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• Nintendo Switch 2 upgrades of Switch 1 games are getting physical releases, but nobody's sure if these are Switch 2 cartridges or old games repackaged with digital upgrade codes

  04-04-2025 23:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  An array of of first-party Switch games are getting "Nintendo Switch 2 Edition" upgrades promising a variety of graphical and gameplay updates. They're getting physical, retail releases, too, but Nintendo collectors have been faced with a lingering question: are these things coming on all-in-one Switch 2 cartridges, or are they simply repackaged Switch 1 carts being sold with digital upgrade codes?On every piece of Nintendo Switch 2 Edition box art the company has revealed so far, there's a mult
  
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• Dan Da Dan and Solo Leveling lead the list of Anime of the Year nominees in the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards

  04-04-2025 23:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  The nominees for the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards are here, with six blockbuster series leading the pack for the Anime of the Year trophy, including several nominees that should surprise no one.The six nominees for Anime of the Year include Dan Da Dan, Solo Leveling, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Delicious in Dungeon, Kaiju No. 8, and The Apothecary Diaries. Each of these mega-popular series is also nominated for numerous other categories across Crunchyroll's expansive awards, which cover near
  
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• Fantastic Four: The First Steps director unveils the movie's retro-futuristic space suits and practical sets: "I really wanted it to feel like it was made in 1965, the way Stanley Kubrick would have made it"

  04-04-2025 23:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  There's a new look at Fantastic Four: The First Steps - and it's giving Marvel meets 2001: A Space Odyssey."I really wanted to go with as grounded a version of space as possible," director Matt Shakman told Empire. "So, no wormholes. Their tech is very much retro-future, but it's also booster rockets. It’s a combination of Marvel and Apollo 11. I really wanted it to feel like it was made in 1965, the way Stanley Kubrick would have made it. Within reason." It's worth noting that the movie i
  
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• 31 years after working on the original System Shock, Arkane founder gave up on the 2023 remake because it was "too hard"

  04-04-2025 23:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite having worked on the original sci-fi FPS as a playtester three decades ago, Arcane Studios founder Raphaël Colantonio says he's given up on the 2023 System Shock remake after becoming "frustrated" by its difficult gameplay.For some context, Colantonio helped out with QA on the original System Shock when he was at EA in the early 90s, and he says that experience was a pivotal moment in his career."I was already hooked [on video games] when I had a chance to playtest System Shock back
  
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• Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies reassures fans that this season's "standalone" Ruby Sunday episode does feature "lots" of the Doctor unlike '73 Yards', as star Ncuti Gatwa calls it his favorite

  04-04-2025 23:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Doctor Who season 2 is just around the corner now, bringing with it a new set of adventures through time and space as Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor returns.Just like with every season, audiences can expect wild variety with the episodes, with everything from stories being set 500,000 years into the future to one revolving around the Interstellar Song Contest, the show's take on Eurovision.Everyone will naturally have their favorite from the new season, so GamesRadar+ decided to ask the cast for
  
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• Super Mario All-Stars speedrunner sets triumphant world record only to suffer SNES cart tragedy 90 seconds later: "I guess it's not safe to do any more runs until I give it a good clean"

  04-04-2025 22:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Prolific Mario speedrunner Kosmic set a new world record in the Super Mario All-Stars version of The Lost Levels this week, and he was on pace for a "massive" improvement in an even bigger category until he suddenly suffered a horrible fate those of us who lived through the cartridge era know all too well – a sudden crash blamed on dirty connectors.Super Mario All-Stars is a SNES collection featuring upgraded, 16-bit versions of 8-bit Mario games, and it was the first chance players worldw
  
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• Liam Neeson is beating up bank robbers while wearing a skirt in first trailer for The Naked Gun reboot from The Lonely Island director

  04-04-2025 22:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for Paramount's Naked Gun reboot has arrived, with Liam Neeson taking over the role of Frank Drebin Jr., the son of the original Frank Drebin, originated by late actor Leslie Nielsen. Liam Neeson… Leslie Nielsen… You get it.The character of Frank Drebin originally debuted in the short-lived TV show Police Squad where he was played by Leslie Nielsen, spinning off into 1988's film Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad. The movie managed to land a pair of sequel
  
