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• Mina the Hollower Preview - A New Look At The Promising Love Letter To The Game Boy Era

  04-09-2023 18:51
  
  Platform:PC, Mac, Linux Publisher:Yacht Club Games Developer:Yacht Club Games Release: TBA Retro love letters are a dime a dozen these days. From titles that veer too close to the source material to games that take the kernel of an earlier game's original concept and expand it into previously unforeseen realms, nostalgic experiences are everywhere in the games industry. Yacht Club Games emerged as an early leader of this trend with its smash hit Shovel Knight, which took the 2D action-platforme
  
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• Cyberpunk thriller w0rldtr33 is the year's best horror comic

  04-09-2023 18:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cyberpunk horror thriller w0rldtr33 has finished up its first run with a superb #5 that both raised the series' stakes and changed the nature of the story being told. The issue, by series creators James Tynion IV, Fernando Blanco, and Jordie Bellaire, also hinted at several slightly unexpected - but entirely fitting - influences. Spoilers ahead.A short recap, in case you've not been keeping up. w0rldtr33 #1 opens with a brutal mass-murder broadcast live over the internet. The atrocity is committ
  
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• New Loki season 2 footage features first look at Loki and Sylvie teaming up

  04-09-2023 18:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tom Hiddleston’s Loki is being pulled through time in an intriguing new look at season 2 of the Marvel show. The new 40-second teaser features plenty of new footage as we see Loki and Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) teaming up for the first time since season one’s brutal ending."What I’m about to tell you is going to be hard to believe," Loki begins before things get seriously glitchy. "I’ve been pulled through time, between the past and the present and the future." We see som
  
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• Lords of the Fallen will let you bring "the bulky horror of your dreams" to life

  04-09-2023 18:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Lords of the Fallen's developer wants to "allow our players to incarnate the hero (or bulky horror) of their dreams" and is giving them the means to do just that. Original Lords of the Fallen developer Deck 13 was among the first outside of FromSoftware to try its hand at the soulslike formula, and after a long absence, the series is set to make a return later this year, this time with Hexworks at the helm. Having dropped 'The' from the title back in March, it now bears the same name as its
  
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• The secret doors in Starfield are actually super easy to break into

  04-09-2023 18:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  We're still two days away from Starfield's full launch, but early-access players have already discovered (and opened) some of its secret doors. As the Twitter and Reddit users pointed out below, Starfield is hiding secret passageways in some inconspicuous places. As you can see from both videos, these players have stumbled across an 'Emergency Cuttable Wall.' You'd be forgiven for walking past this small detail, unaware of what it's inviting you to do, as it just looks like a piece of set d
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3's least-popular class has become key to its speedrunning community

  04-09-2023 18:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  The humble Cleric might be the least-popular Baldur's Gate 3 class, but that hasn't stopped the game's resident Sharran from being a key part of the game's world record speedrun.The prevailing Baldur's Gate 3 speedrun strategy has been to jump through the entire game as Wizard Gale, skipping every possible combat and NPC encounter before blowing yourself to smithereens at the climax of Act 2. One of those NPCs, however, is impossible to ignore - Cleric Shadowheart has the fantasy doodad you need
  
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• Give us your thoughts on gaming hardware and your playing habits for the chance to win a £250 / $300 Amazon voucher

  04-09-2023 17:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  There are so many new games dropping this side of the holidays that you'd be forgiven for saying you've got no space for any other hobbies. You can admit that to us in private if you want, as we're running a survey where you can tell us all about how you play games for the chance to win an Amazon voucher worth £250 / $300. It only takes around 10 minutes to complete, and if you want to be in with a chance of winning, just leave us with your email address and name at the end. Otherwise
  
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• Starfield side-quest rescue ends in tragedy for one trigger-happy player

  04-09-2023 17:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Starfield player's trigger-happy ways turned what should have been a heroic side-mission rescue into a full-on tragedy.As you travel across the many planets and systems Starfield offers, you'll find an endless supply of activities to do outside of the main quest, including taking down troublesome threats and aiding NPCs. Usually, helping out leaves you feeling pretty good about yourself, but that was definitely not the case for Starfield fan sprinklep0p.Over on the Starfield subreddit, the pla
  
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• Netflix ‘spoils’ some of its biggest upcoming shows – but leaves just enough to keep you guessing

  04-09-2023 17:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Netflix has an interesting new way to tease some of its biggest shows – but it’s almost certainly going to annoy you.The streamer’s Twitter accounts have released synopsis info for two of its biggest September releases: Top Boy season 3 and Sex Education season 4.While revealing titles and some plot details is nothing new, Netflix has gone one further by revealing the episode descriptions for all the upcoming episodes – with a catch.As you can see below, Netflix has censo
  
