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• Studio behind action RPG Dauntless and farming RPG Fae Farm sees major layoffs, "about 140" devs cut and 3-year game "abruptly canceled" mere weeks before reveal

  17-05-2024 15:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Developer Phoenix Labs is undergoing a significant "reorganization" that's led to big job cuts and the cancellation of a game that was apparently mere weeks away from its reveal.Phoenix Labs previously made the free-to-play co-op action game Dauntless in 2019, and the very different but still well-received crafty life sim Fae Farm just last year. According to some laid off developers, the studio was "weeks away from announcing" its next project, which was "abruptly
  
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• Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones will blow you away in these exclusive new images from Twisters

  17-05-2024 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  In a little over two months Twisters will storm into cinemas. A ‘new chapter’ following iconic ’96 disaster movie Twister, the film sees scientists Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Javi (Anthony Ramos) team up with rock ’n’ roll storm-chaser Tyler Owens (Glen Powell) when multiple deadly weather systems converge over Central Oklahoma.The original film was the second biggest hit of 1996 in the States, and a trailblazing visual effects spectacle, hitting screens just a fe
  
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• Megalopolis release date, news, and everything we know about The Godfather director's divisive new movie

  17-05-2024 14:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Francis Ford Coppola's sci-fi epic Megalopolis has received its first reviews after premiering at Cannes, and to say it's been divisive would be an understatement. Starring the likes of Adam Driver and Aubrey Plaza, the much-talked-about latest from The Godfather director has become one of the most anticipated films of the year. This is thanks in no small part to several surreal-looking trailers, some wild first reactions, and a split between reviews calling it both one
  
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• One of Amazon's Spider-Man spin-offs is no more after several rewrites – including one bizarre version

  17-05-2024 13:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Amazon has scrapped one of its Spider-Man spin-offs – Silk: Spider Society is no more, following several rewrites. Per Deadline, the series, which has been in progress for five years, will no longer be moving forward. Sony Pictures Television is looking for a buyer for the show, which comes from showrunner Angela Kang (The Walking Dead). Though no reason for the cancellation has been given, the report speculates that it might have something to do with its convoluted production hi
  
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• A Total War Star Wars game is reportedly in development at strategy game studio Creative Assembly

  17-05-2024 13:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Star Wars real-time strategy game is reportedly in the works at Total War's developer.DualShockers reports that a Star Wars spin on Total War is in development at Sega's Creative Assembly, citing sources familiar with the studio's plans. According to the outlet, this is just one of three ongoing Total War projects in the works at Creative Assembly right now.The most recent game in the long-running RTS series was Total War: Pharaoh, launching last year from Creative Assembly Sofia in Bulgaria.
  
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• Asus ROG Ally X rumors point towards 24GB RAM and an eight-hour battery

  17-05-2024 13:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Leakers are taking to the internet with Asus ROG Ally X specs, and the latest rumors touch on the handheld’s memory and promised battery capacity increase. If early predictions are true, the revamped portable will bump RAM up to faster 24GB modules from 16GB and keep everything powered for up to eight hours. Yes, those figures will put many laptops to shame, and it thankfully looks like it won’t hamper how it feels in your hands too muchPoised to cost $799, the Asus ROG Ally X won&rs
  
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• The first reviews for The Godfather director's "bonkers" new movie are in – and critics are saying it might be "the craziest thing" they've ever seen

  17-05-2024 13:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first reviews for Megalopolis, the latest movie from The Godfather and Apocalypse Now director Francis Ford Coppola, are in after its Cannes premiere – and critics are divided, to say the least. The sci-fi drama had been a long-time passion project for the filmmaker, who poured $120 million of his own money into production. It stars Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina, an architect with the ability to control time, who's trying to rebuild the city of New Rome into a utopia after it's de
  
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• 2025 is officially a big year for horror as Five Nights at Freddy’s, Insidious, and M3GAN sequels all get new release dates

  17-05-2024 13:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Horror fans, it’s time to put some dates in your diary. Yep, 2025 is going to be a big year for those who like to be scared silly as multiple popular horror sequels have been dated.As per Variety, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, the horror sequel to the hit video game adaptation that grossed almost $300 million at the box office, is hitting cinemas on December 5, 2025.Earlier in the year, M3GAN 2.0 is set to doll up the summer schedule on June 27, 2025, a date previously occupied by anoth
  
