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• Destiny 2 is giving players a buff they've wanted for years, so of course it's also a nerf

  26-07-2023 22:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  In an extremely Destiny 2 moment, Bungie's making a long-requested quality of life change with one hand and removing a handy workaround with the other.As the developer detailed in a short new blog post about economy changes, Destiny 2's infamously finicky masterwork materials are getting increased resource caps. Ascendant Shards (golf balls, we pros call them) and Ascendant Alloys are going from a cap of 10 to 30, and Enhancement Prisms are going from 50 to 100. It's hard to overstate how l
  
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• Diablo 4's controversial season 1 leads players to a staggering revelation: you can stop playing when you're not having fun

  26-07-2023 22:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 4 players disappointed by season 1 are toying with a novel idea: doing something else.It's fair to say that Diablo 4 season 1 hasn't been well received by players, and I say that with confidence because Blizzard itself recently admitted the changes were "bad" and "not fun." And while we have no reason to believe the lackluster seasonal content is having any sort of significant impact on Diablo 4's massively successful launch, a growing number of demon slayers say they're hanging up their
  
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• Don't let these 10 extremely well-hidden gems in the Steam Stealth Fest sneak by

  26-07-2023 22:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Valve launched Steam Stealth Fest with appropriate quiet earlier this week, so you've got until Monday, July 31 at 10am PT / 1pm ET to grab some sneaky deals. Stealth is in some way present in a lot of modern games that are generally better known for their action or roleplaying, so the Steam Stealth Fest selection is consequently extremely broad. There are a ton of heavy-hitters available on the cheap, so let's get those out of the way. You can't hardly go wrong with Dishonored, Metal Gear,
  
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• The Last Days of Lex Luthor challenges the value of Superman's moral code

  26-07-2023 22:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  There have been many fine tales told about the Man of Steel, but few would deny that All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely is up there with the very best of them. Published across 12 issues, the out-of-continuity saga attempted to boil the character down to his essentials, giving us a deep and often moving insight into what makes Kal-El/Clark Kent tick. If, somehow, you've never read the book then, for the love of Zod, go and rectify that right now.Superman: The Last Days of Lex
  
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• People can finally try the League of Legends fighting game 4 years after its announcement

  26-07-2023 21:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Seven years after Riot acquired developer Radiant Entertainment, and four years after it revealed fighting game Project L among a litany of other spinoffs, the League of Legends fighter will finally be playable next month. Riot's announced that Project L will have a playable demo at the Evo 2023 show floor, which runs from August 4 through August 6. The demo, however, will only be available the first two days. Three playable champions have been revealed so far: Ekko, Ahri, and Darius. A fou
  
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• Sea of Thieves season 10 is so big it's delayed 2 months and taking season 11's defining feature

  26-07-2023 20:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sea of Thieves developer Rare has announced that season 10 has been delayed to October 19 - roughly two months later than originally planned.In a video update, Sea of Thieves creative director Mike Chapman explained that the size and scope of season 10, and specifically the way it makes changes to the game's foundation, is the reason for the delay. "As you look on Sea of Thieves, we obviously have features that speak to the variety of the sandbox, which, although challenging in their own w
  
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• Cillian Murphy's Batman audition is going viral again thanks to Oppenheimer

  26-07-2023 19:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cillian Murphy's screen test for Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins is making the rounds on the Internet again – all thanks to Oppenheimer, of course.The full clip, which you can watch here, sees Murphy both in the suit and as Bruce Wayne. His Batman voice is in a similar, husky tone to Bale's, but some fans have gone out of their way to Murphy's better. Either way, there were many opinions."Cillian would not have made a good Batman, sorry. It would have been Val Kilmer all over again," one
  
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• The best SDCC toy announcements 2023, from X-Men '97 to Pokemon

  26-07-2023 19:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Although San Diego Comic-Con 2023 wasn't exactly what we were expecting this year, all the new SDCC toys and action figures that were announced still managed to impress. Or weird us out. Often at the same time, actually.Everything from Marvel Legends to Funko delivered cool collectibles for this year's event, and while some were to be expected (more additions to Star Wars The Vintage Collection, for example), others took us totally by surprise. SDCC toys of Steven Spielberg shooting Jurassic Par
  
