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• Blaseball is dead: "The cost, literally and metaphorically, is too high"

  02-06-2023 23:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baseball, the unhinged sports simulation, is shutting down as developer The Game Band says it can no longer afford to keep the game running."The short of it is that Blaseball isn’t sustainable to run," the developers say in a blog post. "Since Blaseball’s inception, we’ve been fighting against the amount of work it takes to keep Blaseball true to itself while financially supporting the team and keeping our staff healthy. We’ve tried countless solutions to make it work, an
  
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• I am still thinking about the weirdest JRPG of 2022, and it just hit its lowest price ever

  02-06-2023 23:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Astlibra Revision, the secret, dark horse, must-play JRPG of 2022, has gotten a rare and record-setting discount on Steam, making this the best time to try one of the most memorable games I've played in years.A 20% discount is small potatoes by Steam sale standards, but $19.99 is a great, all-time-low price for Astlibra Revision. Hell, the full price is a bargain. Plus it's still got a free demo so you can try before buying, too. I put 58 hours into this game, stopping just short of getting
  
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• Oscar Isaac wants Pedro Pascal to join the Spider-Verse

  02-06-2023 22:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Oscar Isaac wants Pedro Pascal to join the Spider-Verse."They're so brilliant at finding the right person for the right character, but maybe Pedro Pascal," Isaac told GQ, in response to who should join the cast of the third Spider-Verse film. "Let's find something for him. He should be a Spider-Person, like a cranky, old Spider-Person."Isaac plays Spider-Man 2099 aka Miguel O'Hara in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, in the
  
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• Xbox exec insists food court sign isn't a Fable 4 tease as fans turn rabid

  02-06-2023 22:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  An Xbox exec says he wasn't teasing Fable 4 when he shared a picture of his food court lunch break with a partially obscured sign reading, "able."I get it, when you're stranded in the desert in the Summer heat your brain will make just about anything look like a water bottle, but that's an excuse I'll grant to people in desperate survival situations, not fans of a video game who've simply turned rabid for a sequel. Xbox Games marketing VP Aaron Greenburg took to his Instagram recently to sh
  
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• Unobtainable Xbox achievement gets deleted in a seemingly unprecedented move

  02-06-2023 21:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  In a seemingly unprecedented move, an Xbox achievement has been completely deleted from a recently-released game.The game in question is Homestead Arcana, a cozy farming title with a magical theme that launched onto Xbox and PC as a day one Game Pass release in April. One of the achievements, called You Can't Be Too Prepared, required you to craft at least one of every item in the game. Unfortunately, players soon found that one of the required items was impossible to craft due to a glitch, leav
  
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• One of the best-looking new open-world games borrows from one of my 2021 favorites – just what I wanted to hear

  02-06-2023 21:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  I've taken basically every opportunity to beat the Hyper Light Breaker drum on account of it being a promising open-world roguelike coming from an indie studio with an enviable track record, and Edge 384 (on sale now) has given me an easy in by confirming that, as I suspected, the game does indeed borrow from one of my favorite games of 2021: Solar Ash.Director Alx Preston of studio Heart Machine, which developed Solar Ash and is now working on Hyper Light Breaker, told Edge about "the challenge
  
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• Barbie caused a worldwide shortage of pink

  02-06-2023 21:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Greta Gerwig's Barbie caused a worldwide shortage of pink paint."Maintaining the ‘kid-ness’ was paramount. I wanted the pinks to be very bright, and everything to be almost too much," Gerwig told Architectural Digest. According to production designer Sarah Greenwood, this caused a shortage of the pink shade of Rosco paint: "The world ran out of pink.”Greenwood, along with set decorator Katie Spencer, took inspiration from Palm Springs midcentury modernism in order to create Bar
  
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• If you aren't using Tears of the Kingdom's icy meat shield surfing technique, you aren't living

  02-06-2023 21:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  We've known shield-surfing is without a doubt the coolest traversal method in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom since Breath of the Wild, but there's a new way to make it even cooler with the sequel's Fuse ability.My only complaint about shield-surfing in Tears of the Kingdom is the gravelly noise it makes - like nails on a chalkboard at times. Thankfully, it's now been discovered that if you attach icy meat to your shield, as a normal adventurer does, you'll remove that hard surface fri
  
