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• US bombers fly Korea exercise amid hint Pyongyang could return to terror list

  02-11-2017 23:38 via yahoo.com
  Two Guam-based B-1Bs took part in a joint exercise in South Korea, the US air force said on Thursday.Two American B-1B bombers flew through South Korean airspace and over the country’s Pilsung Range on the latest exercise there, the US air force said on Thursday.North Korea’s official KCNA news agency claimed that the planes carried out bombing drills simulating attacks on major targets in the country.
  
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• Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is getting its first update in over a year as Insomniac brings Spidey's Brand New Day suit to PS5 and PC

  17-06-2026 22:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel's Spider-Man 2 seemed to have been put to bed as developer Insomniac switched its focus to the upcoming Marvel's Wolverine, but apparently there's at least one more surprise in store. Alongside the release of today's Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer, Insomniac revealed that Spidey's new look is coming to the game in a free update on PS5 and PC."Get a fresh start in Marvel's Spider-Man 2," the studio exclaims in a tweet. "Swing across skylines in Peter Parker's 'Fresh Start' suit inspired
  
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• The Last of Us star says no one recognized him on set of The Death of Robin Hood: "People were like, 'Who's that guy?'"

  17-06-2026 22:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Death of Robin Hood star Murray Bartlett says hardly anyone recognized him on set... and it was mostly because his character is completely concealed for the majority of the film."The character that I play was so beautiful on the page, and that was just gorgeous. I think one of the most difficult things is I'm covered up most of the time," Bartlett tells GamesRadar+. "You just see my eyes. I think the most difficult thing was coming to set not in costume, and people were like, 'Who's that guy
  
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• Treyarch confirms Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 and 2 are "being ported to PlayStation" and "will include Campaign, Multiplayer, and Zombies"

  17-06-2026 22:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Call of Duty studio Treyarch has confirmed that Black Ops 1 and 2 will escape PS3 jail with new PlayStation ports coming in July. In a Wednesday tweet that closely followed a post from fan account PlayStation Game Size, which teased incoming news for the first two Black Ops games, Treyarch says, "It's official: the original Black Ops and Black Ops 2 are being ported to PlayStation in July, courtesy of our partners at Iron Galaxy." In a reply, Treyarch adds: "Both will include Campaign, Multiplay
  
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• New Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer sees Tom Holland's Peter Parker start to lose control as an invisible villain causes Hulk-level havoc

  17-06-2026 21:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Following that mysterious leak, a new trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day is here... and I haven't been this excited for a new Spider-Man movie since Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2.In the new trailer, which you can watch above, we see Peter Parker crash a university science lecture taught by none other than Bruce Banner. He asks Bruce for help with his Spidey powers, who warns him that you can't control what's good or bad when it comes to nature. We cut to Severance's own Tramell Tillman telling Spi
  
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• "Gamers don't want it": Palworld lead says Pocketpair doesn't touch AI because players hate it and artists "like doing stuff themselves"

  17-06-2026 21:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  As game developers push back on generative AI, publishing and communications head John Buckley of Palworld developer Pocketpair suggests the division around the tech is another reason to avoid it. "Gamers don't want it," he says, "and if the gamers don't want it, I guess that's it, right? Not much of a conversation to be had."At this month's Summer Game Fest alone, several games, including the revived Crazy Taxi and the latest Tomb Raider, rushed to explain their use of AI after some fans reacte
  
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• I'm convinced this farming sim horror demo is better than anything you'll play during Steam Next Fest

  17-06-2026 19:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  I couldn't comprehend the woods. As a child in New York, I saw that sleepy horses trotted around the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park, and I waved to the lonely polar bear at the zoo without wondering why she lived in the Bronx. But the demo I'm playing at Summer Game Fest 2026 for Fractured Blooms, the upcoming farming horror sim from Doki Doki Literature Club publisher Serenity Forge, makes me feel like I've started life over again from a filthy forest in West Virginia, and the od
  
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• How to watch England vs Croatia, live stream free anywhere in the world

  17-06-2026 19:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  How to watch England vs Croatia for freeUS | YouTube TV (21 day free trial)UK |ITVXAUS | SBS On DemandWatch anywhere: Norton VPN (60 day money back guarantee)If you're looking for how to watch England vs Croatia in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, all the details are here – and we've also put together a guide on how to watch all the World Cup matches for free. The England vs Croatia match on 17 June at Dallas Stadium will be the second time the two teams have faced off in the FIFA World Cup. At Ru
  
