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• A brand new live-action Power Rangers TV show is in the works from the creators of one of the most underrated Disney Plus shows

  19-03-2025 20:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new live-action Power Rangers TV series is officially in the works at Disney Plus – and we're here for it.According to The Wrap, Percy Jackson and the Olympians showrunners Jonathan E. Steinberg and Dan Shotz are in set to write, produce, and serve as showrunners. Hasbro will produce the upcoming show, which will "reinvent the franchise for a whole new generation of fans while delighting those who already know and love the world of Power Rangers."You may or may not have grown up with the
  
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• Severance star joins Harlan Coben's new Netflix show following the success of Fool Me Once and Missing You

  01-04-2025 18:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  As we wait to see what's next for her character on Apple TV Plus' hit show Severance, Britt Lower has joined the cast for a new Harlan Coben adaptation on Netflix, I Will Find You. Avatar star Sam Worthington was previously announced as the lead.The main cast of the upcoming show also includes This is Us star Milo Ventimiglia, Logan Browning, and Gotham's Erin Richards, as announced by the streamer this week.Based on Coben's novel of the same name, published in 2023, the story follows an innocen
  
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• Nintendo Switch 2 Direct time and where to watch the event

  01-04-2025 18:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct is nearly here, so we're kicking off the countdown to our best look at the new console yet.Back in January, Nintendo unveiled just enough of the Switch's successor (officially named the Switch 2) to keep us chatting and speculating until now – from an extra USB-C port to a mysterious new button. We also got a look at a new Mario Kart game, though I imagine we'll see plenty of upcoming Switch 2 games to add to the list soon.While all of that has been exciting, w
  
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• After just 4 days of inZOI early access, The Sims 4's most notorious NSFW mod has come to the hyper-realistic life sim

  01-04-2025 18:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  As PUBG developer Krafton continues down the early access path for its hyper-realistic new Sims-like gem inZOI, one prolific Sims 4 modder has stepped up to bring their most famous creation to the game – WickedWhims.That's right, WickedWhims is officially available to download for inZOI – and no, it's not an April Fools' Day prank. TURBODRIVER, the mastermind behind what arguably stands as one of the most well-known Sims 4 mods ever, reveals as much in a recent online post. "It's hap
  
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• The Switch 2 Pro Controller seemingly adds a headphone jack, and that's such a godsend I'm almost willing to forgive Nintendo for being 12 years behind PlayStation and Xbox

  01-04-2025 18:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new FCC filing suggests that a Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller will indeed exist, and it'll include something that's been standard on every traditional, non-Nintendo controller since the launch of PS4 and Xbox One back in 2013: a headphone jack. I'm so relieved I'm almost – almost – not mad that it's taken Nintendo over a decade to get here.This FCC test report, which was made available on March 31 (and helpfully noted by a Famiboards user), describes a "game controller" with both
  
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• 14 years after the game was released, the cast of A Minecraft Movie think now is the perfect time for the adaptation to hit screens: "There's so many reasons"

  01-04-2025 18:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Minecraft fans will know that the popular sandbox game has been around for quite some time now, so why are we only just seeing a movie adaptation hit screens? A Minecraft Movie cast members and director Jared Hess have the answer to that, and why now is the perfect time for the movie to hit screens."As right now, the countries, it's crazy town. It is crazy town. And we are actually all trying to survive and figure out how to make it through this world," says star Danielle Brooks to GamesRadar+,
  
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• Barbarian director says his "wild" Resident Evil movie will be "unlike any of the previous films", says it was "built in the spirit of the games"

  01-04-2025 17:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Zach Cregger says his "wild" new Resident Evil movie will be "unlike any of the previous films", and we're already intrigued as to what that might mean..."There are moments in every Resident Evil game where you find yourself standing in the mouth of a dark passageway. One shot in the gun is left," he explained during Sony's presentation at CinemaCon 2025 (per Deadline). "You know that something horrible is waiting for you in that darkness, that awful moment where you have to will yourself."That'
  
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• The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct is just the start: 7 hours of Switch 2 gameplay is coming this week in Nintendo Treehouse streams

  01-04-2025 17:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Buckle up Nintendo fans, because we're getting three days of Switch 2 goodness. After the Switch 2 Direct tomorrow, there will be two Treehouse streams where we'll see some gameplay of upcoming Switch 2 games.Nintendo tweets that April 3 and 4 will each feature a Treehouse with "hands-on gameplay of Nintendo Switch 2 games," so we'll get a proper look at what's coming to the console. Each Treehouse will start at 7 a.m. PT, or 9 a.m. ET, and 2 p.m. GMT – remember to set your alarm nice and
  
