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• Monster Hunter lead producer agrees PC gaming is key for Japanese games: "There are more players than ever playing on PC, including in Japan"

  14-02-2025 23:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  One of the big shifts the game industry has seen over the past decade is that many Japanese developers are now fully embracing PC versions of the their games. While Capcom took some time to warm up to day-and-date PC releases for Monster Hunter, as Monster Hunter Wilds approaches the studio's fully embracing the platform.As part of our recent interview with the Monster Hunter Wilds devs, we asked producer Ryozo Tsujimoto if he'd agree that PC is a major growth platform for Japanese games. "Yeah,
  
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• Ultimate Peter Parker is officially mentoring his son as Spider-Man, the new Ultimate Sabretooth is coming, and more revealed in Marvel's May 2025 Ultimate Universe solicitations

  14-02-2025 23:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's official: Ultimate Peter Parker's son is staying in the mantle of Spider-Man alongside his father. Young Richard Parker took up the mantle in Ultimate Spider-Man #13, wearing Peter's nano-suit, which gives him powers, while Peter Parker has been the captive of Kraven the Hunter.And now, in Ultimate Spider-Man #17, Marvel is promising "Peter and Richard's first superhero outing together as Spider-Men" as "father and son team up against the Sinister Six," in a new release accompanying the pub
  
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• Ex-CDPR devs' new open-world vampire RPG is aiming for "the quality level of The Witcher 3," but since it's a smaller studio, only about a 30-40 hour campaign

  14-02-2025 22:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Blood of Dawnwalker creative director Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz isn't too concerned whether you call the upcoming vampire RPG AA, AAA, or even AAAA - he just wants it to be at the same level of quality as The Witcher 3, which he worked on as lead quest designer.I had the chance recently to sit down with Tomaszkiewicz about Dawnwalker, and at some point I asked about the burgeoning AA space that sits between indie and AAA games. Tomaszkiewicz and his brother Konrad started up Rebel Wolves in part
  
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• Hyper Light Breaker devs were "caught off guard a bit by how oppressive the difficulty was for players," even if some people are "very upset that we’ve made it easier"

  14-02-2025 22:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Heart Machine's open-world roguelike Hyper Light Breaker landed with a thud but has noticeably improved since launch and will soon begin a proper comeback tour of monthly updates, as the devs told us in a recent wide-ranging interview. One of the biggest day-one surprises for the devs, who anticipated some degree of early access growing pains, was the overwhelmingly negative player response to the game's harsh difficulty curve, which has since been toned down to accommodate people who didn't mak
  
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• Split Fiction's Josef Fares thinks game devs should embrace AI: "I can understand the fact that some people could lose their jobs, but that goes for every new technology"

  14-02-2025 22:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Split Fiction and It Takes Two director Josef Fares acknowledges that, while AI technology is not yet sophisticated enough to create games better than humans, it's time for devs to comfortably coexist with it."We need to adapt to it," Fares tells VGC in a new interview. "I can understand the fact that some people could lose their jobs, but that goes for every new technology."It feels like Fares has been grappling with AI for a while now. We couldn't help but think about AI during our Split Ficti
  
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• After 40 years, a sequel to The Goonies is finally in the works and Steven Spielberg is back to produce

  14-02-2025 22:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  A sequel to The Goonies is officially in the works – and with none other than Steven Spielberg set to produce.Per Variety, Potsy Ponciroli is set to write the script, which will be produced by Amblin Entertainment (and if you're a huge dork like me, that in and of itself is really exciting). A director has not yet been announced, and plot details are still being kept under wraps.The original 1985 movie starred Josh Brolin, Sean Astin, Corey Feldman, and Ke Huy Quan as a group of kids who g
  
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• An animated movie you've probably never heard of is on track to break the two billion mark at the box office

  14-02-2025 21:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ne Zha 2, the sequel to the Chinese animated comedy Ne Zha, is on track to become the biggest animated film of all time.The movie, which hit theaters in China on January 29, has garnered $1.37 billion at the global box office against a budget of just $80 million. Ne Zha 2 is the highest-grossing film of 2025, the highest-grossing film in China, the highest-grossing non-English language film, the 16th highest-grossing film of all time, and has just beat out the Super Mario Bros. Movie for third-h
  
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• Ex-The Witcher 3 lead "would love to time travel and fix" some things in the beloved RPG where "I really hate how we did it"

