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• Valve celebrates 20 years of Steam with the top releases of every year, assembling an airtight list of some of the best games in every genre

  12-09-2023 23:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Steam is officially 20 years old, and that means PC gamers everywhere are actively crumbling into dust as the weight of this realization shakes their very core. Why not take the edge off with Valve's list of the top Steam releases for every year, which doubles as one of the best collections of must-play games ever assembled? Along with a nostalgic, army green makeover for the storefront, Valve's released a fascinating timeline for Steam's greatest hits. 2003 was more of a practice run, so t
  
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• Meet Supernova, the new arch-enemy of the Superior Spider-Man

  12-09-2023 22:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  This October, Otto Octavius will once again swap out his classic villain mantle of Doctor Octopus for his heroic moniker as the Superior Spider-Man, to mark the 10th anniversary of the time Doc Ock switched bodies with Peter Parker and stole his identity.Though we don't know exactly how Octavius will once again take up his Superior Spider-man identity or how he'll return to the Superior Spidey's physical body, we do know that he'll be back in Superior Spider-Man Returns #1, a one-shot penned by
  
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• Game devs revolt after Unity reveals plan to charge them a fee based on installs: "You'll literally bankrupt me"

  12-09-2023 22:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Unity has announced a plan to charge game developers a fee every time someone installs their game after a certain threshold. The "Unity Runtime Fee," which will only apply to games which have achieved success based on both installs and revenue over a period of time, is being universally lambasted by the game development community.You can check out a breakdown of the pricing structure, but essentially, Unity plans to begin charging game devs a fee for every install after their games reach thresho
  
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• Stranger Things releases cryptic new teaser – but it's not what you think

  12-09-2023 21:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  A cryptic new teaser was posted to the Stranger Things social media accounts today – but it's not for what you think.The ten-second video, posted with the caption "excuse our mess...," features the ruins of the Starcourt Mall – which bit the dust in season 4 – and focuses on the old Scoops Ahoy sign. The bulbs around the sign flicker before burning out. Fans immediately went into a frenzy – before quickly realizing that production on Stranger Things season 5 has yet to be
  
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• Resident Evil Village, Resident Evil 4 remake, Death Stranding, and Assassin's Creed Mirage are all coming to a new platform: phones

  12-09-2023 21:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Apple's latest reveal event actually included some big news from its gaming division: major titles like Resident Evil 4 remake, Resident Evil Village, Death Stranding, and Assassin's Creed Mirage are coming to mobile on the back of the iPhone 15 Pro.Much of the event talked up the new A17 Pro GPU powering the new model. Apple's promising revolutionary graphical and performance improvements, including "hardware-accelerated ray tracing which is 4x faster than software-based ray tracing." Several g
  
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• New Life Is Strange comic Forget-Me-Not teases a heartbreaking mystery

  12-09-2023 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new comic based on the beloved narrative adventure game series Life Is Strange begins in December from Titan Comics. Eisner Award-winning creator Zoe Thorogood is taking on the scripting duties for Life Is Strange: Forget-Me-Not, which picks up the story of Alex Chen, the psychic protagonist of 2021's True Colors game, and her girlfriend Steph. The couple are embarking on a cross-country tour with their band when a chance encounter with a young girl named Lily threatens to turn their live
  
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• EA drops a Sims 5 bomb: it's free to play, will "coexist with other Sims games," but "won't start with everything you have in The Sims 4"

  12-09-2023 19:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  EA has now confirmed that The Sims 5, or Project Rene, will be free to play, and while it will still sell content packs, the game could also launch with features traditionally locked behind Sims DLC. VP franchise creative Lyndsay Pearson discussed the direction of the work-in-progress game during the latest Behind the Sims video update. Right out of the gate, she affirms that "Project Rene and The Sims 4 are gonna continue to exist side-by-side. We plan to support both at the same time, and
  
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• Wednesday star Jenna Ortega's new movie gets some pretty harsh first reviews

  12-09-2023 18:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first reviews for Finestkind, starring Jenna Ortega, have arrived – and they're not exactly positive.Per the official synopsis, the film follows two brothers, Tom (Ben Foster) and Charlie (Toby Wallace), from opposite sides of the tracks who reunite as adults. Desperate circumstances force them into a deal with an organized crime syndicate in Boston, and a young woman (Ortega) gets caught in the middle. Tommy Lee Jones also stars. The drama is written and directed by Brian Helgeland (L
  
