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• Diplomats recommit to saving Iran deal, oppose US sanctions

  28-07-2019 17:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Diplomats from Iran and five world powers recommitted Sunday to salvaging a major nuclear deal amid mounting tensions between the West and Tehran since the U.S. withdrew from the accord and reimposed sanctions.Representatives of Iran, Germany, France, Britain, China, Russia and the European Union met in Vienna to discuss the 2015 agreement that restricts the Iranian nuclear program.Fu Cong, the head of Chinese delegation, said that while there were "some tense moments" during the meeting, "on th
  
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• Days before movies like Terminator 2 are pulled from PlayStation libraries, StudioCanal launches new catalog label to restore classic movies "as they were meant to be seen"

  27-08-2026 17:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Days before over 500 movies are set to be pulled from PlayStation libraries in several territories, StudioCanal has launched a new catalog that includes home entertainment and theatrical re-releases.Per a press release, StudioCanal Classics, which comprises of over 18,000 titles, is beginning its launch with worldwide theatrical re-releases of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Manhunter: The Final Cut, and Pan's Labyrinth (which the studio says is the "way they were meant to be seen: on the big scree
  
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• What's the best specialization class for Hawks in Star Wars Zero Company?

  27-08-2026 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  There are multiple specializations in Star Wars Zero Company for players to choose between, acting essentially as the class for that character. Every character in the game has a single specialization attributed to them, and you can unlock a second specialization for them later in the campaign, effectively allowing them to multiclass.However, what's most important is that you'll have to give Hawks, the player character and protagonist, a specialization class of their own. This can be changed late
  
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• Should you hire Cly in Star Wars Zero Company?

  27-08-2026 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hire Cly, or Don't Hire Cly? The choice in Star Wars Zero Company to recruit the Mandalorian fighter or not comes up after a certain amount of cycles spent adventuring, whereupon a surprise meeting is brought before you. Neesh introduces Cly Kullervo, the Mandalorion warrior who clearly has baggage and an unexplained agenda, and you're offered the choice as to whether you want to hire her onto the team or not. Below I'll explain the best choice for this, and whether or not Zero Company benefits
  
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• How to recruit a Jedi in Star Wars Zero Company

  27-08-2026 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  To get a Jedi in Star Wars Zero Company is a bit fraught, as there's only one Jedi operator in the whole game, and if she gets killed in action, there's no replacing her. However, before we even get to that tension, you need to recruit and unlock this Padawan for your team, which I'll explain how to do in Zero Company below.Want more iconic skillsets for your team? Find out how to hire Mandalorian Cly in Star Wars Zero Company - and whether you even should.How to unlock Jedi Tel-Rea Vokoss in St
  
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• How to pay the debt in Star Wars Zero Company

  27-08-2026 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  To pay back the 80,000 credit debt to Gorga the Hutt in Star Wars Zero Company is the first major objective that you're given when you start playing, which seems pretty difficult to do once you start understanding the elements involved. You're given eight days (or "cycles") to pay back that enormous debt, and missions are only paying out a few hundred credits at a time. If you're worried that you're going to miss the window or are missing some essential element of Star Wars Zero Company, don't w
  
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• How to get Droids in Star Wars Zero Company

  27-08-2026 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Unlockable Droids in Star Wars Zero Company are teased early on, with a broken Astromech droid back in the den that's reminscent of R2-D2, and which more than one character comments on repairing so that they can be added to the team. Droids can actually end up becoming one of the most valuable support characters in the whole game, so I'll explain how to unlock them in Zero Company, as well as how to get more of them beyond that first little robot recruit.How to unlock Astromech Droids in Star Wa
  
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• How to beat the Droideka in Star Wars Zero Company

  27-08-2026 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Droideka in Star Wars Zero Company is the first major boss fight. The rolling Destroyer Droid is protected by regenerating ray shields that need to be broken through, but that's not easily done, especially with other enemies constantly spawning in and your team likely already weakened from the encounters you've had to reach this point. Still, with the Jedi Tel-Rea Vokoss now joining the squad, it should be an achievable fight for those involved. Below I'll explain how to beat the Destroyer D
  
