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• "We slept once and have been awake ever since": REPO devs say the first big update "will take a bit longer" because the co-op horror hit's "huge success" surprised them

  25-04-2025 23:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first big REPO is taking a little longer than originally planned in part because the developers were "surprised" by the co-op horror hit's runaway success.REPO launched exclusively on Steam Early Access in February and quickly rocketed to virality in a way that reminded me of Phasmophobia and Lethal Company. At the time of writing, it has a staggering 112,000 reviews with 96% of them being positive. In a new Q&A, semiwork's Pontus Sundström joked, "we slept once and we have been awa
  
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• Hunger Games prequel finds its Haymitch, Maysilee, and Lenore Dove – and Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes star Rachel Zegler has given a very special seal of approval

  25-04-2025 22:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, yet another new prequel, has cast some of its most important characters – and Rachel Zegler, who played Lucy Baird in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds, approves.According to Deadline, the cast so far includes Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee, Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy, Whitney Peak, Lenore Dove Baird, and Mckenna Grace as Maysilee Donner. Zegler posted Peak's casting to her Instagram in a now-expired story, writing: "i know she
  
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• Hoping to make realistic "simulated players" for his single-player MMO, Erenshor dev accidentally made a naked Leeroy Jenkins who would pull dungeon bosses

  25-04-2025 22:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Erenshor, the newly released single-player MMORPG heavily styled after classic games like Everquest, is largely defined by its NPCs. Solo developer Brian "Burgee" cooked up over 100 "simulated players" with their own arcs, items, and behaviors to sell the feeling and atmosphere of this paradoxical offline MMO.Burgee plans to add many more NPCs to Erenshor as it progresses in Steam early access, and hopefully without repeating an issue that's come up in player testing in a stroke of unbelievable
  
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• This Crysis-looking FPS from former Metro devs was supposed to launch today, but it was delayed at the last second amid 4/10 reviews: "We are trying our best"

  25-04-2025 22:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  La Quimera is a sci-fi, story-driven FPS with more than a few aesthetic and gameplay similarities to Crysis, and it's being made by former Metro devs at a studio called Reburn. That sounds like a recipe for success, but the game – which was scheduled to launch today – has suffered a last-minute delay amid some very bad reviews."We'd like to apologize for the unexpected delay in getting La Quimera out to you, our fans and supporters," Reburn co-founder and CEO Dmytro Lymar says in a m
  
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• Nintendo tracks Super Mario friendships on official web page that reveals Pauline is an outcast, Waluigi is controversial, and Mario canonically doesn't like you

  25-04-2025 22:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo's G-rated official site Play Nintendo lets kids know who their favorite characters are friends with and, apparently, it's not them. In particular, it seems the entire Super Mario Bros. cast is too embroiled in their own one-sided drama to give healthy human relationships a chance.First noticed by Mario blogger Supper Mario Broth, the Play Nintendo website indicates that the franchise's Plumber-in-Chief Mario is friends with all the usual suspects – his brother, Luigi, his love, Pr
  
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• Well played, Todd: You can see Skyrim, or at least its tallest mountain, from the edge of Oblivion Remastered

  25-04-2025 21:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  My hat's off to Todd Howard and the rest of the Elder Scrolls team at Bethesda Game Studios, as they've found yet another way to release Skyrim... kind of.The porting and remastering and re-releasing of Skyrim has been memed to death at this point, and so when I started seeing images on social media of the game's majestic Throat of the World summit in Oblivion Remastered – something that wasn't in the original 2006 RPG – I had only one thing to say: Well played, Todd. You did it agai
  
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• Marvel Rivals mid-season patch buffs Strategists, nerfs Groot and Spider-Man, and gives Vanguards and Strategists a competitive boost: "We can't guarantee perfection 100% of the time"

  25-04-2025 21:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  In its upcoming mid-season patch, Marvel Rivals is putting a few heroes and archetypes under the microscope for some minor but much-requested buffs ahead of "more comprehensive balance changes" to come in Season 2.5 with Ultron's arrival.In a freshly minted blog post, the Marvel Rivals NetEase team notes that "Season 2.0 shifts the spotlight to coordinated attacks and focused targets, along with the necessary collective protective strategies and counterattacks which has led to a more intense com
  
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• NYX #10 marks the series finale with a clash against classic X-Men villain Mojo

