08-08-2024 13:00 via gamesradar.com
Warning: Major spoilers for Borderlands below!The long-awaited live-action Borderlands movie is quite the action-packed doozy – and you might be a little confused about everything that went down. Lucky for you, that's where we come in.The film centers on Lilith (Cate Blanchett) who learns that her destiny lies within her home planet of Pandora, whether she likes it or not. We've broken down the ending of Borderlands, and have answered your burning questions. If you've already seen th
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Incredibly lucky first-time Dark Souls player survives parkour deathtrap by getting bounced around its notorious swinging axes
12-08-2024 16:14 via gamesradar.com
One Dark Souls player got absolutely pummelled in Sen's Fortress, banded around like a ball between the huge swinging axes, and yet somehow they inexplicably emerged alive.I hate Sen's Fortress. You hate Sen's Fortress. We all hate Sen's Fortress. The tricky tower of swinging axes shows mercy to no one - except, perhaps, with the odd caveat of the lucky Dark Souls player just below, who found themselves stood atop one of the swinging axes when they suddenly got pushed off a walkway by another tr
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AMD's best GPU is down to a price I can't get my head around
12-08-2024 16:04 via gamesradar.com
The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX has always had price on its side, but I just stumbled across a ridiculous new record-low deal. You can now grab the red team’s flagship 4K graphics card for almost $100 less than Nvidia’s mid-range GPU, and I don’t think I could recommend any other high-end card right now.It just so happens that the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is down to just $709 at Amazon – a saving of $290.99 compared to its $999.99 MSRP. I regularly check in on the flagship
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Baldur's Gate 3 players have been so busy kissing Shadowheart, the RPG's most-smooched companion, her actor says "I think I've sprained my tongue"
12-08-2024 15:53 via gamesradar.com
The recent glut of Baldur's Gate 3 statistics revealed Shadowheart as the RPG's most often kissed companion - and her voice actor has posted the perfect reaction in response.While she isn't personally my cup of tea thanks to my unwavering commitment to Astarion, Shadowheart is clearly a fan-favorite companion in Baldur's Gate 3. According to Larian Studios' stats, kisses shared with the loyal servant of Shar account for a whopping 36% percent of all smooches with anyone, in total - at least. The
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The Witcher 3's Geralt actor isn't Team Triss or Team Yen: "I would have liked an option to romance Shani"
12-08-2024 15:50 via gamesradar.com
The Witcher 3's Geralt actor Doug Cockle has been speaking more about his iconic RPG role and has weighed in on whether he's on Team Triss or Yennefer. The answer is neither, actually.Triss and Yen are The Witcher 3's two main romance options, each with a unique ending, and generally speaking, every Witcher fan has their thoughts on who the best girl is. However, in a new interview with Fall Damage on YouTube, Cockle says he'd have liked to romance the medic Shani instead, even if he understands
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Ridley Scott gave Alien: Romulus director perfect, hilarious advice on taking over the franchise
12-08-2024 15:37 via gamesradar.com
Alien: Romulus director Fede Alvarez has shared the advice Ridley Scott gave him on his first day of filming – and it's perfectly straight to the point.Alvarez posted a photo of a typed-out note from Scott on his Instagram, which reads: "Dear Fede, Good luck. Good health. Good hunting. Don’t fuck up. Very best wishes, Ridley Scott."Scott directed the original Alien movie, released back in 1979, and serves as a producer on the new release. Set between the events of Alien and 198
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The ghost with the most returns in these exclusive new images from Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
12-08-2024 14:59 via gamesradar.com
After Blade Runner 2049 and Top Gun: Maverick proved that belated sequels could be special enough to escape the voluminous shadows of their classic originals, we’ve this year already had Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F and Twisters. And Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is set to end a year of lega-sequels on a high.Set 36 years after Tim Burton’s iconic 1988 original, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice sees the Deetz family return to Winter River following a family tragedy, and things only get worse when a po
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The Straw Hats hang around and chow down in the gorgeous first look at Netflix's One Piece remake
12-08-2024 14:43 via gamesradar.com
The first look at Netflix's upcoming remake of the hugely popular anime series One Piece is here – and while it's only concept art at this stage, it's absolutely gorgeous.Directed by Masashi Koizuka, the new series, which was produced by Wit Studio, is set to be a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Toei Animation's original adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's beloved manga series. It'll start off at the very beginning, but interpret the source material in ways we've not quite seen befor
