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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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• Monster Hunter Wilds director confirms my suspicions: a bug made monsters run away too frequently in the beta and the full game doesn't have this problem

  03-12-2024 19:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  A bug in the outdated build used for the Monster Hunter Wilds beta caused monsters to run to new areas too frequently, Capcom has confirmed, and the full game won't have this annoyance.As VGC reports, Monster Hunter Wilds director Yuya Tokuda discussed the beta at a recent press event. "The open beta test was an earlier version that actually had some bugs in it, and one of them was that the monsters were moving more often than intended," he confirmed."It wasn’t actually a design intention
  
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• Stalker 2 director says she was as shocked as anyone by the controversy over AI system A-Life's removal from the FPS's Steam page: "I noticed it because of Reddit"

  03-12-2024 19:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stalker 2 has been getting a broadly positive response since launch, but it's clear the game isn't yet everything it could be. Key among the complaints from players is that the A-Life 2.0 system the devs talked up years before launch doesn't appear to be working in the game, and the fact that details on this system disappeared from the game's Steam page made some players believe this was a case of false advertising. But the husband-and-wife team at the top of developer GSC Game World insist that
  
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• Creature Commandos star Frank Grillo thinks we’ll get a season 2 of the new DC show "unless something goes terribly awry"

  03-12-2024 19:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Creature Commandos star Frank Grillo is confident that the new DC show will get a second season. "Unless something goes terribly awry, I think we'll see a season 2," Grillo tells GamesRadar+. "I'd love to see how it evolves. I'd like to see I'd like to see how they develop as a team because it takes the whole season for them to be a symbiotic kinda group and just see where it goes. Because it starts with me meeting them and kind of going like, what am I doing? What are these things? And the
  
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• Former PlayStation chief calls the PS3 Sony's Icarus moment: "We flew too close to the sun, and we were lucky and happy to have survived the experience"

  03-12-2024 19:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former PlayStation chief Shawn Layden admits the PS3 was Sony's "Icarus" moment that left everyone "happy to have survived the experience."Sony is celebrating 30 years of PlayStation this week – a history that includes the highs of the PS2 and, well, the lows of the PS3. Reflecting on the console in a new interview with Eurogamer, Layden calls the PS3 an "Icarus" moment for Sony as the team "flew too close to the sun." While everyone was thankful to have made it through, they did so with p
  
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• First 8 minutes of the new Lord of the Rings anime movie arrives online for free - and fans are already loving it

  03-12-2024 18:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Good news Lord of the Rings fans, the opening scenes of the upcoming animated movie The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim have landed online and are available to watch for free. And it looks like fans are already impressed.The footage was posted on Twitter by Warner Brothers and captioned “Before you return to Middle-earth, here's an extended preview of what's in store." The 8-minute clip opens with a man caught in a blizzard who comes face to face with a terrifying beast that we
  
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• Fortnite players lament the battle royale "becoming a chore" as XP changes make leveling up much slower in Chapter 6's debut season

  03-12-2024 18:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fortnite Chapter 6 is here, and dare I say it, it's already a blast. With a stunning new map full of Japan-inspired locations, fresh movement mechanics, and more, there's a lot to love, but not every change in the latest season has been well-received. Namely, it's not taken long at all for battle royale fans to notice that there's a distinct lack of XP available in the game right now. Aside from the flurry of new Fortnite quests to bring in the new season, big changes have been made to ways
  
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• Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp's new paid version has finally arrived and is microtransaction-free, but fans already miss the old app

  03-12-2024 18:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  The new "paid" version of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has finally arrived, kicking all of the old app's microtransactions to the curb in favor of a one-time purchase model without online capabilities or multiplayer functionality - and even though fans are excited, they're also missing some of the axed features.After announcing the new Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp app, Nintendo clarified that there would be differences between the paid version and its free predecessor. Now that the game is rolli
  
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• A new Netflix thriller takes the #1 spot on the streamer, despite dividing viewers and critics

