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• Marvel Heroes publisher NetEase is bringing Overwatch 2 to China because "the market is large enough to accommodate both games"

  03-03-2025 23:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel Rivals publisher NetEase has renewed its partnership with Blizzard after a lengthy licensing spat, bringing the publisher's games back to China. Overwatch 2 made its official Chinese debut in February, and while you might think a publisher would be skittish putting out two similar games in relatively close proximity, NetEase seems unconcerned."The expectations for Overwatch are similar to those for World of Warcraft and Hearthstone," NetEase said in a recent financial Q&A, transcribed
  
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• "Both Marvel Rivals and Overwatch are excellent superhero shooters" says the Chinese publisher behind both games as they make the move to China: "The market is large enough to accommodate both games"

  03-03-2025 23:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel Rivals publisher NetEase has renewed its partnership with Blizzard after a lengthy licensing spat, bringing the publisher's games back to China. Overwatch 2 made its official Chinese debut in February, and while you might think a publisher would be skittish putting out two similar games in relatively close proximity, NetEase seems unconcerned."The expectations for Overwatch are similar to those for World of Warcraft and Hearthstone," NetEase said in a recent financial Q&A, transcribed
  
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• 6 months after the Visions of Mana team was closed down the day after releasing its JRPG remake, one of its leads has started a new studio: "Management needs to protect creators"

  03-03-2025 22:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel Rivals developer NetEase has been conducting unsparing mass layoffs for months now, brutally gutting – and, ultimately, shutting down – Visions of Mana studio Ouka one day after it released the JRPG remake. So former director Kenji Ozawa wants to make sure his newly announced Studio Sasanqua is one that, in his words, values game creators.Ozawa, who served as Visions of Mana's co-director, survived Ouka's initial layoffs but decided to leave NetEase in October 2024. Now, speak
  
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• Sonic fans are leading the charge on a new preservation tool that can help give any Xbox 360 game a native PC port

  03-03-2025 22:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  After 17 years, Sonic Unleashed finally has a native PC port, and it's been developed with a tool that could potentially help give the same treatment to any Xbox 360 game. With that, the door to one of the most exciting avenues of game preservation we've seen in ages might have been kicked open in a major way.There's a lot of "potentially" and "might" here because this new tool, called XenonRecomp, simply gives fan developers a path to creating PC versions of Xbox 360 games. As the GitHub page e
  
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• "Thank you, Monster Hunter": Japanese restaurant's sales jump after Monster Hunter Wilds gives millions of players a hankering for stretchy cheese

  03-03-2025 22:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Monster Hunter Wilds continues the series' tradition of tempting players with cutscenes and animations serving up food so tantalizing, you have to resist the urge to dive into your screen and eat some yourself. The game's stretchy cheese naan has apparently been such an effective hunger-inducer for Japanese players that a Nepalese restaurant based in Tokyo, Japan nearly ran out of cheese amidst a rush of customers, and its official account thanked Monster Hunter for the added business.As Automat
  
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• Beastars manga creator's new Christmas-themed series Sanda is getting an English release ahead of its anime adaptation

  03-03-2025 22:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Japan has its own relationship with the Christmas holiday, with well-known traditions including yearly excursion to eat at KFC. But in a future version of Japan, they've forgotten all about Christmas, and it's up to a hero with a prodigious name to restore holiday cheer and "childhood wonder." At least, that's the premise of Sanda, a manga by beloved Beastars creator Paru Itagaki which is now being translated into English thanks to Titan Manga.Sanda (which, yes, does indeed kinda sound like "San
  
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• Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P quietly removed from Square Enix's board after years of wanting out: "It's much more fun to just make games"

  03-03-2025 21:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida, also known fondly as Yoshi-P, seems to have been removed from Square Enix's board of directors, on which he's served since 2018, and demoted to executive officer.But don't cry for him – Yoshida has been wanting out of the board almost as soon as he'd been let in. Recently spotted by Automaton, and initially noticed by Dot Esports, Yoshida told the Dutch newspaper NRC in 2023 that he'd "recently tried to quit that work, but the company didn’t a
  
