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• The Story Behind That 2,000-Year-Old Thracian Chariot You Saw on Reddit

  17-10-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  The photo of an ancient Thracian chariot alongside the bones of two horses and a dog has quickly risen to the top of Reddit today (Oct. 13), with more than 65,000 likes.A team of archaeologists led by Veselin Ignatov, of the Istoricheski muzej Nova Zagora, a museum in Bulgaria, discovered the 2,000-year-old wooden chariot in 2008.In 2009, Ignatov and his team also found a brick tomb, containing the remains of a man dressed in what appears to be armor, near the chariot.
  
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• Hugh Jackman says Deadpool and Wolverine "doesn't feel like the end" for his time in the MCU: "You know what? I changed my mind"

  10-12-2025 21:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hugh Jackman is doubling down on his previous statements that he'll "never say never" to playing Wolverine in the MCU again, stoking the embers of hope among fans that he could, maybe, just might, possibly have an appearance in Avengers: Doomsday.Jackman's comments come from an Actors on Actors interview with Wicked star Cynthia Erivo in which he goes deep into his feelings about portraying the iconic mutant again, and his thought process when coming out of retirement to play Logan in Deadpool a
  
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• Fallout: New Vegas lead writer says it's "very odd" to see characters he created in the Prime Video show with "no credit" and "no residuals"

  10-12-2025 20:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  The second season of Amazon Prime's Fallout TV show debuts next week, whisking viewers off to the treasured setting of Fallout: New Vegas - but the game's lead writer has mixed feelings on seeing his work adapted for the small screen.Talking to PC Gamer, Fallout: New Vegas lead writer John Gonzalez said he "really enjoyed" the first season of the TV adaptation, praising the "admirable complexity" of the world and Maximus as "a fascinating slant to take you into the Brotherhood of Steel." Even so
  
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• Fallout studio says creator Todd Howard didn't want "the guy who makes video game movies" to make the Prime Video TV show: "We want the best director, the best showrunner possible"

  10-12-2025 19:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Besthesda senior dev Emil Pagliarulo says the team behind Fallout wanted the best creatives possible when developing Prime Video's TV adaptation of the hit video game franchise – and they definitely made the right call."Hollywood, at the time, they wanted to throw the 'video game directors' at us," Pagliarulo told PC Gamer. "We don't want the guy who makes video game movies. We want the best director, the best showrunner possible. And it wasn't until Jonathan Nolan and his company had thei
  
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• Bethesda boss Todd Howard sees your comments about Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters, says the studio is "working on all sorts of stuff": "In general, I prefer to wait"

  10-12-2025 18:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's possible that remasters of Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas are a matter of when not if, especially in light of Amazon's incredibly successful TV show moving to New Vegas. But Bethesda head Todd Howard isn't giving much away – he says fans just need to continue being patient.He addresses the desire to see both games on modern hardware during an interview with Dexerto. "The first thing is, we get it, we see all those comments, I alluded to it when I was on the [Fallout Day] stream," he
  
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• The official Switch 2 case just got a discount, but you should stick with this Belkin alternative instead

  10-12-2025 18:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you're planning on taking your Nintendo Switch 2 on a festive adventure this December, it's in your best interest to ensure you have a case to keep it safe and protected, and there are a lot of them out there to choose from.Right now, the official Nintendo Switch 2 Carrying Case and Screen Protector set is down to $46.52 at Amazon, and while it's a small discount, there's a big chance that it's taken your fancy. But I beg that you grab this Belkin option instead. It's not an official Nintendo
  
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• Resident Evil 2 director didn't want to include any characters from the first game, but compromised by adding Claire Redfield after being grilled about it

  10-12-2025 18:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Resident Evil 2 director Hideki Kamiya has explained why the game introduced an entirely new cast, as opposed to bringing back the original STARS members. He says that being grilled about it resulted in the creation of Claire Redfield.Kamiya is a legendary figure in the games industry thanks to his own creations like Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, Okami, and the woefully underrated The Wonderful 101, but it's easy to forget that he also started his immaculate directing career with the sequel to Resid
  
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• "Square Enix running at its prime" – Former exec says the Final Fantasy dev's critical investors are "closely aligned" with what fans want, including Clair Obscur: Expedition 33-level experimentation

