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• Win an Evil Dead Rise Blu-ray

  06-07-2023 23:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Is there another horror franchise as reliable as the Evil Dead series? Forty-one years on from Sam Raimi's original slice of cabin-in-the-woods carnage, we're still waiting for a turkey. Gorehounds will know the drill: cabin in the woods, sinister incantation, demonic possession, harrowing violence, dismemberment by chainsaw. But Evil Dead Rise shakes up the formula, with the horror unfolding in a rundown apartment building after an earthquake leads to the discovery of a Necronomicon in a f
  
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• Win a Blu-ray of LOLA

  06-07-2023 23:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Probably the best British indie of the year so far, Andrew Legge's clever, economical debut feature is a found-footage film, presented as a cache of footage unearthed in the cellar of an English country house. It centres on two sisters in the '40s who build a device capable of receiving broadcasts from the future – be it David Bowie performing "Space Oddity", or news reports of conflicts and disasters. Patriotically, the sisters team up with British intelligence to aid the war effort, but
  
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• A Pokemon Easter egg 27 years in the making has been uncovered thanks to a post from the series' original developer

  06-07-2023 23:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Twitter appears to be in its death throes, but the app has at least given us one more surprising video game Easter egg, and it cuts straight to the origins of Pokemon as we know it. As our friends at PC Gamer spotted, Junichi Masuda, co-founder of primary Pokemon developer Game Freak and now "chief creative fellow" at The Pokemon Company itself, recently posted an innocuous photo of a Japanese studio with the (auto machine translated) caption: "On the 5th of July, Pokemon was born in Japan,
  
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• A classic Moon Knight villain returns in Moon Knight #25

  06-07-2023 22:00 via gamesradar.com
  
   Moon Knight #25 is a much anticipated milestone issue that will set the stage for the introduction of Layla El-Faouly, the MCU Scarlet Scarab, into Marvel Comics. But she's not the only supporting character playing a big role in Moon Knight #25, which officially brings back the Black Spectre, a classic Moon Knight villain."The past comes back to bedevil Moon Knight as he pursues his latest enemy, someone once familiar and new," reads Marvel's official solicitation for Moon Knight #25, refe
  
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• The Witcher: Wild Animals takes Geralt of Rivia to a strange new world

  06-07-2023 21:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Witcher returns to Dark Horse Comics with a new limited series created in collaboration with Witcher video game studio CD Projekt Red. In the new story, titled The Witcher: Wild Animals, Geralt of Rivia finds himself lost in a new world full of new threats and new monsters to hunt down.The Witcher: Wild Animals, which was first announced by The Beat, will run for four issues. It's written by CD Projekt Red comic book and animation narrative director Bartosz Sztybor, with art from Ukrainian a
  
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• Super Mario Bros. Movie coming to Peacock soon

  06-07-2023 21:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Super Mario Bros. Movie is coming to streaming soon.The wildly successful Illumination film is set to hit Peacock on August 3, with bonus content for fans. Viewers will be able to access behind-the-scenes interviews with the cast, various interactive features throughout the film including 'Power-Ups' and 'Bonuses,' and a sing-along lyric video for Bowser's musical number "Peaches." Personally, we'd be down for an extended cut of Lumalee being adorably unhinged.Directed by Aaron Horvath and M
  
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• Diablo 4 has a patch coming today that will make it easier to get rare Uniques

  06-07-2023 21:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 4 patch 1.0.4 will arrive later today carrying good news for hardcore grinders: rare Uniques should be a little easier to get going forward. The full patch notes are still to come, and Blizzard's already explained that they will be on the shorter side, but the dev team dropped a tasty teaser during today's big developer update ahead of the Diablo 4 Season 1 reveal. Thanks to the new patch, the Tortured Gift chests available in Helltide events will have a chance to award Uniques, subs
  
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• The Diablo series is getting an all-new class for the first time in nearly a decade

  06-07-2023 21:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo Immortal has revealed the venerable action-RPG series' first new class in almost a decade: the Blood Knight.The Blood Knight was revealed during the latest Diablo developer livestream, though it's worth noting at the top that it appears to be exclusive to the mobile Diablo Immortal, and there's no indication that it's coming to Diablo 4 any time soon.The new class looks like it was pulled straight from the Castlevania series, with a distinctly vampire hunter edge to its design. And indee
  
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• Diablo 4 Season 1 is coming in two weeks with special gems for "stupid, broken new builds"