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• "You are incorrect": John Romero has been correcting Doom history for the past 4 years, and he's not about to stop now

  03-03-2025 20:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Over the past few years, Doom designer John Romero has been disputing details shared by fellow id veteran Sandy Petersen on the development of the original two games. I have no idea how this social media feud got started, but Romero's polite-yet-brutal responses to Petersen's claims – usually starting with a "Hi Sandy, hope you’re doing well" – are quickly becoming a meme among gaming history enthusiasts.Last week, Petersen responded to a joke on Twitter about the difference be
  
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• I've played Monster Hunter Wilds for almost 60 hours and somehow missed this game-changing gathering tip

  03-03-2025 19:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  It is with considerable shame that I admit that, even after playing 47 hours for my Monster Hunter Wilds review and putting in another chunk since restarting the game on PC, I had no idea you could quickly gather a whole mess of items in Monster Hunter Wilds by selecting them in the slinger menu instead of rooting around like a hog after truffles.Reddit user MidshipEnd brought this feature to my attention, continuing a line of landmark breakthroughs on par with humans discovering fire and landin
  
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• "Give him both": Legendary director thinks Robert Pattinson should win two Oscars for his dual performances in new sci-fi movie Mickey 17

  03-03-2025 18:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Bong Joon-ho's new movie Mickey 17 is starting to come out, and it already has some big fans. Park Chan-wook, the acclaimed filmmaker behind Oldboy and The Handmaiden, is particularly enamored by leading man Robert Pattinson, petitioning for the Batman star to get two Oscars at the next Academy Awards.As part of Mickey 17's release in South Korea, Warner Bros shared a selection of reviews from prominent filmmakers in the country. Among them is Park Chan-wook, whose message of adoration comes wit
  
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• GameSir launches the Super Nova controller packed with a charging stand, 1,000Hz polling rate, and swappable faceplates

  03-03-2025 18:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  GameSir is back with its first gamepad of 2025 and, as some expected, it's a new version of one of the brand's existing controllers. The GameSir Super Nova has launched today, bringing another 1,000Hz polling rate controller to the market for PC players, the aging Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android devices.GameSir makes some of the best PC controllers out there today, especially because they're always priced so reasonably. The Super Nova is no exception, wearing a price tag of just $49.99 / &poun
  
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• "We got heel Cena before GTA 6": Even John Cena himself is comparing the 20-year wait for his WWE heel turn to the 12-year wait for the next Grand Theft Auto

  03-03-2025 18:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  John Cena is now a villain in WWE, some 20 years after he was established as pro wrestling's seemingly most eternal good guy. Wrestling fans have spent the better part of two decades begging for this heel turn to finally happen, and it's the latest pop culture event to get roped into the "we got X before GTA 6" meme. Even Cena himself is in on the gag.Shortly after his shocking betrayal of Cody Rhodes at Elimination Chamber this past weekend, Cena posted an image of GTA 6's key art to his Instag
  
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• InZOI director hopes the Sims rival will be "successful and beloved," continues moonlighting as a philosopher: "Life is a tragedy when seen up close, but a comedy when viewed from a distance"

  03-03-2025 18:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  The hyperreal life sim InZOI is poised to be a worthy Sims competitor once it releases in early access later this month, offering players both a tidy open world and, according to director Hyungjun "Kjun" Kim, life-changing philosophy."As the saying goes, 'Life is a tragedy when seen up close, but a comedy when viewed from a distance,'" Kjun says somberly about InZOI in PC Gamer magazine's new issue 407, Jokerfying simulation games forevermore.Kjun has an amusing tendency to speak about InZOI lik
  
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• With over 5,000 "overwhelmingly positive" Steam reviews already, a new co-op horror game with the spirit of Lethal Company has officially popped off

  03-03-2025 18:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new co-op horror game that looks like a cross between Lethal Company and a nightmare in a children's toy factory has gotten over 5,000 "overwhelmingly positive" reviews on Steam, and it's currently 20% off.Repo allows you to play with five other pals. In it, you "Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires." Sounds like something Sid from Toy Story would dream up.Repo launched into early access February 26
  
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• Devil May Cry and Bayonetta veteran Hideki Kamiya would still "love to make" his canceled dragon action RPG Scalebound: "Let's do it, Phil!"

