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• Jude Law says Star Wars made him want to be an actor

  29-06-2023 22:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jude Law says Star Wars is why he started acting."Probably the reason I started acting was running around a playground pretending to be Luke or Han or Chewbacca or Vader – that literally was what I was playing and acting as a child," Law recently told Entertainment Weekly. "And so being in it is both kind of surreal and seems very second-nature in some ways. And then also slightly out of body."Law stars in the upcoming Disney Plus series Skeleton Crew, created by Jon Watts and Christopher
  
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• Everyone's a brutal murderer in new IDW title Kill More

  29-06-2023 22:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  What if there was a world full of super-powered villains, but no superheroes to stop them? That's part of the premise of Kill More, a new 10-issue limited series from IDW Publishing, which takes place in a setting full of evil, maniacal killers with supervillain-like nicknames and personas, but only regular old homicide cops to find and catch them.Kill More is written by Scott Bryan Wilson, with art from Max Alan Fuchs and colorist Valentina Briški. It follows a pair of detectives named A
  
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• Bungie explains why Destiny 2 servers have been on fire for months and why it can't be put out anytime soon

  29-06-2023 21:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Destiny 2 has been struggling with mounting error codes and regular server outages for months, frequently preventing players from playing the game at all on what feels like a weekly basis. Now, developer Bungie has finally addressed the state of the game's stability and what it's doing to fix it. Spoilers: it's good news and bad. Let's start with the obvious question: why are the servers on fire? The main culprit, Bungie explains in its latest blog post, is a part of the infrastructure call
  
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• Jude Law and Christopher Ford tease upcoming Star Wars series Skeleton Crew

  29-06-2023 21:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jude Law and Christopher Ford have let some details slip about upcoming Star Wars series Skeleton Crew."Skeleton Crew's tone is an adventure," Ford, who co-created the series with frequent collaborator Jon Watts, told Entertainment Weekly. "We wanted it to be a lot of fun. But of course, along with adventure comes the downside of it, which is danger. And when the kids are in danger, it's extra fraught. So we played with that, but overall we wanted it to be just a fun adventure."Set in the New Re
  
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• Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth is the first new Blade Runner game in 25 years

  29-06-2023 21:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stray publisher Annapurna Interactive has announced it is currently working on the first Blade Runner game in 25 years.Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth will be the debut game for Annapurna Interactive's new internal studio which is being led by former What Remains of Edith Finch and Solar Ash developer Chelsea Hash. As its title suggests, Blade Runner 2033 takes place in 2033 (which is only a little bit alarming considering that's only 10 years away) and is set in a dystopian Los Angeles after the b
  
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• The 2023 Steam Summer Sale kicks off with a 20% Steam Deck discount

  29-06-2023 20:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  The 2023 Steam Summer Sale is now live, and Valve is offering discounts of its own with up to 20% off a Steam Deck. Assuming the servers hold, you can check out the main Steam Summer Sale lineup on the homepage. The sale runs through July 13 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BT, so you've got plenty of time to weigh up your wishlist and shopping cart. If you're only in this for a Steam Deck, Valve's got a special page just for you. Here's how the discounts shake up by model:
  64GB Steam Deck -
  
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• Diablo 4 Necromancer corpse explosions have finally been fixed so you can actually see the game

  29-06-2023 19:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Blizzard has quietly fixed one of the most annoying issues in Diablo 4, allowing everyone to finally see through the corpse explosions left by Necromancers.Many of the best Diablo 4 Necromancer builds involve Corpse Explosion, an ability that lets the class, well, explode corpses to deal damage to enemies. Through a chain of upgrades, you can also get to Blighted Corpse Explosion, which causes corpses to release a "vile miasma" that deals damage over time instead of just exploding.Unfortunately,
  
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• Pokemon Go developer cancels Marvel game amid layoffs

  29-06-2023 19:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pokemon Go developer Niantic has announced that it is laying off 230 employees while closing its Los Angeles office. As a result, Niantic will also cancel its planned Marvel: World of Heroes mobile game.The news came in an announcement from Niantic CEO John Hanke, who says the company plans to refocus its efforts primarily on Pokemon Go, necessitating the cancelation of Marvel: World of Heroes, which was initially announced back in September 2022. Niantic will also discontinue its support of its
  
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• Why is Henry Cavill leaving The Witcher?

