28-09-2024 16:30 via gamesradar.com
Atlus has promised it's working on the wonky performance for Metaphor: ReFantazio's PC version.Metaphor: ReFantazio's Prologue demo is giving everyone a taste of the epic fantasy's opening hours - which scarily only covers a fraction of the full game's 100-hour runtime - but some players quickly reported the PC version seemed plagued with various performance issues that caused frequent stuttering and framerate dips in denser areas.Metaphor's framerate woes were unexpected considering Atlus' Pers
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An anime with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score has announced its season 2 return with a new teaser video
30-09-2024 13:05 via gamesradar.com
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End has announced its season 2 return with a new teaser.The clip, which you can watch below, is very brief, but it features the beautiful music and landscapes we would expect from the anime."It has been decided that a second season of the TV anime will be produced!" said creators Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe in a statement (H/T ComicBook.com). "We owe it all to everyone who has supported us. We are eternally grateful to everyone involved in the anime who
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Final Fantasy 14 patch 7.1 sheds needed light on a main Dawntrail character, turns a 24-man raid into a Savage, and introduces a beloved character from the FF series' first MMO
30-09-2024 13:01 via gamesradar.com
A good while has now passed since the monumental Dawntrail release, and the Final Fantasy 14 community is looking to the future as Square Enix unveils patch 7.1 - an enormous update featuring tons of content while tying some of the expansion story's loose ends.This article contains light story spoilers for Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail.Patch 7.1, aptly dubbed "Crossroads," is set to drop sometime this November - and boy, is it a biggie. From brand-new Hildebrand adventures to Main Scenario Quests,
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Gamescom director says notable publishers like Sony and Nintendo skipping a show "isn't a negative sign"
30-09-2024 12:57 via gamesradar.com
The organizers behind Gamescom say that notable publishers like Nintendo and Sony sitting out a show "isn't a negative sign" but rather a reflection of how their content and release pipeline looks at that very moment. After all, attending an event doesn't make sense if you don't have much to show or share about upcoming games."It's common for publishers to reassess their participation in events like Gamescom each year," one of the events directors, Tim Endres, tells GamesRadar+ before this year'
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Elrond actor gives his take on the Galadriel kiss, as Rings of Power co-star has the perfect Star Wars comparison: "It's very Leia and Luke, if we're being honest"
30-09-2024 12:56 via gamesradar.com
Elrond and Galadriel's kiss in The Rings of Power season 2, episode 7 has proved divisive among fans, but actor Robert Aramayo has defended the moment, insisting it's a scene borne out of practicality, not passion,"It's very practical in the moment," Robert Aramayo tells GamesRadar+ "I think it's the best way to give her the keys to get free."In the scene in Adar's Orc encampment, Elrond leans in to give Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) a kiss. While the (admittedly, romantic) score may have suggested
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Chucky creator has the most on-brand response to his horror TV show being canceled, and it sounds like we haven't seen the last of the killer doll
30-09-2024 12:51 via gamesradar.com
After running for three seasons, Syfy’s Chucky spin-off show has been canceled, but creator Don Mancini doesn't seem too worried about it as he has the perfect response to the axe."He'll be back," said Mancini on Twitter after sharing an article about the show being scrapped. Mancini is the original creator of the whole Chucky franchise, which started with the 1989 movie Child’s Play and has since spanned seven movies and a Child’s Play remake in 2019.However, long-
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Death Stranding 2: On the Beach already has a 2025 release date "decided," but Hideo Kojima can't say when "due to unforeseen circumstances"
30-09-2024 12:30 via gamesradar.com
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is still on track to be released sometime in 2025, but don't expect a release date announcement until next year.Hideo Kojima and the game's Japanese cast recently held a Tokyo Game Show 2024 panel to discuss the freaky postal sim sequel. We got new looks at Death Stranding 2's characters, its bonkers photo mode, and a puppet-filled musical number that gives Alan Wake's dance moves some competition.Alongside the new snippets, director and studio head Kojima acknowl
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Nintendo could be looking to take the Palworld lawsuit overseas, but 1 attorney suggests it may be harder to win in the US than in Japan
30-09-2024 12:27 via gamesradar.com