  06-07-2023 21:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Blizzard has announced Diablo 4 season 1, titled Season of the Malignant, launching on July 20.Blizzard says Diablo 4's first season is designed to "appeal to everything a player does in Diablo 4," explains lead producer Tim Ismay, allowing you to "build your character in a different way." The core theme of the season is the titular threat, "the Malignant," which "shows up throughout the entire game."The way it works is, every time you encounter an elite monster, there's a chance it'll spawn as
  
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• Marvel's Spider-Man 2 pre-load date and time are here

  06-07-2023 19:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  PlayStation has confirmed exactly when you can preload Marvel's Spider-Man 2 ahead of its launch on October 20, and we'll have a full week to download the long-awaited sequel before its release date.According to Twisted Voxel, the official Marvel's Spider-Man 2 preload date is Friday, October 13, and you can download the game starting at 6am PT / 9am ET / 2pm BST. This info was reportedly found on the PlayStation Store after a digital copy was pre-ordered.The download will be available to anyone
  
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• Mary Jane Watson is officially the new Jackpot

  06-07-2023 19:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mary Jane Watson will officially take up the mantle of Jackpot in Amazing Spider-Man #31, in which she'll become the Marvel Universe's latest superhero, with a new costume designed by Humberto Ramos, seen below.Mary Jane has had her Jackpot powers (which we'll explain shortly) since the start of the current volume of Amazing Spider-Man, though she hasn't actually taken the step of being a full-on superhero - until now.
  (Image credit: Marvel Comics)
  Mary Jane's powers involve a special gauntlet b
  
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• Star Wars and Marvel Villainous board games slashed by up to 45% ahead of Prime Day

  06-07-2023 18:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Popular spin-off board games Star Wars and Marvel Villainous have taken a tumble in price, seeing them drop down by at least $15 each. Although we're still in the runup to this year's Prime Day board game deals, these two have gotten the party started with an early reduction; Star Wars Villainous is $24.99 at Amazon instead of almost $40, while Marvel Villainous is even less at $21.99 via Amazon rather than $39.99. That may not be their lowest ever price, but that 30-40% discount makes them
  
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• First The Nun 2 trailer teases a hellish reunion between Sister Irene and Valak

  06-07-2023 18:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for The Nun 2 is finally here – and it promises the "darkest chapter" in The Conjuring franchise yet. In the clip, which you can watch above, Taissa Farmiga's Sister Irene comes face to face with Valak once again, the demonic fallen angel who's hellbent on causing chaos and spilling blood.Written by Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing, and Akela Cooper, who previously bowled genre fans over with bonkers horror flick Malignant, The Nun 2 picks up with Sister Irene a short while af
  
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• It's not just you: Diablo 4 players keep forgetting to actually enter dungeons and end up farming open-world mobs

  06-07-2023 17:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 4's updated teleport feature sure is great, but it's less great when people keep mistakenly thinking they're in a dungeon, only to find themselves killing open-world mobs instead.Back when Diablo 4 launched, there wasn't a way to teleport directly to every dungeon of your choosing, namely Nightmare Dungeons. Thanks to one of the game's post-launch patches, you can now warp directly to any one of the dungeons scattered throughout the game, which is a pretty handy feature for cutting down t
  
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• Deadpool 3 set photo reveals first (unofficial) look at Ryan Reynolds in costume

  06-07-2023 17:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  First-look photos of Ryan Reynolds on set of Deadpool 3 have emerged – and our excitement has been reignited.The Daily Mirror has shared two photos of Reynolds filming what appears to be a car crash scene for the third installment. The suit looks to be a lot brighter than previous iterations, which see the hero donning a suit with more muted tones, but it could just be the lighting. Either way, we're stoked to see Wade Wilson back in action.The film is directed by Shawn Levy (The Adam Proj
  
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• World of Warcraft legend crushes Diablo 4 Hardcore with an indestructible Barbarian that kills everything it touches

  06-07-2023 17:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Famous World of Warcraft grinder DesMephisto has made his way to Diablo 4 and cooked up a whopper of a build: a nearly indestructible Thorn Barbarian that kills everything it touches. "I wanted to try Hardcore for the first time and after losing two Barbarians following someone else’s guide I wanted to make my own tanky build that I knew could survive," DesMephisto says in a Reddit post. "This build is fantastic for leveling," they add, and I believe it seeing as how they took it
  
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• Future Games Show to broadcast Gamescom showcase on August 23

