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• Spelunky 2 mod turns one of the best roguelikes ever into a handcrafted Metroidvania

  26-04-2023 23:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you ever wondered what it would be like to use Spelunky 2's sublime platforming mechanics in a world that doesn't reset every time you die, a new mod called Spelunky: Wrath of Kali might just be for you.Wrath of Kali is a massive mod that turns Spelunky 2 into a handcrafted Metroidvania. Instead of the world resetting and reconfiguring every time you die, there's a single, interconnected world to explore. If you die, you just respawn at a checkpoint, and can take on the same challenge all ove
  
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• Redfall pre-load is live, and it's almost 100 GB on PC

  26-04-2023 22:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Redfall is available to pre-load now on Xbox Series X and S as well as PC, and it'll take up quite a bit of hard drive space depending on the platform.As spotted by XboxEra, the upcoming Game Pass drop can be pre-installed so that it's ready to play as soon as it launches on Tuesday, May 2. That said, you might want to check how much hard drive space you have, as Redfall is a certifiable chonker on PC and, to a lesser degree, Xbox Series X.On PC, Redfall will take up an eye-watering 94.3 GB, whi
  
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• EA promises "weeks" of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor bug and performance fixes in what sounds like a warning

  26-04-2023 22:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  EA is promising - or perhaps warning - that Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is in line for multiple patches over the next few weeks that will improve the game's performance and fix bugs."Our first patch will arrive on launch day across all platforms," EA says in a tweet. "In the weeks ahead, we’ll deploy patches that will fix bugs, improve performance, [and] add more accessibility features. Stay tuned for more updates!"
  Cal’s newest journey in a galaxy far, far away has begun and we’r
  
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• Warzone 2 revives Plunder after 9 months, accidentally gives players ridiculous K/D ratios

  26-04-2023 22:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  After a nine-month hiatus, Plunder has returned to Warzone, which has only gone and become Warzone 2 since we last saw this game mode, and it's brought an amusing new bug with it.As developer Raven Software flagged earlier today, a new issue is currently causing Plunder stats to be applied to normal battle royale stats. In other words, as the studio put it, "some of you are about to have a VERY sus K/D."For the unfamiliar, Plunder is sort of like a more relaxed battle royale where, instead of b
  
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• Where are the classic MCU Guardians of the Galaxy in comics?

  26-04-2023 21:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Guardians of the Galaxy are about to return to theaters for their final ride in the MCU with May's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Director James Gunn has described the film as the last hurrah for the classic Guardians team of Peter Quill, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, Groot, Nebula, and Mantis. But in comic books, the team is alive and well - and they've even got a new volume of their ongoing series coming out just in time for the movie.So where are the classic MCU Guardians now, in comic book
  
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• Michael Keaton had an 'emotional' return to the Batcave

  26-04-2023 20:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Michael Keaton had an emotional reaction to seeing the original Batcave for the first time in 30 years on set of The Flash."When [Keaton] arrived to the set, the Batcave was already finished and it was lit and everything. He stayed like this [eyes wide] for a while. I didn’t want to interrupt him. I just wanted for him to take it in. Who knows what was going on there? But something was going on there," director Andy Muschietti told IGN. "It was funny because at one point during the sc
  
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• Honkai Star Rail PSA: you only have four days to claim 10 free pulls

  26-04-2023 20:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Honkai Star Rail has launched right at the end of April, which means you only have a few days to claim the first batch of free monthly pulls from its in-game store. Just like Genshin Impact, developer Hoyoverse's previous game, Honkai Star Rail lets players purchase five standard pulls and five limited pulls each month using a free currency. In this case, you can buy five Star Rail Passes and five Star Rail Special Passes using the embers you accumulate by pulling on any banner. You'll find
  
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• Don't be fooled by Google, there's no Starfield open beta you can "play now"

  26-04-2023 20:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  If I go to Google right now and type in "Starfield open beta," the top result would have me believe that I can hop on and play the big Bethesda RPG that doesn't come out for another four months and change. Sadly, this is a lie. There is no Starfield open beta. Not yet anyway."Don't miss out on this exciting adventure. Play now. Enjoy action with your friends. Open world," reads the description under a sponsored Google search result that promises you can "play starfield now." And yes, t
  
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• Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom sadly fixes Breath of the Wild's most useful glitch