Nintendo and The Pokemon Company could be looking to sue Palworld developer Pocketpair outside of Japan, but doing so might not be easy, one attorney has suggested.As highlighted by patent attorney Kiyoshi Kurihara (via Yahoo Japan, and translated by Automaton), there are four likely patents that Nintendo and The Pokemon Company previously applied for that seem like likely candidates to be brought up in the ongoing patent infringement lawsuit, including one which basically seems to describe Poke
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New Deadpool and Wolverine deleted scene reveals more from a Loki fan favorite character
30-09-2024 11:52 via gamesradar.com
After the announcement of Deadpool and Wolverine's home release, a stream of deleted scenes and bonus features have made their way online.First, Ryan Reynolds' Merc with the Mouth threw in a cheeky meta MCU reference and, now, the latest scrapped scene reveals more about the inner workings of the TVA.The 30-second clip, via Men's Journal, sees Matthew Macfadyen's Paradox walking and talking through the TVA with Loki's B-15 (Wunmi Mosaku), who only shows up later in the movie to shut down P
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Desperate to get another RTS off the ground, Blizzard developers reportedly pitched Warcraft 4 and a Call of Duty RTS that got shot down
30-09-2024 11:42 via gamesradar.com
Blizzard hasn't dipped its toes into the real-time strategy waters in a hot minute, but it's reportedly not for a lack of trying. Developers "desperate" for an RTS return have reportedly pitched everything from Warcraft 4 to a Call of Duty spin-off to no luck.The tidbit comes from Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, who recently held a Reddit AMA to promote his new book Play Nice in which he interviewed around 350 past and present employees from the storied company. In response to a question about Warcr
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A Quiet Place video game narrative designer explains how it bridges the gap between Day One and the original movie
30-09-2024 00:00 via gamesradar.com
A Quiet Place is about to take the road less traveled with that rare thing in today's media landscape: a tie-in video game. Set in the horror franchise's universe, The Road Ahead is releasing on October 17 and, as senior narrative designer Luca Esposito explains, there's plenty of freedom to be had by setting the title in-between the events of this year's A Quiet Place: Day One and 2018's A Quiet Place."By setting the game in this timeframe, it allows the players to explore the world and its dan
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Salem’s Lot producer explains why his vampire looks more like Nosferatu than Stephen King’s depiction
29-09-2024 22:00 via gamesradar.com
The new Salem’s Lot movie’s vampire may look nothing like what was written in Stephen King’s pages, but the team took inspiration from one of the scariest fanged beasts in entertainment, the vamp from the 1979 adaptation of, you guessed it, Salem’s Lot. And the movie is all the better for it, says producer Michael Clear."Tobe Hooper’s Barlow had haunted all of us," Clear tells SFX magazine in the new issue, which features Terrifier 3 on the cover and hits news
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After 6 years of solo development, anime-inspired Metroidvania riffing on Cuphead relaunches on Kickstarter with a $1 goal and raises over $9000
29-09-2024 21:18 via gamesradar.com
Exil is another gorgeous side-scrolling Metroidvania that's just hit Kickstarter, and it's absolutely smashed its modest funding goal of... a singular dollar.In true Metroidvania spirit, Exil has you traversing ''mystical landscapes'' to ''uncover hidden paths and secrets'' with fast and fluid action that lets you switch between different ability loadouts on the fly. What really caught my eye in the trailer below was how it riffs on Cuphead's delightful parry - where you can double jump off of p
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Teacup, a new horror series produced by The Conjuring creator, adapts "the spirit" of the novel it's based on and "not much else"
29-09-2024 20:00 via gamesradar.com
New horror series Teacup may be based on popular '80s novel Stinger by Robert R. McCammon, but showrunner Ian McCulloch says that his show only really adapts "the spirit" of the book and is otherwise its own beast."I think that if I had read the book as a teenager when it came out, I might have felt a little more beholden to it," McCulloch tells SFX magazine in the new issue, which features Terrifier 3 on the cover and hits newsstands on October 2. "This is a very different kind of adaptat
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Starfield DLC release time - The countdown to Shattered Space is on, here's when it unlocks in your region
29-09-2024 17:00 via gamesradar.com
The Starfield Shattered Space DLC release time is fast approaching - are you ready to jump into a mysterious, more horror-tinged side of Starfield?Bethesda has confirmed Shattered Space is launching on Monday,September 30for Xbox Series X/S and PC. And in case you want to know exactly when in the day you'll be able to dive in, Bethesda also revealed the complete list of Shattered Space release times across the globe. Those are as follows:
Starfield Shattered Space DLC release times
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Salem’s Lot director admits adapting the lengthy Stephen King novel was "more challenging" than he expected, leading to several characters being cut
