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‘God of War’ TV Show Officially Recasts Its New Kratos

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Published Aug 20, 2026, 7:40 PM EDT

The recast follows a serious on-set injury that forced the ambitious Prime Video adaptation to restart much of its production.

Bluetti's Popular AC70 768Wh 1,000W LiFePO4 Power Station With 5 Year Warranty Drops to $220 After Coupon

Bluetti is well known for its high quality yet affordable power stations and solar generators. The brand also happens to have an official AliExpress storefront where it sells its products for considerably less than on Amazon.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 beta dates: How to sign up for both MW4 beta weekends

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 - Multiplayer match showing three players with guns down a street in fictional South Korea
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You can't regularly queue up for combat until October, but a series of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 betas are a chance to try one upcoming campaign mission and several multiplayer maps before launch. Trying to decipher what happens when and how to register is super convoluted, so here's an info drop on the MW4 beta dates and what you'll need to get started.

All match overrides and console locations in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4

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Published Aug 20, 2026, 4:53 PM EDT

Rewrite the rules of the server

An override console, which looks like a retro game cartridge slot, in Fortnite. Image: Epic Games via Polygon

Match overrides allow you to change how Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4 is played, but only if you interact with the override console first.

I'm a decade-plus FromSoftware sicko, and these are my 5 takeaways from the first Duskbloods gameplay

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Ahead of The Duskbloods' network test next week, veteran Soulsborne YouTubers VaatiVidya and Oroboro have uploaded long gameplay videos and explainers for the Switch 2 exclusive PvPvE game, while IGN and Automaton have published new interviews with project lead and Soulsborne commander-in-chief, Hidetaka Miyazaki.

STALKER 2 gets serious performance and visual upgrades with its 2.0 update, testing confirms, polishing up one of the biggest flawed gems in FPS games

New Zone, who dis

Shooting a Bloodsucker mutant at close range in STALKER 2, running on update 2.0.
Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World

I don’t begrudge anyone who’s waited to try STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl until it got its technical defects fixed. They’re still wrong, obviously - an absorbing and eerily atmospheric survival FPS is still an absorbing and eerily atmospheric survival FPS when it has the structural integrity of baked beans. But it was spectacularly broken at launch, and although nearly two years of patches have swatted countless bugs and beefed up the series’ signature A-Life NPC simulation, it’s remained a heavyweight GPU-puncher on general performance.

AngryMiao AM Infinity.97 mouse review

Early Verdict

A flagship-grade wireless rodent with blistering speed, innovative swappable batteries and surprising comfort. It just lacks polished software and carries a price tag that outpaces its rivals.

For

  • Comfortable shape
  • Powerful with high DPI and polling rate
  • Solid battery life

Against

  • Software lacks some refinement
  • I'd have liked a dedicated DPI button
  • Harsh battery drop-off with 8000Hz enabled

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32 Years Later, The Single Best 'X-Files' Quote Of All Time Still Haunts Me

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Published Aug 18, 2026, 5:30 PM EDT

And it's not one from Mulder or Scully

The X-Files promo image showing Mulder and Scully together on a white background Image: 20th Century Fox

The X-Files became a landmark show in the 1990s for a lot of reasons. First of all, the concept was incredibly intriguing and original. The idea of FBI agents investigating things like aliens and urban legends was unlike anything that came before it and allowed for wildly different kinds of episodes every week, from sci-fi to horror to even the occasional comedy.

GTA 6 footage once again appears to leak online, this time because of a group that wants games like The Crew to have offline modes and the end of digital preorders

Their priorities are straight at least

Jason leans back in his car behind the wheel, wearing a baseball cap backwards.
Image credit: Rockstar Games / Take-Two Interactive

Yeah, it's happened again: some GTA 6 bits appear to have leaked. I'm not going to link to any of them for I hope obvious reasons, as well as the fact I don't want John Rockstar to send me an email wagging their virtual finger at me. But, having seen them, they do seem to be legit, consisting of a couple of clips and a handful of screenshots showing the in-game map.

Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida told Clair Obscur devs to not call it a 'turn-based RPG' so people wouldn't 'overlook' it

A dark haired character from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 stands in the sunlight looking upward with her allies standing behind her
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According to former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida, turn-based RPGs, particularly JRPGs, were so unpopular several years ago that he would tell indie developers to avoid using the term altogether in their marketing—even for a game like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.