  25-04-2025 21:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  NYX #10 marks the finale of the title, which centers on young mutants finding community while living in New York City. But, before it's all said and done, they'll have to come together as a team to escape Mojo City – a twisted portion of NYC that's been taken over by Mojo.X-Men fans will remember Mojo as the creepy-looking cyborg monster from his own dimension where TV ratings equal political power. He's long been obsessed with mutants as potential stars for his bizarre and deadly TV shows
  
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• Marvel is making history with a very meta Fantastic Four comic that exists simultaneously in both the real world and the MCU

  25-04-2025 20:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  OK, are you ready for some big brain comic weirdness? Marvel Comics is releasing a very real Fantastic Four comic by returning FF writer Matt Fraction and artist Marc Buckingham that also exists within the reality of the MCU, as announced via Deadline.No, I don't mean the comic is set in MCU continuity, that's been done plenty of times. In this case, I'm speaking far more literally. The comic, which shares its title with The Fantastic Four: First Steps, is meant to be the same comic that the Fan
  
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• One giant leap for mankind: Baldur's Gate 3 mod "Withers' Big Naturals" succeeded by Oblivion Remastered mod "The Emperor's Big Naturals," so "finally the game is f***ing playable"

  25-04-2025 20:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  By Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian's own account, the breast-ifying fan mod Withers Big Naturals is an immensely popular way to augment the game – which is something a whole lot of people did more broadly – and it was only a matter of time before its gargantuan impact made itself known in another RPG. This is where Oblivion Remastered's The Emperor's Big Naturals mod comes in."Finally the game is f*#@ing PLAYABLE!" reacts one enthusiastic commenter on Nexus Mods."He breasted boobily
  
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• REPO dev says "there are no plans to make the game free-to-play" because "we don't want to add microtransactions or have cosmetics that you buy"

  25-04-2025 19:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  REPO isn't exactly pricey as it stands, but developer semiwork doesn't have any intention of making the co-op horror hit free-to-play, either. Why? Because the studio doesn't want to add microtransactions."There are no plans to make the game free-to-play, as we don't want to add microtransactions or have cosmetics that you buy with real money," semiwork's Pontus Sundström says in a new dev Q&A video. "Things like cosmetics, you'll get for free by just simply playing the game – aft
  
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• "Speechless": Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the first game from a studio filled with ex-Ubisoft devs, is officially the best-rated game of 2025

  25-04-2025 19:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Our Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 review is overflowing with praise for developer Sandfall Interactive's turn-based RPG, and it seems that so is everyone else. The scores have settled, Expedition 33 is now the best-rated game on Metacritic and Opencritic for 2025, and nobody is more surprised than the developers themselves."Speechless," Sandfall said of the news on Twitter. "So many incredible games have been released this year. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you."François Meurisse
  
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• After almost 26 years, iconic fighting game series Fatal Fury returns with City of the Wolves and a stunning physical edition fans won't want to miss

  25-04-2025 18:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Fatal Fury series has long stood the test of time with some of the best fighting games to date alongside other genre giants like Street Fighter and Tekken, and it's now making a grand return with City of the Wolves – the first entry in 25 years.Following in the footsteps of its 1990s predecessors, City of the Wolves is an action-packed fighter with a diverse roster of 22 characters, two control schemes, revamped vibrant visuals, and the all-new REV system – a toolset unique to Ci
  
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• These $400 Pokemon plushies of Flareon, Jolteon, and Vaporeon cost almost as much as a Nintendo Switch 2 but can't even play Mario Kart World for crying out loud

  25-04-2025 18:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Merch can be expensive sometimes. We've probably all spent questionable amounts on collectibles at some point or another, but as video game fans around the world weigh up splashing their cash on the Switch 2, The Pokemon Company has an important proposition for you – why not spend it on a $400 Eeveelution plushie, instead?Available to pre-order today, Pokemon is releasing three new "Pokedex-size" plushies of the three original Eeveelutions – Vaporeon, Jolteon, and Flareon. Depending
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 "changed design direction at least two times" after Larian first tried a "cartoony approach" with the RPG, "closer to what we see in D&D books"

  25-04-2025 18:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Following the long-awaited arrival of Patch 8 for Baldur's Gate 3, the Dungeons & Dragons-flavored RPG's final update, art director Alena Dubrovina reveals that Larian Studios originally had a very different art style planned for the game – once a "cartoony" one, in fact.Speaking to CD Projekt Red, the studio behind RPGs like Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 4, Dubrovina says as much in a new interview."We actually changed design direction at least two times," the art lead recalls. "And
  