  14-02-2025 20:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Witcher 3 lead quest designer Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz, who's now leading development on Rebel Wolves' Blood of Dawnwalker, has some regrets from his time at CD Projekt Red.It's genuinely hard to think of a more universally beloved RPG than The Witcher 3. I could go over its plentiful awards and accolades, but all you really need to know about its legacy is that it topped our list of the 100 best games of its generation back in 2020. Even still, Tomaszkiewicz tells GamesRadar+ there are things
  
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• Rockstar creates official Discord server and immediately gets flooded by horny Among Us fanart and demands for GTA 6

  14-02-2025 19:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rockstar just revealed its first Discord server along with its Valentine's Day update, and fans are wasting no time by acting coy. They're on the fast track to intimacy with Rockstar, demanding new GTA 6 trailers between things like discussing the best time to poop."Give us GTA 6 trailer 2," demands one Discord user."GTA 6 trailer 3 please," requests another."I save my poop for work so I can get paid for it," reports one wise thought leader."Will GTA 6 include removable shoes and socks?" someone
  
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• Bayonetta and Okami director "would love to see the Virtual Console rebooted" on Switch 2: "That's something that I would really want to ask Nintendo for"

  14-02-2025 19:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Many game studios are playing coy when it comes to Nintendo Switch 2, and that includes both Capcom and Clovers as they collaborate on the as-yet-untitled Okami sequel. But director Hideki Kamiya does have one big wish for the platform: Nintendo should bring back Virtual Console.In a new interview with the developers of the Okami sequel, IGN asked if they had any opinions about Switch 2. Naturally, Capcom producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi was pretty quick to deflect the inquiry. "This is something t
  
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• After a hard launch, Hyper Light Breaker dev says negative reviews were key because "you can’t pay for QA of that caliber! That all comes from true giving a damn"

  14-02-2025 18:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hyper Light Breaker has had a rough launch into early access, but the devs are turning it around week by week with patches and a new roadmap outlining changes to come. The developers still found all the negative reviews valuable, though."Day One was incredibly eventful, with joyous highs (hanging out in the #1 slot on Steam Top Sales for a bit), and some disappointments right out the gate (the initial batch of negative reviews)," Yiyi Zhang community and PR Manager at developer Heart Machine tel
  
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• The big Thunderbolts theory about Taskmaster may not be so straightforward

  14-02-2025 18:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  The big Thunderbolts* fan theory about Taskmaster may not be as straightforward as it once seemed thanks to a cryptic comment from director Jake Schreier."I think we enjoy playing with that mystery," Schreier told Empire when asked about her role in the movie.The mystery in question is a life or death situation – literally. The recently released Super Bowl trailer for the MCU's next big-screen outing (after Captain America: Brave New World) seemed to have Marvel fans all thinking the same
  
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• In one day a bunch of dwarves chipped in over $380,000 for $85 mugs made with "a rather expensive polymer," which is somehow perfectly on-brand for Deep Rock Galactic

  14-02-2025 18:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Deep Rock Galactic is a game about burrowing into alien planets with your fellow dwarven friends, mining for glowy goods, shooting bugs, and then coming back to your motherbase to down mugs of beer. In line with that, the ever-popular shooter is now getting some appropriate merch that's inappropriately expensive: an $85 mug.Merch makers Scorched Steel Industry put the project on Kickstarter earlier this week, in collaboration with developer Ghost Ship Games, and the campaign's already raised ove
  
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• 6 years after it was announced, The Handmaid’s Tale sequel has found its lead in Presumed Innocent star

  14-02-2025 18:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Not only has The Handmaid's Tale season 6 announced its premiere date this week, but its long-awaited sequel is nearing a series greenlight and has cast another lead role.Presumed Innocent‘s Chase Infiniti has joined the sequel as one of the three leads, as reported by Deadline. Infiniti joins Hereditary star and The Handmaid’s Tale‘s Lydia actor Ann Dowd, who is expected to reprise her role.The sequel series, which was announced 6 years ago, is based on The Handmaid’s Ta
  
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• Yellowjackets star Simone Kessell on Lottie's connection with Callie in season 3: "She's intrigued by her"

  14-02-2025 18:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Yellowjackets star Simone Kessell's character Lottie may have left her cult leading days behind her, but she's got a new focus in season 3: Shauna's teenage daughter Callie (Sarah Desjardins).The season 2 finale saw Lottie admitted to a psychiatric facility after she tried to rope the other survivors into a hunting ritual reminiscent of their time in the wilderness that ultimately resulted in the death of Nat (Juliette Lewis). By the time season 3 episode 2 rolls around, though, she's back out i
  
