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• Twisters director explains why his live-action adaptation of hit anime Your Name didn't work out: "I realized I had written something I just couldn't even shoot"

  22-11-2024 13:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Twisters director Lee Isaac Chung has spoken about his take on the live-action adaptation of Your Name.Your Name, released back in 2016, is considered one of the best anime movies of all time (our own Your Name review gives the movie the full 5 stars). Chung was set to helm a live-action remake in 2020, but departed the project in 2021."That was a situation in which I just loved all the people so much," Chung told Empire magazine."I like the animated film," he added, "but what I didn't realise i
  
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• Will there be an Arcane season 3? Here's what the creators have said about what's coming next

  23-11-2024 09:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  That's it. Arcane has officially come to a close after just two seasons. But with the enduring popularity and previous (muddled) talk over a 'five season plan' for one of the best Netflix shows around, it's worth cutting through all the noise on whether Arcane season 3 was ever in the works and what could be the next project to come from the League of Legends universe.So, join us as we poke and prod our way through talk of Arcane season 3 and what new Arcane-adjacent shows, if any, are currently
  
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• Dragon Age creator admits "honouring previous game choices" is "a sucker's game" because "you will never be able to deliver divergent plot"

  23-11-2024 02:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former Dragon Age lead writer and series creator David Gaider has shared some insights into the difficulty of importing player choices from previous games in a series into the new entry, calling the practice "a sucker's game."Over on Bluesky, Gaider shared a lengthy thread about an issue that arose during development on Dragon Age: Inquisition. There was a decision from all the way back in Dragon Age: Origins which can lead to Morrigan having a baby that has the soul of the Draconic Old God
  
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• Legendary Super Mario 64 speedrunner tries to beat the game blindfolded on a dance pad and fails, but not as badly as you or I would

  23-11-2024 00:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Bubzia, the Super Mario 64 speedrunner primarily known for running the game blindfolded, has just embarked on a new challenge. He's now running Super Mario 64 blindfolded on a dance pad. The first attempt didn't exactly go well, but I guarantee it turned out better than you or I could've managed.All of Mario's controls were mapped to the dance pad, but these things don't have quite enough buttons to handle a full N64 platformer, so Bubzia also kept hold of a standard controller to manipulate the
  
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• Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is "strengthening timeout penalties" for rage-quitting, but all players want is for the quitters to lose

  22-11-2024 23:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is dialing up its anti-rage-quit measures, but players seem pretty unified in wanting an additional penalty: you rage-quit, you lose that match.Right now, there really isn't any meaningful punishment for rage-quitting aside from increased matchmaking time, but in a tweet, Bandai Namco says it's "strengthening timeout penalties against players with excessive disconnection or quitting rates during online matches." Essentially, it sounds like it'll put rage-quitters in ti
  
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• Arcane season 2 showrunner admits he's "somewhat anxious" about the finale because there aren't many TV shows "that had an ending that everyone is satisfied with"

  22-11-2024 22:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arcane co-creator Christian Linke says he's (understandably) excited but anxious about Arcane's season 2 finale."I'm really happy that so far, our season is landing well. I'm somewhat anxious, because, as someone who watches TV, I don't know how many TV shows you've watched that had an ending that everyone is satisfied with. The list is not very long, so it is intimidating. And, you know, this is the end," Linke tells GamesRadar+. Season 1 ended back in November 2021, and didn't return unti
  
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• Thor just came face to face with the last Asgardian he ever expected, and it could change everything

  22-11-2024 22:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Immortal Thor #17 by writer Al Ewing, artist Jan Bazaldua, color artist Matt Hollingsworth, and letterer Joe Sabino reintroduces a long lost Asgardian who could change everything for Thor - including his place as the Marvel Universe's God of Thunder and King of Asgard.What's more, it's all tied to Thor's old enemy the Enchantress, who is now officially closer to the throne of Asgard than she's ever been. We'll explain it all right now.
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• Netflix subpoenas Discord to find the Arcane and Squid Game leaker who claimed responsibility for "the worst leak in streaming history"

