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• These GIFs of Link getting wrecked are the best thing about Zelda: Breath of the Wild so far

  31-01-2017 18:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has a lot of cool things going for it, but for my rupees the best element has already been laid bare: Link falling down and flopping around whenever he takes a solid hit, then getting right back up to fight again
  
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• Like a Dragon developer says none of us have figured out what its new game Project Century is about because "We didn’t include any information that would enable people to guess"

  28-12-2024 09:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  RGG, the studio behind the beloved Like a Dragon games, has two new titles in the works, but it says that none of us have managed to guess what Project Century is about yet.I was covering The Game Awards this year, and everyone on the team thought Project Century looked cool when it was announced. Set in Japan in 1915, it looks nothing like the Like a Dragon (also known as Yakuza) series except for the fact it's clearly a third-person action game.We've all been speculating on what it could be ab
  
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• Dune 2 director Denis Villeneuve bans the same item from his movie sets as Christopher Nolan because "everybody has to focus and be entirely in the present"

  28-12-2024 09:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Denis Villeneuve has directed some of the best films of the last decade, and like another great director, Christopher Nolan, he bans the same item: cellphones.In an interview with the LA Times, Villeneuve remarks: "I feel that human beings are ruled by algorithms right now. We behave like AI circuits. The ways we see the world are narrow-minded binaries. We’re disconnecting from each other, and society is crumbling in some ways. It’s frightening."The interviewer notes that he looks a
  
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• Pokemon professor does the math to work out the most damage possible in each generation over the past 28 years, and the number is staggering

  28-12-2024 08:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Have you ever wondered what the most damage you've ever dealt with one Pokemon attack was? Well, one YouTuber has figured out the maximum possible value of any attack in each generation of the creature capture series.Unlike a lot of other RPGs, Pokemon games don't actually tell you exactly how much damage you've done. You can work it out, as there is a mathematical formula for it, but the game itself won't display the numbers on your UI. Nuzlockers and others who like Pokemon challenges have too
  
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• Skyrim fan completes personal quest to yeet the entire RPG's map into Unreal Engine 5

  28-12-2024 08:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  There are thousands of Skyrim mods out there, I've played a fair few myself, but one player has gone a step further and ported the entire vanilla game into Unreal Engine 5, completely changing the possibilities for future mods.Greg Coulthard released a video to their YouTube channel showing off how the 13-year-old game looks in Unreal Engine 5. To be honest, I don't think it looks better or worse, per se, but it definitely looks more real. A visual enhancement isn't what Coulthard is going
  
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• Final Fantasy 14 battle designer admits the team "vetoed some interesting ideas" for Endwalker fight mechanics "so melee players wouldn't be frustrated by periods of downtime"

  27-12-2024 17:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you found yourself a touch underwhelmed by Endwalker's bosses in Final Fantasy 14, the game's battle designer has conceded that the team's determination to remove any downtime was what led to the expansion's not-so-fun boss fights. In an interview with PC Gamer, Final Fantasy 14 lead battle designer Masaki Nakagawa discussed the approach to boss design in 2021's Endwalker expansion, explaining that, at the time, the team's "policy of reducing gameplay-related frustrations was sometimes t
  
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• 20 years later, the first Trails JRPG is getting a remake because its developer doesn't know where to tell newcomers to start

  27-12-2024 17:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Trails series has been going strong for over two decades, but after 13 mainline games and multiple subseries, its developer is remaking the very first entry to give newcomers an ideal starting point.Trails has split off into three different subseries and originally began as part of the larger Legend of Heroes franchise (which was itself part of the Dragon Slayer series), meaning that jumping into one of the longest-running JRPG stories ever told as a fresh-faced newbie is harder than it shou
  
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• Despite "a rocky couple of years," analyst reckons Xbox's console war is "actually looking pretty bright" - "If you look at the PlayStation sales chart, you see a lot of Microsoft on there"

  27-12-2024 17:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  While the past few years have been somewhat up and down for Xbox as a whole, one industry analyst believes that the company is starting to correct course in time for a bumper 2025 for the brand.In an interview with GamesRadar+, Mat Piscatella, executive director of games at Circana, discussed Xbox's past, present and future, believing that the company's favours are about to turn, partly due to strong PlayStation sales. "If you look at what's going on now in the sales, you look at like the PlaySt
  
