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• Final Fantasy comparison has gamers longing for the days of generational graphics leaps

  15-06-2023 23:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  The two images you see above are from Final Fantasy 7 and Final Fantasy 10, which were released four years apart from each other. A tweet with that comparison shot has gone viral as gamers remember just how much harder the generational upgrades hit back in the day.FF7 launched in 1997, a few years into the life of the PS1, and FF10 launched in 2001, shortly after the release of the PS2. For a modern comparison, you could probably look to God of War in 2018 versus God of War Ragnarok in 2022 - th
  
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• Bethesda's Todd Howard says Starfield is more like Red Dead Redemption 2 than No Man's Sky

  15-06-2023 23:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Starfield has more of a Red Dead Redemption 2 vibe than No Man's Sky or Mass Effect, according to Bethesda's Todd Howard.Talking to IGN, Howard was asked if games like Elder Scrolls, Fallout, No Man's Sky, and Mass Effect served as any sort of inspiration for Starfield, and Howard instead pointed to Rockstar's open-world Western opus."Well, clearly, those other games that are science fiction, I think you might look at and say, 'Okay, this is science fiction. It's like that.' I think the minute t
  
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• Final Fantasy 16 fans are going into spoiler lockdown after retail copies seemingly leak early

  15-06-2023 22:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fans are preparing for full-on spoiler lockdown as retail copies of Final Fantasy 16 appear to have leaked early.Right now, it's unclear what the scope of the leaks are. There's an image floating around of someone holding a sealed retail copy of Final Fantasy 16 in what appears to be a warehouse - the implication being, of course, that whoever's taking the picture is about to take that copy home and start playing the game a full week ahead of launch.
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• Gal Gadot’s Heart of Stone is on the cover of the new issue of Total Film

  15-06-2023 22:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  The covers of the next issue of Total Film magazine have been revealed, and Gal Gadot and Jamie Dornan are front and center with their new espionage actioner Heart of Stone. The issue goes on sale on Thursday, June 22, and subscribers will be receiving their copies shortly.In the cover feature, Total Film speaks to stars Gadot, Dornan and Alia Bhatt, as well as director Tom Harper and stunt coordinator Jo McLaren to find out how this team are putting together what’s become a rarity these d
  
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• Garth Ennis returns to Marvel for Marvel Zombies: Black, White, & Red

  15-06-2023 20:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  The world of Marvel Zombies is returning to comics in a new anthology series headlined by legendary Punisher writer Garth Ennis, his first Marvel Comics work since 2018's The Platoon limited series.The four-issue limited series, titled Marvel Zombies: Black, White, & Blood, follows in the publisher's series of anthologies with art that only consists of the colors black, white, and red - usually with stories that play up the "Blood" part of the title.In this case, the debut issue of Marvel Zo
  
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• The Last of Us is getting a Universal Studios haunted house with "Joel and Ellie, Clickers, and more"

  15-06-2023 20:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Last of Us is coming to life as a Universal Studios haunted house as part of the theme park's Halloween Horror Nights 2023 event.The Last of Us-themed haunted house will feature everything you love and hate about Naughty Dog's post-pandemic universe, including Joel, Ellie, Clickers, Runners, Stalkers, Hunters, Raiders, "and more.""As a massive fan – and frequent attendee – of Halloween Horror Nights, we are honored to have The Last of Us included in this year's lineup," said Naug
  
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• Mortal Kombat 2 casts its Shao Kahn, Quan Chi, and more

  15-06-2023 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  A fresh round of casting for Mortal Kombat 2 has revealed the actors who'll be bringing Shao Kahn, Quan Chi, Queen Sindel, and Jerrod to life.Deadline reports that Martyn Ford, a bodybuilder who's already made appearances in films including F9, will portray the iconic villain Shao Kahn. Damon Herriman, known for his role as Dewey Crowe in Justified and Charles Manson in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, will play the somewhat less iconic villain Quan Chi. Ana Thu Nguyen, who has only a handful of c
  
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• Former GTA and Red Dead lead announces studio dedicated to "weird sh*t from desperate people"

  15-06-2023 19:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dan Houser, Rockstar co-founder and lead writer for Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, has announced his new studio: Absurd Ventures.Absurd Ventures is not a game development studio - instead, it's been built to "create new IP across all platforms and for all formats," according to a press release. "Absurd Ventures is building narrative worlds, creating characters, and writing stories for a diverse variety of genres, without regard to medium, to be produced for live-action and animation;
  
