rebrand as Max, set launch date

  12-04-2023 20:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warner Bros. Discovery has announced the official merger between HBO Max and Discovery Plus, combining both streaming platforms into the simply titled Max.“This is a real moment for us … This is our time. This is our chance, and everything is possible,” CEO David Zaslav said. “I feel like, for our company, this is our rendezvous with destiny.” More than 40 new titles and TV show seasons are set to be added to the app each month. The tier breakdown is
  
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• DCU's Creature Commandos casts The Purge's Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr

  12-04-2023 19:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Frank Grillo is set to play Rick Flag Sr in Creature Commandos, which will kick off James Gunn and Peter Safran's DCU Chapter One: Gods and Monsters.The seven-episode animated series sees Amanda Waller create a black ops team of monstrous prisoners. The team of military superhumans includes a vampire, a werewolf, and a gorgon, along with a human leader. Gunn, who wrote the entire first season, recently debunked rumors that Henry Cavill had been cast in the show as Frankenstein.Joel Kin
  
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• John Wick spin-off The Continental gets teaser trailer and premiere date

  12-04-2023 18:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Continental: From the World of John Wick has finally been given both a teaser trailer and a premiere date.The three-part special event serves as a prequel to the Keanu Reeves-led action thriller series John Wick and is centered on the "assassin hotel" predominantly featured within the franchise and its 1970s origins. The series comes just after John Wick: Chapter 4's impressive box office run, pulling in numbers that were a first for the franchise.Ian McShane plays Winston, manager of The Co
  
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• Expect glamour, guns and globe-trotting in new IDW crime caper, Cat Fight

  12-04-2023 18:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  The latest comic from Eisner Award-winner and recent GLAAD Media Award-nominee Andrew Wheeler is a glamorous, high-stakes crime caper. Told over six issues, Cat Fight follows the misadventures of master thief Felix Lamarr, who has fallen into debt with some very bad people. Still, things are about to get a lot more complicated when a mysterious relative gets in touch with an enticing - but dangerous - offer.Wheeler has previously written Sins of the Black Flamingo for ComiXology and Dark Horse B
  
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• I didn't think my most-wanted open-world game could get any cooler, and then its bosses went full Elden Ring

  12-04-2023 18:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  I don't want Elden Ring to do to the phrase 'open-world game' what Dark Souls did to 'difficult game' for several frustrating years – that is, become overused shorthand largely founded on recency bias – but hear me out on this. Hyper Light Breaker, a 3D roguelike successor to the 2D indie darling Hyper Light Drifter, is my most-anticipated open-world game right now, and the lore behind one of its newly revealed bosses would fit right into the FromSoftware library. As director Al
  
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• Redfall will launch at 30 FPS with Performance Mode coming "at a later date"

  12-04-2023 18:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arkane's upcoming vampire FPS Redfall will be launching without a Performance Mode, setting the game at just 30FPS on Xbox Series X.When Redfall launches next month it'll only have a 'Quality Mode', meaning it'll support up to 30FPS with 4K on Xbox Series X and 30FPS/1440p on Xbox Series S. The developer has also revealed that a 60FPS 'Performance Mode' will be added to the game in the form of an update "at a later date" but hasn't given a timeframe so who knows how long we could be waiting for
  
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• Amid ongoing legal complications, Dark and Darker fans are coming unglued as they await confirmation of April 14 playtest

  12-04-2023 17:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Dark and Darker community is falling apart - emotionally, at least - as everyone awaits confirmation of whether or not the game's announced April 14 playtest is actually going ahead amid ongoing legal uncertainties.Developer Ironmace announced months ago that the next Dark and Darker playtest would run from April 14 through April 19. However, that announcement came just shortly after the studio was accused of stealing game assets from megapublisher Nexon. Since then, there's been a police ra
  
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• Cyberpunk 2077 players "blown away" by the Overdrive Mode

