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• This Baldur's Gate 3 mod makes the RPG's most useful spell even more powerful and way less annoying

  10-08-2023 23:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you're playing Baldur's Gate 3, you are probably constantly having Shadowheart recast Guidance to give yourself a bonus in various skill checks during cutscenes. One mod for the game is already aiming to streamline that process.Guidance is a simple skill that adds a 1d4 bonus to any single ability check in the game. It's a Cleric cantrip, so you've got ready access to it at all times if you keep Shadowheart in your party, and Baldur's Gate 3 is kind enough to let you quickly cast it before yo
  
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• The defining bullet hell Metroidvania of the decade is just $5 right now

  10-08-2023 23:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  The deceptively cute, quietly massive bullet hell Metroidvania Rabi-Ribi is on sale for $5 on Steam until August 14, and regardless of your views on anime bunny girls, you owe it to yourself to give it a shot. The action is air-tight and some of the bosses are still all but peerless.This 2016 classic went on to shape the likes of 2019's Touhou Luna Nights and the 2023 Early Access hit Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy. I do not have time to explain the Touhou rabbit hole today, so we're going to swiftly
  
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• Mike Flanagan's new Netflix series gets first look and release date

  10-08-2023 22:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mike Flanagan's new Netflix series The Fall of the House of Usher has a first look and release date.The eight-episode series, based on the short story by Edgar Allen Poe, is slated for an October 12 premiere date. Per Netflix, "Ruthless siblings Roderick (Bruce Greenwood) and Madeline Usher (Mary McDonnell) have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege, and power. But past secrets come to light when the heirs to the Usher dynasty start dying at the hands of a mysteriou
  
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• Overwatch 2 director addresses balance criticisms: "It's easy from the outside to look in and put this narrative on it"

  10-08-2023 21:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Overwatch 2's director has addressed fans' balance criticisms, explaining that: "It's easy from the outside to look in and put this narrative on it." In an interview with GamesRadar+, Aaron Keller, Overwatch 2's director, discussed how the development team at Blizzard handles balance among its heroes in the FPS game. "It's a value for the Overwatch design and balance team to do our best to balance the game for every skill set for people all across the skill spectrum," Keller explains, addin
  
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• James Gunn told Gal Gadot she has “nothing to worry about” on Wonder Woman return

  10-08-2023 20:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Gal Gadot says Wonder Woman 3 is definitely in the works – and that it was James Gunn and Peter Safran who assured her directly."I was invited to a meeting with James Gunn and Peter Safran [co-chairperson and CEO of DC alongside Gunn] and what they told me, and I’m quoting: 'You’re in the best hands," Gadot told Flaunt Magazine. "'We’re going to develop Wonder Woman 3 with you. [We] love you as Wonder Woman – you’ve got nothing to worry about.'
  
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• Alpha Flight face their toughest foes yet: each other

  10-08-2023 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Alpha Flight is back with a five issue series starting next week.The new book, written by Ed Brisson and drawn by Scott Godlewski, features the classic roster of the Canadian superteam - but there's a twist. With the Canadian government having sided with anti-mutant organisation Orchis, Alpha Flight has effectively split into two opposing sides. Working with the government and Department H to clean up the so-called "mutant menace" are Guardian, Puck, Shaman, and Snowbird. Facing off against
  
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• Keith David is Destiny 2's new Zavala, but Lance Reddick's performance will remain untouched

  10-08-2023 18:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Bungie has announced that Keith David will voice Destiny 2's Commander Zavala "in The Final Shape and beyond" following the death of the character's previous English language voice actor, Lance Reddick."Lance’s iconic voice led us through the most intense moments in Destiny’s history and his impact on our Guardians, our community, and Bungie as a whole will never be forgotten," the studio said in its announcement. And to that point, Reddick's existing in-game lines will remain untouc
  
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• The Marvels flies onto the cover of Total Film magazine

  10-08-2023 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Higher. Further. Faster. And now, together. Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, and Photon blast their way onto the cover of Total Film magazine as we celebrate the upcoming release of The Marvels. And for subscribers, the cover's a little different – a fleet of Flerken is heading your way! The issue – which also comes with a free 48-page photo supplement looking behind the scenes at Warner Bros. Studios' 100-year history – goes on sale on Thursday, August 17, and subscribers will
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 is taking over lives, accounting for over 25% of Steam's total daily playtime in the US

  10-08-2023 17:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate 3 accounted for nearly a third of total playtime on Steam in the US this past Sunday.The mind-blowing statistic was provided by Circana, via executive director Mat Piscatella in the tweet just below. Piscatella revealed that this past Sunday, August 6, Baldur's Gate 3 accounted for 27.5% of total playtime on Steam throughout the US, and the closest another game came to that was CS:GO at just 5%.
  From Circana's Player Engagement Tracker - This past Sunday (6 Aug), Baldur's Gate III
  
