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• The Latest: Sanders says he is stronger candidate than Biden

  01-03-2020 18:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bernie Sanders says Joe Biden is “a friend” but that it’s time to be honest about which of the two can beat President Donald Trump.Sanders told the crowd “nope,” as a way of rejecting the boos, then went on to detail what he called bad votes by Biden over the years.Sanders says Trump would run ads pointing out Biden’s support for bad trade deals and past support for efforts that could have frozen Social Security and Medicare.
  
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• The Corsair HS35 V3 gaming headset is so lightweight that it may have just solved my summer migraine woes

  29-07-2026 13:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Corsair HS35 V3 Wireless gaming headset is currently on my testing bench, and its 250g weight is the saving grace of my summer. For whatever reason, the hot weather likes to be a major migraine trigger, and I've been struggling the last couple of months as here in Scotland we've already seen temperatures up to 29 degrees (that's 84.2 Fahrenheit for those of you outside the UK).That might not seem that hot to some, but here, where we're used to gray skies, rain, and have buildings designed to
  
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  There's a long-running joke about finding really valuable stuff squirreled away at your grandparents' house, but for one Pokemon cards fan, that's actually come true – and the value of what they uncovered is probably around six figures.In a post on reddit, InkedSketch describes how "Grandma been asking us to come find her Pokemon cards for years." What they didn't expect was just how valuable this collection was. At a glance, it features over 70 sealed 'Fossil' booster packs which are wort
  

• Kevin Feige confirms the Nova movie is still happening despite being absent from the Marvel SDCC panel

  29-07-2026 13:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Although Marvel was able to pack a lot into its San Diego Comic-Con 2026 panel last weekend, there was one project that was left out. However, right after the panel ended, Kevin Feige confirmed that the Nova movie is still happening. When asked for an update on Nova after the Marvel SDCC panel had ended, Feige had to check what he could reveal, which doesn't appear to be much. "Not a damn thing. It's a movie," said Feige to Brandon Davis. Well, that's not much of an update, but at least that's c
  
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• Matt Reeves confirms a key collaborator will return for The Batman 2

  29-07-2026 13:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Gotham City will be rife with plenty of familiar faces when the Dark Knight returns in The Batman Part II, but now we can confirm there will also be some familiar sounds with Robert Pattinson’s second run as the Caped Crusader, too.In an interview with Screen Rant, composer of The Batman, Michael Giacchino, explained that he felt pretty confident he’d be back to settle the score for director Matt Reeves’ take on Batman just as he did in 2022. "I don’t think there’s
  
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• Pragmata's chances of getting a sequel are high, Capcom exec says as the new action hit exceeds expectations with 2.5 million copies sold and counting

  29-07-2026 13:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  In what's becoming another strong year for Capcom, Pragmata stands out as a notable success. So much so, the third-person shooter is likely set for another installment, according to a higher-up at the long-running developer and publisher.The company's first-quarter profits actually came in above estimates, according to a report from Bloomberg, and Pragmata was a strong contributor in that regard. The sci-fi adventure has sold over two-and-a-half million copies so far, an impressive turnaround fo
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director prefers JPRGs to the likes of Skyrim, Fallout, and Baldur's Gate because their linear narratives allow for "a stronger story" and "more memorable characters"

  29-07-2026 13:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  The director of JRPG-inspired GOTY sensation Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 says he prefers linear stories to the sprawling open narratives of Baldur's Gate, Fallout, and Skyrim.Speaking to Automaton Media, Expedition 33 director Guillaume Broche admits that "'RPG' is a very big term" that includes a wide variety of games, but says that when he considers Western RPGs, he thinks "more of games like Baldur's Gate, Fallout, or Skyrim, where the character you play changes the story and you kind of beco
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 boss praises the RPG's most brutal run yet, as 2 players ruin their game to stuff every NPC inside a single crate: "We should've made that an achievement"

  29-07-2026 12:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Two friends playing Baldur's Gate 3 have been massacring their way through the RPG, and their antics have now been spotted by Larian boss Swen Vincke who seemingly approves of the death and destruction.A Baldur's Gate 3 player who goes by the name matt on Twitter posted about how he and a friend had been more hostile than helpful in their current playthrough of the Dungeons & Dragons RPG. Rather than trying to complete quests and gather a party of merry men, matt has been murdering everyone
  
