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• This Last of Us FPS mod continues to look incredible and even more brutal than the original game

  19-07-2023 23:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  The mod turning The Last of Us Part 1 into an FPS game is still in development, and it's continuing to look equal parts incredible and brutal in a lengthy new video demonstration.The mod, created by YouTuber Voyagers Revenge, is not yet available for download, but we're getting the next best thing with highlights of some of the game's biggest action setpieces, including the Pittsburgh ambush. While the mod's clearly not finished - there's no animation for throwing objects, as one example of some
  
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• Weeks before The Final Shape showcase, Destiny 2 seemingly leaks its third Darkness subclass

  19-07-2023 23:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  In a severe act of deja vu, Destiny 2's next Darkness subclass may have leaked just weeks before its official reveal.As our friends at PC Gamer flagged, a short but significant clip purportedly taken from a developer build of Destiny 2 recently appeared online. The original source is, predictably, a now-deleted Reddit account set up by a user who claimed to have received the clip from a friend. Obviously, deleting the post and their account hasn't kept it out of the internet's watchful eye. The
  
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• The Crew Motorfest | New Gameplay Today

  19-07-2023 20:37
  
  Join Wesley LeBlanc, Marcus Stewart, and Kyle Hilliard as we discuss The Crew Motorfest, Ubisoft's upcoming threequel in its open-world racing series that began back in 2014 with The Crew. Wesley played roughly four hours of the game in a hands-on remote preview to learn more about its open world Oahu, Hawaii, various vehicles, racing playlists, Main Stage mode, and more. Enjoy more than 15 minutes of new gameplay from The Crew Motorsport in the latest NGT below: Ubisoft Ivory Tower de
  
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• Marvel's Spider-Man 2 developers reveal new info about Venom

  19-07-2023 20:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel's Spider-Man 2 will feature a brand new video game version of Venom who hasn't been seen in comic books before. And now senior creative director of Insomniac Games Bryan Intihar is explaining more of what fans can expect from the new Venom in a conversation with Entertainment Weekly, specifically about the process of casting actor Tony Todd as the voice of Venom and how that affected the character's presence and appearance in the game.EW also has a new look at Venom in the game, seen here
  
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• Star Wars Outlaws takes cues from my favorite part of Mass Effect 1 to emulate the look of the original films

  19-07-2023 20:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star Wars Outlaws is set between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and the developers are going all out to make sure the game fits not just the fictional era, but the actual age in which those movies are made - and it sounds like they're taking the same approach that BioWare did with the original Mass Effect."Our game is set between Empire and Jedi, so we wanted to emulate that feel," creative director Julian Gerighty said in the latest issue of Edge Magazine. Gerighty said the team at
  
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• Destiny 2 just giga-buffed one of its oldest Exotics and now it's destroying everything

  19-07-2023 19:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Destiny 2 just dropped a sizable but fairly standard weapon balance patch, and it's had at least one massive winner: Graviton Lance, one of the oldest guns in the game.Graviton Lance is an Exotic Void pulse rifle that's been around since the earliest days of Destiny 2. In fact, it was one of the Exotics you could get for free just by finishing the Red War campaign at launch – the same campaign which has now been lost to the Destiny Content Vault. Through years of pulse rifle tweaks, Gravit
  
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• Blizzard games are heading to Steam, starting with Overwatch 2

  19-07-2023 18:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Blizzard games will be available on PC outside of the company's Battle.Net launcher when Overwatch 2 releases on Valve's platform next month.In an announcement today, the developer confirmed that its games would be available on an alternative PC platform for the first time starting from August 10. In a press release, the company suggested that Overwatch 2's free-to-play, team-based format made it the best fit for Blizzard's Steam debut.Blizzard's PC portfolio has been exclusively available on Ba
  
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• The best-selling Xbox games right now are Call of Duty titles from 10+ years ago

  19-07-2023 18:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  The best-selling Xbox games right now are a bunch of Call of Duty games that were released over 10 years ago. Earlier this week, Call of Duty fans noticed that the online servers for the series' classic games have been randomly switched back on. This quickly resulted in a spike in players for the likes of Call of Duty Black Ops 1, 2, and Modern Warfare 3 - despite all three of the games being over 10 years old now. Following this, several Xbox fans have noticed a similar trend over on
  
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• The Crew Motorfest Preview - Competent And Familiar