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• Best weapons in Star Wars Zero Company

  27-08-2026 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  There are four weapon classes in Star Wars Zero Company that you're given to pick from when you start: the Blaster Pistol, Blaster Rifle, Repeater and the Longarm Blaster, aka the game's answer to a sniper rifle. Picking out the best weapon from all these isn't easy, especially when SWZC asks you to choose early on with little information to go on, but I'm here to help explain to you the best gun for your specialization, and what you need to understand about how weapons work in Star Wars Zero Co
  
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• Best Talents in Star Wars Zero Company

  27-08-2026 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Talents in Star Wars Zero Company are little feats and stat modifiers that Hawks and all the other Operators have, and you'll get the chance to pick out those Talents for Hawks during character creation, as well as the other randomized Operators you unlock throughout the game. Talents arguably aren't as important as the Specializations that you pick out, but they are nonetheless a serious advantage, especially if you can pair them with the right kind of specialization. Below I'll lay out the bes
  
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• Best choice for Gorga's Revenge in Star Wars Zero Company

  27-08-2026 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The choice of Gorga's Revenge in Star Wars Zero Company is an early dilemma given to you about what to do with a traitor to one of the Hutts, and whether you should let him disappear or hand him over to Gorga. This is an early choice that is introducing you to the enormous amount of choices that you'll be making going forward in Star Wars Zero Company, so I'll explain exactly what this means and what the rewards involved are.Should you let him disappear or hand him over in the Gorga's Revenge ch
  
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• Best characters and team comp in Star Wars Zero Company

  27-08-2026 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The best characters and team comp in Star Wars Zero Company are what will make the difference between thriving as space mercs and dying at the hands of deranged cultists and battle droids. Though Zero Company gives you freedom to hire various randomised operators, there are nonetheless six or seven unique and defined characters built into the game with unique abilities, not including Hawks themselves.These characters' unique powers ensure that they can hold a unique position in your team, and ar
  
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• Dragon Quest's Yuji Horii realized his JRPG series was a "cultural phenomenon" when DQ3 had fans "lined up all night in the cold"

  27-08-2026 16:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dragon Quest series creator Yuji Horii has spoken about how surprised he was by the overwhelming success of the series' third entry. After moderate success with the first two games, the third thrust the series into the spotlight in a way that Horii never expected.In an interview with Famitsu that's been translated by GamesRadar+, Horii describes how he felt the series became a cultural phenomenon almost over night. "The first Dragon Quest was made in 1986, and two years later we made Dragon Ques
  
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• Xbox Series X X25 Special Edition pre-orders go live today, here's where to grab the console and controller

  27-08-2026 16:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  The special edition Xbox Series X X25 is due to hit pre-order shelves today, and while we're still waiting for stores to open the floodgates empty listing pages are floating through the web.The translucent green device will shortly be up for grabs at a number of US and UK retailers, but at the moment Amazon is well and truly primed for launch. Usually one of the last retailers to jump on a pre-order bandwagon, I'm seeing a full listing ready and waiting for some numbers and pre-order buttons. Me
  
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• Possibly the last major Elden Ring patch buffs a ton of weapons and seems to fix one of the biggest complaints since launch

  27-08-2026 16:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Elden Ring patch 1.17 will arrive Friday, August 28, alongside the new Tarnished Pack DLC, adding a few classes, cosmetics, NPC events, and buyable items. The patch notes from publisher Bandai Namco are more substantial than expected, and chock-full of buffs. The Tarnished Pack itself adds the Idus Knight and Heavy Knight starting classes, three outfits for your mount Torrent, NPC invasions in Caelid and Leyndell, and some "weapons that can be purchased from merchants or found in the Lands Betwe
  
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• Metro 2039 is a "journey back into Hell" and darker than you've ever seen the series: "You're in a completely different system"

