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• Spider-Man and Wolverine are teaming up in their own ongoing series that ties into their secret shared history

  19-02-2025 23:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Spider-Man and Wolverine are two of Marvel's most popular characters, and now they're teaming up in an ongoing series that pairs them in what Marvel is billing as a "nonstop thrill ride."Written by Marc Guggenheim and drawn by Kaare Andrews, Spider-Man & Wolverine seems to be aiming straight at what fans of the two characters might expect from their team-up: big, bombastic action that also ties into a "mystery deeply rotten in secrets from both their pasts."Neither Wolverine nor Spider-Man i
  
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• "A really sad day for speedrunning": The world's fastest gamers brace for brace for a new Twitch storage limit on "all highlights and uploads"

  19-02-2025 23:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Twitch has announced plans to implement a 100-hour storage limit for all highlights and uploads for all users. The announcement has been met with immediate criticism from speedrunners in particular, who fear that they're on the verge of losing years worth of history."Starting April 19, 2025," Twitch explains in its announcement, "all Highlights and Uploads, whether published or unpublished, will count towards a single 100-hour storage limit. The storage limit applies to all Highlights and Upload
  
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• "A really sad day for speedrunning": The world's fastest gamers brace for a new Twitch storage limit on "all highlights and uploads"

  19-02-2025 23:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Twitch has announced plans to implement a 100-hour storage limit for all highlights and uploads for all users. The announcement has been met with immediate criticism from speedrunners in particular, who fear that they're on the verge of losing years worth of history."Starting April 19, 2025," Twitch explains in its announcement, "all Highlights and Uploads, whether published or unpublished, will count towards a single 100-hour storage limit. The storage limit applies to all Highlights and Upload
  
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• Marvel celebrates 50 years since Giant-Size X-Men #1 by sending Ms. Marvel Kamala Khan through time in an event that "redefines mutant history forever"

  19-02-2025 23:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel is celebrating 50 years since the 1975 release of the landmark Giant-Size X-Men #1 with the release of a series of Giant-Size one-shots in an event that the publisher promises "rewrites mutant milestones" - including the reveal of a long-lost "X-Man that never was."Written by current NYX scribes Colin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, the five one-shots will span the biggest stories in X-Men history, including Giant-Size X-Men #1, Days of Future Past, Age of Apocalypse, and the Dark Phoenix saga
  
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• The Last of Us season 2 release date revealed with new Ellie, Abby, and Joel character posters teasing "every path has a price"

  19-02-2025 23:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Last of Us season 2 has an official release date - and is celebrating with three new character posters that tease what is quite possibly the season's biggest and most crucial event.Firstly, season 2 of the critically acclaimed HBO show is set to hit Max on April 13, 2025. Secondly, the streamer has released new character posters of Joel (Pedro Pascal), Ellie (Bella Ramsey), and antihero Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) each with the caption, "Every path has a price."In the posters, which you can check o
  
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• As Switch 2 approaches, original Xbox designer says console power doesn't matter anymore because content is king, and he "would not have done things the same way" Microsoft has

  19-02-2025 23:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Seamus Blackley, the designer of the original 2001 Xbox console, reckons the raw hardware horsepower of new consoles is no longer relevant in an industry where wins and losses are decided by content more than anything.Speaking to VideoGamer, Blackley recalls the ways of old, back when consoles were still making sizable technical advances generation over generation, and the idea of a box o' games was still relatively novel. The Xbox was deliberately built to out-muscle Nintendo and Sony competito
  
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• Xbox has officially opened the generative AI floodgates, and Phil Spencer wants to use it for game preservation and save titles that "were maybe tied to unique pieces of hardware"

  19-02-2025 22:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Xbox has unveiled its generative AI project Muse, a "generative AI model of a video game that can generate game visuals, controller actions, or both." The publisher is not being specific about this model's exact uses, but has outlined some potential applications in its announcement. One of those proposed uses is game preservation."Today, countless classic games tied to aging hardware are no longer playable by most people," Xbox says in its announcement post. "Thanks to this breakthrough, we are
  
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• Marvel producer says test audiences loved scrapped Daredevil: Born Again episodes, but "a lot" of their material made it into the final show anyway

  19-02-2025 22:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  The creative team behind Daredevil: Born Again admits that test audiences did, in fact, like those scrapped Daredevil: Born Again episodes – but a lot of that material made its way into the final version of the new Disney Plus show."They did quite well because [audiences] loved the characters," executive producer Brad Winderbaum explained to Entertainment Weekly. "They loved Vincent and Charlie, so there was a lot of goodwill there."You might remember that Born Again was quite far into its
  
