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• Jaws and Hitchcock's Psycho inspired new horror movie The Strangers: Chapter 1, as director explains its lack of gore

  16-05-2024 13:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Horror fans may get a shock when going to see The Strangers: Chapter 1 in theaters, not because of the killer trio, albeit they are scary, but the general lack of blood and gore. But this was director Renny Harlin’s plan all along as he believes that real fear lies in real life and what isn't shown – something he has learned from one or two genre masters."It's the reality that makes it so frightening because anybody can relate to it and anybody could find themselves in that situation
  
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• The most popular Netflix show ever finally gets a return month, courtesy of its star

  16-05-2024 13:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  We finally know when Squid Game season 2 is hitting Netflix, thanks to its star. Squid Game is the most popular Netflix show of all time, and season 2 has been a long time coming – season 1 debuted back in 2021, and quickly became a massive cultural phenomenon. Lee Jung-jae, who plays Gi-hun, gave an update to Business Insider on when the show would be returning. "It will be released in December," he revealed. Netflix had previously announced that Squid Game season 2 would b
  
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• Quick, the Pokemon Twilight Masquerade booster box just hit its lowest price

  16-05-2024 13:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  You can get your hands on 36 Pokemon Twilight Masquerade booster packs for their lowest-ever price if you move fast – and the set isn't even out yet.The massive booster box has been discounted by an impressive 17% ahead of the May 24 Pokemon Twilight Masquerade release date, and if price comparison software is anything to go by, the bundle has never been cheaper. More specifically, you can get it for $107.99 at Amazon instead of $129.99. That's a drop of $22.This isn't the only discount fl
  
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• First leaked look at Liam Hemsworth’s Geralt in The Witcher season 4 is here – and it appears to recreate a Henry Cavill scene

  16-05-2024 13:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  It’s finally here: leaked set photos from The Witcher season 4 show off the first look at Liam Hemsworth’s Geralt.As snapped by Splash News (H/T Metro) – click through the link to see each photo – Hemsworth is seen cross-armed in one photo and rocking a black shirt and boots, with his trusty silver sword perched on a rock. In another, he is seen with Geralt's medallion and holding his sword.Curiously, the photos also appear to be recreating the clash between Henry Cavill&
  
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• The Acolyte producers tease that the show is different to what we've ever seen before, but "still utterly Star Wars in its essence"

  16-05-2024 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Acolyte looks like something all new for Star Wars. For one thing, it's the first live-action series to be set during the High Republic era of the Star Wars timeline – but that's not the only way it's shaking up the galaxy far, far away.As producers Rayne Roberts and Simon Emanuel tell SFX magazine in the new issue, which features Doctor Who on the cover, the specifics of The Acolyte's genre is a fresh spin on Star Wars, too. "The detective element is very high in the mix," says Robert
  
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• Canceled Division game began as a battle royale mode for The Division 2 before Ubisoft had "other ideas" for the free-to-play spin-off

  16-05-2024 12:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Division Heartland, the now-canceled free-to-play take on the looter shooter series, was originally set to be a battle royale mode.Publisher Ubisoft scrapped The Division Heartland just yesterday to redeploy resources to "bigger opportunities," such as the company's fledgling FPS XDefiant, coming next month, and further Rainbow Six Siege projects, including a mobile rendition. But Heartland began life as a pretty big opportunity itself as a battle royale contend
  
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• House of the Dragon season 2 producers says reduced episode count for the Game of Thrones prequel wasn’t their choice

  16-05-2024 12:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  House of the Dragon season 2 is just around the corner, as we recently got an epic new look at its main trailer. However, there will be some changes for the Game of Thrones prequel this time around as it has fewer episodes this time around. Unlike the 10-episode run of the first season of the fantasy epic, the second outing only has eight episodes. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the HBO show’s executive producer says this wasn’t a creative call. Sara Hess wouldn’t comme
  
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• 22-year-old PS2 shooter Star Wars: The Clone Wars looks set to be the next PS2 game coming to PS5 via PS Plus emulation

  16-05-2024 12:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star Wars: The Clone Wars could be the next PS2-era emulated game to come to PS5 and PS4 consoles.As first reported by Gematsu, a tracker recently picked up that the PlayStation Store had been updated with a new listing for Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The PSN store listing reveals that the PS2 game will be coming to both PS5 and PS4 platforms next month on June 11, so it could well be included with next month's line-up of emulated PlayStation classic games included in the PlayStation Plus service
  