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• This indie game is attempting to perfect The Sims formula by asking 10,000 fans for feedback

  12-09-2023 18:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  We've seen a lot of The Sims-likes lately, but this might just be the cutest one yet.Little Sim World, a 2D open-world life sim, may play just like The Sims, but it has an art style that's very reminiscent of the Nintendo DS-era life sims I used to play in the early 2000s. The upcoming indie looks adorable and has a lot of interesting features that differentiate it from others in the genre. For starters, Little Sim World is set in London, which is pretty different from the likes of Stardew
  
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• The worst hero in Baldur's Gate 3 gets an apocalyptically bad secret ending after breaking every failsafe in the RPG: "My stupidity is just as endless as my creativity"

  12-09-2023 18:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Baldur's Gate 3 player has discovered what's definitely a strong candidate for the absolute worst ending in the game - but you'll only get it if you can get around the developer's safeguard.This article contains spoilers for various Baldur's Gate 3 endings.There are various ways that you can bring your Baldur's Gate 3 story to an end before the actual conclusion of its story. You can get your brain munched on by the Mind Flayer trapped in the wreckage of the Nautiloid, or explode Gale's magica
  
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• MMO dev forced to respond to player hoping to dodge anti-bot rules by using their own amputated toe to grind through the night: "Technically it’s a part of my body"

  12-09-2023 18:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  In one of the strangest rule appeals in MMO history, one of the devs at Old School RuneScape developer Jagex started this week with what I can only assume was the most bizarre player-submitted question of their career: "Can I use my amputated toe for the Duke mining method?" Just to hammer it home, Reddit user planting_shade even added "[serious] [j mod reply please]" to their post, which proposes skirting the OSRS botting and macro rules in the most gruesome way I've ever seen. As the
  
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• MMO dev forced to respond to player hoping to dodge anti-bot rules by using their own amputated toe to grind through the night

  12-09-2023 18:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  One of the devs at Old School RuneScape developer Jagex started this week with what I can only assume was the strangest player-submitted question of their career: "Can I use my amputated toe for the Duke mining method?"Just to hammer it home, Reddit user planting_shade even added "[serious] [j mod reply please]" to their post, which proposes skirting the OSRS botting and macro rules in the most gruesome way I've ever seen. As they explain, they lost one of their toes to a diabetic foot infe
  
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• Vampire Survivors dev is "so focused" on its hit roguelike that it doesn't know what it's doing next

  12-09-2023 17:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Vampire Survivors' developer has been so preoccupied with its hit roguelike that it's not given much thought to what its next project will be. The indie roguelike is one of the biggest success stories in recent years, managing to rack up huge player numbers and beat out huge titles like Elden Ring and God of War Ragnarok to claim BAFTA's Game of the Year Award. Its basic yet immensely challenging mechanics are so absorbing that even Xbox boss Phil Spencer couldn't put it down. But despite t
  
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• First trailer for Mike Flanagan's new Netflix show sees a crime family get a supernatural reckoning

  12-09-2023 17:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for The Fall of the House of Usher, the next Netflix series from The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass creator Mike Flanagan, is here – and it brings a modern twist to Edgar Allan Poe.Inspired by the 1839 short story of the same name, the original tale follows an unnamed narrator who arrives at the House of Usher after hearing that a mysterious illness has infected its residents. Flanagan's series, however, propels the tale into the modern day.In this adaptation, t
  
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• The best Pokemon-like RPG of the year gets even better as Cassette Beats reveals its first big DLC

  12-09-2023 17:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Just months after its successful launch, Cassette Beasts is getting its first major DLC as soon as next month. Back in April, we wrote about a creature-collecting RPG that was getting rave reviews on Steam for being "like Pokemon, but better." Now, just a few months later, we're getting some DLC for that game in the form of Cassette Beasts: Pier of the Unknown. The upcoming expansion will add a new storyline, a new location to explore, 12 new monsters to collect, and more - apparently enoug
  
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• Starfield lets you find the Mars rover that NASA lost in 2018

  12-09-2023 17:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Starfield player has uncovered the lost NASA Opportunity rover on Mars.Starfield was hailed as "NASA-punk" by the game's lead artist last year, and apparently that sentiment translates into literal easter eggs and hidden secrets in the new RPG. Below, one player managed to stumble upon NASA's Opportunity rover, stranded forever on the surface of Mars, while they were exploring the red giant.
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• Wonka director teases potential sequels: "I would definitely like to do more"