  03-12-2024 18:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Madness, a new Netflix limited series, is currently at the top of the streamer's TV chart after it premiered on November 28 (per FlixPatrol).The thriller stars Colman Domingo as Muncie Daniels, a media personality who's framed for the murder of a white supremacist after he stumbles across a dead body in the woods. The cast also includes Marsha Stephanie Blake, Gabrielle Graham, and John Ortiz."The Madness is a political conspiracy thriller masterpiece. One of the best limited series from Net
  
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• New trailer for Snow White live-action remake teases a twist to the classic Disney fairy tale as star Rachel Zegler sings an original song

  03-12-2024 17:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Disney has debuted a new trailer for the upcoming live-action remake of Snow White, and it shows off how the new movie is updating the original classic tale.In the clip, which you can watch above, we see all the elements we'd expect – a feud between Snow White and the Evil Queen, that poisoned apple, and the dwarves – along with a few key changes. For one thing, Snow White is trying to save a young man from the queen's cruelty, while she later appears to be rising up against the que
  
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• Intel just announced new graphics cards starting at $219, and I'm rooting for these budget Battlemages

  03-12-2024 17:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Intel just officially announced two new Battlemage graphics cards, and entry-level PC enthusiasts are in for a treat. Not only is there a Arc B580 GPU with 12GB VRAM for $249, there's a 10GB Arc B570 for just $229. That's already a chunk cheaper than Nvidia and AMD's current budget offerings, so it's safe to say the blue team is up for a pricing war when they arrive on December 13 and January 16.Armed with Intel's Xe2 Battlemage GPU, the upcoming best graphics card contenders will use the same a
  
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• Marvel Rivals already has 33 heroes, but fans are debating whether another one was hidden in the launch trailer

  03-12-2024 17:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel Rivals is nearly here, and with a launch roster of 33 beloved characters, it's shaping up to be a very promising third-person hero shooter full of fan favorites. However, with so many other Marvel characters that could be added to the ranks, fans are eagerly awaiting any new additions, and some are convinced they've already spotted one. Feast your eyes on the Marvel Rivals launch trailer – specifically, at the 45 second mark below. Okay, now pause, rewind, and put it in slow mo
  
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• Star Wars just introduced a mysterious new planet in Skeleton Crew, and fans already have big theories about it

  03-12-2024 17:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Skeleton Crew fans already have some big theories about Star Wars' mysterious new planet.Taking place at the same time as The Mandalorian, the show follows Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), KB (Kyriana Kratter), and Neel (Robert Timothy Smith), as they set off on an adventure through the galaxy after discovering something incredible.The youngsters' homeworld was introduced in the Disney Plus series, which premiered on December 2 in the US: At Attin, a seemingly safe, surpris
  
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• Fallout and Arcane star's serial killer thriller Sweetpea gets season 2 renewal

  03-12-2024 17:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sweetpea season 2 is officially in the works, with Fallout star Ella Purnell set to return as the titular serial killer – and she promises to "become more twisted than ever" in the next chapter."Being part of Rhiannon's coming-of-rage journey has been a career highlight for me, and to see fans engage with and relate to our oddball Rhiannon, in all her complexity, feels truly special," Purnell, who's also known for playing Jackie in Yellowjackets and Jinx in Arcane said in a statement."I ca
  
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• Former Sony lead reveals that we got the PlayStation 1 because of a failed partnership on the SNES: "Nintendo left us standing at the altar"

  03-12-2024 16:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  After three decades, it's safe to say the PlayStation 1 stands the test of time as one of the most iconic video game consoles to date - and according to former Sony lead Shawn Layden, it turns out that we may have Nintendo to thank for the beloved console's origins.Speaking in a recent interview with Eurogamer, Layden explains how the first PlayStation came to be and describes the way that Nintendo's production of its own SNES influenced it. "Obviously, we were going to build - or rather, we bui
  
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• Move over Grogu, Star Wars fans are now obsessed with Skeleton Crew's Neel

  03-12-2024 16:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Skeleton Crew has arrived, and Star Wars fans are all united on one thing – Neel is everyone's new favorite little guy.Neel, who looks very much like a tiny blue elephant, is one of the group of kids who end up stranded in space after investigating a mysterious object in the forest. Now, he's stuck on a pirate outpost with the others, though it looks like Jude Law's mysterious character could be helping to set them free."Neel was made for me, I love him so much," says one fan, while anothe
  