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• Capcom's golden age continues with staggering success fueled by classics: Street Fighter, Resident Evil, and Monster Hunter

  26-07-2023 19:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Capcom may be the happiest AAA publisher in games right now, and it's reported yet more good news on the heels of Street Fighter 6's explosive launch, which has helped put the company "on track to achieve 11 consecutive years of full-year operating profit growth." The company's latest financial statements are awash with eye-popping margins that even us non-bean counters can easily understand to be mighty impressive. For the quarter ending June 30, 2023, total net sales were up 73.8% year-ov
  
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• This adorable farming sim might just be the ultimate Stardew Valley dupe

  26-07-2023 18:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  We've seen a lot of Stardew Valley-likes over the years, but this adorable farming sim might be the ultimate dupe. Everholm is an upcoming cozy, minimalist RPG that looks just like ConcernedApe's famous farming sim, Stardew Valley. A look at the game's trailer below should be enough to convince you just how similar the two games are, but Everholm also has a lot of interesting and unique features. According to its Steam page, Everholm is an open-ended role-playing game that "focuses les
  
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• Talk to Me directors have already written scenes for a sequel

  26-07-2023 18:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Talk to Me hasn't even been released yet, but directing duo Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou are already thinking about a sequel. In fact, the former has even penned a few scenes for a follow-up already with his partner Bill Hinzman.Starring Sophie Wilde, Alexandra Jensen, and Miranda Otto, the new horror – which was picked up by A24 following its buzzy premiere at this year's Sundance Film Festival – puts a cool viral spin on possession. It centers on Mia, a grief-stricken 17 y
  
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• Where to pre-order the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 (and get the best deal)

  26-07-2023 18:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 pre-orders are now live, following the range's announcement at this year's Galaxy Unpacked event. Its promise of a 120Hz refresh rate on a pure OLED panel, combined with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, up to 16GB RAM, and 5G capabilities, has us particularly excited. We could see a new contender amongst the best gaming tablets on the market, if that display lives up to the hype of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra. 
  Jump straight to the best pre-order dealsUS: Samsung -
  
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• New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie to get sequel film plus two-season TV show

  26-07-2023 17:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Paramount and Nickelodeon have big plans for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.Though Mutant Mayhem isn't out just yet, Paramount and Nickelodeon CEO Brian Robbins is already developing a sequel. The two studios are also set to produce two seasons of a 2D-animated streaming series titled Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with the voice cast from the movies that will serve as a "bridge" between the films (H/T Variety). Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, and Brady Noon, who voice the
  
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• Final Fantasy 14 fans hope the new patch 7.0 jobs makes good on old ideas

  26-07-2023 17:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Another Final Fantasy 14 Fan Fest is around the corner, and that means details on the next big expansion for the MMO. Alongside the title of the grandiose patch and a lil’ trailer to boot, we’re likely to discover what new jobs are on the way – at some point. You see, Final Fantasy 14 gets several Fan Fests staged in America, Europe, and Japan. America is up first, with Europe coming thereafter before a showcase in Japan wraps it all up next year. That means that the
  
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• Over 3 years later, Animal Crossing: New Horizons fans are ready to talk about their least favorite bits of the game

  26-07-2023 17:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been over three years since Nintendo released Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and now its fans are ready to talk about their least favorite feature in the game. Over on the Animal Crossing subreddit, fans of the desert island game are discussing their least favorite features of their favorite game. This all started when one user shared a post titled: "Are there any activities in the game that you just CANNOT get into?" Along with the example of stretching - an activity that doesn't real
  
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• Star Wars Outlaws director says this won't be an "unfinishable" Assassin's Creed-style RPG