  22-11-2024 22:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Netflix would really like to know who's responsible for dropping those Arcane season 2 and Squid Game season 2 spoilers across the internet, and they've filed a subpoena demanding Discord reveal this person's identity.As Polygon reports, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a subpoena compelling Discord to provide "information sufficient to identify the individual user(s) of the account @jacejohns4n, responsible for the unauthorized posting of a cop
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 dev says Stalker 2's commercial success is proof of a "seismic shift behind so much" and players are "hungry for hyper-engaging, focused experiences"

  22-11-2024 21:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Michael Douse, the publishing director of Larian Studios, the folks behind Baldur's Gate 3, has some thoughts on the commercially successful launch of Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl.Stalker 2's publisher, GSC World, recently announced "a million copies were sold" since launch, not to mention "much more stalkers" playing on Game Pass. All in all, it's a tremendous success for a game facing the unprecedented headwinds that Stalker has with the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.Douse took
  
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• On the eve of its finale, Arcane showrunner says "people will really not be ready" for the first episode of Act 3: "It lives a bit on its own"

  22-11-2024 21:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arcane co-creator Christian Linke says even though some fan theories have been pretty spot on, we're not ready for what's to come in the first episode of Act 3 of season 2."People really will not be ready for what we're doing in episode 7, which people will see tonight. 207, it lives a bit on its own, I'll say that," Linke tells GamesRadar+. "And I think in a really wonderful way."Fans have had a week to catch their breath after season 2 episode 6, which ended Act 2. The episode, titled "The Mes
  
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• Spidey enlists the Black Cat to help him break into Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum in Amazing Spider-Man #62

  22-11-2024 19:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  The 8 Deaths of Spider-Man has sent Peter Parker into a whirlwind of death and destruction, and he's already died and been resurrected once in his mission to defeat all eight Scions of Cyttorak. Now, in this exclusive preview of Amazing Spider-Man #62, he's teaming up with Black Cat to break into Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum.The big twist is, of course, that Spider-Man is currently in the employ of Doctor Doom, who stole the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme from Strange, and who gave Spidey his
  
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• Amazon's full Black Friday sale is now live - these are the 10 deals I'd buy this weekend

  22-11-2024 18:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's that time of year again, so the gaming deals are flying thick and fast at Amazon in honor of Black Friday. Yes, I know - the sale doesn't officially start until next week. But Amazon doesn't seem to have gotten the memo, so here we are.Discounts on everything from laptops to accessories are tumbling down like a bargains avalanche, and it's easy to feel numb when you're buried to the eyeballs in all those savings. That's why I've corralled what I think are Amazon's best gaming deals of Black
  
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• Diablo: Dawn of Hatred launches on Free Comic Book Day – 7 years after Titan announced that it would publish comics set in the world of Blizzard's dungeon crawler

  22-11-2024 18:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Titan is set to release a new series of Diablo comics, seven years after the publisher first announced that it would be releasing titles set in the world of Blizzard's dungeon crawler. The new series, Diablo: Dawn of Hatred, will be written by Cullen Bunn and illustrated by artist Daniele Serra, working with colorist Jovanna Plata. It's set after the events of Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred, the game's recent expansion pack.While concrete plot details about the new comic are currently sparse, Titan
  
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• Assassin's Creed Shadows' new floor assassinations are as hilarious as they are deadly

  22-11-2024 18:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Shadows will be the first game in the series to introduce the ability to go prone, and one of the new assassinations this enables looks hilarious.As we recently wrote about, there are a lot of new stealth mechanics in Assassin's Creed Shadows for you to enjoy. My personal favorite is that double assassinations are back, but I now realize I'd completely overlooked the comedic potential of prone assassinations.In a video shared on Twitter by ac_landmarks, we see Naoe barrel roll o
  
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• Mysterious Helldivers 2 update drops an Illuminate teaser so obvious that it's downright suspicious: "I wouldn't be surprised if they were just trolling us"

  22-11-2024 18:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Helldivers 2 players have been speculating for months when and if the Illuminate faction from the first game could ever make a return in the gloriously democratic sequel, but what looks like the most obvious teaser yet has some fans feeling suspicious.As highlighted by VG247, over on SteamDB today, Helldivers 2's update history revealed something a tad strange. Developer Arrowhead made some changes to some of the game's depots (essentially, groups of files), with the term "gameplay_illuminates"
  
