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• Sonic 3 gets an action-packed new trailer featuring Keanu Reeves' Shadow with a gun and a spot-on Pikachu joke

  25-11-2024 15:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new trailer for Sonic 3 has been released, and it features a new look at the upcoming threequel.In the latest trailer, Sonic and his pals are enjoying a peaceful lunch at the Chao Garden when Tails is mistaken for Detective Pikachu, and some killer robots turn up. Then we get our best look yet at Shadow who looks like a terrifying new foe. You can watch it above.The main crux of the story for the threequel sees Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles reuniting to face a powerful new enemy in Shadow the He
  
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• PlayStation veteran Shuhei Yoshida, who's been around since the very beginning, is leaving Sony after 31 years: "PlayStation is in really good hands"

  27-11-2024 01:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  PlayStation veteran Shuhei Yoshida is leaving the company after 31 years.As announced on the PlayStation Blog, the former SIE Worldwide Studios president will leave Sony early next year."I’m leaving Sony Interactive Entertainment on January 15 2025," Yoshida said. "It’s like announcing the launch date of a new game, [something] I haven’t done for a long time [laughs]."Yoshida was one of the original members of Sony's PlayStation project going all the way back to February 1993,
  
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• Squid Game season 2 trailer teases brutal new games and a whole new group of people to endure them

  27-11-2024 00:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new trailer for the highly anticipated Squid Game season 2 has arrived - and we caught a glimpse of what seem to be bigger games than ever before, and with even higher stakes.In the brief clip, which can be viewed below, we see a new group of people being beckoned into the game as 456 and co.fight to survive against brutal, bloody new challenges."As new games unfold, the stakes grow deadlier, and Gi-hun’s mission to end the games once and for all takes center stage. Will he succeed, or
  
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• Official Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero tournament ends in disaster as finalists fly up and down for 10 minutes straight, which some fans insist is peak performance

  27-11-2024 00:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  The devs behind Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero have made clear that it's "definitely not an esports game" from the very start, and that assertion has very much proven true even as official Bandai Namco-sponsored tournaments get underway. The French qualifiers for the game's Dramatic Showdown tournament ended in disaster as a pair of players showed just how far those intentionally imbalanced mechanics can be broken, and the community's split on whether it should be fixed.The Dramatic Showdown tournam
  
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• An unlikely DCU actor says he "worked more days than anybody else" on The Suicide Squad, "including" Margot Robbie

  26-11-2024 23:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Creature Commandos star Steve Agee says he didn't expect John Economos to carry over into the DCU - especially given the fact that he spent more time on the Suicide Squad set as a CGI shark than Margot Robbie did as Harley Quinn."John Economos' role in Suicide Squad was a guy in the computer room, and he had some funny stuff, some comic relief stuff. And my role of King Shark - the motion capture for King Shark was way bigger. I think I worked more days than anybody else on the movie, including
  
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• The devs behind the excellent League of Legends Metroidvania are making a Diablo-style co-op action RPG where everyone's a sexy surfer plundering randomized islands

  26-11-2024 22:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Double Stallion, the studio behind the stellar League of Legends Metroidvania spinoff Convergence, is making a new co-op action RPG called Surfpunk that, frankly, looks totally rad.Surfpunk was actually first announced a few months ago, but somehow it's managed to slip right past my radar until its latest trailer, showcasing a newly revealed class with a throwable anchor and chain. But I'm putting the cart before the horse here; let me explain what Surfpunk actually is.Double Stallion describes
  
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• Creature Commandos star Frank Grillo says Peacemaker season 2 is all about revenge, teases his role in James Gunn's Superman

  26-11-2024 22:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Creature Commandos star Frank Grillo plays Rick Flag Sr. in the new animated series, but the role doesn't stop there."In Creature Commandos, I got the uniform. I got the yellow shirt and the hair, and, you know, he's really part of that world. And then in Superman and even more so in Peacemaker, I take over for Viola Davis in what she was the leader of Argus. So now I become almost an administrator," Grillo explains I'm wearing a suit. I go from being boots on the ground badass to now being in c
  
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• Win a copy of Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld

  26-11-2024 20:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Artist Paul Kidby first started working with Sir Terry Pratchett back in 1993, and following the death of fellow artist Josh Kirby in 2002, was responsible for the Discworld book jackets. Lavish new hardback Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld goes behind the scenes of that partnership, showing how the author’s universe was brought to life, with Kidby breaking down how key elements of the Discworld universe were visualised. The final chapter is a particular treat: it offers de
  
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• Win a Blu-ray of Alien: Romulus

  26-11-2024 19:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Set between the events of Alien and Aliens, the ninth entry in the franchise (if you’re not discounting those Predator team-ups...) has a decidedly youthful feel, centring as it does on a bunch of young folk from a mining colony who see an opportunity to escape their hardscrabble existence when a derelict  Weyland-Yutani station station drifts towards the planet. Unfortunately, what they don’t factor in when they hatch a salvage plan is that there may be numerous xenomorph faceh
  
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• Star Fox 64 joins Mario and Zelda as the latest Nintendo 64 classic to get a native PC port

  26-11-2024 19:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Last week, the folks behind Ship of Harkinian - the unofficial PC port of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - announced that Star Fox 64 is the next Nintendo 64 classic to get the lavish port treatment. That means we'll all soon be able to enjoy Star Fox 64 in full 60 FPS, widescreen glory, with loads of room for mods and other enhancements to the original game.In a Discord announcement on November 22, the group said that it's "pleased to announce the development of Starship - a PC port of St
  
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• Get a year of Disney Plus and Hulu for just $3 a month in this ridiculous Black Friday deal

  26-11-2024 18:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stop the presses everyone, because the best Disney Plus deal I've ever seen has made a comeback in honor of Black Friday.Let's cut right to the chase. If you act fast, you can pick up both Disney Plus and Hulu (both with ads) for just $2.99 per month for an entire year instead of the usual $10.99p/m rate. Yep, that's right; after a spot of quick math, I reckon you're saving something close to $95 across 12 months compared to the usual price, all in honor of Black Friday.I was hoping this would h
  
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• Aquaman battles a giant water kaiju in this preview of his new DC All In series

  26-11-2024 18:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Is that a sword made out of water? It sure looks like it, as DC releases a first look at the art for the return of Aquaman's upcoming new series. And that's not the only thing that's different about Arthur Curry as the King of the Seven Seas returns in a new series written by Jeremy Adams and illustrated by John Timms. Thanks to the events of Absolute Power, Aquaman will have some brand new powers – and it sounds like he'll need them, with a terrifying new foe on the way..."In the wake of
  
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• Arcane season 1 teased Ekko's "boy savior" role in season 2's climactic moments – but actor Reed Shannon says he still "never saw it coming"

  26-11-2024 18:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  The actor behind Ekko in Arcane season 2 says he "never saw" his character's role in the finale coming - even though it's been hinted at since season 1.This article contains spoilers for Arcane season 2.In the final episode of the Arcane's Afterglow series, Ekko actor Reed Shannon was asked about his response to his character's pivotal role in the final act of season 2. Unlocking his League of Legends time-travel abilities in episode 7, Ekko goes on to essentially save the day, disrupting Viktor
  
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• Arcane showrunner reveals which death hit him in the hardest in season 2: "I just feel like more should've been said"

  26-11-2024 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The series finale of Arcane season 2 saw Vi, Ekko, and more go up against Viktor's gloriously evolved minions, as Zaun and Piltover joined forces to save humanity from being wiped out. Given the all-out war, it's hardly surprising that some characters didn't make it to the end credits and now, co-creator Christian Linke has revealed which death – or deaths, more accurately – hit him the hardest."To me, the Jayce/Viktor ending, to a certain degree, feels unresolved," he admitted on th
  
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• Rune Factory creator and longtime Story of Seasons producer reveals new guild management fantasy RPG with romance elements

  26-11-2024 17:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Longtime Story of Seasons producer and the creator of the Rune Factory series, Yoshifumi Hashimoto, is producing a brand new fantasy RPG, and a short reveal trailer has given us our first look at what it's about.As Automaton reports, the game – which is being developed by Rune Factory studio Hakama – is called Progress Orders, and it'll see the protagonist join a guild in order to look for clues about their missing grandfather. In the process, they also awaken to a special ability &n
  
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• The Witcher 4 has "entered the full-scale production phase," CD Projekt Red confirms: "Stay tuned for what’s on the other side of the coin"