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James Gunn gives an update on Superman, and suggests that he doesn't think there will be any reshoots
12-08-2024 14:27 via gamesradar.com
In his own cryptic way, James Gunn has given an update date on his upcoming Superman movie, suggesting that although production isn't over, there will be no reshoots.The director gave the update when a fan asked him on Instagram, "Would you also say that you’re 98% done with Superman?" to which Gunn replied, "Heck no. Once you’re done shooting you’ve only just begun! Still lots of editing, VFX, sound, and scoring to be done!"But although there is still plenty of work to do post
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Borderlands 3 rockets up Steam's best-sellers chart to its highest concurrent player counts all year after the Borderlands movie's launch
12-08-2024 13:55 via gamesradar.com
The Borderlands movie might have been a massive flop, but Gearbox's games are having a lovely resurgence in the aftermath of the movie's underwhelming launch.The Borderlands movie just launched last week, and - spoiler alert - it's not great. Our Borderlands review lambasted it as "a frenetic and disorderly shambles gamers are likely to loathe," granting it just two stars. Other critics didn't love it either - at one point the Borderlands movie held an astounding 0% approval rating on Rotten Tom
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Game of Thrones star admits there were "mistakes" made in season 8: "I think there were some interesting choices that didn't quite work"
12-08-2024 13:54 via gamesradar.com
Jon Snow actor Kit Harington has shared his candid thoughts on Game of Thrones season 8, and it doesn't sound like he was a fan of all of the final season."I think if there was any fault with the end of Thrones, is that we were all so fucking tired, we couldn't have gone on longer," Harington told GQ. "And so I understand some people thought it was rushed and I might agree with them. But I'm not sure there was any alternative. I look at pictures of me in that final season and I look exhaus
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Netflix’s most streamed show of all time gets a new teaser, and it reveals a major detail about season 2’s plot
12-08-2024 13:50 via gamesradar.com
Squid Game season 2 is releasing on Netflix later this year, but so far much of the show’s plot has been shrouded in mystery. Not anymore, thanks to a very telling new teaser revealing a major detail about the return of the streamer’s most-watched show.In a very short clip released by Netflix, we see Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) back in his Squid Game uniform, and he’s got the same number: 456. It’s the storyline we were all dreading after watching Gi-hun fight to the dea
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Borderlands CEO is posting through the film's $100m flop with another Borderlands 4 hint, teasing "we're working extra hard four you on what's next"
12-08-2024 13:39 via gamesradar.com
The Borderlands movie hasn't gone down well, but Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford is trying to shift fans' focus to the team's next project, which he's strongly hinting to be Borderlands 4.First reactions to the Borderlands movie were hardly positive, with it slated as "a disaster" and "uninspired" amongst other things. While its debut 0% Rotten Tomatoes score has since improved slightly, and it's received a more generous audience score of 50%, generally speaking, the response hasn't been fantastic.
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Infamous World of Warcraft damage fiend returns to the MMO after 1 year to sink 2 raid bosses with 300 million damage - by using a bug Blizzard thought it fixed
12-08-2024 13:38 via gamesradar.com
One of World of Warcraft's most notorious damage enthusiasts has returned to the MMO after around a year away, almost immediately finding a bug allowing them to one-shot raid bosses by dealing 300 million damage.Rextroy explains in a new YouTube video (below) that they were messing around on the Rogue before noticing that they were getting 1,000 in healing for hitting a Critter despite only dealing 1,700 damage. The numbers don't add up as Rextroy's Rogue only has a health leech of 0.01%.Recalli
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard director says the RPG's big opening will make Inquisition's finale "look like a minor inconvenience"
12-08-2024 13:36 via gamesradar.com
Dragon Age: The Veilguard director Corinne Busche reveals that BioWare wants the new RPG to be massive - so much so, in fact, that its beginning is even bigger than Inquisition's ending was.Speaking in an interview with Edge, Busche delves into just how impressive the upcoming Dragon Age entry's opening sequence is - going as far as comparing it to the series' previous games' finales. "We wanted the prologue to feel like the finale of any other game we've done. Where it puts you right into this
Online multiplayer game Mecha Break soars past 50,000 concurrent Steam players in its playtest, who all discover just how unhinged its character creator can be
