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• Arrowhead CEO addresses Helldivers 2 Killzone crossover prices, admits this didn't hit "the sweet spot" and says "we will persevere and improve things in due course"

  19-12-2024 01:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  As expensive Killzone skins whip the Helldivers 2 community into a tizzy, Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani is doing damage control on Discord, admitting the pricing missed the market and pledging vague changes.In case you missed it, Helldivers 2 is doing its first big crossover with a bunch of cosmetics inspired by Killzone, specifically the villainous Helghast faction with their distinctive helmets and weaponry.So that's the good news, but the bad news is that the cosmetics are on the pricier side.
  
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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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• One of Sonic 3's writers threatens us with a good time in a future movie: "We gotta get Big the Cat in there in some capacity"

  24-12-2024 15:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warning: the following features spoilers for Sonic the Hedgehog 3...Sonic 3's writers have named their dream newcomers for future movies and, yes, one of the picks is Big the Cat."We've done a lot of thinking about a lot of these characters, ones who haven't appeared, may not appear," Pat Casey told GamesRadar+. "And, you know, it’s like how would we do Silver? Well, how do we do Big the Cat? That's the really important one. But that's for the future and we'll see."Josh Miller says, "But w
  
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• This nifty gadget turns any M.2 SSD into a portable drive, but it's great for when you're upgrading your PC too

  24-12-2024 14:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Christmas is here, and if you've found yourself with a brand-new SSD in your stocking you may want to know about USB M.2 enclosures. If you're lucky enough to have gotten a new gaming drive from Santa or a loved one this year, there's a chance you'll want to clone your current drive so you can use the new one as your main storage device.Of course, there's also the chance that disaster has struck, and upon going to install your new SSD for gaming, you've got one fewer SSD slot on our motherboard
  
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• League of Legends co-creator responds to report that Arcane was a "financial miss," says "people think we make things like Arcane to sell skins, when in reality we sell skins to make things like Arcane"

  24-12-2024 13:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  According to a new report, Arcane recouped less than half of its budget from payments to air its 18 episodes, but a Riot co-founder says the show is about more than just money.Bloomberg's report claims Arcane was a "financial miss" and Riot "didn’t have a robust plan to recoup the cost of the show before it launched." Executive producer Paul Bellezza tells Bloomberg the show cost $250 to produce and market, but that figure has been disputed.The report states Netflix paid $3 million per epi
  
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• After hours of number-crunching, one Marvel Rivals player has laid out the true meta – and Iron Fist's ranking feels alarming

  24-12-2024 13:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Throw out everything you thought you knew about the chaotic, Overwatch-shaped problem with the Marvel Rivals meta, because one statistical genius fan just spelled it out for you.Each one of my shooter sessions seems plagued with the tanky likes of Hulk, Groot, and far too many Iron Fists to make staying alive an option for long, but according to one data-sifting aficionado on Reddit, these heroes don't even make the S tier. Aggragating_Job9976's rankings are based on the TOP500 players leaderboa
  
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• James Gunn says his DC shows will likely stick to the "one episode a week" schedule moving forward: "It affords a quality show an opportunity to be discussed"

  24-12-2024 13:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  James Gunn has reiterated his plan to keep his DCU series to releasing one episode a week – instead of the all-at-once or staggered models used by other studios and streamers.In response to a fan asking why DC animated series Creature Commandos wasn't released all at once, DC Studios co-CEO and Superman director Gunn replied on Twitter, "Because it affords a quality show an opportunity to be discussed and grow from week to week.Gunn continued, "[Creature Commandos] has gotten more popular
  
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• Just two weeks after its theatrical release, Lord of the Ring: The War of Rohirrim is heading to digital

  24-12-2024 13:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  New Lord of the Rings anime movie looks to be joining The Joker 2 in fastest theatrical run of 2024, as the film heads to digital just two weeks after it hit theaters.The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, which opened on December 13, will be available on participating digital platforms including Amazon Prime Video on December 27 (H/T Deadline), just 14 days after it hit the big screen.However, it is important to note that just because the movie is heading to digital, doesn't mean it wi
  
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• Nosferatu should "feel like a love triangle" according to star Lily-Rose Depp, albeit a twisted one