  26-04-2023 19:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  A fresh round of previews for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom have dropped, and there's one bit of sad news in that speedrunners and impatient players will no longer be able to take advantage of the Breath of the Wild whistle sprint glitch.In Breath of the Wild, if you hold down the whistle button while repeatedly mashing the sprint button as you run, you'll move nearly as fast as you would at a full sprint without spending any stamina. This technique is used constantly in speedruns, a
  
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• Bramble: The Mountain King, A Spooky Adventure Inspired By Nordic Folklore | New Gameplay Today

  26-04-2023 19:49
  
  Join hosts Wesley LeBlanc and Kyle Hilliard as the two take a quick look at Bramble: The Mountain King, a spooky and horrific adventure game inspired by Nordic Folklore that plays like Little Nightmares. It comes from Dimfrost Studios and features gorgeous (if not terrifying) visuals and a fun loop of traversal and puzzle solving. And fortunately, you don't have to wait long because it hits PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC tomorrow on April 27. If you're wondering whether it's a game you s
  
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• Power Girl and Fire & Ice get their own Dawn of DC titles

  26-04-2023 19:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  'Dawn of DC' is expanding again with two new titles starring cult classic DC heroes in a new modern context - in this case a title featuring Power Girl and one featuring the duo of Fire & Ice, both spinning out of May's upcoming Power Girl Special #1.First up, the new Power Girl title by writer Leah Williams and artist Eduardo Pansica brings the Kara Zor-El of Earth-Two (who now goes by the name 'Paige') further into the fold of the Superman Family, with Kal-El's alt-reality cousin being enl
  
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• Netflix unveils first look at star-studded Black Mirror season 6 – and confirms release month

  26-04-2023 18:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Netflix has unveiled its first look at Black Mirror season 6, which confirms the next installment of the dystopian thriller series' star-studded cast – and when it's set to release, too. Aaron Paul, Zazie Beetz, and Salma Hayek Pinault appear all in the predictably dark teaser, above, but there's plenty more names where that came from.Anjana Vasan, Auden Thornton, Clara Rugaard, Daniel Portman, Danny Ramirez, Himesh Patel, John Hannah, Kate Mara, Michael Cera, Monica Dolan, Myha'la Herrold
  
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• Beetlejuice 2 is officially on the way

  26-04-2023 18:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!A sequel to Tim Burton's 1988 fantasy horror comedy is officially on the way. During Warner Bros. CinemaCon presentation, a title treatment for Beetlejuice 2 briefly popped up during a sizzle reel of movies coming soon.The original movie follows a recently deceased couple (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) who, after returning to the land of the living as ghosts, are unhappy with the new family moving in. The couple enlists the help of so-called "bio-exorcist" B
  
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• Nintendo Switch isn't "technically capable" of running Call of Duty well, CMA argues

  26-04-2023 18:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Competition and Markets Authority in the UK says it has "seen no evidence" to suggest that Call of Duty can run well on Nintendo Switch. On April 26, the CMA blocked Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard and published its final report on the acquisition. In its findings, the CMA discussed Microsoft's deal to put Call of Duty on Nintendo consoles for 10 years - once again reiterating everyone's concerns about how well the FPS game would actually run on the Nintendo Switch. In
  
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• Honkai Star Rail players crown the game's best standard character, and you can get her for free

  26-04-2023 18:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Honkai Star Rail is finally live, and in less than a day – on top of some prior beta experience – many players have declared Bronya as the game's first must-have meta character. Bronya is a Harmony-type Wind character who specializes in support. Her skill lets one teammate take their next turn sooner and with a significant one-time damage bonus, while her ultimate increases the attack and critical damage of the team. Her damage bonuses and turn order manipulation make her valuab
  
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• Lego Donkey Kong levels up with Diddy, Funky, Cranky, and Dixie figures

  26-04-2023 18:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  It isn't just Lego Donkey Kong joining Mario and co in the not-so-distant future; allies like Cranky and Diddy Kong are on the way too.Teased through a video on Lego's social accounts, we got another look at Lego Donkey Kong before seeing snippets of other supporting characters that will be joining the lineup of Lego Super Mario sets at some point soon. Included in the roundup was Cranky Kong (who recently made an appearance alongside DK in The Super Mario Bros. Movie), classic sidekick Diddy Ko
  
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• Sigourney Weaver won’t reprise her role as Ellen Ripley: "That ship has sailed"

