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• 10 years later, in a post-Baldur's Gate 3 and Avowed world, Obsidian is giving its own throwback CRPG Pillars of Eternity a turn-based combat mode

  26-03-2025 23:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  10 years after the CRPG's original launch, Obsidian is still bringing new updates to Pillars of Eternity. You can probably thank renewed interest in the series through Avowed for the timing of its latest update, but new RPG fans who've been introduced to the genre through Baldur's Gate 3 might want to stay tuned for something much bigger coming later in the year: a turn-based combat mode."We’ve been hard at work delving deep into the code grimoire and tuning the balance of blade and spell
  
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• The OG Fox X-Men are back, with Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, and more joining the cast of Avengers: Doomsday alongside a whole new Avengers team to take on Robert Downey Jr's Doctor Doom

  26-03-2025 22:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel has announced who the new Avengers will be, and there are some surprising names in the line-up... including some downright shocking returns that are sure to put fans on the edges of their seats.Confirming the cast of upcoming movie Avengers: Doomsday, the studio took to social media and YouTube to share a livestream of a set chair with Chris Hemsworth's name on it. After a patience-testing 13 minutes, viewers heard footsteps approaching, before the camera panned out and a chair with Vanes
  
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• When Destiny 2 "weekly active users dropped lower and faster than we'd seen since 2018," Bungie assembled an A-Team to put out some fires: "We needed to do something"

  26-03-2025 22:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  In fall 2022, Bungie had a problem on its hands. The Destiny 2 developer hasn't gone a single day without some kind of problem lurking somewhere, but this was a big one. As principal technical designer Alan Blaine explained at a Game Developers Conference talk titled "Rescuing a Playerbase from the Doldrums: ‘Destiny 2’ in 2022,'" the game was dipping and needed a solution.Weekly active users fall between expansion and season releases, "that's pretty standard for most live services,
  
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• The Handmaid's Tale will go back to basics with a "classic" series finale that's been years in the making

  26-03-2025 22:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Handmaid's Tale season 6 brings the dystopian drama to an end on Hulu. Based on Margaret Atwood's beloved novel, the show originally pulled from details included in her award-winning book.However, in more recent seasons, it has spanned out beyond this with the showrunners inventing more story as new episodes get developed. "We were always guided by Margaret as a beacon and a spirit guide," co-showrunner Yahlin Chang says in the new issue of SFX magazine, which features Black Mirror season 7
  
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• Netflix is rebooting Scooby-Doo as a live-action series from the producer of Supergirl and The Flash centered around a "supernatural murder" at a summer camp

  26-03-2025 21:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hanna-Barbera's classic cartoon Scooby-Doo is getting yet another fresh coat of paint in the form of an updated concept, this time from Netflix, who have announced a new live-action reimagining of the story that recasts Fred, Shaggy, Daphne, and Velma as kids attending and living around a summer camp.Titled simply Scooby-Doo, the new show is executive produced by none other than Greg Berlanti, well-known as the producer behind DC comic adaptation shows including Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, and
  
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• Astro Bot went through 23 pitch iterations before its director promised PlayStation "happy gameplay" and "overflowing charm," though it did once end with robot decapitation that made "some people really upset"

  26-03-2025 21:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  GOTY winner Astro Bot offers players a family-friendly, super clean galaxy, but getting there took developer Team Asobi a few rewrites to both the game's early-stage pitch and final ending."The original pitch for Astro Bot was written in May, 2021, so, a few months after we began prototyping the game," studio and game director Nicolas Doucet said at a GDC panel attended by GamesRadar+. "We went through 23 iterations before it was shown to the top management."Once the platformer's pitch was final
  
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• 5 years after Avengers, 2 years after its last layoffs, and who knows how long before Perfect Dark and Tomb Raider return, Crystal Dynamics announces another round of layoffs

  26-03-2025 21:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Crystal Dynamics, the storied studio that's co-developing Perfect Dark and remains at work on an as-yet-untitled Tomb Raider game, has announced another round of layoffs affecting 17 employees."This morning, Crystal Dynamics made the difficult decision to reduce our workforce by 17 talented team members," the company says in a statement posted to social media. "We did not make this decision lightly. Ultimately, this step was necessary to better align our current business needs and the studio&rsq
  