  24-12-2024 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Robert Eggers' reimagining of Nosferatu charts a similar path to F. W. Murnau's 1922 silent film, following a real estate agent who goes to visit the mysterious Count Orlok in the depths of Transylvania. There, he learns that the ancient vampire actually harbors a deep, secret obsession with his wife, Ellen, and will stop at nothing to get to her.Lily-Rose Depp plays Ellen in this iteration, alongside Nicholas Hoult as her husband Thomas Hutter and Bill Skarsgård as Orlok. Speaking to Game
  
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• You might be ready for Elden Ring: Nightreign, but not as ready as this streamer who completed the RPG like it was a roguelike – 207 bosses, random items, and permadeath

  24-12-2024 12:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Everyone loves doing challenge runs of FromSoftware games, and none is more repeatable than an Elden Ring randomizer that switches up the locations of every item and boss in the game.Streamer Bushy decided to do a deathless, randomized run of Elden Ring where he could only progress to the next region of the map once he'd fully cleared out the one preceding it. That's 207 bosses with just a single life, and if he dies the randomizer gets reset. This effectively turns Elden Ring into a roguelike &
  
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• The team behind the unofficial Zelda Ocarina of Time PC port just modernized another Nintendo 64 classic, and the original creator is "very happy" about it

  24-12-2024 11:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Retro shooter fans are celebrating the hotly anticipated Star Fox 64 PC fan port, and the original character designer is among those thrilled with the result."I don't think Nintendo would tolerate this," ex-Nintendo developer Takaya Imamura responded to the news on Twitter, "but I'm personally very happy about it." The classic sequel, also known in the PAL region as Lylat Wars, launched back in 1997 as a series reboot of 1993 original. Star Fox 64 had only been playable on Nintendo 64 hardware u
  
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• Nosferatu's Bill Skarsgård was so happy to shed the Orlok character when filming wrapped: "It was an immense sense of relief"

  24-12-2024 09:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  New horror movie Nosferatu retells the chilling story of Count Orlok, an ancient vampire who becomes obsessed with a young woman. Based on the 1922 silent German short film – which in turn is based on Dracula – Robert Eggers' gothic drama stars Bill Skarsgård as the titular vampire in what has been called a transformative performance.Clad in full prosthetics for the role, the It actor deepened his voice and went through intense preparation to play Count Orlok. And as he tells G
  
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• Warner Bros. is inexplicably delisting a bunch of games without warning, again, and devs are once again distraught: "We are heartbroken"

  24-12-2024 02:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warner Bros. is going on a delisting spree again, this time pulling a host of Cartoon Network-licensed games from digital storefronts.As first spotted by Wario64 on Twitter, some of the games that have been delisted so far include Adventure Time: Finn and Jake's Epic Quest, Adventure Time: Magic Man's Head Games, Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time, OK K.O.! Let's Play Heroes, Steven Universe: Save the Light, and Steven Universe: Unleash the Light. Looking around various online retailers like Best
  
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• Marvel Rivals joins Manor Lords, Palworld, and Helldivers 2 as one of Steam's best-selling and most-played new releases of 2024 despite launching at the end of the year

  24-12-2024 01:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Valve has revealed Steam's most-played and best-selling games of the year, and when you narrow it down to new releases of 2024, Marvel Rivals is one of them despite just launching earlier this month.Steam's 'Best of 2024' page breaks down the platform's "top games measured by gross revenue," and the winners aren't entirely surprising. In the top-tier 'Platinum' group we have Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 at number one, followed by Counter Strike 2, Dota 2, Palworld, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2,
  
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• Sonic 3 didn't relegate Gerald Robotnik to Sonic Adventure 2-style flashbacks so he could be "more of a present danger"

  24-12-2024 00:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warning: the following features spoilers for Sonic the Hedgehog 3...Sonic 3 takes more than a few cues from Sonic Adventure 2, the 2001 Dreamcast title that helped cement the Blue Blur as a 3D platforming icon while simultaneously unleashing Shadow the Hedgehog onto the world.While the live-action threequel follows Sonic Adventure 2's story beats and broad narrative brushstrokes, one of the key differences involves the character of Gerald Robotnik (Jim Carrey).Namely, he is still alive and (some
  
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• The secret's out: Christopher Nolan's new Tom Holland-led movie is an Odyssey adaptation and a "mythic action epic shot across the world"

