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• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon spin-off sets September premiere date

  14-07-2023 22:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon spin-off series has set a September 10 premiere date on AMC and AMC+. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is the fifth spin-off and sixth show overall spawning from The Walking Dead franchise, although director and executive producer Greg Nicotero recently said it's "the closest to a standalone show" the franchise will ever get. The first season will run six episodes and pick up after the titular survivor finds himself washed ashore in France with no recollectio
  
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• Indie game publisher CEO proposes Black Mirror-grade AI detection for employee burnout, says it's all "hypothetical" amid backlash

  14-07-2023 21:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Alex Nichiporchik, CEO of Hello Neighbor publisher tinyBuild, recently proposed the potential for using AI models to help find "problematic team members" and identify employees at risk of burnout, and while the aim was purportedly to help employees, boy did everyone dislike that. WhyNow Gaming reported on a presentation Nichiporchik gave at the Develop: Brighton conference on July 12, which was titled "AI in Gamedev: Is My Job Safe?" The summary blurb says the presentation would "go in-dept
  
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• Xbox's Major Nelson is leaving the company

  14-07-2023 20:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Xbox's veteran director of programming, Larry Hryb, often affectionally referred to as Major Nelson, has announced he is leaving the company.In a tweet, Hryb suggested that he isn't retiring, but instead stepping away from the company to do something else with his career."After 20 incredible years, I have decided to take a step back and work on the next chapter of my career," he said. "As I take a moment and think about all we have done together, I want to thank the millions of gamers around the
  
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• Sandman season 2 stops filming due to SAG-AFTRA strike

  14-07-2023 20:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Production has been halted on The Sandman season 2 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike."SAG-AFTRA strike is on. Sandman has stopped shooting completely, along with everything else that was squeaking by without writers," creator Neil Gaiman posted on BlueSky. "I hope that the AMPTP sees reason and gets back to the table with the actors and the writers. I have no reason at this point to think they will see reason."The second season of the wildly successful Netflix entered production, shooting in various l
  
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• Harris Dickinson addresses Bond rumors: "You’d be a fool not to entertain that role"

  14-07-2023 19:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Harris Dickinson has addressed whether he’d want to be the next James Bond in a new interview with Total Film magazine.Last year, when ES Magazine suggested he might be in the frame, he modestly replied, "Nah, I don’t think so." And now? "I mean, listen, man, you’d be a fool to not entertain that role," Dickinson says in the new issue, which is out on newsstands on Thursday, July 20."I’m loving seeing the development of James Bond and seeing how it changes over the years.
  
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• Diablo 4 credits feature over 9,000 people, including some Blizzard HQ security guards

  14-07-2023 18:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 4's credits list over 9,000 people, including the security guards working at Blizzard HQ.As reported by MobyGames, a whopping 9,166 individuals were credited with the making of Diablo 4. The most common roles, according to the site, were related to audio, with 2,464 contributing to sound design and providing voice work for the action-RPG. 26 people also had the fun job of providing "creature voice effects."
  9,166 people were credited in the making of Diablo IV, a new record!Let's dig into
  
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• Deadpool 3 has stopped production amid the SAG-AFTRA strike

  14-07-2023 18:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Deadpool 3 has shut down production as the SAG-AFTRA actors' strike gets underway. The news comes courtesy of Variety, which notes that the blockbuster is one of the first major movies to be impacted by the shutdown – others include Gladiator 2 and Mortal Kombat 2. Deadpool 3 was already continuing to film amid the WGA writers' strike, though this had the side-effect of meaning Ryan Reynolds couldn't improvise in his performance as the Merc with a Mouth. Along with Reynolds,
  
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• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning’s surprise ending choice kept Tom Cruise up at night

  14-07-2023 18:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Spoilers for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One follow. This message will self-destruct in five seconds.Unlike Fast X and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning doesn’t leave things on a cliffhanger for its Part One. All told, it’s a relatively complete tale – Ethan has one-upped Gabriel and has The Entity’s key, after all – with a further end goal in mind buried deep in the Arctic Sea.In our recent interview
  