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• Charlie Brooker promises Black Mirror season 7 is "a bit more OG", having previously said that he didn't want the series to be known as "the 'tech is bad' show" anymore

  26-03-2025 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker says the show's upcoming season 7 will take us back to more familiar ground after last season's "palate cleanser.""I do feel the show can constantly evolve – like the last season, we had episodes that went supernatural, it was horror. That was almost like a palate cleanser," he says in the new issue of SFX magazine, which features Black Mirror season 7 on the cover and hits newsstands on Wednesday, March 26."And then this season it's a bit more OG, they
  
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• "AI is not as effective as it might appear": Dev of AI-focused Soulslike RPG says they didn't use any AI-generated content and it can't match "genuine creativity"

  26-03-2025 19:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  The concept of artificial intelligence has been explored since the early days of science fiction, and its potential has helped inspire some of the greatest stories ever told in books, movies, and yes, games. Now, though, "AI" is more readily recognized as a big business buzzword often attached to AI generation, a collection of controversial technologies fueling machine-generated content. So how does a studio like Sense Games, which is on the verge of releasing an action RPG called AI Limit which
  
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• Sue Storm and Namor are officially both in Avengers: Doomsday, and fans are wondering if Reed Richards has something to worry about

  26-03-2025 19:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you've been a Marvel fan for long enough, you're probably aware that Sue Storm/Invisible Woman of the Fantastic Four has something of a history with Namor, the Sub-Mariner. And now, thanks to the official reveal of the cast of Avengers: Doomsday, we know for a fact that Sue and Namor will wind up in the same film, with both Vanessa Kirby and Tenoch Huerta Mejía named as part of the movie's still-expanding cast.Some fans are, understandably, already worried about what this could mean fo
  
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• The First Berserker: Khazan isn't even out yet, but the new Soulslike RPG already has over 1,300 94% positive reviews on Steam from early buyers

  26-03-2025 18:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  The First Berserker: Khazan has done pretty well when it comes to reviews; the game currently sits at 80 on Metacritic, with the PC version bumping that score up to an 83. It isn't technically out yet, but Nexon's new release is following the annoying industry trend of "pay more to play it early," which made the actual release date March 24 (the full release arrives this Thursday, March 27). However, despite not having a full release, the hardcore soulslike game is proving pretty popular.At the
  
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• Harlan Coben’s new novel is set to be "more of a sequel" to the hit Netflix series Fool Me Once: "I don’t know any time that’s ever happened"

  26-03-2025 18:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Harlan Coben's new novel, Nobody's Fool, is actually a sequel to the hit Netflix adaptation of Fool Me Once."This new book is actually about Adeel Akhtar’s character Sami Kierce in Fool Me Once one year after the events of that series," Coben told The Hollywood Reporter. "And what’s weird is that the Sami Kierce character, and his wife, weren’t major characters in the Fool Me Once book. So it’s almost more of a sequel to the TV series than the book. I don’t know any
  
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• Getting Assassin's Creed Shadows on PS5 and Xbox Series X was all about adding "dynamism" to the open world, but the devs seem most proud about the trees

  26-03-2025 18:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Shadows is the latest game in the series and the first to launch exclusively on the PS5 and Xbox Series generation of consoles. They skipped last-gen entirely, and a lot of you have already noticed just how much attention to detail has gone into every aspect of the game's world. But how has it felt for the developers?"When you start with a new generation, you always feel like you're unshackled, in a way," Pierre Fortin, brand and pipeline technology director, tells us. "But then
  
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• Former PlayStation boss "deathly concerned" about ballooning budgets of AAA games, questions how many live-service "forever games" like GTA Online and Fortnite fans really have time for