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• Massive new Hades 2 update finally adds a brutal final boss and, more importantly, a new pet sidekick

  19-02-2025 21:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hades 2: The Warsong update has been revealed, and it adds a final boss to the last level even though the game's still in Early Access.The roguelike sequel first launched in Early Access last May, and as of yet there's no release date for its 1.0 update, but that's not stopping developer Supergiant from dropping some, well, giant updates. There have been a handful of smaller patches with balancing changes and bug fixes, but Warsong is only the second "Major Update" we've seen, and it's pretty ma
  
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• Following Marvel Rivals layoffs, Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says studios fail big games when they don't set expectations for players: "Under promise, over-deliver"

  19-02-2025 20:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director Michael Douse says there's an easy way for major studios to stop botching their own launches: set clear expectations for players before the game is out."I feel like a lot of big games are being let down by a lack of understanding regarding what they actually are before they go to release," Douse says in a Twitter thread. "I don't see those conversations happening at the scale they should, meanwhile you see billboards and shit that doesn't really build any reso
  
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• Super Mario 64 speedrunners thought a trick that requires landing on a spot "the width of a red blood cell" was virtually impossible - now it's been done blindfolded

  19-02-2025 18:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Super Mario 64 speedrunners have broken the classic N64 platformer in what seems like every way imaginable - yet they still keep coming up with new tricks. In 2024, a new glitch was discovered that could save a second or two, but this trick was so precise it was considered effectively impossible for human runners. Cut to February 2025 and legendary speedrunner Bubzia has now done it in real time - while blindfolded.The first star in Hazy Maze Cave, the game's sixth course, requires you to naviga
  
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• Death Stranding 2 draws ever closer as Hideo Kojima shares emotional behind-the-scenes update from "important scene" that wrapped recording for 6 voice actors at once

  19-02-2025 18:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hideo Kojima keeps proving why he's the sweetest video game boss around, as he shares another behind the scenes picture celebrating more actors finishing their recordings for Death Stranding 2."Today's Japanese voice recording," he tweets. "It was for an important scene with six people at the same time. And with that, it was a wrap for Kenjiro Tsuda, Nana Mizuki, Tomokazu Sugita, Shion Wakayama, Akihiko Ishizumi, and Mitsuru Miyamoto."Tsuda is playing Sam, Mizuki is Fragile, Sugita is Dollman, M
  
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• The younger World's Finest Batman and Superman get a glimpse of their dark futures as DC reveals more details of the We Are Yesterday crossover event

  19-02-2025 18:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  As announced last month, DC's next crossover event is titled We Are Yesterday and is a six-part story spread across the publisher's Batman/Superman: World's Finest and Justice League comics. Now the publisher has released the first hints of what parts four and five of the time-twisting story will involve – and it seems like the Legion of Doom are stepping up their assault on the forces of good. We have details and covers for the two new issues, which are both published in May, below &ndash
  
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• FromSoftware didn't work with Sony on Dark Souls because of how the company failed Demon's Souls, says ex-PlayStation boss: "We definitely dropped the ball"

  19-02-2025 17:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida says FromSoftware didn't want to work with Sony on Dark Souls because the company didn't publish Demon's Souls in the West as it had originally agreed.Speaking on the Sacred Symbols podcast, as spotted and transcribed by VGC, Yoshida says: "FromSoftware was already working on the sequel, but they were so disappointed with how PlayStation treated them, we wanted to work with them again but they passed on it."The soulsborne games are hard to get into if you d
  
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• Halo gets a surprise new streaming home on Netflix – but what does that mean for season 3?