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• "That was not going to work for Valve": Canceled Half-Life spinoff game Ravenholm was "great, frankly," says Arkane founder, but it couldn’t survive under Valve's "very clear business plan"

  04-04-2025 20:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  The canceled Half-Life spinoff game – what could have been another episodic follow-up to Half-Life 2 – Ravenholm was just as good as you might have dreamed it to be, says the founder of its developer Arkane Studios Raphaël Colantonio, but it couldn't exist under Valve's high-speed business model."We needed another year – at least six months," Colantonio tells the Quad Damage Podcast in a new interview. "Valve had a very clear business plan for those Episodes. You know, the
  
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• Wade Wilson absorbs the powers of the Fantastic Four to take on Doctor Doom in Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe One Last Time #4

  04-04-2025 19:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Wade Wilson has taken on some of the most powerful beings in the Marvel Universe, even going face-to-face with cosmic forces and coming out on top. Now, in Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe One Last Time #4, he'll face one of his toughest challenges ever as he battles the Doctor Doom of an alt-reality.But he's not totally unprepared. In this case, writer Cullen Bunn and artist Dalibor Talajić have imbued Wade Wilson with the powers of Doom's arch-enemies, the Fantastic Four, giving him abi
  
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• Hidetaka Miyazaki can't help himself and now The Duskbloods sounds even more like a Bloodborne successor: "The Bloodsworn are competing for something known as First Blood"

  04-04-2025 19:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Duskbloods immediately looked like an Elden Ring-style open-world take on Bloodborne, though the revelation that it's set to be a multiplayer PvPvE game quickly made clear that it is something fundamentally different. Still, director Hidetaka Miyazaki and the crew at FromSoftware are clearly building on Bloodborne's dilapidated world fueled by powerful blood with the new concept of "Bloodsworn" and "First Blood.""We tried to extract the sort of romantic aspects we found interesting from conc
  
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• Disney pauses live-action Tangled movie from The Greatest Showman director after Snow White bombs at the box office

  04-04-2025 18:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Just a few months after it was officially confirmed, the live-action adaptation of Tangled has been put on hold.Per The Hollywood Reporter, the project is no longer in active development. It was announced in December 2024 that The Greatest Showman helmer Michael Gracey would direct the pic from a screenplay penned by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Thor: Love and Thunder).The cancellation comes in the wake of Disney's live-action Snow White, which has earned only $69 million domestically and $145 mill
  
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• Legend of Zelda shippers are on serious hopium over Tears of the Kingdom's new voice memories, thinking one might possibly solidify ZeLink as canon

  04-04-2025 18:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  This week's Nintendo Switch 2 Direct news gave fans a first look at what's to come on the new console from Nintendo, including revamped editions of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom for the Switch 2 – and some changes might just confirm the ship of the century.If you're wondering what ship that is, it's ZeLink, of course – the pairing between the titular princess herself and Link, the series' primary protagonist. While a romance between the two hasn't explicitly been establ
  
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• Everyone's favorite onscreen runner Tom Cruise gave Glen Powell some humbling advice before he started shooting Stephen King adaptation: "You don't look as cool as you think"

  04-04-2025 18:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Glen Powell has recalled the time he turned to Tom Cruise for some very specific advice before he started shooting his upcoming sci-fi movie The Running Man.During the Creative Community Luncheon at CinemaCon 2025, Powell, who starred opposite Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick, described the Mission: Impossible actor as "a guy that doesn't hide his excitement about what this all means."Per Deadline, he went on say: "When I was cast, Tom was my first call … to learn how to run. [I was like] ' Yo
  
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• Arkane Studios founder says he could see himself "working on Dishonored 3 right now," though creating a sequel was "the last thing I wanted to do" after making the first game

  04-04-2025 18:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dishonored is one of my favorite games of all time. I love it so much I have a tattoo of Corvo's mask. Raphael Colontonio was the director of the fantastic stealth game, and he could actually see himself working on Dishonored 3."After Dishonored 1, for example, the last thing I wanted to do for the next four years of my life was Dishonored 2," says Colontonio, creative director at WolfEye studios and the founder of Arkane, in an interview on the Quad Damage podcast. "In general, I like to create
  