  26-03-2025 18:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden is "deathly concerned" about the fact that budgets for big AAA games are ballooning, as he points out that as the cost of making games increases, the allowance for devs to take risks can quickly drop.In an interview with YouTube creator Destin Legarie (below), Layden, who was previously Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios' chairman, says: "I'm deathly concerned about it. I think it's an existential threat to gaming that we see these ballooning bu
  
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• This cozy RPG promises a Pokemon and Stardew Valley mashup with "limitless customization," 208 monsters, and more, so no wonder its Kickstarter was funded in just 16 minutes

  26-03-2025 18:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  As Pokemon trainers have grown up over the last few decades, many are now making the monster-taming RPGs they've been dreaming about (or arguing for). And I'm now here to inform you of yet another Poke-like that's saying all the right things, which is probably why it hit its Kickstarter funding goal in 16 minutes.Monsterpatch is the latest Kickstarter sensation that's raised almost $60,000, as of the time of writing, in less than a full day, which is over five times its initial goal of $11,597.
  
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• Somehow this keeps happening: Another game with a Persona 5 collab is going under, and this time it's JRPG comrade War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

  26-03-2025 18:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  I'm not normally a very superstitious man, but it seems that Persona 5 is cursed. A lot of games that collaborate with it seem to shut down a few years later, and while this may just be because games come and go, it could also be a sign of something more sinister.The latest victim of Persona 5 is War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. The collaboration between the two games started on April 28, 2022, and now, just over three years later, it will shut down on May 29, 2025. This isn't the
  
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• Schedule 1 is Steam's latest viral hit – an open-world drug dealing simulator with 98% positive reviews, co-op, and a free sample to get you started

  26-03-2025 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Steam suddenly has another new viral sensation in the form of Schedule 1, an open-world drug dealing simulator that's offering a free sample to get you in the door for its paid early access release. The game offers enough sandbox shenanigans to make it decent fodder for streamers, but there seems to be some genuine, er, substance here too.At a basic level, Schedule 1 is a first-person open-world sandbox game with a Rick and Morty-style aesthetic set in a run-down city. Imagine if GTA was a Bethe
  
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• Andor star Diego Luna urges Star Wars fans to watch Rogue One immediately after season 2 ends: "You're going to see it differently"

  26-03-2025 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's long been known that Andor season 2 will lead directly into the events of Rogue One, with showrunner Tony Gilroy even confirming the series' final shot sets up the film. Now, star Diego Luna has gone one step further and recommended that audiences get the movie ready to go as soon as the show ends on Disney Plus."If you have your DVD or Blu-ray of Rogue One, you should plug it in as soon as the season ends, and you'll see a film that will be resignified," Luna says in the new issue of SFX m
  
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• Reclaiming their crown, pacifist Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 player beats the whole RPG as "Merciful Henry": 1,741 strikes blocked, 472 knockouts, and zero kills

  26-03-2025 17:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has a lot of killing; it turns out that Bohemia, in the midst of a civil war in the 1400s, is a pretty violent place. The original Kingdom Come: Deliverance did offer players a reason to chill out on the killing with the 'Merciful' achievement, which rewarded you for completing the main quest without a kill. However, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has no such achievement, making for an inherently more violent game. But that hasn't stopped people from practicing pacifism.
  
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• Following Assassin's Creed Shadows controversy, Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "every big AAA game could be better," but players shouldn't be mad "just because some dude told you to"

  26-03-2025 17:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Shadows has had a fantastic start, but in the build-up to its release and beyond, it's been surrounded by discourse and controversy. It's against that backdrop that Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director has issued a well-timed reminder that although it's understandable to not like a game sometimes, you shouldn't hate things "just because some dude told you to.""I understand not liking a game. I understand hating a game. I understand hating a game cuz you feel it stands against e
  
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• Daredevil: Born Again fans are loving the MCU cameos in this week's episodes – especially the Hawkeye reunion

  26-03-2025 17:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Daredevil: Born Again has already seen the return of several familiar faces, from Bullseye to Punisher. But this week's double bill brought back another Marvel character: Swordsman.Jack Duquesne, AKA Swordsman, first appeared in the MCU in 2021's Hawkeye, played by Tony Dalton (who reprised the role for Born Again). He's Kate Bishop's mother's new fiancé, a wealthy socialite, and a very skilled fencer. It's only in episode 6 of Daredevil: Born Again, however, that we see him in vigilante
  