  12-09-2023 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  "I would definitely like to do more. And I’d like to spend more time in this world," director Paul King tells Total Film magazine in the new issue out on September 14, which features Wonka on the cover.In an exclusive interview in the new issue, King alongside producers David Heyman, who is fresh off the back of co-producing 2023 hit Barbie, and Alexandra Derbyshire open up about the making of Wonka and the possibility of returning for a second film.Coming to cinemas this winter, Wonka fol
  
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• New Venator is one of the biggest Lego Star Wars kits to date

  12-09-2023 16:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Lego Star Wars Venator set has finally broken cover with an official announcement.This massive kit has been something of an open secret over the last few months, but this is our first proper look at the Ultimate Collector Series build. Weighing in at over 5,000 pieces, the Venator (or 'Venator-Class Republic Attack Cruiser,' if you want to get technical) is one of the largest Lego Star Wars sets to date. To be precise, it's got way more bricks than the old Imperial Star Destroyer and is only
  
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• The Conjuring features a Ryan Gosling cameo that you probably didn't notice

  12-09-2023 16:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ryan Gosling had a brief role in The Conjuring – but it's not quite what you would expect.Rather than having a role in the horror movie, Gosling's band, Dead Man's Bones, features on the film's soundtrack. Their song 'In the Room Where You Sleep' plays during a scene towards the beginning of the movie in which demonologist duo Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) pitch up with their crew to investigate the strange goings-on at a farmhouse. They've been called out by the P
  
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• Diablo 4 players are probably farming Nightmare Dungeons wrong, and a math wizard bored with the level 100 grind cleared 400 of them to prove it

  12-09-2023 16:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Diablo 4 player has run the numbers to determine that the best way to grind some of the game's best loot is to run either a pretty low-tier Nightmare Dungeon, or the absolute hardest ones in the game - and not to bother with anything else.In a post on the game's subreddit, user fpsthirty said that once they "got bored of aimlessly grinding to lvl100," they decided to turn their efforts to something more useful: "to record the item power of each looted item with the subsequent grouping by level
  
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• Bilkins' Folly Preview - A Jolly (Rogers) Adventure

  12-09-2023 16:00
  
  Platform:PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Switch, PC Publisher:Armor Games Studios Developer:Webbysoft Release: 2023 Bilkins' Folly popped up on my radar, err, sea charts, earlier this year when developer Webbysoft and Publisher Armor Games Studios announced the PC-only title was actually going to launch on PlayStation and Switch now as well. I watched the console announcement trailer and knew I needed to check this game out – old-school adventure gameplay, a fun and whimsical pixel art styl
  
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• Bilkins' Folly Preview – A Jolly (Rogers) Adventure

  12-09-2023 16:00
  
  Platform:PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Switch, PC Publisher:Armor Games Studios Developer:Webbysoft Release: 2023 Bilkins' Folly popped up on my radar, err, sea charts, earlier this year when developer Webbysoft and Publisher Armor Games Studios announced the PC-only title was actually going to launch on PlayStation and Switch now as well. I watched the console announcement trailer and knew I needed to check this game out – old-school adventure gameplay, a fun and whimsical pixel art styl
  
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• Level 92 Starfield player finds a Legendary gun worth 136,000 credits, but it's so broken they "don't even want to use it"

  12-09-2023 15:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Starfield player has uncovered a gun that's so broken they don't think it'd be fair on enemies to use it.The particular Starfield weapon that's caused such a hullaballoo can be seen just below, and it's been dubbed the "Legendary Particle Beam Rifle." But what exactly makes this Particle Beam Rifle so legendary? Apart from the weapon's rarity, it's probably the fact that it stacks damage on top of its already high physical and energy damage rating with each consecutive hit, and has increased a
  
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• There's a rival sex therapist at school in new Sex Education season 4 trailer

  12-09-2023 15:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first full-length trailer for Sex Education season 4 is here – and the new school year looks like it's going to be full of new challenges for Otis (Asa Butterfield).Forced to start fresh at the liberal Cavendish College after Moordale Secondary had to close its doors at the end of season 3, Otis, Eric (Ncuti Gatwa) and co. quickly find themselves out of their depth. Particularly Otis, who discovers that he's not the only sex therapist on campus – he has a rival in the form of the
  