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• Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza is longer than the last Yakuza spin-off, but it's not the dev's fault: "The volume increased by itself"

  27-12-2024 16:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  The delightfully-named Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is set to be a little bigger than the last spin-off in the series, but it's not the developer's fault. Adding more stuff to Yakuza games is just too irresistible. RGG Studios director Masayoshi Yokoyama has acknowledged that Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name was acclaimed partly because of its more compact structure and focused story, but despite the team's best efforts, Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is breaking that st
  
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• "If we spoiled Arcane, it would have been heartbreaking": League of Legends spin-off Teamfight Tactics had scripts 2 years ago, and went to extreme lengths to keep them secret

  27-12-2024 15:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Some secrets are harder to keep than others, with one of those harder secrets to keep being spoilers for the biggest video game TV adaptation in recent years, as Teamfight Tactics developers personally found out.As well as speaking about TFT's position in the games industry, Teamfight Tactics game designer Julien Camaraza described in an interview with GamesRadar+ what it was like to see Arcane season 2 in development as part of developing their own Into the Arcane crossover."We got the script f
  
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• This PS1-style action horror game went straight on my Steam wishlist when I saw a ghostly samurai come out to parry the boss instead of just a dodge roll

  27-12-2024 15:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  I love Sekiro for making everyone hungry for parrying, and this PS1-style action horror game has it in spades.Samurai Unicorn is an upcoming game that combines elements of Resident Evil, Sekiro, and Shadow of Mordor. In a clip posted to Twitter, we see the protagonist shoot a creature with a pistol. Fairly normal stuff. That is, until the creature goes in for an attack and a sword-wielding ghost erupts from the main character and parries the blow away. It's amazing.I can't prove it, but it feels
  
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• Metaphor: ReFantazio director wants to turn it into "Atlus' third RPG series after Shin Megami Tensei and Persona"

  27-12-2024 15:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Metaphor: ReFantazio was developer Atlus' first original game since 2011's twisted love triangle Catherine, but its world might extend further than just a single game as director Katsura Hashino hopes it can become a series.Shin Megami Tensei and its now-more-popular offshoot Persona have been steadily chugging along for decades, but Atlus decided to take its JRPG chops and apply it to an all-new setting in this year's acclaimed Metaphor: ReFantazio, which mixes a high fantasy world, a political
  
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• In 1997, Hideo Kojima said the "one thing" he wanted to avoid in Metal Gear Solid was "tedious" cutscenes with characters "blabbering at each other for 4 or 5 minutes"

  27-12-2024 15:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  If there's one thing Hideo Kojima is known for, it's his near movie-length cutscenes in his games. As it turns out, that wasn't originally how he planned to make video games.In a 1997 interview originally published in Famitsu (uncovered by Shmupulations), Kojima says "The one thing I want to avoid, though, are those tedious scenes where characters are just blabbering at each other for 4 or 5 minutes." All you can do is laugh when you read that given how long the cutscenes are in Kojima's games t
  
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• Dragon Quest 3 lead Yuji Horii once said that the original JRPG "had to be four times as interesting as DQ1," otherwise "people wouldn't say it was fun"

  27-12-2024 15:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dragon Quest 3's 2024 remake is certainly proof enough of the game's quality, but during its development, designer Yuji Horii believed that in order for the game to be successful, it needed to be multiple times better than the first two games in the series.In an interview conducted the day before Dragon Quest 3's initial 1988 release, originally featured in BEEP Magazine and now available on Shmuplations, designer Yuji Horii, along with director Koichi Nakamura and composer Koichi Sugiyama, spok
  
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• Helldivers 2 streamer is using the new cars to delay democracy and bring back the medieval sport of jousting

  27-12-2024 14:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Helldivers 2 has been a massive surprise hit this year, and developer Arrowhead just keeps adding new toys for us to play with. Some people play more creatively than others, and one YouTuber is using the new vehicles to bring back the medieval sport of jousting.My friends and I have been getting back into Helldivers 2 recently and it's an absolute riot. There are tons of new weapons and stratagems, and even the Illuminate to fight against.The addition I was most skeptical of initially was the FR
  
