A video-game voiceover by Peter Dinklage will be re-recorded by another actor after the Game of Thrones star's efforts were widely mocked by the gamer community.
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Dinklage's portrayal of Ghost in the first-person shooter Destiny has been criticised as corny, goofy and sounding like "someone reading a book to a child, and struggling with it".
His wooden delivery of one line in particular – "That wizard came from the moon" - became the target of the gamers' ridicule, threatening to overshadow the game itself.
After it became aware of the disquiet, game maker Bungie tweaked early versions of the game by running Dinklage's dialogue through a filter to make it sound more robotic.
However, the move did little to silence critics and Bungie has finally announced Dinklage will be dumped and replaced with games industry veteran Nolan North.
Dinklage is a Hollywood veteran rising to worldwide prominence with his award-winning performance as Tyrion Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones.