  19-07-2023 18:01
  
  Platform:PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC Publisher:Ubisoft Developer:Ubisoft Ivory Tower Release: September 14, 2023 Rating:Teen The Crew, Ubisoft’s racing franchise akin to Microsoft’s Forza series and EA’s Need For Speed, has been around for nearly a decade. And since its inception, it has struggled to make a cultural dent in the racing genre, despite sales greenlighting a sequel and, now, a threequel in The Crew Motorfest. I went into a four-hour
  
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• MMO pulled offline after players start crashing everyone's game with a 14-year-old tradition

  19-07-2023 17:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Old School Runescape went offline for several hours earlier today, after players discovered an issue that let them crash the game via a 14-year-old tradition.Earlier today, OSRS got an update with some relatively small technical changes. Shortly after the update went live, players began to realize that sending rainbow text through the in-game chat would crash the game - not just for themselves, but for anybody in range to see that text. That's something that could pretty easily be exploited by u
  
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• Netflix has removed one of its ad-free tiers

  19-07-2023 17:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  In a fairly surprising move, Netflix has removed one of its streaming plans without warning.The Basic plan (which costs $9.99/£6.99 a month) is now no longer available on Netflix in the US and UK. It was recently removed in Canada. The sign-up page also doesn’t include a sign-up option for the tier – which allowed streaming up to 720p on one device."The Basic plan is no longer available for new or rejoining members," Netflix wrote on its FAQ page (H/T The Hollywood Reporter).Th
  
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• Melanie Lynskey turned down a role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

  19-07-2023 17:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Melanie Lynskey may be up for two Emmys at this year's ceremony, but she wasn't always so keen to take on small-screen roles – in a new interview, the actor revealed that she turned down the role of Willow Rosenberg in Buffy the Vampire Slayer."It was kind of a visa issue, but not really," she told writer Evan Ross Katz for his Substack newsletter, Shut Up Evan. "I also was not sure about doing television at that time. It was very early in my career. I had a very old-school agent who was l
  
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• Yakuza lead shuts down speculation over Kiryu's love life, and fans are devastated

  19-07-2023 17:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  A lead Yakuza dev has played down Kiryu's comments in a past trailer, and series fans can't handle it.Last month in June, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio showed off a new scene for the upcoming Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, where protagonists Ichiban and Kiryu exchanged comments about love. Kiryu's comments, though, lead many to believe he'd proposed to a woman before, and that woman could very well be Yakuza Kiwami 2's Kaoru Sayama. Fans were lead to believe this by Kiryu flippantly remarking "I pr
  
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• The Overwatch League could end this season, saddling Blizzard with a $114 million termination fee

  19-07-2023 17:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Overwatch League, once one of the highest-profile esports competitions in the world, appears to be nearing its end.In a recent investor report, developer Activision-Blizzard said that it had recently changed "certain terms of our collaborative arrangements with team entities participating in the Overwatch League." Those new terms mean that "following the conclusion of the current Overwatch League season, the teams will vote on an updated operating agreement."If the teams don't vote to contin
  
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• Blizzard promises "many years" of Diablo 4 story content through expansions

  19-07-2023 17:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 4 will be getting story content, in the form of expansions, for "many years", Activision has revealed.On July 19, Activision released its financial results for the second quarter of 2023, and in it revealed Blizzard's future plans for the recently launched Diablo 4. In the Blizzard section of the results, Activision writes: "The launch of Diablo IV marks the start of a live service plan designed to deeply engage the Diablo community and create opportunities for continued player investment
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3's lead writer on the "spiderweb" formation of the game's 17,000 endings

  19-07-2023 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  17,000. That's how many permutations of Baldur's Gate 3's ending you might come across, the result of hundreds of choices across dozens of hours of gameplay. Those constantly-branching narrative pathways are a cornerstone of tabletop D&D, but bringing them to life in a video game seems like an impossible task.According to Baldur's Gate 3 writer Adam Smith, however, that perception comes from a common misconception of the idea of a branching narrative. "It's not that you start at point A, and
  
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• Iman Vellani hid from Samuel L. Jackson on set of The Marvels because she was so starstruck

  19-07-2023 16:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Iman Vellani may be the MCU's Kamala Khan, AKA teen superhero Ms. Marvel – but that didn't stop her from getting overwhelmed while meeting franchise mainstays for the first time. According to a new report from Entertainment Weekly, Vellani was so starstruck upon first seeing Nick Fury actor Samuel L. Jackson on the set of The Marvels that she hid behind director Nia DaCosta.The movie, a sequel to 2019's Captain Marvel, will see Kamala join forces with Carol Danvers, AKA Captain Marvel
  
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• Good Shepherd partners with Rebellion to develop video games based on 2000 AD stories

