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• Deadly clashes mar repeat of Kenya's presidential vote

  26-10-2017 22:58 via yahoo.com
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Opposition supporters boycotted Thursday's rerun of Kenya's disputed presidential election, clashing with police in some parts of the East African country and forcing authorities to postpone voting in areas affected by the violence. At least four people were killed.
  
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• It: Welcome to Derry finale trailer teases an epic last stand against Bill Skarsgard's Pennywise

  09-12-2025 14:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  There's just one episode left of It: Welcome to Derry – and following last week's cliffhanger ending, we can hardly wait to see what the horror spin-off has in store.To ramp up our excitement, HBO has released a teaser for the upcoming finale, and it promises one hell of a showdown between Bill Skarsgård's Pennywise and the youngsters, as adults Hanlon, Hallorann, Charlotte, and Rose are officially drawn into the supernatural fight. Watch it above.It opens with Hallorann struggling t
  
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• Hey friends, that Hatsune Miku setup you keep asking me about just dropped to a record-low price

  09-12-2025 14:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Licensed gaming accessories are typically pricier than most everyday tech. This is to account for the fee to use famous characters and their iconic imagery, like the turquoise twin pigtail stylings of everyone's favorite virtual diva, Hatsune Miku, who is featured throughout this fabulous gaming tech lineup.The pricier nature of these collections puts an extra importance on any discounts, and that's why I want to tell the world that the entirety of the Hatsune Miku Asus TUF gaming set is down to
  
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• Ella Purnell talks going from "newborn baby" to "bruised and battered" in Fallout season 2: "She still chooses to believe in good"

  09-12-2025 14:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fallout season 2 star Ella Purnell says it was easier playing Lucy this time around, as she's become much more relatable as a character."It sort of felt like a more neutral starting point for me," Purnell tells GamesRadar+. "Season 1, I had to sort of really tap into an innocence, and a childishness, and a vulnerability that comes from inexperience, and being literally sheltered. She's a newborn baby or an alien that's just landed on Earth, and she's never experienced anything. And there's some
  
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• Daisy Ridley "heard rumblings" about canceled Star Wars movie The Hunt for Ben Solo, but "felt joyful" about the campaign to get it made: "It's good for us to all be united about something in a really positive way"

  09-12-2025 13:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rey star Daisy Ridley has revealed that she'd heard talk of canceled Star Wars movie The Hunt for Ben Solo before Adam Driver announced the news to the press – and she's been heartened by the positive fan response."I knew a piece of it. I heard rumblings," Ridley told IGN. "I have lots of friends who are crew, so things always travel like that. But, whoa! When the story came out, no, I was like, 'Oh, my God!' And it was him that said it, right? It was funny because, like, 'Oh, wow, Adam is
  
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• Please act surprised: Resident Evil Requiem stars Leon Kennedy, and I can't imagine Capcom is too pleased about PlayStation leaking that fact

  09-12-2025 13:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Days before The Game Awards, one of the most notorious leakers of all time – console storefronts – has finally shown proof that Leon Kennedy is indeed in Resident Evil Requiem.Even before Resident Evil Requiem was announced, the big rumour was that it would feature an older Leon Kennedy. And earlier this year, when the game was first revealed with a plot focusing on a return to Raccoon City, which has massive ties to Leon (and Jill and Claire, but Capcom hasn't been that bothered abo
  
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• One Marvel fan has found that the most unlikely trio makes up the Multiverse Saga's main characters based on appearances, highlighting the MCU's biggest issue

  09-12-2025 13:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  After fourteen movies and over twenty TV shows, have you ever wondered which heroes make up Marvel's Multiverse Saga's top characters? If so, wonder no more, as one fan has worked out which three faces appear most often, and it's not who you'd think. Like, at all."Wong, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, and Daredevil are the main characters of the Multiverse Saga," said the fan on Reddit. Now, you may be thinking ''Wait, how did Captain America, Doctor Strange, or even Yelena Belova not make the li
  
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• Former Square Enix exec says that's nothing new as major investor calls out the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest creator for high development costs and lackluster sales

  09-12-2025 13:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  A major Square Enix shareholder has created a huge presentation directed at company president Takashi Kiryu outlining its "External Perspective on Your Company's Management Challenges," highlighting the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest owner's issues with its earnings and outgoings. What's more, these are some of the same issues one former Square Enix exec highlighted last year.The 112-slide presentation was created by 3D Investment Partners – which became a major shareholder of Square Enix
  