12-08-2024 13:22 via gamesradar.com
Mecha Break might just be in its playtest phase, but it's already surpassed 51,000 concurrent players on PC - all of whom are taking advantage of its frankly ludicrous character creator.The brand new action game from developer Amazing Seasun Games just went into beta earlier this month on August 3. Apparently Mecha Break has been nothing short of a smash-hit success - to date it's managed to attain a peak concurrent player count on Steam of 51,382 players as recently as just two days ago on Augu
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Game of Thrones star says his Jon Snow spin-off show was canceled because it wasn't "exciting enough"
12-08-2024 13:10 via gamesradar.com
Does anyone remember when HBO had a Game of Thrones Jon Snow spin-off series apparently in the works but nothing ever came of it? Well, it looks like the show will not go ahead, and star Kit Harington has revealed exactly why."We spent a couple of years back and forth developing it. And it just didn’t... nothing got us excited enough," said Harington in an interview with GQ. "In the end, I kind of backed out and said, ‘I think if we push this any further and keep developing it
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One of Marvel's most-delayed shows finally gets a new trailer, and contains a very deep-cut MCU cameo
12-08-2024 12:47 via gamesradar.com
Two years after the first trailer was shown behind closed doors, we finally have a new look at upcoming Marvel series Ironheart from D23. Though, once again, the footage hasn't been shared with the wider public.First introduced to the MCU during the events of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Riri Williams is a prodigal MIT student, one who came into contact with Okoye and Shuri after she invented a vibranium detector. Now, she's in her own series, that was originally set to debut in 2023.Stars&nb
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Doom: The Dark Ages gameplay reportedly shown at QuakeCon, revealing a revamped glory kill system and a mech with a cannon
12-08-2024 12:39 via gamesradar.com
New Doom: The Dark Ages gameplay details have surfaced online from a reported behind-the-scenes gameplay demo at QuakeCon 2024.Bethesda held QuakeCon 2024 over the past weekend, and it was a pretty quiet affair bar one big showing for Doom: The Dark Ages. Unfortunately, the gameplay demo wasn't shown as part of the livestream, but was instead shown exclusively to attendees, multiple of whom have now come forward to describe what they saw.Take the YouTuber below, for example, or this Reddit user,
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Daredevil: Born Again's new trailer brings back the vibe of the Netflix show as release date finally set
12-08-2024 12:22 via gamesradar.com
The first look at Daredevil: Born Again debuted at D23, and it seems like the Disney Plus series will channel the energy of the original Netflix show. It was also confirmed that the show will premiere in March 2025.The trailer screened behind closed doors at the Disney fan convention in Anaheim, California, but Total Film was on the ground and reported that it "shows everything fans of the Netflix show will want from the series – tension between Daredevil and the Punisher, Fisk smashing th
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Toy Story 5 has one of Pixar's best creatives as a director and some fascinating first details – and that has me very excited about the fivequel
12-08-2024 12:18 via gamesradar.com
D23 was packed with Disneytastic news, and updates on one project in particular have me very excited.Now, we've known about Toy Story 5 for some time, and I'll admit to feeling some trepidation about the fivequel. After all, both Toy Story 3 and Toy Story 4 had perfect send-offs for the gang, with the fourth movie even splitting up dynamic duo Buzz and Woody. How could a fifth installment possibly make sense, especially after Lightyear was a bit of a misfire?Well, at D23, it was revealed t
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Skyrim is "very, very immersive sim" and Baldur's Gate 3 is "at least immersive sim-adjacent," declares imsim expert behind Dishonored and Prey
12-08-2024 12:09 via gamesradar.com
Skyrim isn't what most players would think of as an immersive sim, nor is Baldur's Gate 3 - but Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio disagrees, and he makes quite a convincing case.Speaking in an interview with PC Gamer, Colantonio details what he considers to qualify as an "immersive sim" - and his definition is more broad than most. When asked why the genre doesn't have a Call of Duty-esque smash hit to boast, the Arkane veteran behind iconic gems like Dishonored and Prey simply says it does - an
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Frustrated with the nerfs, Helldivers 2 grunts are protesting by letting the bots take Super Earth, and they're dangerously close to succeeding
12-08-2024 12:02 via gamesradar.com