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• Challengers director Luca Guadagnino says he wishes he'd made a Spider-Man movie with Andrew Garfield

  03-12-2024 16:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Challengers and Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino may not be the first filmmaker who comes to mind when you think of superhero movies, but he's revealed that he wishes he'd had a chance to bring Spider-Man to the big screen – specifically, Andrew Garfield's version of the web-slinger."I remember when Sam Raimi directed his first one, and I was 28 or 29, I had these dreams because I’m kind of a megalomaniac, and I wished I had been asked to do one. So I wish I had directed
  
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• There’s a Peter Pan Easter egg in Skeleton Crew – and Star Wars fans are loving it

  03-12-2024 16:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star Wars fans were quick to notice a Disney Easter egg in Skeleton Crew, the latest TV show in the Lucasfilm universe – and it's a direct nod to Jude Law's live-action Peter Pan villain.In the new series, Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead) voices a partially malfunctioning droid named SM-33. Fans pointed out that SM-33 is simply a clever way of rewriting the name Smee. Jude Law recently starred as Captain Hook in David Lowery's Peter Pan and Wendy, which saw comedian Jim Gaffigan play his bum
  
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• Monster Hunter Wilds hitstop feels way better in the non-beta build, and the game's director was happy to juice it back up after overseas players apparently hated it in World

  03-12-2024 16:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  One of the first things I noticed in the updated build I played at Capcom's Osaka headquarters for our big Monster Hunter Wilds hands-on preview, having sunk 15 hours into the game's open beta last month, was the attack hitstop. It is, simply put, back. Weapons cleave through weak spots with greater exaggeration and palpable impact, just as many fans wanted them to after the beta felt comparatively limp-wristed. Director Yuya Tokuda, it seems, was all too happy to restore the hitstop, as he said
  
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• Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki says FromSoftware isn't "really considering" Elden Ring 2 right now, but he's still not ruling out more of the Lands Between in the future

  03-12-2024 15:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sorry, Elden Ring fans, it doesn't sound like we'll be returning to the Lands Between for a full-blown sequel any time soon, as director Hidetaka Miyazaki confirms that FromSoftware "isn't really considering" such developments right now.The game director and president of FromSoftware spoke during a roundtable interview at the PlayStation Partner Awards 2024 Japan Asia event last night, where Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree was one of three Grand Award winners (alongside Black Myth: Wukong and
  
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• Hundreds of One Piece episodes are being moved behind a subscription paywall on Crunchyroll

  03-12-2024 14:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Crunchyroll has announced that hundreds of One Piece episodes are leaving the free ad-supported tier. The anime streaming platform made the announcement in early December, confirming that by the end of the month, the shift will begin.The first 206 episodes will remain on the free ad-supported tier, but all of the episodes after this will be shifted into Premium Membership, which begins at $7.99 per month. You have some time though as the transition will take a few months if you still need to cat
  
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• Borderlands director says he "could write a book" on his experience making the critically-panned video game movie

  03-12-2024 13:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Borderlands director Eli Roth has shared a cryptic reflection on making the movie.The video game adaptation bombed at the box office and received a frosty reaction from critics, too, with our own Borderlands review awarding the movie just 2 stars."That was a whole other story," Roth told IndieWire of the movie. "Making that in COVID was like… I could write a book on that."He didn't elaborate any further on his thoughts, but, from just these few words, it seems the process wasn't all that
  
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• A lot of Sony's leadership didn't take the PS1 seriously at first with Nintendo and Sega dominating the console space: "They didn't want to be associated with it"

  03-12-2024 13:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  With three decades under its belt as one of the most iconic video game consoles to date, the PlayStation 1 is now a beloved source of nostalgia for many - but former Sony lead Shawn Layden says that not everyone in the company wanted to be associated with its debut console.Speaking in a recent interview with Eurogamer, Layden explains how ecstatic he felt upon first seeing the original PlayStation. "I remember having a presentation early on where they brought the PlayStation prototype to the cha
  