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• Game of Thrones prequel by The Batman writer will be like "Napoleon or Alexander the Great," as another spin-off goes into production

  16-05-2024 12:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Two upcoming Game of Thrones spin-offs have received positive updates – and it sounds like one of them is shaping up to be a fantasy historical epic. A show about Aegon the Conqueror – the first Targaryen king – is in the works, though it hasn't been officially greenlit just yet. It's being penned by Mattson Tomlin (who also worked on The Batman), and, like House of the Dragon, is adapted from George R. R. Martin's Fire & Blood novel, which is a (fictional) historical
  
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• With over 96 million copies sold, the Nintendo Switch surpasses the Game Boy to become the most successful Pokemon console ever

  16-05-2024 12:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Nintendo Switch is now the most successful platform in history in terms of Pokemon games sold, overtaking the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance.Nintendo recently updated its sales data for the Nintendo Switch's lifetime software sales. 96 million copies of Pokemon games have been sold on the Nintendo Switch since the console first launched in 2017, compared to the 75 million units of Pokemon games that were ever sold for both the Game Boy and the Game Boy Color back in the day.It's interesting t
  
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• Helldivers 2 devs reveal the first Galactic War was just "an elaborate special operation," and "The Second Galactic War" has already begun

  16-05-2024 12:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Helldivers 2 players failed to complete their latest Major Order, and apparently that means that the entire Galactic War is set to "escalate."In a post on the official Helldivers 2 Discord last night, community manager Baskinator noted that players had failed to reach the requirement to kill two billion bots in the five-day Major Order. Previously, they succeeded in a bug-shaped version of that Order, but that's probably because an error counted Terminid kills way faster than intended. Arrowhead
  
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• Fantasy MMO gets removed from sale by devs buying back the rights - so that they can take out microtransactions and effectively un-MMO their MMO

  16-05-2024 11:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  MMO Wayfinder has been removed from sale while the developers make "major changes" to the game and its business model via the upcoming Echoes update.Developer Airship Syndicate released its free-to-play, live service MMO Wayfinder into early access last summer with Digital Extremes on publishing duty. But Airship Syndicate has since reacquired the rights to its game and will soon relaunch it as a paid co-op RPG while removing all the microtransactions and live service fluff. For all owners
  
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• Chris Hemsworth gets "teary-eyed" during 6-minute standing ovation for Furiosa at Cannes following great reviews for the Mad Max: Fury Road prequel

  16-05-2024 11:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Furiosa received a warm welcome following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, landing a six-minute standing ovation for the Mad Max: Fury Road prequel. The enthusiastic reception came as the first glowing reviews for the new movie arrived, including our own 4-star Furiosa review.Per Variety, during the standing ovation, Furiosa star Anya Taylor-Joy "blew kisses into the camera" and Dementus star Chris Hemsworth "looked teary-eyed". Director George Miller addressed the audience br
  
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• Netflix hit 3 Body Problem gets renewed until it reaches "epic conclusion" – but the streamer won’t say how many seasons that will take

  16-05-2024 11:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  3 Body Problem, the adaptation of Cixin Liu’s trilogy of sci-fi novels, will finish its story on Netflix.As revealed during Netflix's Upfront presentation, the streamer has ordered an unknown number of "all-new episodes" to bring the show – which stars Jovan Adepo, John Bradley, Eiza Gonzalez, Benedict Wong, and more – to a close.In a statement, showrunners David Benioff, Dan Weiss, and Alexander Woo said,  "We’re thrilled that we get to tell this story through to it
  
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• Assassin's Creed Shadows fan theory might have pinpointed the open-world game's historical setting with a crucial event in Japanese history

  16-05-2024 11:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Shadows fans think they've worked out where the upcoming game could potentially conclude.Yesterday, Ubisoft finally pulled back the curtain on Assassin's Creed Shadows with its debut reveal trailer, showcasing dual protagonists Yasuke and Naoe, and a setting of 1579. The Reddit post below notes that this setting is intriguing, not least because it takes place three years before the assassination of Oda Nobunaga, Yasuke's lord, and a mighty figurehead of Japanese history.This eve
  