  26-04-2023 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sigourney Weaver made waves in the sci-fi/horror subgenre as Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott's 1979 hit Alien, reprising the role in subsequent sequels Aliens, Alien 3, and Alien Resurrection (as a Ripley clone). Although, while stars like Harrison Ford have gone on to reprise their iconic roles in reboot/sequels or franchise-ending films, Weaver has no interest in returning as Ripley."There are all kinds of younger actors taking this kind of role. And there was an Alien [film] that I really wanted
  
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• Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom won't let you join infinite objects together with Fuse

  26-04-2023 17:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom only lets Link Fuse together two items at once, meaning our dreams of making a heckin' long stick are over.Earlier today on April 26, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom previews went live, and one particular detail was picked up on by Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier. According to the Schreier, Link can only use the Fuse ability on two items to create one new item at once in the Breath of the Wild sequel.
  I played Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom! The
  
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• Peter Pan & Wendy team talk reinventing Hook and stepping into Neverland

  26-04-2023 17:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  "That was what was exciting about making this film as a whole," Peter Pan & Wendy director David Lowery tells Total Film and GamesRadar+ when we meet in London. "[It] was to take every one of those characters and explore that iconography, taking it out of the two dimensional plane in which it may have existed before, treating them as real people with real feelings and real pasts."Peter Pan & Wendy takes us back on that familiar journey beyond the Second Star to the Right, but it's the st
  
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• Ryan Gosling describes finding his "Ken-ergy" for the Barbie movie

  26-04-2023 17:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  With three months still to go until Barbie arrives on our screens, Ryan Gosling is still continuing to shine on the movie's press tour. While attending this year's CinemaCon in a hot pink jacket and T-shirt emblazoned with director Greta Gerwig's name in the Barbie font, Gosling opened up further about playing Ken – and discovering his "Ken-ergy.""I have to be honest, up until this point, I only knew Ken from afar. I didn’t know Ken from within," the actor explained (via The Hollywoo
  
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• Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has at least one more ability we haven't seen yet

  26-04-2023 17:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  We're just a few weeks out from the launch of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and a preview event for the game attended by press and content creators suggests that there are still more major surprises in store, including at least one more ability that we haven't seen yet.If you watch closely in the new preview footage released today, you might catch a glimpse of the wheel showing all the new Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom abilities, including Fuse, Ultrahand, Ascend, and Recall, all of w
  
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• Could these Mandalorian toys reveal cut scenes from Season 3?

  26-04-2023 17:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  New Mandalorian toys - including a Star Wars Lego set and weird choice of action figure - hint at unseen moments from the show's recently-finished third season.Unveiled during the final Mando Mania (a weekly program that shows off products from or inspired by the Mandoverse), we first got a Lego Star Wars set called 'Mandalorian Fang Fighter vs. TIE Interceptor'. This kit offers two starfighters locked in combat and four minifigures in total - Mando himself, the 'Mandalorian Fleet Commander' who
  
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• Square Enix is selling a Kingdom Hearts armchair for $2,200 - but it just looks like a regular armchair

  26-04-2023 17:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Square Enix is selling an official Kingdom Hearts armchair, and charging $2,200 for it. As highlighted by @aitaikimochi, an official Kingdom Hearts merchandise pop-up store has opened in Japan and has a themed armchair up for grabs. The thing is, the company is charging extortionate money for it, $2,200 in fact (approximately £1,761). The item is a collectible, of course, so you'd expect a high price tag, but for that kind of money, I'd expect to see the chair Sora is sitting on
  
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• Stephen King loved The Boogeyman so much he urged them to release it in theaters

  26-04-2023 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rob Savage directed the scariest horror movie in years with lockdown smash Host, and now he’s making his studio debut with an adaptation of Stephen King’s The Boogeyman. Based on the horror writer’s short story of the same name, the movie follows two sisters dealing with grief and a monster lurking in the shadows.The movie will soon arrive on the big screen, but the initial plan was for it to head straight to Hulu. According to Savage, this all changed when they screened a firs
  
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• After new Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom footage, players mentally prepare themselves for another Korok Seed hunt

  26-04-2023 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom fans are already panicking over Korok Seeds returning.Now, it's important to note we already know Koroks themselves are returning in Tears of the Kingdom (we previously saw one with a gigantic backpack in a trailer). But a suspicious Korok Seed circle from a recent trailer has had them very worried we're in for another extensive treasure hunt all over again. And after a new round of preview footage, those fears have been confirmed.
  Ah, shit. Here we go a
  
