HBO reveals first look at new Game of Thrones spin-off as filming kicks off and more cast members revealed - games news - NewsLocker (2024)

As if a new season of House of the Dragon wasn't enough, we now have our first look at the next Game of Thrones spin-off, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Filming is now underway in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and the image, which you can see above, shows Peter Claffey as Ser Duncan the Tall walking through a crowd.Per the official synopsis, the series will follow "a young, naive but courageous knight, Ser Duncan the Tall, and his diminutive squire, Egg. Set in an age when the Targaryen line still

Elden Ring's Hidetaka Miyazaki jokes he's not great at presidenting because "95% of what I do" is still "directing games"

FromSoftware president and frequent director Hidetaka Miyazaki has joked that he's not too great at the former job responsibility because "about 95%" of his time goes toward actually making the games.Miyazaki is revered for directing the studio's bleak, often crushing, but ultimately hopeful games, and after the cult successes of Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, and Bloodborne, he was also appointed to a presidential role within the Japanese game developer - which was previously best known for mech-ex

Avowed director pushes back on the Skyrim comparisons, says the RPG is "a lot closer" to Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity and The Outer Worlds

When Avowed was first announced back in 2020, the internet latched on to one comparison that Obsidian's RPG hasn't been able to shake off since:a comparison to Skyrim. A first-person perspective, fantasy world, sword-and-magic dual-wielding - the surface-level similarities are certainly there, but Avowed's leads say the game has more in common with the studio's prior work.Once again asked about the Skyrim comparisons, Avowed director Carrie Patel told Game Informer that "the best compariso

Diablo 4 season 5 PTR patch notes reveal a new endgame roguelite mode and boss, new Uniques, and massive quality-of-life changes like re-playable bosses

Diablo 4 season 5 is taking us back down to hell, as revealed in the wildly extensive patch notes for the new season's public test realm (PTR).Though Diablo 4 season 5 has yet to be fully revealed, we learned about a ton of potential, and massive, changes in today's Campfire Chat and associated patch notes. I won't have time to cover every granular change, as again, there are a ton, but let's go over some highlights why don't we?The twin headliners of the update are the new questline in which "e

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Who is Ruby Sunday’s mother in Doctor Who? We finally have an answer

Who is Ruby Sunday’s mother? It’s a question that has plagued Doctor Who fans ever since Millie Gibson’s companion arrived on that snowy Christmas Eve during last year’s festive special.Now, we have an answer – and it’s not one that many would have anticipated.Spoilers for the Doctor Who season 1 finale ‘Empire of Death’ follow. You have been warned!
Who is Ruby’s mother?
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Surprise! Ruby’s mother is… Louise Mil

Doctor Who Empire of Death ending explained: Sutekh, Mrs. Flood, and the answer to the question everyone was asking

Doctor Who season 1 has come to an end, with ‘Empire of Death’ and Sutekh making good on its promise of a significant kill count.The finale also answered some of the big, burning questions fans have had all year, as well as posing a few new ones in its final moments. All told, there was a lot to unpick and unravel as Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor raced to save all of time and space.Below, you’ll find our guide to the Empire of Death ending, including a recap of what just went down

Director of hit JRPG Shin Megami Tensei 5 echoes FromSoftware's stance on hard games: "Our intent was never to make things difficult for difficulty’s sake"

While old-school games might have had a reputation for being brutal, I think the modern era is the true golden age for difficult games. That's in large part thanks to the fact that devs are taking a smarter approach to difficulty these days, and two separate directors behind two entirely different Japanese RPGs famed for their toughness seem to have converging ideas about how to make a good, hard game."Based on all of our experience developing RPGs, we believe that battles are supposed to be an

After Microsoft closed Arkane Austin, Redfall dev says the response to "the cleaned-up, final version" of the doomed FPS gave him "a burst of energy"

