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• The "dream team" behind one of the best indie games of 2022 is back for a new project

  01-05-2023 23:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been one year since the launch of the widely acclaimed Citizen Sleeper, and the devs behind the hit indie have now announced that they're reuniting for a new project."The 'dream team' behind Citizen Sleeper are back together and working on an exciting new project," according to a press release. "Citizen Sleeper’s solo developer, Gareth Damian Martin is teaming up again with narrative indie label Fellow Traveller, as well as the game’s iconic character artist Guillaume Singelin a
  
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• JJ Abrams and Ta-Nehisi Coates' Superman movie could still happen, says James Gunn

  01-05-2023 23:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Now that James Gunn is directing his own Superman reboot movie as co-CEO DC Films, he says there's room for both his vision and a previously announced Superman movie written by longtime Black Panther comic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and produced by JJ Abrams."Those two things are totally unrelated," Gunn told io9. "That’s an exciting movie. I know that Chantal Nong, who is the executive on that project, is extremely excited about it. So if it comes in and it’s great, which I haven&rsquo
  
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• 18 great deals in the Steam Golden Week Sale, and only most of them are JRPGs

  01-05-2023 23:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Steam's latest mega-sale celebrates Japan's Golden Week, with several of the big Japanese publishers participating.I somehow missed this until today because the individual sale pages are hidden behind obscure banners, but there are a ton of great deals to be had until May 8. Square Enix, NIS America, Bandai Namco, Koei Tecmo, Spike Chunsoft, Sega, and Capcom have a lot of games on sale, and I've pulled out 18 that really stood out to me and my coworkers. 
  Bravely Default 2 - 50% off at $29.
  
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• Pedro Pascal joins Ridley Scott's Gladiator 2

  01-05-2023 22:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pedro Pascal has joined the cast of Ridley Scott's untitled Gladiator sequel.According to Deadline, Pascal is in final negotiations to star alongside Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, Denzel Washington, and the recently added Joseph Quinn. Ridley Scott is set to direct once again.Gladiator premiered in 2000 to rave reviews and earned over $470 million at the global box office. The film stars Russell Crowe as a Roman general who sets out to get revenge after his family is murdered by an emperor's corru
  
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• Horror fishing game Dredge is getting a whole bunch of free updates and paid DLC

  01-05-2023 22:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  One of this year's sleeper indie darlings, the horror fishing game Dredge, is getting free updates and a paid DLC this year.Black Salt Games announced Dredge's roadmap with details in a PlayStation blog. The first of three updates will hit the shores sometime in May and introduce a long-requested feature: map markers. These will let you select different colored icons on the map to guide you toward (or away from) dangers, shipwrecks, mysteries, and more. The first Dredge update will also add some
  
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• Rob Delaney returning in Deadpool 3

  01-05-2023 22:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rob Delaney is returning for Deadpool 3.According to Deadline, Delaney will reprise his role as X-Force member Peter from Deadpool 2. Peter is an average, everyday dad with no superpowers who joins Deadpool's superhero team.We still don't know much about the plot of Deadpool 3, other than that it brought Jackman out of his Wolverine retirement (after he swore he was done with the role) and will see the two heroes face off against one another.The film is directed by Shawn Levy (The Adam Project,
  
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• You can now play the best Zelda spinoff for free while you count down the minutes to Tears of the Kingdom

  01-05-2023 21:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer is free to play for a limited time, giving Switch Online subscribers something better to do than counting down the minutes to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. In case you haven't played it, Cadence of Hyrule is an absolutely sublime rhythm-based roguelike Zelda spinoff that launched on Switch to rave reviews back in 2019. There's been a free demo for years that you can still get today, and now the whole game is available to download and
  
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• Netflix renews The Diplomat for season 2

  01-05-2023 21:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Netflix has renewed political thriller The Diplomat for a second season.The series sees Kate Wyler (Keri Russell), a career diplomat, juggle her new high-profile job as ambassador to the United Kingdom and her turbulent marriage to a political star amid an international crisis. Rufus Sewell, Ali Ahn, David Gyasi, Michael McKean, Rory Kinnear, Nanah Mensah, and Penny Downie also star.The Diplomat debuted at no. 1 on the Top 10 TV English list after hitting the streamer on April 20, and garnered a
  
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• The PlayStation Plus Collection dies in a week, so claim these 19 'free' games before they're gone

  01-05-2023 20:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  PlayStation will end the PS Plus Collection on Tuesday, May 9, so consider this an urgent reminder that you've got one week to claim 19 games and keep them for as long as you maintain a PS Plus subscription.The PS Plus Collection predates the service's Essentials, Extra, and Premium subscription tiers, which have introduced their own collections via the Game Catalog, Classics Catalog, and Cloud Streaming Catalog. The PS Plus Collection contains 19 games – it used to be 20 until Persona 5 s
  
