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• Please, nobody let Hideo Kojima go to space

  19-06-2023 20:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hideo Kojima says he wants to go to space, and I'm here to say that no-one should allow that to happen.Speaking at the New York premiere of the documentary about his life and work, Connected Worlds, Kojima was asked what he wants to achieve in the future. In response, he said that "I want to go to outer space. I want to go to outer space and create a game you can play in space. So please someone send me up to space."
  At the NYC premiere for the Hideo Kojima documentary Connecting Worlds, Kojima
  
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• Cyberpunk 2077 dev likens romance in Phantom Liberty to The Witcher 3's DLC

  19-06-2023 18:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Anyone looking to rekindle romance in Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty can expect continuation from the base game in a similar vein to The Witcher 3's Hearts of Stone DLC, says CD Projekt Red.“There will be some content, but for the most part, it is a spy thriller,” Phantom Liberty quest designer Despoina Anetaki said in an interview (via Kotaku), shedding some light on just how much of a focus will be placed on romance and relationships in the long-awaited Cyberpunk DLC: not a lot, un
  
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• Oppenheimer has got the ideal first review – from the co-author of the Oppenheimer book

  19-06-2023 18:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  We’ll have to wait a while to see what the critics make of Oppenheimer, but it’s got its first review regardless – from the co-author of the book that inspired director Christopher Nolan’s biopic.Kai Bird, who co-wrote 2005 biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer with Martin J. Sherwin, gave an effusive response during a talk at the Institute for Advanced Study (H/T Variety)."I am, at the moment, stunned and emotionally recovering f
  
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• Netflix unveils tense Squid Game season 2 teaser

  19-06-2023 18:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Netflix has unveiled the first, pulse-pounding teaser for Squid Game season 2 – and it's got us seriously hyped. In the video, which you can watch above, the creepy red light, green light song plays as we're shown old clips of returning characters Seong Gi-Hun (Lee Jung-Jae), the Front Man (Lee Byung-Hun), Hwang Jun-Ho (Wi Ha-Jun), with Gong Yoo back as the games' recruiter. Next up are some newcomers to the cast: Yim Si-Wan, Kang Ha-Neul, Park Sung-Hoon, and Yang Dong-Geun are a
  
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• Samuel L. Jackson ranks Secret Invasion as his "number one" MCU project

  19-06-2023 18:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you weren't already excited for Secret Invasion then you may have to re-examine those expectations as Samuel L. Jackson has just promised that it will be something special. The Nick Fury star, who is finally headlining his own MCU project 15 years after making his debut during the Iron Man post-credits scene, has teased that the upcoming television show "ranks as number one" when it comes to Marvel productions he has appeared in. That's of course quite the statement given that Jackson ha
  
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• Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom players aren't fans of these specific NPCs and their time-wasting ways

  19-06-2023 18:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  In Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Link can run into many weird and wonderful NPCs as he roams around Hyrule. Many of these he'll bump into more than once, and while they can be fun to converse with the first few times, watching the same cutscenes and hearing the same dialogue over and over can start to grate after a while.Over on the Tears of the Kingdom subreddit, players have been discussing the NPCs that have them continually reaching for the skip button. 
  The four horseman of "h
  
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• This Skyrim-like Metroidvania just got a demo and release date

  19-06-2023 17:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  A fantasy game that looks and sounds like a Metroidvania reimagining of Skyrim just received not only a release date, but a brand new demo as part of Steam Next Fest.Indie developer Fairyship Games announced (via YouTube) that Testament: The Order of High-Human is slated to launch in full on July 13, 2023. The reveal trailer premiered alongside news of the demo being launched on Steam, in which we can explore "more than an hour of the game as it currently stands" according to a press release.Che
  
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• Final Fantasy 16 pre-load will go live tomorrow

  19-06-2023 17:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 16's pre-load period has been revealed, and it's coming roughly two days before launch.Earlier today on June 19, Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy 16's pre-load period would begin tomorrow on June 20 for everyone on PS5. To be precise, that's at midnight later today, but it's currently not clear if that's midnight for every region around the world, or just in Japan.
  6/20(火) 0:00より、ダウンロード版 #FF16 
  
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• Jon Hamm almost had Ben Affleck's role in Gone Girl

  19-06-2023 17:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Gone Girl could have been a very different movie. Mad Men star Jon Hamm has revealed that he almost played the male lead, a role which eventually went to Ben Affleck. "I was down to the very end of that," the actor revealed on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (H/T Deadline). "That was meant to be me, but we had to film the continuing adventures of Mr. Draper."Hamm played Don Draper in Mad Men from 2007 to 2015, while Gone Girl was released in 2014. The film, helmed by David Fincher a
  
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• Fear the Walking Dead teases crossover with Rick and Michonne spin-off in midseason finale

  19-06-2023 17:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  This article contains mild spoilers for Fear the Walking Dead season 8, episode 6.Fear the Walking Dead has always been intrinsically linked to The Walking Dead, with characters such as Austin Amelio's Dwight and Lennie James' Morgan having major roles in both shows. Now, it looks as if the spin-off is gearing up for another big crossover – this time, with the franchise's upcoming Rick and Michonne series.Season 8's midseason finale, which aired on AMC in the US on June 18, saw James' last
  
