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• Rosenstein defends Mueller

  13-12-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  Taking questuons from Congress, Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein defends Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
  
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• Oscars 2026 nominations list in full – Sinners leads with 16 nods, making it the most-nominated movie of all time

  22-01-2026 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Oscars 2026 nominations are officially here, and this year Sinners is leading the charge with a whopping 16 nominations. Ryan Coogler's horror flick isn't just the most-nominated movie this year, either – it's broken the record for the most-nominated film at the Academy Awards of all time. Not bad going.Other movies making waves include One Battle After Another, with 13 nominations, Frankenstein and Sentimental Value with nine nods apiece, and Hamnet with eight. 2026 is also the first
  
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• How to watch the Xbox Developer Direct – including the first look at Fable and Forza Horizon 6 gameplay

  22-01-2026 13:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Xbox is showing off Fable, Forza Horizon 6, and more at the Xbox Developer Direct later today. We've got you covered with when, where, and how to watch it live.Earlier this month, Xbox confirmed that its now seemingly annual January Developer Direct would be returning for 2026. This time around, we'll be treated to the first deep dive into Fable and Forza Horizon 6 from Playground Games, and a look at gameplay for Pokemon developer Game Freak's new action RPG, Beast of Reincarnation, which was a
  
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• "We kept waiting for another Risk of Rain 2. It never came:" New roguelike hits Steam with 2-8 player co-op, a roadmap locked and loaded, and tons of internet humor

  22-01-2026 13:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  Risk of Rain 2's unique mix of third-person co-op action and a cyclical roguelike structure hasn't really been matched or even challenged all that much in the years since its launch, so one indie team is having a go with its newly-released fantasy twist."We kept waiting for another Risk of Rain 2. It never came. So we quit AAA and made LORT," developer Big Distraction wrote on social media to celebrate the early access release of LORT, a game that looks very much like Gearbox Software's roguelik
  
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• Pokemon Legends: Z-A update 2.0.1 is "one of the greatest and most important so far," fans say, with major quality-of-life improvements and a fix for one of the DLC's biggest annoyances

  22-01-2026 13:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pokemon Legends: Z-A just got a new update that fans are calling "one of the greatest and most important so far" thanks to its quality-of-life changes and bug fixes.Version 2.0.1 of Pokemon Legends: Z-A is out now, introducing tweaks and improvements to both the base game and its Mega Dimension DLC. As far as the base RPG goes, it's now possible to buy berries in bulk. Revealed in the patch notes, "you can now purchase multiple Berries at once" from food stalls (they'll also be available to buy
  
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• Nvidia's N1 and N1X gaming laptops could be imminent, here's what that means for your next rig

  22-01-2026 13:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rumors of Nvidia's new Arm-based processors have been swirling around the web for years now, but a new report from DigiTimes suggests the debut of these gaming laptop SoCs could be just around the corner.Suggested to land inside a currently unnamed Dell machine, Nvidia N1 and N1X machines would seek to compete with the best gaming laptops from an efficiency perspective, while still offering solid discrete graphics power.The DigiTimes Taiwan report states that "the Windows on Arm (WoA) platform N
  
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• Invincible season 4 first look teases terrifying new villains and another Walking Dead cast member

  22-01-2026 13:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Thought Omni-Man was bad news? Think again. The first batch of Invincible season 4 images have arrived, and they provide a terrifying glimpse at Mark's painful future.Amazon unveiled the first look, which you can see below, with a mix of newcomers and old faces. They include Atom Eve (Gillian Jacobs) going up against fresh villain Universa (Danai Gurira). That's also notable for Gurira being the latest Walking Dead alumnus to join Robert Kirkman's superhero series.There's also Mark (Steven Yeun)
  
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• Chris Pratt's new AI thriller debuts to one of the Marvel star's lowest Rotten Tomatoes scores in over 10 years

  22-01-2026 13:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel star Chris Pratt and Dune star Rebecca Ferguson's new AI thriller Mercy has debuted to less than impressive reviews just days before its release.Set in the near future, Mercy follows Pratt's detective, who stands on trial for the murder of his wife and is given just 90 minutes to prove his innocence to an AI judge, played by Ferguson. Despite the dangers of AI being a hot topic right now, critics are saying that Mercy fails to offer up a new, more timely take on the subject – and in
  