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• Id says Doom: The Dark Ages is "the best Doom game we've ever made" as it reveals we're leaving Hell for the Lovecraftian Cosmic Realm and getting a gun that shoots a mace on a chain

  25-04-2025 18:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Doom has been going strong for decades, but the upcoming entry, Doom: The Dark Ages, is looking to switch things up by taking us to a Lovecraftian dimension known as the Cosmic Realm and giving us a gun that fires a melee weapon. It's rad.In a new trailer and gameplay showcase, game director Hugo Martin reveals the new world of the Cosmic Realm. It's got trippy, "Cyclopean architecture" that shifts around and flying squid things – it's definitely got that Lovecraft feel."An unholy union be
  
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• I was already sold on this cozy Metroidvania, and then I learned its cute space rovers are based on the devs' dogs: "We're constantly wiping our eyes during team meetings"

  25-04-2025 17:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cozy indie Metroidvania Good Boy has done something that no other game has managed before – it's made me cry, and it's not even out. I have a feeling that its actual release is going to be an emotional rollercoaster for us all.Developed by a small team of around eight-to-10 people at indie studio Observer Interactive, the upcoming indie game Good Boy is described as an "ecosystem-driven Metroidvania" where you'll step into the shoes (or rather, wheels) of a space rover, exploring a mysteri
  
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• GOTY contender RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sells 500,000 copies faster than the devs "ever imagined" despite launching in the shadow of Oblivion Remastered

  25-04-2025 17:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 isn't just one of the best-reviewed games of the year, it's also a huge sales success for an original turn-based game.Developer Sandfall Interactive has just announced that its debut game has already sold over 500,000 copies across PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S in only a single day. "A milestone for us, reached sooner than we'd ever imagined," the team tweeted. "Thank you all."What's even more impressive is that Expedition 33 managed to breakthrough in sales despite be
  
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• New Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow leaked set footage suggests a surprise change from the DC comic

  25-04-2025 17:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new leaked video from the set of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow suggests a major change from the comic books - and it looks like Kara might be spending less time floating around the galaxy than we thought.In the footage, we see a built-out American town - and it's pretty elaborate. In the comics, Kara Zor-El spends most of her time on Earth. In the comic Woman of Tomorrow, though, written by Tom King, she spends the entire comic on a mission throughout the galaxy after waking up on a remote plan
  
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• After months of closed betas, Dune: Awakening is launching a "large-scale beta weekend" with 20 hours of content from the survival MMO

  25-04-2025 17:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  After months of closed betas tied up in NDAs, Dune: Awakening developer Funcom is getting set for a much bigger beta weekend in May, promising "tens of thousands" of players early access to a substantial chunk of the survival MMO."From May 9 until May 12, the largest Beta yet will take place, with a huge number of new players joining compared to previous closed Betas," the devs say in a press release. "Players can get a taste of both spice and story in the large-scale Beta weekend, featuring the
  
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• Nintendo hasn't managed expectations well for Switch 2's Mario Kart World, says ex-marketing lead: "We would be lectured endlessly about how we can't even use the word surprise"

  25-04-2025 17:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former Nintendo marketing leads reckon the company's done a poor job of managing expectations around Mario Kart World and the Switch 2 more generally.Speaking in a new podcast about the steps the publisher should take now, Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang explain how strict Nintendo used to be about not overhyping products and then subsequently letting fans down. Back when the duo worked at the company during the OG Switch era, Nintendo apparently went so far as to stop some employees from using the wo
  
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• A new Cinderella inspired horror movie with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score is the perfect mix of Marie Antoinette and The Substance, and highlights atrocities of the original fairytale

  25-04-2025 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  When I first heard about The Ugly Stepsister, I thought, ‘Great, another horror that's going to ruin one of my favourite childhood movies and annoy a whole bunch of Disney adults in the process.’However, upon watching the Nordic film, I realized that The Ugly Stepsister is much different from the other fairytale slashers that simply take a beloved character and monstify them. Instead, it leans into what makes fairytales creepy in the first place.As certain Disney IPs enter the public
  
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• Joy and despair as game devs fight for a Switch 2 of their own, with Smash Bros' Masahiro Sakurai lucking into one while Balatro's LocalThunk still hunting