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• Ke Huy Quan surprises Harrison Ford at Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny premiere

  15-06-2023 18:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ke Huy Quan surprised Harrison Ford at the premiere of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny – and it was absolutely adorable.In the video, Quan is seen excitedly jumping up and down before walking up to Ford and giving him a big embrace. "You're all grown up!" Ford tells him, before responding to a red carpet question about how proud he is of Quan's accomplishments.Quan played Indy's young sidekick Short Round in 1984's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. The two reunited for the first
  
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• Microsoft is finally done making Xbox One games

  15-06-2023 18:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  All upcoming Xbox Game Studios titles are now in development exclusively for the current-gen Xbox Series X, Microsoft has confirmed."We’ve moved on to gen 9," Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty tells Axios, referring to Xbox Series X and S. Booty confirms that outside of support for older ongoing titles like Minecraft, first-party development on Xbox One is done. Instead, Microsoft plans to "maintain support" for the older platform purely through cloud gaming options, which do allow you to
  
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• Zoe Saldana has the perfect response to Avatar delays

  15-06-2023 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Zoe Saldaña had the perfect reaction to finding out that Avatar 3, 4, and 5 are delayed."Great! I’m gonna be 53 when the last ‘Avatar’ comes out," Saldaña wrote via Instagram story along with a shocked face emoji. "I was 27 when I shot the very first Avatar."Avatar 3, initially slated for a December 20, 2024 release, has been moved to December 19, 2025. Avatar 4 has shifted from December 18, 2026 to December 21, 2029; and Avatar 5 is now arriving on December 19, 2
  
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• Long-running G.I. Joe comic A Real American Hero returns for a new run at Skybound

  15-06-2023 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Following yesterday's bombshell reveal that Robert Kirkman's Void Rivals #1 is the first part of Skybound's shared Energon Universe comes another surprise title announcement. Joining the already announced Transformers and G.I. Joe comics is a new run of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero from original series writer Larry Hama.The series, drawn by Chris Mooneyham, with covers by Andy Kubert, picks up with issue #301 and is described as a "jumping on point" for new readers. According to Skybound'
  
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• The former co-developer of one of the most popular mobile games ever is closing

  15-06-2023 17:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Kiloo Games, who jointly made one of the most popular mobile games ever in Subway Surfers, is set to close down and terminate all its staff before July.As first reported by Game Developer earlier today on June 15, the Danish-based developer will be closing its doors for good next month in July. Before then however, the developer will be terminating every single one of its 100-person staff by the end of this month in June."I’m grateful for all the great people I’ve met along the way,
  
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• The developer of one of the most popular mobile games ever is closing

  15-06-2023 17:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Kiloo Games, who made one of the most popular mobile games ever in Subway Surfers, is set to close down and terminate all its staff before July.As first reported by Game Developer earlier today on June 15, the Danish-based developer will be closing its doors for good next month in July. Before then however, the developer will be terminating every single one of its 100-person staff by the end of this month in June."I’m grateful for all the great people I’ve met along the way, either i
  
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• User somehow drops negative Starfield review on Metacritic 85 days before launch

  15-06-2023 17:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  We're still months away from the launch of Starfield, and nobody outside of developer Bethesda's chosen circle has had the opportunity to play it yet. Despite that, one enterprising Metacritic user has already found a way to drop a negative review for the game.The review, posted by a user called Joppsta360, begins in predictable fashion: "Bethesda - because making games that work out of the box is less important than figuring out all the ways to extract as much money from your bank account as po
  
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• Legend of Zelda movie isn't in the works, studio boss confirms

  15-06-2023 16:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  If the rumors of an upcoming Legend of Zelda movie from the studio that brought us The Super Mario Bros. Movie were getting you hyped, we're sorry to be the bearers of bad news. It turns out that the rumors were completely unfounded – according to Illumination Studios CEO Chris Meledandri, anyway. "I don’t know where that came from," Meledandri told The Wrap at Annecy International Animation Festival and Market. "I mean I can understand how people would surmise all sorts of thin
  
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• Chicken Run 2 gets eggs-cellent first look in new Netflix teaser