  26-07-2023 17:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star Wars Outlaws creative director Julian Gerighty says the upcoming open-world game won't follow in the footsteps of modern Assassin's Creed titles as a "200 or 300-hour epic unfinishable RPG."Speaking with our friends at Edge Magazine earlier this month, Gerighty said that a "crude analogy" would put the average Star Wars Outlaws planet at around the size of "two to three zones" in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. He added that Outlaws is not taking the "epic 'the whole of England recreated' approac
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 veterans share the game's biggest secrets to prepare for the end of early access

  26-07-2023 17:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  As Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access draws to an end ahead of the game's full release next week, players are pointing out the things that their less eagle-eyed peers might have missed.Larian has confirmed that the game's first act - the only part of the game you can play in Early Access - is going through some changes with the full release. Some of those are pretty minor, but others, such as Origin character Karlach's transition from NPC to playable character, make for some much bigger tweaks to the
  
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• Keep it up, MMO fans: Destiny 2 community joins WoW's in clowning on AI writers with secret boss Glorbo

  26-07-2023 16:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Destiny 2 players have joined their World of Warcraft brethren in fooling AI-written articles with a fake character.Earlier this month, WoW players decided to run a little social experiment. A few of them gathered together on the game's subreddit to laud the arrival of Glorbo, a prestigious character new to the MMO. The character was entirely fake, of course, but AI bots weren't going to know that, so some reported on the thing treating Glorbo as fact. Now Destiny 2 fans have got in on the
  
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• Liam Hemsworth's The Witcher debut could be delayed as season 4 filming put on hold

  26-07-2023 16:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Liam Hemsworth's debut in The Witcher seems to have hit its first bump – filming on season 4 has now been put on hold, meaning that significant delays are likely before we see his first outing as Geralt.Filming on the next installment of the Netflix hit was meant to start in September 2023 before wrapping up in May 2024. However, production has now been pushed back until a still unknown date in 2024, according to Redanian Intelligence. Netflix hasn't given a reason for this delay but
  
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• Secret Invasion may have introduced a Kang-killer with its newest hero

  26-07-2023 15:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Secret Invasion finale has been and gone. If you thought it didn’t have an impact on the wider Marvel story, however, you’re very much mistaken. The sixth and final episode of the spy thriller has cemented a new hero as one of the most hilariously overpowered forces in the MCU.Spoilers for Secret Invasion follow, you have been warned.Previously on Secret Invasion, G’iah (Emilia Clarke) began the process to turn herself into a Super Skrull – essentially a Skrull with t
  
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• Secret Invasion finale leaves out one vital detail – and fans want answers

  26-07-2023 15:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Secret Invasion has now come to an end on Disney Plus, bringing this chapter of the MCU to a close. One question, however, still remains unanswered: how long has Rhodey (Don Cheadle) been a Skrull?  Although we'd suspected it since Rhodey first appeared in the show in episode 2, it was only confirmed in episode 4 that the Rhodey in Secret Invasion was actually a Skrull – he instructed Nick Fury's wife Priscilla to kill him, and we also got a glimpse of the green Skrull face behin
  
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• Secret Invasion fans are distraught this Agents of SHIELD character didn't show up

  26-07-2023 14:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warning! This article contains spoilers for Secret Invasion season 1. If you've yet to finish the show, turn back now.Secret Invasion has concluded, or at least its first season has. With no renewal announcement having been made, we can assume it's the last we'll see of the show, too – and fans are gutted that a certain Agents of SHIELD character never made an appearance.After the finale, titled 'Home', landed on Disney Plus, viewers took to Twitter to share their upset over Chloe Bennet's
  
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• PlayStation Access Controller now available for pre-order at Amazon

  26-07-2023 14:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  The PlayStation Access Controller is now available for pre-order at Amazon in preparation for its launch on December 6.The Access Controller will provide an alternative way to play PS5's library of games for folks who require more accessibility options than a typical gamepad allows. It's a highly customizable controller kit for which you can create up to 30 different profiles. The Access controller has a suggested retail price of $89.99 / £79.99 and can be used from any 360-degree ori
  
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• Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player yeets Link as far as humanly possible