  25-04-2025 16:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders are live, but a lot of developers and games industry figures have had trouble getting them. Websites are crashing, Switch 2s are disappearing from carts, and only a lucky few are getting their hands on them.LocalThunk, creator of the viral indie poker roguelite Balatro posts to Bluesky, "Best Buy don’t you dare do me like this," alongside a screenshot of a blank page when searching for the Switch 2. He follows up with, "Welp no dice, looks like it's just my OG
  
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• Nintendo won't "rush" major Switch 2 game announcements like a new 3D Mario to sell the console, say former marketing leads: "There's no way from a development side"

  25-04-2025 15:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Switch 2 already has a very solid lineup of upcoming games, but as Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser appears to tease the existence of a new mainline Mario game, two former Nintendo marketing leads believe there's no chance of the company announcing a major release like that before it's ready.Ex-Nintendo Minute hosts Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang (also respectively NOA's former director of social media marketing and original content, and former senior manager of creator relations and ori
  
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• Nearly 25 years later, cult classic PS1 JRPG Breath of Fire 4 returns to PC thanks to over 23,000 fans who voted for its comeback

  25-04-2025 15:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nearly 25 years after its first release, cult classic JRPG Breath of Fire 4 is back thanks to 23,000 fans who championed its return.CD Projekt-owned digital storefront GOG just announced that a new batch of classics have come to the platform as part of its game preservation initiative, which previously gave us re-releases of the first three Resident Evils, the two Dino Crisis games, OG Diablo, and Monolith Productions' F.E.A.R. (RIP).Good Old Games has now enshrined Ultima Underworld 1 and 2, Ul
  
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• Oblivion Remastered is so true to the original RPG that you can still use a glitch to roll credits in just 15 minutes

  25-04-2025 14:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered is out, and speedrunner Bacon has already beaten it in just 12 minutes and 30 seconds thanks to an old glitch that's still in the game.Spoilers ahead for Oblivion's main quest.Still here? Grand. In Oblivion, you're tasked with finding the last surviving male heir of Emperor Uriel Septim. He's a priest called Martin, and he's played by none other than Sean Bean. As is often the case with the actor, he dies at the end, sacrificing himself to save Cyrodiil f
  
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• Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy once experienced "horrible, horrible doubt" about the Star Wars show: "What have I done? I've f*cked my life"

  25-04-2025 13:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Andor season 2 has become the most critically acclaimed live-action Star Wars project ever – but showrunner Tony Gilroy initially experienced "horrible, horrible doubt.""I spent the first year, even when I was in London pre-COVID, I began to have just the worst buyer's remorse," Gilroy told John August and The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin on their podcast."I mean epic, every morning, 'What have I done? I've fucked my life. I shouldn't have done this.' Now, I've committed," he continue
  
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• Tony Gilroy originally "hated" one of Andor season 2's funniest moments: "It's too much"

  25-04-2025 13:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Possibly the weirdest aspect of Andor season 2 so far is Dedra and Syril's weirdly domestic relationship – and it turns out one moment went too far for showrunner Tony Gilroy.When the couple invite Syril's mother Eedy over for dinner, Syril absents himself, and Dedra gives his mother an extremely firm talk about how their relationship is going to go. When we next see Syril, he's lying flat on his bed, looking like he's feeling very sorry for himself.It's a moment that's already taken off o
  
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• Andor season 2 brings back a deep cut Star Wars Rebels character with a major link to Mon Mothma

  25-04-2025 13:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Andor season 2 has brought back a pretty deep cut Star Wars Rebels character – and he has a major part to play in Mon Mothma's storyline.Star Wars is no stranger to bringing animated characters to live-action, of course, with the likes of Ahsoka Tano and Ezra Bridger making the jump in recent years.In Andor season 2, it's Erskin Semaj who has made his live-action debut. He's played by Pierro Niel-Mee in the show, and he's Mon Mothma's attaché. Now, the following will talk about the
  
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• Cyberpunk 2077's Switch 2 port took a "f***tonne of effort" and is a "hell of a benchmark" for what Nintendo's new console can do, quest director says

  25-04-2025 12:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cyberpunk 2077's incoming Nintendo Switch 2 port was apparently a tough, tough job to get right, but all the hard work seems to have been worth it as the game's quest director says it's now a "benchmark" to show what the new handheld console is capable of achieving.Pre-orders for some upcoming Switch 2 games, including CD Projekt Red's dystopian epic, have now opened, so Cyberpunk 2 director and 2077's quest director Pawel Sasko celebrated the impending release by looking back on its development
  