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• Dragon Age: The Veilguard director is leading an unannounced game for Wizards of the Coast, which recently hinted at more Baldur's Gate

  26-03-2025 17:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  One half of Dragon Age: The Veilguard's directing duo is now leading an unannounced video game at Wizards of the Coast, the company that owns D&D and, by extension, Baldur's Gate.Dragon Age: The Veilguard director Corrine Busche left famed developer BioWare shortly after the blockbuster sequel came out – and shortly before EA gutted more of the team – and we now know where she landed.Speaking to The Game File (paywalled!), Wizards of the Coast's video game boss Dan Ayoub revealed
  
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• Lies of P director loves FromSoftware and respects the Soulslike tag, but says "I'm really serious, I'm not lying, I'm very truthful, our focus is to create our own style of game"

  26-03-2025 17:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Lies of P drew some deserved comparisons to Bloodborne when it was first revealed and later released, generally to the delight of game director Jiwon Choi, but the distinct mood and atmosphere of the game – a piano and string-heavy soundtrack accentuating robot puppet smackdowns – helped it make a name for itself. As Lies of P's massive Overture expansion approaches, with a sequel already in the works, Choi says he remains a big fan of FromSoftware's works and respects the Soulslike
  
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• Lies of P director says Overture DLC is at least 15 to 20 hours long for "experienced" players, packing tons of bosses and ideas the devs couldn't fit at launch

  26-03-2025 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Lies of P game director Jiwon Choi reckons its upcoming Overture DLC will take veterans upwards of 15 to 20 hours to complete, and I get the impression it will take me far more to put it down."Overture is not a complete separate piece from the base game, and there's a lot of interconnectivity between the two," Choi told GamesRadar+ (via interpreter) at a GDC 2025 interview. "So developing the expansion was almost like an effort to complete the Lies of P experience, and that was challenging."The
  
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• Marvel's Avengers: Doomsday cast reveal live blog

  26-03-2025 16:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel has launched a surprise announcement on its social media channels to confirm the Avengers: Doomsday cast. It all initially started out as a simple live-stream titled just "Announcement" alongside a chair with "Chris Hemsworth" written on it.Our first thoughts were that it might be a Thor 5 announcement as fans begun speculating about what exactly it might mean on the YouTube channel's comments section, with theories covering everything from who might be named next to what exactly the news
  
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• 15 years on from his last horror movie, Halloween's John Carpenter says he'd "love to direct again" – but he has one condition

  26-03-2025 16:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Legendary horror filmmaker John Carpenter says he "would love" to get back in the business of directing big-screen titles again, though he has a pretty serious non-negotiable as to the movies he'd consider working on...When asked whether he has anything specific in the pipeline, the Halloween helmer candidly told Variety: "Plans? I don't know. I would love to direct again, given the right circumstances. But I'm not the same kid anymore who will do it for any amount of money."I can't back into a
  
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• David Ayer admits James Gunn has good reason not to release his cut of Suicide Squad, but he remains hopeful it'll happen

  26-03-2025 16:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  David Ayer is still clinging onto a sliver of hope his cut of 2016's Suicide Squad might see the light of day. Right now, there's no movement, but the director understands why James Gunn is focused on other priorities.On the back of new movie A Working Man, starring Jason Statham, Ayer did an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. As ever, his version of Suicide Squad came up, the Ayer Cut as it were, and nothing has changed, though he notes Gunn isn’t in a position to look into it at the
  
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• If you missed the last one, the new Monster Hunter Wilds event quest is another way to stock up on rare ingredients before the big update drops next week

  26-03-2025 16:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Monster Hunter Wilds is in for a good few weeks, because beyond its first free content update next week, a new event quest is underway that lets you nab some useful ingredients.Capcom recently hosted an action-packed showcase detailing what's coming in Title Update 1 on Friday, April 4 – the most important addition is the return of Palico cooking. However, Capcom is also keeping up the weekly schedule of event quests for players to dig into and nab some useful gear. Last week's quests allo
  