  23-12-2024 23:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Universal has officially announced Christopher Nolan's next movie is an adaptation of the seminal ancient Greek epic poem attributed to Homer.Nolan fans have been desperate to know what the Interstellar director has been cooking up as his next project since it was announced with Matt Damon attached as a lead actor back in October. Spider-Man web slinger Tom Holland was later announced as one of Damon's co-stars, further ratcheting up the anticipation. And now, following a number of rumors that w
  
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• Hideo Kojima offers another Death Stranding 2 update and a demonstration of his unique PS5 controller technique: "Building the game"

  23-12-2024 23:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Death Stranding 2 director Hideo Kojima took a momentary break from posting photos of Fragile actress Léa Seydoux on Twitter to instead post a photo of himself looking impossibly locked in while working on Death Stranding 2. "Building the game," Kojima said on Twitter over a set of photos showing him staring at a blank desktop screen with an inscrutable look on his face and a mysterious pair of black sunglasses. He's holding an Astro Bot PS5 controller – a gift, I think, b
  
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• Palworld drops a massive update that further distances the survival game from Pokemon following the Nintendo lawsuit, and fans couldn't be more proud: "Justice for Palworld"

  23-12-2024 21:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Palworld might be getting sued by Nintendo, but Pocketpair won't let that ruin Christmas – the developer just issued a gigantic update that largely tears the monster-hunter survival game away from Pokemon.The Feybreak update acts like a mini earthquake for Palworld, shaking up and rearranging many of the early access game's most key features. Along with introducing the new island Feybreak, the update alters how Pal Spheres work, which Pocketpair began differentiating from Pokeballs earlier
  
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• The Silent Hill 2 Remake director has pitched a Lord of the Rings horror game, and suddenly I'm hunched over growling 'my precious' at the thought of it

  23-12-2024 21:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Silent Hill 2 Remake director Mateusz Lenart once pitched a Lord of the Rings horror game, and now I feel utterly lost in a world without one.First spotted by The Gamer, Lenart appeared in a recent episode of the Bonfire Conversations podcast (timestamped here) and said his dream project is a medieval horror RPG. He also expressed his passion for fantasy and Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien in particular, which prompted the interviewer to say a Lord of the Rings horror game would be "cool
  
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• Creature Commandos gets a season 2 as James Gunn bestows us all with a monstrous holiday gift

  23-12-2024 21:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  James Gunn's Creature Commandos animated streaming series has officially been renewed for a second season according to Gunn himself, who shared the good news on social media just in time for Christmas, along with a holiday card featuring the show's unlikely mascot Weasel."You wanted monsters? Well, you’re getting even more," Gunn says. "We’re coming back for season two! But don’t worry, we’ve still got plenty left this season for you. Catch new episodes of Creature Comman
  
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• Sonic 3 writers have their say on whether Robotnik is really dead and begin the Jim Carrey Oscar campaign: "The fact that the Oscars almost exclusively only focus on drama is a little silly"

  23-12-2024 19:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warning: the following features spoilers for Sonic the Hedgehog 3...If you have already seen threequel Sonic 3, you will be well aware of just how terrific Jim Carrey is in it, pulling double duty in fashion playing both Ivo and Gerald Robotnik. In fact, our very own Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review says that Carrey steals the show.He's so good that, earlier this week, Sonic 3 writer Pat Casey tweeted that Carrey deserves an Oscar nomination for his performance, telling GamesRadar+ later in an interv
  
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• Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl's directors reveal the surprising influences behind their new "gnome noir" movie – including a Hitchcock classic

  23-12-2024 18:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Wallace and Gromit has always worn its filmic influences on its clay-splattered sleeve. Its last feature film, Curse of the Were-Rabbit, spoofed Hammer Horror, while The Wrong Trousers was a picture-perfect pastiche of Hitchcockian thrillers.It's to the Hitchcock well where co-directors Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham return for upcoming movie Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – as part of a long-standing creative process for Aardman that arrives at the beginning of any production."
  
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• After being labeled a Dark Souls copy, Black Myth: Wukong is now getting its own imitators on the Nintendo store

  23-12-2024 18:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  What appears to be a knock-off version of the immensely popular Black Myth: Wukong has appeared on the Nintendo online store and is due to launch December 26.Wukong Sun: Black Legend, is a 2D platformer that strongly resembles Black Myth: Wukong, at least in terms of its story description and the art used to advertise the game.Wukong Sun: Black Legend is being developed and published by Global Game Studio. Its description on the Nintendo store reads: "Embark on an epic Journey to the West in Wuk
  
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