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• Final Fantasy 16's voice actor for Clive nearly skipped his first audition

  21-05-2023 16:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  The actor voicing Final Fantasy 16’s main protagonist Clive nearly missed his audition.“I wasn’t even going to turn up to the audition,” says Clive’s English voice actor Ben Starr in a video discussion with the game’s producer Naoki Yoshida and localisation lead Koji Fox. “I’d had a really, really bad day,” continues Starr, “I wasn’t feeling very well. I think my audition was at about 5:30pm on a Friday. I was the last up to play
  
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• Gran Turismo is District 9 director Neill Blomkamp's "sports movie"

  21-05-2023 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Gran Turismo, a hit PlayStation racing-sim series, may not seem like a logical fit for Director 9 director Neill Blomkamp. But as he reveals in the new issue of Total Film magazine  – which is out on newsstands on May 25 – he's more than happy to take the wheel.‘I'm just obsessed with cars. Totally obsessed. So I was like, 'Yeah, I should probably do this film,'" Blomkamp says of his petrolhead passions. Gran Turismo will revolve around the real-life inspirations of J
  
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• Indie studio has its Discord username stolen out from under them

  21-05-2023 15:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  An indie studio has had its own Discord name stolen out from under them and has now issued a warning to other indie developers to beware. “A warning for all the indie devs waiting to claim their own username,” studio Rusty Lake writes on Twitter. “We just received an email that we, as Verified Owners, could finally submit a new username and wow… ‘rustylake’ is already taken! If we as a server owner with 240K+ members can’t even claim it&hellip
  
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• Mass Effect: Andromeda's director thinks a sequel would have been much better

  21-05-2023 15:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mass Effect: Andromeda’s creative director thinks a sequel to the controversial RPG could have fared much better.Developer BioWare’s series of Mass Effect games were beloved for their cast of characters and rich sci-fi world. But Mass Effect: Andromeda didn’t enjoy the same praise when it launched in 2017, partly due to technical issues and some divisive design decisions. Now, the game’s director says a sequel would have been much better and he wishes the team had gotten
  
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• Evidence points to a fully playable version of a lost Bloodborne PC build

  21-05-2023 14:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Where is Bloodborne’s PC port? Well, we now have some fresh evidence that developer FromSoftware can run the full retail version of the game on PC. Well-known Souls dataminer Lance McDonald shared the new discovery on his Twitter account earlier today. Screenshots from the Bloodborne wiki page, specifically the ones showing off the oil urns, were contributed by FromSoftware’s environment artist Marcos Domenech. McDonald says these screenshots are from the game’s “win
  
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• No Hard Feelings director says he wrote the role for Jennifer Lawrence

  21-05-2023 14:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  No Hard Feelings director Gene Stupnitsky wrote the role of Maddie specifically for Jennifer Lawrence."I didn’t know she would do it, but I wrote it for her," Stupnitsky tells Total Film magazine for its new issue – which is out on newsstands on May 25. "We thought it was interesting to make the character angry. There’s a rage in her that I don’t think she’s fully aware of, and the mask drops when she’s with Percy."The comedy-drama follows a hard-up deliv
  
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