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  Final Fantasy 14's latest patch was supposed to make an adjustment to the MMORPG to help combat mods that could potentially enable harassment, but players have found that developer Square Enix's efforts to do this haven't removed the issue entirely.Previously, Final Fantasy 14 introduced what was supposed to be an improvement to its blacklist feature, allowing players to block all characters tied to an account when they block one of them.In theory, this should have reduced the chances of players
  

• Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies says that the mysterious Mrs. Flood will be in every episode of season 2, as "spectacular answers" are finally delivered

  26-03-2025 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Doctor Who season 2 is swiftly approaching, meaning it won't be long until fans are reunited with their favorite characters – which of course includes Ruby Sunday's mysterious neighbor Mrs. Flood, who is brilliantly played by Anita Dobson.Ever since she first appeared, fans have been curious about who Mrs. Flood really is, given that she regularly breaks the fourth wall and seems to know exactly what lies ahead for the Doctor. Thankfully, it looks like all will be revealed in the upcoming
  
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• A Star Wars actor just quietly confirmed that filming has begun on Ahsoka season 2

  26-03-2025 15:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Eman Esfandi just quietly revealed that Ahsoka season 2 has officially entered into production.The Ezra Bridger actor reposted a (now expired) story on his personal Instagram account where he can be seen opening a celebratory bottle of champagne. The caption reads, "Congrats on launching your podcast and kicking off Ahsoka season 2!"Ahsoka season 2 was announced back in January 2024, with none other than Dave Filoni at the helm. There was no further news until October 2024, when The Hollywood Re
  
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• InZoi has a long way to go before it can actually rival The Sims as its director says EA's "spent decades perfecting" the formula

  26-03-2025 15:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Sims rival InZoi isn't actually close to rivalling The Sims, according to the new life simulator's very own director.Krafton's ultra-realistic take on the life sim genre is hitting early access in just a few days - March 28 - and much has been said about how it's reheating The Sims' nachos. Basically, you create your own incredibly lifelike digital characters and guide them through everyday events, but this time, there are massive open-world cities, a really cool 3D printing feature, and eve
  
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• An Assassin's Creed Shadows fan is showing off some of the RPG's most impressive little details, and it's done more to get me interested than Ubisoft ever did

  26-03-2025 15:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  I'm a sucker for little details in games. Sure, Metal Gear Solid 2 may be a genre-defining piece of art that set new standards for storytelling and gameplay, but did you know that the ice cubes melt realistically if you knock them out of the bucket in the Tanker chapter's bar? Things like these don't really make a difference to the overall quality of the game, but it's always cool to see attention to detail in games. And Assassin's Creed Shadows seems to be packed full of them.YouTuber NikTek ha
  
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• A surprise bonus Nintendo Direct is coming a week early: "There will be no updates about Nintendo Switch 2 during this presentation"

  26-03-2025 15:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  A bonus Nintendo Direct is set to land this week ahead of the previously announced Nintendo Switch 2 Direct. The March 27 presentation will feature more information about upcoming games for Switch 1, and Nintendo says there will be absolutely no information about the Switch 2 here."Tune in on Thursday, March 27th, at 7 a.m. PT for a livestreamed Nintendo Direct," Nintendo says in its announcement, "featuring around 30 minutes of upcoming games for Nintendo Switch. There will be no updates about
  
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• No Man's Sky's latest free update lets you live out your childhood dreams of digging up dinosaur bones

  26-03-2025 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  No Man's Sky has yet another free update. This time, you'll be able to become a paleontologist with the Relics update which lets you dig up the bones of ancient alien creatures. Be warned though, some of them were buried for a reason.In this new update, which is available now on PC, console, and VR, you can uncover the lost remains of strange beasts. In keeping with No Man's Sky's procedurally generated worlds, there's no right or wrong way to reconfigure the bones once you find them. In fact, y
  