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• Gareth Edwards says The Creator now "feels more like a documentary" amid growth of AI

  14-07-2023 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  When Rogue One director Gareth Edwards and his co-writer Chris Weitz started work on The Creator in 2020, they had little idea that AI would be such a talking point as their movie prepared to land in 2023.Certainly, AI has featured in numerous sci-fi films and shows before, going back decades, but this year has seen an explosion in the public consciousness, with ChatGPT now a water-cooler conversation. "It was a total fluke," says Edwards in the new issue of Total Film magazine, w
  
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• Where to pre-order Pikmin 4 (and get the best swag)

  14-07-2023 17:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pikmin 4 pre-orders will only run for another week before that July 21 release day creeps up on us. That means anyone on the hunt for some extra swag with their game needs to get to checkout within the next ten days. Thankfully, there are plenty of retailers offering early orders right now, packaging everything from water bottles to sticker sheets in with the $59.99 / £49.99 title. We're rounding up all your best Pikmin 4 pre-order prospects right here, across both the US and UK. If y
  
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• Diablo 4 players are already working out the best Season 1 grind routes

  14-07-2023 17:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 4 players are already optimizing their XP grind through Season 1 ahead of its launch next week.Progress in every Diablo 4 Battle Pass dictates that you'll have to create a new character with which to level up the pass. This means you're going to need to grind through Blizzard's game all over again if you want new skins and other cosmetics, and Diablo 4 veterans are already gearing up for said grind.That's why one dedicated Diablo 4 player has put together the map below. It allows players
  
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• Back from the dead! Ms. Marvel is reborn as a mutant

  14-07-2023 17:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Well that didn't stick for very long...This week saw the publication of Fallen Friend: The Death of Ms. Marvel - a mournful one-shot that paid tribute to Kamala Khan who was recently (and controversially) killed off in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man #26. Then, just a day after publication, Marvel posted a cryptic "post-issue scene" featuring Cyclops that seemed to suggest that the story was far from over. Now we know why. The late Ms. Marvel will be returning to life, but no longer as an I
  
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• Marvel stars Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor's new sci-fi romance unveils its first trailer

  14-07-2023 17:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel stars Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor are a couple navigating a rather unusual pregnancy in the first trailer for new sci-fi romance The Pod Generation. Described as a Black Mirror-style look at parenthood, the movie is the latest from Sophie Barthes, the French-American filmmaker behind atmospheric dramas Cold Souls and Madame Bovary.The teaser, which you can watch above, opens with Clarke's Rachel pushing a cart round a store – only this shop's aisles are stacked full of babies
  
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• Fable 4's narrative lead announces departure

  14-07-2023 17:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fable 4's narrative director is departing Playground Games.Anna Megill tweeted out earlier today on July 14 that she'd be departing Playground Games as of next month in August, stepping away from the Fable 4 narrative development team that she's led for the past few years. Megill hasn't been at Playground since the inception of the Fable reboot but has worked on the game since February 2021.
  Working on Fable was a dream come true for me, and it’s wrenching to leave it behind. But Playgroun
  
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• The best cat collecting game ever has now got an even better spiritual successor

  14-07-2023 17:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  The team behind everyone's favorite cat-collecting game Neko Atsume has created a new studio and released a new adorable game, this time with dogs. As spotted by Siliconera, Origami - a Japanese studio comprised of some of Neko Atsume's developers - has recently released its new game Inu no Oyakume. Similar to Neko Atsume, players will need to make a welcoming space for the dogs that frequent their phone (and mostly show up in between uses of the app) by leaving food offerings and comfy pla
  
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• James Gunn gave Blue Beetle a thumbs up, says Xolo Maridueña

  14-07-2023 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The DCEU will soon be supplanted by the DCU, which kicks off in 2025 with Superman: Legacy, set to be written and directed by DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn. But, there are still two films of the old guard left to be released: this December's Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom – and August's Blue Beetle. Blue Beetle is set to bring Jaime Reyes to a live-action movie for the first time, played by Cobra Kai's Xolo Maridueña. But has Maridueña had conversations with the new DC lead
  