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• Here's what happens to Starfield when you stuff 50,000 potatoes into one room

  12-09-2023 15:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you've been wandering around rooms in Starfield wondering what would happen if you filled one with thousands upon thousands of potatoes, then wonder no more, as one player has done just that and recorded it for your viewing pleasure.Inspired by the recent footage of one Starfield fan's potato-laden ship, streamer and Sony Santa Monica dev Alanah Pierce made it their mission to take experiments involving space spuds one step further, by seeing how many they could add to the game before it cras
  
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• The most cursed VR headset is cheaper than ever - I still wouldn't buy it though

  12-09-2023 15:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  In a totally random move, Amazon in the UK has reduced the price of the Meta Quest Pro by £220. This brings the mixed-reality headset down to the lowest price we've ever seen it at in the US or UK, to £779.50. This price cut seems to be exclusive to Amazon in the UK, as we can't see it in the US store, and it isn't appearing at any other retailer. This massive discount is somewhat surprising, seeing as pretty much the only time we see price cuts to the best VR headsets is during
  
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• Meta Quest Pro drops to lowest price ever at Amazon UK

  12-09-2023 15:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  In a totally random move, Amazon in the UK has reduced the price of the Meta Quest Pro by £220. This brings the mixed-reality headset down to the lowest price we've ever seen it at in the US or UK, to £779.50. This price cut seems to be exclusive to Amazon in the UK, as we can't see it in the US store, and it isn't appearing at any other retailer. This massive discount is somewhat surprising, seeing as pretty much the only time we see price cuts to the best VR headsets is during
  
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• Wonka director reveals why Hugh Grant was his first choice for an Oompa Loompa

  12-09-2023 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  It wouldn't be Willy Wonka without the Oompa Loompas. Starring as one of the chocolatier's loyal helpers opposite Timothée Chalamet is none other than Hugh Grant, which director Paul King believes is a particularly perfect piece of casting. Described in the book as teeny creatures "no higher than my knee" with golden hair, but transformed into green-tressed, orange-skinned little people by Mel Stuart's film, King went back to the source material to find their voice."I was enchanted b
  
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• We're calling it now, these new Disney Lorcana cards will sell out fast

  12-09-2023 14:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  We're very sorry to say that there's a clutch of new Disney Lorcana cards to collect, mostly because they're really pretty and will probably sell out fast. Disney Lorcana: Disney100 Edition introduces six cards with all-new artwork by animators from Walt Disney Animation Studios, and these rework existing cards or ones from the newly-revealed Rise of the Floodborn set. Besides coming with a special Disney 100 frame, each card has a satin holographic foil finish. Although it's not avail
  
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• WD Black has a new SSD on the way for Steam Deck and Asus ROG Ally

  12-09-2023 14:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Looks like Western Digital is about to jump on the Steam Deck SSD bandwagon, as a new WD Black M.2 2230 drive is inbound. Naturally, it’ll also fit nicely within gaming handhelds like the Ayaneo S2 and Asus ROG Ally, and the storage giant seems to be using the latter device to market the new format. However, whether you’ll use it to upgrade your portable powerhouse of choice is a different matter entirely, as it costs a bit more than its rivals.Dubbed the WD Black SN770M, the new 223
  
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• A week after release, Starfield players are sharing their must-know tips for the RPG

  12-09-2023 13:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's only been a week since Starfield fully released, but some players have experienced enough to share their tips for others just getting started in the RPG.Over on the Starfield subreddit, one fan has shared a post titled: "80+ hours in - my 'I wish I knew that earlier' list." It's got heaps of praise from other users and has prompted others to share their own tips - giving new players an excellent head start in a potentially overwhelming game at first. So what kind of things should begin
  
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• Wild new Disney Lorcana character mashups look like they're from D&D

  12-09-2023 13:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  The next Disney Lorcana set has been revealed, but many of its characters have been twisted into new forms that could easily be taken from a D&D book.Called 'Disney Lorcana: Rise of the Floodborn,' this new set introduces the idea of beloved heroes (and villains, naturally) that have been transformed by a strange kind of magical ink. This leads to mashups like a knightly Cinderella armed with a sword that has a pumpkin-style hilt, not to mention Belle wielding a bow with arrows topped by ros
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 tactician flawlessly beats the RPG's most difficult chapter on its hardest difficulty with an absolute cocktail of D&D spells