Former Arkane Austin studio head Harvey Smith is energized by the positive reaction to Redfall's beefy final update, so much so that he's already teasing his next move.Microsoft shut down Arkane Austin along with Hi-Fi Rush and Ghostwire: Tokyo studio Tango Gameworks and two other studios back in May, and with it came the end of the troubled FPS Redfall. As a sendoff, Arkane Austin dropped a genuinely great update that finally added the promised offline mode as well as "ReVamped" Neighborhood an

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Doc Ock has taken over the bodies of J. Jonah Jameson, Aunt May, and nearly everyone Peter Parker cares about in Superior Spider-Man #8

The return of the Superior Spider-Man reaches its conclusion in Superior Spider-Man #8, with the final showdown between Peter Parker and Otto Octavius, who has used his mind transfer technology to mentally dominate people all through Peter's life.With Peter nearly on his own against the so-called "Superior Spider-Colony," he's got his hands full dealing with J. Jonah Jameson, who has a pair of Otto's old arms, in addition to being mind-controlled, as well as Aunt May, and Robbie Robertson, all o

As CEOs chase infinite growth, Hidetaka Miyazaki says FromSoftware gets "better games and better decisions" from a "conservative forecast" with "room to fail"

Elden Ring is, by orders of magnitude, the most successful game FromSoftware has ever made, and its new Shadow of the Erdtree DLC will only compound that. But studio president and long-time Souls game director Hidetaka Miyazaki says the studio never assumes that this degree of success "will happen again with our future games," instead choosing to play it safe and keep expectations "conservative."In an interview with The Guardian, Miyazaki outlines a financial and developmental strategy tha

That mystery Star Wars strategy game is actually a tactics game from a bunch of XCOM veterans, and suddenly I'm a lot more excited for it

Way back in 2022, Jedi: Fallen Order studio Respawn announced that it was working with a developer called Bit Reactor on a Star Wars strategy game. Bit Reactor had plenty of pedigree in the strategy space with veterans of Civilization and XCOM, so you could probably take a few smart guesses at what kind of strategy game this would be - but now the devs have finally confirmed that yes, this is in fact a tactics game that builds on the team's experience with XCOM.That's according to creative direc

Tasty! Marvel star Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan to star in Beef season 2

Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan are reportedly in talks to join Beef season 2.According to Deadline, the second season of the A24 anthology series is set to revolve around two feuding couples. The report also notes that Netflix has not yet officially picked up Beef for season 2.It was reported back in February that Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway would star, with Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny also set to appear. Isaac and Mulligan will now take Gyllenhaal and Hathaway's place as one of the f

Famed retro remake dev says its remaster of The Thing will "fulfill the original vision" thanks to tech that wasn't available to the 22-year-old cult classic horror shooter

Nightdive Studios' remaster of the 2002 cult classic horror shooter The Thing will take advantage of modern tech that wasn't available to the original developers.Talking to GamesRadar+, Nightdive Studios business development director Larry Kuperman explained the studio's approach to remastering a cult classic versus remaking the game from the ground up. While he says there's an "enormous amount" of assets being re-used, Kuperman adds that there will be some new stuff that brings the remaster clo

"There can be only one": Al Ewing promises that Venom War will settle the rivalry between Eddie Brock and his son Dylan once and for all

After starting out as one of Spider-Man's most vicious foes, Venom has spent the last few decades building a reputation as Marvel's top anti-hero, a fan favorite protagonist capable of carrying a full Marvel Universe crossover on his shoulders. And along the way, Venom's original host Eddie Brock has gone on to share the symbiote with others - most recently his own son, Dylan Brock.But with the upcoming Venom War event, nearly every symbiote in the Marvel Universe will rally around the two Venom

After 32 years, the cult classic NES platformer that goes for thousands on eBay is getting a sequel

In the late days of the NES, legendary developer Sunsoft released a game called Gimmick. It did not make a splash at the time, but more recent reevaluations have recognized it as a proper classic - to the point where it's now one of the most sought-after games on the platform. Now, decades later, another developer is picking up the torch to give us a proper sequel.Gimmick 2 is set to launch across all major platforms sometime in 2024. There are no proper details on what this sequel will look lik

Benedict Cumberbatch seemingly confirms Doctor Strange will be in Avengers 5 – and filming begins next year