  06-07-2023 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  GamesRadar+ is thrilled to confirm that our flagship digital gaming showcase, the Future Games Show, will return on Wednesday, August 23 - bringing you world premieres and fresh trailers from the most exciting console, PC and VR games of 2023 and beyond.As with previous instalments, this year’s Fall Showcase will arrive during Gamescom 2023, which is taking place at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany between the 23rd and 27th of August. 
  Hotly-anticipated action RPG Lords of the Falle
  
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• The second to last Mario Kart 8 Deluxe course booster pass launches next week

  06-07-2023 16:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  The second to last wave of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass is set to release in less than a week's time - adding eight courses and three new characters.Nintendo has officially announced what courses will be added to Wave 5 of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass as well as when we'll get to play them. Not only will we be getting several fresh courses to race around, but we'll also be getting three new racers in the form of Kamek, Petey Piranha, and Wiggler - we're not even sur
  
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• Cyberpunk 2077 players protest Reddit by posting their naked characters

  06-07-2023 16:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cyberpunk 2077 players are protesting Reddit's rules by filling the game's dedicated subreddit with naked pictures of their custom characters.Yes, somehow we really have ended up here. It's a little tricky to tell when this all started, but the post below indicates that the whole thing kicked off with the moderators of Cyberpunk 2077's subreddit setting it to 'NSFW' over in-game content. The mods reasoned that because Cyberpunk 2077 is a mature game, it's subreddit deserves an 18+ setting as a b
  
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• Red Dead Redemption fans get remaster hopes up again after revisiting Take-Two's latest financial report

  06-07-2023 13:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Red Dead Redemption fans are getting their hopes up for a remaster once again after revisiting Take-Two's financial report from earlier this year.It probably won't come as too much of a surprise to hear that Red Dead Redemption fans want a remaster. There have been several hints over the years that one could be in development at Rockstar, with the latest being a mysterious new rating in South Korea. However, nothing has been confirmed by Rockstar or parent company Take-Two just yet. This ha
  
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• Diablo 4 players pour one out for the worst loot imaginable

  06-07-2023 13:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 4 players are pouring one out for the worst loot you've ever seen.Loot is pretty much the name of the game in Diablo 4, and if you've spent time grinding out activities for new gear, it can seriously suck if that new gear is basically useless. That's the case with the Legendary helmet just below, which somehow heals a staggering zero to two points of health per second for each enemy within close proximity. 
  Greatest legendary known to man from r/Diablo
  Crikey, imagine getting that th
  
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• Diablo 4 Hardcore players think they've been overlooked for the community challenge

  06-07-2023 13:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Some Diablo 4 players are convinced Blizzard has overlooked their efforts in the race to reach level 100 on Hardcore difficulty.Before Diablo 4 even launched, Blizzard announced it would immortalize the first 1,000 players to level 100 on Hardcore difficulty. This is a seriously tough feat, since if you die even once on Hardcore, your entire character is wiped forever from Diablo 4.Now, some Diablo 4 players that submitted their characters to achieve the feat are convinced Blizzard has skipped o
  
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• Amazon’s Citadel reportedly cost $250m – but flopped with viewers

  06-07-2023 13:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  A streaming report reveals Amazon spy series Citadel was a massive flop on Prime Video.Starring Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jones as a Citadel agency duo, the globetrotting thriller debuted in April to a muted response. Bloomberg reports that the first season "failed to chart as one of the 10 most-watched streaming programs in the US in any week since it debuted" according to Nielsen's metrics.It was also revealed that Citadel cost $250m to make, putting it in the upper echelons of the mo
  
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• Fed up of waiting for Blizzard, this Diablo 4 player took it upon themselves to make their own party finder app

  06-07-2023 12:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Diablo 4 player has taken it upon themselves to create their own party finder app since Blizzard is taking its time to develop its own. As spotted in the Diablo subreddit, one user has grown tired of struggling to find other players in Diablo 4, so has made their own party finder app. "After trying to get parties and basically playing all alone until level 70 and Blizzard is taking a while to get it done," the player's post reads, "[I] decided to make one." The app can be found here and p
  
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• Dead Reckoning Part One is Tom Cruise's highest-rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes

  06-07-2023 12:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tom Cruise has broken a new record with Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning: part one as it becomes his highest-rated movie yet on Rotten Tomatoes. The latest sequel in the M:I franchise has landed a 98% score from critics, based on 112 reviews. This means it has just taken the top spot from Cruise’s previous top movie, Mission Impossible: Fallout which has a 97% score. The Hollywood action star actually has several highly-rated movies in his oeuvre, including Top Gun: Maverick, Missi
  
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• Resident Evil dev won't rule out remaking spin-off games like Code Veronica

  06-07-2023 12:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Capcom isn't ruling out remaking Resident Evil spin-off games outside of the main numbered entries.Earlier today on July 6, Capcom posted their general shareholder meeting Q&A, where the company fielded all sorts of questions from investors. One shareholder asked if Capcom would be "providing high-end visual remakes of only the main numbered entries in the Resident Evil series."To this, Capcom answered that it's "carrying out discussions regarding the future expansion of this series so it ca
  
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• Karen Allen says an earlier version of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was more of an Indy and Marion story

  06-07-2023 12:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny featured a surprise cameo from Karen Allen's Marion Ravenwood – and Allen has revealed that a previous version of the film, set to be directed by Steven Spielberg, featured her character a lot more. "I think because the last time you see Indy and Marion, they've gotten married – I don't know that I thought we'd pick up from where we left off, but I did always imagine that it would be a story with Indy and Marion going forward," Allen told Va
  
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• A 10-year-old Channing Tatum movie is suddenly #1 on Netflix

  06-07-2023 11:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  No, you’re not seeing things. A 10-year-old Channing Tatum thriller is the most popular movie on Netflix.White House Down, a 2013 action movie starring Tatum as a Capitol officer defending the President against a terrorist attack, has shot up the streaming charts – presumably thanks to July 4 celebrations.The movie, also starring Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Joey King, was largely forgotten upon release. It grossed $200m at the box office and was outflanked by its more explosiv
  
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• Final Fantasy 16 patch adds much desired motion blur settings, and players love it

  06-07-2023 11:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 16 has finally added motion blur settings in a new update, and players couldn't be more thankful.Patch 1.03 just went live for Final Fantasy 16 on PS5 earlier today on July 6. Perhaps the most noteworthy feature is the fact that players can now adjust the strength of the game's motion blur, choosing between five overall settings to dictate how noticeable they want motion blur to be.
  Announcing the release of update 1.03 which makes a number of improvements to Final Fantasy XVI. #FF
  
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• Mission: Impossible director on why Dead Reckoning is split into two parts

  06-07-2023 10:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mission: Impossible director Christopher McQuarrie has explained why Dead Reckoning is split into two parts – and it goes back to the series’ fifth instalment in 2015."That takes us all the way back to Rogue Nation where we discovered an emotional component to the story that we really weren’t expecting. Stuff that we thought was going to be pure exposition actually turned out to be the emotional core of the story," McQuarrie tells GamesRadar+ and Total Film in London. "Whe
  
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• Microsoft thinks a PS5 Slim is coming this year

  06-07-2023 01:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Microsoft has said it expects Sony to release a PS5 Slim sometime this year, according to court documents.As IGN reports, the document surfaced out of the trial between the US Federal Trade Commission's and Microsoft, which will decide whether the former can impose a preliminary injunction against the $69b transaction. If that happens, Microsoft has suggested it could scrap the deal entirely.In Microsoft's attempt to portray the Xbox Series X and PS5 consoles as being in the same marke
  
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• Dead by Daylight players are utterly tickled by Nicolas Cage's "memey" new abilities

  06-07-2023 01:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nicolas Cage is officially a playable character in Dead by Daylight's public test server, and early reactions say the new Survivor's abilities are both cleverly self-referential and substantive. As revealed in the full patch notes which you can find here, Nic Cage's Perks include Dramaturgy, which causes you to run "with knees high" for half a second. This is followed by 2 seconds with a 25% Haste boost and then one of the following effects: exposed for 12 seconds, 25% more Haste for anoth
  
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• That's really Margot Robbie's feet in Barbie, Greta Gerwig confirms

  06-07-2023 00:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Greta Gerwig confirms that no CGI was needed in order to give Margot Robbie those perfectly arched feet."There was a big discussion in the beginning," Gerwig said on Australian talk show The Project (via Entertainment Weekly). "Everyone said, 'Are you going to CGI all the feet?' And I thought, 'Oh god, no! That's terrifying! That's a nightmare.'""Also," she added, "Margot has the nicest feet. She has these beautiful dancer feet. I was like, 'She should just hang onto that bar and do it
  
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