  19-02-2025 17:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Halo TV show is heading to Netflix in some regions – just months after being canceled over at Paramount Plus.The surprise streaming news has arrived without much fanfare, but is currently available to see on Netflix's landing and search pages in the UK (thanks to Windows Central for spotting that).While US audiences will seemingly have to keep up with their Paramount Plus subscriptions to watch Master Chief take the fight to the Covenant in the first two seasons of the game adaptation,
  
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• The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep may be in the Netflix top 10, but it's struggling to surpass the franchise's last movie

  19-02-2025 17:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  New animated movie The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep is struggling to surpass the viewing figures of Nightmare of the Wolf, the last movie in the fantasy franchise.Sirens of the Deep, which hit the streamer on February 11, is currently sitting at just shy of five million views for its week on the platform. Nightmare of the Wolf, however, hit over nine million views in the same timeframe when it dropped back in 2021.The film is currently number seven in Netflix's top 10 movie chart, above Norbit, M
  
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• Borderlands and Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands to hit Upper Deck with limited-edition gallery prints, trading card sets, and a trick-taking game

  19-02-2025 16:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Soon we'll be seeing Boderlands characters hitting stores in an entirely new form: trading cards. Thanks to the team at Upper Deck, you'll be able to hold characters from The Gearbox Entertainment Company's Boderlands franchise, alongside Tiny Tina's Wonderlands characters, in the palm of your hand and battle your way to victory in a new Tiny Tina trading card game.As Jason Masherah, president at Upper Deck, says in the press release, "video game collectibles as a whole are still a relatively ne
  
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• Former exec admits Amazon tried and failed to beat Steam, says the company "needed to build something dramatically better" but "gamers already had the solution" in Valve's store

  19-02-2025 16:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Remember when Amazon tried to make a Steam competitor? Me neither, to be honest, but the former vice president of Prime Gaming reveals why the company failed.Amazon has tried to get into the gaming space a few different ways over the years. There's Prime Gaming – which I've only ever used to claim the free games it offers – that functions as a digital storefront and comes with Prime Video if you have a Prime subscription. Say that sentence aloud in the mirror and Jeff Bezos will appe
  
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• The team behind Top Gun: Maverick are reuniting for a new UFO conspiracy thriller

  19-02-2025 16:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski is re-teaming with producer Jerry Bruckheimer for a new UFO conspiracy thriller, per The Hollywood Reporter.No plot details have been revealed about the currently untitled movie, which is described as "All the President’s Men with UFOs", and no actors are attached to the project yet.Former US Air Force intelligence officer and whistleblower David Grusch, who made headlines in 2023 when he claimed the US government had been secretly studying alien
  
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• Cancelled The Last of Us Online game was "great," but former PlayStation exec says Naughty Dog had to scrap it after Bungie told them how much work it would be

  19-02-2025 16:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida has said that he once played the now-cancelled Last of Us Online, which was apparently scrapped after Bungie explained to the developers "what it takes to make live service games."Shuhei Yoshida once led Sony Interactive Studios during some of its golden years, from 2008 to 2019, before helping indie teams on the platform. He's now retired from PlayStation completely and is, luckily for us video game history nerds, spilling the beans on some lesser kno
  
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• First teaser for follow-up horror from Talk to Me directors is just as unsettling as I thought it would be

  19-02-2025 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first teaser for the follow-up to Danny and Michael Philippou's hit horror Talk to Me has arrived - and it's just as disturbing as I thought it would be, if not more.In the brief clip for their new movie Bring Her Back, which can be viewed above, we cut between a funeral, a blood-covered Sally Hawkins, an Uncanny Valley-like misshaped man (for some reason this was the scariest part for me), and what we can infer to be a reanimated corpse brought back by some demonic witchcraft.The story fol
  
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• Star Fox and Zelda veteran kept seeing Shigeru Miyamoto in his dreams after leaving Nintendo: "I'd start developing a game and then I'd wake up"

  19-02-2025 15:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star Fox, F-Zero, and Zelda veteran Takaya Imamura was at Nintendo for over three decades before leaving in 2021, with a tenure so lengthy and impactful that he admits he was seeing Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto in his dreams for months after his departure.Imamura has a lot of respect for Miyamoto – he previously told GamesRadar+ that being able to work under him for so long was the thing he was most proud of from his time at Nintendo. With that in mind, perhaps it's no wonder that Miyamo
  
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• Dragon Age and Anthem producer says stop harassing developers "because you don't know the circumstances that resulted in the thing that you're mad at"

  19-02-2025 15:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dragon Age and Anthem veteran Mark Darrah has encouraged fans to channel frustrations constructively and to the appropriate place rather than let lose on random developers "because you don't know the circumstances that resulted in the thing that you're mad at."In a new video titled 'Your $70 Doesn't Buy You Cruelty,' the former BioWare executive comments on the harassment of developers within the games industry – from the celebration of layoffs to more targeted personal attacks.To start th
  
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• Life is Strange director says Don't Nod returned to its episodic roots in Lost Records because he's not "invested" in Netflix's binge model