  12-04-2023 17:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cyberpunk 2077 players are already blown away by the Overdrive Mode just a day after it first debuted.Cyberpunk 2077's Overdrive Mode launched yesterday on April 11 for PC players, or rather, PC players with a wildly powerful rig. Players with a supreme graphics card have got the mode that promises film-quality lighting working to show to others, and the entire thing looks really damn impressive in the gameplay clip below.
  I am legitimately blown away by the new Overdrive Ray Tracing. NC has nev
  
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• I don't know how I missed this Zelda and Studio Ghibli mash-up RPG, but now I can't wait for it

  12-04-2023 17:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  I've only just stumbled upon this upcoming pixel art RPG that takes queues from The Legend of Zelda and Studio Ghibli, and I doubt I'll stop thinking about it anytime soon.Kloa - Child of the Forest places you in the sandals of a young adventurer out to bring life back to a once-flourishing forest, now caught in the grasp of rapid corruption known as the Ikari Curse. The art is one way the charming RPG shows affection for Studio Ghibli's work, though the story also invites comparison. The f
  
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• Too many game devs don't get the credit they deserve, so a global body is taking action

  12-04-2023 17:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  After several developers have said they were uncredited for work on recent projects, the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has updated its game crediting policy. As spotted by Eurogamer, the organization's Game Credits Special Interest Group (SIG) has updated its game crediting policy as of March 2023. The IGDA website features two recently updated guidelines, one of which simply states: "When in doubt, give credit," which should help to include more developers in the credits
  
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• Legendary Mad cartoonist Al Jaffee passes away at 102

  12-04-2023 17:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Legendary cartoonist Al Jaffee, who held the Guinness World Record for having the longest career as a comic artist, has passed away at the age of 102. Although he worked on many different titles over the course of an astonishing 77 year career, Jaffee was best known for his work on satirical magazine Mad, where he invented the title's famous "Fold-In" back page.Jaffee was born on March 13, 1921, in Savannah, Georgia. His interest in comics began at an early age and by 21 he was already a working
  
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• Nvidia finally announces RTX 4070 release date and price

  12-04-2023 16:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  After a myriad of leaks over the last few weeks, Nvidia has finally confirmed the launch of the latest 40 series GPU, the RTX 4070. The graphics card will be available on April 13th, following the launch of the RTX 4070 Ti on January 5th, 2023.The RTX 4070 will have an MSRP of $599 / £589 and will feature the same Ada Lovelace architecture as the previous 40 series releases. Additionally, AI-accelerated performance will feature in the form of DLSS 3.The announcement comes after weeks of sp
  
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• The Mandalorian fans are heartbroken over [SPOILER]

  12-04-2023 16:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Mandalorian season 3 episode 7 brought some huge revelations and shocking scenes, and fans are reeling over one moment in particular. A warning that the following will contain MAJOR spoilers for the new episode, so turn back now if you're not up to date!Towards the end of the episode, the Mandalorian covert is trapped by Moff Gideon and his Beskar-clad troopers. Din Djarin is captured, and then, in a heart-stopping action sequence, Paz Vizsla stands his ground alone to take on the troopers w
  
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• Sony's latest weirdness is trashing Microsoft and Nintendo in patents

  12-04-2023 16:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sony's patents have been quietly disparaging Microsoft and Nintendo as "inferior" manufacturers for over a decade now.First picked up on by Foss Patents, there's been some harsh language of late from Sony towards Microsoft in patent filings. Just earlier this month, a Sony patent acknowledged users could be playing a "home entertainment system of a different albeit inferior manufacturer," stopping just short of explicitly naming Microsoft and Nintendo as these "inferior" manufacturers.You'd
  
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• The Mandalorian season 3, episode 7's droid twist could set up an epic finale moment for Grogu