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• Elemental producer talks making Pixar's most ambitious movie yet

  26-04-2023 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  In Elemental, fire, water, earth, and air folk reside semi-harmoniously in the magnificent metropolis of Element City. It’s against this dazzling backdrop that sparks fly between hotheaded young woman Ember (Leah Lewis) and go-with-the-flow guy Wade (Mamoudou Athie). Directed by Peter Sohn (The Good Dinosaur, and the voice of Sox in Lightyear), it’s Pixar’s first original film to hit cinemas since the pandemic."We knew it was going to be hard. We didn’t know it was going
  
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• Transformers: Rise of the Beasts director confirms movie’s villains – and teases some more surprises

  26-04-2023 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will see some familiar faces when it heads to the big screen, as well as some big surprises. The robots-in-disguise franchise evolves again, with a prequel set in the 90s and featuring the animalistic Maximals alongside other fresh and familiar machines. Speaking to Total Film magazine in the latest issue, which features Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny on the cover, director Steven Caple Jr. shared some insight into the big new foes they bring into the
  
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• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Preview - Sky Island Hopping In Hyrule

  26-04-2023 15:00
  
  Platform:Switch Publisher:Nintendo Developer:Nintendo Release: May 12, 2023 Rating:Everyone 10+ The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has the unenviable task of following what many consider to be one of the greatest games in recent memory. When it launched in 2017, Breath of the Wild revolutionized the longstanding franchise formula in innumerable ways, giving players the biggest world the series has ever featured and mechanics that allowed them to experiment with the game's physics. After
  
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• Wield Yoda's weapon yourself with the "most realistic" Star Wars lightsaber yet

  26-04-2023 14:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  You'll be able to get Master Yoda's Star Wars lightsaber for yourself before long, as a Black Series Force FX Elite replica was just revealed.Announced via the final Mando Mania (where new products from the Mando-verse are unveiled every Tuesday) and described as the "most realistic" yet, this new Star Wars lightsaber recreates the Jedi Master's weapon with an effects-heavy blade to go with a display hilt. If predecessors like the Darth Vader Force FX Elite Lightsaber are anything to go by, it s
  
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• First look The Meg 2 footage sees the gigantic shark eat a T-Rex

  26-04-2023 14:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first look at upcoming action sequel The Meg 2: The Trench has been shown at CinemaCon 2023 – and it looks just as delightfully silly as fans of the original had hoped. While Jason Statham is confirmed to be back for the follow-up, the clip - which was seen by CinemaBlend and hasn't made its way online yet - actually kicks off during prehistoric times. It opens on some sweet-looking dinosaurs on a beach, before a Tyrannosaurus rex comes in and gobbles up all the littluns. If you t
  
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• First Strange Way of Life trailer teases a tender love story between Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke

  26-04-2023 14:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for Pedro Almodóvar's short film Strange Way of Life promises a tender Western love story – with gunslinging and cowboys a-plenty. In the clip, which you can watch above, Pedro Pascal stars as Silva, while Ethan Hawke is Sheriff Jake. We see Jake tell Silva a woman has been killed, before we see two men scuffling in the dirt, and Jake and Silva both with guns drawn. "You never loved me, you never loved anyone in your life," Silva furiously tells Jake, who
  
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• Honkai Star Rail bullies you for taking too long to pick a character

  26-04-2023 13:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Honkai Star Rail will bully you if you take too long to pick a playable character at the beginning of the game.HoYoverse's new RPG launched on April 25 for mobile devices and PC yesterday, and it hasn't taken long for the Honkai Star Rail community to pick up on one amusing detail. This would be that the game sort of bullies you should you take too long picking a character at the game's outset.Take a look at the footage just below, for example. When the player doesn't pick either Stelle or Caelu
  
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• Greta Gerwig says she cried when she walked onto the Barbie set for the first time

  26-04-2023 13:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Greta Gerwig says she had a very emotional reaction when stepping foot on the Barbie set for the first time. The Lady Bird director shared the insight as she debuted some new footage from the upcoming movie at CinemaCon.Appearing alongside Barbie stars Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, and America Ferrera, Gerwig said: "I cried when I stepped on the set for the first time." Per People, she added: "The cars that they made... it was so touching, because all of the people who made the vehicles had just
  
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• Microsoft and Activision say they will appeal merger obstruction