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• Lex Luthor actor Nicholas Hoult has already read the Superman: Man of Tomorrow script, and says "there's some really fun stuff"

  09-12-2025 13:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Lex Luthor actor Nicholas Hoult has shared that he's already seen the script for upcoming Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow.Speaking to Variety, Hoult confirmed that filming would begin in April, and, though he was reluctant to give anything away, he did tease that the script is "awesome." When asked if the film takes Lex in any different directions, Hoult responded: "There's some really fun stuff." Watch the video below.A post shared by Variety (@variety)A photo posted byon It wouldn't be a surpr
  
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• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reboot signs off with a bizarre meta cameo from OG star Will Smith: "That was always something that we wanted to do"

  09-12-2025 12:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reboot has drawn to a close after four seasons, but not before a surprising meta cameo signed off the Peacock streaming series in style.In the eighth episode of Bel-Air's final season, Will Smith (Jamari Banks) is heading back to Philadelphia to enrol in college. But before he can leave Los Angeles for the City of Brotherly Love, he takes one last look back at the skyline. Then, the Will Smith – presumably a future version of Banks' character – appears and
  
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• Despite Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding acclaim, Hideo Kojima says "sometimes I imagine a life where I make the best-selling thing," but that'd be boring: "I'd be at home with nothing to do"

  09-12-2025 12:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding maestro Hideo Kojima says he doesn't want to become a hands-off boss and would rather be involved in the day-to-day for as long as he can.While Hideo Kojima's involvement in his games is clear to anyone who has played any single mission of Metal Gear Solid V and seen his name come up in the credits five times per episode, he really hasn't stepped back at all during his time as a game developer. He's directed 14 games since Metal Gear in 1987 and has led all o
  
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• After Baldur's Gate 3 player painstakingly calculates how much spoken dialogue Larian included in its D&D RPG, director admits they didn't actually know themselves: "Which I think was for the better"

  09-12-2025 12:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  An entrepreneurial Baldur's Gate 3 player managed to calculate that Larian’s massive RPG contains over 236 hours of recorded dialogue. This amount surprised even the devs, who weren't keeping track, and now the director isn't sure he wanted to know.Swen Vincke, the CEO of Larian Studios and director of Baldur's Gate 3, responded to the person's stats on Twitter. "We weren't really keeping track which I think was for the better," he says.Considering the scale of development, I can understan
  
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• Netflix CEO promises to commit to releasing Warner Bros. movies theatrically after studio sale: "We didn't buy this company to destroy that value"

  09-12-2025 12:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos has responded to concerns that Warner Bros.' theatrical releases will be impacted after the streamer bought the studio for $82.7 billion last week."The theatrical business we have not talked a lot about in the past, about wanting to do it, because we’ve never been in that business. When this deal closes, we are in that business, and we’re going to do it," Sarandos said at a UBS conference in New York (via The Hollywood Reporter). "We didn’t buy this com
  
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• Frankenstein director Guillermo del Toro sings the praises of James Gunn's Superman and how the DC head "views the universe": "You feel the healing power of goodness from someone that believes in it"

  09-12-2025 12:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  He may be a master of gothic horror, but Guillermo del Toro also seems to enjoy titles outside of his usual genre, and has big praise for one of the best superhero movies of the year and its creator."I really enjoy the way James Gunn is viewing the universe," said del Toro on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. "When I saw Superman, you feel the healing power of goodness from someone that believes in it."There's no doubt that del Toro is referring to the positive and hopeful energy James Gunn's firs
  
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• Hideo Kojima shares lengthy review of Stephen King adaptation The Long Walk, and it sounds like he's a huge fan: "It's a meta, philosophical film about friendship and growth"

  09-12-2025 12:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hideo Kojima has once again taken to Twitter with a movie review, and this time he's sharing his thoughts on Stephen King adaptation The Long Walk.The movie stars Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson as teenage boys who enter a deadly competition called the Long Walk, which involves being the last man standing to win a cash prize and a wish. The Hunger Games' Francis Lawrence directs."I watched The Long Walk on the plane. It was great. I was imagining something like The Running Man, another King ada
  
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• Crunchyroll is ending its free anime streaming in just a few weeks, so upgrade while you still can