  03-03-2025 18:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, and Okami veteran Hideki Kamiya still has a lot of love for PlatinumGames' canceled action RPG Scalebound, and says he'd "love to make it again someday."Scalebound was set to be the ultimate game for anyone who loves dragons, as you'd be able to embark on an adventure with a draconic partner at your side, who was ready to assist in battle and listen to your commands. Alas, while it was supposed to release on Xbox One and PC back in 2017, Scalebound ultimately ended up b
  
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• D&D Sigil VTT Community Manager responds to negative comments about the software on Discord: "Things are not where you want them to be but this is not a full release"

  03-03-2025 18:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Over 43 new bug report threads have appeared in the D&D Sigil VTT Discord channel over the weekend after D&D Beyond launched the software publicly. These include object positioning reset issues, download and update problems aplenty, and disappearing roof gables when the opposite one is placed – all of which the Gamesradar+ tabletop team has also experienced in some capacity when trying to use the software.User Haldarn says, while wishing others well in using Sigil as their main VTT
  
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• Ahead of Daredevil: Born Again's premiere, Marvel fans are discussing how Iron Fist could be introduced to the MCU

  03-03-2025 18:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  With Daredevil: Born Again about to hit Disney Plus, Marvel fans are debating how the MCU could bring back another Defender: Iron Fist.Martial arts expert Danny Rand, AKA Iron Fist, was played by Finn Jones in Netflix's Defenders Saga between 2017 and 2018. The show ran for two seasons on the streamer but didn't land well with critics upon release and has a score of 37% on Rotten Tomatoes. However, the character also showed up alongside Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage in The Defenders (a
  
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• Star Steven Yeun is now playing 18 more characters in Invincible, because clearly one wasn't enough

  03-03-2025 18:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Steven Yeun has been the voice of Invincible's main superhero Mark Grayson since the start of the show, but it seems like one character just wasn't enough. The actor is playing 18 more characters (yes, you read that correctly) in the next episode of the series, as announced by the official Twitter account.It makes sense that Yeun takes on this challenge, since all those new characters are actually variants of Mark. Last week, the end of episode 6 teased the arrival of all these different version
  
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• Masahiro Sakurai says Super Smash Bros "might have died out" if not for late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata: "There's no doubt that he influenced me in many ways"

  03-03-2025 17:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Super Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai has praised late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata's role in not only bringing the iconic fighting series to life, but keeping it going, too.In a new interview with Japanese site Hoshino (translated via Google), Sakurai is asked how meeting Iwata for a job interview at HAL Laboratory affected his work. In short, quite a bit. Sakurai says he might not have joined HAL if not for Iwata, and had the Nintendo icon not made the prototype for Smash Bros. to begin
  
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• New Monster Hunter Wilds mod lets you change your character's appearance as many times as you want for free, bypassing Capcom's paid DLC

  03-03-2025 17:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Monster Hunter Wilds is finally here, but not all are happy to pay for its extra content despite Capcom previously admitting the long-awaited game would feature cosmetic DLC.That's where fan workarounds like creator Ridog8's aptly dubbed "Unlimited Character and Palico Edits" mod on Nexus come in. As its title would imply, the mod allows users to alter their hunters' appearance as many times as they'd like to without ever having to pay $6.99 for Capcom's Character Edit Voucher DLC. That's not al
  
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• A single D&D spell in Solasta 2's Steam Next Fest demo proved to me that not every RPG needs to be Baldur's Gate 3