  27-08-2026 16:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Metro 2039 is undoubtedly the darkest instalment to the series yet. If Metro Exodus was about hope – looking for a brighter future beyond the shattered ruins of Moscow – then its sequel is charting a "journey back into hell."Having played Metro 2039 for a number of hours, I was keen to understand more about the way developer 4A Games is framing this descent into a metro system that abandoned hope long ago. Thankfully, creative director Andriy Shevchenko and executive producer Jon Blo
  
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• The Witcher 3 hasn't had an expansion in 10 years because "good things take time" and Songs of the Past was dead for a while, says CD Projekt Red dev

  27-08-2026 16:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Earlier this week, Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026 gave us our first look at The Witcher 3 Remastered and as CD Projekt Red's huge new DLC for the RPG, Songs of the Past – an expansion that's apparently existed in theory for quite some time now.Fool's Theory, the studio partnering with CD Projekt Red for the expansion's development, reveals as much in an interview with Eurogamer, explaining that The Witcher 3 team had in fact conceptualized Songs of the Past "years" ago – but "had t
  
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• The Sinking City 2 locker room safe code

  27-08-2026 16:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Sinking City 2 locker room safe code in the Fish Market has possibly some of the most obscure clues in the game. The main hint is a situational nod that might mean nothing if you read it anywhere else other than where you found it, and you can't even get the clue you need unless you first find and solve the Salt Storage code, which it's linked to. It makes it one of the least satisfying puzzles to solve here, despite the useful reward it hides. I have at least done it for you so you don't ha
  
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• Marvel fans want Secret Invasion decanonized from the sacred timeline: "[It] genuinely did so much damage to Nick Fury and Rhodey"

  27-08-2026 16:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Three years later, Marvel fans want Disney Plus series Secret Invasion erased from MCU canon because of how it changed Rhodey. The discussion started when one Marvel fan took to Twitter and said that they think the 'Rhodey' who comforts a dying Tony Stark at the end of Avengers: Endgame is actually the real Rhodey. Another replied, "They should straight up just say Secret Invasion doesn’t exist in the main timeline. I’m not even joking. No one will give Feige shit for coming out and
  
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• The Division 2 is getting a Central Park-focused expansion and crossplay that took 7 years because Ubisoft had to rebuild parts of the game

  27-08-2026 16:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  It may have taken seven years, but The Division 2 is finally getting crossplay. On top of that, we have more details on the latest expansion for Ubisoft's dystopian online action game, which adds a true New York City landmark.First thing's first, though: crossplay. It's happening, at long last. The option is available across all platforms, and it'll be enabled by default. Clan size is going up to 100 to allow everyone to play together, and it'll launch in November. Clans will also be imported ov
  
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• Persona 6 producer doesn't want "to make games for the global market," only something "we ourselves genuinely find exciting"

  27-08-2026 15:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  The teams behind Persona 6 and Persona 4 Revival have apparently never made games with the goal of appealing to "the global market." The fact that Atlus' RPG series about Japanese high-schoolers has traveled across the world is only a happy accident.That's according to Kazuhisa Wada - the general producer of the entire franchise, including the upcoming Persona 6 and Persona 4 Revival - who recently spoke to the official Xbox Podcast about how he views the series' growing success in overseas mark
  
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• Google's new Pokémon Sleep special edition Fitbit slaps Pikachu on your wrist

  27-08-2026 15:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pokémon is coming to your wrist, no not in the Pokemon Go wearable we've all been asking for for years, but in the form of a special edition Fitbit Air. Google announced the collaboration today, bringing a Snorlaxian blue aesthetic to its 2026 release with a launch date set for September 15 and pre-orders live right now. The $129.99 device originally launched back in May as a lightweight health tracker built with Gemini's AI features in mind. The Pokémon Sleep version functions exa
  
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• If You Thought Console Prices Were Too High, Things Could Get Even Worse

  27-08-2026 15:26 via gamespot.com
  
  Video game console price increases could be back on the menu, as the Trump administration is reportedly weighing implementing a new round of tariffs on imported computer chips.According to Politico, the administration is considering expanding the number of tech products subject to the duties, and they could include everyday electronics that use these chips--including gaming consoles, data center servers, and laptops. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is reportedly aiming to use these tariff
  