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• Hidetaka Miyazaki shares The Duskbloods worries of some Elden Ring and Dark Souls fans: "I personally am not much of a PvP person, and I wanted to make something that's satisfying even for players like me"

  04-04-2025 18:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Duskbloods, a whole new FromSoftware game led by Dark Souls and Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki, was one of the biggest surprises from this week's Nintendo Switch 2 Direct news. The Switch 2-exclusive PvPvE game is set to launch sometime next year on Nintendo's upcoming console, but if you were worried about the focus on PvP, it sounds like the director has got you covered.Speaking in a Creator's Voice interview in a new series of Nintendo blog posts, Miyazaki explains that "at its cor
  
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• Insomniac is "actively working on Marvel's Wolverine for PS5" but won't share news just because you ask: "Things take time, resources, and the greenlight to share them"

  04-04-2025 17:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been nearly four years since Marvel's Wolverine was announced, and outside of the debut teaser trailer developer Insomniac has had very little to say about the game. Some fans are getting a little, er, aggressive in their requests for news, and the devs are responding in no-nonsense terms to say they're only going to share news when they're good and ready."We're actively working on Marvel's Wolverine for PS5," Insomniac said in response to one particularly cantankerous request for news. "We
  
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• For a wondrous moment, 2 seconds of Bravely Default's trailer in the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct had the internet convinced the Final Fantasy 9 Remake was real

  04-04-2025 17:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  There was a moment during the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct where I stopped everything I was doing, leaned in super hard, and pushed down on that volume button until my bones ached – and it was all because, for three whole, long seconds, I thought Final Fantasy 9's Princess Garnet/Dagger was on screen.But it wasn't to be. What was actually on screen was Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster – coming to the Switch 2 as a launch game this summer – and one of its four central charac
  
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• Nia DaCosta reflects on directing The Marvels and the moment it turned into a "learning curve": "Okay, this isn’t going to be the movie that I pitched"

  04-04-2025 17:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Marvels director Nia DaCosta has reflected on her time on the cosmic MCU entry, as well as speaking for the first time about how the Captain Marvel sequel deviated from her original idea."They had a date, and they were prepping certain things, and you just have to lean into the process hardcore," DaCosta said at the Storyhouse festival (via Deadline) of the production of the Marvel Phase 5 entry that brought Brie Larson's hero into the orbit of Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani) and Monica Rambeau (T
  
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• Deltarune's new PlayStation trophies "give rise to a pretty hard-core challenge," and Toby Fox says "it may be one of the worst ideas I've ever had"

  04-04-2025 17:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Deltarune's third and fourth chapters will finally be upon us in June, and developer Toby Fox has confirmed that with their arrival, the PS4 and PS5 versions of the RPG will be receiving trophies for fans to work towards. However, it sounds like getting them all will be no easy task, as "they give rise to a pretty hard-core challenge."In a newsletter confirming that Deltarune Chapter 3 and 4 will arrive on PC, PlayStation, Switch, and Switch 2 on June 5 (making the RPG a launch game for Nintendo
  
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• New horror movie The Woman in the Yard is a sad, sophisticated exploration of mental health struggles – and Blumhouse's best film since The Invisible Man

  04-04-2025 17:30 via gamesradar.com
  
   Warning! This feature contains major spoilers for The Woman in the Yard, as well as themes of depression and suicide.Blumhouse horror has a bit of a reputation. I mean no disrespect by that; I'm known among friends and colleagues as the girl whose eyes widen with glee at the announcement of every new flick from the production company. But with titles like Freaky, Happy Death Day, and M3GAN making up its roster, it's understandable why it's become known as the studio that makes popcorn flic
  
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• UK Nintendo fans keep getting lucky as the official Switch 2 camera is up for pre-order right now at Amazon

  04-04-2025 17:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  The official Switch 2 camera has appeared on Amazon for those lucky enough to be based in the UK. Right now, the official camera is available to pre-order for £59.99 and is expected to be released on June 5, 2025, the same day as the Switch 2.Better yet, there's no tedious invite request to be found. All you need to do is click the 'pre-order now' button, and you're good to go. Alternatively, you could wait until it pre-orders for the camera are live on the official Nintendo website, which
  