  19-02-2025 15:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Don't Nod's decision to split Lost Records: Bloom and Rage into two parts was inspired by its success with episodic hit Life is Strange and the game director's thoughts on Netflix's controversial binge model.After dabbling in a few different genres - serene climbing sims, vampire RPGs, and tragic romantasy action games - Don't Nod has finally returned to the choice-based adventure games that made it a household name with Lost Records: Bloom and Rage - Tape 1 out now and Tape 2 coming in April. B
  
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• The Killer – the hitman comic that inspired the Michael Fassbender movie of the same name – returns with Affairs of the State II

  19-02-2025 15:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Killer, the long-running French comic which inspired David Fincher's 2023 film starring Michael Fassbender, is returning for a new series at BOOM! Studios. Subtitled Affairs of the State II, the new series also marks the return of the comic's creators Matz and Luc Jacamon."In a cabin deep in the mountains of the South of France, the Killer has set up a new base of operations," reads BOOM!'s official synopsis for the new run. "From this remote hideout, he accepts each new mission with calcula
  
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• James Gunn cryptically suggests that the DCU is building towards a Superman and Batman crossover

  19-02-2025 14:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  James Gunn may have just teased an eventual Superman and Batman crossover in the DCU.A DC fan shared a '40s comic book cover on Bluesky that features Batman, Robin, and Superman racing each other and wrote, "One can only hope that [James Gunn]'s vision for DCU movies somehow eventually builds towards this scene." Gunn replied with a short but sweet affirmative: "Yes!"The comic in question is World's Finest Comics #48, which was first published in February 1948. The DC Comics series ran from 1941
  
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• Cobra Kai season 6, part 3 has dropped almost 9 million views from part 1 on Netflix

  19-02-2025 13:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cobra Kai season 6, part 3 is finally here, but its early viewership is down from part 1.The first part of the show's finale was released back in July 2024, with part 3 debuting this February.Per Netflix's own top 10 data (H/T Deadline), part 3 has generated 5.9 million views across its debut week (the series released on February 13, and the data covers February 10-16, so short of a full calendar week), which is a drop of almost 9 million views compared to part 1's 14.8 million (part 1 released
  
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• Reacher's Alan Ritchson shares his hopes for the future of the Prime Video series ahead of season 4: "We're going to continue to honor the fact that Reacher really is a lone wolf"

  19-02-2025 13:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  With Reacher season 3 about to hit screens and a fourth season on the horizon, it looks like the ex-soldier will be town-hopping for the foreseeable. But we can’t help but wonder how Reacher's story will end and if we will ever see him live a normal life. This is something that star Alan Ritchson has also thought about."I think, you know, I guess we'll have to see," says Ritchson to GamesRadar+. "He's a wanderer." Of course, the show is based on author Lee Child’s vast Jack Reacher s
  
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• God of War: Ascension's online multiplayer is still kicking almost 12 years on, but its veterans will destroy you on sight: "Everyone who plays this right now is literally a God"

  19-02-2025 13:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  It might be coming up to its 12th birthday, but God of War: Ascension's online multiplayer servers are still alive and kicking, and apparently housing some seriously dedicated players who can and will destroy you if you so much as set foot into PvP.God of War: Ascension remains the only one of Kratos' storied adventures to feature multiplayer, and with recent reports of Sony apparently canceling an unannounced live-service God of War game, it appears that isn't going to change anytime soon. But
  
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• Assassin's Creed Shadows' new Canon Mode looks like the best way to play because it makes the cutscenes feel a lot more natural

  19-02-2025 13:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Shadows has given us all a reminder that Canon Mode exists, which will remove choices from dialogue options and ensure the game runs the way the loremasters at Ubisoft intended.A post on Twitter reads: "Lore lovers! Feel fully immersed in the canon story with narrative-locked dialogue during cutscenes. RPG fans, have no fear! Toggle this mode off to continue enjoying your roleplaying experience."A video demonstrating the option shows a cutscene where Yasuke can respond one of tw
  
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• The director of the first Shogun TV show isn't a fan of the 2024 adaptation: "It won all the awards because there were no big shows against it"

  19-02-2025 13:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jerry London, the director of 1980's nine-hour miniseries Shogun, has voiced his criticisms of the recent 2024 FX adaptation, claiming that it's "not entertaining" for an American audience and "difficult" to understand."It’s completely different from the one I did," London told The Hollywood Reporter, pointing to the renewed focus on the intricacies of Japan's complex political system in the 17th Century, one filled with warlords and regents amid the spread of Catholicism and the arrival o
  