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• Final Fantasy 14 rewards Japanese players for paying their taxes: make a donation and get a pile of MMO cosmetics

  17-06-2026 18:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Square Enix is incentivizing Final Fantasy 14 players to pay their taxes promptly by offering in-game cosmetics for the MMO. As reported by Famitsu (translated and reported by Automaton), Tokyo's Shibuya Ward is offering in-game items to Japanese Final Fantasy 14 players for doing their taxes. Japan's "Furusato Nozei" system allows citizens to donate a portion of income tax to a specific city, as opposed to it all being funneled in the one place, with chosen areas offering incentives to donate t
  
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• The Super Pocket Rare edition reeled me in with Banjo-Kazooie goodness, but the retro handheld also boasts one of my favorite NES games

  17-06-2026 18:37 via gamesradar.com
  
  I've finally got the Super Pocket Rare Edition in my mitts, and if I showed seven-year-old me this thing, their brain would melt into a puddle. We're talking about a retro handheld that costs less than new console games, is smaller than my original Game Boy Color, and runs Banjo-Kazooie, an N64 game that was cutting edge when the latter portable reigned supreme.And yet, even if the latest Super Pocket didn't come with one of the best N64 games of all time, I'd still be all over the retro handhel
  
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• PlayStation patents can get weird, but none are more bizarre than this joystick with an "operation member" that gets harder as you play with it

  17-06-2026 18:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sony has been known to file the most bizarre controller patents on the internet, oftentimes just for the sake of it. Most PlayStation patents never see the light of day, mainly serving as a "this is mine, you can't have it" level of legal protection. But after seeing the latest one, which resembles the shape of one of the best joysticks, you might wonder why on earth Sony would want the rights to some of these ideas. The latest published patent from the Japanese gaming giant is shaped just like
  
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• Valve billionaire Gabe Newell spends $70 million on a new mansion to go with his $500 million yacht as the house of Steam fights monopoly lawsuits

  17-06-2026 18:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Valve co-founder and president Gabe Newell has just purchased a waterfront estate in Florida – a waterfront estate worth a whopping $70.8 million.Big purchases aren't exactly new to the father of Steam – after all, we are talking about the same man who invested his $9.5 billion fortune into yachts last year. He's got a lot of money, anyway, and he's certainly not afraid to use it.
  His latest buy, the stunning waterfront estate in Manalapan, Florida, is reportedly a 20,000-square-foot
  
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• Spider-Man: Brand New Day will be the first film 'shot for Screen X,' as director says it's "something truly unique that nobody has experienced before"

  17-06-2026 17:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new featurette for Spider-Man: Brand New Day reveals that the upcoming Marvel movie is the first-ever to be shot for ScreenX, with footage captured on set for the panoramic movie format.In the brief clip, Director Destin Daniel Cretton explains that ScreenX came to set and, for the first time ever, shot specific scenes for the unique movie experience – similar to how movies are shot in IMAX. ScreenX extends beyond the main screen and onto the theatre walls, creating a 270° panoramic
  
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• Sadie Sink "didn't realize" there would be so much speculation about her top-secret Spider-Man: Brand New Day newcomer

  17-06-2026 17:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sadie Sink has admitted she was taken aback by the amount of speculation about her top-secret Spider-Man: Brand New Day character, despite growing up watching the MCU."It was so exciting," Sink told Fandango of joining the cast of the fourth Spider-Man movie. "I grew up watching these movies. So, to join – it was very surreal." She joked: "I really like the character and that's all I'll say!"On the topic of her mystery role in Brand New Day, Sink added, "I didn't realize there would be thi
  
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• Minecraft Dungeons 2 may be a more ambitious ARPG, but Mojang says it's "purposefully not calling it an open-world" game

  17-06-2026 17:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Minecraft Dungeons 2 is making a big change. When its predecessor launched in 2020, it was a compelling side-quest for Mojang – a dungeon crawler which sought to deliver a more accessible entry point to the ARPG genre than the likes of Diablo and Path of Exile. It was a fun experience, although its limited points of exploration made it something of a divergence from what we've come to expect from Minecraft games. So Mojang is making some changes for the new game of 2026. "In Minecraft Dung
  
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• Capcom made twice as much money on Steam compared to PlayStation in the last year, boosted by Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, and Devil May Cry as PC gaming continues to grow