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• The first Mortal Kombat 12 teaser appears to be 10 seconds of unusually detailed sand

  01-05-2023 20:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fans are pretty sure we've just gotten a look at the first Mortal Kombat 12 teaser, taking the form of a 10 second clip showcasing several extremely detailed grains of sand.The clip appears at the end of a video titled 'Thank You from NetherReal,' in which developers from across the history of the series express their gratitude to fans for making the games a success over the past three decades. Series co-creator Ed Boon concludes the video by saying "we're not quite done yet," and then we cut to
  
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• The Pathfinder people are making a Diablo-like

  01-05-2023 20:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  The makers behind the popular tabletop role-playing game Pathfinder are making a co-op action-RPG that sounds like a fairly direct competitor to Diablo 4.BKOM Studios and publisher Paizo have announced Pathfinder: Abomination Vaults, based on the TTRPG campaign of the same name, describing it as "the first ever co-op ARPG based on the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game." There's no trailer yet, but the developers released a five-minute video with some art, story teases, and a little bit of gamepla
  
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• Zelda fans prepare for "total leak chaos" as Tears of the Kingdom spoilers spill online

  01-05-2023 19:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Leaked copies of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom are now in the wild, and fans are preparing for chaos as spoilers start to hit the internet.Late last week, social media started to buzz with reports that some players had managed to get their hands on copies of the Tears of the Kingdom Collector's Edition ahead of launch. At the time, it was impossible to tell if these reports were legit or an elaborate troll, but now we're starting to see new in-game footage and screenshots hitting the
  
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• Chris Pratt almost gave up on Marvel after a bad Thor audition

  01-05-2023 18:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Chris Pratt nearly gave up on Marvel after a string of failed auditions."I auditioned for Thor, but not even to be Thor – but to be one of the sidekick guys, and I didn’t get a callback," Pratt said during a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. "Usually they give you a little bit of feedback, and I remember the casting director goes, 'Wow. You really made a big choice there.' Which is code for like, ‘Hey, dial back the acting there, guy.'"Pratt spent seven seasons on N
  
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• Apex Legends' "new long-term progression system" lets you master guns to get free legendary skins

  01-05-2023 18:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  As part of the chunky seasonal update coming in Apex Legends: Arsenal, the battle royale shooter is adding a new system called Weapon Mastery which will reward your gunplay and patience with rare cosmetics, and that includes legendary weapon skins. "Weapon Mastery is our first new long-term progression system outside of account level!" a blog post on the EA site reads. "As we look to make Apex Legends more approachable for new players, this system incentivizes them to learn about the streng
  
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• Meta Quest VR is getting a new gaming showcase in June with world premieres and first looks

  01-05-2023 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Meta Quest VR is hosting a new gaming showcase on June 1, and the company says it'll be packed with new game reveals, first-look trailers, and updates on existing games.Proceedings kick off with a pre-show starting at 9:45am PT / 12:45pm ET / 5:45pm BST on Thursday, June 1. The pre-show will include debut trailers and updates for games we've already seen, but the real action will begin 15 minutes later when the showcase proper starts at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST. Hosted by Oculus Studios execut
  
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• New Star Wars Jedi: Survivor patch promises better performance and fewer crashes

  01-05-2023 17:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is getting a pair of new patches - one for PC and one for consoles - that aim to fix the performance and stability issues that remain the one substantial mark against an otherwise impressive sequel.Today, a patch has landed for the PC version of Jedi: Survivor that offers "performance improvements for non-raytraced rendering." The game's had issues on all platforms, but they've been especially bad on PC, leading to 'mostly negative' reviews at the game's launch on Steam,
  
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• Joseph Quinn joins Ridley Scott's Gladiator sequel

  01-05-2023 17:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Joseph Quinn is reportedly in talks to join Ridley Scott's Gladiator sequel.Per Deadline, Quinn is set to play Emperor Caracalla. The cast also includes Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, Denzel Washington, and Connie Nielsen – the only returning cast member from the original film thus far.Gladiator premiered in 2000 to rave reviews and earned over $470 million at the global box office. The film stars Russell Crowe as a Roman general whose family is murdered by an emperor's corrupt son and sets o
  
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• PlayStation boss says Sony's live service games will target different genres and won't all be massive time-sinks

  01-05-2023 16:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  PlayStation Studios boss Hermen Hulst says the platform's ambitious roster of live service titles will feature games in different genres and of "different scales," meaning not all of them will be bottomless time vampires. Speaking with GamesIndustry.biz, Hulst reckons that live service can't be treated "as if it is a single genre, or even a single business model.""PlayStation Studios are making a variety of games that could be referred to as 'live services', targeting different genres, diff
  
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