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• Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies sent Jonathan Groff six key episodes to watch ahead of his debut

  15-05-2024 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Jonathan Groff may be most familiar to fans of the wildly different Mindhunter and Frozen, but you're about to see another side to the star in Doctor Who.He'll soon be appearing in an upcoming season 1 episode titled 'Rogue' alongside Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor and Millie Gibson's Ruby. However, as he reveals to SFX magazine in the new issue, which features Who on the cover, he'd never seen an episode of the beloved sci-fi series before. "Oh my gosh, it’s totally surreal and incredible," Gr
  
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• Pouring fuel on the Nier 3 fires, series producer says several Automata leads have reunited for a new game that "might be Nier" but also "might not be Nier"

  15-05-2024 15:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Three Nier Automata leads have been working on a project that "might be Nier," but also "might not be Nier."As first reported by Gematsu, the latest Famitsu Weekly issue features a conversation between former Capcom producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi and Nier series producer Yosuke Saito. The latter has producer credits across the Nier, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, and Star Ocean series' for both PlatinumGames and Square Enix.In the conversation, Saito spoke about working with Nier series creative dire
  
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• Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and more hit the beach on DC's fun - and only slightly thirsty - 2024 swimsuit covers

  15-05-2024 15:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Summer is almost here and DC are celebrating with a new range of 2024 swimsuit covers, due to hit comic shops in August. As ever, these covers are a lot of fun - and only slightly thirsty. The general vibe is one of unashamed cheesiness - but there's nothing wrong with that, and you can't argue with the range of fan favorite artists DC have selected this year. Here are all eight covers complete with release dates so you know when to hunt them down at your local comic shop.
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• These itty bitty plushies might be the cutest thing to come out of MTG Bloomburrow

  15-05-2024 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The upcoming MTG Bloomburrow set will bring enough fuzzy creatures to the planes to rival even Pokemon. So, in that same spirit, Wizards of the Coast have teamed up with WizKids to produce some adorable plushie keychains that’ll allow your cutesy combatants to accompany you anywhere.
  Part of why MTG is considered one of the best card games is its epic high fantasy-inspired card art. Still, Magic has its fair share of charming little critters that’ll have players fighting the urge to
  
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• First teaser for Marvel's Ironheart series sees Riri Williams pinching parts to build her super suit – and confirms 2025 release date

  15-05-2024 14:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel's Ironheart series has finally confirmed its official release date window – and unveiled a behind-closed-doors trailer – as part of Disney's Upfront 2024 presentation.According to IGN, the clip, though notably brief, showed a frustrated Riri (Dominique Thorne, reprising her role from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) stealing tech parts and tinkering with her homemade Iron Man-esque super suit. The publication goes on to suggest that it highlights when the show will be set: righ
  
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• CEO behind Warcraft and StarCraft vets' new strategy game defends asking players to invest in the studio, even after raising $35 million across fundraising efforts

  15-05-2024 14:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  The CEO of a new studio of Warcraft and StarCraft vets has spoken more about the decision to ask players to directly invest in the studio to support its upcoming real-time strategy game, Stormgate, after already raising millions in funding from other studios and a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign.Frost Giant, a team full of veteran devs from the Warcraft series and StarCraft 2, already saw Stormgate reach enormous success on Kickstarter, with prospective players collectively pitching in $2
  
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• Subscribe to SFX and get a set of three Star Wars books!

  15-05-2024 14:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  There are so many benefits to having a subscription to SFX!* Firstly, you make sure you never miss an issue!* Secondly, you make a substantial saving on the price you'd pay in the shops.* Thirdly, you save on shoe leather by having the mag delivered direct to your door.* Fourthly, as well as receiving the print mag, you receive access to the digital issue, and a library of over 150 digital back issues.
  As if all that wasn't enough, we often have a great goodie to encourage you to sign on the dot
  
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• Daredevil star Charlie Cox hopes he can continue playing the superhero for another 10 years

  15-05-2024 14:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Good news Marvel fans, Daredevil star Charlie Cox isn't going anywhere as he hopes he can continue to portray the famous superhero for another decade."There will definitely come a time where I am not able to do it anymore, but for right now, [we'll] just keep doing the best job we can and loving it," Cox told Deadline at Disney's recent Upfronts presentation. "I feel incredibly grateful to still be making the show, and hopefully we've got another 10 years in us."Cox first suited up as the blind
  
