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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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• Tron: Ares fires up a brand new trailer and brings light cycles into the real world

  05-04-2025 18:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Flynn lives! Well, at least we're pretty sure he is, as the brand-new trailer for Tron: Ares has fired up online, bringing with it a high-speed police chase with a light cycle cutting through the opposition and the digital dude himself warning of what's to come.Picking up from Joseph Kosinski's Tron: Legacy, the new threequel from director Joachim Rønning sees a highly sophisticated program named Ares (Leto) sent into the real world to show off just how cool neon can look when it needs to
  
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• Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies is manifesting DC star Viola Davis being the next iteration of the villainous Master, calling her "one of the greatest actors in the world"

  05-04-2025 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Given that beloved sci-fi series Doctor Who has been on air for over 60 years now, countless actors have featured either in major roles or as guest stars.From Simon Pegg playing a villainous editor in 'The Long Game' to Andrew Garfield facing off against aliens in 'Daleks in Manhattan', the seemingly endless list also includes Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya, Oscar winner Olivia Colman, and Black Panther's very own Letitia Wright – to name but a few.The question is then – who would showr
  
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• The Duskbloods' winged rat "elderly gentleman" was actually FromSoftware's rare attempt at something "Nintendo-esque" and "cute"

  05-04-2025 16:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  FromSoftware's The Duskbloods stirred up a lot of conversation when it was revealed as a Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive, partly because of that unexpected partnership, partly because of how it's a multiplayer-focused game, and partly because of the speculation that comes from showing off a mysterious rat thing at the end of your trailer. We now know that the winged rat creature is actually the studio's best attempt at doing something "Nintendo-esque" for a change.Cute creatures aren't exactly what
  
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• Nintendo accidentally leaks an unrevealed Donkey Kong Bananza character that might unironically have huge lore implications for the Mario universe

  05-04-2025 16:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Not many people were expecting the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct to reveal Donkey Kong Bananza, the character's first new game in over a decade and his first 3D adventure since the N64, but the game's mere existence isn't the only surprise. Nintendo itself (maybe) accidentally just showed off that an unrevealed character is front and centre in the game.(Naturally, there might be some spoilers for the game's, err marketing, but don't worry about spoilers for the game itself since we're just going to t
  
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• Forget about Nintendo Switch 2 exclusives - there's a new free Pokemon game on Google, of all places, if you know where to look

  05-04-2025 14:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Struggling to get a Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order? Bummed about those hefty game prices? Well, this free new browser-based Pokemon game won't make you forget about all those fancy upcoming Switch 2 games, but it will distract you for roughly half an hour.On April 4, Google released a free pseudo-game that has you searching for and collecting the original 151 Pokemon, but you need to know where to look to start. First, you need to be using Google on a mobile device. Then, you need to search up any
  
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• The Duskbloods is less Dark Souls and more Elden Ring Nightreign with "over a dozen characters" who can only "be customized to a certain extent"

  05-04-2025 13:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  FromSoftware's Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive, The Duskbloods, doesn't let you create a custom character like Dark Souls but instead has you picking and customizing a set of premade characters like Elden Ring Nightreign.Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Elden Ring, and The Duskbloods director Hidetaka Miyazaki himself broke down how the upcoming Switch 2 game works in a new Creator's Voice blog, revealing there are "over a dozen characters for the player to choose from, each with their own identity and appea
  
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• My Hero Academia: Vigilantes – when is episode 1 on Crunchyroll?

  05-04-2025 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Inarguably one of the most exciting new anime releases of the spring season, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes offers an exciting new window into the superhero series ahead of My Hero Academia's final season this fall.A series based around the hero Knuckleduster and two heroes-in-training, Vigilantes releases shortly. But you may be wondering just where (and when) you'll be able to catch the upcoming MHA spin-off.To help, we've put together a quick guide to the My Hero Academia: Vigilantes episode 1
  
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• Marvel's Thunderbolts CinemaCon footage may have just confirmed a long-running Reddit theory

  05-04-2025 12:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  In addition to revealing who else may or may not be getting a chair and joining the cast lineup for Avengers: Doomsday, Marvel showcased brand new footage for Thunderbolts at this year's CinemaCon, ahead of the film's release next month. More importantly, the footage may finally have confirmed fan theories about how and why the characters unite.Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hannah John-Kamen, and Wyatt Russell arrived in Red Guardian's limo to attend the event, and had new s
  