  29-06-2023 18:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Henry Cavill's final season as Geralt of Rivia is now underway on Netflix. The Superman actor will be playing the White Wolf in one final set of episodes in The Witcher season 3 before The Hunger Games star Liam Hemsworth joins in his place.The news came as quite a shock back in late 2022, but we still don't know exactly why Cavill stepped back from the Netflix show. To help you make sense of it all, we've taken a deep dive into everything he's said so far.Starting off with the man himself, when
  
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• Squid Game season 2 adds eight new cast members

  29-06-2023 18:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Squid Game is building out its cast for season 2 with eight new members.The following actors have been added to the cast: Park Gyu-young (Sweet Home), Jo Yu-ri, Kang Ae-sim (Be Melodramatic, Move to Heaven), Lee David (The Fortress, Svaha: The Sixth Finger), Lee Jin-uk (Sweet Home, Miss Granny), Choi Seung-hyun (Tazza: The Hidden Card, Commitment), Roh Jae-won (Missing Yoon, Ditto), and Won Ji-an (D.P.) (H/T Variety).A previous casting announcement revealed the return of Seong Gi-Hun (Lee Jung-J
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 is getting out of the way of Starfield on PC, but directly competing with it on PS5

  29-06-2023 18:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate 3 is going to come out a month early on PC and a week late on PS5, and we can thank Starfield for that - at least in part.The PC release now hits on August 3 across Steam and GOG. As the devs say in a Steam blog, "This means the PC version of Baldur’s Gate 3 will be released at a time where you’ll have more time to play it." The long-awaited RPG had originally been scheduled to come out on August 31 across both PC and PS5, just one week before Starfield's September 6 re
  
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• Timothée Chalamet and Austin Butler go head-to-head in new Dune trailer

  29-06-2023 18:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first full-length trailer for Dune: Part Two is here – and there's all-out war on Arrakis. Our return to the desert planet sees Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) teaming up with the native Fremen people to take on the Harkonnens, who were responsible for murdering Paul's father and usurping House Atreides from their seat of power in Part One. There's romance budding with Chani (Zendaya), a Fremen woman, which sees her loyalties split between Paul and the rest of her pe
  
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• This is the cheapest way to get the One Ring card in MTG Lord of the Rings

  29-06-2023 18:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Now that MTG Lord of the Rings is out, players are going wild for the One Ring. No, not the special edition card that's so rare only one has been made - rather, the standard One Ring by itself is being sold online for up to $80. However, there's just no need to pay that much for the highly sought-after card. You can get a much better deal on it elsewhere.In essence, the One Ring card is also available with a slightly different design as part of the MTG Lord of the Rings Bundle. Although it has d
  
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• Hands-On With Wild Card Football, A Gridiron Game That Draws Inspiration From Mario Kart

  29-06-2023 18:00
  
  In the 21st century, fans of the NFL have had minimal choices when it comes to their officially licensed football games. Ever since 2004, EA Sports' annualized Madden NFL series has been the exclusive franchise for the NFL, its teams, stadiums, and players. The result was the closure of other franchises, such as the competitive NFL 2K series, as well as the arcade-focused NFL Blitz franchise (which was later acquired by EA in 2011). The recently announced Wild Card Football from Saber Interactiv
  
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• Final Fantasy 16's localization has some really dirty jokes

  29-06-2023 17:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 16 gets away with some pretty dirty jokes in its localization. Now that Final Fantasy 16 has been out for right around a week (and sold three million copies to boot), players have delved pretty far into the game. As a result, they've come across some pretty filthy material, and the prime suspect seems to be Square Enix's localization department.Just below, for example, we've got mention of Torgal burying his note into a man's nuts. There's really no fanciful explanation for th
  
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• Final Fantasy 16 is now Japan's fastest-selling PS5 game, overtaking Gran Turismo 7 and Hogwarts Legacy

  29-06-2023 17:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 16 has become the fastest-selling PS5 game in Japan after it sold over 335 thousand copies in its first week alone. The Square Enix title has had an overwhelmingly successful first week after it managed to sell 336,027 copies from June 22 (its release date) until the figures were taken by Famitsu on June 25, 2023. Since that was a whole five days ago, we can only imagine how much more that figure has grown over the last few days. As pointed out by Twitter user Genki, this
  
