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• Solo Leveling won big at the Anime Awards, but some fans think these other anime shows were "robbed"

  27-05-2025 13:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  As the reactions to the Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2025 winners demonstrate, you can't make everyone happy in an awards ceremony. There will always be winners and losers, although being nominated is a win in itself.Last weekend, hit anime series Solo Leveling won big at the Anime Awards, taking home the awards for Anime of the Year, Best New Series, Best Action Anime, Best Main Character (Sung Jinwoo) and more. The show has quickly become one of the most popular animes out there after a record-bre
  
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• Helldivers 2 grunts suspect Illuminate interference as Automaton distractions and a last-minute update contribute to a Major Order failure: "Illuminate is controlling High Command"

  27-05-2025 13:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Oh dear. Helldivers 2's big battle for Super Earth kicked off earlier this month as the democracy-hating Illuminate invaded our beloved home planet, but apparently no amount of pure, unfiltered patriotism and sweet liberty was enough to keep everyone focused on the task at hand, with the latest Major Order ending in failure.Last Friday, Helldivers were given their latest, most crucial orders in the fight against the Illuminate invasion, requiring them to successfully extract from Illuminate miss
  
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• Final Destination 4’s most memorable scene almost happened in real life as a movie theater started to fall down during Final Destination Bloodlines screening

  27-05-2025 13:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Horror fans were almost part of their own Final Destination-style scene as a cinema in South America started to crumble during a Final Destination Bloodlines showing.On May 19, a woman in Argentina was reportedly injured after a piece of the movie theater ceiling fell on her during an evening showing of the new horror sequel, as reported by Infobae. Luckily, the piece of roof missed the woman’s head as she was sitting leaning to the side on the armrest.This is extremely ironic, as we all k
  
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• James Gunn says Peacemaker season 2 has a "really, really, really big cameo" as he teases key connections between the HBO show and the upcoming Superman

  27-05-2025 13:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  All eyes might be in Superman right now as it is the first movie in the new DC Universe (DCU), but James Gunn is already teasing many surprises and cameos for the upcoming Peacemaker season 2. The show is set to return in August after a three-year hiatus.According to the DC boss, that big gap in between seasons has allowed him to weave the story into the DCU in a more organic way."I developed it along the way, in conjunction with the other DC projects that we're doing, so it's very much connecte
  
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• PS5 designer Mark Cerny has platinumed poker roguelike Balatro, making him part of an elite group of 0.1% of players

  27-05-2025 13:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Balatro may have ruined several lives last year due to it being seemingly impossible to put down, but even with the millions of hours that would've been played over the 5 million copies sold, it turns out that less than 1% of players have conquered it's biggest challenge – the Platinum trophy on the PlayStation version. But among the 0.2% who have is the lead designer of the PS4 and PS5, Mark Cerny.Cerny, who was instrumental in bringing Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, and – most
  
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• Witcher 3 devs "knew it from the get go” that they wanted Ciri as protagonist for Witcher 4 back in 2014

  27-05-2025 13:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  One of the lead developers behind The Witcher 4 says the team has known Ciri would be the protagonist for over 10 years.In an interview featured in PC Gamer issue 410, the team behind The Witcher 3 reveals that plans to place Ciri at the forefront of the next saga were in motion as early as 2014. “It was pretty early on we realised that [Blood & Wine] is where it ends, and also pretty early on, we knew that we wanted to work with Ciri later on…even like 2014, it was already an i
  
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• Mission: Impossible fans are convinced a dead character returns in the final few seconds of Final Reckoning – without anyone noticing until now

  27-05-2025 13:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning made good on its promise of an endgame with a NOC list's worth of callbacks, references to the series' storied history, and returning faces.Which makes one spy all the more noticeable by their absence. Except, if you believe this wild new Final Reckoning theory, they did show up in The Final Reckoning's closing seconds – without anyone realizing.Spoilers for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning ending follow. As Ethan Hunt returns
  
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• Assassin's Creed Shadows is getting a much-needed parkour update, and the pre-order quest about a vengeful dog will be available to all later today

  27-05-2025 12:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Shadows is getting a new quest and improvements to its parkour system today, bringing it closer to the game with the best freerunning in the series – Unity.First things first, there are two new quests for you to play through. Well, sort of. One is actually new, a collaboration with Dead by Daylight. Villagers begin to disappear, and Naoe gets suspicious of a "strange presence attacking the local people of Harima."The quest includes "unique mechanics" and unlocks via your h
  
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• Mission: Impossible director Christopher McQuarrie reveals his scrapped plans for a Superman movie, and I'm convinced Tom Cruise was meant to play Green Lantern

  27-05-2025 12:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Christopher McQuarrie has teased his "epic" pitch for a Superman movie – and it involved Green Lantern."I'll never tell, but boy, was it fucking good," McQuarrie told the Happy Sad Confused podcast when asked about the story he pitched to follow 2013's Man of Steel. "Green Lantern was what had come to me, and Green Lantern's a tough one. And I cracked it.""The whole concept of Green Lantern is the ring has to be recharged and that's not a bug, that's a feature," McQuarrie continued. "Yes,
  