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• As Sony confirms the PS2's 160 million sales, former PlayStation chief reveals how many were actually made, confirming very few remain unaccounted for

  03-12-2024 13:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sony recently revealed that the PS2 has sold over 160 million consoles worldwide since its release in 2000, reigniting the old question among fans of how many units have actually been made. As backed up by one PlayStation alumni, it might not be much more than what's been sold.An image has been doing the rounds of a special PS2 released not long after Sony stopped manufacturing the console at the end of 2012. On that very console, we see a grand total of 160,636,885 PS2 units were apparently mad
  
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• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says it's fine if you didn't like the ending, but the RPG's devs still got "the response we wanted" as players "are still talking about it"

  03-12-2024 13:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's ending might not have gone down brilliantly with absolutely everyone, but director Naoki Hamaguchi says that's fine since the team ultimately hoped to spark "speculation and discussion," and that's exactly what the ending has done. We're not going to get into specific spoilers here, but it's safe to say that Rebirth takes the events of the original 1997 RPG and delivers them in a more complex, mysterious way. There's a lot more room for speculation on exactly what
  
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• The first eight minutes of Kraven the Hunter feature a Spider-Man comic book Easter egg

  03-12-2024 13:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Now that the first eight minutes of Kraven the Hunter are available to watch online for free, fans have spotted a fun Spider-Man Easter egg (H/T CinemaBlend).In the clip, Kraven (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) infiltrates a prison to take out a mob boss, and his prison number is 0864. That's not just any random number, though, it's a fun nod to comic book history. The Amazing Spider-Man #15, which features the character's first comic book appearance as one of Spidey's adversaries, was published in August
  
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• Horror sequel Thanksgiving 2 gets exciting filming update, as Eli Roth reveals several actors will be returning

  03-12-2024 13:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Eli Roth has revealed when Thanksgiving 2 is set to start filming – and that a bunch of the first film's stars will be returning for more axe-tion. The horror director teased what to expect from the "no bull***" follow-up in an interview with Indiewire, which confirmed cameras would start rolling on the new movie in late March."We're upping the ante but we are not going to do it with more money," Roth told the publication. "That keeps it tight and lean and mean and forces us to make decisi
  
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• A major Star Wars question from Andor was just answered in new show Skeleton Crew

  03-12-2024 12:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  New Star Wars show Skeleton Crew has resolved a burning question from Andor with just one line of dialogue. The following contains mild spoilers for Skeleton Crew episodes 1 and 2. In Skeleton Crew, a group of kids are stranded in space and are searching for a way back to their home planet of At Attin. The twist, though, is that no one seems to believe At Attin actually exists – or they've just never heard of it at all.At one point, pirate droid SM-33 lists other planets beginning with A:
  
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• Horizon Zero Dawn-style open-world survival game previously blasted as "shameless" seemingly gets a thumbs up from Sony as it confirms a PS5 release

  03-12-2024 12:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  The new Horizon Zero Dawn-esque survival game Light of Motiram seems to have been given a thumbs up from Sony, despite rampant comparisons of it and Guerrilla Games' action RPG series, as it'll also be launching on PS5.Light of Motiram was revealed last week and promptly gave everyone déjà vu with its concept and visuals. Set in a lush, open world "overrun by colossal machines" called Mechanimals, you'd be forgiven for thinking you were looking at another of Aloy's adventures at fi
  
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• The Witcher 4 wants to "at least live up to" The Witcher 3's legacy, but it's not "out to beat" CD Projekt Red's past RPG

  03-12-2024 12:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Following director Sebastian Kalemba's announcement that The Witcher 4 has now "entered the full-scale production phase" and an accompanying teaser, the community has wondered whether the new RPG will live up to its predecessor's stellar reputation - but CD Projekt Red says it isn't "out to beat" The Witcher 3.Speaking in a recent response to a fan online, narrative director Philipp Weber explains in a post that the upcoming game's developers aren't looking to "beat" The Witcher 3 - they're just
  
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