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• Streamer completes a reimagined world map in Minecraft after three years of building

  05-08-2023 16:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Streamer RTGame and his community have completed a map of 'New Earth' in Minecraft after three years of construction. The map is built on a 1:4000 scale of the Earth, meaning it horizontally spans about 10km or 10,000 blocks in-game.This has been going on for three years on and off livestream, and yesterday marked the final day of building. Whilst it's got all the continents, albeit with some creative liberties in their portrayals, RTGame's New Earth also has regions representing Atlantis, New H
  
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• A reboot of Rockstar's iconic racing game is unlikely as it "still stands up today"

  05-08-2023 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Midnight Club, Rockstar's series of street racing games from the 2000s, is an unlikely candidate for a remaster. Look, if Red Dead Redemption isn't getting one, the odds are practically zero for Midnight Club.But if we were to imagine a return for the series, what could that look like? We need imagine no longer, as Darren Chisum, designer of the first game in the series Midnight Club: Street Racing, reveals what he thinks would be included in a reboot.Speaking to Retro Gamer in issue 249, Chisum
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 is introducing a new generation to the pain of terrible dice rolls

  05-08-2023 14:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  As we dive into a weekend full of free time to play Baldur's Gate 3, it also means there's lots of neat things we'll start to see being discovered. And whilst there's the fun bits, like finding secret pacts hidden in the terms and conditions or Matt Mercer flexing his D&D muscles and stacking boxes to get over a very high wall, there's also the sadistic fun in seeing bad dice rolls.Baldur's Gate 3 is quite possibly the closest a video game has ever come to emulating D&D, and it means tha
  
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• Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya thinks Japanese devs should be proud of 'JRPG'

  05-08-2023 13:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Earlier this year, Final Fantasy producer Naoki Yoshida revealed he doesn't like the term 'JRPG', explaining he's uncomfortable with its use due to the term's history of being used in a discriminatory way.Since then, there's been a lot of debate about whether to continue to use 'JRPG' or not, and what we should use instead. Now, Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya is weighing in on the discussion, as he believes that Japanese developers should be proud of the term, or any label which includes
  
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• The entire Witcher franchise only exists because of a single missing Polish word

  05-08-2023 12:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  You'd think there was some grand inspiration behind The Witcher book series - a fictional land rife with politics and undiscovered geographical points, or dragons and ogres for the hero to slay. After all, it's a popular series in its own right, plus it's got an acclaimed video game tie-in series and a Netflix adaptation that hasn't been canned yet.But no, The Witcher creator Andrzej Sapkowski says the initial idea for the books came from the Polish language. Some of you may remember from y
  
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• Blizzard is dropping the banhammer on Diablo 4 players for using that seasonal content exploit

  05-08-2023 01:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  The situation with Diablo 4's seasonal exploit has officially ended in a manner most unfortunate for those who were tempted into participating: Blizzard is dropping the banhammer.In case you missed it, a dubious Diablo 4 exploit has been doing the rounds that apparently lets you bridge the gap between the Eternal and seasonal realm. The exploit had been letting players in the Eternal realm bag seasonal gear, and was also being used to transfer existing characters over to the seasonal realm. It w
  
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• Overwatch 2 goes full Fortnite by revealing its mysterious ARG character is actually John Cena

  05-08-2023 00:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Overwatch 2 has been teasing the launch of its upcoming PvE missions with an ARG featuring a mysterious hacker called the Enigma, and yes - his name is, in fact, John Cena.The reveal came as part of another, well, staged 'hack' of various streamers, leading up to a live action video where Cena, as Enigma, says "I need to get a message out to our heroes. Null Sector’s forces are attacking Rio, Gothenburg, and Toronto. I need reinforcements in these locations." All that is presumably setting
  
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