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• Dying Light 2 finally adds an ability first promised in a 2018 trailer

  29-06-2023 17:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dying Light 2 is making good on one of the missing features from its pre-release trailers as part of a major update with some huge gameplay and visual tweaks.In Dying Light 2's E3 2018 gameplay trailer, we saw a player stick a knife in a billboard and gently slide down to the ground. Now, in the Good Night Good Luck update, that ability is finally in the actual game, five years after that trailer and over a year after Dying Light 2's release. That trailer also promised a robust faction system wi
  
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• Final Fantasy 14 crafters despair after discovering in-game calculator following years of manual math

  29-06-2023 17:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 14's crafting community has been left in shambles after discovering a quality-of-life feature that's made years of doing mental math totally unnecessary. Heaps of craftable items in Final Fantasy 14 require other materials you come across in different ways. What bits are needed for whatever you fancy crafting is labelled clearly enough, though things get a tad wholly when you need to craft a multiple of one item.Over the years, crafting enthusiasts have got around that by usin
  
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• Indie game devs confirm that loading bars are totally fake, and my worldview has shattered

  29-06-2023 17:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Indie game devs are coming crawling out of the woodwork to confirm that in-game loading bars don't actually convey any useful information. And while I knew in my heart that was true all along, it still feels wrong.Earlier this week, comedian Alasdair Beckett-King joked that "game developers need to invent a loading bar that moves at an even speed [...] once that's done, they can start working on graphics, jumping etc." I think that's pretty fair - whomst among us hasn't watched a loading bar jum
  
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• New Spawn movie will hopefully release in 2025, says Jason Blum

  29-06-2023 16:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Producer Jason Blum has provided a positive update on Blumhouse's upcoming Spawn movie. While promoting Insidious: The Red Door, the fifth chapter in the hit horror franchise, Blum was asked about the comicbook reboot, to which he assured fans the flick was in "very, very active development" despite it's long-gestating production."I would say you have a lot to hope for," he told ComicBook, before hinting that the script is not yet complete and referencing the ongoing Writers Guild strike. "What
  
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• Barbie and Oppenheimer double bill is officially Tom Cruise-approved

  29-06-2023 16:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ever since Barbie and Oppenheimer both announced the same summer release date, social media users have been joking about – and seriously planning – their double bills. And one more social media user can now be added to that list: Tom Cruise."This summer is full of amazing movies to see in theaters. Congratulations, Harrison Ford, on 40 years of Indy and one of the most iconic characters in history," the actor tweeted, referencing the recently released Indiana Jones and the Dial of De
  
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• The Boys season 4 release is delayed due to the writers' strike

  29-06-2023 16:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Boys creator Eric Kripke has given an update on The Boys season 4 – and it looks like we'll all have to wait a little longer."#The Boys update! 1) When #Season4 drops depends on how long the #WGA Strike goes. No answer yet. Tell the studios to make a fair deal!" Kripke tweeted."There's a good amount of dialogue we write in post that the actors come back to record (called ADR), to help bridge story gaps or clarify a plot point." Kripke continued, in response to a fan who asked about fil
  
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• Diablo 4's Season 1 start date will be revealed next week

  29-06-2023 16:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Blizzard will announce next week when exactly Season 1 of Diablo 4 will start.As first picked up on by Wowhead, Diablo general manager Rod Fergusson revealed via his personal Twitter account that Season 1 details for Diablo 4 would be coming at some point next week. Specifically, Blizzard is gearing up to announce the exact start date for the debut season in their new game.
  Announcing next week!June 29, 2023See more
  Elsewhere, Diablo 4 global community development director, Adam Fletcher, reveal
  
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• The iconic Gulf War Nintendo Game Boy is heading into retirement

  29-06-2023 14:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you’re into retro consoles, you’ve no doubt heard of the Game Boy that miraculously survived a Gulf War bomb explosion. Well, that hardy handheld is now heading into retirement, as it has officially left its home at the Nintendo Store in New York. Sadly, that means you’ll no longer be able to go witness the battleworn backpack buddy for yourself, as it now reportedly resides at the company’s headquarters.Before we dive into the Gulf War Game Boy’s retirement plan
  
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• Invincible and Walking Dead get new board games inspired by Hellboy (well, sort of)