  10-12-2025 18:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Square Enix's irritated investors are really just looking out for the Final Fantasy developer, says former Square Enix Holdings director of business and current Genvid CEO Jacob Navok.A December 8 press release from major shareholder 3D Investment Partners might have originally worried you that the opposite was true; the investment group issued a 112-slide presentation asking other shareholders to "share with us your frank views regarding the management issues at SQEX HD." But Navok thinks inves
  
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• If you're bored of D&D, its biggest rival has discounted a treasure trove of books by over $440

  10-12-2025 18:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  For anyone that's had enough of D&D, you might be interested to know that the tabletop RPG's biggest (and arguably best) rival just bundled a ton of its books into a deal that saves you literal hundreds of dollars.Pathfinder was born when folks became so fed up of changes to D&D that they made their own version. Despite being an new RPG with its own setting, it essentially rolled back the clock to the popular third edition of Dungeons & Dragons - it added back in a lot of features th
  
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• Turn on the New Vegas 2 copium machine: The Outer Worlds 2 director says Obsidian looks at "everything" available when choosing IP to work on, which happens to include Fallout

  10-12-2025 17:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Outer Worlds 2 director Brandon Adler explains that the studio does look at all of the available IP owned by Microsoft when it comes to choosing what's next for the studio.Obsidian knows that you want Fallout: New Vegas 2, and despite Fallout and Obsidian sharing a roof under Microsoft, the studio has been mainly focused on its original titles like The Outer Worlds, Pentiment, Grounded, and Avowed. Throughout its history, Obsidian made a name for itself as the studio that would make (general
  
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• After over 260 million deaths, Helldivers 2 players managed to liberate Oshaune, and their reward is exactly as expected: another cape

  10-12-2025 17:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  When it comes to liberty, you can never have too many capes. Such is a core tenet of Helldivers 2, as Arrowhead Game Studios gives away yet another shawl to players to mark another planet safely liberated by super soldiers."In recognition of the Helldivers' historic liberation of the Hive World Oshaune, from which the tyrannical Gloom cloud had emitted and terrorized our citizens, High Command has generously bequeathed them a commemorative cape to wear into future battles," a post on Twitter rea
  
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• Forget the ROG Xbox Ally, I've been more excited about another Asus Xbox peripheral, and it's finally available

  10-12-2025 17:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Since its reveal at Gamescom, my most anticipated Xbox controller has been the Asus ROG Raikiri II. For context, I really wasn't that big a fan of the original Raikiri Pro controller. It had such a cool design, and even helped coin the current trend of Xbox Series X controllers that have small displays on them.But its flashy design got in the way of it being a good gamepad first and foremost. Its back button placement was all over the place, and it didn't do much to justify its price. Ever since
  
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• GTA Online adds "luxury" mansions that could cost you almost $200 in real-world cash, and somehow that's still "way cheaper" than some players imagined

  10-12-2025 17:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  GTA Online's big new update, A Safehouse in the Hills, is here, and I certainly hope you have enough in-game cash saved up to splash on its new mansions – because these things don't come cheap.In a blog post from Rockstar Games, the new mansions are described as "luxury real estate," aimed at "those who have reached the highest rungs of the criminal ladder" to "celebrate your triumph with a painstakingly crafted palace in one of Los Santos' most exclusive neighborhoods, complete with breat
  
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• Timothée Chalamet praises his own work over the "last seven, eight years" as "really top-of-the-line performances," says A24's Marty Supreme is "top-level sh*t"

  10-12-2025 16:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  After declaring at the SAG Awards that he wants to be "one of the greats," Timothée Chalamet says Marty Supreme is "probably" his best performance."This is probably my best performance, and it's been like seven, eight years that I feel like I've been handing in really, really committed, top-of-the-line performances," Chalamet said in an interview with Margaret Gardiner, which has since been taken down from YouTube (H/T ScreenRant). "And it's important to say out loud because the disciplin
  
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• GTA 6 developer Rockstar under scrutiny from UK Prime Minister, who promises to "look into" alleged union busting that saw 31 employees fired: "It's a deeply concerning case"

  10-12-2025 16:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rockstar is once again under the microscope for firing 31 workers in UK and Canada offices this fall, an act parent company Take-Two claims was made necessary by "gross misconduct" – but the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) alleges was really a flagrant example of union busting. Now, following several protests in front of Rockstar offices, the issue of firings has finally floated up to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who says he'll "look into" it.Labour Party Member of Pa
  
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• The Avengers: Doomsday trailer rumored to drop this week is 1 minute and 25 seconds long, according to the Korean ratings board

