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• Did Russian ads on Facebook make a difference?

  28-09-2017 23:41 via yahoo.com
  A study concluding it’s almost impossible to persuade voters to change their views raises provocative questions about how much impact foreign influence campaigns on Facebook might actually have had in 2016.
  
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• Daredevil: Born Again will "let rip" in season 2 in a way they "might not have been able to" in the divisive first season

  22-02-2026 09:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  After well-documented behind-the-scenes issues in its first season, Daredevil: Born Again showrunner Dario Scardapane says the gloves are off for season 2.Speaking to SFX magazine about the situation that saw the showrunner parachuted in to oversee reshoots on a first season that quickly turned sour amid creative departures, Scardapane said, "The task of season one was a really sick kind of fun. They'd gone in a direction where it was a different kind of show. It was much more of a procedural, m
  
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• Blizzard is already nerfing Overwatch's Jetpack Cat as the hero continues to suffer from constant bans: "She can be very, very lethal"

  22-02-2026 09:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Overwatch's Jetpack Cat - the new hero that, as you might have guessed, is a cat in a jetpack - is already being subjected to nerfs next week and in a mid-season update because Blizzard Entertainment's slightly worried about the flying feline's flanking capabilities.Overwatch associate game director Alec Dawson spilled the beans in a lengthy interview with streamer Deemzies. "So perks come more at the end of a hero's lifespan in terms of when we're developing them," Dawson says. "I think the thi
  
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• Ready or Not directors say they'll make more of the horror franchise "until they tell us to stop"

  22-02-2026 03:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Ready or Not franchise is soon continuing with the aptly titled Ready or Not 2, which introduces beleaguered bride Grace's sister Faith.While the future of the film series hasn't been confirmed, directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett hope to make more."We held our feet to the fire to make sure that everything that happens here, when you go back to the first movie, it heightens it," Bettinelli-Olpin told SFX magazine in the latest issue. "The two movies are in conversation with eac
  
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• One Piece co-showrunner teases "heartbreaking" season 2 finale as he reveals exactly where the new chapter will take us up to in the manga's Arabasta Saga

  22-02-2026 00:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  One Piece season 2 co-showrunner Joe Tracz says fans of the manga will be pleased with the new season's ending... as it continues directly into season 3."Season two has an incredible ending on its own that emotionally moves me every time I watch it," Tracz told SFX magazine. "I think it tells an emotional journey, getting to a place that manga fans will know, where the story of Drum Kingdom ends. It's beautiful and moving. It's both visually spectacular and emotionally heartbreaking. I think the
  
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• Daredevil: Born Again showrunner has "mixed feelings" about season 2's timely political focus and says he prefers the show being "a little more street level"

  21-02-2026 21:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Daredevil: Born Again season 2 is set to see the newly elected Mayor Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio) crack down even harder on New York City, which spells trouble for Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) and his fellow New Yorkers.As Fisk's vicelike grip on the city tightens, the parallels to the contemporary US off-screen aren't lost on showrunner Dario Scardapane."The playbook is pretty well established, so when we were writing this stuff we were like, 'Here's what he does.' The anti-vigilante task force is pa
  
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• Xbox president Sarah Bond speaks out after news of her Xbox departure: "I’ve decided this is the right time for me to take my next step, both personally and professionally"

  21-02-2026 18:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Xbox President Sarah Bond has posted a statement she sent to Xbox staff as she departs from the company after an almost nine-year tenure.Last night news broke that Xbox CEO Phil Spencer will be retiring from Microsoft, with Bond also departing the company as Asha Sharma – lead of Microsoft's CoreAI product – takes over as CEO of Xbox. When the news broke, statements from Spencer, Sharma, current head of Xbox Game Studios, Matt Booty and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella all emerged online,
  
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• Ready or Not 2 directors say they feel more pressure with this horror sequel than they did with Scream: "That franchise very clearly is what it is"

  21-02-2026 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  You would think that there are few things as scary as taking over the Scream franchise after creator Wes Craven's passing. However, directors Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin say that returning to the Ready or Not franchise was way more nerve-wracking than making Scream 5 or 6."We love the first movie. It's so special to us," said Bettinelli-Olpin in the newest issue of SFX Magazine. Gillett added that it's "wildly, wildly personal and the opportunity to make a sequel came with a lot of e
  