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• New D&D Player's Handbook art is a promising start to the game's big update

  15-05-2024 14:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  The new D&D Player's Handbook cover is out in the wild, along with a dragon's hoard of artwork from inside.Whereas previous editions of the book showed off nameless adventurers, this version of the D&D Player's Handbook depicts established heroes from across the game's 50-year history. Warriors that started life as 1980s action figures stand shoulder to shoulder with a character from one of its first settings, for example.As seen in an exclusive reveal by Game Informer, the revised book
  
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• It seems like James Gunn's DCU is planning a new movie every year as Supergirl lands 2026 release date

  15-05-2024 13:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow has landed its release date. The Milly Alcock-led DC movie is flying into theaters on June 26, 2026, making it the second movie in the revamped DCU under James Gunn and Peter Safran.Warner Bros. confirmed the news after it was recently announced the film would be directed by Cruella’s Craig Gillespie. The Vampire Diaries’ Ana Nogueira is writing the script, which is based on the 2022 comic book of the same name by Tom King and Bilquis Evely. It&rsquo
  
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• After a string of poorly-received patches, Helldivers 2 dev confirms test servers are being planned

  15-05-2024 13:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Helldivers 2 dev has revealed there's talks of a "test server" for the shooter, in the wake of several panned updates to the game.It's been a bit of rocky road for Helldivers 2 of late. Earlier this month saw the widely-hated PSN account linking mandate, which came with a boatload of negative review scores from players and Helldivers 2 being delisted from 170 digital storefronts around the world. Then Helldivers 2's own director admitted balance patches have gone too far in some instances, and
  
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• After a string of poorly-received patches, Helldivers 2 dev confirms test servers are being discussed

  15-05-2024 13:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Helldivers 2 dev has revealed there's talks of a "test server" for the shooter, in the wake of several panned updates to the game.It's been a bit of rocky road for Helldivers 2 of late. Earlier this month saw the widely-hated PSN account linking mandate, which came with a boatload of negative review scores from players and Helldivers 2 being delisted from 170 digital storefronts around the world. Then Helldivers 2's own director admitted balance patches have gone too far in some instances, and
  
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• Someone, protect me from Hellblade 2's unbelievably impressive photo mode and its moveable light bulbs

  15-05-2024 13:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 releases next week, but even before getting my hands on the trippy action sequel, I already know its photo mode is going to swallow up hours of my life. Developer Ninja Theory has been sharing tidbits from its upcoming Viking epic every day in the lead-up to launch, and today, we were treated to a peek at its photo mode. That isn't normally the most hype part of a marketing campaign, but I'm making an exception here because you can move the light bulbs (I'm super s
  
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• Nintendo Switch 2 isn't the only handheld Nvidia is apparently planning to power

  15-05-2024 13:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fresh Nvidia handheld rumors are making the rounds, and this time they tie to a potential partnership with a company that isn’t Nintendo. Both parties are allegedly working on a SoC designed with portable PCs in mind, but there’s a good chance it’ll feel more like a Steam Deck than something like the Asus ROG Ally or Lenovo Legion GO. If I were Nvidia right now, I’d be pretty cheesed off about AMD dominating the best gaming handheld scene. Sure, all signs point towar
  
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• Sting director says he's "kind of remaking Alien" with the giant spider horror movie

  15-05-2024 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Given that it's about a giant murderous spider, new horror movie Sting has been understandably compared to the likes of Eight Legged Freaks and Arachnophobia. For writer-director Kiah Roache-Turner, though, it's more like one of the most iconic sci-fi movies of all time: Alien."I'm kind of remaking [it]," he says of Ridley Scott's acclaimed film in the new issue of SFX magazine, which features Doctor Who on the cover. "[Sting is] effectively a haunted house movie with a giant killer alien. There
  
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• Elden Ring publisher Bandai Namco responds after ex-employee arrested for embezzling nearly $4 million by selling a whopping 4,400 mobile devices over 7 years