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• After just 1 week in Early Access, hyper-realistic Sims 4 competitor inZOI has sold over 1 million copies on Steam, with mod support and free DLC underway

  04-04-2025 17:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Just one week has passed since PUBG developer Krafton saw the Early Access release of its new Sims-like game inZOI on Steam, and it's already surpassed a million sales.There's always room for more games like The Sims 4, it seems, and inZOI is proving just that with its ever-growing popularity. The hyper-realistic life sim has now reached a major milestone, as celebrated by developers in a recent online post, hitting a whopping one million sales after only a week of being available via Steam Earl
  
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• Switch 2 pre-orders have been delayed in the US "in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions," Nintendo says

  04-04-2025 17:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo has confirmed that Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders in the United States won't be starting next week after all, as they're being delayed "in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions."In a statement released today (shared by GameSpot's Tamoor Hussain on Twitter), Nintendo writes: "Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions. Nintendo will updat
  
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• Jon Bernthal is assembling "an incredible group" to work on Marvel's Punisher special

  04-04-2025 17:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jon Bernthal has shared an update on the behind-the-scenes progress of his upcoming Punisher special, and teased "an incredible group" being assembled to work on the project."I've said it a million times: Frank is in my bones, is in my heart. I care about him," Bernthal told Collider at CinemaCon 2025. "In discussing what this thing could be and this sort of version of Frank that I really felt that the audience was hungry for, that the military community was hungry for it, the first responder co
  
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• Some Nintendo Amiibo collectors are worried the price is going up alongside the Switch 2, but others reassure them they've "always had flexible pricing"

  04-04-2025 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Switch 2 fans are understandably disappointed with how expensive the console and its games are, and now some are worried even the Amiibo are getting hit with inflation.Over on ResetEra, a user shares a picture of the price of Amiibo in Europe and they're up to €23, around $25. "Some amiibo pre orders already came up," writes the original poster. "Since I have the full European collection I went to try to pre order some of them just to keep my collection complete. Specifically I'm talking ab
  
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• New Monster Hunter Wilds update brings a monster so fierce fans have gone from calling the game "too easy" to asking "What the hell was that?"

  04-04-2025 16:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  As Capcom finally releases its long-awaited first free update for Monster Hunter Wilds, fans discover one of the action RPG's new beasts is anything but easy to take down.The first major milestone on Monster Hunter Wilds' roadmap has just been reached, with the hotly anticipated Title Update 1 dropping earlier today. The massive patch brings monsters like Mizutsune to the game, along with the Grand Hub and brand-new Arena Quests. It also marks a turning point for fans who worried that Monster Hu
  
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• FromSoftware boss Hidetaka Miyazaki says "we still intend to develop single-player focused games" even as The Duskbloods follows Elden Ring Nightreign into multiplayer

  04-04-2025 16:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Frequent FromSoftware director and Dark Souls mastermind Hidetaka Miyazaki insists that the iconic studio still plans on creating single-player-focused games like the ones that made it a household name, despite Elden Ring Nightreign and The Duskbloods' going down the multiplayer route.Elden Ring Nightreign is, of course, an upcoming co-op take on the studio's mammoth open-world romp that sees up to three players battling enemies, collecting loot, and trying to defeat an end boss before bringing
  
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• John Wick spin-off star Ana de Armas recalls accidentally telling Keanu Reeves that she hadn't seen The Matrix: "That will never not be embarrassing"

  04-04-2025 15:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ballerina star Ana de Armas has opened up about an "embarrassing" moment when she first met her co-star Keanu Reeves and accidentally told him that she hadn't seen The Matrix."I met him when I barely spoke English when I moved to LA, 10 years ago. I met Keanu for the first time in Santiago de Chile at lunch with the filmmakers of Knock Knock, our first movie together," de Armas recalled on-stage at this year's CinemaCon (via The Hollywood Reporter).Released in 2015, Knock Knock was directed by E
  
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• New Fantastic Four footage confirms what we all suspected – Sue Storm is pregnant, and it means a major Marvel character is on the way

