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• Deadly tornadoes smash through Alabama, Southeast: What we know now

  04-03-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  First responders in Alabama were picking through the rubble Monday of a devastating tornado that killed at least 23 people. Here's what we know.
  
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• Former PlayStation head tells Xbox to either be a good publisher or make a good platform with exclusives: "Nintendo needs its Mario and its Zelda"

  13-07-2026 13:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former PlayStation head Shawn Layden has urged Asha Sharma at Xbox to decide whether it wants to be a publisher or a platform holder.Speaking to Eurogamer, Layden says, "There's two roads," when it comes to what Microsoft can do, that is "be a competitive platform rival in the marketplace with PlayStation, or the biggest game publisher in the world, which based on all their acquisitions, they're either there or they're very close to it." However, Microsoft's inconsistent decision making has seen
  
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• Razer's new cute Cinnamoroll headset is available to pre-order, and this puppy is giving me the cosplay itch

  13-07-2026 13:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Razer announced its brand new Cinnamoroll Edition Razer Kraken Kitty V2 BT wireless headset on July 9, and it's one of the most adorable pairs of cups the brand has unveiled so far.The Kraken Kitty V2 BT, which is set to launch on July 20, 2026, has swapped its usual pointy, RGB Chroma-powered cat-ears for Cinnamoroll's adorable puppy dog ones instead. While other Razer collabs result in headsets that are simply covered in officially licensed art, this partnership with Sanrio has resulted in a p
  
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• "We were shooting it like a documentary": The Odyssey cast learned to sail for real as Christopher Nolan admits it was "tough" on his actors

  13-07-2026 12:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Christopher Nolan's next epic, The Odyssey, follows the journey of a Greek warrior trying to make his way home across the ocean after the Trojan War – so, naturally, it involves a lot of sailing. However, as you might expect from a film of this scale, nothing was done by halves, meaning the cast had to actually learn to sail for real. "When I was writing the script, every time I’d write something on a boat, I thought, 'Ugh, do we have to be on boats?' Because I know what it takes to
  
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• The Batman 2's big new villain rumor may have been teased a year ago by the movie's co-writer

  13-07-2026 12:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Much like Marvel's tactic with Spider-Man: Brand New Day, DC Studios is keeping its cards close to its chest when it comes to The Batman: Part 2's villain, but an old post from writer Mattson Tomlin could hint at who it could be.Although it's only a little over a year before Robert Pattinson's caped crusader returns to our screens in The Batman 2, we still don't really know what the highly anticipated sequel will entail, or who Gotham's new big bad is. However, rumors of Scarlett Johansson's mys
  
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• Live-action Moana sinks at the box office, and it's almost doing as badly as the Snow White remake

  13-07-2026 12:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Well, this isn't welcome news for Disney. The live-action Moana remake, starring Catherine Laga'aia and Dwayne Johnson, has sunk to new depths at the box office.Moana has taken $95 million worldwide, with Deadline reporting that it's now on track to lose over $100 million – if it reaches $250 million total.Whichever way you spin it, 2026's Moana is a near-historic low for Disney's band of live-action remakes. Its $43 million takings at the US domestic box office pales in comparison to The
  
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• The Outer Worlds 2 lead slams "cold take artists" following Xbox layoffs at Obsidian, says "the same DNA" that created hits like Fallout: New Vegas and more remains

  13-07-2026 12:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Obsidian Entertainment is one of several prolific studios affected by Xbox's layoffs, with job losses and reportedly substantial changes to its release slate. After taking some time to consider his response, the co-director of The Outer Worlds 2 has publicly commented on what's going on and has some choice words for anyone spreading unsubstantiated rumors."This has been an extremely difficult week at Obsidian," Brandon Adler, who's now directing an unannounced project at Obsidian, writes on Link
  
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• Palworld devs "had high expectations for 1.0," but with over 855,000 concurrent Steam players, lead says "this is staggering"

  13-07-2026 12:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Palworld developers are reacting to the game's massive resurgence in player count thanks to the launch of 1.0.Over on Twitter, the Palworld Twitter account celebrated hitting 850,000 concurrent players on Steam (with the game's 24 hour peak on Sunday, July 12 hitting 855,525, per SteamDB). The post reads, "We can't believe it! Following the official release, Palpagos is once again bustling with Pal Tamers! A huge, heartfelt thank you to everyone playing Palworld. We hope you're enjoying Palworld
  