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• Our favorite JRPG of the year is getting DLC that links to its Metroidvania predecessor

  04-09-2023 17:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sea of Stars is getting DLC, in much the same fashion that developer Sabotage's previous game did.Speaking on Radio Canada last week, Sea of Stars game director Thierry Boulanger said DLC is very much in the works for the new RPG (as reported by Kakuchopurei). Developer Sabotage currently has one team working on a new project, while a smaller team is investigating DLC for Sea of Stars.This is much the same process for what happened following The Messenger in 2018. The smash-hit Metroidvania's po
  
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• Escape from Tarkov arena is a "mediocre" game that's being made "to have as many players as possible"

  04-09-2023 17:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  The director of Escape from Tarkov says that their new arena-shooter spin-off is a "mediocre" game purely designed to draw more players into the franchise.Speaking to GamesRadar+ at Gamescom, Nikita Buyanov, head of studio and game director at Escape from Tarkov developer Battlestate Games, was asked what drew the studio to depart from its traditional extraction shooter formula. In response, Buyanov said that "the idea is simple actually: to have as many players as possible.""Escape from Tarkov
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3's least-popular character could be its most important, according to this fan theory

  04-09-2023 17:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate 3 fans are debating the game's most important characters - and there seems to be something of a gulf between their popularity and how central they are to the story.This article contains spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3.In a post on the game's subreddit, one player made their pitch for Lae'zel as "the unofficial main character of the game," arguing that "her story has by far the largest ties to the main plot of the game and the consequence of her plotline on the lore of the Forgotten Re
  
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• Extremely ambitious Tears of the Kingdom player is attempting to gather 999 of every item without duplication glitch

  04-09-2023 17:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player has set themselves the huge challenge of collecting 999 of every item in the game, without using a duplication glitch. The player in question has been documenting their progress over on Reddit via a series of posts over the last few days. By the looks of it, their journey began by collecting 999 Gibdo guts and Gibdo bones - although it isn't specified, we're going to assume that means 999 of the Gibdo guts and 999 of the Gibdo bones, so that's
  
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• Baldur’s Gate 3 mod adds nearly 40 playable D&D races - and Final Fantasy 14’s cat girls are on the menu

  04-09-2023 16:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Baldur's Gate 3 modder has introduced over 50 additional races to the game, from D&D, and beyond – the latter being particularly neat as it includes the likes of Final Fantasy 14. As the creator, Dungeons and Souls, explains on Nexus Mods, the Fantastical Multiversus project opens up Baldur's Gate 3's rendition of Faerun to the other races that exist within D&D 5e, the upcoming One D&D edition, and other homebrew versions of other games like Final Fantasy 14. If the prom
  
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• Nami’s outfit in Netflix’s One Piece is actually an impossibly cool deep cut to her origins

  04-09-2023 15:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  One Piece is currently making waves with a new audience on Netflix – but it’s still found time to shout out the pre-manga origins of one of its leading lights.As Redditor u/Bardiclaus pointed out, the introduction of Nami (Emily Rudd) features an outfit which is strikingly similar – white top, cut-off pants, and a pulled-up stripey yellow sock – to an early sketch of the character from creator Eiichiro Oda.
  Just realized Nami's introduction outfit is based on the old prot
  
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• Starfield director says Fallout 76's "rough" repair job gave players "trust" in Bethesda

  04-09-2023 15:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Starfield's design director says that player trust accrued over the rebuilding of Fallout 76 carried over to the new game.Bethesda Game Studios' design director Emil Pagliarulo took to Twitter last week on September 1, when the Starfield early access program kicked off, to reflect on the last few years. The Bethesda veteran personally believes that it was the "trust" that build up with players while Bethesda was fixing Fallout 76 that carried over to Starfield, and made the new game even better
  
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• 2 days before launch, Starfield has already been beaten in under 3 hours

  04-09-2023 15:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  With a massive array of planets to explore and systems designed to offer hundreds of hours of space-based role-playing goodness, it will likely be a long time before many of us reach the credits in Starfield, but that's certainly not the case for one player who managed to complete the game in just a few hours.As spotted by VG247, speedrunner Micrologist has managed to blast their way through Bethesda's epic new RPG in only 2 hours, 51 minutes, and 42 seconds. A video posted on YouTube shows them
  
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• Did 2000 AD just announce the death of a major Judge Dredd character?