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• Move over, Ridley Scott: Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is the latest film criticized for poor historical accuracy following first look

  19-02-2025 13:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Universal Pictures unveiled the first look at Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey earlier this week – and with the movie having only started filming in January, none of us expected to get a glimpse of it so soon. With that, the internet went wild for the early image, though now it appears not everyone was thrilled with what they saw...Based on Homer's epic poem of the same name, The Odyssey will follow Damon's Odysseus as he sets off on a 10-year journey from Troy, in the hope of
  
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• Overwatch 2 Season 15 finally lets you cancel emotes mid-animation, and it's unironically the best casual change since launch

  19-02-2025 12:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  It might not seem like much, but Overwatch 2 just made a major casual-friendly change.Overwatch 2's newest patch details some of the sweeping, game-changing adjustments included in Season 15, but Blizzard Entertainment also hid a seemingly small change that's actually a pretty major win for casual players. "Emotes can now be cancelled mid-animation shortly after they are activated," the developer explains.Everyone knows what emotes are, of course. You press a button, choose from a weapon-wheel-l
  
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• Ke Huy Quan recalls Steven Spielberg playing a hilarious "big joke" on Harrison Ford when the Indiana Jones star visited The Goonies set

  19-02-2025 12:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ke Huy Quan, star of The Goonies and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, has recalled a hilarious prank director Steven Spielberg played on Harrison Ford.Ford paid a visit to the set of The Goonies, which Spielberg took as an opportunity for a little bit of mischief."I was star-struck when Harrison Ford came to visit because I'd made Indy," Quan told The Guardian. "Spielberg played a big joke on him. There was a biography out of him that he really hated, so Steven went out and bought about 300
  
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• Ben Stiller says Step Brothers led him to cast Adam Scott in Severance: "It’s when I knew he was an incredible actor"

  19-02-2025 12:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Adam Scott was well known for his comedic chops before he landed the role in Apple TV Plus's sci-fi hit Severance, thanks to roles in Parks and Recreation and Step Brothers. But now it seems these were a big part of the reason that he landed the role, according to executive producer Ben Stiller.Posting on Twitter, he shared the scene in Step Brothers when Scott's Derek is telling a story about fishing in the southern part of the gulf. Dale interrupts the story, ruining it and "possibly the entir
  
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• Fantastic Four star John Malkovich reveals he's turned down Marvel before because of bad pay: "If you're going to hang from a crane in front of a green screen for six months, pay me"

  19-02-2025 12:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Fantastic Four: First Steps star John Malkovich has turned down Marvel movies before over pay deals.Malkovich is playing a mystery role in the Marvel Phase 6 film, but we did catch a glimpse of him in the first trailer, looking pretty unkempt with long, gray hair."The reason I didn't do them had nothing to do with any artistic considerations whatsoever. I didn't like the deals they made, at all," the actor told GQ. "These films are quite grueling to make… If you're going to hang from
  
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• 4 years later, the League of Legends MMO remains a major project for Riot Games' co-founder who says it's "exactly the type of company" that should be making MMOs

  19-02-2025 12:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  The League of Legends MMO has been cooking for over four years at this point, but Riot Games is seemingly still chasing the World of Warcraft train.When asked about the unnamed project in an interview with Game File, Riot Games co-founder and chief product officer Marc Merrill said it's "probably the project I personally spend the most time on as well.”The massively multiplayer spin on the world's most famous MOBA was first announced in 2020 before going radio silent for many years. The la
  
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• The Boys season 5 gets a bloody update from Hughie star in gory behind the scenes snap: "Work's been going great guys"

  19-02-2025 12:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Boys season 5 has had a rather gruesome yet on-brand update from Hughie star Jack Quaid in a new behind-the-scenes snap, and it looks like the final season could be the bloodiest yet.The new set picture, posted on Instagram by Quaid, shows the star smiling and completely covered in blood, holding one thumb up. "WORK’S BEEN GOING GREAT, YOU GUYS!," reads the caption. Check out the image below.
  A post shared by Jack Quaid (@jack_quaid)A photo posted byonNow, this is not the first time we
  
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• Hollow Knight: Silksong fans reach as-yet-unheard-of levels of cope as the Metroidvania's Nintendo Switch store page briefly disappears