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• Star Wars: The High Republic's final arc will force Keeve Trennis to face her fears – and her future with the Jedi

  14-02-2025 17:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel's Star Wars: The High Republic range comes to an end this year with a "galaxy-shattering" final arc from writer Cavan Scott and artist Marika Cresta. Star Wars: The High Republic – Fear of the Jedi #1 is the first part of a five-issue story which sees the Jedi gearing up for a deadly confrontation with the marauding forces of the Nihil – one which will force Keeve Trennis to make a life-changing decision.The ominous title Fear of the Jedi refers to a question that Scott posed
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3's Shadowheart actor and her real-life partner "are finally playing opposite each other" in this gorgeous fantasy action game set in "shattered" London

  14-02-2025 17:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Magic-packed fantasy action-adventure Tides of Annihilation is shaping up to have a very strong voice cast, because not only is Baldur's Gate 3's Shadowheart actor Jennifer English the protagonist, BG3 performance director and English's real-life partner, Aliona Baranova, is involved too.Tides of Annihilation was my favorite reveal from this week's PlayStation State of Play. Set in a "shattered" and "once-vibrant" London (this is meant to be a fantasy game, after all), protagonist Gwendolyn is t
  
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• "Rockstar is controlled by no one, including their publisher": Ex-Blizzard boss says Borderlands 4 "doesn't matter" in response to fans trying to narrow the GTA 6 release window down

  14-02-2025 17:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  People have been speculating about when Grand Theft Auto 6 will arrive this year, and Borderlands 4's September launch date has led some to believe we've narrowed the window down, as it likely won't clash with another game from the same publisher. Mike Ybarra, ex-Blizzard president, says this doesn't matter.It's been reported that publishers are waiting for Rockstar to announce when GTA 6 will launch before committing to their own games' release dates. This is because no one wants to compete wit
  
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• Ultra-violent Daredevil: Born Again trailer reveals first look at new Punisher logo

  14-02-2025 17:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new TV spot for Daredevil: Born Again has arrived ahead of the show's March premiere – and it gives us our first look at the brand new Punisher logo.In the brief clip, which can be viewed below, we see Matt Murdock break some faces with his chilling words to Wilson Fisk about retribution from the first trailer playing over top. For a split second, we get a glimpse at the new Punisher logo – which is a grittier rendition, showing only half of the skull.
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• Cobra Kai creators explain how they included a major Karate Kid character in the final season: "We’re paying homage to a hero"

  14-02-2025 17:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cobra Kai season 6 contains a very special cameo from Karate Kid legend Mr. Miyagi played by Pat Morita. But seeing as though the actor sadly passed over 20 years ago, fans may be wondering just how the team were able to bring the character back. Well, wonder no more as creators Josh Heald and Jon Hurwitz have explained how they used technology to do just that.Using the show’s fight choreographer Don Lee as a body double, the creators didn't have to use any special effects when it came to
  
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• A search engine mix-up had Avowed players declare that an Indian politician was "John Avowed" – and they've already made him in-game

  14-02-2025 16:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avowed is out for anyone who spent a little extra on the Deluxe Edition, and some players are already recreating "John Avowed," the Indian politician who somehow became the meme-y face of the game's community.If you typed in "Avowed release date" at any point in the last few weeks, there's a chance Indian politician Nitin Gadkari popped up for some reason, lifting an arm to wave behind the new RPG's February 18 release, which is when the game fully launches on Game Pass, PC, and Xbox Series X|S.
  
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• The first Elden Ring Nightreign network test "has ended" after a few disastrous hours, and "an additional network test is being considered" to make up for it

  14-02-2025 15:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  FromSoftware has apologized for the server issues during Elden Ring Nightreign's now-finished network test and is considering another session in the future, so you may still get to play the game before launch.Twitter has been flooded with memes of people who weren't able to connect to Nightreign's servers during its network test. I suppose this is what a network test is all about, seeing if the servers can handle all the players.In a statement published to Twitter, the official Elden Ring accoun
  
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• Obsidian insisted that Avowed wouldn't have romance, but that wasn't quite true, because there's at least one eligible bachelor, and he's voiced by an iconic Mass Effect heartthrob

  14-02-2025 15:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  So it turns out that Obsidian Entertainment's new RPG Avowed isn't as lacking in romance as the devs led us to believe, as you can become more than platonic besties with at least one of your companion characters.Be aware there are minor spoilers ahead for how this all happens, and of course, who your envoy can get flirty with, so if you don't want to see that, feel free to step away now with the knowledge that there's at least some love in Eora.Drum roll, please... Avowed has an eligible bachelo
  