  10-12-2025 16:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  The runtime for the Avengers: Doomsday teaser trailer reportedly dropping this week has seemingly been revealed.Per data from the Korean Media Rating Board, the trailer will clock in at just under 90 seconds, at one minute and 25 seconds.The trailer is expected to play before screenings of Avatar: Fire and Ash, which arrives in theaters on December 19. That's almost exactly a year before Doomsday's release date, which is teasing things way further in advance than is usual for the MCU (by contras
  
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• First Avatar: The Last Airbender season 2 trailer sets fan-favorite earthbender Toph up as a key player in Aang's fight against the Fire Nation

  10-12-2025 15:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for Avatar: The Last Airbender season 2 is here – and it's teases one hell of an introduction for a fan-favorite character.Gordon Cormier is back as Aang, looking considerably older than he did in the previous installment; as are Ian Ousley as Sokka and Kiawentiio as Katara."The world is turning," an unseen narrator says at the start of the clip, which you can watch above. "There's a secret life beneath us. We're all connected... through the earth," they continue off-came
  
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• Cyberpunk series creator Mike Pondsmith is "driven insane by shipping, and I can't imagine Keanu Reeves being in Cyberpunk 2077 helped that at all

  10-12-2025 15:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  You can't stop shipping, nor can you ever truly predict who fans will pair together. As the creator of the source material for Cyberpunk 2077 and a longtime tabletop RPG maker, Mike Pondsmith understands these things more than most, and though he loves the passion, it’s not his favorite aspect of fandom.During a talk at Digital Dragons 2025, he dipped into the subject in a section dedicated to fans becoming part of the fabric of a franchise. "I am driven insane by shipping," he says. "In a
  
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• Doom creator John Romero's canceled game is now a "much smaller game," but it "will be new to people, the way that going through Elden Ring was a really new experience"

  10-12-2025 15:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Doom co-creator and id Software co-founder John Romero has confirmed that his canceled project is back in development, albeit as a new game taking on elements of the original idea.Microsoft's sweeping layoffs had a massive impact earlier this year with the cancellations of Xbox projects like Rare's Everwild, the Perfect Dark reboot, and Zenimax Online Studios' unannounced MMO. But it wasn't just first-party projects in trouble, as Romero Games announced it had lost funding on an "all-new FPS wit
  
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• Skyrim's Switch 2 port "runs like wet a**," players say, as the RPG is plagued with "horrendous" input lag that "genuinely makes it unplayable"

  10-12-2025 14:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  If there are two things that Bethesda is best known for outside of its plethora of excellent RPGs, it's re-releasing Skyrim too many times to count, and its games being cursed with bugs and issues. Almost poetically, then, the devs have managed to do both of those things at once with the new Switch 2 port of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim – Anniversary Edition.Skyrim's Switch 2 port was shadowdropped yesterday, and posts across social media highlight that fans aren't exactly having the best t
  
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• One grisly It: Welcome to Derry episode 7 moment is a direct reference to a catastrophe that will be covered in season 3

  10-12-2025 13:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  It looks like It: Welcome to Derry's most violent scene so far is not all guts and gore, as one fan has found a hidden Easter egg in the background that references an earlier catastrophe that will be covered in season 3.Warning, the following contains spoilers for It: Welcome to Derry episode 7, so turn back now if you have not yet caught up, but make sure to read our spoiler-free It: Welcome to Derry review first.After jumping back to 1908 and filling in the blanks on how Bob Grey became Pennyw
  
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• Listen up PC veterans - Razer's re-releasing its first ever gaming mouse, but this is a super limited drop

  10-12-2025 13:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Razer Boomslang was the first ever gaming mouse when it launched in 1999. Ok, fine, it was the first ever mouse designed specifically for gaming (rest easy IntelliMouse). That may have been a little longer than two decades ago, but Sneki is celebrating its OG with a celebratory 20th Anniversary Edition this week.The best gaming mice of today will be quaking at the sheer width of those main clicks. Not everyone will be able to grab this piece of history, though. This is a drop limited to 1,33
  
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• Nearly 1000 days after it was announced, Daisy Ridley says Rey's Star Wars movie will be worth the wait

  10-12-2025 12:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  There's been very little movement on Star Wars' upcoming Rey standalone movie, but star Daisy Ridley has promised it will be worth the wait.“Honestly, there are scripts that I read five years ago, and now I've gone, 'Oh, maybe they will actually happen,’” Ridley told IGN of the reality of films being stuck in limbo.“I think over the years, I've learned how the reality of getting any film made is so massive. The hurdles are vast… But with [the Rey movie] particularl
  