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• An industry rarity: famously wholesome dwarves and devs overcome cosmetic backlash to somehow become more wholesome

  02-06-2023 21:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  You won't believe this: an online co-op game recently caught some backlash over cosmetic DLC. Unheard of nowadays, I know. Thank god we don't have to deal with the likes of horse armor anymore. Even more unbelievably, the issue was resolved in two weeks and ended with extra cosmetics for players, who praised the devs for a quick turnaround.As our friends at PC Gamer noted, this started a few weeks ago when Deep Rock Galactic, a co-op game about mining space rocks with your dwarven friends, annou
  
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• J. Michael Straczynski returns to Marvel Comics for Captain America

  02-06-2023 19:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Writer J. Michael Straczynski is returning to Marvel Comics to take on Captain America in an upcoming relaunched ongoing series alongside artist Jesús Saiz, starting this fall.Straczynski is well known to Marvel fans for his Spider-Man run which culminated in the controversial story Spider-Man: One More Day that ended Peter Parker's marriage to Mary Jane Watson, as well as his run on Thor which restored the mythos of Asgard to Marvel Comics.Now, Straczynski is poised to turn his formative
  
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• Louder than ever, Diablo 4 players are begging for a gem pouch

  02-06-2023 19:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  As Diablo 4 enters its first weekend in Early Access, players' desperate cries for a separate inventory pouch for gems is intensifying.Adding Diablo 4 gems to your gear is a great way to make your build more powerful without having to swap out your favorite weapons and armor - so long as they're socketed. Gems will drop from pretty much everywhere in Diablo 4, which is 99% a good thing, but the 1% that's bad, at least in the community's eyes, is that they can take up a lot of inventory space. Ri
  
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• Wolfenstein and Indiana Jones fans perk up their ears after new job listings at MachineGames

  02-06-2023 18:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Wolfenstein and now Indiana Jones developer MachineGames is hiring for its next AAA project, and its latest job listings may give us some inkling of the direction it's taking.Hawk-eyed MachineGames fans recently flagged a relatively new listing for a senior animator, which first popped up in April according to metadata. Because the listing calls for a "passion for video games and especially for first-person immersive games," with bonus points for "strong familiarity with MachineGames' titles," s
  
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• Like sex mods, Minecraft GTA is now in trouble as devs crack down on "guns and firearms"

  02-06-2023 18:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Members of the Minecraft community are reporting that developer Mojang has begun to crack down on servers and mods featuring realistic guns and other adult content.On May 28, the modders behind Grand Theft Minecart, a Minecraft server taking heavy inspiration from the open-world criminal shenanigans of GTA, posted a blog titled 'Mojang Strikes Again.' The devs say they received a letter from Mojang's enforcement team with a warning that any references to guns and firearms are not compliant with
  
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• Step inside the mind of a murderer in The Riddler: Year One #5

  02-06-2023 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Riddler: Year One has given actor Paul Dano the chance to get deeper into the twisted mindset of the villain he brilliantly played in last year's The Batman movie. Written by Dano and drawn by artist Stevan Subic, the six-issue miniseries is an impressionistic nightmare that follows Edward Nashton as he grows ever more obsessed with the Batman.The story reaches its penultimate chapter on June 27 and Dano and Subic are really dialling up the weirdness. The new issue makes use of an unusual fo
  
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• Two Diablo 4 classes are dominating the level 100 race as it hits the halfway mark

  02-06-2023 17:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Diablo 4 race to level 100 has reached its numerical halfway point, and two classes have emerged as serious frontrunners.After Diablo 4's early access launch last night, players are racing to hit its level 100 level cap, with the first 1,000 to hit the Diablo 4 max level mark set to be immortalised on a huge statue of Lilith. As the first players begin to pass the level 50 mark, however, it's become clear that choice of class might be a major factor in players' eventual success.For softcore
  
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• Yes, Across the Spider-Verse’s villain *is* in the first movie