  26-11-2024 17:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  CD Projekt Red has confirmed that Project Polaris - which normal humans like you and me call The Witcher 4 - has officially "entered the full-scale production phase.""I'm thrilled to announce that Project Polaris has entered the full-scale production phase," game director Sebastian Kalemba says on Twitter. "With new challenges just around the corner, it’s the talented and hard-working people who make me believe we can together make the upcoming Witcher Saga a remarkable experience. No stop
  
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• If I were you, I'd grab this Atari 400 mini and force the kids to play crusty old games over Thanksgiving

  26-11-2024 17:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  I totally get why the youths of today might understand why the Atari 400 Mini rocks, but I think it's our job to show them why. I'm not saying you have to cause World War 3 this Thanksgiving by yanking the HDMI cable out of the living room PS5 and interrupting a Fortnite session. But, you could pick this tiny microcomputer homage up and sneak it on screen using a Black Friday deal.Okay, here's the plan - first, swing by Amazon and pick up an Atari 400 Mini for $99.99. Then all you have to do is
  
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• Skeleton Crew release schedule: When is episode 1 of the Star Wars show on Disney Plus?

  26-11-2024 17:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  We're heading back to a galaxy far, far away with new Disney Plus series Skeleton Crew. The latest adventure in the Star Wars universe follows a group of young travelers who discover something incredible on their home planet. This sets them on a journey across the galaxy where they soon find more than they've bargained for. Jude Law leads the adult cast as Force-user Jod Na Nawood along with youngsters Ravi Cabot-Conyers as Wim, Ryan Kiera Armstrong as Fern, Kyriana Kratter as KB, and Robert Tim
  
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• Coffins and hedgehogs are the latest entries in the bizarre popcorn bucket race thanks to Sonic 3 and Nosferatu

  26-11-2024 17:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  The year may almost be over, but two new popcorn buckets have entered the race for the most bizarre cinema snack receptacle courtesy of two of our most highly anticipated 2024 releases still to come: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Nosferatu.The Sonic bucket is the head of the 'hog himself, with theatergoers able to access their popcorn through the top of his skull. Yum. As for Nosferatu, the popcorn bucket tie-in for the vampire movie is – fittingly – a coffin, with your cinema snack benea
  
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• Crisis Core Final Fantasy 7 Reunion dropping back to its lowest ever price this Black Friday is worth a fanfare

  26-11-2024 17:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  I've endured every single Final Fantasy VII spin-off, side game, and sequel out there that I've been able to get my hands on. But, most of them have failed to live up to the pure joy I felt infiltrating the first Mako Reactor as Cloud and his pals during the original game. Crisis Core, the PSP prequel, changed all that, and while it's still miles behind my love of the OG game, it's an FF7 spin-off any fan owes it to themselves to play.Now,Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion has dropped to jus
  
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• The Witcher and its sequel are 2 of over 100 games in GOG's growing preservation program as CD Projekt Red hopes Geralt's story will "live forever"

  26-11-2024 16:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Witcher and its sequel will "remain accessible and optimized for modern players" as they're both part of GOG's new Preservation Program, which developer CD Projekt Red hopes will allow Geralt's story to "live forever."In a post announcing the two games' inclusion in the Preservation Program, which currently includes 102 games, CD Projekt Red says that The Witcher and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings "represent the roots of our journey," and "with the care and attention of our friends from t
  
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• Arcane's finale was originally longer as the showrunner admits "some things" were cut

  26-11-2024 16:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arcane's co-creator Christian Linke reveals that some content was cut from the finale of the animated Netflix series.Previously, Linke – who is also showrunner on the League of Legends tie-in – had said in an interview with Dexerto that the initial cut of the ninth and final episode of Arcane season 2 was over an hour long.“The first version came back from [animation studio] Fortiche and they’re like, ‘Guys, it’s over an hour long. We can’t do this.&rsqu
  
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• Star Wars: Skeleton Crew will arrive on Disney Plus earlier than expected as list of directors is revealed

  26-11-2024 16:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star Wars: Skeleton Crew will arrive on Disney Plus a little bit earlier than we thought.The new show is now premiering on the streaming platform in the US on Monday, December 2, one day earlier than the previously scheduled release of December 3. However, the rest of the episodes will still be released on Tuesdays every week.Starring Jude Law, Skeleton Crew is a different kind of Star Wars adventure. As we saw in the official trailer released earlier this month, this is an Amblin-esque coming-o
  