  04-09-2023 15:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Character deaths are nothing new in comics, but they're usually revealed as a surprise. 2000 AD publisher Rebellion, however, has taken the unusual course of announcing that long-running Judge Dredd character Hershey will likely be killed off in the upcoming 2000 AD Prog 2349. "The story of former Chief Judge Barbara Hershey is rattling towards its conclusion," begins an ominous press release from the publisher. "Having faked her death Hershey is seriously ill from an incurable virus as she
  
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• Underlined or crossed out? Succession showrunner has the answer to season 4's biggest question

  04-09-2023 15:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Succession showrunner Jesse Armstrong has settled one of the final season's biggest debates: Was Kendall Roy's name underlined or crossed out?The fourth episode of season 4 sees the discovery of a piece of paper seemingly declaring Kendall (Jeremy Strong) as Logan Roy (Brian Cox)'s successor at Waystar RoyCo., but there's one problem – no one can tell if Logan underlined Kendall's name or crossed it out. Of course, Logan died in episode 3, so the Roy family patriarch wasn't around to clear
  
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• Dungeons of Hinterberg Preview - Not Your Typical Idyllic Countryside

  04-09-2023 15:00
  
  Platform:Xbox Series X/S, PC Publisher:Curve Games Developer:Microbird GamesDungeons of Hinterberg's announcement at Summer Game Fest 2023 didn't garner a ton of fanfare in the midst of massive games like Starfield, Fable, Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2, and Forza Motorsport, but it sticks out as one of the more promising indies highlighted during the Xbox Games Showcase. That same week, I witnessed a behind-closed-doors demo, which showed off the gameplay loop and some more of the beautiful visuals
  
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• One of 2023's best horror movies has overtaken Hereditary as A24's biggest scary flick

  04-09-2023 13:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hereditary is no longer A24's highest-grossing horror movie, now that Talk to Me, Danny and Michael Philippou's feature-length debut, has overtaken Ari Aster's creepy chiller at the US box-office. During the recent Labor Day weekend, the possession-centered flick passed $44.575 million according to Deadline, beating out the former studio champion's $44.069 million. For context, Hereditary – which remains A24's global chart topper, having pulled in $82.8 million worldwide, against Talk
  
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• Joker 2 composer seemingly confirms that sequel will be an all-out musical

  04-09-2023 13:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  It seems Joker 2 is shaping up to be an all-out musical after the latest tease from the sequel’s composer. Hildur Guðnadóttir was quizzed recently about how the musical nature of Joker: Folie à Deux will impact the score. Speaking to ComicBook.com, she replied: "All I can say is there is going to be a lot of music. That's all I can give away." While admittedly this wasn't a huge reveal, it’s definitely interesting that we’ll be getting a lot of music in t
  
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• You can fly to Starfield's planets without loading - if you've got seven hours spare

  04-09-2023 13:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Starfield player spent seven hours flying to a single planet to prove a point.Over the last weekend, streamer and Sony Santa Monica dev Alanah Pearce set out to prove a point: could they collide with a planet if they kept flying through space? In Starfield, you can't simply fly to different planets - you instead need to manually plot a course to them, and then teleport to a planet, with outer space basically acting as a platform from which you can fast travel down to planets.
  I'm leaving my sh
  
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• The Last of Us director says Naughty Dog would "slaughter" him if he reveals too much about his next game

  04-09-2023 13:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  The director of The Last of Us isn't revealing anything about their next game, as Naughty Dog would likely "slaughter" them if they revealed too much. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Naughty Dog co-head Neil Druckmann gave the smallest hint towards his next project with the studio. When asked about the possibility of a third installment of The Last of Us, Druckmann said: "As far as the next game at Naughty Dog, I can't say anything," the developer continues, "my comms director ov
  
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• David Fincher baffled by standing ovation after the premiere of his new Netflix movie

  04-09-2023 13:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  David Fincher's latest movie was a hit at Venice Film Festival – but the director seemed a little perplexed by the enthusiastic response. The Killer premiered at the festival last night (September 3) and was followed by a five-minute standing ovation from the audience. "What is this?" the director asked (via Variety). As a producer led Fincher down from his seat to meet fans, he tried to leave, not realizing what was happening. Fincher's first movie since 2020's Mank, The Killer
  
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• Run for your life, the trailer for the new Godzilla movie is here

  04-09-2023 13:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  The trailer for new monster movie Godzilla Minus One has landed – and it’s shot right up our list of most-anticipated 2023 movies in just two minutes.Written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki (Lupin III: The First), Minus One will be a reboot-of-sorts for the monstrous kaiju, as well as Toho’s first Godzilla movie since 2016’s Shin Godzilla.Set in post-war Japan, Godzilla arrives during a tumultuous and economically fractious time for the country. As the movie’s syno
  
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• Final Fantasy 16's Clive knows you love his ass