  09-12-2025 11:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Crunchyroll is seemingly sunsetting its free, ad-supported streaming – with anime fans now requiring an additional membership to stream its library of shows and movies.As spotted by users on Reddit, those on the current free tier are met by a message stating, "Ad-supported streaming ends December 31, 2025. Upgrade now to ensure your viewing is 100% ad-free and uninterrupted."Despite this appearing to be a huge change on Crunchyroll's side, viewers have required a premium membership to watc
  
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• A "full remake" of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 with "modern gameplay" and an improved ending is "on the road map," according to Lucasfilm Games exec

  08-12-2025 23:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new report on a lawsuit over canceled DLC for Aspyr's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 remaster has revealed some much bigger details about the KOTOR remake and what Lucasfilm Games has planned afterward. It seems a full remake of KOTOR 2 is also in the planning stages, complete with an array of fixes for the game's original, infamously unfinished ending.That's according to Lucasfilm Games VP Douglas Reilly, who spoke about the project as part of a deposition over the missing DLC this
  
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• Square Enix director Naoki Hamaguchi considered giving Cloud Strife a more realistic sword for Final Fantasy 7 Remake, but decided JRPG fans "wouldn’t accept it": "We stayed faithful to the OG"

  08-12-2025 23:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cloud Strife has once again narrowly escaped destruction, this time, due to his merciful creators at Square Enix. Final Fantasy 7 Remake developers initially wondered if they should give the steel-eyed swordsman a more reasonable weapon in the ongoing remake trilogy, but they thankfully decided against it.Director Naoki Hamaguchi explains as much in a new interview with French gaming personality Julien Chièze, also featuring Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director Guillaume Broche. Final Fan
  
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• "Why does Valve allows this?": Indie dev laments losing Overwhelmingly Positive Steam review score to off-topic rant, replies "please never, ever play any of our games"

  08-12-2025 22:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Replying to a gross negative Steam review for automation sandbox game Little Rocket Lab, Mike Rose of publisher No More Robots offered some advice: "Please never, ever play any of our games ever again".As Rose shared on Bluesky, Little Rocket Lab "had an Overwhelmingly Positive score on Steam, then these two reviews rolled in." (From the score averages on Steam, I gather this was specifically the game's recent review score.) The negative reviews in question complain of a "woke game" that "also h
  
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• "Wiimote was bad. You can't say Wiimote": Nintendo's legal team made it drop "Nindies" label, former staff say, because it and similar phrases "dilutes the brand"

  08-12-2025 22:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  While considering the fate of old acquaintances and high school best friends, did you ever stop to wonder what ever happened to Nindies – Nintendo's brand for indie game showcases before "Indie World" replaced it? No need, I'll tell you: it was one day painlessly throttled for legal reasons."They definitely do not care anything about what independent developers think, so that was not it," says Krysta Yang while explaining why Nintendo ditched the Nindies brand on a recent episode of the Ki
  
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• Paramount launches "clearly superior" $100 billion cash bid to steal Warner Bros. away from Netflix, WB to respond "within 10 business days"

  08-12-2025 21:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Days after Netflix tentatively sealed a deal to purchase studio monolith Warner Bros. Discovery, one of the streaming service's biggest competitors is making a backend attempt to snatch WB away, as Paramount has submitted an all cash bid of around $100.7 billion directly to WB shareholders, $18 billion more than Netflix's $82.7 billion offer.Paramount states that Warner Bros. Discovery "never engaged meaningfully" with their previous attempts to negotiate the purchase of the entertainment giant.
  
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• Tomb Raider reveal confirmed for The Game Awards as devs tease return of iconic dual-pistol Lara Croft: "Did you miss her?"

  08-12-2025 21:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been more than seven years since Shadow of the Tomb Raider put a bow on Lara Croft's big reboot trilogy, and since then, series fans have been desperate for even a morsel of information on what's coming next. Now, finally, it seems relief is in sight, as a big Tomb Raider reveal has been teased for The Game Awards later this week."Did you miss her?" the official Tomb Raider account asks on Twitter. "She missed you." The message encourages you to tune into the annual TGA showcase on December
  
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• After Horses ban, Steam loses gooner monolith BrownDust2 to "the platform's policy requirements": "We encountered an issue that cannot be reasonably resolved"

