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• After 23 years, wrestling fans resurrect No Mercy with the follow-up we've needed since the N64

  01-09-2023 23:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fans have long argued that wrestling games peaked in the N64 era with titles like WWF No Mercy, but no modern developer has managed to properly capitalize on that nostalgia. An upcoming indie game called Ultra Pro Wrestling might be set to change that.Ultra Pro Wrestling takes its name from the Nintendo 64's 'Ultra 64' codename, and if that doesn't clue you into what you should expect, the gameplay footage below just might. Some moves appear to be pulled straight from the N64 classics, and the w
  
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• 23 years after D&D 3rd Edition, Baldur's Gate 3 has reignited the cold war between Wizards and Sorcerers

  01-09-2023 23:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate 3 has been upon us for a full month, but Dungeons & Dragons has been here for decades - and the new game has only served to reignite the 23-year-old war between Wizards and Sorcerers.Magic users have taken various forms over the course of D&D history, but the basics of how Wizards and Sorcerers work in fifth edition - the ruleset Baldur's Gate 3 is based on - were really established in the tabletop game's third edition, originally released back in 2000.3E rules established
  
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• The studio behind one of 2018's best roguelikes is making a Lego-like RTS game with "brick-by-brick" base-building

  01-09-2023 23:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Moonlighter ended up being one of my favorite roguelikes of 2018 – and, per our Moonlighter review, one of the better games of the year – so it's exciting to see its developer unveil a new game, especially when that game involves Lego. Developer Digital Sun is now working on an RTS game called Cataclismo, which has been ambitiously pitched as They Are Billions, a base-building banger, meets Lego. The Lego influence comes in the form of "brick-by-brick" construction for the bases
  
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• In 2 weeks this free roguelike has cracked Steam's top 50 all-time best-rated games, but the dev refuses to make any money off it

  01-09-2023 21:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Vampire Survivors-inspired, vtuber-styled action roguelike Holocure – Save the Fans was released on Steam on August 16, and it's since become the 46th highest-rated game to ever hit Valve's storefront, according to the Steam Top 250. But despite its runaway success, the lead developer on the game absolutely refuses to profit off of it, insisting he's doing fine with other work and just wants people to enjoy the game. Holocure is currently sitting at 15,024 user reviews, with 99% o
  
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• One Final Fantasy 14 player spent 450 hours and $5,000 immortalizing their MMO character with a life-size bronze statue

  01-09-2023 20:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  You might love your MMO character, but do you love them enough to learn bronzeworking and spend 450 hours recreating their likeness in a statue that could last centuries? That's exactly what one Final Fantasy 14 player has done.The character you see above is the Warrior of Light Yoko Akatsuki, and she's created by a reddit user who goes by icanit. (Thanks, PC Gamer.) The statue has a hollow body to save on weight and material costs, but the parts you're actually seeing are all bronze. icanit rec
  
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• Why Ubisoft Chose Basim For Assassin's Creed Mirage

  01-09-2023 20:00
  
  When Ubisoft revealed Assassin’s Creed Mirage last September, it also announced that Basim Ibn Is’haq, the master assassin who brought Eivor into the Hidden Ones order in 2020’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, was returning. This time, however, he would the playable protagonist. His journey in Mirage takes him from street thief to Hidden Ones order initiate and eventually to the master assassin we see in Valhalla. Basim getting his own game is the first time in the franch
  
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• Starfield players are already tired of all the loading screens: "I'm shocked by how many there are"

  01-09-2023 19:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Starfield early access is finally available to everyone with a Premium or Collector's edition, but after such a long wait, a lot of players are bummed to be spending so much time staring at loading screens.Starfield reviews on the whole have been generally very positive, despite just falling short of matching the universal acclaim of Bethesda's 2011 opus, Skyrim. Still, with a trillion galaxies worth of anticipation leading up to release, it's only natural for some players to find certain things
  
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• Series like Saints Row and Red Faction "will live on" at a new developer after Volition shutdown

  01-09-2023 19:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  On the heels of a total and immediate shutdown for 30-year-old studio Volition, publisher Deep Silver says that series like Saints Row and Red Faction aren't dead yet. Deep Silver issued its own statement after Volition released a farewell letter acknowledging the efforts of its developers and the love from its community. "Our thoughts go out to everyone at Volition, past and present," Deep Silver writes. "We're incredibly grateful for their unforgettable work on Saints Row and Red Faction,
  
