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• Clashes rage in Libya despite UN truce call

  07-04-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Fighting raged south of Libya's capital Sunday despite a UN call for a two-hour ceasefire, as forces of strongman Khalifa Haftar and the internationally recognised government exchanged air strikes.The unity government said the fighting had killed 21 people, while the United Nations said there had been "no truce" despite calls for a two-hour pause in fighting for civilians and the wounded to flee.Oil-rich Libya has been riven by chaos since the NATO-backed uprising in 2011 that killed dictator Mo
  
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• The Odyssey debuts to 98% Rotten Tomatoes score, overtaking The Dark Knight as Christopher Nolan's highest rated movie

  15-07-2026 19:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Odyssey hits theaters this week on July 17, but the review embargo has lifted just a couple of days ahead of that, and whatever happens at the box office, it's clear director Christopher Nolan has another critical success on his hands. In fact, if The Odyssey's Rotten Tomatoes debut score of 98% holds steady in the coming days and weeks, it'll be Nolan's highest rated movie ever on the platform, a stunning achievement previously jointly held by his 2008 superhero opus, The Dark Knight, and t
  
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• Negative reactions to God of War Laufey don't bother star Deborah Ann Woll: "I just know it's great"

  15-07-2026 18:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you were paying attention to audience reactions to God of War Laufey, you likely noticed the ever-predictable objections to a female-led spin-off. You know the type to complain, and they're as laughably pathetic as ever. Deborah Ann Woll, the voice of our eponymous protagonist, was asked for her take, and she's simply unbothered.While she was signing at Florida Supercon, a fan asked Woll about misogynistic backlash, recording her response for TikTok. "I mean, genuinely, I thought I was going
  
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• Only 16 Fallout: New Vegas developers still work at Obsidian, says RPG's original writer

  15-07-2026 18:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Xbox subsidiary Obsidian got butchered along with most of the parent company's children during mass layoffs earlier this month, making the original Fallout: New Vegas team even more scarce. New Vegas writer Chris Avellone did the math, and it looks like only 16 of Fallout: New Vegas' total 73 developers still work at Obsidian. "Some of the ex-NV developers were among those laid off last week, unfortunately," Avellone explains in a July 14 Twitter post on the topic. 21-year veteran art director D
  
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• The DK Rap composer made a whopping 56 cents after the song amassed 1.5 million plays on TikTok

  15-07-2026 18:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  DK Rap composer Grant Kirkhope has revealed he has made less than a dollar off the song's 1.5 million plays on TikTok. The DK Rap is widely considered the most influential piece of music ever composed. This triumphant song about a group of five iconic simians transcended the Nintendo 64 game it was an intro to and made musical history. Without Lanky Kong, you probably wouldn't have had The Beatles debut about 40 years earlier.At the very least – whether through meme remixes (see below), ir
  
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• EA finally admits adding autosaves to The Sims 4 is a good idea after 12 years, slapping a band-aid on over a decade of heartbreak from crashes and lost progress

  15-07-2026 18:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  The day I never thought I'd witness is near – EA is finally introducing an autosave feature to The Sims 4… you know, a good 12 years after its 2014 launch.How many Sims have I lost to random crashes? How many houses have perished before my eyes due to buggy shutdowns? Too many to count, I'd say – and sure, I could've been more vigilant about saving, but The Sims 4 has needed an autosave feature for well over a decade now.
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• Dev says selling 300,000 copies of his dwarf RPG meant "completely changing my life" and watching tax, Steam, and publisher cuts stop him from becoming a millionaire

  15-07-2026 18:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Game development is not a career where many people make a fortune. Most are lucky to get back the monetary cost of their project. Occasionally, you see the opposite, such as what happened for the solo developer behind Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot.That dev, operating under the name Hamma Studios, made a Reddit thread commemorating the four year anniversary of what's now a notable milestone for their career. In July 2022, they noted a flurry of activity on the Itch.io demo for what would become
  
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• Steam study of over 53,000 games finds "60 – 90% of the growth" in monthly releases on Valve's store is from games using AI and "almost none of them make money"