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• Matthew Lillard explains why he's "very excited and slightly terrified" to return for Scream 7: "I hope I don't F it up"

  01-04-2025 17:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Matthew Lillard says he's both excited and terrified to return to the Scream franchise for the first time since his starring role in 1996."I will say, I can’t say anything about it, obviously. But I am very excited and slightly terrified to be back because all I can do is really screw up a legacy that we have. I could really suck, and so that’s my fear," Lillard told the crowd at 90s Con (via People).Lillard, a pop culture icon for the last 30-plus years, starred as Stu Macher in Wes
  
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• Monster Hunter Wilds director reveals upcoming "balance changes" for the action RPG, including weapon improvements and nerfs for the "unintentionally overpowered"

  01-04-2025 17:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  As Capcom continues working towards the first free update for Monster Hunter Wilds before its release later this week, director Yuya Tokuda highlights some of the other changes coming to the action RPG in the future – including a variety of balance adjustments.In a recent post on the official Monster Hunter website, Tokuda outlines a couple of title updates planned for Wilds, including the first, coming on April 4, and the second, set to drop sometime this summer. The director also looks t
  
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• Gladiator's Paul Mescal and Saltburn's Barry Keoghan finally confirmed for the long-rumored Beatles cast in a first look announcing the wildest release strategy

  01-04-2025 17:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sony has finally confirmed the cast for Sam Mendes' ambitious four-part biopic about The Beatles, and now we know that the rumors were actually true.Paul Mescal (Gladiator 2) will be playing Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn (Fantastic Four) will portray George Harrison, Barry Keoghan (Saltburn) will be Ringo Starr, and Harris Dickinson (Babygirl) completes the group as John Lennon. It was previously reported that the four stars were in talks to join this project, with the final confirmation arriving
  
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• Donkey Kong player Billy Mitchell to receive over $218k in damages from YouTube creator Karl Jobst following defamation case

  01-04-2025 17:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  YouTube creator Karl Jobst has been ordered to pay up to AU$390,447 (or roughly $244,858 US dollars) to notable arcade gamer Billy Mitchell, following defamatory comments made against Mitchell in 2021.This comes just months after settling a separate defamation lawsuit against game database Twin Galaxies, which previously stripped its database of Mitchell's old scores and former records in the likes of Donkey Kong and Pac Man as it investigated allegations that his best Donkey Kong score wasn't a
  
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• Homelander star says The Boys season 5 finale will "surprise or shock" fans, "depending on their nervous system"

  01-04-2025 17:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Boys star Antony Starr has teased what to expect from The Boys season 5 after seeing the scripts for the first time – and it seems like we're not ready for the series finale."The scripts, I've gotta say, in typical Boys fashion, I did not see… I never see it coming with this show," Starr said in a recent interview with Collider."Every time I think I know what's gonna happen, something else happens, so this was no exception, these last scripts. I'm six deep, I haven't seen the pe
  
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• Silent Hill f's director wanted to create something that is a "blend of new and nostalgic" for the game's Otherworld

  01-04-2025 16:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Silent Hill f's director has shed some light on the game's Otherworld segments, saying that the team wanted a "blend of new and nostalgic."There have been a lot of different interpretations of Silent Hill at this point, but – barring Ascension and The Short Message – they've all had one thing in common: actually taking place in Silent Hill, Maine (the titular Book of Memories was sent from Silent Hill, I'm counting it). But Silent Hill f is breaking that trend; this time around it's
  
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• "Is this going to be Valheim with party hats?": RuneScape: Dragonwilds devs know survival games are competitive and focus on "things that make us unique" in a tree-punching genre

  01-04-2025 16:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Survival games, everybodies making them now, even old school MMOs. RuneScape: Dragonswilds is set within the universe you all know and love, but it's trying to bring new things to the genre rather than improving on what's already there.In an interview with PCGamesN, senior community manager Jake Blunt talks about some of the thinking behind the upcoming game. The survival genre is a saturated one, even Player Unknown is getting in on it with Prologue: Go Wayback, but was all the competition and
  