  04-04-2025 15:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Everyone might have already guessed it, but now we know for sure – Vanessa Kirby's Sue Storm is pregnant in The Fantastic Four: First Steps.The update comes courtesy of CinemaCon, which screened some footage from the Marvel Phase 6 movie behind closed doors. According to Discussing Film, the new footage shows the team on a talk show, Sue announcing that she's pregnant at a family dinner, and Julia Garner's Silver Surfer showing up to say Earth has been marked for destruction.Excitingly, Su
  
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• Switch 2 Hands-on AMA: Ask us your questions about the Nintendo Switch 2

  04-04-2025 14:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Do you have questions about the Nintendo Switch 2 that are burning a hole in your brain? Well, now's your chance to speak to myself and Rollin Bishop who have both played the Switch 2 for around four hours at a special preview event.We'll be answering all your questions in the comments below, so jump down there using the 'comments' button at the top of the article to get started and, hopefully, informed! And remember, be nice!We've been hands-on with the hardware, the Joy-Con 2 controllers, expe
  
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• Nintendo is likely surprised, panicked, and having a full "war room" response to the outrage over Switch 2 pricing, former marketing leads say

  04-04-2025 14:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  We now know a lot more about the Switch 2 and its games, and one thing is for sure, people are not happy about how much it all costs. During yesterday's Treehouse livestream, the comments were bombarded with people spamming "drop the price" over and over again. Krysta Yang and Kit Ellis (Nintendo of America's former senior manager of creator relations and original content and former director of social media marketing and original content, respectively) say they think the company "is probably sur
  
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• Marvel Rivals devs work to fulfil fans' "fundamental dream" of playing as anyone by adding new heroes every month starting from Season 3

  04-04-2025 13:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel Rivals' roster is about to get much bigger, much faster.Marvel Rivals is about to kickstart its second season by welcoming Emma Frost on April 11 and Ultron halfway through the season, but future seasonal updates are going to shrink slightly.In a new developer vlog, director Guangyun Chen explained that "there remains the fundamental dream to integrate even more exciting Marvel heroes into Marvel Rivals," and the team is working hard to get it done. "After intensive internal discussions a
  
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• Nintendo Switch 2 news live: all the latest Nintendo Treehouse gameplay and reaction

  04-04-2025 13:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  The big Nintendo Switch 2 event is moving into its third day. We've watched the Switch 2 Direct, published our Switch 2 hands-on preview (spoiler, it rocks), and had a whole day of Treehouse deep-dives to eyeball. We're not done just yet, though, as we've got another day of Treehouse goodness to dive deeper into the upcoming Switch 2 games that've been revealed over the past few days.While yesterday's stream dug into the likes of Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, and more, we're expecting t
  
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• Alienware's Area-51 gaming PC needs this conversion kit for its promised third-party motherboard support

  04-04-2025 13:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  The biggest problem with Alienware gaming PCs has always been their relentless use of proprietary parts. I've heard horror stories from previous Alienware owners about how the second they tried to swap out or upgrade one of their PC's components, they bricked the entire system. Thankfully, the brand has finally turned a new leaf with its latest Area-51 gaming PC, but maybe not quite as cleanly as we'd hoped.When it was announced at CES at the beginning of the year, it finally seemed as though Al
  
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• First Avatar 3 footage is being called "pure James Cameron wow" with "jaw-dropping visuals"

  04-04-2025 13:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Avatar: Fire and Ash trailer screened behind closed doors at CinemaCon, and those lucky enough to see it were blown away.According to Gizmodo, the footage shows a fiery, mid-air battle between the Wind Traders and the Ash people, with the Ash tribe shooting flaming arrows and burning the Wind Traders' vessels. It also looks like the Ash people side with Quaritch and the other humans, while the trailer ends with a showdown between Neytiri and the Ash people's leader."First footage from Avatar
  
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• Daredevil: Born Again's Vincent D'Onofrio says it would be "very hard" for Wilson Fisk to appear in Spider-Man 4 or any MCU movie