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• 2 months after its Japanese release, Studio Ghibli's The Boy and the Heron gets its first trailer next week

  01-09-2023 18:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Boy and the Heron, the latest film from Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, is about to get its very first trailer, nearly two months after its original Japanese release.The film, released on July 14 in Japan, received almost no pre-release marketing. With no trailers and only a single poster promoting the movie's release, it still managed to achieve the biggest box office opening in Studio Ghibli's history on the back of little more than the reputation of the studio and writer-director Hayao
  
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• Disney Lorcana has been selling so well that a reprint is on the way

  01-09-2023 18:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  It turns out that Disney Lorcana is pretty damn popular. So popular, in fact, that it seems to be selling out all over the place - and publisher Ravensburger is having to promise a reprint to meet demand.Although it's officially launching today (September 1), Disney Lorcana has been available in hobby and specialist stores since August. Much of that stock seems to have been hoovered up already - something we can attest to ourselves, at least anecdotally - and it's been increasingly difficult to
  
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• Eternally defying FromSoftware, Armored Core 6 players make their own versions of the game's faceless characters

  01-09-2023 18:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Even more than the likes of Bloodborne or Elden Ring, Armored Core 6 takes developer FromSoftware's hands-off storytelling to an extreme. The whole cast is embodied exclusively by voice comms, pilot emblems, and giant robots, but a total lack of any humans hasn't stopped artistic fans from putting faces to the game's characters, and if you guessed that means turning them into waifus, you are correct. From what I've seen, a few core characters have gotten the most fan art so far, including R
  
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• Armored Core 6 characters become waifus as artistic fans draw their own versions of the faceless cast

  01-09-2023 18:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Armored Core 6 takes developer FromSoftware's hands-off storytelling so far that you don't see a single human in the entire game. The whole cast is embodied exclusively by voice comms, pilot emblems, and giant robots, but that hasn't stopped artistic fans from putting faces to the game's characters, and if you guessed that means turning them into waifus, you are correct. From what I've seen, a few core characters have gotten the most fan art so far, including Rusty, who's just about the onl
  
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• Retro Gamer's latest issue goes big on Rare, and it's out now

  01-09-2023 18:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Retro Gamer issue 250 is on sale now and it’s filled with amazing content.First up is a gigantic 26-page feature on Rare, which looks at every aspect of the studio, from its early days as Ultimate, to its success on the Nintendo 64 and its 21 years with Microsoft. We’ve spoken to Rare staff past and present to deliver the ultimate look at one of the UK’s most prestigious studios.The Rare celebrations continue with a companion 32-page book that focuses on 60 Rare games as well a
  
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• The Creator director Gareth Edwards explains why he had a multi-year break from filmmaking after Rogue One

  01-09-2023 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Creator has been a long time coming for director Gareth Edwards, who has been working on his AI sci-fi movie for a few years now. Set during a future war between the human race and artificial intelligence, the movie follows one man who’s tasked with discovering a mysterious weapon that could end the war and all of mankind.However, before he began work on the sci-fi epic, Edwards took a bit of a career gap after helming the Star Wars prequel Rogue One in 2016. "I needed to get off the m
  
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• Starfield mods already let you cheat, change the FOV, and murder every NPC

  01-09-2023 17:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been less than 24 hours since Starfield Early Access began, and mods are already here with some basic quality of life tweaks and a whole lot of ways to cheat.One of the biggest criticisms of Starfield from PC players right now is the game's lack of an FOV slider. There's no mod to make in-game adjustments just yet, but it turns out that a simple .ini file can let you set the field of view to whatever you please. You can do it yourself if you want, but there are already a pile of mods that m
  
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• Starfield fans frustrated with the lack of an FOV slider have come up with a fix

  01-09-2023 17:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  With Starfield now out in the wild, fans are finally getting to grips with Bethesda's mammoth RPG and the studio's first new IP in almost three decades, and while overall, it's a fairly polished experience, one curious omission has been causing frustration for PC players. Much to the dismay of explorers who suffer from motion sickness and those who simply like a wider view of the world, currently, there's no option to adjust the field of view in Starfield.It's not all bad news, though, as,
  
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• Bethesda lead shrugs off Starfield bugs: “Of course there are bugs, but does it take away from your experience?"