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• Karate Kid: Legends releases new trailer featuring intense fights, a lot of Karate Kid nostalgia, and Peter Parker comparisons

  01-04-2025 15:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Karate Kid: Legends just released a new trailer featuring some intense fights with Jackie Chan's Mr. Han and Ralph Macchio's Daniel LaRusso, as well as a lot of Karate Kid nostalgia.Ahead of the film's release next month, the new footage teases the film with a special focus on Li Fong (played by Ben Wang), the lead teenager who will learn to fight to defend himself against bullies. "Let's make a karate kid," says LaRusso as he joins forces with Mr. Han. At the end of the trailer, which you can
  
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• Terrifying new trailer for Talk to Me directors' horror follow-up stars Paddington's Sally Hawkins as the foster mom from hell

  01-04-2025 15:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new, much longer trailer for Bring Her Back is here – and I have nightmares already.In the brief clip, which can be viewed below, we don't get the clearest sense of what's going on – and that's what makes it especially terrifying. A new foster child comes to live at a troubled woman's (Sally Hawkins) home – but things are, uh, not what they seem.We repeatedly cut to camcorder footage of a reanimated corpse, with Hawkins telling someone that the spirit stays in the body three
  
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• Switch 2 Direct will be "approximately 60 minutes long," about the same length as the Switch 1 presentation which revealed Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 2 and more

  01-04-2025 15:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct is almost here, and ahead of the stream tomorrow, Nintendo has confirmed that we can expect it to run for around an hour, so make sure you have some snacks at the ready.In a tweet posted today, 24 hours before the Direct, Nintendo reminds everyone about its imminent plans to break the internet, saying: "Join us tomorrow, April 2nd, at 6 a.m. PT for a closer look at Nintendo Switch 2! The Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 – 4.2.2025 livestream will be approxima
  
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• Wherever you go and whatever you do, the ultra-portable, AI-powered MSI Prestige series laptops work for you

  01-04-2025 15:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Designed for hybrid lifestyles, the MSI Prestige 13 AI+ is built to travel light without leaving performance behind. Whether you’re working remotely, creating on-the-go or winding down, the MSI Prestige 13 AI+ Evo is the ideal choice.Powered by up to an Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 processor and 32GB of RAM, the MSI Prestige 13 AI+ Evo is lightning quick. Faster to boot up, and with easier multitasking thanks to Intel's AI-driven neural processing unit (NPU), you can flip seamlessly betw
  
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• Doom: The Dark Ages doesn't have multiplayer because "it would definitely come at the expense of" the campaign

  01-04-2025 14:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  For Doom: The Dark Ages, Id Software has abandoned the multiplayer entirely, and considering the game apparently has 22 chapters, I'm not shocked.2016's Doom reboot and its sequel, Doom Eternal are well-known for having some of the best FPS campaigns in recent memory, but each of them also came with a multiplayer mode that wasn't quite as beloved. Doom's multiplayer was a pretty standard deathmatch arena shooter, while Eternal took a unique approach with Battle Mode, where two players would take
  
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• Venom star Tom Hardy says they "got as close as [he] could possibly imagine" to a Spider-Man crossover, which he would have "loved" to have done

  01-04-2025 14:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Venom star Tom Hardy says he "would have loved to have done" a crossover movie with Tom Holland's Spider-Man during his time playing the head-munching symbiote.While promoting his new crime series Mobland, the actor appeared as a guest on The Discourse Podcast, where host Mike DeAngelo asked why Hardy's Eddie Brock never met Peter Parker on screen on behalf of his Marvel-loving kids."I don't know how to answer that question. We got close," Hardy replied. "We got as close as I could possibly imag
  
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• Assassin's Creed Shadows lead says dual protagonists are "a cool thing" the new action RPG "does better than what we've done in the past"

  01-04-2025 14:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ubisoft's long-awaited action RPG Assassin's Creed Shadows is finally here, giving fans the opportunity to explore the beloved series' new dual protagonist system – one that, according to creative director Jonathan Dumont, came as part of a "natural progression."Speaking in a recent interview with GamesRadar+ on the new game, Dumont explains that Ubisoft wanted to try some things differently "from the outset" with Shadows – including its introduction of the unique dual protagonist sy
  
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• Jack Black and Danielle Brooks say starring in A Minecraft Movie made them feel like a kid again: "I let my inner child lead this movie"

