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• In its 3-player push, Elden Ring Nightreign boss admits FromSoftware "kind of overlooked and neglected the duos aspect," but is considering it for "post-launch support"

  22-05-2025 19:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Elden Ring Nightreign is a PvE gauntlet designed for teams of three, and it really encourages matchmaking, though there is soft balancing to accommodate solo play despite the unavoidable risks of going it alone without buddies who can revive your downed corporeal form by lovingly hitting it with swords. The idea of playing with exactly one other friend, however, kind of got lost in the mix. You either drop in alone or the game gives you a team of three. But director Junya Ishizaki says FromSoftw
  
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• Testing lab for Battlefield 6 takes its "first big L" as it removes weapon restrictions, meaning your medics might be sitting behind you sniping instead of healing on the front lines

  22-05-2025 18:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you played the older Battlefield games, you're used to each class being limited to specific weapon types, like scouts being the only ones that can use sniper rifles. Well, the next version of Battlefield Labs is going to open the floodgates and have no restrictions on weapons whatsoever, and it's proving to be a controversial decision.Battlefield Labs is the official name of what we've all been calling Battlefield 6. It's a testing ground for the next Battlefield game, where Dice and the othe
  
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• Why is Death Stranding 2 more combat-heavy? Kojima has the most Kojima explanation possible: an obscure gameplay theory he cooked up 8 years ago

  22-05-2025 18:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hideo Kojima has confirmed that Death Stranding 2 will have more action than the original in the most Hideo Kojima way possible.The original Death Stranding did have a lot of action in it, but throwing jugs of your urine and feces at goop monsters was a far smaller part of the puzzle than the more peaceful elements like traversal and making deliveries. Kojima in the past has cited Kobo Abe's novella Rope, which talks about the first inventions of the human race being the stick and the rope (with
  
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• The highest-rated Batman film on Rotten Tomatoes is leaving Netflix later this month

  22-05-2025 18:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy is set to leave Netflix in the US on May 31 – so if you've never seen what are generally considered to be three of the greatest superhero movies of all time, now's the time to rectify that mistake.Nolan's trilogy began in 2005 with Batman Begins, the first film to feature Christian Bale in the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne. Although box office expectations were comparatively low for the film (coming as it did after 1997's critically reviled Batman &
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Collector's Edition "sold out way faster" than expected, so all its cool merch is getting re-released without the base RPG for $119

  22-05-2025 18:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Merch from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Collector's Edition is being re-released after it sold out "way faster" than expected the first time around.Earlier this year, a $150 edition of the hit turn-based RPG included the base game, some downloadable cosmetics, a glossy steelbook case, a 48-page hardback artbook, and an 8-inch tall music box that doubled as a monolith statuette. Expedition 33's Collector's Edition sold out so fast, though, that Sandfall Interactive is going for round two.(Image
  
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• Avengers: Doomsday leaker who claims to have snuck onto the top secret Marvel set says they "might be cooked" after allegedly receiving "formal threat"

  22-05-2025 18:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  As set photos begin to emerge from Avengers: Doomsday, the leaker who claims to have snuck onto the top-secret movie set has allegedly received a "formal threat"."Received my first 'formal threat,'" the leaker, who uses the handle 'theyneversawitcomingg', posted on Instagram (via Reddit). "Might be cooked."The leaker recently shared set photos of what appeared to be the streets of Madripoor, the fictional southeast Asian island-state featured in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (and several X-M
  
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• It looks like Elden Ring Nightreign's install size is less than 50% of the OG Elden Ring despite having a Smash Bros amount of FromSoftware bosses in it

  22-05-2025 17:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Elden Ring Nightreign's PS5 file size has been revealed, and it's under half the size of the original Elden Ring install file.According to popular PlayStation news account PlayStation Game Size, Nightreign will be a relatively small 21GB on the PS5. Elden Ring, at launch, was 45GB, and it's now around 61GB after the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, making it around a third of the total size it is these days.🚨 ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN- 𝐏𝐒𝟒 𝐃𝐨𝐰⻐
  
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• One of The Last of Us season 2's most surprising moments was actually lifted straight from the game, but it's so subtle you probably didn't notice it