  03-03-2025 17:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Clearly, the D&D crown belongs to Baldur's Gate 3, but Solasta has been quietly making a name for itself as one of Larian's larger competitors over the past few years. So when Solasta 2 showed up in Steam Next Fest, I figured it was finally time to find out what I'd been missing out on.Initially, I was a little sceptical. I loaded into a campaign scenario with a party consisting of four pre-made characters: a halfling rogue with edgy makeup; a bearded dwarven paladin clad in plate armor; an
  
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• MTG players will pay more in future as Magic’s Head Designer confirms “higher MSRP” will be the norm for Universes Beyond sets

  03-03-2025 17:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Magic: The Gathering's Universes Beyond sets have undergone a number of important changes over the last year. This makes sense, given that in order to maintain MTG's position as one of the best card games, it's within the interests of Wizards of the Coast to bolster Universes Beyond – likely one of the most attractive points of entry for new players.Not only are Universes Beyond releases now legal in Standard format, but they also comprise half of the total release calendar for 2025. These
  
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• GTA developer Rockstar opens new Australian branch by acquiring the studio that's been working on its ports for "this past decade"

  03-03-2025 17:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  GTA developer Rockstar Games has acquired Video Games Deluxe, a studio which has been working with the company for years on ports of its older titles.In a press release (via Business Wire), it's confirmed that Video Games Deluxe has been rebranded to Rockstar Australia, and in recent years has worked with the GTA developer on the 2017 remaster of L.A. Noire and GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition."After working together closely over many years, we are excited to have Video Games Delu
  
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• Netflix’s most popular K-drama in 2024 wasn't Squid Game season 2, it was this show with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score

  03-03-2025 17:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  After three years of anticipation, Squid Game season 2 arrived on Netflix to considerable fanfare and viewership in late 2024. Despite all the excitement though, another TV show managed to become the most-watched K-drama on the streaming service, with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score to boot.The release of Squid Game season 2 on Netflix may have been one of the biggest pop culture events of last year. After all, we’d been waiting since November 2021 to see what comes next for Seong Gi-hun,
  
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• A new Mad Max movie has a script, but director George Miller isn't sure it will ever be made: "All I can say is we’ll see"

  03-03-2025 16:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mad Max helmer George Miller has opened up about the future of the franchise – and it seems it's not looking too clear. The director, who last returned with Furiosa in 2024, has shared that a script is ready to go, but he's not entirely sure if it will see the light of day.Speaking to Vulture, he said: "We’ve got another script, but having been doing this long enough where I’m habituated to storytelling, I find myself with way too many stories – not only in my head, but i
  
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• House of the Dragon season 3's opening battle is "beastly", according to one of the show's stars

  03-03-2025 16:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  A House of the Dragon actor has teased season 3's opening battle – and we can't wait."Battle of the Gullet is gonna be BEASTLY," Abubakar Salim, who plays Alyn of Hull, recently tweeted. It's unclear whether Salim is basing this comment off a script for the new season or if he's just going by George R.R. Martin's source material, but either way, it looks like we can expect an explosive start to House of the Dragon season 3.In Martin's book Fire & Blood, the Battle of the Gullet sees th
  
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• Pokemon Champions could be the series' "biggest announcement in over a decade," says former world champ, because Nintendo might finally be about to separate competitive play from single-player

  03-03-2025 16:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pokemon Legends: Z-A may have been the star of the show for many fans during last week's Pokemon Presents, but one legendary competitive player thinks that the upcoming PvP game Pokemon Champions may end up changing the series as we know it forever.From what we've seen so far, Pokemon Champions looks a bit like a modern Pokemon Stadium. The full focus is on PvP battles, and you'll be able to fight alongside your own old 'mons thanks to Pokemon Home compatibility. The game doesn't have a release
  
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• One of 2024's best anime movies has a sequel coming, and the first trailer has been revealed along with a new special