  01-04-2025 13:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Minecraft game was released over 15 years ago now, meaning that many young adults going to see new video game adaptation A Minecraft Movie this April will be reconnecting with the world they fell in love with as kids. But audiences are not alone in feeling this sense of nostalgia, as stars Jack Black, Danielle Brooks and director Jared Hess say that making the movie brought out their inner child too."There was a lot of my inner child in there, and it's that sense of play and that sense of cr
  
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• Jason Momoa confirms he's returning for Dune 3, and he doesn't care if that's a spoiler: "If you didn't read the books, it's not my fault"

  01-04-2025 13:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jason Momoa has confirmed that he'll return as Duncan Idaho in Dune 3 – and if that counts as a spoiler… well, he doesn't really care."I’m making a comeback," Momoa teased during an appearance on TODAY."Well, I’m not sure if I’m going to get in trouble or not, but it’s the same thing like Game of Thrones, you know what I mean?" he added. "If you didn’t read the books, it’s not my fault, right? Yeah, there’s going to be… I’m goin
  
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• Solo Leveling's Jinwoo English dub actor says he wrote part of the anime show's most heartbreaking scene and it made him "start bawling"

  01-04-2025 13:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sung Jinwoo's English dub voice actor Aleks Le has revealed that he was pretty involved in creating one of Solo Leveling's most heartbreaking scenes to date. He posted a video about the reunion scene, which came in season 2 episode 9, 'It Was All Worth It', and saw Jinwoo face his mom Park Kyung-Hye once again. The poignant moment sees her wake up after four years in a coma, as she tells him how proud she is of him and Jinwoo starts crying."So there's a similar dynamic in this scene that I reall
  
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• PlayStation needs to "reconsider" its push for "cutting-edge graphics" and "change our way of thinking" says former Sony boss

  01-04-2025 13:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  I've had a PlayStation for as long as I can remember, and it's always been the go-to console for the best exclusives and the most gorgeous graphics. But former Sony president Shuhei Yoshida says it's time for the company to adopt a different approach.In an interview with AV Watch (translated by Genki), Yoshida says: "Up until now, PlayStation's DNA has been driven by values ​​such as 'cutting-edge graphics' that have continued since Kutaragi-san's time. Users have also expected that
  
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• To celebrate 10 million sales, Capcom has released a special pack of Monster Hunter Wilds items, including upgrade materials and eggs

  01-04-2025 13:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Monster Hunter Wilds has been on fire since it launched. Not only have we had weekly event quests and are getting brand new monsters with Title Update 1 later this week, but the game itself has been flying, selling over 10 million copies within the first month. Monster Hunter Wilds director Yuya Tokuda released a letter to fans to thank them for the milestone (as well as to give some more details of what's to come), but Capcom is expressing its gratitude even more with a selection of free items
  
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• Danny Boyle confirms Cillian Murphy will be in the 28 Years Later trilogy, as he admits he's still trying to find funding for the third movie

  01-04-2025 12:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Danny Boyle has confirmed Cillian Murphy will be in the new 28 Years Later series – though fans will have to exercise patience ahead of the Oppenheimer star showing up in the zombie horror sequel."Like all good things in life, you may have to wait a little while for him to make his appearance," the filmmaker teased during Sony's presentation at CinemaCon 2025.Just a few months back, fans became convinced Murphy had a cameo in 28 Years Later, which picks up almost three decades after the Ra
  
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• Upcoming anime Chainsaw Man The Movie: Reze Arc reveals US release date with a gory new poster

  01-04-2025 12:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Good news anime fans, the new Chainsaw Man movie has finally set an international release date.Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, will hit US screens on October 29. This means that fans in the US will only have to wait just over one month to see the film after it premieres in Japan on September 19. The news was confirmed by Sony Pictures at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, as reported by CrunchyRoll. Sony has acquired worldwide theatrical rights to the movie, and will bring the anime adaptation to
  
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• Asus just dropped what smells like an Xbox handheld teaser, but I'm already underwhelmed

  01-04-2025 12:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Asus just teased a new ROG Ally that could actually be the long-rumored Xbox handheld. Yes, it is April Fools Day, but the device maker has a habit of revealing real products during the gag period, and the new teaser has me thinking console fans should really curb their expectations.The latest Xbox handheld nod and wink takes the form of a trailer featuring OMNI - Asus' adorable mascot. In the clip, the little red hoodie wearing robot uses a machine to supposedly upgrade themselves with "maratho
  
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