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• I'd be willing to bet your favorite podcaster uses this microphone, and it's discounted for Black Friday

  26-11-2024 15:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  You don't have to watch many podcasts before you see someone talking into Shure's iconic SM7dB microphone. This black, classy, epic-sounding mic turns up in so much content these days, and for good reason. It's versatile, it sounds great when you talk close to it, and it has a design that hides annoying cable clutter so it looks great on camera.Since it's so popular and has a high level of quality, it's no surprise that it's an expensive piece of kit. So much so that the majority of streamers, g
  
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• After releasing Zelda and Persona spin-offs, Dynasty Warriors dev would love to bring the series' brand of large-scale hack-and-slash fun to Star Wars and Lord of the Rings

  26-11-2024 15:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  The studio behind Dynasty Warriors has brought its style of large-scale beat 'em ups to plenty of series from Zelda to Persona, though one developer wouldn't stop there given the choice. Asked what team-up he'd like to pursue the most, Dynasty Warriors: Origins producer Tomohiko Sho has eyes for Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings.Dynasty Warriors: Origins is the next in a long line of Musou games from developer Omega Force – games with light RPG elements that typically excel at the simple
  
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• Vampire tale Blood Type will be the first serialized comic from Oni Press's EC Comics horror imprint

  26-11-2024 14:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Next year's Free Comic Book Day is shaping up to be a big one, with publishers already starting to reveal some of the titles they'll have on offer to lure readers into participating comic stores. Now Oni Press has announced EC Comics Presents Blood Type #0 – a special preview edition of the first serialized story to be published by the revived horror imprint.'Blood Type' was a short story originally published in September's Epitaphs from the Abyss #3. Written by Corinna Bechko and illustra
  
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• The "choppy" animation on Powder and Ekko's dance scene in Arcane season 2 is actually a heart-wrenching Easter egg

  26-11-2024 14:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arcane fans have noticed a heart-wrenching detail about Powder and Ekko's "choppy" dance scene in season 2 – and well, we'll never be the same again.Episode 7, titled 'Pretend Like It's the First Time', catches up with Ekko (Reed Shannon), Jayce (Kevin Alejandro), and Heimerdinger (Mick Wingert) after their bizarre experience in the Hex Vault. Turns out, the Anomaly spat them all out into parallel universes; Jayce ends up in some post-apocalyptic wasteland while Ekko and Heimerdinger end u
  
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• Arcane showrunner teases the next League of Legends project – and doesn't rule out a movie: "It comes down to finding the right people, the right vision, the right story"

  26-11-2024 13:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  After revealing a new League of Legends show is in the works during a recent Twitch interview, Arcane co-creator and showrunner Christian Linke has opened up further on the early creative stages of a post-Arcane project set in Runeterra – and isn't ruling out a movie."Yeah, they take time. What I said [in the Twitch interview] was we're exploring these regions – Noxus, Ionia – and we always focus on characters, you know?" Linke told GamesRadar+. "When we think about stories we
  
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• Here's how to get Paramount Plus for just $3 a month this Black Friday

  26-11-2024 13:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  We may not have seen a Disney Plus deal yet, but this Black Friday Paramount Plus saving makes up for it.You can currently snatch up the streaming service's 'Essential' tier or the bundle with Showtime for just $2.99 per month for the first two months. Considering how Paramount Plus Essential is normally $7.99 and the Paramount Plus/Showtime bundle weighs in at $12.99p/m, that translates to $5 or $10 off respectively. A 76% saving isn't bad by any stretch, but it's especially good over Black Fri
  
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• Shadow fans think they've spotted a heartbreaking video game reference in the latest Sonic 3 trailer

  26-11-2024 13:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  One moment in the latest Sonic the Hedgehog 3 trailer has fans convinced a heartbreaking Shadow moment is coming to the big screen.As pointed out on Reddit, the scene, featuring Shadow and Maria (Alyla Browne) sitting in a field of flowers looks very similar to a moment from the game Sonic x Shadow Generations: Dark Beginnings. In the games, Maria is the terminally ill granddaughter of Gerald Robotnik (and Dr. Eggman's cousin) who befriends Shadow while living on her grandfather's space colony.
  
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