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

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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.

What Car Needs To Gain Another Axle? - Jalopnik

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For the most part, vehicles on the road have just two axles and four wheels in total. Sure, there are things like semi trucks, cargo vans and buses that have three or more axles, but in terms of the cars, trucks, SUVs and everything in between that regular consumers are out here buying, you're almost always stuck with only two axles. And that's a shame, because vehicles with more than two axles are just plain cool. Case in point, the Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6x6 you see above, which I recently spotted in Beverly Hills and then saw driving around Monterey Car Week.

All 89 movies based on Marvel comics, ranked according to critics

It's been 40 years since audiences saw their very first theatrical movie based on a Marvel comic — would you believe that 1986's "Howard the Duck" was the first major motion picture based on a character from Marvel?

I toured a Concorde, the discontinued supersonic commercial jet flown by celebrities and royals. Take a look inside.

I toured a Concorde, the discontinued supersonic commercial jet flown by celebrities and royals. Take a look inside.

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PlayStation Reportedly Reboots Multiplayer Spinoff Horizon Hunters Gathering to Strip Out All the Live-Service Parts Following Negative Playtest Feedback

Sony has reportedly rebooted PlayStation live-service game Horizon Hunters Gathering after negative feedback from playtests.

Horizon Hunters Gathering is a multiplayer, cartoony spinoff from Guerrilla’s mainline, single-player Horizon series, which is known for its photorealistic visuals. Upon its announcement in February, Horizon Hunters Gathering was compared to Capcom’s Monster Hunter series, although many questioned whether it would find an audience.

CareCloud confirms 3.7M patients had their medical records stolen in data breach

Hackers have stolen the personal information and medical records of more than 3.75 million people in a data breach at health data giant CareCloud, the company has confirmed with federal regulators. The disclosure marks the first confirmation of the scale of the data breach, which is now confirmed to be the fifth-largest theft of health data in 2026 so far.

Emma Barnett: Broadcaster reveals she had hysterectomy after making film about endometriosis

BBC presenter Emma Barnett has revealed she had a hysterectomy and surgery for endometriosis days before a documentary she made about the condition was broadcast.

Barnett, 41, returned to Radio 4's Today programme on Wednesday morning, explaining she had been absent in recent weeks because she was in hospital "in a case of life imitating work".

Apple iPhone 18 Pro Design Is Identical In Size To iPhone 17 Pro, Case-Maker Says

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It’s only a matter of weeks until the next iPhones go on sale (here’s the date I believe the next keynote will be announced, and read this for a full run-down of everything that will happen between now and release date). But two case manufacturers are already selling what they claim will work for the new iPhone 18 Pro. Can this be right?

Tides of Annihilation: The First Preview

Key Preview Takeaways:

• This Arthurian-legend action-RPG leans into its King Arthur inspirations in a really impressive way.
• The two boss fights in my demo were extremely satisfying combat encounters.
• Despite the combat being fun, Gwendolyn's movement controls still need some fine-tuning.

In Tides of Annihilation it isn’t just London Bridge that’s falling down, it’s the entire city that’s been razed to ruins by an unknown presence invading from a mysterious otherworld, and you’re the only human survivor left to stop it. This action adventure heavily inspired by Arthurian legend made a serious splash when it was announced early last year, but I was initially concerned that the fast-paced slash ‘em up from first-time developer Eclipse Glow Games may have been all style over substance. However, after spending roughly two hours of hands-on time with a preview build at a recent event, I’m happy to say that Tides of Annihilation feels just as exhilarating to play as it is utterly dazzling to watch.

At least 100 dead in gold mine collapse in Central African Republic

Relief volunteer says 100 bodies recovered as miners remain missing and trapped under rubble at the Zamboye site.

More than 100 people have been killed after an artisanal gold mine collapsed in western Central African Republic (CAR) near the border with Cameroon, local sources and a Red Cross volunteer have said.