  01-09-2023 17:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  With Starfield's long-awaited launch upon us, Bethesda has been doing the media rounds to chat about the upcoming RPG. The studio has released a few buggy games in its history, so a question was eventually raised about the bug in the room – a timely subject with Starfield already releasing via pre-order early access. "We embrace chaos," head of global publishing Pete Hines tells GamesIndustry.biz. "We could make a safer, less buggy, less risky game if we wanted to. But what we try to
  
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• Cyberpunk 2077 dev clarifies what's free in 2.0 and what's paywalled in Phantom Liberty

  01-09-2023 17:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cyberpunk 2077's dev has clarified what's actually included in the paid expansion, and what's coming for free as part of update 2.0.The RPG will see two major events later this month: Phantom Liberty, the long-awaited and paid-for expansion, and update 2.0, the free patch that plans to overhaul vast areas of the RPG. Now, CD Projekt Red has clarified which features are included in the free update, and which players will have to shell out for as part of the expansion.
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• Saints Row fans worry for the series' future and the state of its troubled reboot

  01-09-2023 17:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  After news of Volition's closing, Saints Row fans are mourning their beloved franchise as well as the 2022 game's second major patch.Yesterday, August 31, parent company Embracer Group announced that Saints Row studio Volition would be shut down "with immediate effect," closing the developer after 30 years. Now, long-time fans of the action-packed series are flocking to its subreddit to send the franchise off together.The subreddit is now full of posts like the ones below, with players of 2022's
  
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• Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 was inspired by a season 2 episode to "change things up in a fun way"

  01-09-2023 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  There's so much more to running a starship than simply making it so on the bridge. Like its namesake The Next Generation episode, Star Trek: Lower Decks shifts the focus away from the Picards, Siskos, and Janeways of this world to concentrate on the junior officers who are more traditionally background players – or even phaser fodder – in other branches of the Star Trek universe. And season 4 is set to take that even further, thanks to an episode in the animated show's second se
  
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• Saw X will feature some "surprises" – and probably won’t be the final movie in the franchise

  01-09-2023 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Saw X director Kevin Greutert says the latest installment in the franchise is full of surprises – and probably won't be the last to come."There’s no obvious new direction to go after this film," Kevin Greutert tells SFX magazine in the new issue, which features The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon on the cover. "But I think there probably will be more Saw movies, particularly if this one is successful."Greutert (Saw VI, Saw VII) directs Saw X from a screenplay by Peter Goldfinger (Jigsaw, S
  
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• Cult classic horror game Slender Man: The Arrival gets an Unreal Engine 5 overhaul and new chapter this Halloween

  01-09-2023 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Remember ol' Slender Man? The dapper, faceless, tall drink of water that more than likely inspired your nightmares a decade ago? Well, he's coming back in a big way with the release of an Unreal Engine 5 overhaul of the 2013 cult classic horror game Slender: The Arrival for current-gen platforms, and now we have a release date.Per indie developer Blue Isle Studios, the 10th anniversary upgrade will hit Steam, the Epic Games Store, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S on October 18. It'll also include a bra
  
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• Arcane Season 2 is set to air late next year

  01-09-2023 15:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arcane, the acclaimed League of Legends animated series, is set to return for its second season late next year.A Q4 2024 release window for the series was announced at the Video V Vision Conference hosted by Tencent, League of Legends' Chinese parent company. Speculation on the game's subreddit suggests that that's likely to result in a November release, in keeping with the first season's release as well as League of Legends' 15th anniversary event.
  ARCANE Season 2 Release Date Revealed | #Leagu
  
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• New Godzilla game is straight-up Into the Breach

  01-09-2023 15:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new Godzilla game is perhaps flying a little too close to Into the Breach.Earlier today, on September 1, Toho Games revealed Godzilla Voxel Wars, the debut trailer you can see just below (thanks, Automaton Media). The new game, which is slated to launch on PC in the near future, bears a striking resemblance to one of the best indie games of the past five years: Into the Breach.You play as Godzilla, Mothra, and many of the other iconic monsters designed by Toho, and it's our job to fight off we
  