  17-06-2026 17:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Capcom says Steam accounted for almost double the amount of revenue than PlayStation in its previous fiscal year. If you're old enough to remember the time before PC gaming was as big as it is today, you'll no doubt remember how much of a flip of the coin it would be whether Japanese companies would release their games on the platform. And typically, if they did, it would end up being significantly later than those on console. For example, Final Fantasy 13 took almost five years to release on PC
  
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• Rockstar gives free GTA 5 upgrades to PS4 and Xbox One players ahead of GTA Online's next heist in July and GTA 6 in November

  17-06-2026 17:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rockstar has revealed that GTA Online's next criminal caper, The Kortz Center Heist, is coming in July, and better yet – anyone who owns GTA 5 on the PS4 or Xbox One is getting a free upgrade.In a new blog post, Rockstar says GTA Online will be "brimming with ways to prepare" for the new heist in the coming weeks. "Whether you're looking to refine your real estate portfolio with a Mansion property to ultimately host your own solo Heists or gearing up as part of a larger crew, stay tuned fo
  
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• Steam Next Fest's top demo is basically Dark Souls but PvP Extraction – Mistfall Hunter's ARPG twist on the genre might finally hook me

  17-06-2026 16:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mistfall Hunter kicks off in a familiar fashion for anyone who has played Dark Souls, or most any other Soulslike – I'm a husk revivified by a mysterious energy and shunted off to fight through a dying land. Shambling dead lunge at me, huge gates must be opened, and I'm jumped by a hulking monster right at the end and smashed into pieces. But, this Steam Next Fest beta has a twist of its own to offer.Along the way through this brief tutorial, I've been shoving loot into a swelling inventor
  
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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Monoco actor jokes he'll be "filled with murderous rage" if he can't reprise his role for the RPG's live-action movie adaptation

  17-06-2026 16:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  With Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 in line for a live-action movie adaptation, one of the stars of Sandfall Interactive's J'RPG jokes that he'll be "filled with murderous rage" if he doesn't get to reprise his role. The actor in question is Rich Keeble, the voice of the battle-loving Gestral party member Monoco, who tells Polygon that he doesn't "know anything about how that film is going on." You'd be forgiven if you'd forgotten the movie was even happening – after all, it was announced las
  
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• GTA 6 will sell 46 million copies at launch, investment bank theorizes using the power of Rockstar's past launches and a very feral Reddit community

  17-06-2026 15:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's no secret that the GTA 6 launch might end up standing as one of the biggest game releases of all time – but just how big will it be?Well, investment bank Piper Sandler (via Wccftech) believes Rockstar Games will manage around 46 million sales on day one. That's a massive number in any context, but it's especially big for a new release – even if that release is of the AAA variety. So, how did Piper Sandler come up with such a high figure?
  Well, it used the power of past big title
  
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• The Switch 2 Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Remaster includes a stunning limited slip-cover, if you've got an Amazon Japan account at hand

  17-06-2026 15:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  I already own the Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster on the PS Vita, the PS3, the PS4, and of course, both original games on the PS2, so you'd assume that I've had my fill of Spira. However, this new Switch 2 release launching on July 27 for $43 at Amazon Japan is calling my name, as it includes a unique slipcover featuring new 25th Anniversary commemorative artwork. The catch? I'm going to have to import it to add it to my collection.I've done that before and managed to miraculously spare myself f
  
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• As Diablo 4 season 14 PTR leaves players feeling mixed, Blizzard announces developer livestream to reveal what is and isn't changing

  17-06-2026 15:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Blizzard has confirmed that Diablo 4 season 14 is called the Season of Death Awakening, and promises to unveil more info about it next week following a PTR that's left fans a bit mixed.Diablo 4 is now somehow over three years old, and we're deep in the midst of its Lord of Hatred era (that being the name of the latest expansion, not a manifestation of players' reactions to Diablo Immortal). The latest expansion launched alongside season 13 of the game – titled the Season of Reckoning &ndas
  
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• Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi says he has "lost count now of how many [Doctors] there are" because of "too many regenerations"

  17-06-2026 14:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  As the future of Doctor Who remains uncertain and we prepare to wait for what could be years for a new Doctor to be announced, past star Peter Capaldi has said he thinks there have been too many regenerations, and it's taking the magic out of the show. "To be perfectly honest, I think it's there are too many regenerations," said Capaldi on the 100 Questions with Tom Simons podcast. "I love all the doctors, but I've lost count of how many of them there are. So the weight of this kind of regenerat
  