Frustrated with Helldivers 2's recent weapon nerfs, many grunts have totally abandoned the Automaton front in protest, and the bots are dangerously close to taking Super Earth.Last week saw a lot of change for Arrowhead's third-person shooter thanks to the Helldivers 2 Escalation of Freedom update, which came with significant nerfs for weapons like the flamethrowers and Breaker Incendiary shotgun. Understandably, many are rather unhappy to have had their favorite toys worsened, but their respons
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Alien: Romulus director explains his new film’s big Alien: Isolation easter egg
12-08-2024 12:00 via gamesradar.com
Alien: Romulus is taking the iconic sci-fi horror series back to bloody basics, with a stripped-back, survival horror focus, gnarly body horror, and the return of a Giger-authentic biomechanical Xenomorph.Though inspired by 1979’s Alien and 1986’s superlative sequel Aliens first and foremost, Alvarez’s film also nods to Alien’s wider legacy –everything from the less-than-stellar sequels to tie-in novels and comics. And that includes Creative Assembly’s p
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"We're back, baby!": Hi-Fi Rush and Tango Gameworks have been resurrected by PUBG publisher Krafton, with 50 transferred developers now working on Hi-Fi Rush 2
12-08-2024 11:33 via gamesradar.com
Hi-Fi Rush is officially back on the menu as PUBG publisher Krafton has resurrected the studio, and its creative director has a very simple message for fans: "We're back, baby!"Krafton just announced it's struck a "strategic" deal with Microsoft, one that effectively sees it purchasing both Tango Gameworks and the Hi-Fi Rush IP from the company. So, after being shockingly shuttered by Microsoft just earlier this year in May, Tango is all of a sudden alive and kicking again, and is continuing to
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Helldivers 2 CEO says some developers are also "disappointed" with the new update: "We went through this earlier this year. Why are we here again?"
11-08-2024 23:31 via gamesradar.com
Helldivers 2 developers also aren't happy the latest update, its round of weapon nerfs, and how they've been received by players.Helldivers 2's Escalation Of Freedom update bought a ton of good changes to the year's best live service with a new tentacled enemy, creepy biome, and social menu fixes all cropping up in-game. But Helldivers 2's new update has once again reunited the game with its biggest pitfall: too many nerfs.After having nerfed some of its most popular weapons to Boring Hell
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Helldivers 2 CEO says some developers are also "disappointed" with Escalation of Freedom reaction: "The update had a bunch of nice stuff that isn't getting talked about"
11-08-2024 23:31 via gamesradar.com
Helldivers 2 developers also aren't happy the latest update, its round of weapon nerfs, and how they've been received by players.Helldivers 2's Escalation Of Freedom update bought a ton of good changes to the year's best live service with a new tentacled enemy, creepy biome, and social menu fixes all cropping up in-game. But Helldivers 2's new update has once again reunited the game with its biggest pitfall: too many nerfs.After having nerfed some of its most popular weapons to Boring Hell
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard was always going to "pay off" the ending and "promise" of Inquisition's DLC
11-08-2024 22:11 via gamesradar.com
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is finally offering closure for the ending of Dragon Age: Inquisition, a decade after its release, but that was always the plan.Despite the fact that some version of Dragon Age 4 was floating around the minds of BioWare employees for a decade, the game's main anchor was always firmly in place. You see, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is tightly wound to the character of Solas, a former companion in Inquisition who turned into an unquestionable, maybe-world-ending threat by th
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Following Steam and Xbox's lead, PlayStation seems to be inviting players to leave user reviews on the PS Store
11-08-2024 15:07 via gamesradar.com
PlayStation is seemingly introducing written user reviews on its own digital storefront.The PS Store on PS5 has allowed players to rate games from one star to five stars for a while, but unlike competing digital storefronts on Steam and Xbox, PlayStation owners haven't been able to type out their full opinions on games for others to see. Although, that might all change soon.A Reddit post titled "When did PlayStation start allowing written reviews?" spotted that the platform holder was invi
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This adorable city builder has "no objectives, no points, just good vibes" and plenty of cute vegetable folks living their best lives, and it's coming to PC next week
11-08-2024 14:00 via gamesradar.com
The wholesome pixel art city-building game Gourdlets finally has a release date, and it's coming to PC next week – August 15, to be exact.Gourdlets is genuinely one of the cutest city builders I've ever seen, and its concept is even sweeter. Created by indie developer Preethi Vaidyanathan – AKA AuntyGames – the whole experience is designed to be totally "stress-free" with "no objectives, no points, just good vibes."While you're tasked with creating a town for an ever-grow
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