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• Borderlands' new corporate owner has big plans for the series and "Gearbox's catalog" after a $460 million buyout

  17-05-2024 13:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Take-Two's CEO reckons that there's a big future ahead of Borderlands, the series that popularized looter shooters as we know them with a unicorn that vomits candy-coloured weapons.GTA and 2K owners Take-Two have published the Borderlands series stretching all the way back to the first game in 2009. Developer Gearbox was then bought up by Embracer Group, along with half the industry, for just over a billion dollars in 2021, before finally being reunited with Take-Two in a $460 million acquisitio
  
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• The Crow star Ernie Hudson is only now "thankful" for the cult classic after some "difficult" years, but still has mixed feelings on the Bill Skarsgård reboot

  17-05-2024 12:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Recently celebrating its 30th anniversary, cult classic film The Crow is still beloved by dedicated fans today. However, some have struggled with the movie's legacy over the past decades, including actor Ernie Hudson, who plays Sergeant Daryl Albrecht in the film.The film's lead star Brandon Lee (who portrays protagonist Eric Draven) tragically died following an accident during filming. The movie was then completed using a combination of digital effects, script rewrites, and stunt doubles since
  
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• "Perfect the moment you open it": Ghost of Tsushima PC players praise Sony's port after past stumbles with The Last of Us

  17-05-2024 12:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ghost of Tsushima looks to be off to a flying start on PC, with players praising its relative stability and performance.Sucker Punch's action game only just launched yesterday, May 16, on PC, but it's already drawing plenty of technical praise. In the tweet below, for example, one player shows how, even with "maxed out" settings with 4K dynamic DLSS tech actively running, Ghost of Tsushima is still able to maintain over 80 frames per second in cutscenes, and a whopping 100FPS during gameplay.
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• This cult D&D-style RPG just dropped a new DLC, and at 180,000 words, its single campaign is longer than almost every base game story combined

  17-05-2024 12:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Wildermyth, a beautiful, papercraft, turn-based RPG that has enough D&D stylings to keep even the most fervent Baldur's Gate 3 fan entertained has a new DLC campaign on its way that eclipses the scale of every story it's told before.Released in 2021, Wildermyth has established itself as a cult-classic RPG. With 14,000 'Overwhelmingly Positive' Steam reviews, its combination of procedural design that mimics full-scale tabletop campaigns and deep strategy of gameplay that you might not expect
  
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• Good luck finding somewhere to store the massive new Warhammer Age of Sigmar boxset

  17-05-2024 12:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  We've finally gotten our first look at the new boxset for the next Warhammer Age of Sigmar edition – Skaventide.This enormous set isn't for the faint of heart. Containing 74 miniatures, terrain, hefty hardback books, cards, and a double-sided board to play on, Skaventide is jam-packed enough to give the likes of Gloomhaven (a notoriously massive RPG that dwarfs the best board games) a run for their money. While we don't know exactly when Warhammer players will be able to get their hands on
  
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• "I'm sure your hill has a lovely view": Assassin's Creed Origins actor comments on the vitriol surrounding Assassin's Creed Shadows' Yasuke

  17-05-2024 12:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  The actor behind Assassin's Creed Origins' Bayek has commented on the vitriol surrounding Assassin's Creed Shadows' Yasuke.Earlier this week, Ubisoft finally pulled back the curtain on Assassin's Creed Red, now known as Assassin's Creed Shadows, and its dual protagonists: Naoe and Yasuke. The former functions as a stealthy Shinobi, while the latter takes a more straightforward approach to combat, since he's a Samurai and all.Historical evidence shows Yasuke was a retainer of Japanese daimyō
  
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• Shogun is coming back for season 2 and 3, but everyone is confused about how that will work

  17-05-2024 12:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Shōgun, initially a limited series, is coming back for an extra two seasons – though everyone is a tad concerned about how that's going to work. Deadline reports that star Hiroyuki Sanada will return as Lord Yoshii Toranaga, and he will continue to produce too. Co-creators Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo are back as well, along with executive producer Michaela Clavell.The series, which debuted on FX/Hulu in the US and Disney Plus internationally, is based on James Clavell's novel o
  
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• The Daredevil reboot originally wasn't going to crossover with the Netflix series at all