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• Roguelike witchcraft from a master’s spellbook: in Edge 398, Supergiant explains the secret sorcery behind its first-ever sequel, Hades II

  16-05-2024 11:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  As many an indie-game developer has already attested – Hades II’s stealth launch into Early Access caught a lot of people off-guard. But then why not start as you mean to go on? After all, surprise is one of the most important ingredients of a Roguelike. And when you’re making a sequel, springing such shocks becomes that bit harder. Little wonder, then, that Supergiant Games spent plenty of time weighing up the pros and cons of a follow-up to its enormously successful unde
  
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• Furiosa star Chris Hemsworth says it was "liberating" to shed his heroic Thor persona for the Mad Max prequel

  16-05-2024 11:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Get ready to see a new side to actor Chris Hemsworth as he takes on the role of the the antagonistic Dementus in upcoming Mad Max: Fury Road prequel Furiosa. Although we are used to seeing the star saving galaxies as the heroic Thor in Marvel movies, he is now embracing villainy with the warlord.For Hemsworth himself that experience of tackling a role so different to the God of Thunder was a freeing one, as he tells SFX magazine in the new issue, which features Doctor Who on the cover: "It was s
  
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• 6 days before launch, Xbox breaks Hellblade 2's long marketing silence with a 5-minute recap of the first game

  16-05-2024 02:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Six days from launch, Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 has a new promotional video out that breaks down the story from the first game.Ninja Theory's silence in recent weeks around one of the biggest upcoming Xbox Series X games of the year was starting to raise some concerns, but fear not, the dam has broken and we now have a big old... story recap. You know, so you're up to speed on what's going on before the sequel comes out. I mean, it's something.Despite chatter online, it's not as if Ninja Theory
  
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• Assassin's Creed Shadows has a grappling hook to let its shinobi character reach places its samurai can't

  15-05-2024 23:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Shadows has the one tool every video game needs: a grappling hook. But only one of its two protagonists can make use of the item to reach new areas.The game's two protagonists each have some "clear advantages" - samurai Yasuke is great at fighting, while shinobi Naoe is better at stealth and parkour. "We developed quite a bit of new tools for Naoe and stealth, and one of them is the grappling hook," creative director Jonathan Dumont explains in a breakdown of the new cinematic t
  
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• Peter Jackson says The Lord of the Rings Gollum movie explores territory "we didn't have time to cover" in the original trilogy

  15-05-2024 23:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  The recently announced Lord of the Rings Gollum movie will cover parts of the titular former hobbit's backstory that the filmmakers didn't have time to delve into in the original trilogy.Speaking to Deadline, Peter Jackson, director of the original Lord of the Rings trilogy and producer on the Gollum adapt, said the upcoming movie will give fans a look at Sméagol's backstory and other parts of his story that the filmmakers only now have the time to explore."The Gollum/Sméagol chara
  
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• A John Wick 4 spin-off movie starring Donnie Yen's Caine is in the works

  15-05-2024 23:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Another John Wick spin-off is in the works, this time centered on Donnie Yen's blind assassin.No plot details have been announced, nor does the film have a title, though the film will likely follow Caine's new life now that he has been freed from his obligations to the High Table. Robert Askins (The Umbrella Academy) is set to pen the script. No direct has been attached to the project as of yet.Caine is the secondary antagonist of John Wick: Chapter 4, having been sent to kill John by Vince Biss
  
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• The X-Men's mutant pop star Dazzler is embarking on a big world tour in her own solo series this fall

  15-05-2024 23:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dazzler is returning in her own solo limited series this September as part of Marvel's big 'From the Ashes' X-Men line relaunch. Sentry writer Jason Loo and freshman Marvel artist Rafael Loureiro will take Alison Blaire/Dazzler out on tour in a four-issue limited series that will even include some actual Dazzler songs.Dazzler's big tour comes just as mutantkind is once again "hated and feared" by humans, meaning she'll be dealing with some serious obstacles along the way. But to have her back, s
  
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• Rockstar co-founder and former GTA lead Dan Houser is making an "open-world action-adventure game" of his own at his new studio