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• Beyond The Spider-Verse will feature more of Spider-Punk's world

  19-06-2023 17:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Right on, lads. Beyond the Spider-Verse is all set to visit the world of Hobie Brown (Daniel Kaluuya) in the upcoming Spider-Verse threequel. Writer-producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller revealed the news during a chat on Deadline’s Crew Call podcast."Visiting Spider-Punk's world is one of many crazy mixed media adventures that we're going to have in [Beyond the Spider-Verse]. It'll be a whole new feast for the eyes," the filmmaking duo teased.We had previously only seen glimpses of S
  
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• Final Fantasy 16 has a day one patch after all, and it fixes a progression-blocking bug

  19-06-2023 16:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  It turns out Final Fantasy 16 will get a patch after all, following its development team saying they'd rather avoid such an update.In a recent Japanese broadcast, Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida announced a launch update for Final Fantasy 16, while simultaneously apologizing for said update. The pre-launch update will chiefly focusing on fixing two relatively minor bugs in Final Fantasy 16, one of which blocks progression under specific circumstances, and the other of which causes the ga
  
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• FPS practice tool Aimlabs shoots to the top of Steam's best-sellers list

  19-06-2023 16:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  FPs training tool Aimlabs has finally hit Steam in full, and it's quickly catapulted to the top of the best-sellers list with rave reviews.The (somewhat) new game is a first-person shooter designed to train you to be better at first-person shooters. Aimlabs has been around for a few years now, establishing itself as the official game training partner of Valorant, but now that it's hit Steam in full, it's awash with rave reviews and sensational player numbers all over again.Right now, Aimlabs sit
  
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• Talk to Me directors explain how The Babadook inspired the new horror movie

  19-06-2023 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Talk to Me, perhaps the first Australian horror movie since Jennifer Kent's The Babadook to have huge breakout potential, was influenced by its hit predecessor – but not in the way you might think. It wasn't so much that filmmaker brothers Danny and Michael Philippou saw the atmospheric flick and set out to make something similar, it's that they worked on it and wanted to replicate the behind-the-scenes vibes they experienced on its set."It's a weird circle," says Michael, who made a name
  
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• Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has 10 new suit cosmetics - but only with a deluxe pre-order

  19-06-2023 15:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvels' Spider-Man 2 has 10 unlockable suits exclusive to Digital Deluxe Edition pre-order copies of the game, as well as color variants for each.Creative director Bryan Intihar confirmed in an interview (via Marvel) that non-standard Marvel's Spider-Man 2 pre-orders, meaning Digital Deluxe Edition or Collector's Edition pre-orders only, will provide "some early unlocks to the suits" and their color variants.These include Peter's mohawk-topped Apunkalyptic Suit, Miles' pink-accented Tokusatsu S
  
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• The Assassin's Creed Mirage map is roughly the same size as Revelations' Constantinople

  19-06-2023 15:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Mirage's map is roughly the same size as Revelations' Constantinople, according to Ubisoft. A lot has changed in the Assassin's Creed series since it debuted in 2007, particularly with its most recent instalments, which swapped stealth gameplay for a more combat-heavy experience in sprawling locations. The newest entry, Assassin's Creed Mirage, is set to change all that and return the series to its roots with a scaled-back, stealth-focused adventure that's much more reminis
  
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• One Diablo 4 player has calculated when and where every World Boss, Helltide, and Legion Event will spawn

  19-06-2023 15:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Diablo 4 player has managed to prove how predictable certain in-game events actually are.Those events would be the World Bosses, Helltides, and Legion Events found throughout Blizzard's new game. One Reddit user, who actually operates a tracking site that logs the patterns and locations of every Diablo 4 in-game event has brought their discovery and methodology to a bigger audience.They've managed to pinpoint, using accumulated data, when and where every World Boss will spawn, and even which W
  
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• The Flash star Sasha Calle has had a meeting about her Supergirl future

  19-06-2023 15:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Flash star Sasha Calle has met with DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran about her Supergirl future. Though Calle plays the Kryptonian hero in The Flash, it's unclear if she'll reprise the role for the upcoming Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow movie, which is arriving as part of the new DCU Chapter One: Gods and Monsters."I hope to continue playing Supergirl," Calle told USA Today, revealing she has met with Safran in the same interview. "I love her so deeply and I feel so connected to her."Thoug
  
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• Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti price is already falling ahead of next GPU launch

  19-06-2023 14:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti is still fresh on the scene, but the GeForce graphics card is already available for less. While the lower-spec Lovelace option debuted with a $399 price tag, you can now grab $20 off the GPU just one month after launch, despite the fact its non-Ti sibling isn’t due to arrive for another week. Nvidia is arguably dominating the best graphics card battlefield this generation, even if team green does have a price issue on its hands. Sure, cards like the RTX 4060 Ti
  
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• Mutant Mayhem won't follow one particular TMNT canon, says co-director