  29-06-2023 14:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  New Walking Dead and Invincible board games are on the way just in time for the latter show's second season, but both have an unexpected inspiration - Hellboy.Well, sort of. Developed by Mantic (which is responsible for the Warhammer-esque Kings of War), these board games are being produced as part of Invincible and The Walking Dead's 20th anniversary. However, rather than using an entirely new system, they'll resurrect one from Mantic's own Hellboy: The Dice Game due to its "small, fast, compet
  
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• Final Fantasy 6 in the style of FF Tactics is the one JRPG mod I didn't know I needed

  29-06-2023 14:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Modders are reimagining Final Fantasy 6 as FF Tactics, and I can hear the inner child in me squealing in excitement. As RPG Fan shares on Twitter, Final Fantasy 6: Tactics is an in-the-works mod that brings the cast of FF6 into Tactic’s strategy RPG stylings. You’re getting new stages, reworked sprites and skills, and FF6’s SNES soundtrack remixed through Tactic’s sound font. While RPG Fan’s viral tweet has brought the project to the attention of many, the
  
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• Liam Neeson's car – and family – will explode if he stops driving in new Retribution trailer

  29-06-2023 13:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for Retribution is here – and Liam Neeson is about to go to any means necessary to protect his family. Must be a day ending in 'y', then. The trailer opens with Matt (Neeson) driving his two kids to school when he receives a call from an unknown number. The person on the other end of the phone informs him that there is a bomb under his car and there are pressure sensors under all of their seats – if anyone tries to get out of the car, it'll explode. And th
  
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• Microsoft exec says the topic of Call of Duty exclusivity was "never discussed"

  29-06-2023 13:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Microsoft exec has claimed that the topic of Call of Duty exclusivity was "never discussed" during acquisition talks, at least not with them. This claim comes from Microsoft's chief financial officer Amy Hood (via Axios' Stephen Totilo on Twitter) who revealed - as part of Microsoft's ongoing court hearing with the US Federal Trade Commission over its Activision acquisition - that talks about Call of Duty's exclusivity with Microsoft wasn't ever mentioned during the company's acquisition
  
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• This Diablo 4 World Boss got obliterated in 15 seconds

  29-06-2023 13:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Diablo 4 player has decimated a World Boss in 15 seconds flat.In the absolute frenzy that is the fight in the video just below, one player managed to straight-up flatten the Wandering Death, Death Given Life World Boss in right around 15 seconds. Hell, the video is so brief and so action-packed that it's hard to even tell who's dealing the damage that sends the boss packing.
  Someone melted a World Boss in 15 seconds from r/diablo4
  However, Reddit commenters think they've worked out who's pulli
  
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• Final Fantasy 16 is the fastest-selling true PS5 exclusive

  29-06-2023 13:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 16's first-week sales have highlighted the PS5's relatively low user base, but it's still the fastest-selling PS5 exclusive to date.Earlier this week on June 28, it was revealed Final Fantasy 16 had surpassed three million sales worldwide in right around one week as a PS5 exclusive. This is actually less than Final Fantasy 7 Remake's first-week sales of 3.5 million, but the remake was available to damn near 100 million PS4 consoles, whereas Final Fantasy 16 is launching to consider
  
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• New Bridgerton board game has you wooing suitors and screwing rivals with scandal

  29-06-2023 13:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Bridgerton board game is on its way, and although it's just as interested in attending balls and finding a suitable match as its Netflix inspiration, it seems just as feisty too - you can ruin your rivals' prospects with a well-played scandal.It's unclear what that scandal might be, but considering the show's saucy reputation, it's probably going to be juicy. And considering how this all happens under cover of attending balls and attempting to woo eligible suitors for marriage (with the victor
  
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• Legendary sci-fi comic 2000 AD is temporarily merging with one of its predecessors

  29-06-2023 12:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  There was a grand tradition in the '70s and '80s of British comics merging with more successful titles, in the hope that this would mean an instant readership boost. The vast majority of those comics are long since closed, but 2000 AD, the iconic British sci-fi anthology and the home of Judge Dredd, endures. Still, as a bit of autumn fun, the comic's publisher Rebellion is imagining what it might have been like had 2000 AD joined forces with the long-dead war comic, Battle Action.Taking place ac
  