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• 20 years later, God of War's original monster art has been revealed: behold this army of stick figures slapped on a whiteboard, no clue Kratos is coming for them

  26-03-2025 14:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Please remember that an initial sketch should be just that, a simple, quick drawing. Sony Santa Monica has been sharing tidbits of God of War history to celebrate the game's 20th anniversary, and the latest and final one is that director David Jaffe drew all of the original's enemies as stick figures on a whiteboard. Buckle up, because they look hilarious.First up, there's a big guy with a sword. I think this is meant to be Ares, the god of war you fight at the epic climax of the game. Next up,
  
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• 20 years after Doctor Who returned to our screens, fans are sharing their favorite moments including from comeback episode Rose

  26-03-2025 14:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Doctor Who returned to our screens 20 years ago today when 'Rose' premiered on BBC One on March 26, 2005 after 16 years off air.Fans have taken to the internet to share the love for the show, and more specifically the first episode of 'Nu Who', which was written by Russell T Davies and introduced Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor and Billie Piper's companion Rose."Happy 20 years my old friend," one viewer posted, alongside a GIF of the Ninth Doctor. "Never stop running.""It's been 20 years si
  
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• Happy Death Day writer shoots down hopes of a third movie, despite being "ready to go" with the horror sequel: "It was weird"

  26-03-2025 14:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  It looks like horror sequel Happy Death Day 3 might be not happening after all, with writer Christopher Landon revealing it's been radio silence on the third installment for years."I didn't write the script because I never want to count my chickens and get ahead of myself. But I was ready to go and start writing this, but then it was sort of like, it was weird," Landon says in the new issue of SFX magazine, which features Black Mirror season 7 on the cover and hits newsstands on Wednesday, March
  
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• Assassin's Creed Shadows is shown running on a Nintendo 3DS in an impressive bit of fan homebrew

  26-03-2025 12:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been a wild few years for dream ports. Most notably, we've had Xbox games released on PS5, with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle next in line (and rumors of Starfield and even Gears of War following in its footsteps). But sometimes these dreams don't pan out, and it's up to fans to do their thing, as we saw with the Sonic Unleashed PC port. And finally, fans have given us the thing that we've all been screaming about for years – Assassin's Creed Shadows on the Nintendo 3DS.Yes, the
  
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• Daredevil: Born Again has pulled another scene straight from the comics – and it's one of the darkest moments yet

  26-03-2025 12:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warning: this article contains spoilers from Daredevil: Born Again episode 6Daredevil: Born Again dropped two very different episodes this week, but it was the latter that was the most chilling. Giving us our best look yet at Muse and his horrific street artwork, the serial killer claimed some more victims on the streets of New York City.However, there was one particularly grisly moment that stands out as two young women approach Muse mid-artwork. "Hey are you Muse?" they ask him, "Is it cool if
  
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• Porting Mario Kart 8 Deluxe to the Nintendo Switch was "kind of an afterthought," and now it's so popular that getting fans to switch could be a challenge

  26-03-2025 12:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  With over 67 million copies sold on the Nintendo Switch, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has been quite the success for the House of Mario. According to two former employees, though, Nintendo didn't have a "clue" that it would be the "juggernaut" it was.Speaking in a new video titled "The problem with the new Mario Kart game on Nintendo Switch 2," Nintendo of America alumni Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang – Nintendo of America's former director of social media marketing, and former senior manager of creator
  
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• Black Mirror's USS Callister team says surprise sequel episode in season 7 is less '60s Star Trek and more big-screen Star Wars: "It feels a bit Return of the Jedi"

  26-03-2025 12:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Black Mirror is breaking new ground with its upcoming seventh season. For the first time, the show is revisiting a previous storyline with a sequel to 2017's USS Callister episode – but expect less Star Trek and more akin to a blockbuster this time around."We definitely leant into the dated feel of Star Trek for the first one; this one's more action movie, more of a modern approach," director Toby Haynes says in the new issue of SFX magazine, which features Black Mirror season 7 on the cov
  
