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• Final Fantasy 14 wins Best Community at the Golden Joystick Awards 2021

  23-11-2021 23:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 14 has taken the crown for the Best Games Community award at the Golden Joystick Awards 2021.Square Enix's mega-popular MMO beat out some incredibly tough competition this year to take the award. It saw off the likes of Capcom's excellent Monster Hunter Rise, the game that just keeps on giving years later in No Man's Sky, and Bungie's ongoing foray into new realms of Destiny 2.You can see the full list of nominees just below:
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• Artist reimagines Elden Ring as a Baldur's Gate-style top-down RPG "despite my love-hate relationship with the game," is surprised to see it's absolutely stunning

  06-11-2024 00:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  An artist has reimagined Elden Ring as a Baldur's Gate-style top-down RPG and surprised themselves with how gorgeous the result is.Over on Reddit, the artist going by fanica98 online shared some stunning examples of what Elden Ring might look like as a top-down RPG, and indeed, it's a thing of beauty. Despite Elden Ring's somewhat muted color palette, everything translates really gracefully from a bird's eye view. See for yourself:
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• Forget $2 million Super Mario Bros carts - in 1994 retro game collectors were trading price guides advertising the "Holy Grail of the game industry" at a whopping $100

  05-11-2024 23:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  The retro game collection scene is in a weird spot these days, with a whole lot of fans who just want to enjoy old games in peace getting very annoyed at the speculators and auctioneers slabbing and grading old games like Super Mario Bros, with multimillion dollar markups. 1994 might've been a simpler time for retro enthusiasts, but they were just as price consciousness back then.Yes, 1994 had its own retro collectors, looking for deals on classic Atari carts in an era when Super NES and Sega Ge
  
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• Scream star Matthew Lillard says Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck is a movie "that the world needs right now"

  05-11-2024 23:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Matthew Lillard has a small role in Mike Flanagan's upcoming Stephen King adaption The Life of Chuck – and while we still don't know too much about it, Lillard says the film is what the world needs right now."I play the most rudimentary man ever named Gus. And he's beautiful," Lillard tells GamesRadar+. "I think he's funny. I think that the movie opened at Toronto International Film Festival. I had never seen it with a big audience. I'd seen it in a small screening room. We were, I think,
  
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• Ex-Rockstar dev says one of GTA 5's most mysterious Easter eggs was really "just put in there to mess with people"

  05-11-2024 23:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Waiting 10 years for GTA 6 to show up has made fans of the open-world action game series a little paranoid. And, more than that, it's made them bored. As a result, fans regularly pore over details in GTA that former Rockstar designer Ben Hinchliffe says are sometimes meaningless.In a new interview, YouTube host Dan Dawkins asks Hinchliffe about the arcane map apparently marked with alien symbols at the top of GTA 5's Mt. Chiliad. Since 2013, players have failed to solve the Mt. Chiliad mystery,
  
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• After 800 hours of practice finally paid off, hitless runner explains why a no-hit run of Borderlands 2 was way harder than games like Dark Souls or Skyrim

  05-11-2024 22:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hitless runner HeyBlasty finally bagged one of his white whales, a no-damage run of Borderlands 2, after more than 800 hours of routing, practice, and attempts. Astonishingly, the world-first feat was actually nabbed just hours earlier by another runner, darksmoke11, who was inspired by HeyBlasty and had spoken to him about strategies. In an interview with GamesRadar+, HeyBlasty reckons this is the hardest game he's ever done hitless – the pinnacle of a list of 112 games that includes the
  
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• Time to snipe like it's 2004: Halo Infinite just added Halo 2 throwback maps for the game's 20th anniversary, built in Forge "with the help of key Halo community members"

  05-11-2024 22:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  You better put on your Ed Hardy sweatshirts, because Halo Infinite is taking us back to 2004 to celebrate Halo 2's birthday. The free-to-play FPS just added recreations of several recognizable Halo 2 maps in the Delta Arena playlist, a group effort to be as nostalgic as possible. The maps that appear in the playlist were created with community experts in Forge, the multiplayer map editor first introduced in Halo 3. In an Xbox blog, Halo Infinite designer Evan Colson explains that the proces
  
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• Eric Barone has a new Stardew Valley PSA for players experiencing performance issues: "Remove all hats from pets," and yes, there's lore for that one too