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• New Superman actor David Corenswet actually manifested the role years ago

  29-06-2023 12:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's official, David Corenswet will be the next version of Superman we see on the big screen. Following weeks of speculation and leaked shortlists, the Pearl actor and Marvelous Mrs Maisel star Rachel Brosnahan were announced as the new Clark Kent and Lois Lane, who'll be introduced in James Gunn's Superman: Legacy. Turns out, though, that Corenswet has been keen for a long, long time. In fact, you might even say he manifested himself landing the role. Back in 2019, while he was promoting R
  
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• The Pikmin 4 demo will transfer your progress over to the full game

  29-06-2023 12:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pikmin 4 got a brand-new overview trailer today along with a demo that'll give players over two hours' worth of playtime.  On June 29, Nintendo released the Pikmin 4 Overview Trailer that's just under seven minutes long. The trailer, once again, gives us an idea of Pikmin 4's story, reminds us what kind of Pikmin we'll get to meet in the upcoming game, introduces us to Rescue Pup Oatchi, and gives us a detailed look at Pikmin 4's gameplay. According to those who have already got starte
  
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• WoW Classic's Hardcore servers will make MMO fans hang out as ghosts if they die

  29-06-2023 12:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  WoW Classic is getting Hardcore servers, and soon at that.Blizzard reveals on the MMO's forums that WoW's more brutal cousin releases sometime over the summer, though not before a round of testing on the PTR that goes live today. Alongside everything being way more difficult, the most notable feature of Hardcore servers is that death spells the end for your character – no revives here. Blizzard explains that's the case for WoW Classic's Hardcore servers, though with a bit of a twist.
  
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• In 2021, more than a million PlayStation players only played Call of Duty

  29-06-2023 12:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Call of Duty is a dominant force in console gaming, and the ongoing FTC case against Microsoft serves as a potent reminder of that fact.Last night, reporters covering the latest development in the Xbox Activision deal discovered that some of the documents Sony had submitted had been incorrectly redacted, meaning information in those documents could still be deciphered. The biggest takeaway was the $200+ million budgets for games like The Last of Us Part 2 and Horizon Forbidden West, but informat
  
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• Microsoft's CEO would get rid of console exclusives if he could

  29-06-2023 12:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Microsoft's CEO apparently isn't a fan of console exclusive games.Yesterday on June 28, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was called to the witness stand in the Federal Trade Commission's hearing surrounding Microsoft's attempted Activision acquisition. As reported by IGN, Nadella apparently said that if it was up to him, he'd do away with console exclusive games entirely."If it was up to me, I would love to get rid of the entire sort of exclusives on consoles, but that's not up to me to define," Nade
  
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• Anthony Mackie joined the MCU thinking he was playing Black Panther

  29-06-2023 12:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Anthony Mackie may be best known for his portrayal of Falcon in the MCU, but the actor originally had a different role in the franchise in mind that he lobbied Marvel Studios to play."I had been contacting Marvel a lot about Black Panther," Mackie told Inverse. "I had written them letters. I was trying to find a way to make them make Black Panther. And I wanted to be Black Panther because growing up I fucking loved Black Panther."Mackie instead went on to play Sam Wilson, AKA Falcon, in the MCU,
  
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• The next ultra-rare Diablo 4 item has been uncovered

  29-06-2023 11:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  A second ultra-rare Unique item has been uncovered by a lucky Diablo 4 player.As reported on the Diablo 4 subreddit and then picked up on by Wowhead, a Necromancer player in China got incredibly lucky by uncovering one of the six Unique items in the game. This second ultra-rare item is a two-handed sword called The Grandfather, and it looks suitably ferocious for a weapon of such renown. 
  Grandfather dropped from r/diablo4
  The Grandfather has an astounding 2,740 damage, dealt out at approxi
  
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• The Witcher season 3 release schedule: when is volume 2 on Netflix?

  29-06-2023 10:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Witcher season 3 has a slightly different release schedule to what you may have been expecting. Following on from the likes of Stranger Things, Netflix has split the latest season of Geralt's monster-hunting adventures into two.So, if you've binged all of the new season and are wondering what's coming next, we're here to help. Below, we'll give you The Witcher season 3, episode 6 release date and likely streaming time. We've also got a larger overview of the second volume, for those who want
  
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