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• Larian knows Baldur's Gate 3's D&D combat is super complicated: "We used to joke you basically need a tutorial for every class"

  01-09-2023 15:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate 3's combat can be hard to get your head around, particularly if you're not well-versed in the rules of Dungeons & Dragons, and developer Larian Studios knows it.Speaking to GamesRadar+, lead writer Adam Smith addressed the game's complex nature and how the team at Larian tackled teaching the ins and outs of D&D to players enticed by Baldur's Gate 3 but with little to no prior knowledge of the table top RPG's mechanics without having them overwhelmed and running for the hill
  
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• Saw X's gruesome, medieval torture inspired traps made the director "very nervous"

  01-09-2023 14:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  If there's one thing the Saw franchise is famous for, it's those spine-chilling traps – and any fears that Saw X isn't going to deliver on that front should be put to rest. The trailer alone features fingers being bent out of place, large mechanical collars, a man trying to remove his own brain's cerebral tissue, rats seemingly running down tubes towards someone's eyes and much, much more. Perhaps unsurprisingly, coming up with new twisted ways to torture victims remains a difficult t
  
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• The Starfield map is not going down well

  01-09-2023 13:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Starfield players aren't too happy with the map in Bethesda's new RPG.Starfield might've just launched in early access a matter of hours ago, but players are already finding out elements that they like, and some that they unfortunately don't. One of the latter features is apparently the in-game map system, which the veteran Bethesda fan below has deemed to actually be worse than both Skyrim and Fallout 4's in-game maps.
  Starfield map is horrendous from r/Starfield
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• This enterprising Starfield fan is building the best Star Wars and Halo ships, starting with the Millennium Falcon

  01-09-2023 13:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Starfield fans are wasting no time bringing some of the sci-fi genre’s oldest and most beloved ships to Bethesda’s new space RPG. At the time of writing, one fan called SpectreX Gaming is leading the way on Starfield ship customization. As you can see in the TikTok below, they’ve already recreated Star Wars’ most iconic ship, the Millennium Falcon. Not only does the outside look bang on, but the interiors look familiar, too. For a bit of extra joy, you can even see i
  
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• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is the zombie franchise’s answer to Mad Max

  01-09-2023 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Daryl Dixon, welcome to the Thunderdome? Executive producer Greg Nicotero has compared upcoming spin-off series The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon to Mad Max in a new interview with SFX."When I was talking to [writer] David [Zabel] initially about the show, I kept referring to it very much like The Road Warrior, where you come upon Mad Max in the desert and he connects with this group of people. I said, 'This feels like our version of Mad Max,'" Nicotero tells SFX magazine in the new issue, which fea
  
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• A Starfield DLSS mod is already here to boost your performance

  01-09-2023 12:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Starfield DLSS mod is out already, less than 24 hours after Bethesda's game launched into early access.The 'Starfield Upscaler - Replacing FSR2 With DLSS or XeSS' mod arrived earlier today, and can be downloaded over on NexusMods. One of the first mods for Bethesda's new RPG, it replaces the current FSR2/XeSS upscaler feature with Nvidia's DLSS system.However, the performance gain with the new mod largely depends on which GPU you're rocking in your rig. If you don't see a significant performan
  
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• Starfield fans discover delightful nod to Skyrim's most infamous line

  01-09-2023 12:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Starfield contains an Easter egg that harks back to the most infamous line in all of Skyrim.Starfield doesn't officially launch until September 6, but many fans are already setting off on Bethesda's mammoth space adventure via Early Access. And despite only having their hands on the game for mere hours, players have already spotted a delightful nod to Skyrim's notorious quote-turned-meme, "I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee."Over on the Starfield subreddit, pla
  
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• Armored Core 6's target lock makes you miss more shots than it helps you hit

  01-09-2023 12:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  It turns out locking onto targets in Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon will actually decrease your accuracy in certain situations.Earlier this week, FromSoftware expert and lore historian VaatiVidya put out the video just below, revealing 25 details about Armored Core 6 that aren't commonly known. Around the four minute and 30 second mark, VaatiVidya reveals that enabling target lock in Armored Core 6 seriously isn't all its cracked up to be.By running some tests on moving targets, VaatiVidya has
  