  26-04-2023 13:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Both Activision and Microsoft have issued statements saying they will appeal the decision by a UK watchdog to block their planned merger.Earlier today, the UK Competitions and Markets Authority announced that it had "prevented" the deal "over concerns that the deal would damage competition in the Cloud Gaming market."In a statement issued to GamesRadar+, Microsoft's vice chair and president, Brad Smith, said that "we remain fully committed to this acquisition and will appeal." Smith states that
  
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• Timothee Chalamet rides a worm in CinemaCon's Dune 2 footage

  26-04-2023 13:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first footage of Dune: Part Two has been shown off at CinemaCon – and it teases some sandworm exploits for Timothee Chalamet's Paul Atreides on the dunes of Arrakis.Per Deadline, the behind-closed-doors trailer showed Paul and Zendaya's Chani sitting together in the desert, Florence Pugh's Princess Irulan speaking about the planet's secrets, and – a moment we can't wait to see on the big screen – Paul corralling a sandworm before disappearing into the sand.Director Denis Vi
  
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• Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC seemingly entered development just after the game launched

  26-04-2023 13:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Looks like Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree DLC has been in development since just after the base game launched last year. As spotted by Twitter user Ziostorm, Kenneth (Kin Yue) Chan - lead game designer on both Elden Ring and its DLC - has updated their LinkedIn profile, replacing the "unannounced project" in the work experience section with Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. Now that we have this context, we know that the DLC has actually been in development since April 2022 - that's jus
  
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• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree has seemingly been in development since just after launch

  26-04-2023 13:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Looks like Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree DLC has been in development since just after the base game launched last year. As spotted by Twitter user Ziostorm, Kenneth (Kin Yue) Chan - lead game designer on both Elden Ring and its DLC - has updated their LinkedIn profile, replacing the "unannounced project" in the work experience section with Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. Now that we have this context, we know that the DLC has actually been in development since April 2022 - that's jus
  
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• UK authority blocks Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard

  26-04-2023 13:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Microsoft's attempted acquisition of Activision Blizzard has been prevented by a UK government agency.Earlier today on April 26, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority announced that it had prevented Microsoft from purchasing Activision Blizzard. You can see the full announcement just below, in which the government agency reasons that the deal would potentially damage competition in the gaming market.
  We’ve prevented @Microsoft from purchasing @Activision over concerns the deal would d
  
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• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is getting a photo mode at launch

  26-04-2023 12:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star Wars Jedi: Survivor will come equipped with a photo mode when it launches later this week.While developer Respawn Entertainment had been quiet on the possibility of such a feature for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, that's all now changed. Yesterday, on April 25, the developer officially announced that a photo mode would be available for the sequel at launch later this week on April 28.
  Photo Mode for #StarWarsJediSurvivor will be available at launch! Check out some of the photos @Respawn develop
  
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• Here are the best photos I took with the Star Wars Jedi: Survivor photo mode

  26-04-2023 12:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star Wars Jedi: Survivor will come equipped with a photo mode when it launches later this week.While developer Respawn Entertainment had been quiet on the possibility of such a feature for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, that's all now changed. The studio confirmed that photo mode will be available straight away at launch (Fallen Order's mode only arrived after a month), with the tweet below.
  Photo Mode for #StarWarsJediSurvivor will be available at launch! Check out some of the photos @Respawn develo
  
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• Zack Snyder gave Michael Shannon his blessing to return as Zod in The Flash

  26-04-2023 12:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Michael Shannon is back as General Zod in The Flash – but the actor has revealed that he didn't feel comfortable returning until he got Zack Snyder's blessing. Snyder directed Man of Steel, which saw Shannon's Zod as the main antagonist who went head to head with Henry Cavill's Superman. In The Flash, directed by Andy Muschietti, Zod returns via a multiversal mess that involves Barry Allen accidentally creating a world without superheroes after a time travel venture goes wrong. "
  
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• Evil Dead Rise director and stars explain how they filmed that gonzo, bloodsoaked ending

  26-04-2023 12:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warning! This article contains major spoilers for Evil Dead Rise. If you've yet to see the movie and don't want to know how it ends, then turn back now.Evil Dead Rise's ending is so wild that its stars Lily Sullivan and Alyssa Sutherland are still not entirely sure how they managed to film it. But that didn't stop them from trying to recall the blood-drenched experience in a new interview with Total Film and GamesRadar+..."Did the body suit make it in? I don't really know which parts we did made
  