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• We now know where Barbie Land would be in the real world - thanks to science

  10-08-2023 17:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  We now know where Greta Gerwig's Barbie Land would be located in the real world – and science says it wouldn't be California."In Barbie, the Moon's orientation places Barbie World between 20 & 40 deg North Latitude on Earth," scientist Neil deGrasse-Tyson tweeted. "Palm trees further constrain latitude between 20 & 30 deg. The Sun & Moon rose & set over the ocean. If it’s in the US, Barbie World lands somewhere in the Florida Keys."In the spirit of Oppenheimer, deGras
  
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• Twin Peaks is getting a damn fine-looking fan-made PS1 demake

  10-08-2023 17:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diane, it's 10:30am, August 10, and I've just made the most incredible discovery. You remember the Laura Palmer case, dramatized in the 1990 television series Twin Peaks? Fans of the program are creating - excuse me - a damn fine-looking PS1 demake.I have to admit that Twin Peaks: Into the Night isn't a true PS1 game, but rather merely a facsimile created with the magic of modern technology. Still, the folks of Blue Rose Team have already built something truly impressive - I've never seen so man
  
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• Hollow Knight-like Metroidvania gets delayed for the same reason as Silksong

  10-08-2023 16:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Crowsworn, a game that's aping Hollow Knight Silksong's style, is being delayed for the exact same reason as the game it's taking inspiration from.Earlier this week on August 8, Crowsworn's developers took to Kickstarter to let backers know the game was being delayed out of its original December 2023 release window. "The delayed release is primarily a result of raising more than 10x the amount of funds we had initially planned for. This basically means need to make a game that is 10x b
  
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• Damon Lindelof throws shade at Star Wars after departure from Rey movie

  10-08-2023 16:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Damon Lindelof has taken a jab at the Star Wars franchise, while picketing outside of Disney offices."Ninety-nine days of steps under my belt and I don't know if there's any end in sight, but I'm feeling good, strong, convinced and unified," Lindelof told The Hollywood Reporter, speaking on the WGA strike. "Justin [Britt-Gibson] and I wrote a Star Wars movie together and picketing Disney is a lot more fun than writing a Star Wars movie."Added Britt-Gibson: "This will not be in vai
  
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• First trailer for vampire satire from director of divisive Princess Diana biopic is here

  10-08-2023 16:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for El Conde, the new movie from Spencer and Jackie director Pablo Larraín, is here – and it's a satirical black-and-white vampire movie. Translating to 'The Count' in English, El Conde centers on Chilean fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet – except, in this movie, he's a 250-year-old vampire. The real Pinochet died in 2006, but this version at the age of 91 decided to stop drinking blood and give up his eternal life. Unhappy with how he's remembered in th
  
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• Star Wars fans are debating how an Ahsoka and Anakin reunion should go

  10-08-2023 16:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Star Wars community is locked in another debate – and this time, it's about whether a potential reunion between Ahsoka Tano and Anakin Skywalker should involve forgiveness or not. "We'll have to wait and see, but I expect we'll get an Anakin Force ghost appearance in the Ahsoka series," reads a (now deleted) Reddit post. "I'd really like it if Ahsoka basically told him to piss off. He basically killed everyone she knew and subsequently was responsible for decades of fascist dictat
  
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• Alan Wake 2 took influence from Resident Evil to make players feel "more vulnerable"

  10-08-2023 15:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Alan Wake 2's developers took inspiration from Capcom's Resident Evil series as it wanted players to feel "more vulnerable" while playing the sequel.In an interview with Edge (Issue 388), Alan Wake 2 game director Kyle Rowley discussed some of the upcoming game's spooky influences, pointing to the recent Resident Evil games as a good point of reference when it comes to creating eerie camera angles in the game. "Camera perspective and things like that, yes, there are good references from the
  
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• You can now use a Dualsense with your old PS1, thanks to 8bitdo

  10-08-2023 15:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you’ve still got your original PS1 console stored away, chances are its accompanying gamepad has seen better days. I’ve had to restore old DualShock controllers for friends on more than one occasion, but if you’ve not got a weirdo like me who finds cleaning old pads relaxing nearby, it could stop you revisiting your classic PlayStation library, Thankfully, 8bitdo seems to understand this pain, as the controller maker just announced a Retro Receiver that’ll let you hook
  
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• Upcoming soulslike Lords of the Fallen has some seriously messed-up, cosmic horror-inspired gods