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• It: Welcome to Derry season 2 is "now in the works", even though HBO still hasn't officially renewed the horror prequel

  22-01-2026 12:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Good news, kiddos! It: Welcome to Derry season 2 is "in the works", despite HBO not having officially greenlit the horror prequel's return.At the same time The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Birds of Prey's Christina Hodson has been tapped to write the DCU's Batman: The Brave and the Bold, the publication stated outright that director Andy Muschietti was working on the sophomore chapter of the horror prequel.The filmmaker has spoken openly about his plans for the TV show, which focuses on the
  
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• Palworld lead shoots his shot, tells Fortnite dev to "reach out" if Epic ever wants to collab after producer says he'd "love" to see something similar to Pocketpair's game in the battle royale

  22-01-2026 12:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pocketpair's head of publishing and communications, John 'Bucky' Buckley, is shooting his shot to get a potential Fortnite crossover in motion.Fortnite has crossed over with everything at this point, it feels like. South Park and SpongeBob SquarePants arrived in the game recently, and the rumor mill is saying the likes of Ed, Edd, n Eddy, The Office, and Regular Show are on the way. Basically, nothing seems to be off limits, even if it does not fit the vibes at all. And naturally, getting someth
  
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• Hytale Update 2 lets you summon gangs of skeletons and provides more modding tools to the Minecraft-inspired RPG - and yes, magic is coming: "We will have a proper mana and spell system in the future"

  22-01-2026 12:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  It seems almost surreal to be writing this, but Hytale's second post-launch update is on the way. The embattled Minecraft-inspired RPG is finally in early access, and developer Hypixel is hitting the ground running with fixes, tweaks, and additions, this time giving you the power to summon a gang of skeletons as well as making life easier for modders.Simon Collins-Laflamme, director of Hytale and Hypixel founder, shared the patch notes on Twitter. "New magic! Necromancy grimoire! Drops from Skel
  
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• Return to Silent Hill is an early contender for 2026's worst movie – with a 6% Rotten Tomatoes score

  22-01-2026 12:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Return to Silent Hill has sent us back to the bad old days of video game movies with an unspeakably low Rotten Tomatoes score.As of writing, the horror – which adapts the story of Konami's seminal Silent Hill 2 – is sitting at 6% on the reviews aggregator.Our own Return to Silent Hill review was similarly unkind to the adaptation. Our reviewer wrote, "Return to Silent Hill's nonsensical story strips its 2001 source material of all moral and emotional complexity, leaving only elementa
  
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• One Battle After Another and Sinners are feeling confident ahead of Oscar nominations, as both movies set re-releases for this weekend

  22-01-2026 12:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  One Battle After Another and Sinners are both set to be re-released this weekend, suggesting that Warner Bros. is feeling pretty confident that both titles will fare well in this year's Oscar nominations.Both movies are favorites for the Best Picture category and Paul Thomas Anderson and Ryan Coogler are also expected to receive nods in the Best Director category when nominations are announced later today (January 22).Elsewhere this awards season, One Battle After Another was the most-nominated
  
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• Helldivers 2 update adds stealth missions along with changes to suppressed weapons so you can "bang bang less," and Arrowhead is finally "ready to make the slim PC build default for all"

  22-01-2026 12:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  Helldivers 2's latest update is here, and as well as "deploying some important updates to suppressed weapons" to make Super Earth's finest soldiers stealthier than ever, Arrowhead is finally ready to make the slimmed-down PC build of the game the default, to the relief of folks with full storage space everywhere.Helldivers 2 Into the Unjust version 5.0.2 is rolling out now, and its main focus is making folks "bang bang less" – the technical term for being stealthy. Because "democracy doesn
  
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• Amazon crowns Fallout season 2 as the sixth most popular season on Prime Video of all time, but won't reveal viewership data just yet

  22-01-2026 11:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Fallout's change in release strategy doesn't seem to be affecting the video game adaptation, as Prime Video says that its second season marks one of the most successful returns to the platform.As reported by Deadline, Amazon said Fallout season 2 is the sixth most popular season of all time, making the Fallout TV show as a whole the third best returning series on Prime Video. The most popular returning series on the platform is The Lord of the Rings prequel The Rings of Power, followed by Reache
  
