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• Kurdish official asks for US clarifications over withdrawal

  07-01-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's Kurds are awaiting clarifications from the U.S. over America's plans to pull out its troops from Syria following comments made by a top White House aide that appeared to counter earlier comments by President Donald Trump, a Syrian Kurdish official said Monday.
  
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• "Great job Microsoft": Former id Software artist says the legendary dev has been "relegated to support studio size" after Xbox's strategy of "nuking a team into the dirt"

  09-07-2026 16:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  id Software's massive layoffs have turned the iconic FPS developers into effectively a support studio, according to a developer affected by the job cuts.Despite the word that Xbox is apparently pushing Bethesda to work on tentpole franchises like Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein – as well as to get the likes of The Elder Scrolls 6 and Fallout 5 out sooner, which has apparently resulted in Obsidian canceling an Avowed sequel to work on a Fallout game – Microsoft has decided to absolutely d
  
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• I'm starting to lose track of Arc Raiders dupes at this point, but Embark says it just fixed another one

  09-07-2026 16:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arc Raiders continues to struggle with dupes dumping items into the economy, with developer Embark now patching what must be a double-digit duplication exploit. In a fresh post on the official Arc Raiders Discord server, community lead Ossen confirms, "We have just pushed a hotfix on all platforms to mitigate a duplication issue as well as the UI bug in the Expedition screen that showed Skill Points instead of Mystery Rewards for players on their fourth Expedition.""As we stated before regarding
  
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• Helldivers 2 targets Super Credit cheaters with "radically improved" tools, but not everyone's on board with Arrowhead's announcement

  09-07-2026 16:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arrowhead Game Studios is cracking down on Helldivers 2 players who use cheats to get rich quick and farm Super Credits illegitimately, but the developer's announcement doesn't have everyone on their side of the galactic war table."You've told us that cheaters and exploiters ruin the experience that it feels unfair when someone games the Super Credit system while you're out there earning yours the hard way," the developer writes in a recent transmission posted to the game's Discord channel."We h
  
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• Turns out you can strap the Game Boy Camera to a massive telescope and take photos of Jupiter

  09-07-2026 16:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  I'm well used to seeing the Game Boy camera used in all sorts of kitschy, weird ways. I even brought mine to my family's Christmas get-together, and let me tell you, no one is recognizable in the snaps. So, upon hearing that someone managed to strap the old Nintendo handheld and accessory combo to a telescope and to take a photo of Jupiter from millions of miles away, it's safe to say I was baffled that it worked.In an email to Time Extension, director, musician, and video game enthusiast Chris
  
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• Blizzard is already patching Diablo 4 Season 14 after players proved Mythics got screwed up, update coming next week will address complaints

  09-07-2026 16:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's supposed to be difficult to get a mythic drop in Diablo 4, but the latest season, Death Awakening, accidentally made it practically impossible. The Iconic Mythics are a unique treasure for experienced players, but after anecdotal research showed the drop rates are ludicrously low, Blizzard's doing some fine-tuning.A patch is on the way that's going to respond to criticisms over season 14, according to information from the Diablo Partner Program. Specific details aren't given, but we can gue
  
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• Epic new Godzilla Minus Zero trailer sees mankind resort to extreme measures to win against the kaiju

  09-07-2026 16:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new trailer for the much-anticipated follow-up to Godzilla Minus One has arrived and it promises an epic return to the kaiju's world. Godzilla Minus Zero picks up in 1949, two years on from the events of the first movie as we reunite with the Shikishima family as they face a new disaster.The first trailer was released earlier this year and saw the kaiju descend on New York City. The latest teaser builds on this, beginning with the confirmation of the time jump."I speculate Godzilla can withsta
  
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• Alienware is celebrating its 30th anniversary with three new monitors

  09-07-2026 15:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Three new Alienware gaming monitors have landed in line with the brand's 30th anniversary following their announcement at Computex 2026. Now available globally, the AW3426DW, AW3426DWM, and AW3226DM take to the stage, but the former frontrunner feels like a bigger deal thanks to its Samsung Penta Tandem RGB panel tech.The Alienware AW3426DW is the curved gaming monitor here that's likely to grab the attention of players looking for something "new". The model is armed with a curved 800R QD-OLED P
  