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• Hideo Kojima says Margaret Qualley got her Death Stranding role after he saw her dance in a viral perfume ad

  25-04-2025 12:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hideo Kojima is known for casting and rubbing elbows with the best and newest international film stars, and he reveals what made him choose Margaret Qualley for the role of Mama in Death Stranding: A viral 2016 Kenzo fragrance commercial directed by Spike Jonze.In the advert, Qualley contorts her face and body in time to the fast-paced and bass heavy Mutant Brain by Jonze's brother, Sam Spiegel.It's weird and wonderful, odd even by perfume advert standards, so it's easy to see why Kojima tweets
  
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• Marvel's Blade movie gets another extremely disappointing update: "Maybe it'll come around again but I doubt it"

  25-04-2025 12:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  The MCU Blade movie has received another very disappointing update, this time from a creative set to work on the film."I guess we are so far from it even being a possibility now but. Yeah I was signed on to write music for the new BLADE movie before it fell thru," wrote Flying Lotus, a producer, filmmaker, DJ, and rapper, on Twitter. "Maybe it'll come around again but I doubt it. Would have been fun tho."This is far from the first roadblock the movie, which is set to star Mahershala Ali, seems t
  
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• Oblivion Remastered still has one "disappointing" mechanic fans were really hoping Bethesda changed in the new RPG, but don't worry - there's already a mod to fix it

  25-04-2025 11:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  One of the most controversial parts of Oblivion wasn't the voice acting errors or the hilarious jank - those things are actually lovable and still in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered. The most controversial parts of Oblivion were its leveling systems, specifically its level scaling, which is still in the remastered release, but don't worry - modders have already taken a hammer to the classic game's funkiest parts.For those who have never played the 2006 original (and those who don't reme
  
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• Just one month after release, a Split Fiction movie adaptation is in the works from Wicked director and Deadpool and Wolverine writers, with Sydney Sweeney to star

  25-04-2025 11:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Split Fiction movie adaptation has received a very positive update, as it's coming from some serious talent.Wicked director Jon M. Chu will helm the movie, with a script from Deadpool and Wolverine writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, according to Variety. So far, the only cast member confirmed is Sydney Sweeney, star of Euphoria, Madame Web, and Anyone But You.Story Kitchen and Chu's Electric Somewhere will produce, with Sweeney executive producing. Story Kitchen's other projects include t
  
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• Avengers: Doomsday secrecy is so intense that the Thunderbolts cast don't even know if their co-stars have been on set yet

  25-04-2025 10:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's no surprise that Marvel is keeping its Avengers: Doomsday secrets close to its chest. Leaked set photos have become the norm for MCU productions and, as Shang-Chi star Simu Liu recently pointed out, some of his co-stars have been a little loose-lipped with spoilers in interviews, too.That's not the case with Doomsday, though. With filming now underway on the Russo brothers' next movie about Earth's Mightiest Heroes, GamesRadar+ asks Thunderbolts* stars David Harbour and Wyatt Russell if eit
  
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• A REPO ripoff called REPO Horror is on the Nintendo eShop, and it has the gall to list a Switch 2 file size as if it won't be nuked from orbit by June

  25-04-2025 01:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  A shockingly blatant REPO ripoff has surfaced on the Nintendo Store, and it's got the kahunas to list a Switch 2 file size, which presumes the unlikely possibility that it even makes it to the console's launch date without being copyright claimed to hell and back.The game, titled REPO Horror, is available for purchase on the Switch eShop for $5, down from its retail price of $9... how thoughtful of them. I won't link to the product page to avoid any possibility of inadvertently giving these joke
  
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• Ryan Reynolds says Deadpool joining the X-Men or Avengers would be "the end": "That's his wish fulfillment, and you can't give him that"

  25-04-2025 00:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  2024's Deadpool and Wolverine was a huge blockbuster built on the team up of the two title characters. And though they wound up leading a group of outcasts in the Void, that might be about as close as Deadpool actually gets to actually being on a team, as the Merc With a Mouth himself Ryan Reynolds says joining the Avengers or X-Men would be "the end" of the character.Indeed, Deadpool's quest to become an Avenger was central to the plot of Deadpool and Wolverine, though it seems that's a dream t
  
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