  15-07-2026 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new study of Steam games that use AI suggests that, while the tech is helping fuel a boom in new releases on Valve's platform, very few of those games are actually making much money. That's not a measure of Steam players rejecting AI, however – instead, it seems that games using AI are just as likely to fail as those without it.This analysis comes courtesy of a Substack post from Sulka Haro, former lead designer on Habbo Hotel and now CEO of Mainframe Industries, the studio behind sandbo
  
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• How to watch England vs Argentina, live stream the World Cup for free

  15-07-2026 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  How to watch England vs Argentina for freeUS | YouTube TV (10 day free trial)UK | BBC iPlayerAUS | SBS On DemandWatch anywhere: Norton VPN (60 day money back guarantee)If you want to know how to watch England vs Argentina in the 2026 World Cup, everything that you need to know is right here. We've also created a complete guide on how to watch the whole FIFA World Cup for free.Wednesday night's semi-final will see two old rivals face off for the first time in two decades as England and Argentina
  
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• Christopher Nolan chose to make The Odyssey next after Oppenheimer because it was a "thrilling opportunity" that had "never been done in modern cinema"

  15-07-2026 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Good luck trying to predict what Christopher Nolan will do next. In the past, the director has dovetailed from Batman into the world-warping Inception and moved from the more grounded war drama Dunkirk into the mind-bending Tenet. This time, Nolan is worlds away from Oppenheimer, the near-billion dollar biopic that charted the trials, tribulations, and immense guilt of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer as he led the charge to build the atomic bomb. The Odyssey, while touching on the recurring Nola
  
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• This Hallmark PlayStation ornament uses the power-up sound, and it'll tip '90s kids into nostalgia overload

  15-07-2026 17:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hallmark has unveiled its latest line of gaming-themed ornaments, and that includes a PlayStation console figure which actually plays the iconic startup sound when you press the power button. You can see the ornament in action via the Hallmark store, and it feels like a cheap form of time travel; I don't know about you, but I was momentarily yanked back to the '90s after hearing that sound. The green power light at the front of the console actually lights up when you press the button too, so Hal
  
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• Making Fallout and Elder Scrolls games will "be harder than ever now" following Xbox cuts, say laid-off Bethesda devs calling loss of institutional knowledge "staggering"

  15-07-2026 17:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Bethesda Game Studios has been feeling the impact following Microsoft's plan to cut over 3,200 employees at Xbox, with the company's union representatives reporting a big loss of "dozens of programmers, artists, designers and testers."Unsurprisingly, these layoffs will likely have an impact on Bethesda's ongoing and future projects – like The Elder Scrolls 6, which fans have been eagerly waiting nearly 15 years for now.
  Former developers affected by the widespread cuts from Microsoft repor
  
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• FromSoftware finally wakes up, announces The Duskbloods closed network test for next month and says you can register next week

  15-07-2026 17:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  FromSoftware just remembered it's got a new game scheduled for release this year, as it's now confirmed that The Duskbloods' closed network test will take place next month.During last month's Nintendo Direct, FromSoftware mercifully acknowledged the existence of its elusive Switch 2-exclusive multiplayer game. Things have been very quiet about The Duskbloods since its announcement last year, but we were assured we'd be able to try it out at some point "soon," and now we know exactly how soon tha
  
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• Laid-off id Software devs "cannot imagine a path forward where they make another game in id Tech," despite the Doom studio's claims

  15-07-2026 16:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite a statement from the studio, former id Software staff don't see how the studio can possibly make another game in its id Tech engine after a majority of the devs at the Texas-based studio were laid off. Last week, after much conversation about what state the legendary studio is left in after 136 of its 185 developers were laid off by Microsoft, id Software released a statement on Twitter. "While our studio was impacted, those changes were spread across teams. We still have the crew we nee
  
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• Ahead of GTA 6, GTA Online players complain that Rockstar "nerfed literally everything" commonly used to make money

  15-07-2026 16:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  They say crime doesn't pay, and in GTA Online, it's definitely becoming a harder line of work. The latest update for Rockstar's MMO sandbox reduces the reward for almost every available big-time burglary, and the new one that's included won't be making up the difference for your bottom line.The Kortz Center is the latest heist, where you have to break into an extremely well-to-do venue where the richest of the rich in Los Santos hang out, to access one of the greatest art collections in the worl
  
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• When is The Odyssey on streaming? Speculation on the Peacock release date