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• MTG Hobbit reignites the "no pumpkins allowed in Middle-earth" debate, and yes, it's as wild as it sounds

  09-07-2026 14:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  We're just a month or so away from the release of MTG The Hobbit, but those tricksy halflings are up to mischief already – the community has cottoned on to there being pumpkins in Magic's version of the Shire, and it's reignited a debate that's sent me down one hell of a rabbit hole.As often happens with new sets for the best card games, MTG The Hobbit features specially themed cards… including seasonal basic lands that follow a hobbit hole through the year from Spring to snowy Wint
  
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• Razer's Hammerhead V3 X Hyperspeed earbuds are receiving Xbox and PlayStation models, but PS5 players don't have to wait

  09-07-2026 14:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  So long as the current gaming climate hasn't made you throw out your consoles in a fit of rage, you can soon grab a pair of Razer's Hammerhead V3 X Hyperspeed earphones for both your Xbox Series X/S and the PS5.Razer unveiled on July 9, 2026, that both an Xbox and a PS5 model of the best gaming earbud contenders were incoming, sporting bespoke Xbox and Sony branding. Of course, these new earphones aren't just about showcasing the brand's synonymous logos and black and white color palettes, as th
  
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• The best Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced merch to sail the high seas in style

  09-07-2026 14:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  123Shop the collectionShop the collection1GameStopEdward Hidden Blade 1:1 Scale Replica$99.992GameStopEdward Kenway 1/8 scale PVC statue$119.993AmazonThe Art of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced$46.60$50Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is sailing into harbour, which means a bounty of goodies and gadgets to game with. Art books, replicas, wallets, there are even Assassin's Creed slippers to get cosy with while you sail the high seas. PureArts, Titan Books, and Ubisoft's own kit is all roll
  
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• GTA 6 faces potential $35 million fine if Rockstar doesn't comply with online safety laws that mean Australians would need ID to play

  09-07-2026 14:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  As GTA 6 grows nearer and nearer, eager folks can't help but be excited to dive into Rockstar Games' long-awaited new Grand Theft Auto entry – but some fans may have to face regional restrictions before proceeding through the game's golden gates.Australian fans, that is, to be more specific – and it's all thanks to the country's online safety laws, which require age verification from people before they can access content rated for adults.
  As per News.com.au, much to nobody's surprise
  
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• Playing Palworld 1.0 with mods can "cause issues," Pocketpair warns, so it's recommended you uninstall each one before updating the survival game

  09-07-2026 14:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Playing Palworld 1.0 on a modded save file might accidentally break a few things, so developer Pocketpair is telling everyone to uninstall all mods ahead of the survival game's update. You've been warned.After more than two whole years and over 40 million players, Palworld is officially leaving early access tomorrow - that's July 10, if you're deprived of a calendar - and the full game's changes sound absolutely sweeping. Communications lead John 'Bucky' Buckley recently shared that Palworld's 1
  
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• Persona 4 Revival seemingly features more scenes with Marie, fuelling hopes she'll be integrated better than in Golden: "If they do that, the remake will have fulfilled its purpose"

  09-07-2026 13:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  New Persona 4 Revival footage has shown a new scene with Marie, leading to hopes that she'll be integrated better into the story than she was in Persona 4 Golden. It's a trend in Persona games that when the updated version of it comes out, there's a new character integrated into the story who becomes a vital part of the new content – and by a trend, I mean it's happened twice. Persona 4 Golden introduced Marie to the story, a Velvet Room attendant who is a bit abrasive before opening up to
  
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• Despite rumor that Patrick Stewart will retire after Avengers: Doomsday, the X-Men star says he'll "always and forever be an actor"

  09-07-2026 13:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Patrick Stewart isn't planning on retiring from acting any time soon. A rumor hit the internet that Stewart would be retiring from acting after his role in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday, but, luckily, in a recent interview, the actor spoke about where he saw his career going next. "As any actor my age will tell you, there are fewer and fewer available roles as we get older," Stewart told TV Insider, when asked about retirement. "That being said, I still continue to receive interesting offers a
  
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• Palworld 1.0 patch notes are so large at over 10,000 words they almost didn't fit on Steam, but Pocketpair managed to fix them "without making any compromise"