  19-07-2023 16:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  2000 AD publisher Rebellion has partnered with Good Shepherd Entertainment to develop a new series of video games based on characters from the iconic anthology comic.Although precise details of the titles currently in development have not been released, there's no doubt that there are plenty to choose from. 2000 AD is the home of notables such as Judge Dredd, Rogue Trooper, ABC Warriors, Strontium Dog, Sláine, and many more classic characters."We are huge fans of Rebellion and 2000 AD" sa
  
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• Pokemon Sleep fans appalled to learn the game is recording their farts while they sleep

  19-07-2023 16:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pokemon Sleep sounds like a cute idea for a game until you realise that it’s recording all the snoring and farting you do throughout the night. That’s what fans of the mobile game are starting to learn now that the sleep ‘em up has been out for a few days across iOS and Android. If you play Pokemon Sleep as the developer suggests, you’ll have your phone next to your pillow while charging. Fire hazards aside, that means your phone is well-positioned to pick up every n
  
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• 10 million people "experienced" Diablo 4 in June, and none of them are happy right now

  19-07-2023 16:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 4 reached 10 million players throughout its launch month in June.That's according to new financial data provided by publisher Activision, marking their financial results for the end of the second quarter of the 2023 financial year. Activision writes that over 10 million players "experienced" Diablo 4 during its launch month in June, which is admittedly a very odd way to phrase it.Does that mean that all the 10 million people who "experienced" Diablo 4 in June didn't actually buy the new g
  
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• A new hell for game preservation: this gacha game will shut down forever if players don't top up a mysterious counter

  19-07-2023 16:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Japanese mobile game's future hangs in the balance as its publisher reveals that it's up to players to keep the game running by filling up a mysterious counter. As reported by Automaton, Itsuwari no Alice players will soon have to keep the game going themselves after a recent announcement from the game's publisher, Visual Arts. On July 15, Visual Arts shared the news on Twitter, telling players that it plans to halt the release of new content for the game after maintenance is completed on
  
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• The Nun 2 director compares Valak to Pennywise, Dracula, and more: "She's a classic movie monster"

  19-07-2023 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  "I really think that the Nun is a classic movie monster," The Nun 2 director Michael Chaves explains in the new issue of Total Film magazine, which is out on newsstands on Thursday, July 20. "She reminds me of Pennywise and Dracula and Nosferatu. I see every classic monster when I look at her. I feel like she's absolutely up there in that pantheon." Living up to the likes Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Leatherface, and more is a tall order but if staying power is part of the criteria, then
  
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• A Haunting in Venice trailer sees Kenneth Branagh's Poirot face the paranormal

  19-07-2023 15:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new A Haunting in Venice trailer shows Kenneth Branagh's Hercule Poirot going up against the paranormal, as a crime occurs in what appears to be a haunted house. In the trailer, which you can watch above, Poirot is present at a particularly convincing séance – conducted by Michelle Yeoh's Mrs. Reynolds – with his old friend Ariadne Oliver (Tina Fey), who wants to prove the psychic is a fake. But, as you'd expect, someone is murdered. All is not as it appears,
  
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• After Redfall's disastrous launch, it looks like its developer is going back to its roots

  19-07-2023 15:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  It looks like Arkane Austin is headed back to its roots after the Redfall debacle.Earlier today a new Arkane Austin job listing for a Lead Technical Engineer was spotted by eagle-eyed Twitter users. The job might not at first appear to give anything away about the game it's associated with, but Arkane Austin is after someone who has "familiarity with single player action-RPGs and immersive sims."If this doesn't sound like the vast majority of Arkane's back-catalog, we don't know what does. Arkan
  
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• Prime Video unveils action-packed, angsty The Wheel of Time season 2 trailer

  19-07-2023 15:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for The Wheel of Time season 2 is finally here – and it's giving us all the fantasy drama epicness we could hope for.Due to the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, the Prime Video show's cast and crew pulled out of the show's scheduled panel at San Diego Comic-Con recently, which meant that the first-look teaser debuted online instead. In the clip, which you can watch above, we get glimpses of Egwene (Madeleine Madden) and new character Elayne Trakand (Ceara Coveney) tryin
  
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• Despite 3-month delay, the Xbox Activision merger now looks more likely than ever

  19-07-2023 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The deadline to complete the Xbox Activision deal has been extended by three months.In a tweet, Xbox chief Phil Spencer confirmed that "Microsoft and Activision Blizzard have extended the merger agreement deadline" to October 18. That follows the deal's failure to meet the original deadline, which was set for July 18, but was hindered by legal processes. Should the deal fall through, Microsoft will now have to pay up to a maximum of $4.5 billion rather than the original $3 billion as a terminati
  