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• Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced was briefly unplayable over the weekend on PC despite being a single-player "offline" game

  13-07-2026 12:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced might be a single-player game – which Ubisoft says is "playable offline" – but that didn't stop the revamped pirate adventure from being temporarily unplayable on PC for many during its launch weekend thanks to issues with Ubisoft Connect. On July 11, many Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced players on PC reported being unable to load the game at all, experiencing an "insta crash" when Ubisoft Connect popped up. "Even 'Play offline' doesn't work.
  
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• Avengers: Doomsday cast illustration gives first official look at the lineup facing Doom, but there are multiple major absences

  13-07-2026 12:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  After months of secrecy surrounding Avengers: Doomsday, Marvel Studios has revealed the first full look at the movie's lineup in costume – but we can't help but focus on those who aren't included in the debut artwork.As revealed at Shanghai Expo, the illustration shows a masked Doctor Doom front and center, flanked by Chris Evans' Steve Rogers and Pedro Pascal's Reed Richards. Below, are the legacy X-Men characters set to appear in Avengers: Doomsday, while the rest is segmented into vario
  
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• Valve is switching up its Steam Machine error codes to be more helpful, starting with its scary red overheating light

  13-07-2026 11:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Steam Machine isn't shy with its red LED error codes, but it's apparently jumping the gun in terms of temperature warnings. Luckily, Valve is already working on a BIOS fix that will tweak the thresholds to 100°C for both the CPU and GPU, which should prevent any scary false alarms from disrupting your couch PC sessions. Originally flagged by Reddit user Pure-Outcome-5977, the Steam Machine temperature warning can currently kick in at way below 100°C. Performance overlay stats shared
  
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• Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is the first Assassin's Creed game ever to hit over 100,000 concurrent players on Steam, and it only took 3 days

  13-07-2026 11:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Although Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced launched to "Mixed" reviews on Steam, it's proving to be one of the most popular entries on PC from Ubisoft's legendary franchise. On Steam, at least.Standing as a remake of what might just be the series' peak title, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced has climbed its way up Steam's ranks over the past few days – so much so, in fact, that it's set a new record for the Assassin's Creed name.
  As per SteamDB, the revamped gem hit over 100,000 con
  
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• Christopher Nolan has a perfectly good reason for everyone speaking with American accents in The Odyssey

  13-07-2026 11:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ever since the first look at The Odyssey emerged, a small sub-section of the audience has critiqued the lack of both Greek accents and archaic language in Christopher Nolan's adaptation of Homer's epic poem. Yes, Tom Holland's Telemachus even says 'dad' in one scene – complete with an American accent that seems more at home in Queens than Ithaca.There have even been some, remarkably, who have even pointed towards the historical inaccuracies of soldiers' helmets. In case you need reminding,
  
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• Spider-Man: Brand New Day producer says her "dream" is a new trilogy, but they're taking it "one movie at a time"

  13-07-2026 10:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tom Holland's Peter Parker will soon be swinging into his fourth MCU solo movie, Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Nothing about Spidey's future beyond this Marvel Phase 6 movie has been confirmed yet. But, by the sounds of things, if producer Amy Pascal gets her way, this could be the first of a fresh era for the wallcrawler. "Ever since we’ve been making Spider-Man movies with Marvel and the MCU, it has opened up a wealth of opportunity for us," she told SFX magazine. "Because in the comics, he
  
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• Spider-Man: Brand New Day producer says they "have to be really careful" with new Marvel spin-offs to not make it "unspecial" for audiences

  13-07-2026 07:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Spider-Man: Brand New Day brings Tom Holland's Peter Parker back for a new adventure. Set after the harrowing events of No Way Home, the world has forgotten who he is but that doesn't mean the threats have stopped as a new invisible villain is lurking in the shadows.The latest movie marks the fourth outing for Holland's webslinger, who straddles the world of Sony's Marvel universe and the MCU. However, he's by no means the only Spidey-adjacent character on our screens. There are the Spider-Verse
  
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• End of Oak Street director addresses Cloverfield spin-off rumors: "There are certainly some answers in there"