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• Arc Raiders devs love the self-described sheriffs of PvP, even if they do kill the wrong people sometimes: "Those are some of the better moments"

  21-02-2026 16:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arc Raiders developers love all the roleplaying communities in the game, including the self-described sheriffs who dole out what they call justice in online lobbies. Whether their verdicts are actually just is another question, but developer Embark Studios is simply glad that its game leaves room for that kind of emergent storytelling.Speaking to PC Gamer, design director Virgil Watkins was asked about the wandering group of Stella Montis sheriffs that pounce on any suspected PvP aggressors who,
  
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• Balatro's long-awaited 1.1 update is still in the works, LocalThunk says: "Last night I stayed up until the early hours of the morning"

  21-02-2026 16:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Balatro's mostly solo developer LocalThunk is still working on the roguelike behemoth's big 1.1 release, a long-awaited major gameplay update to the game.LocalThunk confirms as much in a new blog post mainly dedicated to his game dev origins, which he closes out with this: "Happy 2nd birthday, Balatro. P.S. Yes I'm still working on 1.1."The free update that somehow promises even more new strategies and ideas (in a game already spilling over with strategies and ideas) was announced in 2024 shortl
  
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• Helldivers 2 players fail the game's "biggest" battle ever as the Cyborgs repel Super Earth's attack on Cyberstan and prepare for an "unjust counter-offensive"

  21-02-2026 15:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Helldivers 2 players have failed to spread democracy and keep the peace (via lethal force) on Cyberstan, the home of the new Cyborg sub faction that recently reared its head in the game. Super Earth is now warning that divers should prepare for a counter attack from the joint Cyborg and Automaton forces. So, better luck next time, divers."The liberation of Cyberstan has failed," a transmission from High Command, posted to social media, reads. "The underhanded, subhuman treachery of the Cyborgs r
  
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• One Piece co-showrunner says he was "most excited" about introducing the manga's "Tarantino-style Kill Bill" villains in season 2: "They don't just do bad, they look good"

  21-02-2026 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  One of the most striking aspects of beloved long-running manga/anime One Piece is its horde of wild, eccentric, and unpredictable villains. And according to co-showrunner Joe Tracz, Netflix's live action One Piece season 2 will be all about the bad guys."I think you're only as good as your villain, so Baroque Works is the thing I was most excited about this season because they’re like Tarantino-style Kill Bill assassins with crazy superpowers. They don't just do bad; they look good,"Tracz
  
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• Demon Slayer studio finally shows off its Genshin Impact anime after 3 years of silence, alongside a tease for JRPG Tales of

  21-02-2026 13:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  The long-awaited Genshin Impact anime has finally resurfaced after three years of silence from Ufotable, the Japanese animation house behind Demon Slayer and countless other anime projects.Ufotable today released a promo reel showing off its projects slated for 2026 and beyond, including brief looks at The Witch on the Holy Night, the second Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle movie, and its adaptation of hit free-to-play video game Genshin Impact.The Genshin Impact tease is perhaps the briefest and v
  
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• Daredevil: Born Again showrunner weighs in on the show ever crossing over with the wider MCU: "Those guys are uptown, we're downtown!"

  21-02-2026 12:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Daredevil: Born Again showrunner Dario Scardapane says he'd "be into" crossing the show over with the wider MCU – though he's adamant you won't see Hell's Kitchen on the big screen any time soon."I'd be into it, because I dig the comics!" he admits in the new issue of SFX magazine, when the publication asked whether the likes of Thor or Captain America would ever wander the neighborhood. "But no… That's been kind of a fun and challenging thing."While Vincent D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk/
  
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• The Ossiarch Bonereapers were my least favorite Warhammer army until the new models, and now my head's been turned

  21-02-2026 11:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Can I let you in on a secret? I've never been that keen on the Ossiarch Bonereapers. More specifically, they're the one Warhammer Age of Sigmar faction that I don't "get." What's their unique selling point? They're an army of relentless skeletons, yes, but we already have one of those in the (magnificently gothic) Soulblight Gravelords. We even have an army of ghosts filling the "restless spirits" niche. So, what makes them stand out?It took the latest miniatures to change my mind. When the new
  
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• Robert Kirkman opens up on Invincible season 4's show-original Hell storyline – and why it will shape future seasons