  03-03-2025 15:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Details of the followup to Haikyu!!: The Dumpster Battle, one of the best anime movies of 2024, have been revealed with the first trailer. Not only are we getting the sequel, now titled Haikyu!! the Movie: VS The Little Giant, but there’s a TV special coming soon as well.Unveiled as part of a 10th anniversary event and livestream, the trailer for Haikyu!! The Movie: VS The Little Giant teases more exhilarating volleyball action from the Spring Nationals. Having bested the wildcats from Nek
  
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• PSVR 2's price drop makes it cheaper than the Meta Quest 3, and I know which one I'd buy

  03-03-2025 14:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  I've always thought that PSVR 2 is the strongest all-round VR headset for gaming on the shelves. It may not have the standalone power of the Meta's Quest devices, and it may not have been designed for visually lossless PC gaming, but it has always offered high-end, often innovative VR features for its asking price.Now, Sony has officially dropped its price tag to $399 in the US, and £399 in the UK. This was a move most likely brought on by an increasingly competitive VR market. Since PSVR
  
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• This streamer just beat a no-hit run of Dark Souls 3 with a saxophone controller, and they've got their sights set on Monster Hunter Wilds next

  03-03-2025 14:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  A streamer completes a world first: beating Dark Souls 3 while taking no hits and playing it with a saxophone controller."The world's first sax-controlled no-hit run of Dark Souls 3 has been dooted," excitedly tweets streamer Dr. Doot. Beating any FromSoftware game without taking a single hit is impressive, and doing it with a saxophone controller of all things is even more so.
  I BEAT DARK SOULS 3 WITH A SAXOPHONE WITHOUT TAKING A SINGLE HIT FROM ANY ENEMY/BOSS/TRAP THE WORLD'S FIRST SAX-CONTROL
  
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• The first MTG Spider-Man previews have landed, and you can pre-order the set right now

  03-03-2025 13:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  MTG Marvel Spider-Man may be a solid six months out from release, but already players have been given previews of cards from the set and the opportunity to get their pre-orders in. As teased back in October 2024, our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is set to swing by one of the best card games at the end of this year, and with him comes a whole host of iconic Marvel characters.
  At Toy Fair 2025 over the weekend, we got our first proper taste of everything due to come in the MTG Marvel Spider-Ma
  
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• There's a moment in Deadpool and Wolverine involving Spider-Man that you might have misinterpreted

  03-03-2025 13:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  One moment in Deadpool and Wolverine may not be as emotionally resonant as you initially thought – as it could all boil down to legal issues.Toward the beginning of the movie, when Wade Wilson is trying (and failing) to convince Happy Hogan to get him a meeting with the Avengers, there's a shot of a half-obscured photo in Happy's office. Tony Stark is on one side, and an Iron Man helmet hides the other half, which should show Peter Parker's face."This detail always makes me so sad," one fa
  
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• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach gets new details from PlayStation, teasing fans with info on its combat, story, and "large open-world environments"

  03-03-2025 13:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  As the wait for Death Stranding 2 continues, Sony teases fans with some brand-new details on Hideo Kojima's upcoming sequel.The new information can be found on the official PlayStation page for On the Beach, Death Stranding's long-awaited follow-up. Players get a glimpse of the sequel's ins and outs – albeit a small one, starting with its open-world setting: "The large open-world environments of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach are full of secrets to be found. They are also incredibly varie
  
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• Monster Hunter Wilds might be a bit too popular as one indie dev says their sales totally flatlined around the action RPG's launch: "We haven't sold a single game"

  03-03-2025 13:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Monster Hunter Wilds' launch on Steam has been truly staggering, and one indie developer has suggested that its success may have played a part in its own game sales dropping to zero around the action RPG's launch.Spotted and translated by Automaton, two-person Japanese indie developer STP WORKS shared a screenshot on Twitter on Monster Hunter Wilds' release day, showing that their Steam sales had completely dropped at 3am. "We haven't sold a single game since Monster Hunter Wilds' launch, lol,"
  
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• We've only seen one shot of Invincible season 3's final two episodes in the trailer so far – and it reveals basically nothing