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• Dark Souls and Elden Ring owner says Shadow of the Erdtree boosted revenue, and plans to expand its gaming division thanks to investment from Sony

  14-02-2025 15:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  In December last year, Sony became the largest shareholder in Elden Ring developer FromSoftware's parent company, Kadokawa, and both companies are expecting the arrangement to lead to more games.Kadokawa doesn't just publish video games, but lots of manga and anime, too. Its profits are up 16.7% and its gaming division saw 40% growth "thanks to DLC for Elden Ring contributing to domestic and international revenue," according to an earnings report.As well as the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, Nightre
  
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• Exclusive Lorcana card reveal gives Disney's best couple a 'legendary' makeover

  14-02-2025 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Gawrsh, but this exclusive Disney Lorcana card reveal for Valentine's Day isn't half cute.In honor of the most romantic holiday of the year, GamesRadar+ can exclusively show off two exclusive Disney Lorcana card reveals – and they feature the House of Mouse's best-known power couple. Yep, Mickey and Minnie are getting new, legendary cards for the upcoming Archazia’s Island set.Seeing as they're rare legendaries and Disney's most beloved characters, it shouldn't come as a surprise tha
  
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• Clayface attracts attention of two horror directors as the upcoming movie in James Gunn's DCU is rumored to be a "horror-thriller-tragedy"

  14-02-2025 13:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  DC’s upcoming movie Clayface has had an exciting update as two horror directors join the race to direct the next movie in James Gunn’s DCU.The movie is currently opening directing assignments right now with DC hearing pitches from potential filmmakers next week, as reported by Deadline. Some of the directors who have shown interest in helming the movie are Truth or Dare‘s Jeff Waldow and Speak No Evil‘s James Watkins.It is certainly fitting that Clayface has attracted the
  
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• Elden Ring Nightreign network test starts with a stumble as PlayStation servers go down for maintenance just as it begins

  14-02-2025 13:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Elden Ring Nightreign network test has started with a bit of a bump, with servers going down for maintenance after many players reported struggling to get in.As our Elden Ring Nightreign network test times explainer lays out, FromSoftware is letting a select group of fans try the roguelike spin on the Lands Between in three-hour bursts over the coming days. The first of those time windows has just kicked off, though social media was swiftly filled with posts from players saying they couldn't
  
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• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 actor follows Baldur’s Gate 3 casts' streaming tradition: "Obviously I'm going to try and f*** myself"

  14-02-2025 13:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's Valentine's Day so here's some romantic news for you. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 actor Luke Dale livestreamed his playthrough of the hit game and immediately tried to bang himself, following the blueprint laid out by the Baldur's Gate 3 cast.Luke Dale plays Lord Hans Capon in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, who's usually only interesting in drinking, sleeping around, and hunting, but he can make an exception for you if you take the time to properly romance him. He's also the only same-sex rom
  
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• After appearing in everything from Fallout to Final Fantasy, Naughty Dog nearly didn't cast Abby's actor in The Last of Us 2 until it noticed her audition had one thing no one else's did

  14-02-2025 12:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  You hated Abby at the start of The Last of Us 2, and if you didn't love her by the end, you at least understood her, but Laura Bailey almost didn't get cast in the iconic role which won her several awards.Neil Druckmann and Cory Barlog, creative directors of Naughty Dog and Santa Monica Studio respectively, discussed Bailey's casting during the D.I.C.E. Summit on Wednesday. Originally reported by PC Gamer, Bailey almost didn't get the role because Druckmann and his colleagues at Naughty Dog were
  
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• Ubisoft's revenue is way down, but Assassin's Creed Shadows might save it as preorders track alongside Odyssey's 10 million-copy haul

  14-02-2025 12:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ubisoft's revenue took a nosedive last year, but the incoming Assassin's Creed Shadows might just turn things around.Ubisoft just released its financial results for the nine-month period ending on December 31, 2024, and things weren't looking great for the Star Wars Outlaws and XDefiant publisher. Over the last three fiscal quarters, the company made €990 million (roughly $1.035 billion), which was a 31.4% drop from the same period the year before.Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot had some optimis
  
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• Yellowjackets star hints at twist for her character in season 3: "You're gonna realize that maybe you've been seeing more of her than you thought you were"