  12-04-2023 16:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Mandalorian season 3 episode 7 gives IG-11 an update – which could be setting up an epic finale moment for baby Grogu. A warning that the following will contain major spoilers for the new episode. Turn back now if you're not up to date! In the episode, IG-11 is finally repaired after Din Djarin tried to get the droid fixed up earlier in the season. The droid, now named IG-12, needs a tiny pilot, which is where Grogu comes in. Din argues that Baby Yoda is too young to be piloting I
  
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• The Mandalorian fans react to Grogu's new ride

  12-04-2023 16:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Mandalorian season 3 episode 7 has given Grogu a sweet new ride – and fans are loving it. A warning that, before we go any further, the following will contain spoilers for the new episode. Turn back now if you're not up to date! After Din Djarin attempted to get IG-11 fixed earlier in the season, this episode finally reintroduces the newly repaired droid, though he's now called IG-12. Greef Karga points out that someone small is needed to pilot the droid, and though Din is relucta
  
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• The Mandalorian season 3 episode 7 features major sequel trilogy and Ahsoka connections

  12-04-2023 15:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Mandalorian season 3 episode 7 has set up what's to come in the Star Wars universe with major references to the sequel trilogy and the upcoming Ahsoka show. A warning that the following will contain major spoilers, so turn back now if you're not up to date! The episode begins with a meeting of the galaxy's dark side, as Moff Gideon plots and schemes with his fellow Imperials. A reference is made to Grand Admiral Thrawn's return, but, as Gideon points out, he has yet to actually material
  
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• Slow Horses season 4 adds Hugo Weaving and more – and season 3 hasn't even aired yet

  12-04-2023 15:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Slow Horses season 3 hasn't even aired yet, but that hasn't stopped the Apple TV Plus series from announcing the new cast members it's set to welcome in season 4. According to Deadline, the Gary Oldman-led spy thriller, which is currently filming its fourth chapter in London, has added Joanna Scanlan (The Thick of It), Ruth Bradley (Humans), Tom Brooke (Bodyguard), and James Callis (Bridget Jones's Diary), as well as Marvel and Lord of the Rings star Hugo Weaving to its line up. While chara
  
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• This underwater city builder just added opinions, bringing it one step closer to BioShock's Rapture

  12-04-2023 13:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  This underwater city builder just added opinions, bringing it one step closer to a perfect BioShock-building simulator.Earlier this month, city builder Aquatico released a major update, including game modes, story content, and biomes to explore. Among the additions are opinions, or rather, a feature that allows your city's citizens to express their opinions to you in conversation.While some conversations are just "pure entertainment," others can actually be helpful. Once your city's population i
  
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• This slice-of-life indie is a mash-up of Life is Strange and The Sims that I didn't know I needed

  12-04-2023 13:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Upcoming indie Closer the Distance feels like a mix between The Sims and Life is Strange, and I can't wait to see more of it. First revealed during the ID@Xbox April showcase earlier this month, Closer the Distance is a life sim (just like The Sims 4 or Life by You) but with an emotional, narrative-driven twist that reminds me of Life is Strange or maybe even What Remains of Edith Finch. As you can tell from the trailer below, the game appears to have typical life-sim style gameplay bu
  
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• Renfield reviews praise Nicholas Hoult and Nicolas Cage's performances but say the movie needs higher stakes

  12-04-2023 13:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Renfield hits theaters in a matter of days, and reviews for the Nicholas Hoult-fronted movie have started to roll in. Hoult plays the title character, the loyal familiar and lackey of Dracula (Nicolas Cage) – but not for much longer. Renfield has been attending a support group for people in toxic relationships, and he's determined to break free from a century of servitude. Add in a budding romance with cop Rebecca (Awkawfina) and trouble from the Lobos, a powerful crime family, and Renfiel
  
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• Universal announces plans for a new classic monster movie – and the Scream 6 directors are involved

  12-04-2023 13:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Scream 6 directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett have lined up their next horror project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the pair have signed on to develop a new Classic Monster movie for Universal, alongside their fellow Radio Silence producer Chad Villella.The Hole in the Ground scribe Stephen Shields is said to have written the script, with revisions made by Guy Bisick, who previously collaborated with Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett on Ready or Not, Scream, and Scream 6. For now
  