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• Final Fantasy 14 Mobile kicked off 5 years ago when "a small team of die-hard" fans proposed the idea to MMO lead Yoshi-P, "armed with a 100-page proposal"

  22-11-2024 18:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 14 is coming to mobile soon, and it turns out that the project has been years in the making now - after being kickstarted by none other than the game's community itself.After Dawntrail came the ever-loaded patch 7.1, but there's even more exciting news for fans of Final Fantasy 14 now - its upcoming launch on mobile platforms. The on-the-go version of the beloved MMO was only recently unveiled, but it has been in production for quite some time now. As revealed in an official messag
  
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• The Simpsons: Hit & Run's own lead designer can't believe the open-world game's speedrunning scene: "I don't think we knew about a single one of these optimizations"

  22-11-2024 18:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Simpsons: Hit & Run is an unlikely classic - a rare actually good licensed game of the PS2 era, and one that continues to have a strong fanbase to this day. The open-world game's robust speedrunning has recently come under a bigger spotlight thanks to a new video from YouTube documentarian Summoning Salt, and one of the game's original devs is among the many people shocked to see how fans have pushed the game over the past 21 years.Joe McGinn, who served as the lead designer on Hit &
  
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• The PS5 just crashed to a record-low price - and we're still a week away from Black Friday

  22-11-2024 18:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  I've never seen the PS5 Slim cheaper than this. Amazon has both the disc and digital consoles on the shelves for their lowest prices yet, with one full week to go before Black Friday. That's a seriously impressive offer, with $75 / £80 off both devices marking new record-lows in the wake of Sony's official sale.The full console is down to $424 / £399.99 at Amazon today, marking the first time the disc version has ever dropped below $449 / £409. I was fully expecting this model
  
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• Stalker 2 sleuth discovers why the AI feels particularly harsh - it's because it is, but the devs say they're already working to fix the broken monster spawns

  22-11-2024 17:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stalker 2 is set in a fictional version of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, where strange anomalies defy the laws of physics, but even that doesn't explain why I so often saw enemies spawn right in front of my eyes.In our three-star review of Stalker 2, Andy says it's "The best but most broken game I've played all year", and I agree. One of the issues I noticed in my review was that enemies appear to spawn out of nowhere and instantly start hunting you down.I know the Zone is supposed to be a hosti
  
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• Dark Souls' toughest boss duo has been transformed into some stylish glassware, which feels like fitting revenge for all the times they killed me

  22-11-2024 17:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Bandai Namco is serving up some stunning new merch for FromSoftware stans, this time in the form of a goblet and tankard representing Dark Souls' most iconic boss duo - none other than Ornstein and Smough.If you're like me and have spent your fair share of grueling moments dying to Anor Londo's resilient knight and executioner combo, you may be interested in some sort of trophy marking your emergence from beyond the fog wall. That's where Bandai Namco's official Ornstein goblet and Smough tankar
  
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• Marvel star Anthony Mackie has a surprising favorite superhero – and no, it's not Falcon or Captain America

  22-11-2024 16:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Captain America: Brave New World star Anthony Mackie has revealed his favorite Marvel superhero – and it's not who you'd expect."My favorite character of all time is the Incredible Hulk," Mackie told Deadline. "I've always been a Hulk fan. When I was a kid, I used to watch the TV shows. I just always loved the Hulk."But, he does have a small question about the character. “I always wondered, 'How come everything came off except the pants?' Everything – his shirt, his shoes &ndas
  
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• An extended version of one of the past decade's best anime movies is now streaming for the first time ever and it's got 39 minutes of footage "never before seen outside of Japan"

  22-11-2024 16:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  The extended cut of the anime movie In This Corner of the World is now streaming outside of Japan for the first time ever.The longer version is titled In This Corner (And Other Corners) of the World, and it features 39 minutes of extra footage – which, remarkably, makes it the longest animated film ever made at a runtime of 168 minutes. The Sunao Katabuchi-directed wartime drama is available on anime streaming service Crunchyroll.In This Corner of the World revolves around a woman named Su
  
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• Black Friday DualSense deals have been cheaper but these PS5 discounts are better than nothing