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• Pierce Brosnan's first day as James Bond was affected by an unfortunate injury, but he had an ingenious fix: "I shouldn't be even telling you this"

  05-04-2025 11:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Every actor that has picked up the license to kill and taken on the role of James Bond has had to take a few hits, but former 007 Pierce Brosnan might be one of the only ones to have caused issues on the first day of filming, thanks to injuries he got before he even started.Appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert about his upcoming show, MobLand, Brosnan shared some stories about his days working for MI6 and how his little finger created what could've been a big problem in his first Bond
  
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• X-Men's Storm actor Halle Berry denies she will be the next chair in the Avengers: Doomsday cast

  05-04-2025 10:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  While Chris Pratt promised that he has his own chair for Avengers: Doomsday, a former member of another legendary superteam has assured that you're not going to see one for her in the lead-up to the highly anticipated Marvel film. Making an appearance at CinemaCon this week for her new film, Crime 101, Halle Berry was asked if, along with the likes of classic X-Men stars Kelsey Grammer (Beast), James Marsden (Cyclops) Patrick Stewart (Charles Xavier), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Rebecca Romijn (Myst
  
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• Chris Pratt jokingly addresses his absence from Avengers: Doomsday casting announcement

  05-04-2025 09:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  It seemed that almost everyone and their superpowered aunt was on the guest list for Avengers: Doomsday following the livestream that ran for what felt like the duration of an Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame double bill. Mutants and first families and thunder gods, oh my! There were an awful lot of names revealed thanks to that carefully organized furniture, but one that didn't make an appearance was Chris Pratt, who joked about not getting a director's chair of his own this week.Wh
  
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• Switch 2 is getting an even more co-op-focused spinoff of a massively popular survival space sim, but it's not replacing the original: "Astroneer will continue to live on"

  05-04-2025 02:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions is an even more co-op focused spinoff of the massively popular survival space sim Astroneer, and it's coming to Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC sometime next year.Quietly revealed during the blitz of announcements that happened during this week's Switch 2 Direct, Starseeker is billed as "a new game set within the Astroneer universe with a focus on discovery, cooperative expeditions, and camaraderie." To be clear though, developer System Era Softwor
  
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• Forget $80 games, this $10 indie RPG is being hailed as "one of the best if not the best" cosmic horror games ever, and thank Cthulhu, it only takes "10-12 hours" to beat

  05-04-2025 01:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  There's a new horror game quietly making waves on Steam with "Overwhelmingly Positive" reviews ranking it among the top of several very different genres."Easily one of the best Survival Horror RPGs ever made.""One of the best if not the best cosmic horror experiences that you can have in gaming.""Look Outside is quite simply put one of the best turn based RPGs made in the last years.""This game belongs in the podium of best turn-based indie RPGs ever made, alongside Omori and Undertale.""Look Ou
  
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• Nintendo Switch 2 upgrades of Switch 1 games are getting physical releases, but nobody's sure if these are Switch 2 cartridges or old games repackaged with digital upgrade codes

  04-04-2025 23:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  An array of of first-party Switch games are getting "Nintendo Switch 2 Edition" upgrades promising a variety of graphical and gameplay updates. They're getting physical, retail releases, too, but Nintendo collectors have been faced with a lingering question: are these things coming on all-in-one Switch 2 cartridges, or are they simply repackaged Switch 1 carts being sold with digital upgrade codes?On every piece of Nintendo Switch 2 Edition box art the company has revealed so far, there's a mult
  
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• Dan Da Dan and Solo Leveling lead the list of Anime of the Year nominees in the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards

  04-04-2025 23:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  The nominees for the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards are here, with six blockbuster series leading the pack for the Anime of the Year trophy, including several nominees that should surprise no one.The six nominees for Anime of the Year include Dan Da Dan, Solo Leveling, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Delicious in Dungeon, Kaiju No. 8, and The Apothecary Diaries. Each of these mega-popular series is also nominated for numerous other categories across Crunchyroll's expansive awards, which cover near
  