  09-07-2026 13:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's a big day tomorrow, July 10, because Palworld 1.0 finally arrives, kicking off a new era for the monster-collecting survival game. All sorts of preparations are going on at developer Pocketpair, including getting the patch notes ready, which has proven more troublesome than normal due to how long they are.So long, in fact, that they reached – and surpassed – Steam's character limit on update posts. John 'Bucky' Buckley, the head of publishing and communications at Pocketpair, pu
  
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• Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced reportedly has a bug that can wipe hours of playtime, but Ubisoft is working on a fix

  09-07-2026 13:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Be warned, fellow landlubbers and prospective high seas plunderers, legend says a curse comes buried with the treasure known as Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resycned - in the form of a bug that might wipe a few hours from your save file, that is.Ubisoft's remade and revamped open-world adventure is rolling out on PC and consoles today, meaning plenty of game reviewers have been poking around its oceans for a while now, but one noted journalist caught a pesky bug that apparently snuck onboard the
  
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• FiiO just launched the FG3, the brand's first-ever gaming headset that only costs $70

  09-07-2026 12:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  FiiO is a name I typically associate with MP3 and cassette players that my retro-tech-loving heart can't get enough of, but the brand is known far and wide amongst audiophiles and tech nerds for its headphone amplifiers, DACs, and more. Now the brand is taking its audio know-how to the world of headsets, with the launch of the FiiO FG3.Unlike the best gaming headset brands that have plenty of cups in their arsenal, the FG3 is a first for FiiO, and the brand chose to power it using a coaxial driv
  
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• Pitches for a co-op Doom, a new Perfect Dark, and a John Wick-inspired cyberpunk game were cooking at id Software before Microsoft layoffs reportedly led to 136 job cuts

  09-07-2026 12:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  Doom developer id Software was reportedly pitching various projects before a majority of the studio was laid off, including a new Perfect Dark, a John Wick-inspired game, and a multiplayer Doom game. As reported by GamesBeat – which has interviewed now-former employees about the massive layoffs at id Software that have reportedly seen 136 of its 185 developers laid off by Xbox – after finishing Doom: The Dark Ages' Revelations DLC, the studio wasn't working on a major project, and wa
  
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• Lenovo just nuked its retro handheld that sellers packed with illegal ROMs, but unbranded versions are still haunting AliExpress

  09-07-2026 12:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pour one out for the Lenovo G02, as the controversial retro handheld is now dead and buried. By that, I mean there should be no signs of the device on Chinese marketplaces like AliExpress and Alibaba, but if you look hard enough, you'll see it lurking in the shadows.Lenovo caused quite the stir with its scrappy retro handheld back in May. Not only did many think it was a "fake" portable wearing the brand's well-known tech branding to dupe players with a faux sense of quality, but Retro Dodo late
  
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• The DCU project I still can't believe is happening might have cast its lead

  09-07-2026 12:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  The DCU's weirdest project might have cast its lead, and, to be honest, I still can't believe this is happening.The TV show will focus on Jimmy Olsen, Superman's pal played by Skyler Gisondo, and also, for some reason, supervillain Gorilla Grodd. According to Deadline, Scream 7's Jimmy Tatro is in talks to play the ape, whom DC describes as "a hyper-intelligent telepathic ape who has sought to rule both the simian and human worlds, though the Flash has frequently thwarted his plans."If you're wo
  
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• Another Fallout RPG was in development at Obsidian Entertainment before Bethesda pulled the plug "a while ago," ex-studio lead says

  09-07-2026 11:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Obsidian Entertainment is reportedly early in development on another Fallout game, but it's apparently not the first time the studio has tried to jump back into the radioactive wasteland since making Fallout: New Vegas. According to Obsidian co-founder and former developer Chris Avellone, the studio had been working on the idea some time ago until Bethesda got involved.Amidst all the turmoil in Xbox's suite of developers, Obsidian has seemingly also been affected by layoffs and project restructu
  
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• Former Marathon and Destiny 2 lead "pleased to share" outcome of his $200 million lawsuit against Bungie and Sony is "one I am very satisfied with"

  09-07-2026 11:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former Marathon and Destiny 2 director Christopher Barrett has reached an agreement with both Bungie and Sony following his $200 million lawsuit against the companies.As per his LinkedIn, Barrett spent over two decades at Bungie, starting his career there as an art director back in 1999. Most recently (for well over 10 years, mind you), the developer was a game director leading projects like Marathon and the now-dying Destiny 2. He left Bungie unexpectedly in the spring of 2024 – and that'
  