  22-11-2024 16:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Sony DualSense is easily my favorite controller this gen. While not enough studios make use of its fancy haptic tech, I can't imagine playing some of my favorite PS5 games like Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart and Astro Bot without it. Sadly, this cool tech comes at a price. There are a ton of more affordable third-party alternatives but Sony's haptic ownership would mean doing without one of my favorite features of the PS5. In this case, if you need a second controller, or need a replacement f
  
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• Rogue is dodging dinosaurs and romancing Magneto in our first look at The Savage Land #1

  22-11-2024 16:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel is flashing back to an earlier chapter in X-Men history once again in January, with the publication of Rogue: The Savage Land – a five-issue series by writer Tim Seeley and up-and-coming artist Zulema Lavina, here making her Marvel Comics debut.The new series returns to a golden era of X-Men comics: Chris Claremont and Jim Lee's all-time-classic run on Uncanny X-Men, specifically issues #269 and #274 which saw Rogue stranded in the prehistoric wilderness of the Savage Land where she
  
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• Genshin competitor Wuthering Waves finally has a PS5 release date, and it's coming at the same time as the action RPG's big 2.0 update

  22-11-2024 15:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Open-world action RPG Wuthering Waves is finally making its way to PS5 in less than two months in a release that'll tie in with the game's next big update – version 2.0Announced today, it's been confirmed that both Wuthering Waves 2.0 and its PS5 version will release on January 2, 2025, so there's not too long to wait for either. The update itself will follow on from the game's current version 1.4: When the Night Knocks, and will bring players to a new region called Rinascita, complete wit
  
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• 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (Nov 22-24)

  22-11-2024 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The month of November is almost over, but don't worry, there are still lots of fresh titles being added to streaming services. So why not make the most of the last few days before the festive chaos starts and enjoy this weekend’s streaming highlights? There are plenty of new movies and shows to get stuck into across the best streaming services, on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney Plus, Max, and Apple TV. But to cut down on your scrolling time, we have narrowed down the best titles from
  
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• Sorry Lego, but Mega Bloks has won me over with this Xbox 360 Black Friday deal

  22-11-2024 14:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  There I was, wondering around Smyths looking at Lego last night when I spotted the MEGA Xbox 360 collectors building kit. I managed to resist picking it up back in October when it was last on offer, but upon noticing it for less than before, I checked in on it at Amazon if there were any Black Friday deals. Let's just say I'm glad I held off until now, as it's new price forced me to buy it on the spot.In a move that makes most Black Friday Lego deals look expensive, the MEGA Xbox 360 collectors
  
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• Sci-fi horror series with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score renewed for season 4 ahead of season 3 finale

  22-11-2024 14:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sci-fi horror series From has been renewed for a fourth season at MGM Plus, with 10 new episodes set to enter production in 2025 and air in 2026.The show follows the residents of a US town who are unable to leave once they enter and are haunted by nocturnal creatures who live in the surrounding forest. Lost star Harold Perrineau plays Boyd Stevens, an army veteran and self-appointed sheriff of the town."We are thrilled by the support of our fans and our partners at MGM Plus and are so excited to
  
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• PSVR 2 is cheaper than the Quest 3S right now, and I know which one I'd buy this Black Friday

  22-11-2024 14:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  I'd like to think that somewhere out there, Mark Zuckerberg is cursing the heavens like a Disney villain because this morning, PSVR 2 has had a major Black Friday price cut. This comes just one month after Meta launched the Quest 3S, with its entire USP hinging on being a more affordable VR device than all others. I've been testing out the Quest 3S in preparation for our review, and with the larger 256GB SKU now costing more than Sony's headset, I know which one I'd rather buy.PSVR 2 is, in my o
  
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• The tragic references in Arcane season 2's opening credits could be foreshadowing the fact that none of your faves are safe as act 3 closes in

  22-11-2024 14:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  The end of Arcane season 2 is nearly upon us, but if you're expecting plot armor to protect some of its main characters, you might be out of luck.This article contains spoilers for Arcane season 2.Arcane season 2 changed the show's title sequence. Gone are the statuesque appearances of its main cast, replaced by a more intimate view of the major characters. But if some of those poses seem a little weird, it's because they're referencing classic theatre.Some of those references are more apparent
  
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