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• Shaun of the Dead star Nick Frost is playing one of the most beloved Harry Potter characters for the new HBO TV show

  26-03-2025 11:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  The cast of the Harry Potter TV show is growing. Longtime comedy star Nick Frost is reportedly going to portray Hogwarts caretaker Hagrid in the upcoming adaptation.This comes from Deadline, which states a deal is getting close for Frost to join the school for witchcraft and wizardry. He's the fourth major actor to be lined up for the production after John Lithgow, who’s portraying Professor Dumbledore, Janet McTeer, who'll be playing Professor McGonagall, and Paapa Essiedu, who's stepping
  
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• The Witcher 4 and Naughty Dog's Intergalactic are reportedly skipping 2026 and won't be ready until at least the year after

  26-03-2025 11:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Witcher 4 and Naughty Dog's new game reportedly won't come out until 2027 at the earliest.CD Projekt Red's Ciri-based sequel and Naughty Dog's spacefaring Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet were both announced with expensive-smelling trailers at The Game Awards 2024, but the two games are apparently no where close to releasing, which shouldn't be much of a surprise considering we only saw 'in-engine' CGI cutscenes from both.News of The Witcher 4's late arrival comes from CD Projekt Red CFO P
  
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• Doctor Who showrunner says season 2's new companion brings a "whole new energy" that "defines the whole series"

  26-03-2025 10:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new Doctor Who season brings with it a new companion for Ncuti Gatwa's Time Lord to zip around time and space with.While it's likely a familiar face to many (having appeared in season 1 standout 'Boom' as separate character Mundy Flynn), Varada Sethu is set to bring a "whole new energy" as Belinda."It's really the whole new energy that Belinda brings, that [Varada] brings with her, that defines the whole series," Davies says of the new Doctor Who season 2 arrival in the new issue of SFX magazi
  
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• Step on-board the set of Black Mirror’s new USS Callister episode with the latest issue of SFX

  26-03-2025 09:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Black Mirror is on the cover of SFX issue 390, ahead of the Netflix anthology show’s return for a seventh season.Don't forget: if you live in the UK you can use this tool to find a stockist near you. Or you can order a copy online.
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  Back in 2017, SFX went on-set for the Star Trek-riffing episode “USS Callister”, stepping foot on the titular spacecraft. Now we do so again for the filming of a sequel episode, speaking to the show’s creator
  
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• Andor showrunner says season 2's more fast-paced structure is a "fascinating experiment" that is "born out of desperation": "I don't know if anyone's ever done it before"

  26-03-2025 08:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Originally pitched as a five-season epic, Andor is now set to come to an end with a fast and furious second season.Instead of a more measured approach, the Star Wars show's next season deploys a unique episodic structure which sees it split into four batches of three 'chapters', with each chapter skipping ahead a year.Speaking in the new issue of SFX magazine, which features Black Mirror season 7 on the cover and is now on newsstands, Gilroy says the surprise narrative shift was "born out of des
  
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• Daredevil: Born Again just made a perfect reference to Matt Murdock's cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home

  26-03-2025 03:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warning: This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again episode 5.Daredevil: Born Again breaks the mold in its latest episode with a standalone sequence that sees Matt Murdock caught up in a bank heist. Featuring a cameo from Kamala Khan's dad Yusuf Khan and several references to Ms. Marvel, it's also probably the most MCU-connected outing of the new show yet.This continues with a perfect callback to Spider-Man: No Way Home too, which was Matt Murdock's first MCU appearance. If you rec
  
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• Daredevil: Born Again episode 5 gives an important Ms. Marvel update – and it might have confirmed a major team-up in the next Avengers movie

  26-03-2025 03:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warning: This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again episode 5.Daredevil may have had his hands full with a botched bank job during the events of the fifth episode of Daredevil: Born Again, but it was an update surrounding another significant hero that may have laid the foundations for a major team-up in Avengers: Doomsday.In the first of this week's double bill on Disney Plus, Charlie Cox's Matt Murdock arrives at a bank and soon heads into a meeting with Yusuf Khan (Mohan Kapur).
  
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