  22-05-2025 17:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Last of Us season 2, episode 4 (re)introduced us to Jeffrey Wright's Isaac – and it also featured a very subtle callback to The Last of Us Part 2.The episode opens with a flashback to Isaac's time with FEDRA. After listening to the soldiers brag amongst themselves – one soldier played by Josh Peck, in a surprise cameo – he climbs from the truck, pulls a grenade, and throws it inside, shutting the door afterwards.It seems like a flashback meant to show us Isaac's ice-cold de
  
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• Tom Cruise's next movie couldn't be further from Mission: Impossible: a "wild comedy of catastrophic proportions"

  22-05-2025 16:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tom Cruise's latter-day Hollywood career may be littered with death-defying stunts, but his next project – an untitled movie directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu – appears to be worlds away from his time risking life and limb on Mission: Impossible for our entertainment."The only thing I will tell you, and don't tell anybody, is that it's nothing of that," Iñárritu told Deadline when pressed on if the Tom Cruise-led movie would include stunts. "I'm so excited
  
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• Cyberpunk 2077 ads teased Chicago for years and after comments from the OG TTRPG's creator, we might also know when the sequel takes place: "Coming in 2080"

  22-05-2025 16:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  CD Projekt Red hasn't said much about its neon-shrouded dystopian sequel Cyberpunk 2 - only officially referred to as Project Orion - but fans are theorizing over clues that have been in the game since launch after fresh comments from Cyberpunk's OG creator.Earlier this week, Mike Pondsmith, creator of the tabletop RPG that the games are based on, confirmed the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel goes beyond Night City after he visited CDPR."Night City's still there," Pondsmith said at this week's Digital Dra
  
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• The Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller has a one-up on the Xbox Elite and DualSense Edge, as Nintendo confirms you don't need to leave your game to remap the bumper buttons

  22-05-2025 16:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  While Nintendo Switch 2's Joy-Cons are getting all of the love for their snazzy new mouse features, the other main controller has flown under the radar somewhat. For the most part, the Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller looks very similar to the original, but this time around Nintendo's more standard gamepad features the back bumpers seen on the likes of the DualSense Edge, Xbox Elite Series 2, and all manner of third-party options.Dubbed GR and GL, these buttons are able to be assigned to any oth
  
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• Scrubs reboot confirms Zach Braff will reprise his role as J.D.

  22-05-2025 15:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Zach Braff will be reprising his role as J.D. in ABC's upcoming reboot of comedy series Scrubs.The actor's involvement was confirmed via Deadline on May 21, five months after the show was said to be in early development. So far, Braff is the only original cast member lined up to return, with creator Bill Lawrence lined up as executive producer. It's expected that someone else will wind up acting as showrunner."I'm really candid about it. We're definitely going to do it, just because we've all be
  
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• The threat of Helldivers 2's Super Earth collapsing still isn't enough to tempt its most reviled groups to join the fight and complete a Major Order: "We need everyone on Super Earth, literally"

  22-05-2025 14:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Managed democracy is under siege, but some Helldivers 2 players are still fighting the Terminids and Automatons rather than the Illuminate on our super doorstep.The current Major Order requires us to kill two and a half billion Illuminate troops to stave off their invasion of Super Earth. Just over 90% of players are on Super Earth, but 4.8% are fighting bugs, 2.2% are dismantling bots, and 2.1% are inexplicably fighting the squids elsewhere. I don't know if you're aware, but 2.5 billion is like
  
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• Rick and Morty season 8 release schedule: what time is episode 1 on Adult Swim?

  22-05-2025 14:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rick and Morty hasn't yet made good on its promise to stick around for a century of portal-hopping hijinks, but it's now been on our screens for over a decade and its next chapter, Rick and Morty season 8, is fast approaching.As ever, you may be wondering just when new episodes of Rick and Morty are hitting your screen. This is, after all, a show that has taken months-long breaks between episodes in the past, while it's also not going to be available on streamers such as Netflix and Prime Video
  
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• Peter Molyneux's new game shares more than just the Albion name with Xbox's RPG - playtesters apparently said "Oh my god, I'm playing Fable"

  22-05-2025 14:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Playtesters apparently think Peter Molyneux's new game has a lot in common with his old one: Fable.Peter Molyneux's upcoming Masters of Albion mixes all of his greatest hits into one god game stew, from Dungeon Keeper to Black & White's ability to reach out into the world with a giant, physical hand to either place buildings or literally make sandwiches or shake villagers about until their brains scramble. Then you can zoom right into the world with a possession ability that lets you see the
  