  03-03-2025 13:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Invincible season 3 is drawing to a close and all signs are pointing to an explosive final set of episodes. It turns out that Prime Video is barely revealing anything, too, as they clarified that only one tiny shot from the episodes appeared in the trailer, and it doesn't give away much.They shared the shot on Twitter, which shows Mark Grayson fighting Immortal. It was captioned: "This is the only shot from Episodes 7 and 8 we put in the trailer, and fittingly, it’s Immortal taking another
  
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• The first full-length trailer for Doctor Who season 2 is here – and fans think they've spotted the mysterious Mrs. Flood

  03-03-2025 12:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first full-length trailer for Doctor Who season 2 has arrived, and it looks like we can definitely expect to see more of the mysterious Mrs. Flood.The clip, which you can watch above, gives us our best look yet at new companion Belinda Chandra (or "the Nurse," as she tells the Doctor), played by Varada Sethu. And she doesn't sound too happy to be in the TARDIS, either. "I am not one of your adventures," Belinda tells Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor at the start of the trailer. "You need to get me home
  
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• New Assassin's Creed Shadows video shows off its "Spartan kick on steroids" and the most brutal combat I've seen in the series

  03-03-2025 12:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Everyone remembers the legendary kick in Zack Snyder's 300, but did you know you can also pull off the same epic move in Assassin's Creed Shadows?The official Assassin's Creed account shares a video of Yasuke, one of the protagonists you can play as in Shadows, fighting a man on the steps of a house. The man sends a couple of kicks Yasuke's way, and the samurai retaliates with a devastating kick of his own that sends the man crashing through the doors and tumbling into the abode.
  That is a Spart
  
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• Gen V star reveals he unsuccessfully auditioned for Superman and Homelander

  03-03-2025 12:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Golden Boy actor Patrick Schwarzenegger has revealed he auditioned for both Homelander and Superman, though he didn't land either role.Schwarzenegger plays Golden Boy in The Boys spin-off Gen V, and he can also currently be seen in The White Lotus season 3.Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Schwarzenegger commented that his superhero auditions included his Gen V role, Homelander, and Supes himself."I don't think I got any feedback, I think it was like, 'No, not for you,'" he recalled of
  
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• Severance director says no CGI was used for one incredible episode 7 shot, as they shot it through the cables

  03-03-2025 12:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Severance season 2 has delivered not only some shocking moments in the story, but also some incredible filmmaking. One particularly spectacular shot, featured in last week's episode 7, didn't even require CGI, which makes it even more impressive."There's the shot that goes from MDR to the control room downstairs," director and DP Jessica Lee Gagné told Esquire, describing the nightmarish scene where the camera travels through electrical cables, diving deep into the insides of the mysterio
  
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• The rarest Avowed ending has only been seen by 0.2% of all the RPG's players, but to get it you'll have to commit to a path of death and destruction

  03-03-2025 12:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avowed has now been in the hands of hungry RPG enthusiasts for a couple of weeks, which means players have had plenty of time to discover all of the endings the Living Lands have to offer – including one particularly brutal finale that stands as the game's rarest.This article contains story spoilers for Avowed's ending(s).There's no shortage of possibilities for the Envoy in Avowed, a game that places choice and consequence above all in true Obsidian Entertainment fashion – but that
  
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• Steam has doubled in size in just 5 years, as Monster Hunter Wilds' launch pushes it beyond 40 million concurrent users

  03-03-2025 11:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Steam's userbase has grown exponentially in the last few years, as its latest massive concurrent user record has doubled the peak it set less than five years ago.As highlighted by Twitter user @Okami13_, over the weekend, Steam passed a total of 40 million online users, setting a new record. According to its own chart, 40,263,595 people were all logged in simultaneously yesterday, March 2, at 2pm UTC. Not all of those people were playing games, as SteamDB's chart (which claims the peak was sligh
  
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• 2025 Oscar winners in full: Anora wins big as The Brutalist and Wicked pick up multiple awards