  21-02-2026 09:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Invincible is going to Hell.As teased during the Invincible season 3 ending, Mark Grayson is suddenly in the sights of a pair of devilish figures, Clancy Brown's Damien Darkblood (last seen being banished in the first season) and Satan, voiced by Bruce Campbell.In this case, even long-term fans won't know what comes next. The Hell storyline in Invincible season 4 is a show-original arc taken from an idea that creator Robert Kirkman never got round to during its initial comic run.Speaking to SFX
  
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• The Bethesda game Todd Howard is most proud of isn't Skyrim or Fallout 4, it's Fallout 76, even though he admits "it didn't launch great"

  21-02-2026 02:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fallout 76 is something of a dark horse in the Bethesda Game Studios library, but it's come a long way since its unequivocally disastrous launch, which was plagued with game-breaking bugs and technical shortcomings alongside criticisms of its world design and lack of stuff to do and look at. Bethesda has spent seven years polishing the game and adding content, and these days it's in pretty good standing, and in fact, it's the Bethesda game Todd Howard is most proud of.Appearing on a recent episo
  
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• Xbox's new chief content officer Matt Booty says "there are no organizational changes underway" following abrupt leadership shakeup, which seems like a businessy way of saying no one's been canned

  21-02-2026 01:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Phil Spencer is out as Xbox CEO, Xbox president Sarah Bond has left unceremoniously, Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty is now EVP and chief content officer, and Asha Sharma, president of Microsoft's CoreAI product, is stepping in as Xbox CEO. That is a lot to take in, and with such a fundamental shakeup to Xbox leadership, you might expect some other, uh, changes, at lower levels of staff, but Booty has assured there are "no organizational changes underway for our studios."In Microsoft's announc
  
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• Monster Hunter Stories 3 will take 30-50 hours to finish the main story, and the JRPG's devs want you to "feel satisfied" with the plot instead of just dragging you straight to the endgame

  20-02-2026 23:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite trading action-RPG stylings for turn-based JRPG combat, the Monster Hunter Stories series is very much like its big brother in one major way: it offers an absolute feast of content, particularly for players who want to invest in a meaty endgame grind. It sounds like Monster Hunter Stories 3 will be no exception, but it seems the devs want the main story to be a little more satisfying for players who put the game down after the credits roll, too.Game director Kenji Oguro told 4Gamer (tran
  
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• It's about to be easier than ever to start reading Jujutsu Kaisen with a complete box set of all 30 manga volumes coming this year

  20-02-2026 23:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you've been waiting to dive into the global sensation Jujutsu Kaisen, now's the perfect time, as Viz Media has just announced a complete box set of all 30 volumes of the original manga, and some other goodies.Here's how Viz describes the set on social media:"A legendary demon's power threatens the world, and one teen’s desperate choice ignites an all-out war. Packed with all 30 volumes, volume 0, and a double-sided poster, the Jujutsu Kaisen Complete Box Set by Gege Akutami releases Fal
  
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• "I can't type as fast as you're funding": Solo dev buried in over $250,000 learns there's a huge appetite for deep open-world RPGs inspired by early '00s classics like Gothic, Fable, and the anime Berserk

  20-02-2026 23:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Solo developer Csaba "ForestWare" Székely found out the easy way that there's massive demand for the type of game he's making: a deep, systems-driven open-world RPG inspired by early-'00s classics like Gothic, Kenshi, Arx Fatalis, Blade of Darkness, Fable, and best of all for me, the beloved manga and anime series Berserk.Sword Hero, which is a title I just love, is an ode to that very specific time in the early '00s where open-ended gameplay was still a novelty and developers were consta
  
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• New Xbox CEO, a former Meta and Instacart exec brought in from Microsoft's AI division, says "we will not chase short-term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop"

  20-02-2026 23:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you're worried by the prospect of a Microsoft AI executive who joined the company in 2024 taking control of Xbox as longtime chief Phil Spencer and president Sarah Bond exit the business entirely, surely you'll be comforted to hear new CEO Asha Sharma insist the company will not descend into "soulless AI slop."In its report breaking the news, IGN shared a message from Sharma which was sent to Microsoft employees alongside word of the change in positions. Sharma was previously president of Mic
  
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• Fallout TV show almost went to New Vegas in season 1, until Todd Howard said "there’s a million ways to f**k that up" as "it can be a bit of a minefield"

