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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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• Darth Maul's new Star Wars show could see the return of a villain from George Lucas's unused sequel trilogy plans

  18-04-2025 14:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  You can't keep a good Sith down. Darth Maul is returning to our screens once again, this time for his own headline Star Wars show on Disney Plus. The animated project, known as Maul - Shadow Lord, features the villain training a new apprentice, and early signs point to a certain Twi'lek George Lucas planned to include in his sequel trilogy being introduced.Among the announcements so far at Star Wars Celebration 2025, Maul has caught many off guard. Featuring Sam Witwer in the lead role, the seri
  
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• The new Star Wars Lego sets for May 4 are cool, but none beats this glorious little war criminal

  18-04-2025 14:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  A whole host of new Star Wars Lego sets have been unveiled ahead of May 4 (AKA Star Wars Day), and they range from new versions of old ships to helmet replicas that'll look very nice on your shelf, thank you very much. There's one kit that stood out to me, though, and it's because the subject is an absolute bastard. Chopper, please take a bow. Everyone's favorite war criminal from a galaxy far, far away (seriously, look up all the awful things this droid did on Rebels, a family show) is being tu
  
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• Why wait? Oblivion fans have already made their own remaster in Doom, and it features one too many adoring fans for my liking

  18-04-2025 13:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion's rumored remaster that is almost definitely real (or the most elaborate prank of all time) is seemingly imminent. Rumors have been awash that the game could be arriving within the next week, but for some people that's still way too far away. So fans have taken things into their own hands – and no, I'm not talking about the Skyblivion mod that's been in the works for 13 years (and is still coming).Instead of remaking Oblivion in Skyrim, another fan has posted
  
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• As the Oblivion remaster looms, fans hope the original RPG's viral goofiness makes it through unscathed

  18-04-2025 13:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Once a year, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion enjoys a minor resurgence across the internet from fans who are still nostalgic for the game and, more specifically, the endless memes it generated before memes were a word that most people recognized. And with the Oblivion remaster now looming, fans are again reminiscing about the game's unintentional comedy and hoping it doesn't go anywhere in the recently leaked re-release.Almost exactly one year ago, Bethesda's janky magnum opus went absolutely vira
  
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• The Bear star's role in The Mandalorian and Grogu gets absurd new details at Star Wars Celebration 2025, and fans aren't sure what to make of it

  18-04-2025 13:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jeremy Allen White, star of The Bear and Iron Claw, is coming to a galaxy far, far away, in new Star Wars movie The Mandalorian and Grogu. We've known he'll be playing Rotta the Hutt for some time, and courtesy of Star Wars Celebration, we know he'll be portraying Jabba's son as a bulked up gladiatorial fighter, and the internet isn't sure what to make of this particular reveal.Per the panel for The Mandalorian and Grogu at Celebration, we've learned Allen is portraying Rotta as something of a p
  
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• Is it weird that these mugs might be my favorite new Star Wars merch?

  18-04-2025 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Is it weird that a collection of mugs are my new favorite Star Wars merch? Because it feels weird.Anyway. The items in question caught my eye right away when I sauntered down to Disney HQ in London to see what was being cooked up ahead of Star Wars day (May 4). Yes, there was an awesome Star Wars toy that's become my new obsession. We were able to exclusively reveal a lightsaber replica for the most underrated Jedi, too. But honestly, the Star Wars merch I could actually see in my home the most
  
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• Even if it isn't a Soulslike, Phantom Blade Zero still wants to channel that "pre-Elden Ring" FromSoftware level design with secrets and layers

  18-04-2025 12:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  The developers of Phantom Blade Zero claim they're trying to channel "pre-Elden Ring" FromSoftware level designs for the game, even if they're adamant it's not a Soulslike.If you're a fan of classic hack-and-slash games like Devil May Cry and Bayonetta, you've no doubt been in the same boat as me over the last few years. Every time a promising action game is shown off, it turns out to be a Soulslike, Stellar Blade being one of the most recent examples. Thankfully, Phantom Blade Zero's developmen
  
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• Palworld developer says reaching 32 million players is "unexplainable" and "a lot of people don't realize how much of an anomaly that is"