  15-06-2023 16:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first look at Chicken Run sequel Dawn of the Nugget has been unveiled by Netflix and Aardman – and it’s already filled with plenty of charm and yolks.The brief clip sees Rocky (Zachary Levi) chasing after a hatched egg. The identity of the hatchling is unclear, but it’s presumably his new daughter Molly, voiced by The Last of Us actor Bella Ramsey.
  BREAKING NEWS: It's the poultry movie event of the year...Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget hatches on Netflix 15 December! pic.t
  
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• Persona dev's next wild JRPG, Metaphor: ReFantazio, is coming to PS5 too

  15-06-2023 16:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Metaphor: ReFantazio will be coming to PlayStation consoles, so Atlus fans can breathe a sigh of relief.When Atlus first unveiled their new game from the veterans of Persona 5 last week, fans were a little perplexed, given Metaphor: ReFantazio was only attached to PC and Xbox consoles for release. Now though, as spotted by Gematsu, Sega's Korean division has uploaded a new trailer for Metaphor: ReFantazio that clearly outlines PS5 and PS4 versions of the new JRPG.
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• Final Fantasy 16's pause menu didn't need to go this hard

  15-06-2023 16:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 16's menus are weirdly action-packed.The Final Fantasy 16 demo went live earlier this week, just in case you'd somehow missed the announcement from Square Enix. Possibly at the peak of fan-led discoveries in the demo is that the pause menu will centre the camera around protagonist Clive, and then revolve around him as you tab through the menu options.
  Sooooo the coolest thing about Final Fantasy XVI so far is that the camera revolves around your character in menus with whatever you
  
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• Green Lantern: War Journal #1 puts John Stewart back on the front line

  15-06-2023 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sometime soldier and Green Lantern John Stewart is about to be called up for another tour of duty... The latest book to be announced in the ongoing Dawn of DC programme is Green Lantern: War Journal by writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson and artist Montos. Johnson who, when not writing comics, is also a Master Sergeant in the US Army, promises the new series will be, "The most epic '80s sci-fi action movie you haven't seen."DC's synopsis for the issue reads:"John Stewart's time as a Green Lanter
  
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• I simply do not know how to feel about this yassified Witcher 3 statue

  15-06-2023 15:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  You get to see a lot of weird and wonderful gaming merch in this job, but occasionally something comes along that's truly baffling, and that's certainly true of this Witcher 3 statue.Revealed earlier today, the statue comes from the renowned Japanese sculpture label Kotobukiya, and is available for preorder at a cool $170 ahead of shipping early next year. On the one hand, it's very impressive - from the detail on Geralt's iconic Witcher 3 chainmail pauldrons, to the runes on the crossguard of h
  
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• When is The Flash available to stream? Here's our prediction

  15-06-2023 15:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Flash is now in cinemas, but when is it coming to streaming? It’s a fair question, especially given how all but a few releases – we’re looking at you, Chris Nolan and Tom Cruise – seem to head to streaming services quicker than Barry Allen testing out some new sneakers.While we don’t have an official answer (yet), there’s certainly a way to predict and figure out when The Flash is streaming on Max.
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• This open-world roguelike looks like just what I need after Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

  15-06-2023 15:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hyper Light Breaker is easily one of my most-anticipated open-world games of the year, and its new trailer suggests that it might be the perfect palette cleanser for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.If you're nearing the end of your latest trip to Hyrule but you're still looking for a massive open world to explore, Hyper Light Breaker's most recent trailer certainly delivers on that latter point. A flythrough of its world shows off a wide array of biomes and hints at an internal mythology that I'm ve
  
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• Steven Spielberg surprises Indiana Jones audience with live John Williams performance

  15-06-2023 14:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Steven Spielberg had a surprise up his sleeve for audience members at the Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny premiere, which took place at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles last night (June 14). While on stage and addressing attendees, Spielberg gave thanks to the people "without whom, none of us would be here tonight," singling out Indy creator George Lucas and franchise star Harrison Ford. He then went on to introduce "the person who is the glue to all five of these films, who gave us a
  
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• Making room for Final Fantasy 16? Get a 2TB PS5 SSD for under $100 in this deal