  05-11-2024 22:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone is in the hilarious position of having to reveal PSAs for bugs with improvised lore, and his latest is a warning to "remove all hats from pets" because of a "strange rash affecting pets' ears in Zuzu City."In reality, the reason Barone is telling Stardew Valley players to take hats off of their pets is because of a bug in update 1.6.9. that's impacting performance. Apparently, one way to improve performance while the bug is being fixes is to make
  
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• Hogwarts Legacy 2 is "coordinating" its plot with the HBO Harry Potter series as WB says the open-world game helped "unlock" the franchise after Fantastic Beasts flops

  05-11-2024 22:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hogwarts Legacy was a smash hit in 2023, and it's just kept selling. Now Warner Bros. says that the team building the sequel to the open-world game is working with the folks behind the upcoming Harry Potter HBO series on the stories of both projects.That's according to a report from Variety, which notes that Hogwarts Legacy has crossed 30 million units sold as of October 2024 even as recent high-profile Potter projects like the Fantastic Beasts films failed to take off. WB Interactive president
  
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  Stardew Valley recently received its highly anticipated 1.6.9 update, which brought jack-o-lanterns, balance changes, and a good amount of new content to the comfy farming sim. The update also resurrected the age-old Konami Code for a "secret" multiplayer mode on mobile. A not-so-secret guide posted to the Stardew Valley website explains that, to access what developer Eric Barone is describing as an "experimental" feature, players will have to click on the cluster of green leaves that appea
  

• Titanic star Billy Zane looks unrecognizable as he recreates the Godfather opening scene for new Marlon Brando biopic from cult film director

  05-11-2024 19:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for Waltzing with Brando is here – and Billy Zane looks unrecognizable.Per Variety, the biopic follows Brando (Zane) "as he filmed Mutiny on the Bounty and bought a tiny and uninhabitable island in Tahiti. His intent was to escape his hectic Hollywood lifestyle and show the world the path to sustainability. To achieve this goal he plucks Judge (Jon Heder), an obscure but idealistic Los Angeles architect, from his stable existence and convinces him that together
  
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• After 5 years, Apex Legends is going back to the beginning with a Fortnite-style mode letting you experience the launch version of the battle royale FPS

  05-11-2024 19:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you're finding yourself nostalgic for the heady days of 2019 battle royale games, EA and Respawn have just the thing with Apex Legends: From the Rift. The new season, which goes live today, features a mode hearkening back to the original 1.0 launch."Step back in time to the experience that started it all: Launch Royale," the devs explain in the announcement. "This new LTM drops players into the original Apex Legends circa 2019 - it’s the old school weapons, Legends, abilities, ruleset,
  
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• Red Dead Redemption 2 dev reveals detail "99% of people never saw" that's part of "what makes Rockstar's games so good"

  05-11-2024 19:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Red Dead Redemption 2 has all sorts of little details that the vast majority of players will never see, and that's part of what makes Rockstar games so special, says former Rockstar designer Ben Hinchliffe.Hinchliffe worked at the studio from 2009 all the way to 2022, at which time he was a game designer on GTA 6. He recently appeared on the GTAVIoclock podcast (timestamped here), and at one point got on the topic of Red Dead Redemption 2, describing a mission where you're tasked with ransa
  
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• From Warhammer 40K to Star Wars, Helldivers 2 creative director "would love to do a take on" loads of IP, but doing them all would be a "not Helldivers" experience

  05-11-2024 18:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Helldivers 2's creative director Johan Pilestedt has shared a whole list of IPs he'd "love to do a take on," even if he acknowledges that doing them all would ultimately make Arrowhead's hit third-person shooter "a 'not Helldivers' experience."This comes after a recent Twitter interaction between Pilestedt and the official account for the upcoming tabletop skirmish game Trench Crusade, which he complimented as "such a cool IP" before adding that he "would love to do a HD2 + TC crossover." He's s
  
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• Dragon Age: The Veilguard contains a heartfelt tribute to a BioWare developer, "an artist who lifted his comrades' hearts with his craft"

  05-11-2024 18:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dubbed a return to form for BioWare by critics, Dragon Age: The Veilguard has been out for a few days now and has kept fans occupied with its expansive world and all of its little details - one of which just so happens to be a heartfelt tribute added by BioWare in honor of late developer Bruno Hayne.As described in an online post highlighting the wholesome find, it serves as a tribute to Hayne, described here as "an artist at BioWare." The text on the in-game shrine dedicated to Hayne is honestl
  