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• Jumanji: Open World trailer sure looks a lot like the original Jumanji

  29-07-2026 12:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  After Dwayne Johnson and his safari-trekking crew took not one, but two trips inside the magical game of Jumanji, it was only a matter of time before things would get wild and go back to their jungle roots, which were first planted in 1995. The new trailer for Jumanji: Open World looks to pick up right after the events of Jumanji: The Next Level, where another round of the dangerous game busts out into the real world, bringing the same dangers that Robin Williams and Kirsten Dunst had to face al
  
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• Cyclops fancasting favorite says he's not in the MCU X-Men movie

  29-07-2026 12:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new X-Men movie is in the works at Marvel, and fancasting favorite Cooper Hoffman has denied he'll be involved as Cyclops. "Oh, not gonna be me, but I love the X-Men. Not for any reason, it's just not – I don't know where this came from. Shit spreads," he told Entertainment Tonight. When asked if he'd be interested if the fans had a say, Hoffman said: "Of course. They don't, but I wish they did. I wish they had more of a say. I love X-Men, I've been watching since I was a kid. It would b
  
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• Avengers: Doomsday directors confirm the runtime is "substantial"

  29-07-2026 12:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  With Avengers: Doomsday being the first Avengers movie in five years, it is understandable that Marvel fans want it to be as long as possible, and from recent comments made by directors the Russo brothers, it sounds like we're going to get what we have been waiting for. "It's too early to say what the running time is. But it's substantial," said Anthony Russo to Collider at San Diego Comic-Con 2026. When asked if it will be over three hours, the co-director added, "Hopefully we will make you hap
  
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• Spider-Man: Brand New Day box office predictions are in – and it could make Marvel history

  29-07-2026 11:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  It seems Spider-Man: Brand New Day is catching its audience in a web of intrigue ahead of opening weekend.Early box office predictions – depending on your source – have the fourth Spider-Man MCU movie's opening gross at anywhere from $465 million to a whopping $800 million. Either way, it's on the cusp of making Marvel history as Tom Holland's Spidey gets ready to swing into cinemas.Deadline, using National Research Group data, says Brand New Day is tracking for $195 million in the U
  
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• Palworld patch fixes broken missions, achievements, and more as Pocketpair stops Panthalus from sending you and your friends into the shadow realm

  29-07-2026 11:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pocketpair has just released the v1.0.2 patch for its creature collecting survival crafting game Palworld. The patch mostly focuses on bug fixes and performance issues, including some major disconnection issues that affected players taking on the Panthalus boss fight together.Palworld escaped early access at the beginning of July, but as with all modern games, there are still a few bugs that need ironing out. Luckily for fans of the collecting and crafting game, it's not anything too serious, bu
  
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• Tom Holland says Spider-Man's fight moves in Brand New Day were influenced by Insomniac's game finishers

  29-07-2026 11:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  One of the biggest highlights of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which is finally out this week, is Peter Parker’s (Tom Holland) web-slinging capabilities. Spidey is swinging ninjas and Hulks around like he entered a cheat code this time around, which makes sense now that Tom Holland himself revealed the Insomniac Spider-Man games have heavily influenced how his wall-crawling alter-ego fights in the new movie. The game series has also proved to be a nice bit of therapy during his globe-trotting
  
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• The Russo brothers are starting to "sweat" over how soon Avengers: Secret Wars starts filming

  29-07-2026 10:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Avengers directors the Russo brothers have confirmed that Secret Wars will begin filming very soon. The duo are currently working on Avengers: Doomsday, but they revealed the pressure is mounting to start work on their next Marvel movie.Asked about when filming starts by Collider, Anthony Russo replied: "Soon. So soon it makes us sweat a little bit."He also gave an update on where they're currently at with Doomsday. "We're deep into finishing the movie, into finishing Doomsday," he continued. "A
  
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• Yes, the Palworld devs see your cursed NSFW mods: "I don't think this is official"