  13-07-2026 07:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The End of Oak Street director David Robert Mitchell isn't confirming or denying whether the upcoming sci-fi pic is part of the J.J. Abrams-produced Cloverfield franchise."Here’s what I can tell you. I wrote the script before I ever personally talked with J.J. You can make of that whatever you will," Mitchell told SFX Magazine. As for whether the film explains how the neighborhood ended up in whatever dinosaur-infested universe it's currently in, Mitchell says that “there are certain
  
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• Spider-Man: Brand New Day producer compares Sadie Sink's mystery character to No Way Home's "worst-kept secret" multiverse reveal: "People love to be surprised"

  13-07-2026 04:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Do we all know who Sadie Sink is playing in Spider-Man: Brand New Day? The common consensus is that the Stranger Things star will be portraying X-Men icon Jean Grey in the MCU – with Marvel Studios and Sony largely keeping schtum on any speculation.Of course, we've been here before. The lead-up to Spider-Man: No Way Home was filled with virtual column inches and frenzied social media chatter about Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield's Spider-Men swinging in from their corner of the multivers
  
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• Former PlayStation boss thinks "we've lost a lot of the variety in games," and we can thank the "rising cost" of new titles for that: "We had so many crazy games on PS1"

  12-07-2026 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former PlayStation lead Shawn Layden thinks that "we've lost a lot of the variety in games" releasing these days, with more titles that look like "the game next to it" rather than something entirely unique – and you can thank "the rising cost" of development for that. It's no secret that game budgets are inflating massively. Earlier this year, it was reported that new AAA games could cost upwards of $300 million to make, and with that in mind, it's little wonder that publishers have such h
  
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• Assassin's Creed Black Flag players "didn't like" how Edward "didn't really feel like an assassin" at first, Resynced lead says, but "soon enough it became a classic" anyway

  12-07-2026 19:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is here, but looking back at the OG 2013 game, the remake's creative director thinks that it only "became a classic" once players learned to love protagonist Edward Kenway. Speaking in the latest issue of Retro Gamer, Paul Fu – who also served as a game designer on the original Black Flag – notes that while there's a lot to love in Ubisoft's pirate adventure, back at launch, not everyone was completely in love with quite how piratey it is. Namely,
  
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• Fallout: New Vegas level scaling is designed to teach players that "this is not actually Fallout 3," Josh Sawyer says: "You're going to get your ass handed to you if you're not careful"

  12-07-2026 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer says Obsidian took a different approach to level scaling than Bethesda did with Fallout 3 to teach players that "things work a little differently" here, and that "you're going to get your ass handed to you if you're not careful."Speaking to The 41st Precinct in a video interview you can check out below, Sawyer talks about going back to the OG Fallout when designing a new spin of his own on the post-apocalyptic wasteland.More specifically, Sawyer loved that
  
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• Spyro: A Realm Beyond devs don't have the time or budget for all the "cool ideas" they had for the first all-new Spyro game in ages, studio lead says

  12-07-2026 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first all-new Spyro game in 18 years, Spyro: A Realm Beyond, is finally set to launch early next year, but the devs at Toys for Bob have had to be careful not to get too carried away with their "cool ideas" that would see the platformer run out of budget and time. Associate creative director Louis "Lou" Studdert and studio head Paul Yan recently appeared on an episode of the Kinda Funny Gamescast, where they were asked if there were any moments during development when they realised they were
  
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• Warframe lead Rebecca Ford says Destiny 2's death is "horrible news" for everyone: "Not the first time it's happened, and it'll happen again"

  12-07-2026 00:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warframe leadership isn't about to celebrate the impending death of Destiny 2, even if they are on course to outlive one of their game's strongest competitors in the sci-fi live-service space.Developer Bungie announced in May that it's ending active development on Destiny 2 after more than a decade as it turns its attention toward its new extraction shooter Marathon. Destiny 2 will remain playable for the foreseeable future, but its briefly resurgent Monument of Triumph update from June will be
  
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• How to watch England vs Norway, live stream the World Cup for free