  02-06-2023 17:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse villain The Spot arrives in the animated sequel like a force of nature. But, as the movie heavily alludes to, we’ve actually seen him before in 2018’s Into the Spider-Verse. Here’s why you might remember that bagel incident – and where to find him.Spoilers for Across the Spider-Verse follow.The first act of the 2023 Spider-Verse follow-up eventually sees Miles corner The Spot in New York. Far from being a villain of the week, The Spot r
  
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• Nintendo officially announces leaked 1-2-Switch sequel that reportedly "tested horribly"

  02-06-2023 17:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo has announced that it will soon be releasing a follow-up game to 1-2-Switch, a title that last year reportedly "tested horribly" during development.Earlier today on June 2, Nintendo announced that Everybody 1-2-Switch was coming to Switch on June 30, 2023. Almost a year ago exactly, we wrote a story about how a rumored 1-2-Switch sequel had "tested horribly" at Nintendo, with its developers unsure how exactly to make a sequel to its Nintendo Switch launch title. Now that the title has b
  
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• The Great Fairies' suggestive sounds got one Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player in trouble over "adult content"

  02-06-2023 17:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is as family-friendly as they come, but as one unfortunate player discovered, to your neighbours, it can sound like something else entirely - something most definitely NSFW.The Zelda fan recounted their cringeworthy yet hilarious tale in a video clip shared on Twitter by @ImoMellor. As the player, Jiayang, explains, they recently received an email from their landlord reminding them of "the importance of maintaining a considerate environment for all resid
  
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• Months later, Hogwarts Legacy fans debate whether its multiple endings were actually cut or just not very good

  02-06-2023 16:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hogwarts Legacy almost gave players the choice between three different endings, though some fans out there think they're still buried in the game.As highlighted in the Hogwarts Legacy subreddit, the game's official art book reveals that the magical RPG targeted three endings. This book was first shared months ago, and it's not the first time we've heard of content being cut before the game's release. Prior to this, it was revealed that a reputation and morality system was removed from Hogwarts L
  
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• Resident Evil fans have spoken, and they want a Code Veronica remake next

  02-06-2023 15:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Resident Evil developer Capcom has asked fans to suggest a game to remake next, and Code Veronica fans are making their voices heard. Like it frequently does, Capcom is sending out another survey for fans to give feedback on the Resident Evil series. The survey is made up of generic brand questions such as if you're familiar with the various Resident Evil Twitter accounts and websites, or what kind of content you've enjoyed from the series so far. One of the last questions in the surve
  
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• Accessibility leaders are using Star Wars Jedi: Survivor to highlight the importance of easy modes

  02-06-2023 15:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Accessibility leaders are using Star Wars Jedi: Survivor to highlight the importance of easy modes for huge numbers of players.Yesterday, EA released stats about Star Wars Jedi Survivor that confirmed, among other things, that nearly 500 players had died to the game's weakest 'boss'. Those stats also revealed things like the community's favourite lightsaber color, the most popular cosmetic choices for Cal, and how many people played on each of the game's five difficulty options.The vast majority
  
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• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth release date hasn't been decided yet

  02-06-2023 15:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy fans might have been disappointed not to have seen the second part of the Final Fantasy 7 remake appear at last week's PlayStation Showcase, but they might not have too long to wait for more news on the game.In a new tweet from the game's official account, producer Yoshinori Kitase was asked "how is development progressing on Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth?" In response, Kitase said that "development is progressing smoothly and according to plan."Additionally, however, Kitase told fans th
  
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• Spider-Man 2's Venom suit comes with "borderline brutal" finishers that devs are worried might be too strong

  02-06-2023 15:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Peter Parker's Venom suit in Spider-Man 2 comes with "borderline brutal" finishers that developer Insomniac Games worried might be too strong.Sony's recent PlayStation Showcase ended with a lengthy gameplay video for Marvel's Spider-Man 2, which saw Peter Parker don the Symbiote suit. Far from being just a cool new look for our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man it comes with powerful new abilities for thwarting the plans of newly unveiled baddie Kraven the Hunter.In a recent interview with IGN,
  
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• Marvel's Spider-Man 2 devs were worried that the Venom suit might be OP