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• Fantastic Four: The First Steps director unveils the movie's retro-futuristic space suits and practical sets: "I really wanted it to feel like it was made in 1965, the way Stanley Kubrick would have made it"

  04-04-2025 23:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  There's a new look at Fantastic Four: The First Steps - and it's giving Marvel meets 2001: A Space Odyssey."I really wanted to go with as grounded a version of space as possible," director Matt Shakman told Empire. "So, no wormholes. Their tech is very much retro-future, but it's also booster rockets. It’s a combination of Marvel and Apollo 11. I really wanted it to feel like it was made in 1965, the way Stanley Kubrick would have made it. Within reason." It's worth noting that the movie i
  
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• 31 years after working on the original System Shock, Arkane founder gave up on the 2023 remake because it was "too hard"

  04-04-2025 23:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite having worked on the original sci-fi FPS as a playtester three decades ago, Arcane Studios founder Raphaël Colantonio says he's given up on the 2023 System Shock remake after becoming "frustrated" by its difficult gameplay.For some context, Colantonio helped out with QA on the original System Shock when he was at EA in the early 90s, and he says that experience was a pivotal moment in his career."I was already hooked [on video games] when I had a chance to playtest System Shock back
  
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• Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies reassures fans that this season's "standalone" Ruby Sunday episode does feature "lots" of the Doctor unlike '73 Yards', as star Ncuti Gatwa calls it his favorite

  04-04-2025 23:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Doctor Who season 2 is just around the corner now, bringing with it a new set of adventures through time and space as Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor returns.Just like with every season, audiences can expect wild variety with the episodes, with everything from stories being set 500,000 years into the future to one revolving around the Interstellar Song Contest, the show's take on Eurovision.Everyone will naturally have their favorite from the new season, so GamesRadar+ decided to ask the cast for
  
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• Super Mario All-Stars speedrunner sets triumphant world record only to suffer SNES cart tragedy 90 seconds later: "I guess it's not safe to do any more runs until I give it a good clean"

  04-04-2025 22:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Prolific Mario speedrunner Kosmic set a new world record in the Super Mario All-Stars version of The Lost Levels this week, and he was on pace for a "massive" improvement in an even bigger category until he suddenly suffered a horrible fate those of us who lived through the cartridge era know all too well – a sudden crash blamed on dirty connectors.Super Mario All-Stars is a SNES collection featuring upgraded, 16-bit versions of 8-bit Mario games, and it was the first chance players worldw
  
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• Liam Neeson is beating up bank robbers while wearing a skirt in first trailer for The Naked Gun reboot from The Lonely Island director

  04-04-2025 22:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for Paramount's Naked Gun reboot has arrived, with Liam Neeson taking over the role of Frank Drebin Jr., the son of the original Frank Drebin, originated by late actor Leslie Nielsen. Liam Neeson… Leslie Nielsen… You get it.The character of Frank Drebin originally debuted in the short-lived TV show Police Squad where he was played by Leslie Nielsen, spinning off into 1988's film Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad. The movie managed to land a pair of sequel
  
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• "That was not going to work for Valve": Canceled Half-Life spinoff game Ravenholm was "great, frankly," says Arkane founder, but it couldn’t survive under Valve's "very clear business plan"

  04-04-2025 20:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  The canceled Half-Life spinoff game – what could have been another episodic follow-up to Half-Life 2 – Ravenholm was just as good as you might have dreamed it to be, says the founder of its developer Arkane Studios Raphaël Colantonio, but it couldn't exist under Valve's high-speed business model."We needed another year – at least six months," Colantonio tells the Quad Damage Podcast in a new interview. "Valve had a very clear business plan for those Episodes. You know, the
  
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• Wade Wilson absorbs the powers of the Fantastic Four to take on Doctor Doom in Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe One Last Time #4

  04-04-2025 19:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Wade Wilson has taken on some of the most powerful beings in the Marvel Universe, even going face-to-face with cosmic forces and coming out on top. Now, in Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe One Last Time #4, he'll face one of his toughest challenges ever as he battles the Doctor Doom of an alt-reality.But he's not totally unprepared. In this case, writer Cullen Bunn and artist Dalibor Talajić have imbued Wade Wilson with the powers of Doom's arch-enemies, the Fantastic Four, giving him abi
  