  08-12-2025 21:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Exceptionally NSFW gacha RPG BrownDust2 has abandoned Steam as a viable storefront, citing issues with "the platform's policy requirements," which makers GAMFS N and Neowiz were apparently unable to resolve without compromising "the game's core direction."In a new notice, the BrownDust2 team announced that its long-planned Steam version has been shelved. The game has been out on the Android and iPhone app stores for several years, where it's accrued impressively positive user reviews under T-for
  
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• One Battle After Another is the most-nominated film at the 2026 Golden Globes, but Sinners isn't far behind

  08-12-2025 19:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Surprising absolutely no one, One Battle After Another has become the most nominated film at the Golden Globes... and Ryan Coogler's Sinners is third in line.One Battle After Another, based on the novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon, has received a whopping nine Golden Globe nominations – making it the most-nominated film of the year. The nominations include Best Motion Picture (Comedy), Best Director, Best Actor (Comedy) for DiCaprio, Best Actress (Comedy) for Infiniti (which makes me the ha
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 player does the math, finds Larian's RPG has 236 hours of recorded dialogue, and the character with the most lines is exactly who you'd expect

  08-12-2025 18:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Anyone who's played Baldur's Gate 3 is well aware of how large the game is. The RPG from Larian Studios has hours upon hours upon hours of gameplay in it, and with that comes reams and reams of dialogue. How many voice lines, exactly? Just under ten days worth, it turns out, as one fan managed to calculate.As spotted by PC Gamer, Reddit user Everwhite-moonlight took on the difficult quest of quantifying every uttered word across the Forgotten Realms in Baldur's Gate 3, and they provided a comple
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Verso actor Ben Starr says the RPG had an "unapologetic vision," and there's a reason it's been an unexpected hit: "There's nothing cynical about it"

  08-12-2025 18:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Ben Starr has explained why he thinks the RPG has been such a hit, even if no one expected it to be.It's undeniable to say the biggest gaming success story of 2025 has to be Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The debut of an independent studio with its beginnings in Reddit threads, it became a massive hit, taking home seven awards from the Golden Joysticks and is currently the single most-nominated game in The Game Awards history (with it looking very likely to take h
  
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• Wallace and Gromit creator says beloved animation studio Aardman will "embrace the technology" of AI, but will be "very cautious not to lose our values"

  08-12-2025 18:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Aardman boss Nick Park says the animation studio known for its stop-motion claymation will be "cautious" not to lose its values to AI, even if it is willing to embrace the technology."When Toy Story came out [in 1995], we thought, ‘How long have we got?’ But we’ve managed to survive CGI," Park told Radio Times. "In fact, there’s been a resurgence of interest over the years in our stop-motion animation. We use CGI as well, but AI is a whole new thing."He continued, "Obviou
  
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• Team Fortress 2 Classic mod delayed to January, and also isn't actually called Team Fortress 2 Classic anymore as Valve apparently asked for a name change

  08-12-2025 18:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Team Fortress 2 Classic – a mod that sets out to offer a new TF2 experience but with the "original inspirations and tone" of Valve's FPS original – has been pushed back to January 2026, as the devs also confirm it'll be releasing under a new name when it arrives.In a new post on Steam, gameplay lead Nito and the mod team at Eminoma officially introduce Team Fortress 2 Classified – removing one letter and adding four more in a move that should satisfy an apparent request from Va
  
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• If you missed last month's PS5 deals, you have a second chance thanks to these Sony holiday savings

  08-12-2025 17:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you missed out on last month's Black Friday savings, PlayStation Direct has come to the rescue. The official PlayStation online store has dropped its huge list of holiday savings on everything from PS5 consoles and bundles, controllers, and other accessories, and plenty of November's best deals have made a comeback.This sale could be a perfect time to grab a PS5 in time for the holidays, especially as the stunning black limited edition Ghost of Yotei bundle is back down to $499 at PS Direct,
  
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• Assassin's Creed Shadows' Attack on Titan crossover is downright "whacky," says stun-locked Origins actor: "I thought the FF and Origins mashup was borderline mad"

  08-12-2025 17:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Assassin's Creed Shadows and Attack on Titan crossover event is underway at the moment, and amid the players who're a bit unsure of it is a former star of the franchise. Abubakar Salim, the voice of Bayek of Siza in Assassin's Creed Origins, checked out the add-on, and needless to say, he's scratching his head.Sharing his reaction on Twitter, Salim didn't mince words. "Man. Wtf is up with the Attack on Titan Assassin's Creed?" he posted. "I thought the [Final Fantasy] and Origins mashup was
  
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