  15-05-2024 12:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  An ex-employee of Elden Ring publisher Bandai Namco has been arrested for embezzling a shocking ¥600 million over the course of seven years - all from selling 4,400 mobile devices.Yesterday, May 14, Bandai Namco director Masaru Kawaguchi acknowledged in a statement that an ex-employee of the Japanese developer and publisher had been arrested on suspicion of corporate embezzlement. The individual isn't named, but it's revealed that between April 2015 and April 2022, they sold 4,400 mobile dev
  
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• WandaVision's Agatha spin-off confirms release date and FINAL title, as it becomes clear the Marvel show really was trolling us all along

  15-05-2024 12:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Yes, Marvel was trolling us with all those changes to the title of WandaVision's Agatha-centric spin-off series. Fortunately now, though, it's decided to stop playing silly buggers and reveal its official name, and turns out... it was Agatha All Along. The studio also confirmed when the Disney Plus show will premiere, kicking off with two episodes dropping at once on September 18 – almost three years after it was first announced.Kathryn Hahn will, of course, be reprising her Emmy-winn
  
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• Helldivers 2 CEO wants the galactic war to last "forever" even if Arrowhead has to "sunset" the game in the far future and the devs have to make an AI game master

  15-05-2024 12:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Helldivers 2 studio hopes to keep the game going forever, even if the developers are eventually forced to move on.In a recent exchange on the game's official Discord server, Johan Pilestedt, CEO of Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Studios, was asked a question: Would players in regions where the game is currently unavailable for purchase due to the PSN account-linking controversy ever lose access to Helldivers 2 if they already own it?Pilestedt says the response was clear - "If you have boug
  
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• First trailer for Marvel's Daredevil: Born Again has been secretly shown, featuring glimpses of returning characters and the hero back in his iconic suit

  15-05-2024 12:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  The new trailer for Disney Plus’ Daredevil reboot has been secretly shown behind closed doors before its public release and offers a peek at the original show’s best characters including Matt Murdock back in his iconic suit. According to IGN, the new trailer for the upcoming TV show, titled Daredevil: Born Again, opens with star Charlie Cox back in the infamous red Daredevil suit while his voice plays in the background, saying: "The entire system is against you... it's often Dav
  
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• Palworld dev "hates" seeing the survival game pitted against Helldivers 2 "in pursuit of 2010 era 'console war' updoot farming"

  15-05-2024 12:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Palworld game designer and community manager 'Bucky' says it's "heartbreaking" to see Pocketpair's survival game being used in order to chase "2010 era 'console war' updoot farming," after recent social media posts began pitting it against Helldivers 2. It was confirmed this week that Helldivers 2 – which is only playable on PC and PS5 – is officially Sony Interactive Entertainment's fastest-selling game of all time. With over 12 million units sold since its release in February,
  
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• "This is Diablo 4 as it should have originally been released": Blizzard's action-RPG continues its very uneven trajectory with huge praise for Season 4

  15-05-2024 12:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 4 Season 4 has just gone live, and it looks like yet another redemption story for Blizzard's ongoing ARPG.Diablo 4 has been a tale of peaks and valleys since launch last year. The game launched to player and critical acclaim, before everything went up in the smoke with some contentious pre-Season 1 changes. Things seemed to stabilize in Season 2, before Season 3 launched to mass criticism, with players lamenting "boring" traps and a "useless" companion to boot.In yet another twist, Season
  
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• Amid rave reviews and 200,000 sales, Idle Stardew Valley-style farming sim dev can hardly believe their success: "I'm only now realizing how life-changing this is"

  15-05-2024 12:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  The developer of adorable Stardew Valley-style farming sim says that they're "just coming to terms" with their smash success.Last month, Jordan Morris released Rusty's Retirement, an idle farming game. Sitting at the bottom (or side) of your screen, the game largely plays itself, but in your role as farm supervisor, you can instruct Rusty to plant crops or build new structures. Five days after release, Morris announced that the game had surpassed 100,000 sales - seemingly spawning a new idle gen
  
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• After a bumpy road, the long-awaited Mortal Kombat 2 finally has a release date

  15-05-2024 12:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mortal Kombat will be punching its way into theaters in 2025, some four years after the first movie was released. Warner Bros. has confirmed the long-awaited sequel’s release date as October 24, 2025. It will be landing in IMAX too, so expect bigger fights and more electrifying action for the video game adaptation.Director Simon McQuoid is back in the chair for the follow-up to the 2021 original, but there are some big new cast members involved this time. Namely, The Boys star Karl Ur
  