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• Steven Soderbergh filmed a sci-fi series in secret – and it's out next week

  14-07-2023 16:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Steven Soderbergh has suprise-dropped a trailer for Command Z, an upcoming sci-fi series starring Michael Cera...that he filmed independently of a studio and entirely in secret. And by upcoming we mean it drops in three days."This is historic, literally. We'll be dipping into the past to make some critical fixes there that will, in turn, make the future, our present, right now, more livable, fair, and decent for everyone," Cera's mysterious scientist character explains via a rather ominous-looki
  
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• Xbox expected Starfield to sell 10 million copies on PS5 but decided it's worth more as an exclusive

  14-07-2023 16:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Microsoft estimated it could get 10 million Starfield sales on PlayStation, but – surprise – opted to make it to an Xbox console exclusive instead.Yesterday, July 13, a US court released its findings from the case of the Federal Trade Commission against Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The court documents reveal Microsoft Gaming's CFO Tim Stuart believed the company could see over 10 million Starfield sales on PS5 alone if it had kept Bethesda's RPG on Sony's platform.
  
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• Starfield devs would love to answer your questions, but "no one other than Todd Howard" can talk about the game

  14-07-2023 16:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Starfield developers see your many, rabid questions and would love to answer them, but they can't on account of Bethesda boss Todd Howard being the only one cleared to talk about the game publicly. Senior design director Emil Pagliarulo recently took to Twitter to set the record straight after a no-doubt exhausting rush of questions from hungry fans. "I know this isn't what any Starfield fan wants to hear from me, but I feel like I need to make this clear: no one other than Todd Howard hims
  
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• John David Washington faces an AI threat in these exclusive images from The Creator

  14-07-2023 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  British director Gareth Edwards has had quite the career when it comes to big-screen sci-fi. He made his micro-budget debut, Monsters (2010), on a shoestring. He also created the VFX and served as the cinematographer on that stripped-back production.With that film demonstrating his flair and ingenuity, it wasn’t long before Hollywood came calling, and he was tapped to direct the 2014 reboot of Godzilla. From there it was on to another huge franchise with Star Wars spin-off Rogue One.Well,
  
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• Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom fan shares time-saving tip for tracking down Lynels

  14-07-2023 15:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom fan has shared a tip that makes locating Lynels a lot easier.Hyrule is a big place with lots to see and do and very little in the way of signage, which is great when you just want to explore, but not so great when you're looking for something very specific. Fortunately, tracking down Lynels needn't be a chore anymore, thanks to this little-known fact from Twitter user @cerebellum_crow.According to the player, wherever you see a stable when exploring the surface of H
  
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• SAG claims studios wanted to scan background actors and own their likeness forever

  14-07-2023 15:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  The SAG-AFTRA actors' strike has just kicked into gear, which, combined with the WGA writers' strike, has left Hollywood pretty much at a standstill. One of the issues that has been a sticking point for both unions is AI, and, in a press conference, SAG-AFTRA's chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland spoke more about the studios' alleged proposal.  "That 'groundbreaking AI proposal' – they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get paid for one day
  
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• Celebrate 10 years of My Talking Tom and earn exclusive rewards at Tom's in-game birthday party

  14-07-2023 14:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  My Talking Tom is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and you are invited to celebrate alongside the superstar virtual pet. If you log into My Talking Tom 2 at any time through to August 11 you'll have the chance to jump into the festivities for free, earn some exclusive bonuses, and enjoy some all-new activities. Let's start with the presents, because everybody knows that they are the best part of any surprise birthday party. To celebrate the festivities, developer Outfit7 is giving every pl
  
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• Animal Crossing wasn't Hello Kitty Island Adventure's only inspiration - Breath of the Wild played a part too