  19-02-2025 12:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  The highly anticipated Hollow Knight: Silksong was briefly removed from Nintendo's digital store sending fans into a meltdown before it resurfaced. What could it mean?Silksong was originally meant to launch sometime in 2023, but has since been delayed. That hasn't stopped all of us clutching at straws, looking for any clues as to when the game will finally come out. We even played what we thought was an ARG last month, but we were only playing ourselves.This latest development has people scrambl
  
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• Marvel Rivals developer confirms layoffs to a US-based design team, but insists "we are investing more, not less, into the evolution and growth of this game"

  19-02-2025 12:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel Rivals developer NetEase Games has now confirmed that it has "made the difficult decision" to lay off a number of its US-based team members.Reports about layoffs hitting the Marvel Rivals team – despite its enormous success since launch – first surfaced yesterday after game director Thaddeus Sasser posted on LinkedIn, saying: "My stellar, talented team just helped deliver an incredibly successful new franchise in Marvel Rivals for NetEase Games [...] and were just laid off!" I
  
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• One Oscars voter slams the Academy for "f**king up so bad" with Denis Villeneuve and Dune 2's snub

  19-02-2025 12:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  The fallout continues from the Academy's snub of Denis Villeneuve and Dune 2, with multiple Oscar voters sharing their confusion over the director's sci-fi sequel being (relatively) frozen out from this year's nominations."I voted for the first part in almost every category last time. How has Denis not won four Oscars already?" one told Variety. "I don’t understand how the studio and, quite frankly, us Oscar voters fuck this up so bad?"Another added, "I don’t know how Dune wasn&rsquo
  
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• Assassin's Creed Shadows parody game satirizes complaints about historical accuracy by giving Yasuke an assault rifle and sports car

  19-02-2025 11:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  I'm sorry to report that the discourse around Assassin's Creed Shadows' 'historical accuracy' isn't over as a parody game is launching on the very same day as Ubisoft's Japan-set open world.Yasuke Simulator recently popped up on Steam, and while nothing in the parody's blurb explicitly references Assassin's Creed Shadows, it's not exactly being subtle about what's going on here. You play as Yasuke, the same historical figure who became Japan's first black samurai. It comes on March 20, the very
  
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• Marvel fans have just noticed a deep-cut comic Deadpool variant in Deadpool and Wolverine, and it's a perfect hidden joke

  19-02-2025 11:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Deadpool and Wolverine might have been released last July, but Marvel fans are still noticing small details hidden in the movie. On a recent rewatch, one viewer spotted a variant with wings in the background of the huge Deadpool fight, and took to Reddit to investigate."Which Deadpool variant is this (winged/arrow in head) and why does he disappear during this fight?" they wrote, sharing a picture from the scene in question. Other fans were quick to clarify that it's Cupid Pool, taken from Deadp
  
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• Dune 3 is now in pre-production as Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi sequel prepares to start filming this summer

  19-02-2025 11:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dune 3 is now in pre-production with filming set to kick off this summer, according to Deadline. A previous report from the publication suggested that production would start in June, but Deadline now says that mid to late summer is looking more likely.The exact start date will depend on talent availability, with Chani star Zendaya having a particularly busy schedule this year. The actor is also filming the long-awaited third season of HBO's Euphoria, as well as Christopher Nolan's next movie The
  
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• Ex-Witcher 3 lead says CDPR initially worried the RPG's massive story didn't fit "the play style of an open world game"

  19-02-2025 02:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former Witcher 3 lead quest designer Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz says CDPR initially worried that people wouldn't vibe with the beloved RPG's massive story in an open-world setting.Recently, I had the chance to sit down with Tomaszkiewicz for a wide-ranging conversation about his new project, the open-world dark fantasy RPG Blood of Dawnwalker, in development at Rebel Wolves. At one point, I asked him if he thought Dawnwalker's unique "time as a resource" mechanic might turn off some players, and he e
  
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• As Activision stays quiet, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 actor casually reveals there's another remaster "that's about to come out"

  19-02-2025 01:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 remaster rumors abound as a skater who worked on the first two remasters has revealed there's another game coming out.Appearing on the Breakfast Show podcast (thanks, Gematsu), Tyshawn Jones rather casually dropped the potential news that there's a new Tony Hawk's Pro Skater remaster on the way, and apparently it's not far off.""I'm in a Tony Hawk coming out, that's cool," Jones said. "They got a new one they remastering so that's about to come out. I was in the last o
  
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