  29-07-2026 02:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  The facelessness of the internet can sometimes give the false impression of anonymity, but time and time again, social media has proven that the thing you think is only going to be viewed by your mom and that one co-worker who still engages with your posts even though you haven't spoken in seven years, might be picked up by a news organization or reposted by a celebrity. In that moment, you're either incredibly proud or ashamed depending on what you posted.I can only imagine it's a mixture of th
  
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• Japanese trading card shop is offering a bounty to anyone who can capture its robber "alive"

  29-07-2026 00:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The owner of a Gifu, Japan-based trading card shop is asking the public for help finding its alleged robber, but they're cautioning any would-be vigilantes against straight-up killing the perpetrator for the crime.Spotted by Automaton, the folks behind the Kaitorip Game shop, which sells Pokemon and One Piece trading cards, took to Twitter to reveal footage of what appears to be a single hooded robber breaking into the store and stealing product before fleeing the scene. In the caption, the owne
  
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• An ArenaNet developer's spouse first discovered Jimothy the raccoon, so it's only right that Guild Wars 2 adds him as a new pet for all classes

  28-07-2026 23:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  The famous Jimothy from Seattle has accepted yet another brand deal. The wild raccoon seemingly suffering from a spinal deformity is being added to Guild Wars 2, in part because the woman who turned the poor creature into a viral sensation named Jimothy is married to an ArenaNet developer. Kiana Hall posted the hairy dumpling on Instagram two weeks ago, writing in her caption that she and her spouse were "graced with the presence of Jimothy" as he galloped in front of them with the graceless aba
  
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• "I haven't slept in 48 hours": Devs spent 9 years, starting in "my parents' basement," making a Nier Automata-esque action game with the most anime plot imaginable

  28-07-2026 23:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  In 2017, Dischan Media, long known for visual novel-y bits like Juniper's Knot, hatched a game idea: what if paramilitary magical girls saved the world from alien invaders? Presumably after declining an anime offer from Studio Trigger, work on the game that would become Mahou Arms began, with lead dev Softmode saying, in a recent Reddit post, that the project dates back to "my parents' basement." Today, after about six years in early access, it's finally, properly out on Steam with version 1.0,
  
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• After 16 months, Zelda Ocarina of Time expert completes a hitless, totally randomized run of the game: "I genuinely didn't think it was gonna happen"

  28-07-2026 23:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  MajinPhil jokingly describes himself as your "friendly neighbourhood masochist" on his YouTube page, and looking at his history of challenge runs, it's easy to see why. He 100%ed The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask without taking a single hit in 2024, and then beat a completely randomized version of the game hitless in 2025. The next logical step, it seems, was doing the same with an Ocarina of Time randomizer.Randomizers are mods that shuffle the locations of enemies and items within a game. The
  
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• Bethesda fan gives up on The Elder Scrolls 6 and decides to make their own Indie Scrolls with big Daggerfall energy: "I have great plans"

  28-07-2026 22:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Bethesda keeps saying The Elder Scrolls 6 production is going well, which is reassuring, but it doesn't make the clock tick any faster. So one fan decided to be productive with their waiting room boredom and started creating their own indie version of a The Elder Scrolls game – The Indie Scrolls.The, apparently, solo developer has been tracking their development progress since March 13 across social media, announcing their intentions via Twitter post: "Day 1 making my own TES until TES 6 g
  
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• Facing a 17% review score on Steam, survival game dev says sorry about the bugs and promises to add a way to, uh, save the game

  28-07-2026 22:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  One-man band Justin Jager of studio Extrude made and, on July 27, shipped a video game: zombie survival game The Left Behind. "It did not go as I hoped for," the dev explains in a Steam post which went up as the game was pelted with user reviews averaging just 17% positive, earning it the dreaded red review text: "Very Negative." "It's clear from your feedback that I didn't deliver the zombie survival experience you were expecting, as reflected in the 17% review score on Steam," Jager agrees. "T
  
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• After escaping Xbox, Double Fine lays off 23 people as Tim Schafer says "only the survival of our studio would ever make us consider such a painful action"