  15-06-2023 13:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Prime Day has not even arrived and we're already coming across some record-low prices. The one that has impressed us the most today is this 2TB PS5 SSD which has dropped to below $100 for the first time at Amazon. That's huge value for money, supersizing anyone's console storage.At a very welcome price of $98.97 (was $119.99), the Silicon Power X270 2TB SSD is perfect for anyone thinking about making room in time for Final Fantasy 16. Expected to be over 100GB in storage, that's a big chunk of m
  
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• PS5 game streaming is in the works, exclusively for PS Plus subscribers

  15-06-2023 13:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  PS5 cloud-based game streaming is undergoing testing at Sony, and will eventually be available for PS Plus subscribers.Sony's head of subscriptions Nick Maguire was recently interviewed by GamesIndustry.biz, where he revealed the feature is in development. PS5 games being played over the cloud could very soon to be a possibility, but don't assume every PS5 game will automatically be available to play on the go.Right now at least, Sony says both PlayStation Plus Game Catalog titles and games that
  
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• Hideo Kojima met up with Nic Cage, and now I desperately want him in Death Stranding 2

  15-06-2023 13:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hideo Kojima's latest celebrity pal is Nic Cage, and I can think of no-one I'd prefer to see make a Death Stranding 2 appearance.Kojima tweeted a couple of photos taken with Cage earlier today. Taken at Kojima's studio alongside its menacing mascot, two things strike me in particular about this picture. The first is Cage's undeniable drip - the kind of look that no-one but him could pull off, but that you never doubt coming from him.The second is Kojima's lapel pin, which seems to be Cage's bloo
  
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• It looks like the next season of Rick and Morty is just months away

  15-06-2023 13:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cartoon Network president Michael Ouweleen has seemingly narrowed down the release window for Rick and Morty season 7 in a new interview.During a talk with French publication Premiere (H/T ComicBook.com), Oueweleen was asked whether the new Rick and Morty season would arrive in September. It’s not a month plucked out of thin air, either: season 6 aired in September, with the show dropping at least one episode in that month for four of its six seasons.His answer? "We haven't announced it, b
  
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• Star Ocean 2 might be the next classic JRPG to get a remake

  15-06-2023 12:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Star Ocean 2 remake could well have just been leaked by Square Enix.As RPG Site first reported earlier today on June 15, a logo for something called 'Star Ocean: The Second Story R' was found on a Square Enix support website. Star Ocean: The Second Story is the name of the second Star Ocean game, if you're unfamiliar with Square Enix's long-running RPG series.The second game in the Star Ocean series was originally released all the way back in 1998 for the PlayStation 1. Square Enix already rem
  
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• The Chinese Room returns with a chilling tale of survival at sea: Edge 386 features a world exclusive first look at Still Wakes The Deep

  15-06-2023 12:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  During an extended demonstration of The Chinese Room’s terrifying new firstperson chiller, there’s a moment when we belatedly realise we’ve been so fixated on the screen that we’ve failed to take a single note for several minutes. The latest game from the Brighton-based developer of Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture and Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs combines the period authenticity of the former with the lurching horror of the latter, and the results are – clearly
  
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• Yakuza studio has finally settled on Yakuza 8's actual name

  15-06-2023 12:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Yakuza 8's full Western title will be 'Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth.'Last week, when Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio rolled out a new trailer for the next Yakuza game, there was some confusion as to what the game's actual title would be. It didn't really help matters that the name for the new game was written in purely Japanese for the Summer Game Fest 2023 audience, but now RGG Studio has stepped in to clear up the confusion.Simply put, Yakuza 8's title will be Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth in the West
  
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• New Knuckles TV show adds to fever dream of a cast – including Christopher Lloyd

  15-06-2023 12:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Knuckles TV show already feels like a fever dream and the newly-announced cast additions only add to the bizarrely brilliant feel of the Sonic spin-off.As per Deadline, Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future), Cary Elwes (Stranger Things, The Princess Bride), Stockard Channing (Grease), Paul Scheer (The League), and Rob Huebel (Transparent) will all be joining the Knuckles series on Paramount Plus.It’s not yet clear whether they will be playing live-action characters or voicing one of m
  
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• Guillermo del Toro only wants to make animated movies in the future

  15-06-2023 12:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Guillermo del Toro may be best known for movies like The Shape of Water and Pan's Labyrinth, but the filmmaker is keen to take his work in a different direction, revealing that he only wants to make animated films in the future. "There are a couple more live-action movies I want to do, but not many," del Toro told attendees during an event at Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Market (via The Hollywood Reporter). "After that, I only want to do animation. That’s the plan.
  