29-09-2024 16:00 via gamesradar.com
Fans of legendary author Stephen King will know that his novels are no easy feat, and are often thick and packed full of stories. No one knows this better than director of the new Salem’s Lot adaptation Gary Dauberman, who says he found it difficult to fit all of King’s vampire tale into under two hours."It was more challenging than I anticipated," Dauberman tells SFX magazine in the new issue, which features Terrifier 3 on the cover and hits newsstands on October 2. "And I anticipat
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I'm not saying Monster Hunter Wilds will be GOTY, but your custom character hits the legendary anime Akira slide on a giant bird and I don't see any other games doing that
29-09-2024 16:00 via gamesradar.com
Far be it from me to make Game of the Year predictions for 2025 when we haven't even wrapped up 2024 – here comes the big but looming over that statement – but I don't see other games letting you drift giant birds like the Akira motorcycle, so Monster Hunter Wilds at least has a head start by my count.GameSpot shared a few minutes of new campaign and hunt gameplay from Monster Hunter Wilds this week, and the best detail is right at the front, as Reddit user Qtip_Factory spotted
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After 320 hours in my favorite roguelike, The Binding of Isaac just got a game-changing Path of Exile-style mod that could be the perfect excuse to go back
29-09-2024 15:00 via gamesradar.com
The legendary roguelike The Binding of Isaac has seen a huge overhaul of its modding scene, culminating in mods that entirely discard the rulebook.At the very end of 2023, Repentogon, a script extender that promised the beginning of "a new era for Isaac modding," arrived on Steam. Put together by a team of modders "frustrated with the shortcomings" of the current game, Repentogon is a platform allowing for faster, more varied mods.Recently, that's culminated in a mod simply called Passive Skill
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23 years later and Halo: CE speedrunning is about to change forever with newly-discovered glitches that add playable Flood and a flyable Pelican
29-09-2024 13:40 via gamesradar.com
Halo: Combat Evolved came out over two decades ago, but speedrunning events for the classic shooter are about to change forever thanks to newly-discovered glitches that let you play as the Flood (Halo's version of a zombie-parasite-headcrab thing.)Former Microsoft software engineer and Halo speedrunner who goes by Mr Monopoli has recently discovered a series of glitches that open up brand new routes in Combat Evolved. Some of this stuff, like flying the Pelican, was previously possible with mods
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You can't keep Moo Deng for yourself, so Final Fantasy 14 players are swarming the MMO's Hippo Calf minion instead – and even Square Enix has caught the fever
29-09-2024 13:30 via gamesradar.com
Love for little pygmy hippopotamus Moo Deng is in the air, spreading all the way over to the Final Fantasy 14 community - and even to Square Enix itself.It's no secret that Moo Deng has gone wildly viral since her birth at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand. She's reaching all corners of the web, including MMOs like Final Fantasy 14 where players are suddenly obsessed with the game's own Hippo Calf minion. Everyone has to have one - and while the market board's prices do indeed jump up and down
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Not to be outdone by the PS5 Pro's price tag, Hideo Kojima stuns in $1700 Death Stranding 2 jackets that are already sold out
29-09-2024 12:44 via gamesradar.com
Not one to be outdone, Hideo Kojima seemingly saw the PS5 Pro's exorbitant price tag and quickly got to work on something even more eye-wateringly expensive.While debuting new looks at Death Stranding 2's characters, photo mode, and a wild musical number this weekend, Kojima Productions also announced a collaboration with boujee clothing brand Acronym to sell jackets inspired by Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. The black and orange fit looks lush, but the only snag is that it costs €1,540 (
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Hideo Kojima debuts new Death Stranding 2 footage of the most detailed photo mode ever, more famous faces, and an Alan Wake 2-style musical number
29-09-2024 12:09 via gamesradar.com
Hideo Kojima and Death Stranding 2's Japanese cast debuted tons of new footage from the upcoming open-world game, though it's all more lowkey than you might expect.During Tokyo Game Show 2024, Kojima and Co sat down to share more about Death Stranding 2: On the Beach in a series of clips (re)introducing us to both new and old characters, giving us a brief glimpse of what looks like the most bonkers photo mode in existence, and debuting a strange music video that echoes Alan Wake 2's Herald of Da
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Showrunner of Netflix's Lara Croft anime series got the gig after "relentlessly" tweeting her progress playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider
29-09-2024 12:00 via gamesradar.com