  18-04-2025 11:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  One Palworld developer still can't wrap their head around just how big their monster-taming survival game became, having now reached 32 million players, and the only logical explanation for its success was that it luckily managed to get stuck in a "weirdly perfect storm."Pocketpair's early access juggernaut broke all kind of records when it launched last year - it courted one of the highest concurrent user counts in Steam history, it became the biggest third-party Game Pass release of all time,
  
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• 20 years after her cut Revenge of the Sith scenes, Mon Mothma star says Andor season 2 was the story she'd "always hoped for"

  18-04-2025 11:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Andor season 2 holds a special place in Mon Mothma actor Genevieve O'Reilly's heart, 20 years after she was first cast as the character.Originally due to play the rebel leader in Revenge of the Sith before her scenes were cut, O'Reilly has played the character across the big screen in films like Rogue One and the small screen voicing her in the animated shows.Yet, as she tells GamesRadar+, "I think Andor is the story that I always hoped for Mon Mothma. I always hoped that she could have this mom
  
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• A brand new Darth Maul animated series is coming in 2026, and it looks seriously intense

  18-04-2025 10:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  At Star Wars Celebration Japan, it was just announced that a brand new animated series is on the way – and it will be all about Darth Maul.The news was unveiled as part of a panel celebrating 20 years of Lucasfilm Animation. Attendees, including GamesRadar+, got to watch the trailer, before the voice of Maul himself, Sam Witwer, came onstage to demand: "Play it... again."The series is coming in 2026, and it's titled Maul: Shadow Lord. The crowd in the Celebration Stage went wild throughout
  
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• The Mandalorian & Grogu footage teases Rotta the Hutt, Baby Yoda using the Force, and classic Star Wars action, while a new photo shows a maskless Pedro Pascal

  18-04-2025 05:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  At this year's Star Wars Celebration, The Mandalorian & Grogu screened new footage behind closed doors for those in attendance.GamesRadar+ is on the ground for the convention in Japan, and Pedro Pascal, Sigourney Weaver, Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, and even Grogu were also in attendance to show off the film, which was announced back in January 2024.The footage opens with Mando blasting his way through some troopers on a ship. It's classic, season 1 style action. Then, we see Weaver's character
  
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• Shawn Levy's Star Wars movie will start shooting this year and release in 2027 – and Ryan Gosling is confirmed to star

  18-04-2025 03:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  At Star Wars Celebration, Kathleen Kennedy, Dave Filoni, Shawn Levy, and Ryan Gosling himself confirmed that the next Star Wars movie after The Mandalorian & Grogu will be titled Star Wars: Starfighter.GamesRadar+ is attending the convention, and we were in the room to see Levy confirm that Gosling will star and that the movie will be set after The Rise of Skywalker."It's probably framed my idea of what a movie even was," Gosling said of Star Wars. "All of that aside, I think the reality is
  
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• Nintendo is back with more Switch 2 confusion: Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom won't support cloud saves on Switch 2, nobody knows why, and even Nintendo's own store pages can't agree

  18-04-2025 01:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Switch 2 continues to be a deeply confusing console, with Nintendo's latest curveball being a small notation at the bottom of some Switch 2 games' product pages saying those games aren't compatible with the Switch Online's Cloud save feature.For the uninitiated, the officially titled Save Data Cloud feature is a perk of the Switch Online subscription that lets you save game data to the cloud instead of exclusively to your console. It's a simple, convenient way to back up save data and facili
  
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• After 30 years, Marvel is reviving its '90s style swimsuit special, showing off superhero beach-bods and some hot new Marvel Rivals skins

  18-04-2025 00:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Get out your swim trunks and your flippy-floppys, because Marvel is headed back to the beach for a revived edition of its iconic '90s swimsuit special that lands 30 years after the previous edition last hit stands.And as if the promise of some fun in the sun and superhero swimwear isn't enough to bring you in, the new one-shot, officially titled Marvel Swimsuit Special: Friends, Foes, and Rivals #1, will also debut some steamy new skins coming to smash-hit hero shooter game Marvel Rivals. The co
  
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• Before ever joining the MCU, Tom Holland and Jon Bernthal helped each other rehearse for their Spider-Man and Punisher auditions