  12-09-2023 13:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate 3's most difficult moment was thought to be almost impossible to pull off flawlessly, but one player has managed to do so on the game's hardest difficulty - by using a huge array of D&D's speediest spells.This article contains spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3's third act.The Iron Throne might be my favourite set-piece in Baldur's Gate 3. When I stumbled across it 60 hours into my playthrough, it changed my entire perspective on the game. It's an underwater prison filled with innoce
  
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• An unexpected Tom Cruise movie has topped Netflix

  12-09-2023 13:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, the follow-up to Tom Cruise's 2012 actioner, has topped Netflix's worldwide movie chart. Subscribers are clearly in the mood for some high-octane thrills, too, as its predecessor is currently coming in as the fourth most-watched title on the platform.According to FlixPatrol, The Grinch, the animation featuring the voice talents of Rashida Jones and Benedict Cumberbatch is number two, while the Adam Sandler-starring comedy drama You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzva
  
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• New Disney Lorcana character mashups look like they're from D&D

  12-09-2023 13:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  The next Disney Lorcana set has been revealed, but many of its characters have been twisted into new forms that could easily be taken from a D&D book.Called 'Disney Lorcana: Rise of the Floodborn,' this new set introduces the idea of beloved heroes (and villains, naturally) that have been transformed by a strange kind of magical ink. This leads to mashups like a knightly Cinderella armed with a sword that has a pumpkin-style hilt, not to mention Belle wielding a bow with arrows topped by ros
  
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• Soulslike Lies of P cuts 'All Puppets Are Bastards' sign

  12-09-2023 13:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Lies of P's developer has removed an in-game sign reading 'All Puppets Are Bastards' for fear of the game being judged "based on any trends."As Sports Illustrated first reported, early gameplay for Lies of P featured a decapitated puppet on a bridge, wearing a sign with the phrase "APAB" scrawled across it. This was obviously meant to stand for 'All Puppets Are Bastards,' a play on the ACAB acronym, meaning 'All Cops Are Bastards.'However, that text has now vanished from Lies of P. In the more r
  
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• The Little Mermaid breaks Disney Plus streaming records to become one of its most-watched debuts

  12-09-2023 13:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Little Mermaid capitalized on its already impressive box office earlier this year to break records for Disney Plus. The live-action remake of the animated classic managed to wrack up 16 million complete views after just five days on the platform.This makes it Disney’s biggest debut since the release of Hocus Pocus 2 last year. Box office commentator Luiz Fernando even noted that it outswam Star Wars spin-off Ahsoka's debut as well, which had 14 million complete views.The results are a
  
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• Everyone wants the best Star Wars animated character back – and we couldn't agree more

  12-09-2023 13:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star Wars fans all want the same thing – for the legendary Hondo Ohnaka to make a return to the franchise. Hondo hasn't been seen since the Rebels season 4 finale, which aired in October 2017 – a whole six years ago. The pirate was a regular presence in that show and also popped up plenty in The Clone Wars, regularly crossing paths with Ahsoka Tano, Anakin Skywalker, and Obi-Wan Kenobi. He's a fan favorite thanks to his outrageous schemes, hilarious sense of humor, and, above al
  
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• Starfield's Irish accents are raising some eyebrows

  12-09-2023 12:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Starfield players raising their eyebrows at the game's questionable Irish accents.From its incredible physics engine that can realistically simulate 10,000 milk cartons cascading down a building to its scientifically accurate zero-gravity gunfighting, Starfield has a commendable commitment to realism. But that's not the case with every aspect of Bethesda's new space-based RPG, as you'll notice if you stop to chew the fat with any of its supposedly Irish NPCs.Many Starfield players have been weig
  
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• The AI apocalypse has started as robots from Gareth Edwards’ The Creator spotted loose in the world

  12-09-2023 12:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  The war against Artificial Intelligence has taken on a new form as the robots from Gareth Edwards’ upcoming movie The Creator have been spotted out and about. The intelligent beings are at the heart of the new sci-fi from the Rogue One director, which is set in a future where humans and AI are at war. The "robots" were spotted in the crowd of a Los Angeles Chargers American football game by some very confused spectators. They’re pretty hard to miss thanks to their headgear and g
  