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• Hidetaka Miyazaki can't help himself and now The Duskbloods sounds even more like a Bloodborne successor: "The Bloodsworn are competing for something known as First Blood"

  04-04-2025 19:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Duskbloods immediately looked like an Elden Ring-style open-world take on Bloodborne, though the revelation that it's set to be a multiplayer PvPvE game quickly made clear that it is something fundamentally different. Still, director Hidetaka Miyazaki and the crew at FromSoftware are clearly building on Bloodborne's dilapidated world fueled by powerful blood with the new concept of "Bloodsworn" and "First Blood.""We tried to extract the sort of romantic aspects we found interesting from conc
  
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• Disney pauses live-action Tangled movie from The Greatest Showman director after Snow White bombs at the box office

  04-04-2025 18:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Just a few months after it was officially confirmed, the live-action adaptation of Tangled has been put on hold.Per The Hollywood Reporter, the project is no longer in active development. It was announced in December 2024 that The Greatest Showman helmer Michael Gracey would direct the pic from a screenplay penned by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Thor: Love and Thunder).The cancellation comes in the wake of Disney's live-action Snow White, which has earned only $69 million domestically and $145 mill
  
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• Legend of Zelda shippers are on serious hopium over Tears of the Kingdom's new voice memories, thinking one might possibly solidify ZeLink as canon

  04-04-2025 18:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  This week's Nintendo Switch 2 Direct news gave fans a first look at what's to come on the new console from Nintendo, including revamped editions of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom for the Switch 2 – and some changes might just confirm the ship of the century.If you're wondering what ship that is, it's ZeLink, of course – the pairing between the titular princess herself and Link, the series' primary protagonist. While a romance between the two hasn't explicitly been establ
  
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• Everyone's favorite onscreen runner Tom Cruise gave Glen Powell some humbling advice before he started shooting Stephen King adaptation: "You don't look as cool as you think"

  04-04-2025 18:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Glen Powell has recalled the time he turned to Tom Cruise for some very specific advice before he started shooting his upcoming sci-fi movie The Running Man.During the Creative Community Luncheon at CinemaCon 2025, Powell, who starred opposite Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick, described the Mission: Impossible actor as "a guy that doesn't hide his excitement about what this all means."Per Deadline, he went on say: "When I was cast, Tom was my first call … to learn how to run. [I was like] ' Yo
  
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• Arkane Studios founder says he could see himself "working on Dishonored 3 right now," though creating a sequel was "the last thing I wanted to do" after making the first game

  04-04-2025 18:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dishonored is one of my favorite games of all time. I love it so much I have a tattoo of Corvo's mask. Raphael Colontonio was the director of the fantastic stealth game, and he could actually see himself working on Dishonored 3."After Dishonored 1, for example, the last thing I wanted to do for the next four years of my life was Dishonored 2," says Colontonio, creative director at WolfEye studios and the founder of Arkane, in an interview on the Quad Damage podcast. "In general, I like to create
  
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• Hidetaka Miyazaki shares The Duskbloods worries of some Elden Ring and Dark Souls fans: "I personally am not much of a PvP person, and I wanted to make something that's satisfying even for players like me"

  04-04-2025 18:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Duskbloods, a whole new FromSoftware game led by Dark Souls and Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki, was one of the biggest surprises from this week's Nintendo Switch 2 Direct news. The Switch 2-exclusive PvPvE game is set to launch sometime next year on Nintendo's upcoming console, but if you were worried about the focus on PvP, it sounds like the director has got you covered.Speaking in a Creator's Voice interview in a new series of Nintendo blog posts, Miyazaki explains that "at its cor
  
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• Insomniac is "actively working on Marvel's Wolverine for PS5" but won't share news just because you ask: "Things take time, resources, and the greenlight to share them"

  04-04-2025 17:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been nearly four years since Marvel's Wolverine was announced, and outside of the debut teaser trailer developer Insomniac has had very little to say about the game. Some fans are getting a little, er, aggressive in their requests for news, and the devs are responding in no-nonsense terms to say they're only going to share news when they're good and ready."We're actively working on Marvel's Wolverine for PS5," Insomniac said in response to one particularly cantankerous request for news. "We
  
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