  17-05-2024 12:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Daredevil: Born Again was born again late last year, with the head writers and directors reportedly being fired from the Disney Plus series.Now, stars Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio have spoken about how the initial plans for the series originally featured no crossover at all with the original Netflix series."It originally wasn’t going to be at all, but now it’s a lot," D’Onofrio, who plays Kingpin for a third time in the MCU after appearances in Hawkeye and Echo, told
  
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• Final Splatoon player cheats death on abandoned Wii U servers, recovering from an almost fatal freeze as only 4 remain after Nintendo's purge

  17-05-2024 11:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Believe it or not, the final Splatoon player still inking it up in the canned Wii U servers has cheated death yet again.When Nintendo pulled the plug on the 3DS and Wii U server on April 8, many beloved games and their online functionality went down the drain too. To stay in their favorite games for as long as possible, several dedicated fans channeled their inner Noble 14, refused to turn off their consoles, and miraculously stayed connected to the undead Nintendo Network. O
  
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• Valve sleuths believe mystery game trademarked 2 years ago is Overwatch meets Team Fortress 2, and they're still trying to manifest a reveal

  17-05-2024 11:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  The ever-churning waters of Valve game rumors have now thrown out a new game called Deadlock, previously known as Neon Prime, which apparently acts on a trademark filed two years ago.Yesterday, Valve content creator Gabe Follower claimed that the studio is making a new game called Deadlock, which was previously called Neon Prime. Described as a "competitive third person hero-based shooter," the game allegedly has teams of six players battling it out on "huge maps" with four lanes, using tower de
  
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• Elden Ring's Malenia was just defeated by Twitch's biggest streamer - and it only took him 24 hours and 400 straight deaths to do it

  17-05-2024 11:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Twitch's biggest streamer is currently taking on Elden Ring, but it's proving a significant challenge for him - as marked out by 432 deaths across 24 hours of gameplay.Kai Cenat, who has the platform's second highest sub count and by far the largest total viewership over the past 30 days, has spent 148 of the 200-ish hours he's spent streaming this month playing Elden Ring. It's safe to say that it's not been going all that well - 148 hours is a pretty long time for an Elden Ring playthrough, an
  
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• Don't worry, Manor Lords players, the game didn't mean to call your town "Loserville" - that's just a Quentin Tarantino reference

  17-05-2024 01:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  The hot new citybuilder Manor Lords has been making a mockery of some players by seemingly referring to their settlements as "Loserville" in-game, but developer Slavic Magic has cleared the air by revealing it was all just a big misunderstanding stemming from an internal codename referencing a Quentin Tarantino quote.Over the past few days since the .7.960 beta patch dropped, Manor Lords players have been reporting instances where they go to hire mercenaries for their towns and are told those hi
  
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• Rob Liefeld promises he's retiring from Deadpool for real this time, but not before teaming him up with some incredibly obscure Marvel characters

  17-05-2024 00:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rob Liefeld is returning to his most famous co-creation, Deadpool, for one last go round this summer, and he's keying in on the vibes of the Merc With a Mouth's big MCU movie debut Deadpool & Wolverine by paring up Wade Wilson with a different Marvel character in each of Deadpool Team-Up's five issues.Wolverine will be along for the ride, naturally, as will Liefeld's recent creation Major X. Then there's Gwen Stacy/Ghost Spider, the Hulk, and even cult-favorite early '80s hero Crystar, the C
  
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• Final Fantasy 14 players are obsessively camping outside the in-game house of Big Sippin, the Mountain Dew employee who hangs out in the MMO to promote soda

  16-05-2024 23:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy 14 is doing a big promotion with Mountain Dew ahead of the upcoming Dawntrail expansion, and the best part is a guy named Big Sippin who's hanging out in-game to promote the soda brand."He’s here! Big Sippin, our Mtn Dew representative, has come to @FF_XIV_EN  to ride chocobos, battle raid bosses, and rake in the gil," the company says in a Tweet. "Come join him today in the Hyperion server to follow his adventures (and to maybe grab some DEW Rewards surprises)! Also, ev
  
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• BioShock and Borderlands publisher teases a June SGF reveal for one of its "biggest and most beloved franchises"

  16-05-2024 23:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  2K, the publisher behind many long-running series, not least of which are BioShock and Borderlands, says it has a big reveal in store for one of its most beloved franchises at June's Summer Game Fest.This comes from the official Summer Game Fest Twitter account, which revealed: "2K plans to reveal the next iteration in one of 2K's biggest and most beloved franchises at Summer Game Fest on Friday, June 7."Outside of Borderlands and BioShock, 2K is the publisher behind the turn-based strategy seri
  