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• Almost 100GB of classic Halo content has leaked online, including the 1999 demo from when the legendary FPS was in third person

  27-12-2024 14:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  After Insomniac Games, Rockstar, and the Pokemon Company were all hit by major leaks in recent years, Halo Studios has now fallen victim to a similar situation where almost 25 years of vaulted content from the shooter series has spilled onto the internet. The leaks are said to have originated from Halo Studios' (formerly 343 Industries) long-running collaboration with modding team Digsite, which has been excavating scrapped content and old files before adding them back into the classic FPS
  
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• After winning big at The Game Awards and taking hours of our time in 2024, Balatro creator reveals their "most productive night" resulted in one of the game's most satisfying features

  27-12-2024 14:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  2024 has been the year of Balatro, and solo developer LocalThunk says the feature they're most proud of is the iconic and satisfying flame effect that appears when you get a hand that beats an ante's score requirement.I remember the first time I got a decent hand and saw the flames, I was so confused. I didn't know if I'd screwed up and my score was going to burn away into nothing or what. But then I noticed my hand was worth more than the total ante score and the pieces started clicking into pl
  
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• The X-Factor team face betrayal and infighting as they come to terms with losing another member

  27-12-2024 13:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mark Russell and Bob Quinn's brilliantly witty – and often shockingly bleak – run on X-Factor continues next week with #6. We ranked this series as one of the best comics of 2024 thanks to the stark and satirical spin it puts on Marvel's mutants. Now we have an exclusive preview of the next instalment.In X-Factor #6, the team are still recovering from X-Term's disastrous infiltration of the Nevermor military base, which left Oskar dead and rebel mutant McCloud free (thanks to the hel
  
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• Squid Game season 2 post-credits scene explained: Does episode 7 have a post-credits scene?

  26-12-2024 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Squid Game season 2 is now out on Netflix as Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) returns to the terrifying arena once again. The sophomore outing for one of Netflix's most popular series ever, sees the former winner try to take down the Front Man and his competition from within. Just as shocking, brutal, and heartbreaking as season 1, you'd be forgiven for binge watching your way through this holiday season to find out how it all ends.We know that season 2 isn't the final season either, which might mean
  
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• Squid Game season 2 ending explained: Who dies in the Netflix show? Will there be a season 3?

  26-12-2024 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Squid Game season 2 saw Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) return to the arena for a whole new set of games. Intent on taking down the competition from within, the former winner faced the masked mastermind the Front Man once again to try and end the sadistic tournament once and for all. However, as you might be expecting, the path to victory is not always a smooth one, especially when lives are at stake.The drama all came to a head in the season 2 finale, which was full of betrayal, heartbreak, and ple
  
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• This Nintendo Switch controller takes one of Razer's best features and costs $200 less

  26-12-2024 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  I first tried the Razer Wolverine a couple of years ago and fell in love with the brand's Mecha-Tactile action buttons. These slick, crisp, clicky face controls offered a speed and satisfaction that traditional membrane options couldn't dream of. Then I looked at the price tag, $249.99, and knew that these clickers were way in the future for me.I didn't give up on my dreams of those clacky clickers under my thumb, though, and soon found an alternative. The EasySMX X10 comes in at just $49.99 / &
  
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• Skeleton Crew is everything I never knew we needed from Star Wars

  26-12-2024 11:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ahoy, mateys! Skeleton Crew has blasted onto our screens, and it's brought with it all the fun and whimsy of classic adventure tales of yore. The show follows a group of kids who stumble upon a hidden starship, accidentally shooting off into deep space. There, they end up on a shady outpost full of colorful pirates – and one, the mysterious Jod, AKA Crimson Jack, is willing to help them… since their strange home planet is actually the fabled home of legendary treasure.It's clear, th
  
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• Nosferatu star Lily-Rose Depp shares the deep-cut detail in Bill Skarsgård's Count Orlok look that makes him so "freaky"

  25-12-2024 11:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nosferatu sees Bill Skarsgård transform into a terrifying ancient vampire in the new horror movie, and it seems like there are some small details that help make him so scary.Speaking to GamesRadar+, Lily-Rose Depp, who plays Ellen Hutter in Robert Eggers' reimaging of Nosferatu, shared how terrifying the prosthetics are up close. Her character becomes Count Orlok's obsession, and the pair have plenty of chilling scenes."He's nowhere to be found," Depp says of Skarsgård's transformati
  