  04-04-2025 13:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Daredevil: Born Again star Vincent D'Onofrio doesn't have high hopes about his character Wilson Fisk making his MCU movie debut anytime soon."The only thing I know is not positive. It's a very hard thing to do, for Marvel to use my character. It's a very hard thing to do, because of ownership and stuff," D'Onofrio said during a recent appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast when he was asked about potential big-screen outings."Right now, I’m only usable for television series," he cont
  
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• One of Switch 2's best Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom upgrades wasn't included in the Direct – new "voice memories" are being added, but they're tied to a mobile app

  04-04-2025 13:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are both getting big upgrades in their Nintendo Switch 2 Edition releases, but one of their most exciting additions wasn't even included amongst the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct news. It turns out that the two open-world Zelda games are getting all-new "voice memories" in June, although they'll only be accessible via a mobile app.As detailed in a longer overview trailer of the two upgraded games after the Switch 2 Direct, voice memorie
  
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• Laurence Fishburne wanted to return as Morpheus in The Matrix: Resurrections but the team "didn't respond well"

  04-04-2025 13:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Matrix star Laurence Fishburne has broken his silence on his no-show as Morpheus in 2021's Resurrections.Speaking on The View (H/T The Hollywood Reporter), Fishburne said, "I offered my services to the fourth Matrix, and they didn’t respond well to that."He added, "It’s not like I didn’t say, 'I'd like to offer my services.' I did."Despite several legacy actors – including Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss – returning to The Matrix franchise for the fourth movie
  
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• "Kneel, peasants": Marvel Rivals fans are thirsting over another hero, this time begging Emma Frost to use her chokehold ability on them

  04-04-2025 13:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Like clockwork, Marvel Rivals is welcoming a new hero to its infinitely ballooning roster. And, like clockwork, the community is once again down bad for the character.Developer NetEase yesterday released a trailer for Marvel Rivals Season Two: Hellfire Gala, introducing rogue robo Ultron and mutant baddie Emma Frost as newbies. Ultron is, somewhat surprisingly, a support character and Frost is, somewhat unsurprisingly, taking up the tank role.But their roles in the meta aren't concerning folks t
  
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• Doctor Who season 2 release schedule: When is episode 1 on Disney Plus and the BBC?

  04-04-2025 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  That signature noise of the TARDIS draws near, as Doctor Who season 2 is about to arrive. Ncuti Gatwa continues his turn as The Doctor, tackling yet more threats in an effort to protect the universe and mankind from danger.These episodes promise to be a real test for the Time Lord. Not only is he facing Mr. Ring-a-Ding, a literal cartoon come to life, but there's also whatever terrors await in an episode showrunner Russell T Davies touts as the scariest in the franchise's history.To keep you in
  
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• Wednesday star Emma Myers says season 2 has the "perfect" cast: "I had a great time working with all of them"

  04-04-2025 12:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Wednesday season 2 is just around the corner, and as the Addams family daughter gets ready to take on another year at Nevermore Academy, co-star Emma Myers has given a positive update on what it was like working with the season’s exciting new guest stars.“So cool. Everybody was so cool in this new season. I think the cast is perfect,” says Myers exclusively to GamesRadar+. “Everybody fits their roles. Yeah, I had a great time working with all of them. So this next season
  
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• Over 10 years since launch, Far Cry 4 reportedly censors nudity in a new PC patch, and Ubisoft hasn't explained why

  04-04-2025 12:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Far Cry 4 has received a quiet update on PC which has reportedly censored instances of nudity in the FPS, over 10 years after its launch.Strangely, no patch notes have been released by Ubisoft to describe the changes, leading to some threads within the game's Steam Community asking what it did. SteamDB shows a fairly lengthy list of changed files, but the full extent of what's actually different in the game isn't clear. However, as has been highlighted on Reddit, it appears that at least some of
  
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• The Nintendo Switch 2 is made for everyone, not just "those who prefer high-performance hardware"

  04-04-2025 12:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Nintendo Switch 2 is clearly a more powerful system than the original Switch, but Nintendo says it's aimed at a more broad audience rather than those of you who are looking for high-performance hardware.In a recent Ask the Developer blog post, Takuhiro Dohta says: "From the beginning of development, we wanted Switch 2 to be a system that can be enjoyed by a wide variety of players."Nintendo has never been known for having the most powerful hardware out there, but all of its systems have alwa
  