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• From British TV royalty to Robert De Niro, the Paddington in Peru cast reveal their dream picks for future series villains

  05-11-2024 18:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Paddington film series has featured some incredible villains, played by brilliant actors. The first movie saw Nicole Kidman step into the shoes of the menacing taxidermist Millicent, whilst Paddington 2 featured an iconic performance from Hugh Grant as the dastardly Phoenix Buchanan.Threequel Paddington in Peru follows in these footsteps, although it would spoil the surprise to say who appears as the villain here. But what we can say is that Paddington sure does encounter a foe or two on his
  
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• It's been 10 years since Mario Kart 8 launched, and it still managed to outsell every single first-party new Nintendo Switch game in 2024

  05-11-2024 17:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo's latest financial results are here, and among somewhat slumping sales and a promise that Switch 2 will be announced soon there's one big thing to marvel at: Mario Kart 8 just won't stop selling. 10 years after the kart racer's original launch on Wii U, the game's Deluxe successor on Switch still managed to sell better than every single first-party game Nintendo has released this year.Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has managed to sell 3.62 million units between January 1 and September 30, 2024, co
  
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• Former GTA 6 dev says Rockstar will currently be trying to "really tighten" the game "in every corner" right now, because "90% of your work" is accounting for players who don't do as they're told

  05-11-2024 17:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  It might not have an exact release date yet, but GTA 6 is getting closer and closer, and one former designer on the game has suggested that Rockstar's focus right now will likely be on making sure everything is prepared for the players who'll just want to mess around in the action-adventure. In an interview on the GTAVIoclock YouTube channel, Ben Hinchliffe – who was a game designer at Rockstar for over 12 years on the likes of GTA 5, Red Dead Redemption 2, and GTA 6 before becoming a
  
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• Ahead of Five Nights At Freddy's 2, star Matthew Lillard talks reprising the role of supervillain William Afton after "being left out of many a sequel"

  05-11-2024 17:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Matthew Lillard has opened up about taking on the role of William Afton in the Five Nights at Freddy's film franchise, which may very well see him play the supervillain in many more movies to come."I had no idea sort of what I was getting into when we started. I didn't play Five Nights, but my kids did. And so when the offer came through, it was my middle kid, Ace, who was like, you have to take this job. William Afton is this huge role," Lillard tells GamesRadar+. "And same with the director [E
  
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• Dragon Age: The Veilguard streamer spends over 21 hours in character creator out of extreme dedication to being sexy: “I have my priorities sorted, and they’re insane”

  05-11-2024 17:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Character creation is an ancient process, a solemn pursuit first established millions of years ago, when some primordial spirit created humanity out of clay and a tendency toward nicotine dependence. Such a pursuit requires reverence, and streamer Breebunn proved hers by sitting in the Dragon Age: The Veilguard character creator for over 21 hours. "I needed to get my Inquisitor to look how I wanted her to look," Breebunn explains on stream. "I have my priorities sorted, and they're insane."
  
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• This Netflix animated series has been canceled for the second time in six months, but its creator offers a season 2 tease and a message of hope: "This is not the end"

  05-11-2024 17:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Scavengers Reign, the animated series which found a new home on Netflix after being canceled by Max earlier this year, will "not be renewed" for a second season.The news comes from co-creator Joseph Bennett, who revealed the update on Instagram. "As of right now, Scavengers Reign is not being renewed for a second season," Bennett wrote. "I wanted to let everyone know directly because I really love our fanbase, they’ve been such champions for the show, and I don’t want to leave e
  
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• The Star Wars community has ideas on what they'd make 'uncanon,' from Padme's death to Palpatine's return

  05-11-2024 17:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Star Wars community is debating what they'd make "uncanon" if they could – and there are tons of suggestions. "Palpatine never returns," is one fan's idea, while another has a similar quibble with the franchise: "The fact that Rey is a Palpatine. It would've been so much better is she was really just a nobody.""I'd veto the line 'General Grievous. You're shorter than I imagined,'" says someone else. "This single line forced [Dave] Filoni to bend over backwards keeping these really
  
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• Netflix is removing 20 interactive movies and shows – but not the Black Mirror special