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• Wonka trailer confirms Hugh Grant is playing an Oompa Loompa

  26-04-2023 12:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hugh Grant will be playing an Oompa Loompa in the upcoming movie Wonka. In some new footage which debuted at CinemaCon, his casting was confirmed as attendees got their first look at his character.Per Variety, the new footage featured Timothée Chalamet’s Willy Wonka meeting Grant’s Oompa Loompa for the first time. The chocolatier encounters him when he’s trapped in a tiny glass jar and, naturally, he hires him to run his chocolate factory. Other actors appeared in t
  
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• Diablo 4's mounts are only available once you've beaten the campaign

  26-04-2023 12:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  You'll need to beat Diablo 4's campaign once in order to unlock mounts for your characters.As revealed in a new Blizzard blog (thanks, WowHead), you'll need to finish Diablo 4's main campaign to actually gain access to a mount. The good news is that you only have to finish the campaign once, with one character, to unlock mounts for good for the rest of the game.This means that if you restart Diablo 4 with a second character after beating its campaign once, you'll immediately have access to a mou
  
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• Nintendo job listing mentions "cross-platform development" giving fans hope for a new console soon

  26-04-2023 12:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  A recent Nintendo job listing has got fans theorizing that a new console could be on the way soon, as it mentions "cross-platform development." As spotted by this Resetera user, the Nintendo European Research & Development team (aka NERD) is currently searching for an engineer/scientist to join the Game Technologies R&D team in France. The job offer document looks like a pretty standard piece of paperwork, however, one part of it has given fans hope of a new Nintendo console one day
  
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• John Cena's Barbie role confirmed in new CinemaCon footage

  26-04-2023 11:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  We now know who John Cena is playing in the Barbie movie – and it’s a unique Ken doll.As revealed during this year’s CinemaCon presentation, Cena is playing a merman version of Ken. The last doll released in that line was Mattel’s King Ocean Ken doll in 2021. We already know that Dua Lipa is playing Mermaid Barbie in the Greta Gerwig-directed toy story, set for release on July 21.New footage was also shown off at the Las Vegas event (via Vulture), which sees Margot Robbie
  
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• First Aquaman 2 trailer sees Jason Momoa and Patrick Wilson forced to team up

  26-04-2023 11:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom has debuted at CinemaCon, and it shows Jason Momoa's Arthur Curry and Patrick Wilson's Orm teaming up against a villainous threat. Per TheWrap, the footage begins with Arthur raising a baby, along with his father, Temuera Morrison's Tom Curry. There are also action scenes a-plenty, with Arthur going up against a submarine at one point. Amber Heard briefly appears as Mera.AV Club notes that Nicole Kidman's Atlanna rides a seahorse that fires
  
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• Even Sega knows it'd only win the console war in a dystopia

  26-04-2023 11:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sega's latest depicts a futuristic dystopia in which it won the console wars.In case you somehow hadn't heard, Sega paid Yoko Taro to create a mobile game where all their franchises were turned into anime girls. 404 Game Re:set is out now in Japan, leading to all sorts of weird discoveries, including one cutscene where Sega winning the console war over Nintendo is treated as a literal futuristic dystopia. 
  A world where Sega wins the console wars is a literally dystopia pic.twitter.com/zzHr
  
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• Where is Yellowjackets this week? When is season 2 episode 6 airing?

  26-04-2023 10:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  New episodes of Yellowjackets season 2 have been airing on a weekly basis since the premiere arrived on our screens this April. However, if you're logging into Paramount Plus this Friday for episode 6, you won't find any new exploits of Misty, Nat, Shauna, and Taissa. Showtime viewers in the US will find the same thing at 9pm ET on Sunday, too. Don't worry, though – the season hasn't ended just yet (how could it, after last week's cliffhanger final scene in the wilderness?), and it's just
  
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• The Flash first reactions call it one of the best superhero movies ever

  26-04-2023 10:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Long-awaited and delayed DC movie The Flash has screened at CinemaCon – and the first reactions are very positive. Some of the lucky critics and journalists who've already seen the film have branded it one of the best superhero movies ever, while others have urged people to believe the hype.Total Film editor-in-chief Jane Crowther wrote: "Despite my worry it might be pointless in the wake of Gunn’s announcements it’s a fitting end to this DC chapter. If you wanna get nuts, you&
  
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