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• Watch Baby Yoda fight Darth Sidious in this hilarious Mandalorian fan edit

  02-12-2019 12:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Seeing Baby Yoda hold a lightsaber is the best possible start to the week
  
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• Matt Reeves explains why The Batman 2 is delayed to 2027, but says they still want to film this year

  06-01-2025 14:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Batman 2 director Matt Reeves has confirmed that the sequel will start filming this year, offering some reassurance to fans after the announcement of a new delay in the production.Last month, Warner Bros revealed the film's release date has been pushed back a full year, and it's now set to open in theaters on October 1, 2027.Reeves was asked about these changes during the Golden Globes red carpet, and he confirmed that things are in motion."I can tell you we're going to be shooting this year
  
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• Nosferatu director Robert Eggers tried to make a Frankenstein movie, but gave up after two weeks: "It definitely sucked"

  06-01-2025 14:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nosferatu director Robert Eggers has revealed that he once started working on a movie adaptation of Frankenstein, but stopped after two weeks."Sometimes you know you've got a dud," Eggers said during an interview with Curzon. "I'm super, super excited for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein. But when my son was born, I had an unconscious urge, I'm sure because of that, but as I started writing, I was like, 'Oh yeah, this is why.' But as I started to try to do Frankenstein, which after two weeks, I
  
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• Squid Game star was worried he'd struggle with one of the show's most ingenious twists that you probably didn't even notice

  06-01-2025 13:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Squid Game season 2 featured a major twist as the Front Man entered the games undercover. Playing as 001, he becomes close to Gi-hun, often teaming up with him for challenges, including the brutal and bloody six-legged race.The tense game sees the team of competitors try and complete a number of challenges before their timer runs out. Each is a game they may have played when they were younger, including the spinning top, which is what the Front Man is tasked with doing.He initially struggles, un
  
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• Marvel Rivals looks set to get its first balance adjustments soon as a leaked schedule claims Wolverine is getting even stronger as Hela and Hawkeye get nerfed

  06-01-2025 13:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  The next few days are apparently set to be pretty busy for Marvel Rivals fans, as it's been claimed that we can expect preview videos for a couple of upcoming new Fantastic Four heroes being added to the shooter, as well as the reveal of buffs and nerfs for some of the existing characters.While currently unconfirmed, a supposedly leaked schedule has been shared on Twitter by @RivalsLeaks – the same one has also reached r/MarvelRivalsLeaks where user Lower_Island6120 claims it's been "confi
  
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• Anthony Mackie crashes Marvel co-star Sebastian Stan's Golden Globe post-win interview to share the love: "Captain America and The Winter Soldier, we’re coming back!"

  06-01-2025 13:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  After Sebastian Stan won a Golden Globe for his role in A Different Man, Anthony Mackie crashed his interview to share the love."We won," Mackie joked, with Stan adding: "Captain America and the Winter Soldier, we're coming back!"
  Anthony Mackie couldn't help but crash our interview with Sebastian Stan to congratulate him on his #GoldenGlobes win. 😂 pic.twitter.com/6y7H6eg0p5January 6, 2025
  Of course, Mackie plays Sam Wilson in the MCU, with Stan playing Bucky Barnes. The duo starred tog
  
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• Exploding Kittens CEO is helping bring the Survivor reality show to tabletop, having watched "every episode of Survivor since the first season – 24 years ago"

  06-01-2025 12:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Together with Survivor host Jeff Probst and game designer Ian Clayman, Exploding Kittens CEO Elan Lee has been working to bring the Survivor reality TV show experience to the realm of board gaming. With Survivor: The tribe has spoken releasing this month, Lee has admitted their obsession with the show in a recent press release (via BGG)."I've watched every episode of Survivor since the first season – 24 years ago", Lee notes. "It has had a massive influence on my own game designs." It's li
  
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• Bill Skarsgard thought he would play a different role in Nosferatu as Mads Mikkelsen was attached to play Count Orlok

  06-01-2025 12:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nosferatu could have had a very different cast if Robert Eggers' original plans had crystallized. When the director first planned to helm the horror remake a decade ago, Bill Skarsgård was far from being the first option for the titular role of Count Orlok.In an interview for the podcast Happy Sad Confused, Skarsgård revealed that Mads Mikkelsen and co-star Willem Dafoe were among the main options to play the vampire, while he was attached to play Thomas Hutter (played by Nicholas Ho
  