  02-06-2023 15:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  The new Venom suit in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 sure packs a punch, so much so that developer Insomniac Games was worried it might be too powerful.Sony's recent PlayStation Showcase ended with a lengthy gameplay video for Spider-Man 2, which saw Peter Parker don the Symbiote suit. Far from being just a cool new look for our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man it comes with powerful new abilities for thwarting the plans of newly unveiled baddie Kraven the Hunter.In a recent interview with IGN, Insomnia
  
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• Game of Thrones fans are remembering *this* dramatic Night King moment 8 years on

  02-06-2023 13:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been eight years since the White Walker army took on Jon Snow and the Wildlings at Hardhome  – and yet Game of Thrones fans still can't get over the dramatic battle. In the season 5 episode, which aired on HBO on May 31, 2015, things don't end well for the five thousand free folk, who are slaughtered by the wights. After killing a White Walker with Longclaw, his Valyrian steel sword, Jon and Tormund manage to escape, but not before they see the Night King reanimate the falle
  
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• Brendan Hunt clarifies if the Ted Lasso finale ending was all a dream or not

  02-06-2023 13:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Ted Lasso finale wrapped a bow on the beloved soccer comedy, which ran on Apple TV Plus for three seasons – and has apparently come to an end for good, though the door is wide open for future spin-offs. One thing that's got everyone talking, though, is whether that emotional montage towards the end of the episode was all a dream in Ted's head, or if it really happened. After all, we see the futures of the Richmond characters after Ted's departure – including Roy Kent becomin
  
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• What are Canon Events? Explaining Across the Spider-Verse’s meta story reveal

  02-06-2023 13:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse introduced a legion of Spider-People and various worlds, but it’s one story beat that carries the most importance – and could have major ramifications in the sequel.
  What are Canon Events?
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  As Spider-Man 2099 explains to Miles, a 'Canon Event' is a moment or action that must happen to certain Spider-Men – otherwise their universe risks being destroyed.In the case of some, like Miles and Spider-Gwen, that moment involves th
  
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• Yellowjackets showrunner reveals bonus episode is coming

  02-06-2023 13:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Yellowjackets season 2 wrapped up last week – except, well, it looks like it didn't. A "bonus episode" is on the way, according to showrunner Ashley Lyle. Rumors of an extra installment have been floating around the internet for a while, as season 2 was one episode shorter than season 1, but nothing has been confirmed until now."There will be a bonus episode between seasons, but I love you guys and I don’t want y’all to lose sleep thinking it’s tonight," Lyle tweeted in r
  
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• Nintendo is releasing pastel Joy-Cons and I can't decide which pair I want more

  02-06-2023 13:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo has announced two new sets of Joy-Cons, both of which sport a gorgeous pastel colour pallet, and it might be my new favourite set. On June 2, Nintendo revealed two new sets of Joy-Cons - a pastel purple and green pair and a pastel pink and yellow pair. These new controllers aren't much different from the other colour combinations that Nintendo has released, but there's something about the specific shades of these colours that have me questioning whether I need another four Joy-Cons
  
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• Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan's first R rated film since 2002

  02-06-2023 13:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer has earned a surprise R rating, which means the film will be the director's first R rated effort since 2002's Insomnia.A new TV spot for the movie confirms the news, revealing that the R rating is down to "some sexuality, nudity, and language." That's a slight surprise, given that, since the film is about the creation of the atomic bomb, violence surely seemed the likelier candidate for an R rating. 
  A new TV Spot for ‘OPPENHEIMER’ has been releas
  
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• The first Diablo 4 patch nerfs Rogue, Sorcerer, and Barbarian, and makes endgame tougher

  02-06-2023 12:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 4 has only just released, but Blizzard is keeping a close eye on the game with an early Diablo 4 patch 1.02 hotfix.Announced earlier today, Blizzard confirmed that the small Diablo 4 update was a server-side hotfix that won't require an update. It will, however, likely be a little more noticeable for fans of the Sorcerer and Rogue classes, who both receive minor nerfs in the patch.Diablo patch 1.02 puts the Sorcerer's Flame Shield enchantment on full cooldown when it's initially equipped.
  