Benedict Cumberbatch has seemingly confirmed that Doctor Strange will indeed be in the next Avengers movie – and that filming begins next year.In a new interview with Netflix, the actor looks back on his most iconic roles. "The joy of playing [Doctor Strange] is immense, but it also means I can help platform stories and writing and less commercial fare into being so he's a gift in many, many ways in my life," Cumberbatch says before explaining that he almost had to give up the role initial

Marvel is ending its Star Wars and Darth Vader comics, but they're relaunching in a new era of the Saga later this year

Marvel's current main Star Wars titles will both come to an end this fall, with plans to relaunch them in a new era of the Star Wars Galaxy later this year. The current volumes of both Star Wars and Darth Vader will end at #50 with oversized issues that tie off the ongoing plotlines of the titles and set the stage for a move into a totally different setting for what comes next.For the last several years, Marvel's main Star Wars titles have been set in the time between the films The Empire Strike

The Boys season 4 has officially got Hideo Kojima’s stamp of approval, and it's all because of the latest and most shocking episode yet

The king of online movie reviews Hideo Kojima has turned his attention to the latest season of The Boys, and it looks like he is enjoying the season so far.The video game developer recently took to Twitter to share his thoughts on The Boys season 4 episode 4, writing that the season so far has explored characters further, done a whole lot of foreshadowing, and is gearing up for its final season. "The irony of a 'bloody' hero, which in a sense is a metaphor for America and modern society today, i

Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki said Shadow of the Erdtree would be hard, and he wasn't kidding: "I'm getting stomped"

Elden Ring veterans are getting absolutely "stomped" mere minutes into Shadow of the Erdtree, going to show that FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki was right when he warned us about the DLC's difficulty."We've kind of really pushed the envelope in terms of what we think can be withstood by the player," Miyazaki said in an interview earlier this month regarding Elden Ring's new DLC, which is a downright terrifying phrase. If FromSoftware's president and Elden Ring's director is saying Shado

The big monster FromSoftware teased for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is a normal enemy gatekeeping the DLC, and it's kicking peoples' butts

FromSoftware teased foes of "unfathomable power" last month ahead of the launch of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, and players have been stunned to meet this creature as a normal enemy doing a heck of a job gatekeeping the DLC."Fearsome foes of unfathomable power await you in the Realm of Shadow," FromSoftware teased in a tweet back in May. The accompanying image showed a creature resembling the Omens from the base game, and the way it held its chakrams gave the silhouette a stunning resembla

After 17 years with no official remaster in sight, one Pokemon Battle Revolution fan is taking matters into their own hands and remaking the spin-off in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

One dedicated Pokemon fan has decided to take it upon themselves to remake the seventeen-year-old spin-off title Pokemon Battle Revolution in the Nintendo Switch games Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, and it's already looking brilliant.It'd be understandable if you'd forgotten all about Battle Revolution over the years – as far as Pokemon spin-off games go, it's not normally the one that fans think of first. As its name suggests, it was all about battling – it was essentially the

After 20 years, Halo 2 excavators get the stealth missions Bungie scrapped up and running for modders to revive

Master Chief's 450kg armor wouldn't be my go-to outfit for tip toeing around aliens, but that didn't stop developer Bungie from playing around with stealthy missions and mechanics for Halo 2 anyway, according to cut content that's now been restored.For the unaware, Halo stewards 343 Industries have recently been working with modding outfit Digsite to excavate cut content, lost maps, and other ancient Forerunner history - before polishing it all up and dumping it online for other modders to

This whimsical new action RPG from the mastermind producer behind Rune Factory and Story of Seasons is finally leaving Japan, and I can't wait

Following a Japan-exclusive release of action RPG Rear Sekai last year, Rune Factory studio Hakama is now launching its game globally as Elrentaros Wanderings.Headed by Yoshifumi Hashimoto, a former Story of Seasons producer and the Rune Factory creator himself, Hakama was founded in 2018. Since then, the team of Marvelous masterminds has released Rune Factory 4 Special, Rune Factory 5, Worth Life, and, in 2023, Rear Sekai. Since its initial launch in Japan, prospective Rear Sekai players overse

