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• The PlayStation Network has been down for 17 hours - and PSN players say even single-player games and disc drives aren't working

  08-02-2025 18:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  The PlayStation Network has been busted for most players for 17 hours, causing problems with online play, the PlayStation Store, and PlayStation Portal.The official PSN Network Status confirms that issues began to arise on Saturday at 00:00am UK time, and players across PS3, PS Vita, PS4, and PS5 might have problems with account management, signing in, game streaming, game purchasing, and most importantly: playing games.When online servers go down, most players expect not to be able to play mult
  
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• Ex-World of Warcraft designer says the stagnating "meta" in today's RPGs "really sucks," and Marvel Rivals is a good example of how to solve it

  08-02-2025 17:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former Blizzard Entertainment developer Chris Kaleiki, who primarily worked as a class designer on evergreen mammoth World of Warcraft for 13 years, is gearing up to release an all-new game with a bunch of other ex-WoW, ex-AAA staff. And, surprisingly, he thought a lot about Marvel Rivals when solving an issue that permeates across many of today's roleplaying games.Kaleiki now works as the boss of Notorious Studios, prepping the imminent early access release of its first game Legacy: Steel &
  
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• To celebrate Helldivers 2's first birthday, GM Joel recalls his favorite community moments that are now "canon" and "part of Helldiver lore"

  08-02-2025 17:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's hard to believe that we've been spreading democracy and destruction across Helldivers 2's galaxy for an entire year now, and one developer has been behind almost every surprising twist and turn: game master Joel (or J.O.E.L.) To celebrate the breakout shooter's first anniversary, the D&D-style architect is listing his absolute favorite community-driven moments."Over the course of the last year of the galactic war, we have, on numerous occasions, been positively surprised by the actions
  
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• First The Night Agent season 3 teaser takes us behind the scenes on the hit Netflix show, confirming that it's in production

  08-02-2025 14:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  You don't have to remember a random set of words to get an update on the third season of The Night Agent – Netflix has thankfully just released a juicy morsel themselves.Following another successful and explosive second season, the streaming service revealed on Twitter that season 3 is in production and will have our top agent, Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso), once again sprinting down well-lit streets and telling whoever is unfortunate enough to be in the passenger's seat of whatever car
  
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• One star is "heartbroken" that they can't return for Twisted Metal season 2 due to scheduling conflicts, teasing that the upcoming instalment is "going to be nuts"

  08-02-2025 13:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Good video game adaptations – what a concept, right? Besides Fallout, The Last of Us, and the Sonic movies, there's also a surprise hit that everyone pumped their brakes for in the case of Twisted Metal. Debuting its first season in 2023 on Peacock, the show was met with a positive reception from critics and fans alike. So it's great to see that a second season has completed filming. What's not great to see is that one of its stars, Jason Mantzoukas, won't be among those returning.Starring
  
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• Nosferatu director Robert Eggers says that his upcoming werewolf horror movie is "the darkest thing" he's "ever written"

  08-02-2025 12:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  If Robert Eggers' claims are true, the werewolf movie he's working on could make Count Orlok look like the Count from Sesame Street. While attending a Q&A session at the Lincoln Center, the director of Nosferatu revealed a little bit more about what he had in store for his next meeting with one of cinema's most iconic monsters, which should do enough to have fans howling.Caught by a fan on Twitter, Eggers teased, "It's a medieval werewolf movie. It's also the darkest thing I've ever written,
  
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• Star of scrapped Coyote vs. Acme movie says it makes his "blood boil" that the film was canceled: "I would understand if the thing sucked, but it's really good"

  08-02-2025 11:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  When Warner Bros. said, "That's all, folks," to Coyote vs. Acme, the internet bounced back, demanding that the live-action Looney Tunes movie finally see its day on the big screen. Unfortunately, the studio didn't budge from shelving the project to take a $30 million tax write-off, and now one of the film's stars, Nick Forte, has spoken out about the decision.“My thoughts were that it’s fucking bullshit,” the actor told MovieWeb, backing the film that the rest of the world will
  
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• Martin Scorsese reveals that he's a huge fan of Nosferatu and director Robert Eggers too: "Anything this guy does, amazing"

  08-02-2025 10:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's official. Robert Eggers is a bloody good director after legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese praised his recent trip to Transylvania with Nosferatu.Speaking to TCM’s Dave Karger about his career and the films, both past and present, that have inspired him, Scorsese discussed his love for horror. Karger asked the Goodfellas director if he had seen Eggers' latest vampire flick, echoing much of what critics and audiences have already said about the movie. "It’s amazing. Anything thi
  
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• 13-year WoW vet left Blizzard for the indie life because "I didn't really feel like a game developer in some way," agrees it's harder for AAA giants to "maintain this connection to the player"

  08-02-2025 02:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Chris Kaleiki, a 13-year World of Warcraft veteran developer now in charge of Notorious Studios, has explained why he left the AAA space to make smaller games.Kaleiki recently sat down with GamesRadar+ for a comprehensive talk about Notorious Studios' debut game, Legacy: Steel & Sorcery, which he bills as a AA game sitting somewhere between indie and AAA. The conversation frequently gravitated toward some of the key distinctions, in Kaleiki's view, between indie, AAA, and that nebulous space
  
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• Diablo creator rips into modern ARPGs for being all about "killing screen-fulls of things instantly," says Diablo 2's pacing "is great" and "that’s one of the reasons it’s endured"

  08-02-2025 01:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  David Brevik, lead designer on the original Diablo game and the person most often credited for the ARPG series' creation, isn't a big fan of modern ARPGs.Talking to VideoGamer, Brevik railed against the blistering pace of much newer ARPGs. Naturally, he didn't name any specific examples, but I mean, it's pretty obvious that he's referencing Diablo 4 and, perhaps, Path of Exile 2."I think that ARPGs in general have started to lean into this: kill swaths of enemies all over the place extremely qui
  
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