  05-11-2024 16:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Netflix is removing 20 of its 24 interactive movies and shows from the streamer, including its first-ever interactive title that first premiered seven years ago.The only remaining interactive titles left to watch will be the movies Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend, and the survival shows Ranveer vs. Wild with Bear Grylls and You vs. Wild."The technology served its purpose, but is now limiting as we focus on technological efforts in other areas," a
  
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• Tormenture blurs the line between game and reality with its '80s-inspired game-within-a-game horror stylings

  05-11-2024 16:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Psychological horror adventure game Tormenture sends you back to the 1980s, drawing on terrifying classics, brought to you by publisher Billete Cohete (incubator of The Game Kitchen, creators of Blasphemous) and developer Croxel Studios.Tormenture puts you in the shoes of a young child drawn in by rumors of a cursed horror game, taking inspiration from the early consoles of the 1980s to create the Limbo 2800. Sitting alone in front of your 8-bit display, you'll have to unravel the mysteries of t
  
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• Agatha All Along's big reveal has changed the way Marvel fans watch WandaVision's final showdown

  05-11-2024 16:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Agatha All Along's double-billed finale not only confirmed that the Witches' Road was magically manifested by Billy, it revealed that Agatha has been using the idea of it to trick witches and absorb their powers for centuries. With that, Marvel fans have set about explaining how it recontextualizes WandaVision's conclusion, and how "stupidly powerful" Wanda must've been to have bested Agatha back in Westview..."On top of being the Scarlet Witch, she also absorbed a hundred-years worth of magic f
  
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• Epic calls off Fortnite tournament after the same map-destroying bug comes up 5 times in a row

  05-11-2024 16:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  What's the worst thing that could happen during a Fortnite tournament? I guess for many, the answer would simply be 'losing,' but one competitive player managed to get so unlucky that they encountered a map-breaking bug five games in a row before Epic Games eventually decided to cancel the rest of the tournament. Ouch.Over on Twitter, @Takiilmao (AKA Takii) has shared a clip of the moment where everything started to go wrong during the Reload Performance Evaluation earlier this week. As the Relo
  
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• Paddington in Peru director says the film pays tribute to the late Queen as "people have a lot of affection" for the beloved Platinum Jubilee sketch

  05-11-2024 15:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  In 2022, Paddington Bear enjoyed tea with Queen Elizabeth II for a sketch celebrating her Platinum Jubilee. Naturally, the charming short film quickly went viral and did so again later that year following the Queen's death in September. In fact, for many people the sketch took on new meaning, with thousands sharing a drawing of the Queen holding hands with Paddington to pay tribute to her.It was such a sensation that director Dougal Wilson knew he had to make reference to it in new film Paddingt
  
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• After 20 years of superhero movies, Tom Hanks weighs in on why he thinks audiences aren't as interested anymore – and reveals he's never had a meeting with Marvel

  05-11-2024 14:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tom Hanks's stellar career has charted the highs and lows of Hollywood, and he thinks he might have worked out the reason behind a rising trend. The Forrest Gump star shared his insight into superhero fatigue as part of a new interview, and it's all down to technical advances. Hanks told the Happy Sad Confused podcast that for many years in early superhero adaptations, the "technology did not exist to make it look like it did in the comic books". Whereas now, it does, which means "we are no
  
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• The Black Phone 2 production has begun, as director shares first cryptic behind the scenes look at the horror sequel

  05-11-2024 13:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cameras are rolling on The Black Phone 2, as director Scott Derrickson shares a cryptic behind the scenes look at the horror sequel. The first look, which you can see below, is rather mysterious – it's just a on-set glimpse at a chair labeled with The Black Phone 2. "Shooting started today," Derrickson captioned the picture. 
  A post shared by Scott Derrickson (@scottderrickson)A photo posted byonThe Black Phone 2 will see Ethan Hawke return as the Grabber, an evil serial killer w
  
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• Pokemon TCG Pocket playground rumors about boosting rare card chances are running wild, but at least this in-game event offers a good shot at getting a sparkly Lapras

  05-11-2024 13:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pokemon TCG Pocket has just launched its first 'Drop Event,' which gives players a chance to get their hands on a sparkly Lapras ex promo card by winning single-player battles, but there's a bit of luck involved.Pokemon's latest mobile venture launched last week, and it's proving to be very popular, so much so that there are already playground rumors aplenty about how to supposedly boost your chances of getting rare cards which you definitely shouldn't put too much stock into. They're mainly cen
  
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