  15-07-2026 16:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  When is The Odyssey on streaming? The short answer is you might be waiting a while... Christopher Nolan's latest epic is just hitting theaters in July 2026 as it follows Matt Damon's King of Ithaca as he attempts a perilous journey home. Spanning mythical lands and brutal encounters, he tries to make it back to his wife and son following the end of the Trojan War. Filmed entirely with IMAX cameras, Nolan made the movie for the big screen. It's been sold out for weeks in IMAX 70mm and you'll stru
  
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• The Batman 2 hit by another delay as Matt Reeves gifts first look at Robert Pattinson in the sequel

  15-07-2026 16:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Batman 2 has been delayed again, because we can't have nice things.As per Deadline, The Batman 2, originally set for October 2027, is now hitting cinemas on February 18, 2028, some six long years after the original.Unfortunately, this isn't new news for fans of the Caped Crusader. The Batman 2 has been hit by multiple delays over the years: first, a shift from October 3, 2025 to October 2, 2026. A few years later, it was pushed further to October 7, 2027. Now, it's a 2028 window for the Robe
  
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• After just four years, Valve is seemingly discontinuing Steam Deck LCD parts, and the repair enthusiast in me is upset

  15-07-2026 16:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Valve's Steam Deck LCD partnership with iFixit was a big moment for handheld repairability, but it looks like parts are now being discontinued. While it's currently unknown whether every component will become unavailable, the repair site says it's looking "less likely" that it will continue to stock OEM batteries.The Steam Deck LCD part revelation was originally unearthed by Zok-Felswyn on Reddit, with a post revealing correspondence from iFixit. According to the shared email enquiry response re
  
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• Christopher Nolan used one idea from his unmade Troy film in The Odyssey over 20 years later

  15-07-2026 15:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  It ultimately never happened, but Christopher Nolan was once attached to direct Troy, the 2004 sword-and-sandals epic which adapted The Odyssey's 'prequel' The Iliad.While he went on to direct Batman Begins and kickstart a Hollywood career that included the likes of Inception, Interstellar, and Oppenheimer, Nolan clearly kept one idea in his back pocket from his dalliances with Troy when it came time to direct The Odyssey."When I was briefly attached to direct Troy, I did a lot of thinking about
  
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• "You'll never get another World of Warcraft or Morrowind in the current climate," id Software producer says as constant layoffs batter the industry

  15-07-2026 15:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  The past couple of weeks have been undeniably difficult for the video game industry, with Microsoft's plan to cut 3,200 employees at Xbox affecting various in-progress titles and studios – one of which is id Software, the team behind Doom.In fact, id Software producer Andrew Willis has spoken at length about the layoffs and their impact across the board. A few days ago, he called them "incomprehensible," saying that small worker-owned studios are "the only path forward" from here.
  Since th
  
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• Best Buy's 12GB RTX 5070 Lenovo Legion 7a listing hides its actual price, but even then these GPUs are going to struggle to stay relevant

  15-07-2026 14:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Lenovo is one of the first brands to adopt the new 12GB RTX 5070 mobile chip, and its debut rig hit Best Buy's shelves last week... alongside a pretty shocking price tag. Listed at a $3,374.99 MSRP, this machine is more expensive not just than an RTX 5070 Ti rig, but a few RTX 5080 machines when on sale as well. Of course, this isn't the price we'll actually be paying for the Lenovo Legion 7a refresh. Like many of the best gaming laptops, this is a rig launching at an absurd MSRP to give its bra
  
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• "There are no benefits to being owned by Microsoft," says Doom dev: "They have destroyed immense amounts of value that I don't even think that they're aware of"

  15-07-2026 14:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  An id Software developer says there is no benefit to being owned by Microsoft after the Xbox-owned developer faced mass layoffs one day before the launch of a new Doom DLC expansion. Speaking to Gamedeveloper, the unnamed source at the Doom developer explained, "They [Microsoft] didn't even wait to see if the product is successful before they got rid of the team." And had Microsoft waited, it would've seen that Doom: The Dark Ages' Revelation DLC has netted rave reviews on Steam and is one of th
  
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• Far Cry TV show adds Steve Buscemi to the cast, and I think he's playing the villain