  18-04-2025 00:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Actor Jon Bernthal just made his big return to the MCU as Frank Castle/the Punisher in Daredevil: Born Again season one. And much like the Punisher has strong connections to Spider-Man in comics, Bernthal has strong connections to MCU Spider-Man actor Tom Holland, with whom he's currently filming The Odyssey with Christopher Nolan.Bernthal tells IMDb that he and Holland helped each other rehearse for their auditions as Punisher and Spider-Man, respectively, before either one of them was ever cas
  
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• Ex Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida says "of course" The Duskbloods will "be great," but it and Elden Ring Nightreign present a "new challenge" for FromSoftware and boss Hidetaka Miyazaki

  17-04-2025 23:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dark Souls developer FromSoftware may be currently working on not one, but two multiplayer games at the moment – The Duskbloods and Elden Ring Nightreign – but former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida thinks the studio might have trouble adapting to them. FromSoftware director Hidetaka Miyazaki just isn't a PvP fan, as he's said himself."I think it's a new challenge for [FromSoftware], to design game for multiplayer," Yoshida tells Easy Allies in a recent podcast episode. "Miyazak
  
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• In a custom "nightmare mode" where any damage permanently deletes his character, MMO daredevil ends 15-month Old School RuneScape challenge with a 68-minute finale

  17-04-2025 22:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Adding another feather to his already worryingly feathered cap, Old School RuneScape YouTuber Settled recently capped off an MMO challenge run, which began all the way back in late 2023, with a downright cinematic 68-minute video finale that's hit the OSRS community like a hurricane. With the video sitting at over 510k views after one day, the OSRS community attach rate on Settled content continues to embarrass even console pack-in games.Settled is known for concocting custom rule sets that dram
  
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• Twisted Metal season 2 takes aim at drawn-out reveals with release date trailer, shares first look at Mayhem, Vermin, and Dollface

  17-04-2025 22:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new look at Twisted Metal season 2 has arrived – and with a release date in tow.A release date announcement trailer has arrived, as well as a slew of first-look photos of some of this season's new characters, including Lisa Gilroy as Vermin, Patty Guggenheim as Raven, Saylor Bell Curda as Mayhem, Richard de Klerk as Mr. Grimm, and Tiana Okoye as Dollface.Michael James Shaw is on the cast list, but his character has yet to be revealed – which leads us to believe he's playing none ot
  
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• Spider-Man faces down overwhelming odds as he goes up against a nightmare gallery of his fiercest foes in Amazing Spider-Man #2

  17-04-2025 22:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  What is Spider-Man's worst nightmare? Going up against basically his entire rogues' gallery at once has to be close to the top of the list, and that's exactly what Spidey seems to be up against in this early preview of interior pages from Amazing Spider-Man #2.The pages pick up right where the end of Amazing Spider-Man #1 left off, with Peter Parker suddenly coming face-to-face with an entire cadre of his worst enemies, going on the run across the city as villains such as Kraven, Carnage, Doctor
  
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• In a brutal 60-hour YouTube video, one devoted fan preserves notorious Genshin Impact streamer's legendarily bad luck for all eternity: "What am I doing with my life"

  17-04-2025 21:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  The next time you find yourself struggling to obtain a rare item in a video game, abandoned by lady luck and and dismayed by drop rates, ask yourself this question: has somebody ever made a 60-hour video chronicling your suffering at the hands of RNG? If not, take comfort in the fact that you are at least doing better than Zy0x, a Genshin Impact content creator whose legendarily awful luck has been immortalized in a YouTube video that would take you two and a half days to watch without rest.Firs
  
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• Grossest game of the year doubles as the most kitty friendly, as you can pet real-life cats amid alien gore: "There was like a casting for cats"

  17-04-2025 21:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cronos: The New Dawn – the first original horror IP developer Bloober is working on after its Silent Hill 2 remake – is a rancid reimagining of Soviet-era Poland, and sweet kitties apparently love feasting on the monstrous flesh it's littered with.Or something like that, based on what Cronos co-director Wojciech Piejko told GamesRadar+ during a recent interview at GDC 2025."We've got cats in the game; you can pet them," Piejko said about Cronos, what so far seems to be a retrofuturis
  
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• Diablo 4 teases its first-ever collab: Berserk, the legendary dark fantasy manga that's inspired countless games from Dark Souls to Final Fantasy

