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• Growing Southern California Wildfires Force 200,000 People To Evacuate

  07-12-2017 20:14 via yahoo.com
  Roughly 200,000 people have been forced to flee Southern California’s wildfires that as of Thursday have scorched more than 181 miles (or 116,100 acres) and destroyed more than 100 homes as intensifying winds prompted an unprecedented warning level of purple.
  
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• The 5 best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Disney Plus, Prime Video, and more (August 28-30)

  27-08-2026 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Searching for something to stream this weekend? There's nothing worse than mindlessly scrolling through the likes of Netflix, Disney Plus, and Prime Video and seeing your free time melt away as you decide what to watch. There's so much choice, and so few hours in the day.That's where we come in. At GamesRadar+, we curate a new selection of fresh streaming delights every single week, just for you. Forget your tired old watchlist: these are the latest and greatest movies and shows coming to stream
  
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• Cyberleek's GTA 6 leak flood looks to have ended in the most unsurprising way possible: a $250,000 crypto grift

  27-08-2026 18:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  GTA 6 leaker Cyberleek looks to have retreated after squeezing $250,000 out of the crypto market using unofficial clips of Rockstar's game. Per Kotaku, GTA Forum sleuth Vice Cit has been investigating Cyberleek's crypto activity and recently reported that the leaker transferred about $250,000 into different separate wallets across four transactions on August 27."This isn't the 2022 leak, this has been planned out and executed very intentionally to maximize the money they'll make from this," Vice
  
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• It's a good thing GTA 6 isn't on PC yet, says Helldivers 2 boss: "It means Helldivers 2 gets to keep crushing it in our own space"

  27-08-2026 18:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  The collective industry is bracing itself for the launch of GTA 6 in November. It's going to be tectonic, and soak up a lot of people's attention for some time afterward. Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Studios is remarkably calm about Rockstar's oncoming storm, mostly because of the crime sandbox's staggered rollout."Rockstar makes ridiculous, high-effort stuff and it's awesome that games like this get made," Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani says in a statement. "On a selfish level I'm happy it&rsq
  
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• GameStop wants you to "trade in gaming history" for new games, and I need you to tell them no

  27-08-2026 18:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  GameStop has been bartering with trade-ins for decades, and its program allows you to even swap your retro consoles for in-store credit. That's how it keeps itself stocked with old systems on its website that normally cost a chunk above second-hand listings, but whenever you see an in-store sign prompting you to "trade in gaming history", I need you to stop. I should note that I live in Scotland, so my retro console collection is out of GameStop's reach. However, Bluesky User GWIZ shares a photo
  
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• Nobody was more surprised by The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past than Geralt and Dandelion's actors: "They announced the expansion pack before we knew what we were doing"

  27-08-2026 18:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  A couple of days ago, Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026 provided us with our first-ever look at both The Witcher 3 Remastered and CD Projekt Red's new expansion for the RPG, Songs of the Past – an expansion the voice actors didn't even know was happening.Well, not at first, anyway. Geralt actor Doug Cockle and voice of Dandelion John Schwab reveal as much in a new live stream with CD Projekt Red, explaining that they had no idea why the studio wanted them back in for more lines.
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• Oh no, you can doomscroll in GTA 6

  27-08-2026 18:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Among the waves of new features being announced for GTA 6 is possibly the worst thing to come out of the world in the last decade: doomscrolling on social media.Plenty of new information has come out about GTA 6 over the last few days, and from more official sources than Cyberleek. It's been confirmed that you can get ripped or chubby in GTA 6 depending on your actions, and the upcoming entry will reportedly have a consequences system deeper than Red Dead Redemption 2's. This is all before the N
  
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• Rockstar is "at least 10 years ahead" of other games with GTA 6's NPC crowd technology, says dev behind 007: First Light's incredible crowds

  27-08-2026 18:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  GTA 6: An Extended Look debuts in a few hours still, but a developer who worked on 007: First Light's incredible crowds says Rockstar Games' NPC tech is already miles ahead of the competition based on the huge leaks we've been privy to so far.The hacker known online as Cyberleek has been sharing early looks at the open-world game for a couple of weeks now, and some of those videos have given fans a peek at GTA 6's bustling crowds enjoying themselves at the beach or at the strip club, say. But th
  
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• New Tides of Annihilation lead "deeply honored" to take over from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Jennifer English, who was "generous, kind, and supportive throughout this whole journey"

  27-08-2026 18:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Resident Evil Requiem star Angela Sant'Albano has commented on the announcement that she has replaced Jennifer English in the upcoming Tides of Annihilation.In an Instagram reel, Sant'Albano says, "I am so incredibly excited and deeply, deeply honored to finally officially announce that I will be stepping into the role of Gwendolyn in Tides of Annihilation." While many had figured out the Resident Evil Requiem star had taken over after Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 star Jennife
  
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• Halo co-creator praises Witcher 3 Songs of the Past, wonders "what it would have been like if we’d kept building on Halo 3 with ODST-like expansions"

  27-08-2026 18:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former Halo series lead and Halo 3 ODST creative director Joseph Staten has praised The Witcher 3's new expansion, reflecting on what the team could've done with more expansions for Halo games. Over on Twitter, Staten posted the Songs of the Past trailer, saying that it's "super inspiring to see CD Projekt Red deliver new Witcher 3 adventures," with the next expansion set to release 12 years after The Witcher 3 first released in 2015. He adds, "I often think about what it would have been like if
  