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• Christopher Nolan has explained why Oppenheimer doesn't show Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  19-07-2023 14:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Christopher Nolan has addressed why Oppenheimer doesn't directly depict the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The film focuses on the titular J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb. The combined death toll of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are put at between 129,000 and 226,000 people, mostly civilians. "We know so much more than he did at the time," Nolan said at a New York screening of the movie of why the bombings aren't shown (H/T IndieWire). "He learned ab
  
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• The Mission Impossible 7 train scene was originally the length of a full movie

  19-07-2023 14:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you’ve seen Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1, you’ll know it ends with a frankly incredible train sequence. This features Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and Hayley Atwell’s Grace climbing through the derailed train as it begins to plunge off a broken bridge, naturally after Hunt landed on it by jumping off a cliff on a motorcycle too.Well, we now know that originally that Orient Express section was going to be a whole lot longer. Speaking to Variety, the film
  
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• Celebrate Barbenheimer with this Barbie dream powerhouse gaming PC mashup

  19-07-2023 14:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you thought memes about the release of Barbie and Oppenheimer this weekend stopped at Ryan Gosling prefixing as many words as possible with "Ken", you've underestimated the power of this Summer's biggest Blockbusters. UK-based retailer CCL Computers has launched Barbenheimer deals on some great gaming hardware.With Barbie and Oppenheimer exploding onto big screens around the world this weekend, there's been a great response online to the two films sharing the red carpet. With the films having
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 lets you customize your genitals and remove your pants, as all good RPGs should

  19-07-2023 13:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Not only can you customize your genitals in Baldur's Gate 3, but you can remove your pants to really flaunt what you've got. Speaking to Kotaku, lead character artist Alena Dubrovina spells out what the D&D RPG's character creator has to offer, and it turns out to be a fair bit! As you'd expect from a game that borrows from genres where self-expression is the appeal, the character creator has many options to help you craft the character you want to take on an adventure.When discussing h
  
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• Eisner nominee Zoe Thorogood takes long-running horror comic Hack/Slash back to school

  19-07-2023 13:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Horror comic Hack/Slash is back with a new spinoff and a new creator in 2023 Eisner Award nominee Zoe Thorogood.The four-issue Hack/Slash: Back to School launches in October, just in time for Halloween. Few story details are currently available, but Image's press release suggests that monster hunter Cassie Hack will be dealing with "a murderous bunny mascot, dead kids, and an entire squad of maladjusted teenage serial-killer hunters."Thorogood said of the new series, "I love the bizarre crossroa
  
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• This might be one of the cleanest Hollow Knight fights we've ever seen

  19-07-2023 13:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Hollow Knight player has dismantled the Watcher Knight bosses in one of the cleanest fights ever.One Hollow Knight player was told their way of fighting the Watcher Knights bosses was "weird," and it turns out their way of fighting is god-like. The Watcher Knights get utterly decimated in the clip just below, in which the player dispatches all versions of the boss in under 90 seconds.
  My friend said my way of fighting watcher knights is weird. What do you think? from r/HollowKnight
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• Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd teaming up for new A24 movie Death of a Unicorn

  19-07-2023 13:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega are teaming up for Death of a Unicorn, a new A24 movie that has been given special permission to keep filming during the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Not much is known about the flick yet, though we do know that the pair will be playing a father and daughter who run over a unicorn on their way home. Shooting is due to kick off in Hungary very soon, with Resurrection director Alex Scharfman, who wrote the script, behind the camera.On Tuesday, July 18, it was
  
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• The Lincoln Lawyer dethrones The Witcher from Netflix's #1 spot

  19-07-2023 13:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Lincoln Lawyer has knocked The Witcher off the top spot in Netflix's chart of its most-watched shows. The Lincoln Lawyer season 2 part 1 has amassed 8.3 million total views and 35.3 million hours viewed, pushing it to the top of the streamer's global top 10 for English-language TV shows. The Witcher season 3 part 1, by contrast, is now in second place with 6.7 million total views and 32.1 million hours viewed over the same time period (July 10-16). The Lincoln Lawyer season 2 part
  
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• 39 indie projects are allowed to shoot amid SAG-AFTRA actors' strike

  19-07-2023 13:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  39 indie movies and TV shows will be allowed to continue filming amid the ongoing SAG-AFRA actors' strike. According to Variety, the list of approved movies and shows includes two A24 projects – Mother Mary, directed by David Lowery and starring Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel, and Death of a Unicorn, which stars Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega. A24 is not actually part of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, or AMPTP, the body SAG-AFTRA was negotiating with that repres
  