  26-07-2023 13:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  The art of yeeting in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has reached its peak after months of trial and error.Engineering is a tricky business in Tears of the Kingdom, even with all the newfound powers Link's been afforded in the sequel. The act of throwing Link high up into the skies above Hyrule has become an art form all of its own, and it all started two months ago with the Reddit post below.
  So today I found out the height limit is 3292 meters from r/tearsofthekingdom
  Coincidentally,
  
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• This hidden Baldur's Gate 3 setting puts you at risk of taking 400% extra damage - but you can disable it

  26-07-2023 13:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate 3 has a hidden setting switched on by default, and it increases the damage players receive from enemies by up to 400%.Ahead of Baldur's Gate 3's full release on August 3 (PC) and August 31 (PS5), one Reddit user has taken it upon themselves to alert newbies to the hidden setting. This is actually a group effort as although Reddit user Havelok was the one to bring it back to fans' attention, user akdavidxy was actually the one who discovered this trick in the first place. Accor
  
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• Zoe Saldaña wanted Gamora to be a Guardian again – but that would have erased one of Vol 3's most emotional moments

  26-07-2023 13:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Zoe Saldaña has shared her thoughts on Gamora's Guardians of the Galaxy 3 journey. At the end of the film, Gamora – who is actually a version of herself from pre-Guardians of the Galaxy, as the 'prime' version of Gamora was killed in Avengers: Endgame – doesn't rejoin the Guardians and instead returns to the Ravagers. "I did. It was a bittersweet decision, obviously," Saldaña told The Hollywood Reporter (pre-SAG-AFTRA actors' strike) of appreciating the decisi
  
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• First look at Nicolas Winding Refn's Famous Five includes a returning Jack Gleeson

  26-07-2023 13:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  While it feels like we only just heard about its existence, the BBC has released the first look at Nicolas Winding Refn's Famous Five adaptation. In a new casting announcement, it was confirmed who will be playing the iconic roles and we have some images from the show too. Lucky us, right? The five features Diaana Babnicova as George, Elliott Rose as Julian, Kit Rakusen as Dick, and Flora Jacoby Richardson as Anne. Of course, Timmy the dog completes the cast as the gang's faithful furry fri
  
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• Diablo 4 player discovers you spend more time exploring than fighting in Nightmare Dungeons

  26-07-2023 12:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Diablo 4 veteran has run some math on Nightmare Dungeons, and come up with some intriguing results.The post below outlines the experiment the player undertook for Season 1 of Diablo 4. They ran 10 Nightmare Dungeons on tiers between 5 and 10, and then analyzed the time spent fighting and simply running around, and revealed that the majority of time spent in the endgame dungeons was running around instead of fighting. 
  I collected data on what percent of time in nightmare dungeons was spen
  
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• Xbox hardware sales in continued Slump as Microsoft announces Q4 figures

  26-07-2023 12:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Microsoft has announced its Q4 revenue figures for the financial year 2023, and Xbox hardware sales are down 13% year-on-year compared to the same three-month period. This follows a Q3 report back in April that showed hardware sales being down 30% compared to the first three-quarters of FY22.Overall, Microsoft's experienced an 8% rise in total revenue, with a 1% increase coming from its overall gaming profits, which will include Game Pass subscriptions and software sales. In fact, Xbox Series X
  
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• Cillian Murphy almost played Oppenheimer in a TV show 10 years ago – but luckily he didn't

  26-07-2023 12:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Oppenheimer may be taking the box office by storm, but Christopher Nolan's new movie isn't the only recent Hollywood take on the birth of the atomic bomb. Manhattan, a TV show that ran for two seasons on the now-defunct network WGN America, told a fictionalized account of what went down in the laboratories at Los Alamos, the isolated town in the New Mexico desert where the nuclear weapon was tested and made. Airing between 2014 and 2015, the cast included Rachel Brosnahan, David Harbour, an
  
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• SAG-AFTRA says studios declined to re-start strike negotiations