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• GTA 6 Netflix Trailer’s Beefy Runtime Revealed, Footage Captured On PS5

  27-08-2026 15:18 via gamespot.com
  
  At long last, Rockstar will lift the veil on GTA 6 today, August 27, via an "Extended Look" on Netflix. But how long will the broadcast be? Now we know.According to an updated listing for the showcase on the Netflix app, the Extended Look event will run for 26 minutes. That's pretty significant, but it should be, given Rockstar and Netflix are calling it "extended."
  This suggest it's more than a trailer but instead a proper deep dive into the world of GTA 6. That's exciting news for fans, as Roc
  
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• "I think some of the team were a little shocked by the tabloid response," says original GTA dev: "We'd made a game that gamers, critics, and the people actually playing all thought was pretty bloody good"

  27-08-2026 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  It was 1997. The UK was on a high. The general election that year had brought about the end of a Conservative government and the beginning of what was said to be a new era. British music was thriving to the point that a fresh movement – Britpop – had been created, with the UK even winning the Eurovision Song Contest. JK Rowling released the first of her Harry Potter novels, The Philosopher's Stone. The phrase 'Cool Britannia' may have become rather tiresome, with The Economist saying
  
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• Elden Ring’s Messmer The Impaler Actor Is Reportedly In The Running To Be The Next James Bond

  27-08-2026 14:44 via gamespot.com
  
  Following the report that said Battlefield 1's Jack Lowden is circling the role of James Bond for the next 007 movie, it’s now rumored that another actor who appeared in a video game, Jack Barton, could be in the mix as well.PageSix reported that Bond 26 director Denis Villeneuve and casting director Nina Gold are looking at a "stream of unknowns" to play James Bond next. One such person is Barton, who played Messmer the Impaler in Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree expansion.That is Barto
  
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• Xbox Won’t Say If Project Helix Has A Disc Drive, But It’s Not Giving Up On Physical Games Yet

  27-08-2026 14:42 via gamespot.com
  
  Sony has already confirmed that it's headed toward an all-digital future soon, but what about Xbox and its next-gen console, Project Helix? In a new interview, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma didn't give any concrete answers about whether Project Helix will have a disc drive, instead focusing on the topic of next-gen hardware affordability."This next generation, we have to be thinking about efficiency and affordability alongside performance," Sharma said to the BBC. "All of the industry needs to
  
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• Blaze is bringing back a mystery Evercade cartridge that you may have missed the first time around

  27-08-2026 14:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Blaze has a habit of discontinuing Evercade cartridges, but the console company is bringing back a legacy collection. While we'll find out which compilation is getting re-released on Friday, it's a sign that it can and will bring back physical games you may have missed. In an Evercade teaser post headlined "Something is coming... back!", the retro console makers confirm a legacy cartridge will return on Friday, August 28. By my count, 19 physical games are now marked as "legacy", including the N
  
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• GTA 6 Wants To Remind You That Looks Matter In The Influencer Hustle Of Vice City

  27-08-2026 14:07 via gamespot.com
  
  Ahead of today's GTA 6 Extended Preview on Netflix, developer Rockstar Games has revealed plenty of new details on the highly anticipated open-world game. In a new interview, Rockstar North co-studio head Rob Nelson divulged how the game, similar to GTA: San Andreas, will require you to take good care of the protagonists Jason and Lucia, as the duo will need to engage in exercise, healthy eating, and relaxation if they want to stay in shape. Just like real life, but with more immediate gains.Get
  
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• The Sinking City 2 Salt Storage code

  27-08-2026 13:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Sinking City 2 salt storage code opens a strange lock in the Fish Market once you work out what the roman numerals mean, as well as how they tie into a 16 Punishments of the Sailor note you can find. The solution is not that hard once you have all the pieces in front of you, but it is one of the slightly tricker puzzles thanks to the numbering system and a long list you need to work though to decode it all. Here's what I did and how I solved it so you can get in. It's worth doing too as ther
  
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