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• World of Warcraft Camelot discovery gives the MMO's community its most compelling evidence yet that Blizzard might actually turn a myth into a long-hoped-for reality

  17-06-2026 13:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  A newly discovered version of World of Warcraft, called "World of Warcraft Camelot," once again has the MMO community hoping and theorizing that an enhanced version of WoW Classic is on the way.This week, a dataminer over at Wowhead came across something called 'World of Warcraft Camelot.' Rather than a new expansion for the retail version of the MMO, though, things are pointing to something else. That's because the new discovery is attached to patch 1.60, which was initially released in July 20
  
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• I just found a cheeky way to get my favorite retro controller for less, but you should also keep it on your Prime Day radar

  17-06-2026 13:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Prime Day kicks off next week, and I'd normally advise picking up retro console bits and bobs during the sale. However, I figured I'd check in with a slightly hidden deal on what is my favorite retro controller overall, the Gulikit Elves 2 Pro, as there's a coupon camping out on one of its various Amazon listings.The specific Gulitkit Elves 2 Pro listings in question brings the Sega Saturn-inspired gamepad down to $37.99 from $39.99. All you need to do is click the coupon price check box on the
  
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• One Persona 4 Revival actor shared her "hardcore manifestation" to get into the JRPG remake over 2 years ago, and it clearly worked: "Dreams really do come true"

  17-06-2026 13:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  One Persona 4 Revival actor shared her dream to be cast in the JRPG remake over two years ago, well before Atlus's next game was even announced, and now she says "dreams really do come true."Ari Thrash, who also voiced Yao Guang in Honkai: Star Rail, has now been announced as the new English voice of Marie in Revival – a Persona 4 Golden-exclusive character who was previously voiced by Eden Riegel. "I'm so ecstatic to say dreams really do come true as I announce I had the incredible honor
  
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• Blumhouse CEO tells fans to "have faith" after bringing on board a lesser-known horror helmer to direct the Dead by Daylight movie

  17-06-2026 13:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Just days after announcing that Blumhouse is finally moving forward with its Dead by Daylight movie adaptation, led by Icelandic filmmaker Thordur Palsson, CEO Jason Blum has had to defend the movie's director against fans who don't think he's up to the job. "No one had heard of Emma before Five Nights at Freddy's, and that worked out pretty well," said Blum on Twitter. "Have faith, my friends."Blum's Tweet is in response to Blumhouse's original post, which reads, "To celebrate the 10th annivers
  
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• Christopher Nolan explains how he shot The Odyssey on IMAX film, and it'll give you a newfound respect for large-format moviemaking

  17-06-2026 12:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  I feel like we should be paying a lot of money for the privilege to hear Christopher Nolan give a masterclass about shooting The Odyssey on IMAX.And, yet, here we are. For free, we get the legendary director breaking down each painstaking process of how the large-format film gets taken away after shooting, worked on, and edited for the final 'first generation' cut to play in IMAX theatres.As you can see below, courtesy of guywithamoviecamera on TikTok, Nolan takes viewers through a step-by-step
  
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• Ayaneo is teasing a sequel to its lavish retro handheld, and it feels like a belated GBA 25th anniversary gift

  17-06-2026 12:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ayaneo just revealed that a new Pocket Micro is inbound, and the retro handheld sequel is supposedly "52% larger than the previous generation", features enhanced ergonomics, better battery life, and a punchier Qualcomm chipset. That's a pretty big list of promises, but it's clear that the portable maker is about to put out all the stops for retro enthusiasts.A series of slightly chaotic teasers for the Ayaneo Pocket Micro 2 on X outlines what the best retro handheld contender hopes to achieve wi
  
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• Former PlayStation boss says Xbox shows a "basic misunderstanding" of the games industry amid leadership changes, mixed messaging, and reports of studio closures

  17-06-2026 12:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden says that Xbox's recent moves imply that those involved lack an understanding of how the games industry works. To give Xbox credit, throughout the 2020's, it's been a perfect example of how to be entirely inconsistent. From deciding to become a multi-platform publisher, to changing its mind with the likes of Gears of War E-Day, only for rumors to emerge that actually, it might change its mind again and that it was nothing more than a way to advertise to an in
  
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