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• The Substance star Demi Moore reflects on a producer calling her a "popcorn actress" as she wins her first award in 45-year career at the Golden Globes: "I thought maybe this was it"

  06-01-2025 12:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Demi Moore won her first acting award in her 45-year career at this year's Golden Globes after she took home the gong for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.She won for her performance as Elisabeth Sparkle in body horror movie The Substance, in which she plays a TV personality who's fired by a misogynistic network exec on her 50th birthday. When a mysterious new drug known as offers to make her the "best version" of herself, Elisabeth jumps at the ch
  
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• James Cameron messaged Zoe Saldaña about her Golden Globes win while she was still in the audience: "He, after all these years, believes in me"

  06-01-2025 12:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avatar star Zoe Saldaña received a message from James Cameron on her Golden Globe win – while the ceremony was still ongoing.“I was sitting in the audience, and I received a message from James Cameron, who’s somewhere in New Zealand right now, cutting Avatar: Fire and Ash," she said in the press room (H/T Variety). "And he, after all these years, believes in me. So that, to me, nourishes my desire to continue growing as an artist."Saldaña won Best Performance by a
  
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• The leaked GTA San Andreas source code is apparently fake and contains ransomware, so please don't download it

  06-01-2025 12:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas supposedly had its source code leaked, but new information suggests it's fake and actually contains ransomware. I shouldn't need to write this, but please don't download random files from strangers on the internet. According to Twitter user PliskinDev whose name and bio both state they're a developer, "It has been confirmed that GTA San Andreas’s source code is fake and contains ransomware."They share screenshots that supposedly show the files within the
  
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• Nintendo fans are convinced this supposed Switch 2 Joy-Con leak is real, but one piece of evidence isn't as compelling as it first seems

  06-01-2025 12:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mere days into the New Year, Nintendo fans are hungrier than ever to get their first look at the Switch 2, and many are convinced that newly surfaced images supposedly depicting one of the console's controllers are legitimate. As highlighted on Reddit by user SwordfishAgile3472, it's claimed that the images in question originate from Chinese forum site Baidu Tieba, and they show the side and back of what looks like a left Joy-Con. Its black and blue design is reminiscent of the black and bl
  
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• The Penguin star Colin Farrell pays tribute to Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix's "extraordinary" comic book performances after winning Golden Globe

  06-01-2025 11:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Penguin actor Colin Farrell has become the third performer to win a Golden Globe for playing a comic book villain, and the first to do so with a TV show. The HBO series sees the Irish actor reprising his role as The Penguin (prosthetics and all) after his debut in 2022's The Batman.Following his win, Farrell was asked in the awards' press room how it feels to join such a select list of winners, which includes Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix. Both actors were previously honored with a Golden
  
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• Balatro maker promises that the dodgiest odds in the hit roguelike aren't deceiving you

  06-01-2025 08:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  As more and more people open their eyes to the gift that is Balatro, its creator is promising newbies that the game's dodgiest odds aren't dodgy at all.Balatro is a deckbuilding roguelike where you're chasing high scores with poker hands, while modifying your deck and buying upgrades along the way. Jokers in particular will stick with you and add unique effects to you hands - they might multiply your score if you play a full house, for example. But one card, called Wheel of Fortune, claims
  
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• One wasn't enough, so here's a second Doomer Shooter "inspired by the FPS classics of the '90s" where Doom Guy is an anime girl

  06-01-2025 00:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Developer Doekuramori already put out one old-school-inspired shooter where you play as an anime girlie instead of a Doom Guy type. But one anime girl Doomer Shooter is never enough, so now there's a sequel.Beyond Citadel is the simply-named sequel to Citadel, the indie developer's first outing in the dystopian throwback series that obviously borrows from the original Doom and shooters of the same era. Weapons are centred in the middle of the screen. Enemies are in sprite form while you're surro
  
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• BioWare fans reckon they've found evidence Mass Effect 5 is bringing back the RPG series' classic Renegade/Paragon morality