  19-06-2023 14:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem may be the latest in a long line of titles within the beloved animated franchise, but it doesn't necessarily take all of its predecessors into account, says writer-director Jeff Rowe. In the new issue of Total Film magazine, which is out on newsstands on Thursday, June 22, the filmmaker reveals that the new movie features its own version of TMNT lore, and explains why it was necessary "to make it more logical". Rowe, who helmed the flick with
  
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• Todd Howard has genuinely been thinking about making a Starfield-style space RPG for 25 years

  19-06-2023 13:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  It turns out Todd Howard has been thinking about making a spacefaring RPG for roughly 25 years.Now, Todd Howard has been at Bethesda for an incredibly long time, longer than some members of this website's staff have been alive, in fact. Reddit users have managed to unearth a forum conversation from all the way back in 1997 between Todd Howard and other users, and it contains quite the intriguing detail."Now a space RPG..that would be something," writes 1997's version of Todd Howard on the intern
  
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• Mission: Impossible won't end with Dead Reckoning, according to the director

  19-06-2023 13:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite rumors to the contrary, Mission: Impossible will continue after the upcoming Dead Reckoning two-parter.Director Christopher McQuarrie, who is helming Dead Reckoning Parts One and Two across 2023 and 2024, told Fandango that it is 'not the end' for the action series. Additionally, they already have 'ideas for what comes next.'Variety had previously reported last year that the two-parter will a 'sendoff' for Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt – so there's every chance the ex-IMF agent could be
  
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• Persona 3 Reload might be coming to Switch after all

  19-06-2023 13:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Persona 3 Reload might be coming to the Nintendo Switch after all.When Atlus's remake was unveiled earlier this month, Nintendo Switch was the only platform to be excluded from getting Persona 3 Reload. Now, it looks like Atlus themselves might have again leaked another detail about the remake, as an unlisted trailer lists a Nintendo Switch release in the YouTube description.
  The Persona 3 Reload commercial has been uploaded ( as unlisted ). it's in English, and says that it's coming to the Nint
  
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• The Beanie Bubble film had to make thousands of Beanie Babies from scratch

  19-06-2023 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  '90s nostalgia is very much in vogue. The Beanie Bubble, based on the 2015 book The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette, details the darker side of the Beanie Babies craze - and the relationship between billionaire creator Ty Warner and the women in his life."When you really look at the female relationship to the American Dream, it’s much more fraught and dark," co-director Kristin Gore says in the new issue of Total Film magazine, which is
  
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• Avowed is yet to enter what's expected to be Obsidian's longest testing phase ever

  19-06-2023 12:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Following concerns over its visuals, an Avowed team member says the game will "get refined in various ways," and that its beta/alpha stages will be huge in comparison to the developer's past titles."All I can say is the game has not entered Alpha yet," said Obsidian's Briar Diem, responding to a forum post (via RPG Codex) that critiqued Avowed's "muddy" character models. "Art will get refined in various ways. Lighting will change. Though designs will not change of course. They are what they are.
  
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• Oblivion's Adoring Fan voice actor confirms he's on board for Starfield

  19-06-2023 12:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  The voice of Oblivion's Adoring Fan has confirmed he's on board for Starfield.Last year, Bethesda confirmed that the much-loved (and equally loathed) Adoring Fan would be making a comeback in its super ambitious space-based RPG Starfield. Now Craig Sechler, the voice actor behind the sprightly NPC, has confirmed he'll be lending his vocal tones to the character once again. As spotted by Twitter user @JezCorden, Sechler announced this in a video on TikTok. The clip starts with a view of a la
  
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• Got an Asus ROG Ally? You might want to avoid updating its firmware for now

  19-06-2023 12:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Asus ROG Ally is a heroic handheld PC, but the latest firmware update does something of a Samson. While the BIOS patch addresses numerous quirks and bugs, it seemingly compromises the portable’s performance, effectively giving the device an unexpected hardware haircut. If you’re looking for the best gaming PC for on-the-go play, you can do much worse than the Asus ROG Ally. Not only is it one of the closest Steam Deck competitors out there in terms of price, but it can pull
  
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• Hideo Kojima isn't directing the Death Stranding movie, he's just supervising it

  19-06-2023 12:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hideo Kojima is involved with the Death Stranding movie, but he won't be the one directing the adaptation.It's a day ending in 'Y,' which means Hideo Kojima has been tweeting up a storm. Yesterday on June 18, Kojima saw fit to clarify a misunderstanding about the upcoming Death Stranding movie: he's "deeply" involved with the new project, but he isn't actually directing the movie.
  Just to be clear, I am deeply involved in producing, supervising, plotting, look, design and content of the film ada
  
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• PlayStation was sure it'd get Call of Duty even if Microsoft acquired Activision

  19-06-2023 11:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  PlayStation was sure it would retain Call of Duty simply because of Sony's presence. New comments from PlayStation head Jim Ryan were uncovered by reporter Florian Mueller, and they paint a pretty confident picture of the company. Ryan was apparently confident PlayStation would still get Call of Duty releases even if Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard proceeded, purely because of Sony's dominance on the gaming scene. 
  This here could be the biggest bombshell in the entire evid
  
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