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• Street Fighter's Chun-Li actor ate 12 eggs a day, grew her thighs "6.5cm each," and studied every game in slow-mo to play the iconic, high-kicking fighter

  27-08-2026 18:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  Street Fighter movie actor Callina Liang has detailed the impressive preparation she put in to play iconic character Chun-Li in the upcoming video game adaptation."I downloaded every single version of Street Fighter onto a PS5 and I recorded all of Chun-Li's moves during fights on my phone in slow-mo, so I could play them back and study them," Liang told Empire magazine.But it wasn't just presumably memorizing her most hard-hitting moves that set Liang on the way to playing Chun-Li (anyway, we'd
  
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• Fable 4 is missing "a whole myriad of combat system basics," says head of Ori studio, who offers Playground Games a call "to point you in the right direction"

  27-08-2026 18:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  The combat in the upcoming Fable is causing the wrong kind of stir - oh dear. The CEO of Moon Studios has thrown in his two cents, and let's just say he's not a fan of what Playground Games is up to.Gamescom 2026 has brought a wealth of new insights into the new Fable, since it's playable at the show. Among these has been deeper looks at what fighting will be like, and sadly, clips are being torn apart on social media.A post involving a stand-off against a gang leader started gaining some tracti
  
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• GTA 6 extended look live coverage – All the news as it happens from Netflix's deep dive stream

  27-08-2026 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  GTA 6 is closer than it has ever been as its tantalizing November 19 release date approaches, but we've still not seen that much about how Grand Theft Auto 6 is going to actually play. Trailers so far have established a mood and tone well so far, but it's GTA 6 Trailer 3, airing in mere hours, that we're expecting to finally reveal more about what our time in Leonida and Vice City will entail this time around. For everything else, our GTA 6 guide details everything already announced.As our Count
  
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• OneXPlayer adds another pricey handheld to the Arc G3 pile, and this one is $2,000

  27-08-2026 17:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  OneXPlayer just unleashed another Arc G3 Extreme handheld onto the battlefield, and shock, horror! It's two grand. You'll actually end up paying more for this new premium portable without the usual "early bird" discount, but even with that applied, it's another gadget most players probably can't afford. I have no doubts that the 8.8-inch OneXPlayer X2 Mini will serve as one of the best gaming handhelds out there. At least, that should be the case in terms of raw performance, as that Intel Arc G3
  
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• GTA 6: An Extended Look will be 26 minutes long and features gameplay captured on a PS5

  27-08-2026 17:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  After more than a week of nonstop leaks, we're finally getting our first, real official look at GTA 6 gameplay later today. GTA 6: An Extended Look will soon debut on Netflix, and ahead of the broadcast, the streaming giant has revealed both the runtime and a few details about its content.The Netflix page for the GTA 6 debut was recently updated to confirm that the event is 26 minutes long. "Captured entirely from in-game footage on PlayStation 5, this extended look at the next Grand Theft Auto
  
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• Persona 4 Revival is a faithful JRPG remake because the original's only gotten more relevant: "We live in an age where information is everywhere"

  27-08-2026 17:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Persona 4 Revival is sticking pretty closely to the original game because producer Kazuhisha Wada believes the classic has only gotten more relevant in the 18 years since one of the best RPGs first came out. Speaking to the official Xbox Podcast, series producer Kazuhisha Wada tried to clarify comments he previously made about wanting Persona to feel a little bit like poison. He says he "wasn't referring to shock value or provocative content" with those comments - he simply wanted to leave folks
  
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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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• 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 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
  
  Menu(Image credit: Future)1. US pre-orders2. UK pre-orders3. Live updatesThe 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
  
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• Xbox Series X25 Special Edition pre-orders are live, here's where to grab the console and controller

  27-08-2026 16:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  Menu(Image credit: Future)1. US pre-orders2. UK pre-orders3. Live updatesThe 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
  
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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Tides of Annihilation devs are "continuously monitoring new developments" in AI technology, but will be using the techniques they "are the best at" in development instead

  27-08-2026 13:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  The team at Eclipse Glow Games, the studio behind the upcoming single-player fantasy adventure Tides of Annihilation, says that devs are using "traditional methods" to make the game, based on the developers' years of experience in the industry. While they claim to be "paying attention" to AI technology, they say they want to use the techniques they have the "most expertise in."In an interview with Game*Spark that's been translated by GamesRadar+, Eclipse Glow Games describes the studio's philoso
  
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• Speedrunner turns one of Metal Gear Solid 4's biggest bosses into a total pushover using the power of Master Collection Vol 2's enhanced framerate

  27-08-2026 13:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Metal Gear Speedrunner has discovered that the higher framerate in Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol 2 has made one of the series ' most iconic boss fights a cakewalk. Sure, it's almost 20 years old, but Metal Gear Solid 4 spoilers ahead for anyone about to experience it for the first time through the Master Collection. Metal Gear Solid 4 may be a bit messy, but there's one thing it nails: nostalgia and fan service – before nostalgia bait became all the rage. Returning to Shadow Mos
  
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