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• CS:GO player hits impossible shot to wipe entire team with one bullet

  12-04-2023 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  A CS:GO player has managed to win a round solo by wiping out the enemy with just one bullet. As you can see from the clip below, the round starts with one player picking up the AWP sniper rifle before letting out a fairly monotone "yeah" in celebration that makes what's about to happen all the more amusing. Our would-be hero then strolls to their lane before tossing a smoke grenade at the enemy as they move to cover, then poking out to take a shot at an enemy. It's the sort of gameplay
  
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• Tekken 8 lead promises all the essential fighting game staples, tells everyone to "shut up and sit the hell down"

  12-04-2023 12:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tekken 8's director has unveiled a slew of new gameplay details, including cross-play, rollback netcode, and character numbers.Tekken series creative lead Katsuhiro Harada has been a chatty Cathy on Twitter of late, answering a slate of questions from followers surrounding Tekken 8. Harada confirms that Tekken 8 will have cross-play, a feature he's been after since Tekken 7 was released but wasn't able to see the light of day.
  Crossplay? Of course I will.BTWWhen the previous generation consoles
  
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• The Night Agent is now one of Netflix's most-watched shows of all time, less than a month after its release

  12-04-2023 12:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Night Agent is officially taking Netflix by storm. So far, the series has accumulated over 515 million hours watched, putting it in ninth place on Netflix's top 10 most-watched English language shows of all time. The data Netflix uses covers a title's first 28 days on the streamer, so The Night Agent is likely to rise in the chart once its first month is up – season 1 was released on March 23, 2023, so at the time of writing it's just about to hit the three-week mark. Other s
  
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• Dead Island 2 has seemingly broken its street date, 10 days early

  12-04-2023 12:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  One lucky Dead Island 2 fan has managed to get their hands on a copy of the game 10 days before its official release date. As spotted on Reddit, Dead Island 2 has broken its April 21 street date by just over a week. It's not clear whether this is a unique case or if other copies are floating around, but, as the lucky fan shared in the comments of their post, they got their copy "from a guy on eBay" who had a "bunch of copies" - so those who pre-ordered from big retailers will probably still
  
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• Resident Evil 4 Remake speedrunners are already clearing its hardest difficulty in under two hours

  12-04-2023 11:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Resident Evil 4 remake speedrunners are already completing the game's hardest difficulty in under two hours.As first noted by PC Gamer, speedrunner spicee has managed to beat Resident Evil 4 remake's supremely tough 'Professional' difficulty setting in under two hours. To be precise, that's merely one hour, 58 minutes, and 47 seconds taken to beat Capcom's latest horror remake on the hardest difficulty it has to offer.The Professional difficulty might be just downright torture for most, but not
  
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• Blizzard says Diablo 4's respec costs "are final"

  12-04-2023 09:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 4's respec costs aren't changing before launch, Blizzard has confirmed.In a recent roundtable interview GamesRadar+ attended, Diablo 4 associate game director Joseph Piepiora responded to feedback from players regarding the apparent costs to respec a character, as skillfully mined from a recent endgame deep-dive.Piepiora explained that, while the gold required to reallocate skill points will be the same at launch as what's been shown, it won't be as expensive as it seems because you'll ha
  
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• Dead Island 2 system requirements: Here are the minimum and recommended PC specs

  12-04-2023 00:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  The full Dead Island 2 system requirements have been revealed, letting you know exactly what PC specs you'll need to run the game at every graphics setting.Turns out Dead Island 2 isn't a particularly demanding game, at least judging from its PC requirements. If you have a halfway decent gaming rig built in the last few years, you're likely to be able to run Dead Island 2 just fine, barring any bugs or performance issues on the client side. Here are the full specs straight from the official Dead
  
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