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• Anna Kendrick's buzzy true crime directorial debut is heading to Netflix

  12-09-2023 12:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Woman of the Hour, Anna Kendrick's directorial debut, is officially heading to Netflix after the streamer picked up the rights to the movie at Toronto International Film Festival. The film tells the true story of Cheryl Bradshaw (played by Kendrick), a contestant on US dating show The Dating Game in 1978 who unwittingly picked a serial killer as her match. Rodney Alcala (Daniel Zovatto) was a registered sex offender and had been on the FBI's list of most wanted fugitives when he appeared on
  
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• Armored Core subreddit asks fans to please stop posting lewd art

  12-09-2023 12:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Armored Core 6's subreddit has issued a warning to lewd fan art after several posts on the channel.Earlier this month, we reported on how Armored Core 6 fans were drawing characters, even though they're all literally faceless in the actual game itself. The likes of Ayre and Handler Walter are never seen, represented instead as faceless voices by your side, but of course talented artists went ahead and imagined them as a magical girl and a certified zaddy, respectively.Now, artists have taken the
  
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• Cyberpunk 2077 dev says you should probably check your PC's cooling system before you boot up Phantom Liberty

  12-09-2023 12:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ahead of Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, you should check your PC's cooling systems, one of the DLC's developers says. A few weeks ahead of Phantom Liberty's release, Filip Pierściński of CD Projekt Red has issued a warning to players, asking them to "please check [the] conditions of your cooling systems in [your] PC," as the upcoming DLC will require a lot of processing power on even the most powerful PCs. In fact, players can expect it to take up around 90% of their machine's p
  
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• Loki season 2 will be even weirder than the first season, promises producer

  12-09-2023 12:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Loki season 2 is going to be weird, executive producer Kevin Wright has promised. The first season of the show saw everything from a trip to Pompeii to a giant talking clock, so this is a particularly intriguing tease for the second installment. "We made a weird show [in season 1], and people responded to how weird it was," Wright told Entertainment Weekly. "So, we wanted to push it further." We already know that we'll catch up with Sylvie working at McDonald's, which is strange e
  
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• Beloved Dark Souls toilet account catches flak for using AI to create anticipated Armored Core 6 toilet

  12-09-2023 11:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  A beloved Dark Souls Twitter account has caught a lot of flak for using AI to generate a toilet in the style of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon.'dark souls toilet' is a widely-beloved Twitter account, posting pictures of toilets (and bathrooms in general) that fall weirdly in line with the style of areas throughout FromSoftware games - whether that's the horrors of Blighttown, the glory of Anor Londo, or the horrifyingly-long toilets inspired by the Dark Sun Gwyndolin boss fight. Last month, ha
  
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• The speedrunner that 'killed' Pokemon Red has retired because all their records are "just too good"

  12-09-2023 11:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Six months after setting a Pokemon Red world record that was so fast it might have killed the entire category, one speedrunner said they retired from the scene because their times are so good it wouldn't be any fun to try and beat them.Back in January, speedrunner PokeGuy set a Pokemon Red time that beat the previous world record by more than a minute. Thanks to some risky decision-making in the game's notorious Silph Co run against Team Rocket, they were able to ride their luck to obliterate th
  
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• Stranger Things season 5 producer Shawn Levy says the final season will be on a blockbuster movie scale

  12-09-2023 10:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stranger Things season 5 will be bigger and bolder than ever before, according to series producer Shawn Levy. The director, who is also helming Deadpool 3, shared the insight in the latest issue of Total Film magazine, which hits shelves on September 14. "There’s no way to be contiguous with season 4, and not, frankly, expand scale and depth," Levy teases about the upcoming final season of the Netflix hit. "It’s major, major, cinematic storytelling that happens to be called a TV
  
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• Pack it in, Starfield shipbuilders, this Batman-inspired spacecraft is the coolest ever

  12-09-2023 01:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  In some ways, I regret to inform you that the most badass Starfield ship that exists and will ever exist has already been created, and it's this Batman-inspired spacecraft from Reddit user bmikey.Starfield's ship customization options allow for some incredibly detailed vessels, and since I haven't actually seen every custom ship so far created, and also because this is all entirely subjective, I should clarify that I'm sure there are plenty of other equally cool Starfield ships out there... I ju
  
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