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• Cozy MMO Palia channels its Stardew Valley vibes gets huge gameplay reveal trailer

  19-07-2023 13:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cozy MMO Palia has got a huge gameplay reveal, showcasing what players can get up to during the game's upcoming betas. Developer Singularity 6 gives fans their best look yet at the upcoming social MMO. In an hour-long gameplay reveal trailer, we see demonstrations of several of the game's exciting features, including crafting, fishing, multiplayer, farming, and much more. We also got an insight into the game's art direction, its characters, and its character customization options.Often desc
  
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• Diablo 4's new Uber Unique is a Diablo 3 throwback

  19-07-2023 13:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 4's new patch adds a new Uber Unique for players to chase, and it's actually a throwback to an elite Diablo 3 item.As first noted by Icy-Veins yesterday, Diablo 4's patch 1.1.0 added Ahavarion, Spear of Lycander to the game. The new spear is effectively the seventh Uber Unique item in Diablo 4, and the first one that's been added in after launch last month.If you aren't a veteran of the Diablo series thus far, you might not know that the Spear of Lycander was available back in Diablo 3. T
  
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• Netflix cancels Masters of the Universe movie despite already spending $30 million

  19-07-2023 12:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Masters of the Universe movie is officially dead at Netflix, despite the streamer reportedly already spending over $30 million on developing it. Based on the He-Man and other Mattel toys, the live-action movie has been in the works at Netflix since 2019, after landing there from other distributors. However, according to Variety, it’s no longer happening, adding another delay to the long-awaited adaptation. The issue, the publication reports, was over budget concerns.The huge costs
  
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• EA Sports FC 24: Everything we know so far about the FIFA 24 replacement

  19-07-2023 12:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  EA Sports FC 24 details are finally here, more than a year after the successor for FIFA 23 was announced. That's right: the biggest football series in gaming is gone for good, ushering in a new era for digital sports. But what's the reasoning behind the big switcheroo? And where can you find the FC 24 release date, trailer, Ultimate Team details, and gameplay round-up? In this detailed scouting report, of course – your one-stop EA Sports FC 24 guide. 
  What is the EA Sports FC 24 relea
  
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• This might be the best Mario Kart 8 performance you'll ever see

  19-07-2023 12:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  We've witnessed what could be the greatest Mario Kart 8 Deluxe performance in history.Last year in December, a new Mario Kart 8 Deluxe update let players customize items, meaning they could, in theory, make every single item in a race blue shells and triple mushrooms. That's exactly what the streamer below has done, but they've emerged from the chaos an absolute god at racing.
  Mario Kart can be peak but then there's CINEMA 🗿 pic.twitter.com/ww3h2Dgta3July 18, 2023See more
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• Diablo 4 fans think Blizzard is learning the wrong lessons from WoW and Overwatch

  19-07-2023 12:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 4 fans frustrated with the game's first big patch are going beyond the game's scope, airing frustrations over how developer Blizzard has handled updating other live service games like World of Warcraft or Overwatch.Blizzard dropped the Diablo 4 Season 1 patch notes last night, ahead of Season of the Malignant starting tomorrow. While there are a fair few things that fans have taken an exception to – such as nerfs to the already-weak Sorceror – the general theme of the changes
  
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• Blizzard knows you don't like the Diablo 4 patch

  19-07-2023 11:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Blizzard is addressing feedback to Diablo 4 patch 1.1.0 in a livestream later this week.The Diablo 4 Season 1 patch notes dropped yesterday, with headline changes focusing on buffing classes but nerfing powerful builds, especially those based around Crit Damage and Vulnerable enemies. According to the reaction across social media, they've proved pretty unpopular, but Blizzard says it's aware of the sentiment around the update.
  We have been hearing feedback from players regarding some of the chan
  
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• Diablo 4 Sorcerer players in shambles as the game's worst class gets hit by a wave of nerfs

  19-07-2023 11:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Just a few days after Diablo 4 fans were lamenting how underpowered the Sorcerer is, Blizzard has only gone and nerfed the class.Yesterday saw the launch of the beefy Diablo 4 update 1.1.0 patch notes, and among the 6,600 words, there were a significant number of changes to the Sorcerer class. The tweet below breaks down the changes into a digestible format, revealing the Devouring Blaze and the Aspect of Retribution have both been nerfed with some pretty hefty changes. 
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