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• Diablo 4 launch proclaimed the "smoothest launch ever for Blizzard on PC"

  02-06-2023 12:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fans are so impressed with how Diablo 4's servers are holding up that they've declared it the "smoothest launch ever for Blizzard on PC". It's been a long and excruciating wait, but finally, Diablo 4 is here. The highly-anticipated fourth instalment in the iconic action-RPG series is now available in Early Access for those who've opted for the Deluxe or Ultimate Edition. And those with an express ticket to Sanctuary have been blown away by the lack of lengthy online queues, lag, and other i
  
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• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’s most surprising cameo may have foreshadowed its big twist

  02-06-2023 12:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has a lot of cameos. Don’t believe me? Check out the long, long list of Across the Spider-Verse cameos and Across the Spider-Verse Spidey variants. Wait, there’s more!One cameo – at least in our experience – left the entire theater with their jaws on the floor. Not only that but, if you dig a little deeper, it could have telegraphed the multiverse movie’s big twist well in advance.Major spoilers for the Spider-Man: Across the Spid
  
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• The Notebook director told Ryan Gosling he's not a natural leading man

  02-06-2023 12:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  While Ryan Gosling may be one of Hollywood’s most popular leading men, the actor got his career started by bucking that label. According to the Barbie star, he was told early on by a few directors that he didn’t have leading man qualities – but they meant it as a good thing, apparently.In a profile with GQ Magazine, the actor shared that he was cast in one of his first major roles in 2001’s The Believer because he was nothing like the character. Gosling played a Jewish ki
  
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• Street Fighter 6 beats its biggest fighting game rivals on Steam in just five hours

  02-06-2023 12:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Street Fighter 6 has managed to achieve over 64,000 concurrent players on Steam, making it the second most-played fighting game on the platform - despite only releasing today.As reported by Benji Sales on Twitter, Street Fighter 6 has already managed to gather an all-time concurrent player count of 65,873. That's almost twice as much as Mortal Kombat 11's all-time peak player count, as well as over three times more than Tekken 7. To put that into perspective, 2016's Street Fighter 5 has only man
  
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• Melissa Barrera teases Scream directors' bloody, claustrophobic Universal monster movie

  02-06-2023 10:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Melissa Barrera may be reuniting with her Scream directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett for Universal's new Classic Monsters movie, but she promises the horror film will be a very different beast to their previous collaborations.While promoting her new musical Carmen, which releases in the UK today, GamesRadar+ asked her about the upcoming flick, to which she revealed she's currently shooting it in Dublin, Ireland. "We're going to be here for the next two months and it's so cool,
  
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• Ubisoft confirms Assassin's Creed Mirage and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora for June showcase

  02-06-2023 01:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  June's Ubisoft Forward Live 2023 will feature Assassin's Creed Mirage and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, the studio has confirmed.The big Summer Ubisoft showcase is taking place on June 12 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST, with a pre-show kicking things off 15 minutes before then. In the trailer announcing the event, Ubisoft shows off some brief footage from Assassin's Creed Mirage and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and confirms that both games will be getting "live reveals" during the show. It's uncl
  
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• Diablo 4 is finally out in Early Access and Blizzard is investigating login issues and error codes

  02-06-2023 01:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  After many long years, several successful betas, and so, so many launch trailers, Diablo 4 is out in the wild - at least in Early Access - and as you might've expected, players are reporting queues and error codes preventing access to Sanctuary. Fortunately, Blizzard has already acknowledged the issues.We know this song and dance well by now here at GamesRadar+, having reported on the countless live-service launches whose servers struggle and often buckle under the crushing demands of hundreds o
  
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• When will be Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse be on streaming?

  02-06-2023 01:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is now out on the big screen, which is the best place to see Miles Morales's latest animated multiversal adventure. Still, there's always the question of when these blockbusters will be available to re-watch from the comfort of our own homes, and that's where we come in. The streaming releases of Spider-Man movies are a little more complicated than other Marvel offerings due to the fact that the web-slinger is a joint property of both Sony and Marvel. But
  
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