  26-07-2023 12:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  SAG-AFTRA has given an important update on the ongoing actors' strike – and it sounds like the standstill won't be coming to an end anytime soon. Earlier in the month, negotiations between the union and AMPTP (that's the body that negotiates on behalf of the studios) concluded with no new contract, and SAG-AFTRA went on strike shortly afterwards. Combined with the ongoing WGA writers' strike, that's brought Hollywood pretty much to a halt. "We want to get back to doing the work w
  
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• Pokemon Sleep took so long to come out because you can't playtest sleep

  26-07-2023 12:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pokemon Sleep took so long to release because its developers had a hard time playtesting a game that could only be played once a day.As revealed in an interview with developer Select Games and Famitsu (translations via Automaton), the team working on Pokemon Sleep had to take extra time developing the sleep tracking app due to only being able to playtest the game once a day - when humans would naturally get a full night's sleep. Select Games' Keisuke Miyagawa told Famitsu: "We struggled wit
  
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• One of Scarlet and Violet's worst Pokemon could become a competitive powerhouse

  26-07-2023 12:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Brambleghast sucked in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, but it's becoming a powerhouse on the competitive scene.As competitive Pokemon expert WolfeyVGC explains in the video below, the Pokemon World Championships tournament could get shaken up this year by an unlikely competitor. This would be none other than Brambleghast, a low-tier Pokemon in Scarlet and Violet - styled after a tumbleweed, it's just as fragile as you'd expect - that's seen its fortunes rise over the past few months.It's all centred
  
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• Talk to Me's original script didn't actually feature a hand, says co-writer

  26-07-2023 11:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Talk to Me, A24's new horror hit, revolves around a hand. A real creepy-looking embalmed hand, cut off at the wrist, with scribbles all over it, which allows its owners to bridge the gap between the living and the dead. According to co-writer Danny Philippou, though, the film's original script didn't feature any such hand at all.Directed by Philippou and his twin brother Michael Philippou, the Aussie chiller centers on Mia (Sophie Wilde), a young woman who's still struggling to come to terms wit
  
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• Diablo 4 bug makes a money-saving reward actually cost you way more gold

  26-07-2023 11:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Diablo 4 bug is making Legendary items more expensive to re-roll at vendors.As evidenced by the clip below, the streamer in question demonstrates how a bug is ruining re-rolls for certain items. A Legendary item they're going to re-roll originally costs 7 million gold, but when they put points into the Urn of Bargaining Season Blessing, the price of re-rolling the item at the vendor suddenly jumps up to above 8 million gold.
  You must know this! Found a big bug with Diablo 4 Seasonal Blessings
  
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• The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 studio is laying off "around 100" developers due to overstaffing

  26-07-2023 10:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  CD Projekt is laying off "around 100" developers because it's "overstaffed."Earlier today on July 26, the studio published the "Organizational Update" just below, outlining the immediate future for its developers. "The studio parting ways with around 100 people, which is roughly 9% of the entire team," CD Projekt Red CEO Adam Kiciński writes, noting that all the layoffs won't be immediate, and some might not come until next year.
  CD PROJEKT RED Organizational Update.Read
  
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• MMO players can now support Ukraine by buying lovable dogs and murlocs in World of Warcraft

  26-07-2023 01:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Blizzard and Ukrainian-born actor Mila Kunis have teamed up to release a World of Warcraft "charity pet pack" benefiting Ukraine.The limited-time bundle includes two pets matching the colors of the Ukrainian flag: Sunny (below), an adorable golden retriever, and Flurky (above), an enthusiastic-looking murloc holding a sunflower, the national flower of Ukraine. The pet pack costs $20 and will be available to both World of Warcraft and World of Warcraft Classic players until August 29. Players can
  
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• Cosmic horror game Quantum Error is now new-gen only because "the game we have made is not possible on the PS4"

  26-07-2023 00:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  The upcoming sci-fi horror game Quantum Error has canceled its previously planned PS4 version.According to the developers at TeamKill Media, the PS4 version of Quantum Error was scrapped because they simply weren't able to make it run well on the older hardware. The game was developed for PS5 first, but the studio initially thought it possible to simply take the new-gen version and scale it down to run on PS4. However, it now says that wouldn't be possible without compromising the game to a degr
  
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