  10-08-2023 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Lords of the Fallen's developers didn't set out to make a horror game, but the new game ended up being inspired by cosmic horror.That's according to developer Hexworks creative director Cezar Virtosu, and executive producer Saul Gascon. "We wanted the cosmic horror genre, which is reality warped by divinity. What you would perceive to be divinity. It's just creatures that exist in other planes, that through their influence, they warp and shift the world," explained Virtosu. Lords of the Fal
  
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• Lords Of The Fallen Preview – An Exciting Transformation

  10-08-2023 15:00
  
  Platform:PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PC Publisher:CI Games Developer:Hexworks Release: October 13, 2023 Rating:Mature The first Lords of the Fallen released in 2014, a time when From Software’s Dark Souls series consisted of two games. Bloodborne wasn’t out, and Elden Ring hadn’t yet redefined what the action-RPG genre can be. Lords of the Fallen was among the first Soulslikes to appear on my radar. It didn’t hit for me and I put it down after a few hours. It was slo
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix prevents your stories getting too big for your save files

  10-08-2023 13:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix is live, and it provides a fix for players whose personal story logs were getting too big for the game to handle. Announcing Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix 2.1, Larian said that "many of you were doing so much in Baldur's Gate 3 that some of your personal 'story' databases got too big." Those databases are the place where your in-game decisions and actions are stored, but it turns out that some players were doing so much that they were filling them up entirely.To help w
  
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• This might be the luckiest Diablo 4 item ever

  10-08-2023 13:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Diablo 4 player has rolled what might be the luckiest item ever.Seen below is the Magus Ring, an Ancestral Rare Ring, as first reported by Icy-Veins. The ring firstly has an awesome item power of 777, but crucially only requires a character level of 80 in order to wield, which is one of the more recent changes from Blizzard taking effect, lowering the character level requirements for Ancestral gear. 
  My first full max piece of gear from r/diablo4
  It's what comes next that really makes thi
  
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• Marvel delays could be imminent after Deadpool 3 and Echo missing from official release date list

  10-08-2023 13:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  After a spree of MCU delays earlier in the year, which saw the next two Avengers movies pushed all the way back to 2026 and 2027, it looks like two more Marvel titles could be getting later release dates. According to Disney's Q3 earnings presentation, at least.The slides, which cover the company's profits and business updates from the last three months of the year, include a list of "upcoming theatrical releases" charting everything coming to cinemas from September 2023 to June 2024 – but
  
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• Across the Spider-Verse's 'missing' scenes have sparked a discussion over lost media

  10-08-2023 13:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is now out on digital, and the new release has caused a lot of controversy over its apparent confirmation about which version of the movie is canon. As you’ll remember, when it was out in theaters, there were several versions of the same scene present in different screenings.The moments in question are two versions of the scene where Miguel talks to his assistant Lyla. In one, she takes a selfie with a bunny and, in another, she points at him. The former
  
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• Disney is "focused on improving the quality" of its films following recent box office disappointments

  10-08-2023 13:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Disney is adopting a 'quality over quantity' approach when it comes to its future films. Following a string of box office disappointments in 2023, the studio is rethinking its strategy, and not only looking to reduce the amount of movies its puts out but their big budgets, as well. "We are focused on improving the quality of our films, and on better economics – not just reducing the number of titles we release, but also the cost per title," CEO Bob Iger said in a recent statement. "We
  
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• How one line in The Witcher season 3 covers up a controversial 'plot hole' from 2019

  10-08-2023 13:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cast your mind back to The Witcher’s first season finale and you may remember Cahir (Eamon Farren) getting the better of mage Vilgefortz (Mahesh Jadu) during the Battle of Sodden. Book readers will have raised a quizzacle eyebrow at the event and, now we’ve caught up in The Witcher season 3, many more will be bemused by The Continent’s most powerful mage being defeated by a mere soldier.Confused? Netflix’s behind-the-scenes documentary Making The Witcher has the answ
  
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• This official Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom coffee is just what you need to stay up all night finding Korok seeds

  10-08-2023 13:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Japanese coffee brand will soon be releasing limited edition cans of its drink that are decorated with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom characters. As announced by the official Japanese Zelda Twitter account, Boss Coffee - which is manufactured by beverage company Suntory - will soon be rolling out a limited edition version of its coffee in a can, one inspired by Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Although the coffee inside of the can will be exactly the same as it usually is, the outs
  
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• The Boys star joins another superhero satire show that sounds like it's poking fun at Marvel and DC