  14-07-2023 14:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Upcoming cozy adventure game Hello Kitty Island Adventure took inspiration from not only Animal Crossing but also The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It's immediately obvious from Hello Kitty Island Adventure's trailer that cozy games, like Animal Crossing: New Horizons, influenced developer Sunblink - but there was also a slightly unexpected source of inspiration for the team. As revealed during a press event for the upcoming Apple Arcade title, Chief Product Officer at the studio, Ch
  
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• Cyberpunk 2077 finally makes it to 'Very Positive' overall reviews on Steam

  14-07-2023 13:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cyberpunk 2077 has finally achieved a 'Very Positive' rating on Steam, over two years removed from its launch.As Cyberpunk 2077 fans first noted earlier today, the action-RPG has finally risen to a 'Mostly Positive' review aggregate on Steam after half a million reviews and over two years. CD Projekt community director Marcin Momot thanked the Cyberpunk 2077 community in the tweet below, praising their acknowledgment of "all the hard work the team has put in over the years since release."
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• New Pierce Brosnan Netflix movie is a smash hit – and #1 in over 40 countries

  14-07-2023 13:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  New Netflix movies have a habit of sneaking up on everyone and suddenly being the biggest thing around. Case in point: The Out-Laws, a new action-comedy starring Adam DeVine, Nina Dobrev, Ellen Barkin, and Pierce Brosnan, has proven to be a smash hit on the streamer.Not only is The Out-Laws currently #1 in over 40 countries, its viewing figures in just the first few days on Netflix match up to some of its biggest hitters. It's been viewed almost 20 million times for a grand total of 31 million h
  
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• Hayley Atwell shares her frustrations over Doctor Strange 2 role

  14-07-2023 13:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Since its release in 2022, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has proven to be one of the most divisive Marvel movies. Some loved how Sam Raimi injected as much horror as possible into a kid-friendly superhero flick, while others didn't vibe with its villainization of fan-favorite Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen). Now Hayley Atwell, who briefly shows up as shield-wielding Peggy Carter variant Captain Carter, has shared her own frustrations with the film, remembering how fans respon
  
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• Marc Spector is replaced with a new hero in What If...? Dark: Moon Knight. But who is Luminary?

  14-07-2023 13:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marc Spector's big summer continues. We previewed Moon Knight: City of the Dead yesterday, and now we have the exclusive first look at the forthcoming What If...? Dark: Moon Knight #1.In this one-shot (which doesn't tie into either Jed MacKay's regular monthly Moon Knight book, or City of the Dead), writer Erica Schultz and artist Edgar Salazar explore the ramifications of a tantalizing possibility - what if Marc Spector had been killed in his epic battle with Bushman?Moon Knight's death leads t
  
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• Shang-Chi’s Simu Liu is "pretty sure" he's in Avengers: The Kang Dynasty

  14-07-2023 13:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Since Simu Liu made his MCU debut back in 2021’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, we’ve been wondering when he’ll come back. Now, it seems we might have a better idea as the Barbie actor says he’s "pretty sure" he’s going to be in the next Avengers movie.Helmed by his Shang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty will be out in 2026. Asked if he’ll be in it by Men’s Health, Liu said: "Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be in
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 dev discusses the Divinity: Original Sin 2 spinoff that never was

  14-07-2023 13:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Divinity: Original Sin 2 spinoff was once in the works, according to Larian Studios founder Swen Vincke.In an interview with Eurogamer, Vincke spoke of the "many projects" Larian has worked on that never saw the light of day, including a Divinity: Original Sin 2 spinoff that was "quite far" into development before the studio pulled the plug."Soul for Frost Island was the code name," Vincke explained. "It was DOS2 with new mechanics.""I'm not going to tell you what the mechanics are," he a
  
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• Even after 200+ hours, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom players keep missing the same tutorial

  14-07-2023 13:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Even after hundreds of hours and two months, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom players are still missing one particular tutorial.Players missing something even after hundreds of hours is pretty common in a game as vast as Tears of the Kingdom, but this one discovery takes the cake. It turns out a horde of players are missing out on special tutorial from their menu, and they're all left pretty damn stumped by what it could be.
  I have 200 hours in the game. Completed all shrines. What is t
  