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• I didn't know how badly I wanted to grill and gobble up monsters until this upcoming survival roguelike made it look so tasty

  24-12-2024 21:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Have you ever wondered what a survival roguelike dungeon-crawler would look like if you were the hungry demon rather than being hunted by one? Abyss Ring does one better than that: it gives you the chance to turn the tables on the beasties by eating them up instead.Part unpolished medieval fantasy in the vein of Skyrim, part cooking sim, and part Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria, Abyss Ring is an upcoming survival adventure that locks the player in claustrophobic dungeons filled to the brim wi
  
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• Planescape: Torment was a revolutionary RPG, but many of its devs had no experience with the D&D campaign it was based on: "What the f*ck is that?"

  24-12-2024 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Standing the test of time as one of the best RPGs ever created, Planescape: Torment was a hit for various reasons - but surprisingly, much of Black Isle Studios was entirely unfamiliar with the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting that started it all.Speaking to PC Gamer in a recent edition of the magazine, lead artist Tim Donley reveals the reaction he had to Black Isle Studios founder Feargus Urquhart's announcement that the next game the developers would be working on was a Planescape titl
  
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• 18 years after Guitar Hero 2 released, a streamer has completed the hardest challenge there is - perfecting all 74 songs back-to-back without missing a single note

  24-12-2024 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  You've seen no-hit runs in Pokemon and FromSoftware games, maybe even gotten bored of them by now, but I promise you've never seen anyone do a perfect run of Guitar Hero 2, starting over from scratch if they miss even a single note.Streamer Acai completed a full 74 songs on Guitar Hero 2 perfectly this weekend, never missing a note, getting a full-game combo streak. Spotted by a ResetEra user, they've apparently become the first in the world to complete the challenge. Acai tweets an excited
  
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• Elder Scrolls modders have released a playable part of the ambitious Project Tamriel, which aims to recreate all of the beloved RPG's regions in Morrowind

  24-12-2024 17:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  By now, everyone and their grandma has played Skyrim, but fewer of you have returned to the older games in the series like Oblivion and Morrowind. Well, one group of modders is trying to change that by recreating iconic Tamriel locations within the Morrowind engine.Project Tamriel is the name the modders go by, and they've just released a playable build of their latest piece of the puzzle, Project Cyrodiil: Abecean Shores. This is the first release of Project Cyrodiil and it adds "the sunny fiel
  
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• Disney Plus' new Spider-Man show is no longer canon in the MCU because it was "not fun" to put limitations on its story

  24-12-2024 17:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel TV head Brad Winderbaum says the upcoming Marvel show Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man has stopped aiming to be MCU canon due to the fact that it would put limitations on the Disney Plus show."It started out as 'Okay it's Spider-Man’s freshman year, he’s going to be a freshman, can we get away with this being entirely in the MCU?' and very early on in the development process, we realized how locked in that actually made us,” said Winderbaum in an interview with Phas
  
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• Master Chief's absence from Halo Wars wasn't Bungie's fault, it was a move to make players "care about everybody else" in the RTS

  24-12-2024 16:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  After years of fans speculating the contrary, Halo Wars' lead designer has revealed that the lack of a certain series figurehead from the 2009 spin-off wasn't Bungie's fault after all."We didn’t want to use Master Chief," Ensemble Studios' Dave Pottinger tells VideoGamer Podcast of its executive decision, omitting the character from the RTS because the game "needed you to care about everybody else. We thought as soon as Master Chief shows up, that’s all anybody’s going to [care
  
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• Atlus makes games like Persona 3 by "serving players deadly poison wrapped in a sweet coating"

  24-12-2024 16:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  I've not dipped my toe into the Persona games, but many of my friends and colleagues love them. According to Atlus developer Kazuhisa Wada, that's a key and very intentional part of how the company makes the series.Wada recently spoke at the CEDEC+KYUSHU developer conference in Japan (reported by Game Makers with translation provided by Automaton) about how the company's design philosophy has changed since making Persona 3 in 2006. Before Persona 3, Atlus' values were coined as "Only One,"
  
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