  14-02-2025 12:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Yellowjackets star Tawny Cypress has teased that not everything is as it seems for her character in season 3. The actor plays the present-day version of Taissa Turner, a headstrong soccer player as a teen and current "disgraced" politician who often falls into a disassociative fugue state that involves horrifying visions of the 'Man with No Eyes'."I'm winging it," Cypress laughs when GamesRadar+ asks her what it was like to explore a darker side of Taissa in season 3. "It's a completely made-up
  
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• First reactions to Parasite director's new delayed sci-fi movie Mickey 17 say it's "worth the wait" and praise Robert Pattinson’s "brilliant performance"

  14-02-2025 12:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Following its world premiere, the first set of reactions to Bong Joon-ho’s upcoming sci-fi flick Mickey 17 are in, and they’re overwhelmingly positive."MICKEY 17 is Bong Joon Ho’s playground for political parody. A bullseye incision of capitalist greed and environmental imperialism delivered with urgency," said The Rolling Tape’s Danny Jarabek. While Discussing Film’s Andrew J. Salazar said, "MICKEY 17 is equal parts sci-fi drama and political satire."It looks like
  
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• After walking back on Marvel Rivals' mid-season rank reset, NetEase Games is also adjusting ranked rewards to give you more time to grab the free Invisible Woman skin

  14-02-2025 12:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel Rivals developer NetEase Games is making another tweak to the third-person shooter to give everyone more time to get their hands on a free Invisible Woman skin that's being given out as a reward for Gold-ranked players.Earlier this week, NetEase Games announced plans for a mid-season reset for Marvel Rivals' ranks, but quickly u-turned on them after backlash from players. However, certain reward plans remained the same – at the second half of Season 1 (starting a week from now on Fe
  
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• Robert Pattinson sums up all of our thoughts on The Batman 2 delay, but says it starts shooting at the end of the year

  14-02-2025 12:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Robert Pattinson knows The Batman 2 has been a long time coming, but he's also given a very positive update about the DC sequel.The first movie came out in 2022, with The Batman 2 recently delayed all the way to 2027."We haven't shot it yet," Pattinson told Deadline on the red carpet for his new film Mickey 17, adding that shooting begins "end of the year.""It's a while," he said, summing up all our thoughts on the wait. When asked if he could speak about the story, he said: "Not yet. It's cool
  
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• Animal Crossing meets Breath of the Wild meets an MMO? I can see why Fantasy Life i has been delayed so many times, but it's finally coming out soon

  14-02-2025 11:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time has been cooking for a long, long while, but after being delayed thrice, the sequel to a 3DS classic seems to now have a firm release date. (Fingers crossed.)Level 5 has just announced that the genre mash-up is launching on May 21, and the studio has seemingly used its extra dev time to bring Fantasy Life i to even more platforms as it's now coming out on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC in addition to the Nintendo Switch - and, by extension, the Nintend
  
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• Marvel producer says Captain America: Brave New World's Wolverine link is part of the plan to "sprinkle" X-Men references in the MCU

  14-02-2025 11:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  There have been several nods to the X-Men in the MCU since Disney acquired the rights back in 2019. From cameos in The Marvels and Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness to Wolverine's entry in Deadpool & Wolverine, the references have been mounting up.Captain America: Brave New World, the latest Marvel Phase 5 entry, is no different, bringing in Adamantium to the universe, which is the metal that Wolverine's skeleton is made of. According to Marvel producer Nate Moore, this is all par
  
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• Former Blizzard boss says "GTA 6 is king" and "everyone will move their release" when it gets a launch date: "It is really the only game that has the power to do this today"

  14-02-2025 01:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra reckons Rockstar has the singular privilege of being able to release GTA 6 whenever it wants because every other publisher will move their releases around to avoid its shadow.Publishers regularly shift around release dates to avoid clashing with other big releases, but Ybarra says GTA 6 is such a behemoth that Rockstar isn't one bit concerned about other games stealing the spotlight.In response to an IGN article speculating about GTA 6's potential release da
  
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• Captain America: Brave New World post-credits scenes: how many are there and what does it mean for the future of the MCU?

  14-02-2025 01:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  With Captain America: Brave New World now out in theaters worldwide, you are probably wondering whether the latest Marvel movie has a post-credits scene. Even more so, you are perhaps asking instead how many there are, given Marvel's long history with these scenes.The vast majority of Marvel releases come complete with both a mid-credits and post-credits scene which are typically either a tease for an upcoming project or a fun gag for fans. However, there have been some exceptions to this rule o
  
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