  10-08-2023 13:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Boys star Aya Cash has joined the cast of another superhero satire: HBO's comedy The Franchise, per Entertainment Weekly. The show promises to spotlight the "secret chaos" in superhero movie production, with the logline teasing "every fuck-up has an origin story".Cash, who plays Stormfront in The Boys, is set to play a character named Anita – beyond that, her role is a mystery. Himesh Patel is also part of the cast, along with Billy Magnussen, Jessica Hynes, Lolly Adefope, Isaac P
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 has overtaken Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to become Metacritic's top-reviewed game of 2023

  10-08-2023 12:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate 3 is now Metacritic's best-reviewed game of 2023, overtaking The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.The recently released Larian Studios title clearly has a lot of fans already, as it has shot up to the top of Metacritic's Top Games chart with an fantastic 97 Metascore. This is made even more impressive when you realize that previously Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom had that top spot with a Metascore of 96.It's important to note that Tears of the Kingdom's score is based on 145 cri
  
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• Disney Plus is cracking down on password sharing as well, and it’s going to cost you

  10-08-2023 12:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Bad news password sharers: Disney Plus is also initiating plans to cut down on sharing accounts, months after Netflix brought in its controversial changes. Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed the news in the company’s latest earnings call, saying it will come into effect in 2024."We are actively exploring ways to address account sharing and the best options for paying subscribers to share their accounts with friends and family," Iger said, per IGN. "Later this year, we will begin to update our s
  
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• Final Fantasy 7 Ever Crisis finally has a release date

  10-08-2023 12:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 7 Ever Crisis is finally set to release for mobile on September 7.It feels like Ever Crisis has been slowly progressing towards launch for a number of years now, and all of a sudden it's less than a month to go until it releases. The Final Fantasy 7 mobile compilation game is out on September 7 for both iOS and Android-powered devices.
  Release Date Announcement! FINAL FANTASY VII EVER CRISIS will be officially released on iOS and Android on September 7 2023! Don't forget to pre-reg
  
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• Across the Spider-Verse changes Miles’ best line – and people are annoyed

  10-08-2023 11:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  The digital release of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has changed Miles’ most heroic moment – and it’s not gone down well on social media.Miles’ escape from the Spider Society eventually sees him face-to-face with Oscar Isaac’s Spider-Man 2099. The original moment (and one seen in countless teasers and trailers) features Miles saying, "Nah, I’mma do my own thing" before adding that he’s going home.Across the Spider-Verse’s digital release cuts
  
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• No, there's no $100 billion Baldur's Gate 3 lawsuit alleging the game is too good

  10-08-2023 11:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Reports of a Baldur's Gate 3 lawsuit are going viral after a Tiktok "satire" claimed the game was being sued for being too good. The origin of the Baldur's Gate 3 lawsuit claims is TikTok account Gaming with Stazima, which treads a fine line between its creator's self-proclaimed "satire" and out-and-out disinformation. The video 'jokes' that several major developers - including Ubisoft, Activision-Blizzard, and EA - are suing Larian for "defamation of the games industry."The commitment to t
  
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• Diablo 4's 1.1.2 hotfix is coming "very soon" to fix a long-broken side quest

  10-08-2023 11:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 4's next hotfix is coming up "very soon."Blizzard literally rolled out a brand new hotfix for Diablo 4 yesterday on August 9, but it's already looking ahead to the next fix. That's according to Adam Fletcher on Twitter, revealing that Diablo 4 1.1.2 would be "coming up very soon" for players around the world, with a chance to finally remedy the bugged side quest called 'Fury Against Fate.'
  Hotfix is starting to rollout now to address some items.Unfortunately Fury Against Fate is 1.1.2 but
  
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• Haunted Mansion director says he cut lots of ghosts and subplots from the final movie

  10-08-2023 11:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Haunted Mansion may be packed full of references to the beloved Disneyland ride that inspired it, but director Justin Simien tells GamesRadar+ that he had even more planned."It's about editing," the Dear White People director explains about making sure the Haunted Mansion Easter eggs didn’t overwhelm the story. "It's about having the courage to kill your darlings and there were quite a few. There were some ghosts that we had whole scenes with that I love and there were some subplots that w
  
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• Uncharted 2 movie looks likely as producer says "we are definitely looking to make another"

  10-08-2023 02:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  A sequel to the 2022 Uncharted movie is sounding likelier than ever, with producer Charles Roven saying there's interest at Sony Pictures.The Uncharted movie premiered last year to mixed reviews, however, after earning over $400 million at the box office, it's safe to call the adaptation a commercial success. And since production and distribution companies care a whole lot more about how much money their movies make than what critics have to say about them, an Uncharted sequel was always on the
  
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