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• Dune 3 star Timothée Chalamet says filming the final movie felt like "losing a part" of himself

  09-07-2026 10:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new trailer has arrived for Dune 3 and alongside it Timothée Chalamet and Denis Villeneuve sat down for a fan Q&A. During the conversation, Paul Atreides star Chalamet reflected on his experience filming the trilogy and how it feels to be letting it go. "This was the most emotive, on a personal level," Chalamet said of the upcoming third film, per Gold Derby. "Not necessarily the character, but I've been living with this for so long. I'm so proud to live with it. I'm so proud to wor
  
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• Diablo 4 streamer spends "20 hours non-stop" farming bosses for the ARPG's rarest items, doesn't get a single one: "Don't try this at home"

  09-07-2026 02:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Diablo 4's new season, Death Awakening, kicked off on June 30 with some highly anticipated adjustments to the game's rarest loot, now called "Iconic" Mythics. The TLDR is that Mythic Uniques now come with two guaranteed powers that synergize with the item's unique abilities, replacing the completely random rolls that garnered so much controversy in the PTR, but even if Blizzard's compromise with players completely restored the community's goodwill (it didn't), it seems there's a whole new pain p
  
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• Xbox just laid off a core Bethesda artist who worked on Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind, Fallout 3, and Fallout 4 – 27-year veteran Christiane Meister

  08-07-2026 23:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  The fallout from the bloodbath that is this week's unprecedented cuts to Microsoft's gaming division, which saw 1,600 Xbox employees lose their jobs immediately and will ultimately result in 3,200 cut jobs before the end of fiscal year 2027, continues with another high-profile departure. We're now learning that 27-year Bethesda veteran and lead character artist Christiane Meister, who worked on the Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, Fallout 3,
  
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• Mortal Shell 2 is suddenly one of my most-anticipated Soulslikes and it's out next month

  08-07-2026 22:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Follow-up Soulslike Mortal Shell 2 is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC on August 20, and I'm encouraged by the variety of disgusting bosses shown off in its new trailer. Developer Cold Symmetry released a new trailer locking in the date and showing off the sequel's upgraded, grisly combat. Like the original game, Mortal Shell 2 is a third-person action RPG where you melee, parry, and now shotgun your way through hordes of Gothic enemies that are equal parts gross and majestic. As you explore
  
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• Mortal Kombat 2 director says one of the sequel's most shocking deaths was "actually quite moving" to film: "We were all kind of like, 'Oh, s***. What have we done?'"

  08-07-2026 21:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mortal Kombat 2 director Simon McQuoid says the sequel's multiple deaths were vital to the film (and franchise as a whole), and names one as particularly moving.Warning: major spoilers for Mortal Kombat 2 below!"We felt with a title like Mortal Kombat and where death is such an important part of the makeup of it, that we wanted people to feel that and to feel the loss of the character, whatever character it was and however they died or exited," McQuoid tells GamesRadar+. "It needed to literally
  
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• Fallout and Elder Scrolls union says Bethesda layoffs didn't hurt Microsoft's "14 layers of management" – "We lost dozens of programmers, artists, designers and testers"

  08-07-2026 21:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  While Microsoft's seemingly unending spree of Xbox layoffs has often swept right over core tentpole studios like Fallout and Elder Scrolls maker Bethesda Game Studios, this week's historic downsizing was different. Among 3,200 cut jobs – 1,600 of which were eliminated immediately – Elder Scrolls Online studio ZeniMax Online, Avowed and Pentiment developer Obsidian, and Doom studio id Software were all impacted by significant cuts. Perhaps most surprisingly, even Bethesda Game Studios
  
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• New Dune 3 trailer sees Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya at war in the epic conclusion to Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi trilogy

  08-07-2026 20:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ahead of its release later this year, a new trailer has been released for Dune 3. The latest look sees Timothée Chalamet's Paul Atreides at war with Zendaya's Chani in the brutal return to a much-changed Arrakis.In the brief clip, which can be viewed above, Chani confronts Paul for taking power after he promised her that he never would, and his shaved head and eerie new demeanor signify a major change to our once-hero. Now, the rest of the universe is ready to go to war with Paul in order
  
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