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• Despite predicting Battlefield 6 would "boot stomp" Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, ex-Microsoft exec is "rooting" for Activision "to come back with vengeance" after changes to CoD's release strategy

  10-12-2025 12:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  To say Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has garnered a mixed reception would be putting it mildly. In response, Activision has pledged to make some stark improvements and "overdeliver" on the game, as well as announcing Black Ops and Modern Warfare games won't release back-to-back any more. The moves have gotten a vote of confidence from a former Microsoft executive, who’s now cheering from the sidelines despite some earlier criticism.Mike Ybarra, former president of Blizzard and corporate vice p
  
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• Skyrim art lead knows "it's a bit of a joke" how many times Bethesda has re-released the iconic RPG over the past 14 years: "It's a great game. We want everyone to be able to play it"

  10-12-2025 12:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Skyrim's lead artist has acknowledged that the sheer number of Skyrim ports available is a major joke at this point.Just when you thought Bethesda might have run out of ways to re-release Skyrim, a new version of the now-14-year-old RPG has arrived on Switch 2. The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim – Anniversary Edition was shadowdropped yesterday onto Nintendo's new console, and it sure is Skyrim again.Alongside the launch of the new edition, Nintendo Life caught up with Matt Carofano, lead artist
  
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• Abxylute just revealed a $70 Android handheld with questionable specs, but the OG Xbox lover in me is delighted

  10-12-2025 12:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Handheld maker Abxylute just unveiled a new $70 Dual OS portable with Android and Linux capabilities. The only issue is that while its price point is attractive, there are already options out there offering up better specs and a much nicer display, but its OG Xbox charm is sort of winning me over regardless.Armed with a Rockchip RK3566 quad-core processor, 2GB LPDDR4 RAM, and 32GB storage, the Abxylute E1 isn't exactly a beast. Its 3.5-inch IPS 640 x 480 screen also feels a bit underwhelming, co
  
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• 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple first reactions call Nia DaCosta's horror sequel "bonkers" and "surprisingly funny," but "you will need a very strong stomach"

  10-12-2025 12:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Weeks before the upcoming horror sequel is due to hit the big screen, the first set of reactions to 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple are already in, and the consensus is overwhelmingly positive."This has cranked everything up to 11, and I warn you, you will need a very strong stomach (or a sick bag)," said Metro's Tori Brazier. Nexus Point News' Christopher Mills called the movie "one of the greatest horror movies of the decade, as it takes the first movie and goes 10 extra miles with the brutali
  
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• This gloriously stupid comic book moment is being immortalized in an MTG card, and I couldn't be happier

  10-12-2025 12:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  You can keep your Captain America and Fantastic Four MTG cards, I'll take this wonderfully absurd item instead.Magic: The Gathering developer Wizards of the Coast just revealed what's on the way for next year's MTG Marvel Super Heroes set, and it's full of the big names you'd expect. Steve Rogers, Doctor Doom, Quicksilver – major heroes and villains abound, with very on-brand abilities (like Hulk getting a +1/+1 counter every time he takes damage). However, my eye was immediately drawn to
  
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• After a record-breaking premiere, Stranger Things season 5 viewership plunges by 60% in week 2

  10-12-2025 12:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  While Stranger Things season 5 debuted with massive viewership, its numbers plunged in its second week on Netflix.As pointed out by What's On Netflix (and per Netflix's own viewing figures), the sci-fi show's viewership dropped from its huge 59.6 million premiere week figure to 23.6 million in its second week (December 1 to December 7).That doesn't necessarily spell doom for the show, of course, since it likely just means that almost everyone watched the new episodes in their first week streamin
  
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• Fantastic Four: First Steps fails to top The Marvels or Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania with the lowest Disney Plus debut of any MCU movie

  10-12-2025 12:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  According to new viewership data, The Fantastic Four: First Steps had the lowest Disney Plus streaming debut of any MCU movie.According to Netflix & Chiffres, the movie accrued 556 million minutes viewed in its first five days on the platform after debuting on the streamer November 5. This translates to 4.9 million Complete Viewings Equivalent (CVEs).By comparison, the top-performing MCU is Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which accumulated 14.1 million CVEs during its five-day debut. In the
  
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