  04-09-2023 13:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 16's Clive know you're incredibly down bad for his character.Speaking at the Voices from Valisthea panel at PAX 2023 over the past weekend, actor Ben Starr, who plays Clive in Final Fantasy 16, was asked which part of his character resonated with fans the most. Starr spoke about trying to pour his heart and soul into the character, before admitting defeat and realizing that everyone just loves his character's chest."The two things that have resonated with people are his chest," Sta
  
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• Star Wars fan points out a major problem with Ahsoka's big Marrok theory

  04-09-2023 12:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you're an Ahsoka fan, you'll likely have your theories about the show's mysterious Inquisitor Marrok. Not only is the lightsaber-wielding masked character a formidable foe for Ahsoka Tano and Sabine Wren, but we have very little idea about who they actually are.A major theory that has been circulating is that he may be a character called Starkiller from the non-canon Force Unleashed games. There are a couple of bits of evidence pointing to it, from the similarities in name (Starkiller's real
  
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• This Skyrim fan's clutter mods were so good they landed a job on Starfield doing the same

  04-09-2023 12:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Bethesda enlisted the aid of a skilled Skyrim modder to add clutter to Starfield's environments.The modder, known as Elianora, is well-known in the Skyrim modding community for creating impressively realistic homes that feel lived-in, thanks largely to the abundance of knick-knacks knocking around inside.In a Facebook post shared on the Starfield subreddit, Elianora has recently revealed that Bethesda - clearly impressed with their creations - hired them to work on Starfield as a "lighting and c
  
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• Horror fans won't have to wait long for Terrifier 3 it seems, as director confirms release window

  04-09-2023 12:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ready for more blood-soaked Art the Clown antics? Well, you had better get yourself ready, as Terrifier director has teased that the third installment of the hit horror franchise is likely to release in 2024. Damien Leone also revealed that Terrifier 2, which made $15.4 million at the global box-office – from a $250,000 budget – in 2022, is returning to US cinemas on November 8."This year has been unlike anything we could have imagined. To see all the love Terrifier 2 has receiv
  
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• The Last of Us season 2 is "ready to go" as soon as the strikes end

  04-09-2023 12:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Last of Us showrunner has confirmed that work will be able to start on the second season of the post-apocalyptic series as soon as the ongoing actors' and writers' strikes come to an end."We've outlined all of season 2 and we're ready to go as soon as the strike ends," Neil Druckmann said in a new interview with EW. WGA and SAG-AFTRA, the Hollywood writing and acting unions, have been on strike since May and July, respectively, over fights for fairer pay and the use of AI. The show's fi
  
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• Agatha's title change is part of the show – but the bad news is it’s part of more Marvel delays

  04-09-2023 12:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Multiple Marvel projects have been delayed, but it’s Agatha’s WandaVision spin-off that has set tongues wagging – thanks to a new title that suggests Westview’s resident witch is up to no good.Agatha: Darkhold Diaries is the title of the show formerly known as Coven of Chaos (and, prior to that, House of Harkness). Outside of the common thread of alliteration, Variety suggests that the new title is "more a suggestion that Agatha is up to her old skulduggery."Sadly, we&rsq
  
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• Starfield fans are convinced they've discovered a neat Elder Scrolls 6 joke in-game

  04-09-2023 12:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Starfield has quite a funny joke about The Elder Scrolls 6.As spotted by the Reddit user below over the past weekend, there's a rather peculiar scroll holder in The Lodge, which is the headquarters of The Constellation troupe in Starfield. There's nothing much going on with this scroll holder, but it's being propped by a book called "Great Expectations," which can't be an accident.
  Have to imagine this is an Elder Scrolls 6 reference from r/Starfield
  We can't imagine Charles Dickens has much of
  
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• If you want to show off your Starfield fashion, you need to use this very important button

  04-09-2023 12:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Starfield players are discovering this incredibly important button that allows you to show off the fashion underneath your spacesuit automatically. As highlighted by this Reddit user, as well as Windows Central's Jez Cordon on Twitter, you don't need to go through the game's menu every single time you want to take off your Starfield character's spacesuit in breathable areas. As the two posts explain, if you want your suit and helmet to disappear when you don't need it, you just need to togg
  
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• Uh oh, Diablo 4 has an invincibility exploit in its PvP areas

  04-09-2023 11:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 4 players have discovered a critical PvP bug that's rendering players invincible.The issue was first raised late last week over on Blizzard's forums by a distressed player. "Someone found PVP zone immortal bug while PVP playing. Even without considering that PVP is endgame content, this is a very serious and critical bug that ruins the gameplay," the player wrote.According to this player, the method to become invincible works as follows: stand on the border of the PvP and PvE areas, and u
  
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