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• Diablo 4 player somehow loses 172-hour Hardcore character despite multiple invincibility protections

  15-06-2023 11:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  I'm still reeling after seeing how this Diablo 4 fan lost a level 91 hardcore character they spent 172 hours on.After wrapping up a nightmare dungeon, streamer Quin69 probably thought they were safe, sitting in an invulnerability sphere under the protection of an Elixir of Death Evasion while teleporting back to town. They were wrong, and now their character has joined the Hall of Fallen Heroes. So what happened exactly? No one knows, as the reason given is simply "environment", though we'r
  
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• GTA 6 fans think this weird GTA Online shirt is teasing a reveal

  15-06-2023 11:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  GTA 6 fans think a mystery GTA Online t-shirt might be teasing the reveal date for Rockstar's next game.As part of the recent GTA Online update, Rockstar dropped a new cosmetic item - a gray tee-shirt covered in strange symbols and a string of numbers. Placed into a simple code-reader, those numbers translate to the phrase "one day will reveal all." That shirt is reportedly no longer available to buy, having been pulled from sale shortly after it was released.With the tenth anniversary of GTA On
  
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• Marvel's Spider-Man 2 gets 'T' rating for words like "ass"

  15-06-2023 11:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has been rated for launch, and it features horrifying language like "ass" and "prick."Earlier today on June 15, Gematsu noted on Twitter that the ESRB had rated Marvel's Spider-Man 2 for launch in North America, bestowing upon it a 'T' for Teen rating. The rating is chiefly down to "Blood, Drug Reference, Mild Language," and violence according to the ESRB's website.
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• Resident Evil Village meets Inscryption in this gorgeous survival horror roguelite

  15-06-2023 02:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Somewhere in the storm of video game news in Summer Game Fest 2023's orbit, a highly intriguing survival horror roguelite was announced.Horror Stories: Harvest Hunt is a new game from indie studio Villainous Games, whose elevator pitch for the title is "Resident Evil Village meets Inscryption. And honestly, watching the announcement trailer, that description seems entirely appropriate.The first thing that struck me about Harvest Hunt is its art style, which definitely borrows liberally from Ins
  
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• Are Loki and Wanda Maximoff about to be a thing?

  15-06-2023 01:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel Comics has unveiled the cover for September's Scarlet Witch #8 - and if you're a Loki fan, this one's for you. The Asgardian god of mischief and stories will join the cast of Scarlet Witch #8 from writer Steve Orlando and artists Lorenzo Tammetta and Sara Pichelli, and though the publisher hasn't released the solicitation text or many details, it's looking a lot like romance is in the air between Loki and Wanda Maximoff.The cover by Russell Dauterman, seen here, shows Wanda and Loki
  
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• Quick, use this Tears of the Kingdom glitch to fly on a rocket-powered shield before it's patched out

  15-06-2023 01:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom glitch has been discovered and it's being used to fly around on a rocket-powered shield.As demonstrated in this bewildering video from SmallAnt, if you use the popular fuse entanglement exploit and then attach a rocket to a weapon, you can apparently fly around using your shield until you run out of battery. And so long as you consistently interrupt your glitchy flying with some paragliding to recharge your battery, in theory you can fly around forever
  
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• Remnant II Preview – Growing In The Right Direction

  15-06-2023 00:57
  
  Platform:PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PC Publisher:Gearbox Publishing Developer:Gunfire Games Release: July 25, 2023Remnant: From The Ashes entered the looter-shooter space in 2019, defining its core loop with procedurally-segmented levels and Dark Souls-inspired mechanics like a stamina-based dodge roll and limited-use health consumables. Remnant’s fresh take on the shooter genre attracted praise, including Game Informer’s review which states, “Strong systems and a satisfy
  
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• Star Wars Outlaws Preview – The Scoundrel Experience

  15-06-2023 00:16
  
  Platform:PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PC Publisher:Ubisoft Developer:Ubisoft Massive Release: 2024 Ubisoft Massive unveiled its long-awaited open-world Star Wars game during the Xbox Games Showcase and further outlined the experience the following day during Ubisoft’s Forward presentation. Set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Star Wars Outlaws follows protagonist Kay Vess, voiced by actress Humberly González, and her companions, Nix, a cute creature belong
  
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