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• Leaked Assassin's Creed Shadows details point to dual protagonists, potentially including Yasuke, Japan's first black samurai

  15-05-2024 11:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  Information about Assassin's Creed Shadow's (previously Codename Red) protagonists may have been leaked prior to the game's cinematic trailer debut.Assassin's Creed has always been particularly prone to leakage - even from publisher Ubisoft, who just made an oopsie and potentially revealed the game's release date - and the series' first trip to Feudal Japan is no different. Leaked box art images feature two badass protagonists and details from normally reliable AssCreed leaker j0nathan sheds lig
  
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• Helldivers 2 will revert enemy spawn rates after player outcry, but it's been "so hectic" that it'll take some time to fix

  15-05-2024 11:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Helldivers 2 is reverting recent changes that had solo players overwhelmed by huge enemy hordes.Last month, a Helldivers 2 patch tweaked enemy spawn rates for squads that had less than maximum players. The fewer players in a squad, the more enemy patrols would effectively appear, and at the time this appeared to be hugely punishing for solo players, and even squads where one player just happened to drop out.Thankfully, Arrowhead has now addressed the unrest surrounding enemy spawn rates. "As man
  
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• Analyst estimates PS5 outsold Xbox Series X|S by "almost 5x" last quarter

  15-05-2024 01:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  A noted industry analyst estimates the PS5 outsold the Xbox Series X and S by a factor of five over the last quarter.Daniel Ahmad, the director of research and insights at Niko Partners, shared his analyses of Sony's recent earnings report on Twitter, painting a grim picture of Xbox's recent hardware sales compared to its biggest competitor, PlayStation. "The PlayStation 5 shipped 4.5 million units in the last quarter," Ahmad said. "According to our estimates, this is almost 5x more th
  
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• Daredevil: Born Again gets a new logo and release date, but a reduced episode count

  15-05-2024 01:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel Studios' Daredevil: Born Again has been set for a March 2025 streaming release on Disney Plus, according to Discussing Film. The release date leads new reports about the show coming out of Disney's upfronts presentation for its upcoming 2024 and 2025 releases. Along with the release date, TVLine has confirmed that the show's first season will consist of nine episodes, down from its originally announced 18.A new logo and trailer were also shown behind closed doors, with IGN reporting that
  
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• Tom King returns to Batman as the Caped Crusader teams up with Jenny Sparks of The Authority in a new Black Label title

  14-05-2024 23:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Writer Tom King is digging deep into another DC character with a new Black Label limited series, this time turning his insightful and experimental pen to WildStorm's Jenny Sparks of Stormwatch and The Authority fame to bring the so-called "Spirit of the 20th century into the 21st century."King will be joined by WildCATs artist Jeff Spokes and letterer Clayton Cowles for Jenny Sparks, which also brings in Batman, who King wrote for years, to help solve a mystery related to Captain Atom, who has g
  
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• Single-player Dead by Daylight game from Until Dawn dev looks like a straight-up horror movie, and I'm here for it

  14-05-2024 23:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  "Cedar Hills [Oregon] is not exactly a noted hotbed of criminal activity," says an unseen character in the first gameplay trailer for The Casting of Frank Stone, the single-player Dead by Daylight game in development at Until Dawn and The Quarry studio Supermassive. "That's not entirely true. There was that whole serial killer thing," another character replies.As a former resident of Cedar Hills, Oregon, I think I can say with some authority that, while I don't know anything about the "whole se
  
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• In an era of 100GB games, breakout Metroidvania hit Animal Well is only 34MB - so small that its 4K PS5 background is "likely larger than the game"

  14-05-2024 23:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Animal Well is already the second best-rated game of 2024, second only to Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. But where the middle entry in the remake trilogy is nearly 150GB in size, Animal Well packs all its goodness in a fraction of the space.My Animal Well install clocks in at just 33.3MB, though the system requirements on Steam suggest you'll need 40MB of space - either way, this is a tiny game. Speaking to Stephen Totillo's Game File newsletter, developer Billy Basso says "I just tried to program it
  
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