  15-07-2026 13:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Far Cry TV show has added another cast member – and I'm convinced he'll be playing the villain. On Twitter, the official Far Cry account shared that Steve Buscemi has joined the cast of the upcoming video game adaptation. "Welcome Steve Buscemi to the world of FX's FARCRY," the account wrote. "Hope you’re ready to get thrown into the deep end, lose your mind, and make a few catastrophically bad decisions along the way."That doesn't necessarily give anything away, but some of Busc
  
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• I just discovered that Nintendo sells replacement parts for its Talking Flower toy, should you ever throw him in a fit of irritated rage

  15-07-2026 13:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  I'm not the biggest fan of Nintendo's Talking Flower toy.Its random quips incessantly telling me that the "ocean tastes like tears" and probing whether or not I've "had lunch yet" are just as annoying as our best toy expert Benjamin warned me they'd be. As a result, this talking toy talks no more and has become a silent display piece amongst my Switch game collection. But while he doesn't get much use anymore, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the Nintendo online store sells parts for
  
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• Tom Holland teases that the "last frame" of Spider-Man: Brand New Day will explain the title

  15-07-2026 13:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Spider-Man: Brand New Day is only a few weeks out but there's still a whole lot that we don't know about this movie. There's been no confirmation on the main villain, Sadie Sink's character is not confirmed, and now it seems like the title is hiding another cryptic clue.Speaking as part of a new documentary called 'Generations: The Evolution of Spider-Men', which is out on Disney Plus in the US, Peter Parker star Tom Holland explained more. "The Brand New Day of this movie – it isn't the b
  
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• An AI-generated version of The Odyssey is set to release later this summer, but even the studio admits it won't be better than Christopher Nolan's version

  15-07-2026 13:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  It looks like no one is safe from AI, as soon after Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey hits theaters, an AI-generated version of the ancient Greek epic is on the way. The AI movie, titled Odysseus: The Fall, is from AI film studio Fountain 0, directed by Ash Koosha, who is best known for his AI-generated docu-drama Dreams of Violets. The film is 135-minutes long and is due to be released on Fountain 0’s website later this summer. The news comes just one month after the release of the AI
  
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• Tales of series lead apologizes for the long wait as the JRPG series approaches its largest gulf between mainline entries with no sign of a new game

  15-07-2026 13:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tales of series lead Yusuke Tomizawa has apologized for the long wait for a new mainline entry in the series. Bandai Namco's Tales of series has been one of the most consistent RPG series of all time since it kicked off with 1995's Tales of Phantasia. Since then, the series has been an annual release, with occasional one- or two-year gaps. The wait between 2016's Tales of Berseria and 2021's Tales of Arise was the longest in the series history; however, Arise was at least announced in 2019. Come
  
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• Diablo 4 players label Season 14 "a joke" after they still can't get any Iconic Mythics despite the latest update: "They just never learn"

  15-07-2026 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  There's a new Diablo 4 patch out, and while it addresses a couple of the latent problems in Season 14, the bigger issues surrounding Mythic Uniques remain. Specifically, their drop rate is far too minimal, and crafting them is still not worth the effort.As usual, players have been quick to see what's been altered in the latest update, and what they've found is disconcerting. Prominent Diablo 4 streamer and YouTuber Rob2628 noted on Twitter that after a quick session beating the newer Reaper Boss
  
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• The Odyssey could beat The Dark Knight's box office opening, marking the second highest of Christopher Nolan's career

  15-07-2026 12:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Odyssey is tracking for a huge box office opening, which is set to be one of the largest of Christopher Nolan's career. Per Deadline, the new movie is looking at an opening of about $85 million to $100 million domestically in the US with $110 million overseas. If this holds true, The Odyssey could have a $200 million opening, which will be larger than the impressive box office Oppenheimer received back in 2023. The Cillian Murphy-led movie opened globally at $181.1 million, seemingly bolster
  
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• It's very difficult to watch The Odyssey the way Christopher Nolan intended, and IMAX CEO explains why

  15-07-2026 12:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is the first ever feature film to be filmed completely on IMAX 70mm with IMAX cameras. But, it's trickier than it seems to see the film in IMAX 70mm. According to The Guardian, there are actually only 41 theaters in the entire world that can project IMAX 70mm film. "We're sold out in some theaters into the fifth week already... There's certainly more demand, the problem is they haven't made new IMAX film projectors in about 50 years," IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond told
  
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