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• As Star Wars Battlefront 2 surges in popularity once more, Andor star joins the chorus of fans begging EA for a sequel: "Give us Battlefront 3 ASAP"

  22-05-2025 13:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Andor actor Muhannad Ben Amor has joined the fight by calling upon the Star Wars gods to create Battlefront 3.Andor season 2 has just come to an end (don't worry, we won't be spoiling it here), and one of the series' breakout stars, Muhannad Ben Amor, who played the Rebel engineer Wilmon in the show, still has some unfinished business with Star Wars. While Andor is now completely finished, with series creator Tony Gilroy saying season 3 won't happen, Amor has taken to Instagram to hopefully use
  
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• After the Andor season 2 finale, Star Wars fans are calculating how long the Death Star was actually fully operational – and it was probably only a matter of days

  22-05-2025 13:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Now that Andor season 2 has come to an end on Disney Plus, viewers are doing the math to work out just how long the Death Star was in action (or fully operational, you could say…) – and, well, it's not very long.The second (and final) season's finale sets up Cassian and co.'s mission to steal the plans for the Death Star, which the Rebellion has learned the existence of thanks to information from Luthen Rael's network of spies over the course of Andor season 2. These plans, which in
  
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• A new movie from Worst Person in the World director has debuted to a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score and a massive 19 minute standing ovation at Cannes

  22-05-2025 13:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Director Joachim Trier’s upcoming drama Sentimental Value has landed rave reviews after premiering at Cannes Film Festival.At the time of writing, Sentimental Value currently sits at a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes based on 10 reviews. Many critics have been celebrating the movie’s exploration of family dynamics, with Chase Hutchinson from The Wrap writing, “Sentimental Value is a subtle yet sweeping tapestry of art, family, and connection that takes the breath away.&rd
  
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• Embracer spins off Coffee Stain and 250 game studios under it, including devs of Satisfactory and Deep Rock Galactic, while rebranding The Lord of the Rings group

  22-05-2025 12:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Embracer Group has once again restructured its gaming business and renamed the stewards of The Lord of the Rings.Last year, the company infamous for endlessly eating up (buying) game companies before spitting them (shutting them down) back out again announced that it was splitting into three separate companies. There was Asmodee, responsible for table-top and card games, indie and free-to-play-centric Coffee Stain, and then the one responsible for its heavyhitters, Middle-Earth & Friends.Emb
  
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• Crunchyroll's Anime Awards is honoring "visionary creators and groundbreaking works" with a new award – and the first recipient is Attack on Titan

  22-05-2025 12:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Crunchyroll's annual Anime Awards are set to take place on May 25, and the first recipient has already been confirmed.As confirmed by Crunchyroll, Attack on Titan will take home the newly-created Global Impact Award.In the same vein as a Special Achievement or Lifetime Achievement award, the Global Impact Award is an opportunity to acknowledge "visionary creators and groundbreaking works that have left an indelible mark on culture, history and the hearts of audiences around the world."Attack on
  
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• Philippou brothers tease "horrific" Talk to Me 2 as they hype up specific scene as "one of the best things" they'll ever shoot

  22-05-2025 12:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Almost two years since it was first announced, Danny and Michael Philippou have provided an update on the "insane" sequel to their hit horror Talk to Me – and now we're even more excited to see what the twisted twins have in store for us.While promoting their latest horror Bring Her Back, the brothers revealed on Bloody Disgusting's The Boo Crew Podcast that they currently have "two versions of the script" for the follow-up, each of which focus "on two different sets of characters that are
  
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• 12 years after The Last of Us' ambiguous ending sparked a decade of debate, creator Neil Druckmann has settled it: "Our intent was that they could have made a cure"

  22-05-2025 12:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Season 2 of The Last of Us is marching on, and original game co-creator Neil Druckmann is setting the record straight on whether or not the Fireflies would have made a cure if Joel hadn't intervened.Spoilers for The Last of Us Part 1 and 2.Since The Last of Us came out in 2013, we've debated if we would have chosen to kill the Firefly doctors to save Ellie or if we would have let them study her brain, killing her, for a chance at finding a cure to the cordyceps infection ravaging the human race.
  