  17-04-2025 21:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 4 is teaming up with the legendary anime Berserk for a crossover event.We don't know a whole lot of details at this point about what specifically is featured in the Diablo 4 x Berserk crossover, but Blizzard released a cinematic teaser trailer on its official Twitter account, and the collaboration looks vaguely promising so far.In the 30-second anime-styled teaser, we see a Diablo Barbarian holding his own against a horde of demons, chopping away at the little buggers with his giant two-h
  
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• 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (April 18 - 20)

  17-04-2025 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The best new movies and TV shows to watch this weekend include some long-awaited TV returns and one of the most talked-about films of the latest awards season. There is always something for everyone among the best streaming services, but it's not always easy to find the hidden (or not so hidden) gem that truly deserves your time, so we're here to help.In this list, we explore the most recent movies and TV shows added on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney Plus, Max, Apple TV Plus, and Hulu, sele
  
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• Image's new "fever-dream Cajun crime" comic The Voice Said Kill gets psychedelic in the swamp with shrooms, moonshine, and a "Human Hunt"

  17-04-2025 19:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Writer Si Spurrier is teaming up with artist Vanesa Del Rey, colorist John Starr, and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou for a psychedelic new crime comic from Image titled The Voice Said Kill.And when I say psychedelic, I mean it, as The Voice Said Kill features a totally out there art style that channels the shroom-fueled rampage of its main character into colorful, striking art that looks completely unique.Described as "Fargo meets Deliverance," The Voice Said Kill is a four-issue crime story set
  
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• Tekken 8 game director owns up to Season 2 screwups: "We will continue to make steady, meaningful improvements one by one, and do our utmost to regain your trust"

  17-04-2025 19:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tekken 8's game director has commented on the extremely negatively received Season 2 patch after releasing an emergency patch for the game.While Tekken 8 was pretty beloved at launch, the game's Season 2 update – which was released alongside the new DLC fighter, Anna Williams – has gone down like a lead zeppelin. The patch was intended to encourage more defensive play but ended up making the game even more offensive-focused (for a game that was built around offensive play, that's a b
  
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• The SteelSeries Arctis Game Buds have made me a gaming earbud convert, and now they go wherever I go

  17-04-2025 18:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Coming from a music background, I've had lecturers drilling into my head that headphones (and gaming headsets) are the only things I should have anywhere near my ears. But even without their insistence, I've always preferred the comfort of a pair of cups sitting across my head - until I picked up the SteelSeries Arctis Game Buds.When I finally popped the best gaming earbuds in and discovered not just the remarkable sound quality they could muster, but that a pair of high-quality buds out there e
  
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• Amazon cancels the two Prime spin-offs of the Russo brothers' $300 million action series Citadel

  17-04-2025 18:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Prime Video has cancelled Honey Bunny and Diana, both of which were spin-offs of the Russo brothers' action series Citadel.Citadel: Honey Bunny revolves around the story of Honey (Samantha Ruth Prabhu) and Bunny (Varun Dhawan), who are the parents of the character Nadia Sinh (who is played by Priyanka Chopra Jonas in the original series).Citadel: Diana follows Diana Cavalieri (Matilda De Angelis), a Citadel agent trapped behind enemy lines within the Manticore organization, after Manticore's des
  
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• "Not everybody needs to get banged": As Patch 8 reinvigorates Baldur's Gate 3, Halsin actor reminds ship-happy fans that some pairs "CAN remain simply platonic you horny little f***ers"

  17-04-2025 18:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Baldur's Gate 3's Halsin voice actor has reminded fans that just because they're horny for all the characters doesn't mean the characters are as thirsty as them.One of the biggest reasons Baldur's Gate 3 is so beloved is its fantastic main cast of characters, and it got even more popular after everyone decided they were down bad for every single one of them.Before Baldur's Gate 3 even released, Larian was letting players know that you could sleep with old friends, new friends, and even a bear. A
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 8 is here as the D&D RPG's final update, but it looks like the infamous portrait bug still isn't going anywhere

  17-04-2025 18:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's official. The long-awaited arrival of Patch 8 for Baldur's Gate 3 is finally upon us, adding various features to the Dungeons & Dragons RPG while simultaneously fixing many of its notorious bugs – except one of the game's most hilarious.Patch 8 is here, bringing everything from cross-play to 12 new subclasses, such as the Circle of Stars Druid, to Baldur's Gate 3. Amid all of the major new features are also countless bug fixes, addressing well-known issues like the infamous armor
  
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