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• A 4,000-hour Final Fantasy 14 diehard made his own MMO raid-infused roguelike and it's tearing it up on Steam, beating the 4-year sales of his last game in 24 hours

  16-05-2024 23:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Even launching just three days after Hades 2, Rabbit and Steel from solo dev Mino has become one of the highest-rated and most successful new roguelikes of May 2024. It's a bullet hell action roguelike spliced with MMO raid mechanics, and it has done incredibly well on Steam. At the time of writing, it's racked up over 2,400 user reviews with a 98% positive score – and as Mino tells me, it outsold his previous game, 2020's Maiden and Spell, in one day.I recognized Rabbit and Steel from its
  
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• GTA 6 officially launches fall 2025, dispelling rumors of a potential delay

  16-05-2024 22:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Publisher Take-Two Interactive has announced that GTA 6 is set to launch in fall 2025. The game had previously just been confirmed for a vague '2025' release window.As part of its latest financial report, Take-Two says, "Our outlook reflects a narrowing of Rockstar Games' previously established window of Calendar 2025 to Fall of Calendar 2025 for Grand Theft Auto VI. We are highly confident that Rockstar Games will deliver an unparalleled entertainment experience, and our expectations for the co
  
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• After weeks of ad-riddled apps and bizarre delistings, RetroArch is finally on the App Store to handle all your retro emulation needs for free

  16-05-2024 22:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Apple confirmed that it would allow emulators for classic game consoles on the iOS App Store back in April, but early releases for the platform have often been riddled with ads and third-party trackers - when they haven't been suddenly disappearing altogether. Now, emulator frontend RetroArch is on the platform, and it looks to be the perfect all-in-one solution to handle all your classic gaming needs."RetroArch is a free, ad-free, open source, and cross platform frontend/framework for emulators
  
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• Eric Barone isn't worried about "pressure" on Stardew Valley follow-up Haunted Chocolatier: "It's a game that I'm deciding to make. I don't need to make it"

  16-05-2024 21:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stardew Valley creator Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone isn't worried about the pressure that invariably comes with developing a follow-up to one of the most successful independent games of all time. Although fans' expectations for Haunted Chocolatier are undoubtedly astronomical, Barone is taking his time.The solo developer said as much in an interview with Aftermath. While he admitted to feeling some pressure from fans, he iterated on a famous quote often, and quite possibly mistakenly, attributed t
  
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• Marvel declares Storm the "most prominent, most respected and most powerful mutant on the world stage" as she gets her own X-Men solo title

  16-05-2024 21:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Starting this October, Storm is taking her new position on the Avengers and parlaying that into her own solo series as the "most prominent, most respected and most powerful mutant on the world stage," taking her place as a solo hero alongside the likes of Captain America and Iron Man.Launching as part of the upcoming 'From the Ashes' era of the X-Men, Storm's new solo ongoing title will be written by Murewa Ayodele, with art by Lucas Werneck, who has also designed a new costume for Storm, seen b
  
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• 30 million copies later, Stardew Valley creator says "I'm just a dude who made a game" and still spends "all day hunched over the computer"

  16-05-2024 21:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone, who goes by ConcernedApe online, says the iconic farming sim's near-unparalleled success hasn't changed how he views himself or ultimately lives his life. In an interview with Aftermath, Barone casually remarks, "I'm just a dude that made a game," seemingly dodging the pedestal the game's fandom sometimes gives him. Unpacking the game's runaway popularity, he adds: "I was just making the game I wanted to play. What I would say is, I was tapping into
  
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• Furiosa takes the fight to a very scary Chris Hemsworth in a 6-minute sneak peek a week before the Mad Max prequel's release

  16-05-2024 20:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  A little over a week before its release, Warner Bros. has unveiled a six-minute sneak peek at the epic action film Furiosa.Set 15 to 20 years before Mad Max: Fury Road, the film follows a young Furiosa (Alyla Browne and Anya Taylor-Joy) who, in the clip, is kidnapped from her mother and taken to the Warlord Dementus (played by a terrifying Chris Hemsworth). Over the six minutes, we see Furiosa go from a scared child to a full-out weapon-wielding warrior who seeks vengeance against Dementus for k
  
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