Never believe what your parents told you: playing video games can be good for you. Case in point is Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft showrunner Tasha Huo revealing how she got a job on the upcoming Netflix series thanks to "relentlessly" tweeting about her progress on 2018's Shadow of the Tomb Raider.Thanks to a producer friend keeping tabs on Huo's social media, she was invited to a meeting to pitch what would become The Legend of Lara Croft.The upcoming Tomb Raider anime series even picks
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Showrunner of James Wan-produced horror series Teacup explains why it was so important to make each episode only 30 minutes – and weighs in on the likelihood of a season 2
29-09-2024 08:00 via gamesradar.com
New horror show Teacup kind of lives up to its name –the eight-part series consists solely of 30-minute episodes, a relative rarity in a world of hour-long drama installments."I came up as a playwright long, long ago and the idea not only was always shorter, more economical episodes but to leave them wanting more," showrunner Ian McCulloch says of the show's pace in the new issue of SFX magazine, which features Terrifier 3 on the cover and hits newsstands on October 2. "The idea of t
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Smile director teases his "completely bonkers" and faithful remake of cult horror classic Possession with Robert Pattinson
28-09-2024 20:00 via gamesradar.com
Smile director Parker Finn is reassuring fans that his upcoming remake of '80s cult horror favorite Possession will stay true to the film's wild nature.The 1981 movie, which was helmed by director Andrzej Żuławski, starred Sam Neill as a spy suddenly confronted by divorce, with events becoming increasingly strange and supernatural. Twilight and The Batman star Robert Pattinson is currently on-board the remake as producer, although The Hollywood Reporter does write that he may app
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I've tried Razer's new haptic seat cushion, and my butt will never be the same
28-09-2024 20:00 via gamesradar.com
Razer has long been dabbling in the world of haptic immersion but its developments have been limited to hands and ears. Now that rumble feedback is coming for your rear. Razer Con has kicked off, and with it comes the brand new Razer Freyja cushion. Designed to fit pretty much any gaming chair you can find, the system features six motor actuators set across a seat overlay, held in place with a series of elastic straps.I tried the Razer Freyja across a selection of games and music and the r
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Hellboy: The Crooked Man's most disgusting scene was done entirely practically using "a lot of silicone and lube"
28-09-2024 16:00 via gamesradar.com
Hellboy: The Crooked Man has been called one of the most comic-book accurate adaptations of Mike Mignola's works, and it seems this dedication went even further than you might imagine.Director Brian Taylor tells SFX magazine in the new issue, which features Terrifier 3 on the cover and hits newsstands on October 2, that he would refer back to the comic art at every stage of production.One such moment really leans into the pure body horror when a raccoon climbs into Cora Fisher’s (Han
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Space Marine 2 developers wanted it to feel like a Xbox 360 throwback shooter, but "didn't know it was that obvious"
28-09-2024 15:13 via gamesradar.com
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has gotten tons of praise for throwing things back to an era where shooters could just focus on being bombastic spectacles, otherwise known as Xbox 360 shooters, rather than chasing live-service trends, and the developers say that was very intentional.Space Marine 2 is quite adamant that it has to follow on from everything its predecessor did: the boisterous cinematic campaign, the host of co-op modes, a tense PvP offering. And that commitment has earned it nice
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Starship Troopers: Extermination takes the fight to the bugs with 16-player strategic FPS battles
28-09-2024 15:03 via gamesradar.com
The action and bombast of the 1997 movie was just the start - Starship Troopers: Extermination brings the world of Paul Verhoeven's cult classic to life like never before, turning you and your allies into boots on the ground in a relentless effort to keep humanity safe.Starship Troopers: Extermination is a huge strategic FPS, putting you and up to 15 co-op partners against never-ending hordes of bugs. In order to effectively bring the fight to your opponents, you'll have to work as part of a cra
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Dying Light: The Beast dev says the smaller spinoff is a dream game that "remotivated us to work" on the Dying Light series
28-09-2024 15:00 via gamesradar.com
While Dying Light: The Beast may have started out as DLC, it's grown and spun out into a standalone title that, as director Tymon Smektala told Play Magazine, "remotivated" Techland's efforts on the Dying Light series.Bringing back original protagonist Kyle Crane for a roughly 20-hour adventure is art director Katarzyna Tamcka's dream project. She says she wants to "focus on this and soak in every moment." It's not everyday your Dying Light 2 DLC plans leak to the public and you decide to spin i
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