  06-01-2025 00:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  BioWare fans are theorizing that the next Mass Effect will bring back the iconic series' moral binary system, making players decide between Paragon (good-ish) and Renegade (bad-ish) choices in the game.That's based on a potentially hidden detail spotted in one of the upcoming game's posters, as well as a new comment made by BioWare producer and Mass Effect 5 project director Michael Gamble.BioWare first shared a poster of our faceless protagonist's silhouette on N7 Day in 2023, but as you can se
  
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• Some weird news: Amazon begins cancelling 3DS pre-orders for the failed Mega Man successor that came out 9 years ago

  05-01-2025 23:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Amazon has seemingly started cancelling pre-orders for Mighty No. 9's missing 3DS port. You know, the game that came out almost a decade ago now. To catch you all up, Mighty No. 9 came from former famed Capcom producer Keiji Inafune, the man who had a massive hand in creating Mega Man back in the 1980s and was aiming to follow up on its success with an independent spiritual sequel. To do so, he took to Kickstarter to fund the side-scroller on PC and consoles, with Nintendo 3DS and PS Vita p
  
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• Elden Ring Nightreign is saying goodbye to FromSoftware's beloved messaging system

  04-01-2025 18:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Elden Ring Nightreign is carrying over a lot from its predecessors, but it's also saying goodbye to an iconic messaging system that's been a part of some of FromSoftware's most popular games. Elden Ring Nightreign's one and only trailer had so many familiar sights. The Lands Between. Some returning enemies. Bosses ripped straight from Dark Souls, like the Nameless King. But it also featured an equal amount of all-new stuff, from three-player co-op to an entirely new structure set across thr
  
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• Tetris some towns together in this cute city builder brought back to life by Kickstarter after the studio "had to let everyone go" last year

  04-01-2025 17:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  I love a good twist on Tetris. There's Tetris with sand. Tetris with hot wax. Tetris but it's an interactive documentary spanning the game's 40-year-history. And now, I was delighted to find out about a game that's essentially 'Tetris but city-building.'River Towns is the name of the game where you jump between levels to "place differently shaped buildings and make them fit into a limited area." Those buildings are basically shaped like Tetris blocks, so slotting them into just the right places
  
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• Balatro creator shares the GOTY love with other indie games while giving out a "very prestigious Golden Thunk award"

  04-01-2025 16:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Balatro is the rare indie game that made it mainstream, having sold millions of copies, gotten nominations at pretty much every major game of the year ceremony, and drawn a dedicated meme-loving fanbase. But solo-developer Localthunk hasn't stopped championing other indies all year, and he's now even given a shoutout to his favorites.On social media, Localthunk announced his "very prestigious Golden Thunk award for Game of the Year 2024" that'll hopefully become an annual tradition, and this yea
  
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• OG Minecraft creator "basically announced Minecraft 2" in the oddest way, but he won't "sneakily infringe" on Mojang's work

  04-01-2025 15:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Minecraft's original creator Markus 'Notch' Persson has seemingly announced that he intends to make a spiritual successor to the best-selling video game of all time in the oddest way possible.A few days ago on social media, Notch asked followers if he should continue making the "traditional roguelike" with "tile-based first-person" dungeon crawling that's currently in development, or whether he should ditch that to instead create a "spiritual successor thing to Minecraft" via a poll. Right now,
  
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• This slick Hades-style action roguelike with 92% positive reviews mysteriously vanished from Steam and the devs say they don't know why

  03-01-2025 23:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  A lovely-looking action roguelike in the vein of Hades called Realm of Ink has just disappeared from Steam, and even the devs themselves aren't sure why."We wanted to inform you that Realm of Ink has been removed from the Steam store," developer Leap Studio says in a blog post. "Unfortunately, we are currently unaware of the specific reason for this action, but we are doing our best to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. We understand that this may cause confusion and concern, and we since
  
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• Fallout creator Tim Cain reveals two playthroughs key to the RPG's history: his low-Int hero named Potato, and a mass-murderer who made them check "the entire game" again

  03-01-2025 23:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  I've always thought that the most rewarding role-playing games are the ones that account for a range of playstyles - everything from your standard claymore stuff to a pebble-only run, if the mood strikes - and Fallout creator Tim Cain agrees. Accommodating diverse player builds is part of what makes the original Fallout game so divinely satisfying. But trying to predict behavior from a class as wild as the deviant gamer is a difficult task, Cain suggests in a recent YouTube video discussing
  