  03-03-2025 04:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Oscars 2025 winners have been announced, and it was a big night for Anora.The film took home five awards on the night, after securing six nominations.Other headlines include some eyebrow-raising spreads across the board, including two wins for Wicked, Dune 2, and Emilia Perez.You can catch up with everything that happened in our Oscars 2025 live blog, as well as checking out the full list of Oscars 2025 winners below.
  Best Picture
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  Anora - WINNERThe Brutalis
  
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• Anora wins Best Picture to seal its place as 2025's big Oscars victor

  03-03-2025 04:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Anora has taken home the award for Best Picture at this year's Oscars, while also cementing the film as this year's leading light at the Academy Awards with five wins.Directed by Sean Baker, Anora follows the story of Ani (Mikey Madison), a young stripper soon drawn into the orbit of Vanya (Mark Eydelshteyn), the son of a Russian oligarch.Anora beat a 10-strong Best Picture lineup this year, which included the likes of Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, papal drama Conclave, and sci-fi blockbu
  
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• Mikey Madison wins Best Actress at the 2025 Oscars, thanking director Sean Baker: "This is all because of you"

  03-03-2025 04:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Academy Award for Best Actress at the 2025 Oscars goes to Mikey Madison for Anora. Accepting the award, she said that she grew up in LA, but that "Hollywood always felt so far away."Madison also tearfully thanked the cast, crew, the community of Brighton Beach, her fellow nominees, and shouted out director Sean Baker, saying, "This is all because of you."Madison beat Wicked's Cynthia Erivo, Emilia Perez's Karla Sofía Gascón, The Substance's Demi Moore, and I'm Still Here's Fern
  
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• Anora's Sean Baker wins Best Director at the 2025 Oscars and immediately pleads, "Filmmakers, keep making films for the big screen"

  03-03-2025 04:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sean Baker has won the Academy Award for Best Director at the 2025 Oscars. He wins for helming Anora, which has had a great night at the awards ceremony. Accepting the award, he said, "Filmmakers, keep making films for the big screen. Distributors, please focus first and foremost on the theatrical releases of your films."Anora is Baker's seventh feature film after his previous success with movies like The Florida Project, Red Rocket, and Tangerine. It follows Ani (played by Mikey Madison), a str
  
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• The Brutalist's Adrien Brody becomes a two-time Best Actor winner at the 2025 Oscars: "This is the chance to begin again"

  03-03-2025 04:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Academy Award for Best Actor goes to Adrien Brody at the 2025 Oscars for his role in The Brutalist. Accepting the award, Brody said, "Acting is a very fragile profession. It looks very glamorous and in certain moments it is - No matter where you are in your career, no matter what you've accomplished, it can all go away. and I think what makes this night so special is the awareness of that and the gratitude to still do what I live. Winning this award signifies a destination, something my char
  
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• Emilia Pérez's Zoe Saldaña delivers a tearful speech after historic Best Supporting Actress win at the 2025 Oscars

  03-03-2025 02:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Zoe Saldaña has been named the Best Supporting Actress at this year's Oscars. The Avatar and Guardians of the Galaxy star picked up the gong – her first Academy Award – for her performance in Jacques Audiard's musical thriller Emilia Pérez.Released on Netflix on October 25, the Spanish-language film sees Saldaña play Rita Mora Castro, a Mexico City-based lawyer tasked with helping a cartel boss undergo gender-affirming surgery and start a new, more authentic life
  
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• Kieran Culkin wins Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars 2025 and makes a hilarious and heartfelt dedication to his wife: "Ye of little faith"

  03-03-2025 01:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Kieran Culkin has won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 2025 Oscars.The actor dedicated the latter half of his acceptance speech to his wife, telling a story about how she told him they could have four kids "if he wins an Oscar." Culkin turned to his wife in the audience and mused, "Ye of little faith."Culkin has taken home the gold for his role as Benji Kaplan in A Real Pain, starring opposite Jesse Eisenberg (who also wrote and directed the movie). In the run-up to the Oscars,
  
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