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• Reacher star Alan Ritchson says season 4 could be the "best season yet" as he gets back into Reacher shape

  22-05-2025 12:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Reacher is back as star Alan Ritchson shares some pictures of himself getting ready to return as the beefy wanderer once again in season 4 – which he says is the best yet."Season 4 is right around the corner, and dare I say… May be the best season yet?" said the star as he took to Instagram to share the behind-the-scenes snaps. Although the post does not confirm if filming has started on the upcoming season, it looks like stunt training and wardrobe fittings have commenced, as Ritch
  
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• Lies of P is adding difficulty options for free alongside the Overture DLC, despite the director previously saying "We believe soulslike games shouldn’t have difficulty options"

  22-05-2025 12:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Lies of P DLC expansion, Overture, is set to arrive later this year (although it only has a generic "summer" as far as a release date goes). The DLC is set to expand one of the best soulslike games with a prequel story during the Puppet Frenzy – which saw the subservient puppets of Krat City rise up and kill their masters. The expansion is set to take around 20 hours to beat, so there's bound to be a lot of new stuff in there (including a zoo!), but the game's developer, NeoWiz, also t
  
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• Ted Lasso season 4 begins filming this summer as one star praises the scripts: "It's just so beautifully drawn"

  22-05-2025 11:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ted Lasso season 4 starts filming this summer, according to one of the show's stars, who also praised the new installment's "beautifully drawn" scripts."We start shooting in July," Hannah Waddingham, who plays AFC Richmond owner Rebecca Welton, told Capital FM. "We thought we'd mourned the loss, and now it's rising from the dead!"She added, "Our writers are literally Jedi Knights. They're just incredible. And we've got like a full room of real feminist men. So we've got all the fabulous women th
  
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• Snow White lost Disney at least $35 million, but it's reportedly already considering sequels to its live-action Lilo and Stitch remake

  22-05-2025 11:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite Snow White underperforming and losing the studio millions, Disney seems very confident in its live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch – enough to consider sequels, anyway.According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, more adventures of Lilo and her alien pal could be on the cards thanks to Disney's confidence in the new movie. "It feels like it's going to work very well, and it's the kind of property that lends itself to more," Disney Entertainment co-chairman Alan Bergma
  
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• Borderlands 4's Randy Pitchford sorta kinda apologizes over $80 "real fan" comment: "Nobody likes being taken for granted and it was not my intent"

  22-05-2025 11:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Randy Pitchford has sort of, kind of gotten frank over his very controversial comments on Borderlands 4's pending price tag.Gearbox Software boss Randy Pitchford has been in the news for all the wrong reasons, again, after claiming that a "real fan" would buy Borderlands 4 even if it did ask for $80.It's not really the promotion the looter shooter could use four months before launch - especially since everyone from a Baldur's Gate 3 developer to fans across the internet slammed his tone-deaf rem
  
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• Ahead of the new spin-off show, you only have less than one month to watch Dexter on Netflix

  22-05-2025 10:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dexter is set to leave Netflix ahead of the premiere of the brand new sequel series Dexter: Resurrection.The Showtime original crime drama has been a Netflix streaming staple for some time, with fans able to watch and rewatch all nine seasons. Unfortunately, the show is set to leave Netflix on June 19, ahead of the release of yet another new spin-off series (via What's on Netflix).Luckily, the flagship show will remain streaming on Hulu, The Roku Channel, Prime Video, Apple TV Plus, and Paramoun
  
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• Where to pre-order the Death Stranding 2 Limited Edition DualSense controller

  22-05-2025 08:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  With Hideo Kojima's next hotly anticipated game ready for launch, it's time to start asking where you can pre-order the Death Stranding 2 Limited Edition DualSense controller. The new PS5 controller is available now in the UK and the US, but so far, it's exclusively available at PlayStation Direct, with no other retailers joining the party.US pre-orders: $84.99 at PlayStation DirectUK pre-orders: £74.99 at PlayStation DirectI've been standing watch for all the Limited Edition DualSense rel
  
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• Nintendo embraces "that look of mild despair" on your friend's face as you test your friendship with items in Mario Kart World while watching them on Switch 2 GameChat

  22-05-2025 01:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  When Nintendo first revealed the Switch 2's GameChat comms feature, my first thought was, 'Welcome to 2012, Nintendo.' But now, after reading a new interview with a number of key Mario Kart World developers, I realize in hindsight that it was both silly and short-sighted to assume Nintendo didn't have much more diabolical plans for GameChat.We all know Nintendo games can ruin friendships. To this day, I'll never forgive myself for throwing a shoe at my best friend in 2011 because he hit me with
  
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