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• Borderlands 4 studio Gearbox gave the devs custom cast iron skillets for Christmas because "we f***ing cooked"

  03-01-2025 22:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Borderlands 4 is due out in 2025, and if there's one thing we know about the upcoming looter shooter, it's that the devs at Gearbox are vocally quite proud of their work. How proud? Proud enough to give out custom cast iron skillets as Christmas presents because "we fucking cooked."That's according to senior writer Jordan Mychal Lemos - who previously worked on Ghost of Tsushima, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and the KOTOR Remake before coming to Gearbox - sharing an image of that custom pan on Twit
  
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• "Action RPGs kind of outsell classic RPGs": Fallout OG Tim Cain says AAA RPGs default to violence because it sells, so support non-violent options when you get 'em

  03-01-2025 21:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Violent video games don't create neck spasms and murderers the way so many people seem to assume, but they are undeniably prevalent in the gaming industry. According to Fallout creator Tim Cain, there's an obvious reason for that.  "If you look at, like, the Steam top 50 or top 100 [most played games]," Cain says in a new YouTube video dissecting the topic of violent RPGs, "you see an awful lot of action, violent-oriented games. The companies don't make them because they feel like it. They
  
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• 2 months later, Assassin's Creed Origins is getting pounded with negative Steam reviews because the Windows update that broke it still isn't fixed

  03-01-2025 19:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  In 2024, Microsoft started rolling out Windows 11 version 24H2, and devs and players both quickly discovered that this update was wreaking havoc with a number of Ubisoft games. While some games have been fixed, issues still abound in the trilogy of Assassin's Creed Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla, and the first of those titles in particular is paying the price on Steam.On November 22 last year, Microsoft confirmed that a handful of Ubisoft games were prone to "become unresponsive while starting,
  
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• Perhaps forgetting his game is a loaded parody of fascism, Helldivers 2 director says, "Make good games, don't make a contemporary political statement"

  03-01-2025 18:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Helldivers 2 creative director and Arrowhead CCO Johan Pilestedt, the creative lead on a game built around the idea of wearing a caricature of fascism like a Halloween costume, reckons game developers should simply "make good games, don't make a contemporary political statement."This Twitter discussion, which has now predictably spiraled into reply fights between the people confused by Pilestedt's statement and those encouraged by it, started with Pilestedt teasing Arrowhead's next game. "I am w
  
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• Before Nintendo hired Shigeru Miyamoto, it tried to patent the kid's toy he made and brought to his interview: "I remember thinking, 'this is a shrewd company!'"

  03-01-2025 18:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  These days, Shigeru Miyamoto's creations are synonymous with Nintendo itself, but there was once a time when even Miyamoto was just a college kid interviewing for a job just like anybody else. He brought a portfolio of his work to Nintendo for that interview - and it seems the company tried to patent one of the items he showed off well before it had officially hired him.Miyamoto graduated from industrial design university with thoughts of designing home appliances, or toys and playground equipme
  
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• Less than a year after launching 2024's best live service, Helldivers 2 creative director has already started working on "the next Arrowhead game"

  03-01-2025 17:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arrowhead Game Studios' CCO is already working on the team's next game after the mega-success of Helldivers 2.Former Arrowhead CEO turned CCO and Helldivers 2 creative director Johan Pilestedt took to social media just before the new year to ask players what their "expectations and desires" were for whatever the studio cooks up after - or maybe even alongside - its smash shooter success."I am working on the high concept, but I would love to hear your speculation," he tweeted. "High concept" prob
  
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• The Witcher 4 NPCs will offer a "more immersive experience" than other CD Projekt games: "We are trying to push the bar here"

  03-01-2025 17:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Games like The Witcher 3, which was at one point stocked with NPC clones, and Cyberpunk 2077, whose NPCs were mechanical upon launch, have made it so developer CD Projekt Red has a middling track record when it comes to non-playable characters, but The Witcher 4 could reverse the curse.  "We have this rule," game director Sebastian Kalemba tells Gamertag Radio co-host Parris Lilly in a recent interview, "to make every single [The Witcher 4] NPC looking like they're living, with their own st
  
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