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• New Mario Kart World update finally adds team races to the Switch 2 game's Knockout Tour mode

  22-01-2026 11:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo continues to slowly update its big Switch 2 launch game, this time with an update adding team races to Mario Kart World's most chaotic mode.The 1.5.0 update drifted into the kart racer earlier today, and the headlining feature is that Nintendo "added team races to Knockout Tour when playing in a room during 'Online Play' and 'Wireless Play.'"The rules remain largely the same as team races in other Mario Kart World modes, with team members adding to a shared score based on their placemen
  
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• Streamer Ninja says 99% of Arc Raiders players "aren't even coming close to running into a fraction of the amount of cheaters" he is, which is why his complaints are "falling on deaf ears"

  22-01-2026 02:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ninja, one of the most popular video game streamers ever, says his Arc Raiders runs are plagued by an overwhelming amount of cheaters that normal players don't have to deal with, and he figures that because of that, his complaints aren't being heard."Unfortunately, 99% of the people that are playing this game are not even coming close to running into a fraction of the amount of cheaters that we are, so it's falling on deaf ears a lot," Ninja said on a recent stream (via Arc Raiders Alerts). "The
  
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• New Dune: Awakening patch finally lets you change servers without starting a new character

  22-01-2026 01:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  With the drop of a new patch, Funcom has finally given Dune: Awakening players a feature they've been asking for for months: character transfers.The new feature is the big highlight of the new 1.2.40.0 update, with Funcom saying in the patch notes: "you can now transfer your character, inventory, backed-up bases and vehicles, and bank contents (including your Solari) to a new Sietch and World."Dune: Awakening came out in June 2025, and it wasn't long before people started to look for ways to mov
  
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• DC's new Batman movie The Brave and the Bold finally has its writer, reuniting the team that brought us box office bomb The Flash

  22-01-2026 00:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  DC's new Batman movie The Brave and the Bold has been long in gestation, with updates few and far between. But the film is reportedly taking a big step forward by bringing in a new writer, enlisting Christina Hodson - best known to DC fans as the writer of 2023's The Flash.The news comes via THR, though DC has yet to officially comment. DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn has made no bones about wanting fully finished, exciting scripts for all DC Universe projects before moving forward, with recent com
  
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• Sorry, why did nobody tell me that 'Fallout but trucking' exists and is about to come to consoles after a year of 88% positive reviews on Steam?

  21-01-2026 23:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  A survival business sim where you're a truck driver wandering Fallout-style post-apocalyptic wastes is the kind of thing that's laser-targeted to my particular interests – which is why I'm so disappointed that nobody told me that Dustland Delivery exists. This is exactly the sort of game I like to post sickos memes about, and I'm only coming to learn of it now, well after its original launch in 2024.Dustland Delivery is primarily a business sim, where you turn a truck into a mobile operati
  
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• Arc Raiders devs have discussed special raids like high-value rounds where you have to bring in good gear, but "don't want to segment the player base too much"

  21-01-2026 23:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  In player discussions of free loadouts in Arc Raiders, which are treated as an essential mechanic by some people and the devil incarnate by others, two solutions to this perceived scourge are often proposed. Developer Embark could guarantee that players using free loadouts spawn late into active raids, or the devs could offer exclusive raids with a minimum gear value to weed out the dreaded frees. I discussed the feedback on late spawns in Arc Raiders with design lead Virgil Watkins, and I also
  
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• Hytale mithril doesn't exist yet, but thanks to "suggestions in DMs" endgame mining is going to get "a bit more interesting"

  21-01-2026 22:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hytale currently hints at endgame gear that you need to craft via mithril, but there's no way to actually get the ore in-game – aside from cheating and popping into creative mode. The devs at Hypixel apparently have some big plans for endgame mining, including mithril, and it'll be a bit more involved than the current process for mining ore."We got some fun ideas about Mithril," Hypixel boss Simon Collins-Laflamme says on Twitter. He adds, "Let’s say it wont be as simple to mine as t
  
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• Nickelodeon icons Kenan and Kel reunite for a surprise Frankenstein horror comedy