  11-07-2026 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  How to watch England vs Norway for freeUS | YouTube TV (21 day free trial)UK | ITVXAUS | SBS On DemandWatch anywhere: Norton VPN (60 day money back guarantee)If you're looking for how to watch England vs Norway in the 2026 World Cup you've come to the right place.The biggest danger to each team this time around may not be their World Cup rivals but the US weather: the quarter-final may experience similar thunderstorms to the ones that delayed England vs Mexico. The temperature is currently predi
  
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• Famously buggy Assassin's Creed Unity "is one of the most underestimated games in the series," says lead who admits its "launch was a huge challenge"

  11-07-2026 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Looking back on the infamously buggy Assassin's Creed Unity after 12 years, Ubisoft veteran Jean Guesdon admits "this opus maybe pushed too many things at once."As part of a new feature about Assassin's Creed in a new issue of Retro Gamer – on sale now, by the way – Guesdon offers a sense that ambition is largely behind the game's tricky release."Sadly, Unity's launch was a huge challenge because of several reasons," he says. "Like AC3 with AnvilNext, Unity's development was impacted
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs were told that "no one" would like one of the RPG's best systems before it launched, lead says: "We didn't care"

  11-07-2026 19:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Over a year on from its monumental launch, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director Guillaume Broche has been looking back on what he and his fellow devs at Sandfall Interactive were told before their RPG's release – namely, that "no one's going to like" it. The mere concept of that seems completely impossible now that the game is out – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 became the second ever game after Baldur's Gate 3 to collect all five major Game of the Year awards last year, after
  
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• Spyro: A Realm Beyond devs didn't want their platformer to be a "flight simulator," so you can't leave your favorite dragon on "autopilot"

  11-07-2026 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Spyro: A Realm Beyond introduces the ability to fly around freely as the titular purple dragon, but the devs at Toys for Bob want you to know that they've not made a "flight simulator," because "we want active decision-making."Speaking on a new episode of the Kinda Funny Games podcast, associate creative director Louis "Lou" Studdert confirms that flying isn't just some sort of passive ability that you can use with zero thought – you'll have to put the effort in, pushing buttons, to guide
  
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• "Single-player, narrative-driven gaming is here to stay," ex-PlayStation boss says: "It's how we built this business. That's what sustains it"

  11-07-2026 16:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden is a big believer that "single player, narrative-driven gaming is here to stay," saying it's "what sustains" the business. When you think of PlayStation's greatest hits, chances are, you're going to think of a whole bunch of single-player games. Whether it's The Last of Us, God of War, Uncharted, or Ghost of Tsushima, there's no doubt that games like this have been huge drivers of PlayStation's success, and although Sony has delved more into the world of live
  
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• Steam refunds are "not for people to play games for free," says dev of short game who criticized Valve's system: "I'm 100% pro refund"

  11-07-2026 14:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Paddle Paddle Paddle developer Mateo Covic of studio Zoroarts went viral this month for his comments on Steam's refund policy, which, after more than 55,000 people refunded his well-reviewed but short rage game, he called exploitable. Speaking with GamesRadar+, Covic defends much of his argument but stresses that he supports the refund system overall and doesn't want to see consumer rights eroded."I'm 100% pro refund but the current 'no questions asked if you request a refund within two weeks an
  
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• "Sony waited for Rockstar to make the first move": Founding Xbox member warns against PlayStation's all-digital future, says "I trust" Steam games won't just disappear

  11-07-2026 02:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Laura Fryer, a veteran of the video game industry and one of the founding members of the original Xbox project, is sounding the alarm amidst the industry's shift toward all-digital games.Fryer recently uploaded a new video to her YouTube channel in which she warns specifically against PlayStation's recent announcement that it's ending production of physical game discs starting in 2028. She uses a story about her family's Rock Band tradition to make a point about the impermanence of digital-only
  
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• Sony Santa Monica confirms "God of War Laufey will be available on disc" despite PlayStation's war on physical

  11-07-2026 00:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  God of War Laufey will be available on a physical disc, developer Sony Santa Monica has confirmed. This strongly suggests the game will launch before the PS6, which is strongly expected to be a digital only console.In the before times, this wouldn't be much of a story, but in a world where the biggest game to release this century, GTA 6, seemingly has no plans for a traditional physical launch, and more pertinent to this story, where PlayStation is ending production of physical discs, it's prett
  
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