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• Hideo Kojima says Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is "a film about Tom Cruise putting his life on the line in a desperate struggle to save cinema itself"

  27-05-2025 12:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Everyone's favorite film critic Hideo Kojima has returned with another movie review – this time, the Death Stranding mastermind has shared his thoughts on Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.It's an unwritten rule that the longer a Kojima review, the more positive his thoughts (who can forget that infamous six-word Madame Web review, or the time he simply never shared his thoughts on The Electric State). Judging by that criteria, Kojima was a big fan of both The Final Reckoning
  
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• Mission: Impossible helmer says Top Gun 3 will be just as "emotional" as the first two movies, as he "already knows" what it will entail

  27-05-2025 12:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Talk to me, Christopher McQuarrie. Top Gun 3 has had a rather exciting update from Top Gun: Maverick producer McQuarrie, who says the upcoming threequel's story has already been cracked."It’s already in the bag. I already know what it is," said McQuarrie on the Happy Sad Confused Podcast, after being asked if Top Gun 3 is "harder to crack" than Top Gun: Maverick. "It wasn't hard. I thought it would be, and that's a good place to go from."Despite not being involved with the original 1986 mo
  
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• Lilo and Stitch might be proving Disney's live-action remakes still have juice after Snow White flopped, as the box office has already surpassed the original animated classic

  27-05-2025 12:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  It turns out the Thunderbolts and Tom Cruise are no match for the power of Experiment 626.The Lilo and Stitch live-action remake has only been in theaters for one weekend, but it's blasted its way to a $341.7 million global total at the box office (using estimations for Monday's figures). That's almost $100 million more than the original 2002 movie made in total, and it's also comfortably ahead of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning's $190 million.In fact, Stitch has beaten Cruise tw
  
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• Dragon Quest 1&2 HD-2D Remake is coming to Switch 2 this October, but it looks like the JRPG is packed onto Nintendo's divisive game-key card

  27-05-2025 12:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake went through somewhat of a long development after being originally announced in 2021 and releasing in 2024. But when Square Enix announced that remakes of Dragon Quest 1 and 2 were being developed alongside it for PC, Xbox, PS5, and Switch, that wait made a bit more sense.And now, just under a year out from that announcement – to celebrate Dragon Quest Day – Square has confirmed that not only are the games coming to Nintendo Switch 2, but they're coming ou
  
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• The Last of Us season 2 finale suffered a 55 percent drop in viewers from season 1, but HBO says it's expected to grow

  27-05-2025 12:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  The final episode of The Last of Us season 2 saw a considerable drop in viewership on Sunday night compared to the season 1 finale.The episode aired to 3.7 million viewers across all platforms, which is down 55% from the numbers achieved by its predecessor in March 2023 – around 8.2 million viewers (via TheWrap).The episode's viewership is expected to grow in the upcoming days, however. According to HBO, a lot of viewers haven't been able to watch the finale due to holiday weekend plans, a
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director is more pleased about his French JRPG's acceptance in Japan than he is about its "acclaim in any other country"

  27-05-2025 11:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is comfortably one of the greatest games of the year, and it's little wonder when it was inspired by some of the best JRPGs of all time. The team at Sandfall Interactive has been open about how their turn-based game has been influenced by the likes of Final Fantasy and Persona, so it makes sense that creative director Guillaume Broche is so pleased about the title's acclaim in Japan.Speaking in a recent interview with Denfaminicogamer (which we've machine translated,
  
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• Elden Ring fans have the perfect pick for the movie's protagonist – and it's not the Tarnished, Melina, or even Miquella

  27-05-2025 11:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  We're about to head to The Lands Between on the big screen with news of the Alex Garland-directed Elden Ring movie.But, beyond that, the FromSoftware-esque fog stretches ahead of us, obscuring what exactly an adaptation of the 2023 modern masterpiece is going to be about – or even who the story will focus on.Now, fan suggestions can be extremely hit or miss. But we believe they've hit gold here with their top choice for who the Elden Ring movie protagonist should be in a recent Reddit disc
  
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• Ralph Macchio says Karate Kid: Legends is "for today's generation," but part of the "beauty" of it is younger fans will leave "knowing a little bit about who Mr Miyagi was"

  27-05-2025 11:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  No one is more important to The Karate Kid's legacy than the late Pat Morita's Mr. Miyagi.He's Daniel LaRusso's mentor and best friend, and his unique teaching style – wax on, wax off, paint the fence, sand the floors – along with his wisdom ("first learn stand, then learn fly") have helped cement Mr. Miyagi as a pop culture icon.Naturally, then, every installment in the Karate Kid franchise pays respects to Morita's Miyagi. His presence is felt throughout all six seasons of Cobra Ka
  
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