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• Two of the best survival games combine as 'Raft meets Rust' in underwater base-builder Sunkenland

  01-09-2023 12:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you're looking for your next survival-crafting fix on Steam, then this aquatic Raft and Rust mashup may be what you're looking for.Sunkenland is a Waterworld-themed survival game that's packed with modular base building. Expect sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and for hordes of NPC clans to invade for resources and territory. The survival and craft 'em up has grown in popularity on Steam since it launched in Early Access. As per SteamDB, it's hit a record of 21,214 concurr
  
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• Original Jigsaw killer John Kramer's return in Saw X is "surprisingly emotional", says director

  01-09-2023 12:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's only been two years since the last Saw movie which, when you consider the pandemic, it's not all that long. It's been a while, though, since we've seen its original antagonist on screen; something that Saw X is set to rectify.The upcoming tenth chapter, directed by Kevin Greutert, will see the return of John Kramer AKA the original Jigsaw killer – and the filmmaker says it's going to be a "surprisingly emotional" comeback. "We've learned, one way or another, that John Kramer as p
  
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• After a community campaign, Starfield offers a touching tribute to fan who passed away

  01-09-2023 11:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Starfield contains an in-game tribute to a fan who sadly passed away before the game's launch.According to one Starfield early access player, the note just below can be found when the player first enters The Eye. The note is actually written from the perspective of Alex Hay himself, who passed away earlier this year after a battle with cancer, wishing his fellow Starfield fans the best while exploring the vast open reaches of Bethesda's new RPG.
  Bethesda's Tribute to Alex Hay from r/Starfield
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• Lenovo Legion GO handheld is now official, and it launches this Halloween

  01-09-2023 06:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Lenovo Legion GO is now officially a thing, and the chonky Steam Deck rival is scheduled to arrive this Halloween. That feels appropriate given that its price point could give you a fright, as the extra large 8.8-inch gaming handheld will cost more than both Valve’s portable powerhouse and the Asus ROG Ally. There also won’t be any spooky surprises in terms of specs, as we seem to be in the loop thanks to previous leaks.If you’ve been listening to the rumor mill, you’
  
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• Starfield "You're too early" message has players panicking

  01-09-2023 02:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Starfield "you're too early" error message is hampering players' attempts to get into the game, with others attempting to troubleshoot the issue.As we noted in our Starfield launch live coverage, even though the early access period should have started at 01:00 BST (or your local time), several players are being hit with Windows and Xbox error messages that say they're too early to log in.
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• Super Mario Bros. Wonder director says adding Daisy will "resolve fights" between his daughters over who gets to play Peach

  01-09-2023 01:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Super Mario Bros. Wonder director Shiro Mouri says the reason for Princess Daisy being in the game is two-fold: people want to play as her and, for his own personal benefit, it'll hopefully stop his two daughters from fighting over who gets to play as Peach.Talking to Eurogamer, Mouri touched on the addition of Daisy in Super Mario Bros. Wonder, her second appearance as a playable character in a Mario platformer game, the first being the mobile Super Mario Run. According to Mouri, Daisy could go
  
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• Win '70s sci-fi art book Worlds Beyond Time

  01-09-2023 00:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Adam Rowe's new book Worlds Beyond Time (subtitle: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s) makes a rather bold claim: that '70s sci-fi art was "the peak of artistic achievement". Mind you, if you're a fan of the likes of Chris Foss, Frank Frazetta and Syd Mead, you might well agree with him.Split into eight chapters, further subdivided into sections which focus on a particular artist, subject matter or well-worn visual trope, and drawing on not just the covers of paperback novels but also magazines like Analog
  
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• Win a copy of Samantha Shannon's The Bone Season

  01-09-2023 00:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Samantha Shannon's novel The Bone Season, written while she was studying at Oxford, is 10 years old this year. To mark the occasion, there's now a reimagined Tenth Anniversary Special Edition, for which the author has revisited her bestselling debut and given it a thoroughly good polish. The first entry in what's since grown to a four-novel series, this dystopian tale is set in the year 2059, in the Republic of Scion, which has led an oppressive campaign against "unnaturalness". That means
  
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