  28-07-2026 21:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Double Fine, the beloved studio responsible for games like Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, and Costume Quest, laid off 23 people today. The news comes as the studio goes independent after years of Xbox ownership."Today, Double Fine Productions let go of 23 members of its staff," the company says in a social media post attributed to founder Tim Schafer. "As a small, tightly knit team, these actions are not taken lightly. Only the survival of our studio would ever make us consider such a painful actio
  
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• Xbox Game Pass failed to hit subscriber targets because most people don't play lots of games, says analyst, and going indie won't save it: "I don't see a solution"

  28-07-2026 21:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  There was a time not too long ago when Game Pass was seen as the future of Microsoft's gaming brand, if not the industry as a whole, but as we wait for the rebranded Xbox to emerge from its devastating reset, it's an open question whether subscription services for games are really a sustainable business model.IGN recently published a comprehensive writeup of the conception, boom, and recent downswings of Xbox Game Pass, and the site, one point, argued in favor of Xbox embracing smaller, more eas
  
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• After Clair Obscur Expedition 33, Sandfall Interactive is "going to go a bit crazy" with its next game: "We want to let ourselves dream again and be creative"

  28-07-2026 19:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  We won't see a new game from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio Sandfall Interactive for a few years, it seems, but the studio's leaders are confident it will be something "a bit crazy."Speaking with Automaton, Sandfall CEO Guillaume Broche reexamines the studio's plans for its next game – only its second release after the breakout success of Expedition 33, which was largely made by a team of junior staff."It's too early to say anything precise, but we had a lot of fun creating Expedition
  
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• 20 years later, Bully is still "unlike any other" open-world game, says Rockstar co-founder and GTA veteran Dan Houser

  28-07-2026 19:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Video games can transport you across kingdoms and dimensions, so developer Rockstar was bold in deciding to set its 2006 open-world drama Bully in a New England boarding school. 20 years later, there still isn't anything quite like it. Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser tells IGN during a San Diego Comic-Con interview, "The team did an amazing job bringing [Bully] together, and it's a game that's unlike any other games out there.""You know," Houser added, "I think people are always looking for games
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads call PlayStation killing discs a "sad decision" after buying boxed copies of their own RPG – "For us, physical was something special"

  28-07-2026 18:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  The industry is still reeling from Sony's announcement that it's ending physical disc production for PlayStation consoles in 2028. There's been a lot of pushback, and now the developers behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 have added their two cents, lamenting the choice as a reductive one for the medium."Personally, I find it super sad because I really like video game stores," Guillaume Broche, creative director on Clair Obscur, tells Automaton. "And even if nowadays, I play mainly on PC myself,
  
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• Resident Evil beats Final Fantasy to become the best-selling Japanese game series not published by Nintendo, with Resident Evil 2 Remake now leading the pack

  28-07-2026 18:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Resident Evil 2 is now the series' best-selling game, while a new sales milestone sees the Capcom horror series pass Final Fantasy.In Capcom's latest earnings report, the company announced that Resident Evil 2 – that being the 2019 remake, not the 1998 original with the same name – has sold an extra 1.42 million copies since the last report, sending the game to lifetime sales of 19.75 million copies. And despite Capcom's decision to split every different version of a game into differ
  
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• The Witcher 3 director says solely aiming for high sales is a great way to make a game "fail," and he wants to measure his new RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker by the "opinions of fans"

  28-07-2026 18:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Making a massive RPG like The Blood of Dawnwalker requires striking a balance between understanding that such projects require time and investment, and not letting financial targets distract from the creative vision. In fact, as far the game's director is concerned, worrying about money is a surefire way for a release to flounder.In an interview with Radio Times (below), Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, the director of The Blood of Dawnwalker and co-founder of studio Rebel Wolves (and a CD Projekt Red vete
  
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• Danganronpa's ride or die creator "considered quitting" after a sequel to his high school killing drama was initially turned down: "I didn't want to work on another project"

  28-07-2026 18:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Danganronpa's creator Kazutaka Kodaka has said that a sequel to the high school killing game was initially turned down following the original game's poor release sales. The writer even considered quitting his job, until the opportunity arose to keep working on the series.Posting on Twitter, and as translated by GamesRadar+, Kodaka recalls how studio Spike Chunsoft – then known as Spike – turned down a Danganronpa sequel when the first game didn't make much money. The visual novel was
  
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