First MaXXXine reactions call the A24 film an "'80s horror take on Once Upon a Time"

The first reactions to Ti West's MaXXXine have arrived – thanks to a surprise screening in Los Angeles.Fans who were seated for a screening of Pearl were surprised with not only an early screening of MaXXXine, but a Q&A from Ti West and star Lily Collins. The final installment in West's trilogy takes place six years after the events of X, with a now Hollywood-based Maxine doing whatever it takes to achieve her dreams and make herself a legitimate movie star.The cast includes Halsey, El

GTA San Andreas used "real gang members" to record voiceover: "We showed them the scripts and they were like, 'we wouldn't say that'"

Real world gang members supposedly played a part in scrapping and rewriting dialogue from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, according to Rockstar Games veteran Lazlow Jones.Before departing Rockstar Games to join co-founder Dan Houser at a new studio, Lazlow Jones played a huge part in the crime-ridden series. You've likely heard him spitting satire through the various in-game GTA radio stations, but Lazlow also worked as a prominent writer and audio recording director on several GTA games and Red

Hidetaka Miyazaki says games like Elden Ring have to be hard: "If we really wanted the whole world to play the game, we could just crank the difficulty down"

There's no denying that Elden Ring is tough, but director Hidetaka Miyazaki stands firmly by his belief that it had to be that difficult to give players a "sense of achievement," and making it easier "would break the game itself."Elden Ring is packed with tough areas and foes – on the game's anniversary last year, Bandai Namco confirmed that players had collectively died over nine billion times, which is absolutely wild. While you could argue that making the action RPG so tough right out o

Director of Nicolas Cage's terrifying horror to helm 'family-friendly' Stephen King adaptation next

Osgood Perkins, the director of the highly anticipated Nicolas Cage horror movie Longlegs, has another spooky movie up his sleeve in the form of a Stephen King adaptation that's nothing like his 2024 scare fest.The Monkey, adapted from a short story by King, is the next film Perkins will direct, but, unlike Longlegs, The Monkey will have more of a family-friendly tone. In an interview with Bloody Disgusting’s Boo Crew Podcast, the director said, "It’s gonna feel more like Miser

I'm ready for Elden Ring's DLC, but not as ready as this Dark Souls streamer who beat the whole action RPG at level 1 multiple times from NG to NG+7 without ever dying

While Elden Ring players were preparing for Shadow of the Erdtree to finally release, one hardened FromSoftware stan managed to one-up everyone by beating the action RPG eight times without leveling up - or dying.Streamer itzCBD has gone ahead and pulled off the seemingly impossible, apparently becoming the first ever Elden Ring player to beat the game at level one through every single New Game Plus difficulty with zero deaths. This makes for eight full runs of an already challenging game, all m

Shadow of the Erdtree has overtaken The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine as the highest-rated DLC, but the new runners-up don't mind: "If any game had to do it, I'm happy it's Elden Ring"

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is finally here, and it's already breaking records. Not only is it currently the highest rated gaming release of the year, but it's even managed to snatch a title held by The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine for eight years by becoming the new highest-rated DLC of all time.Over on Metacritic, Shadow of the Erdtree's current Metascore is a whopping 95 on PS5, based on 59 critic reviews. This just squeezes past Blood and Wine's Metascore of 92 for its PC version, w

CD Projekt releases custom art of Geralt in Elden Ring as Shadow of the Erdtree beats The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine as the highest-rated DLC for any RPG

Update: Not only is CD Projekt Red supremely unbothered by losing its crown to Shadow of the Erdtree, the studio's gone and released a slick illustration featuring Geralt toppling Mohg and heading into the Land of Shadow himself.
For the last 8 years, The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine had the honor of being the best reviewed expansion for a role-playing game - but @ELDENRING gets to wear that crown now. Congratulations to the entire team at @fromsoftware_pr on their stellar work! pic.twitter.com/aop