  21-01-2026 22:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  '90s kids, it's time to pour yourselves a champagne glass full of the finest orange soda, because Nickelodeon superstars Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell have a new movie in the works, and it's even weirder than their usual hilarious absurdity - because they're meeting Frankenstein (or more accurately, Frankenstein's monster).Kenan and Kel announced the movie themselves while Mitchell was filling in as a guest host on Good Sports, Thompson's podcast which is usually co-hosted by Kevin Hart. As on
  
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• Ex-Bethesda loremaster and Skyrim lead says Starfield's main problem was not enough Todd Howard: "When he would get pulled away from the game that would really hurt the game"

  21-01-2026 22:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  The winds were in favor for Starfield to be another generational RPG from the genre titans at Bethesda - industry maestro Todd Howard was in charge, it had an enormous budget with most estimates tripling that of Skyrim's, and the developers had more time to work on it than any previous Bethesda title - but there's no denying that its legacy pales in comparison to games like Skyrim, Oblivion, and Morrowind.Former Bethesda loremaster and Skyrim co-lead designer Kurt Kuhlmann, who was around until
  
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• Prime Video's God of War TV show casts Doctor Who actor as Ragnarok villain

  21-01-2026 22:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Prime Video's God of War TV show has cast Max Parker as Heimdall, the Watchman of Asgard.The upcoming live-action series, based on the wildly popular video game franchise of the same name, follows Kratos as he tries to teach his son Atreus to be a better god, while Atreus tries to teach his father how to be a better human.Per Deadline, Heimdall, who is one of the sons of Odin, is "unappreciated by his father and underestimated by the rest of the family, and as a result is constantly looking for
  
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• A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms becomes the highest-rated first season of any Game of Thrones show on Rotten Tomatoes

  21-01-2026 21:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms now holds the record for highest-rated first season of any Game of Thrones show on Rotten Tomatoes – and we're so happy for Dunk and Egg.The spin-off series sits at a whopping 95% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, compared to Game of Thrones season 1 and House of the Dragon season 1, which both hold a 90%. Originally titled A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, the series is based on George R.R. Martin's Dunk and Egg novella series and follows the
  
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• Netflix partners with Jujutsu Kaisen studio MAPPA, with exclusive new anime coming for subscribers

  21-01-2026 20:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Netflix is teaming up with studio MAPPA to continue the streaming platform's global domination when it comes to popular anime.Per a new press release, Netflix and MAPPA have entered into a "strategic partnership" that will allow the two companies to "work together on new projects with a global perspective, from story development to merchandise," with Netflix "exclusively streaming a slate of original MAPPA-produced anime titles to members worldwide."This makes perfect sense given the fact that m
  
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• Battlefield 6 teases new Contaminated map for season 2 and confirms a "rebuilt" version of classic Battlefield 4 map Golmud Railway is on the way

  21-01-2026 19:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Battlefield Studios has revealed a new community update detailing some of the plans for Battlefield 6 season 2, including a brand new multiplayer map and the return of the classic Battlefield 4 map, Golmud Railway.EA gave a fairly comprehensive overview of its plans for Battlefield Labs testing for season 2 "and beyond" on its official website. The season 2 update was recently delayed because EA wanted to give Battlefield Studios more time to refine the new content following community feedback,
  
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• After 6 years of waiting, multiple delays, and a complete reboot, Prince of Persia remake dev comments on its cancellation: "We know this is deeply disappointing"

  21-01-2026 19:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  With the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake leading a lineup of six canceled games at Ubisoft, the internal studio responsible for the game put out a statement reiterating the news and commiserating with disappointed players."We want to share this with you directly," the X/Twitter post begins. "We've made the difficult decision to stop development on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake. We know this is deeply disappointing. The game carries enormous meaning for fans and for the te
  
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• As other devs commit to AI as a development tool, Ubisoft is doubling down on "player-facing generative AI"

  21-01-2026 19:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  So far, most major game studios have presented AI as a behind-the-scenes tool that can help developers create games more efficiently – not necessarily something that'll directly generate content you'll actually interact with in-game. Ubisoft is going a step further, revealing as part of today's restructuring announcement that it plans to shove generative AI directly in players' faces.In a press release accompanying today's news, Ubisoft says its plans, which are centered on open-world game
  
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