  20-02-2026 21:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fallout game designer Todd Howard says that the creators of the Prime Video Fallout streaming series wanted to visit one of the game series' most iconic locations, New Vegas, in season one, but he advised against it."The writers really wanted to go to New Vegas [for Season 2]," Howard tells the Kinda Funny Games podcast (around the 21-minute mark). "They actually wanted to go there in the early, early pitches of Season 1, and I said 'I would save that. That can be, that's such an iconic thing fo
  
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• Todd Howard says The Elder Scrolls 6 launch is "a while" off, so fans are doing the rational thing and looking for body language experts to analyze his face when he says that

  20-02-2026 21:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  If Todd Howard won't tell us when The Elder Scrolls 6 release date is – fine, that's fine. Skyrim fans have a plan. They'll just hire a body language expert, or throw Howard into a particle accelerator.Either way, they have to do something after Howard recently appeared on the Kinda Funny Gamescast and said the hot, hot, hotly anticipated follow-up to Skyrim (which came out in 2011) won't be out "for a while yet." So, bring in the scientists."Any body language experts here to analyze Todd'
  
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• Xbox boss Phil Spencer is leaving, and a Microsoft AI exec is taking over with president Sarah Bond also resigning

  20-02-2026 21:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  After nearly 40 years with Microsoft, Xbox CEO Phil Spencer is set to retire on Monday, February 23. Xbox's current president Sarah Bond will also resign, after joining the company in 2017.Spencer will be replaced as CEO by Asha Sharma, IGN reports, who is currently serving as the product development lead and president of Microsoft's CoreAI product. Before working with Microsoft, Sharma was COO at Instacart, the grocery delivery service. She is also on the board of Home Depot.In an email sent to
  
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• If you want to keep some blueprints in Arc Raiders after each Expedition, the devs have good news and bad news: it's not "off the table," but it is "tricky" to do

  20-02-2026 21:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Since time immemorial, or at least last November, mankind has pondered a single question: would it really be that bad if Arc Raiders let you carry over a few blueprints when you wipe your account by completing an Expedition? It turns out this debate has been going on even longer than we thought. Developer Embark Studios asked the same thing during the game's development. Its answer: eh, maybe it could be fine eventually?That's according to Arc Raiders design director Virgil Watkins, who discusse
  
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• League of Legends threatens a new circle of MOBA hell with public voice chat, and I'm already worried for my fellow junglers

  20-02-2026 20:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  It looks like Riot might be adding public voice chat to League of Legends, and as a recovering jungler, I'd like to say publicly that I think that's a very bad idea.I quit playing League of Legends years ago for my mental health. In my many years playing League of Legends and Dota 2, I've found MOBAs to be particularly toxic among online multiplayer games, and League to be especially toxic among MOBAs. I primarily jungled, but I also hopped between roles depending on team needs, and it seemed li
  
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• EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko

  20-02-2026 19:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  EA has revealed a big Season 3 roadmap for Skate, but the promising addition of a new map area has been buried in yet more monetization mud. Skate has not only broken its promise of not putting map areas behind a paywall, it's also simultaneously injected a new strain of poison into the economy in the form of rentable areas.Season 3 of Skate, per EA's blog post, will introduce the Isle of Grom, an expanded area that essentially adds new attractions and environments to the classic tutorial zone.
  
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• Trails boss tells players intimidated by nearly 1,000 hours of JRPG catch-up to "just start with whichever title catches your interest," which is true if you're also willing to start One Piece at episode 1,155

  20-02-2026 18:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Trails series has been running for decades, and over the course of 13 meaty JRPGs newcomers are now looking at an investment of around 1,000 hours to see the full story. Toshihiro Kondo, Trails producer and president of developer Nihon Falcom, believes players can start pretty much wherever they want, which I guess is technically true if, say, you're also willing to start One Piece when the series is 1,155 episodes deep.Where to start with Trails is "one of the top five questions I get asked
  
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• It took 25 years for Diablo 2 to get a new class, and less than 2 weeks for players to figure out how to become invincible Warlocks with demon meat shields

  20-02-2026 18:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  To mark the 30th anniversary of the series, and 35th anniversary of the company, Blizzard's put out a new expansion for Diablo 2, called Reign of the Warlock. The central feature is a fresh character class - the first in 25 years - the Warlock, who deals in summoning magic, and a huge exploit using it has been uncovered.Among the Warlock's characteristics are a pair of skills, Bind Demon and Blood Oath, that prove to be pretty useful when combined. Like 'making you more or less untouchable' leve
  
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