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• Mario Kart World manages to "blur the line" between what is and isn't a course, thanks to its unique open-world layout and off-roading

  04-04-2025 12:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct provided a bounty of knowledge regarding the new console from Nintendo, including a first look at some Nintendo Switch 2 games coming – one being Mario Kart World, the iconic racing game series' first-ever open-world entry.Of all the upcoming Switch 2 games, Mario Kart World speeds in as one of the most hotly anticipated titles, thanks to everything from its Tony Hawk-style rail-grinding mechanic to its unique off-roading and open-world layout. Following the Di
  
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• A voice clip in the new Superman sneak peek has DC fans speculating it's a major rumored cameo

  04-04-2025 11:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's something much more exciting than that – as long as you're listening closely.The new Superman sneak peek may have given us the first real glimpse into the Fortress of Solitude, but the ice-filled scenes are also hiding a voice cameo that has long been speculated about.If you head to around 2:45 in the clip (which you can see below), you can hear a man speaking Kryptonian. Given the heritage of David Corenswet's Superman and his worse-for-wear cond
  
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• Kevin Feige confirms that the five and a half hour chair stunt for the Avengers: Doomsday cast didn't include everyone

  04-04-2025 10:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel had everyone rapt for a whopping five and a half hours last week as the studio announced the bumper cast for Avengers: Doomsday – via chair.But, as it turns out, that's not all the MCU has in store for the next Avengers movie. According to Marvel boss Kevin Feige, there are even more cast members yet to be announced."We revealed many, not all," Feige said over video at CinemaCon, as reported by Screen Rant. That tracks with a previous tease that "there's always room for more."Now, t
  
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• A Minecraft Movie director Jared Hess says he’s interested in making a sequel: "There are so many amazing mods and characters and biomes we haven't explored yet"

  04-04-2025 10:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  One of this year’s most anticipated upcoming video game movies, A Minecraft Movie, has just hit screens, and director Jared Hess is already interested in making a sequel."Oh, it'd be so much fun. Yeah," says Hess to GamesRadar+ in response to whether he’d be interested in making another Minecraft movie. "I mean, look, there's the world's infinite, so many amazing mods and characters and biomes we haven't explored yet, so it'd be amazing."As Hess outlines, the Minecraft game is virtua
  
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• A Minecraft Movie post credits scene: Does the new video game adaptation have a post credits scene?

  04-04-2025 10:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Almost 14 years after the Minecraft game launched, gamers now don’t have to wait any longer to see their favorite sandbox game come to life as A Minecraft Movie is finally here. Starring Jack Black as the game’s player character Steve, the movie follows four humans named Henry (Sebastian Hansen), his sister Natalie (Emma Myers), local gaming legend Garrett The Garbage Man (Jason Momoa), and real estate agent slash animal handler Dawn (Danielle Brooks) as they get sucked into the Over
  
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• "I can promise my game will be significantly less than $80": Indie dev stunned by Kirby Air Riders Switch 2 reveal after working on their own Air Ride successor for months

  04-04-2025 02:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  I'm pretty sure all but exactly one Nintendo fan had a big ol' goofy grin on their face when the upcoming Switch 2 game Kirby Air Riders was announced. It's a successor to a cult classic racing game from 22 years ago, Smash Bros. legend Masahiro Sakurai is back at the helm, and heck, it's Kirby on a hoverboard - what's not to like?Well, from the perspective of someone working on their own independent Kirby Air Ride spiritual successor, there's quite a lot not to like about this situation, and th
  
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• Mario Kart World quietly fixes one of the series' longest-standing annoyances and I suspect I will get hit with 10% fewer red turtle shells because of it

  04-04-2025 01:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  In Mario Kart, often times the only thing standing between you and certain defeat is a banana peel, which you can drag behind your kart by holding down the L button to protect yourself from turtle shells and the like. Thing is, in a game as fast-paced and chaotic as Mario Kart, it's easy for your finger to slip and cause your precious banana peel to be released and you to become unprotected. I'd estimate I accidentally let go of my "ass protection," as my stupid friends call it, about 5-10% of t
  
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