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• Intel Arc graphics cards gain new ground with Japanese partner and blue GPU innards

  14-07-2023 13:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  It feels like only yesterday that Intel Arc graphics cards made their debut, albeit with a stumbling entrance rather than a thump. However, a lot has changed since that 2022 launch, and the tech giant now has various board partners under its wing, including Acer, MSI, and Gigabyte. That list keeps growing, as Japanese manufacturer Kuroutoshikou is about to enter the Alchemist fold with an A750 model with rather striking blue innards.Look, we’re not going to pretend that Intel is tearing up
  
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• A The Last of Us 2 PS5 re-release with new content may have been leaked by the game's composer

  14-07-2023 12:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new version of The Last of Us 2 for PS5 could be on the way - if the words of the series' composer Gustavo Santaolalla are anything to go by. Appearing on an episode of the Blender podcast, Santaolalla talked about his cameo in The Last of Us Part 2, revealing (in Spanish, machine translated) that in a "new edition" of the game, players will be able to approach the composer in-game and request songs for him to play. This was all that Santaolalla said on the topic, but it's got fans convin
  
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• House of the Dragon season 2 will continue filming amid actors' strike

  14-07-2023 12:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  House of the Dragon season 2 will be allowed to continue filming in the UK despite the SAG-AFTRA actor's strike. Per Variety, HBO's fantasy show can keep on filming overseas since the cast is made up mostly of actors from the UK, whose contracts are with the union Equity. Due to UK law, Equity members cannot strike in solidarity with SAG-AFTRA. "Equity UK will support SAG-AFTRA and its members by all lawful means," said the union's strike guidance. "A performer joining the strike
  
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• This official Assassin's Creed Mirage shirt has haptic feedback to let you feel every in-game injury

  14-07-2023 12:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ubisoft is making a haptic shirt that'll let you "feel all the impacts" of Assassin's Creed Mirage.The frankly wild creation was just announced this week via a press release, and it's certainly one of the more bizarre reveals of the week. The shirt itself will let the player feel all the impacts of Assassin's Creed Mirage protagonist Basim, hopefully stopping just short of dying to an arrow or blade wound.The weird shirt is a collaboration between Ubisoft and gaming manufacturer OWO. The latter
  
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• Reactions to Studio Ghibli’s mystery new movie call it a "visual masterpiece"

  14-07-2023 12:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Studio Ghibli’s new movie may not have a western release date – but that hasn’t stopped fans and critics alike from fawning over legendary director Hayao Miyazaki’s first release in 10 years.Before we get ahead of ourselves, it’s worth checking in on the premise of How Do You Live? Not only is it pure Ghibli, it’s actually the first we’ve heard about the release after the studio chose not to release any marketing for the film.After the death of his mothe
  
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• FTC's appeal in the Microsoft Activision Blizzard case gets shot down

  14-07-2023 11:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Federal Trade Commission has had its appeal over the Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard denied by a court.As reported by Reuters earlier today on July 14, the FTC has had its appeal to halt the acquisition denied. In fact, it's none other than Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley, the same judge who originally ruled against the FTC in its bid to stop the Activision Blizzard acquisition, who's denied this new appeal from the FTC."The FTC asks this Court to enjoin the merger at issue pendin
  
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• This highly promising indie horror might just be the alien abduction game I've always wanted

  14-07-2023 01:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  They Are Here: Alien Abduction Horror is a weirdly titled but extremely promising new indie horror game about alien abduction, and well, it's about time!I was alerted to They Are Here by its developers, a husband and wife duo, on Twitter, who told me the demo has been downloaded 100,000 times and viewed more than 15 million times on YouTube. I can't verify those stats myself, but the demo has seen some viral success thanks to videos from YouTubers like Hollow, jacksepticeye, and others.I decided
  
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