  15-05-2024 23:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dan Houser, one of Rockstar's co-founders and the former lead writer (among other roles) on both Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, announced a new studio called Absurd Ventures last year. We now know at least one concrete thing that the studio, proudly dedicated to making "weird shit from desperate people," is working on, and yes, it's a game that sounds a bit like GTA on paper.Recent job listings at Absurd Ventures, like this lead gameplay designer position, specify "an open world actio
  
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• Ubisoft CEO says "I expect a lot from gen AI in our games" and thinks it'll make them feel "more alive and richer"

  15-05-2024 22:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ubisoft is doubling down on its plans to integrate generative AI in its games, and CEO Yves Guillemot also believes it might be used to "automatize" parts of certain jobs at the company.Back at the Game Developers Conference in March, Ubisoft unveiled what it called Project NEO NPC, an effort to build NPCs driven by generative AI. That only sounded kinda weird until we got to the "soul" and a female character that was reprogrammed for being too "flirtatious and seductive," and in an online world
  
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• Assassin's Creed Shadows is making a big change to the series' iconic towers to encourage you to explore its open-world Japan

  15-05-2024 21:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  After last year's Mirage returned to series roots with a linear design, Assassin's Creed Shadows reverts to the series' modern open-world format, but it's making a significant change to a series mainstay: the climbable synchronization towers.New and longtime Assassin's Creed fans - and even just Ubisoft fans generally - will be well familiar with these towers. They serve slightly different functions from game to game, but generally they act as a means to fill out the map with specific points of
  
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• Poker Face star Natasha Lyonne joins Marvel's Fantastic Four reboot in mystery role

  15-05-2024 21:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel Studios is filling out the cast for its upcoming Fantastic Four MCU reboot film, with Russian Doll and Poker Face star Natasha Lyonne as the latest actor to tag in for the currently filming movie in an unnamed role, as reported by Deadline. Lyonne's casting is the third such mystery addition in recent weeks, following the castings of Paul Walker Hauser, and John Malkovich, whose roles also remain unrevealed. Speculation on their castings has run rampant, with Hauser recently confirmi
  
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• Meet the new hero of Helldivers 2: Dremskiy, a player kicked despite insisting "Im frend," who now has a full Steam friends list after even PlayStation shared the love

  15-05-2024 21:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  A rocky run of balance patches and technical issues hasn't stopped the Helldivers 2 community from being wholesome as hell, as evidenced by the recent outpouring of support for a sad-looking player named Dremskiy, who is now every Helldiver's friend. The Dremskiy saga, as future historians will call it, started on May 13 when, as many memes have documented, screenshots emerged of a text chat conversation between Dremskiy and another player named Tolga. It's a tale as old as time: Dremskiy j
  
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• Ubisoft has canceled The Division Heartland and "redeployed resources to bigger opportunities" like its Call of Duty-style FPS XDefiant

  15-05-2024 20:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Division Heartland, which was set to be a free-to-play take on the third-person shooter series, has been canceled.In its financial report today, Ubisoft said that "in line with the increased selectivity of its investments, Ubisoft has decided to stop development on The Division Heartland and has redeployed resources to bigger opportunities such as XDefiant and Rainbow Six." XDefiant is finally due to launch this month, and Rainbow Six Mobile is in development alongside the continued success
  
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• Assassin's Creed Shadows' dual protagonists each have their own "clear advantages" in stealth and combat, "even if they can do a bit of both"

  15-05-2024 19:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Shadows' dual protagonists Naoe and Yasuke are each purpose-built for different functions, letting you switch between stealth and combat-oriented gameplay depending on the situation and your playstyle.Following the big reveal of Ubisoft's new open-world game Assassin's Creed Shadows, which is based in feudal Japan, the studio released a dedicated video showcasing the game's dual protagonists and their unique talents. Yasuke is a samurai who uses his big frame and martial skills
  
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• X-Men ’97 resolves a decades-long Spider-Man: The Animated series cliffhanger

  15-05-2024 19:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warning: Spoilers for X-Men '97 episode 10 below!X-Men '97 season 1 has come to a close, and the epic finale contains a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment that confirms what we've always thought to be true: Peter and Mary Jane would find each other in any universe.Spider-Man: The Animated Series ended in 1998 on an all but satisfying cliffhanger. In season 5, Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson finally get married – but it isn't the happy ending that Peter hoped for. In season 5 episode 8, Spid
  
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