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How to kill Helldivers 2 Veracitors and Gatekeepers

Veracitors and Gatekeepers are new Illuminate additions found in the Appropriators sub-faction: massive squid mechs that mix Overseers and drone swarms. Both can be taken down the same way—first destroy the blue shield protecting the pilot who hangs under the mech, then shoot the exposed pilot, which causes the

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Firefly Revival: Production Status, Cast, and What We Know

Plans for a Firefly revival are taking shape: a finished script exists and Disney is on board, but the series still needs a distributor before production can fully proceed. Creator Joss Whedon will not be involved, though he has given his blessing, and the project will be animated by ShadowMachine.

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Which Acting Oscar Win of 2026 Will Age the Best?

After a long awards season the 2026 Oscars have concluded. Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another led the night with six statuettes, while Ryan Coogler’s Sinners took home four, including Best Original Screenplay. Four performers claimed the acting prizes, spanning period drama, horror and a villainous turn

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Barry Keoghan rethinking career after online 'abuse' over his looks

Barry Keoghan says he withdrew from the internet and is asking people to be kinder after his breakup with Sabrina Carpenter sparked a wave of online bullying. “There’s a lot of hate online. It’s a lot of abuse of how I look,” he told SiriusXM’s "The

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GTA's Chain Game: from save-passing exercise to international community

The GTA Chain Game is a non-real-time multiplayer relay: players take turns advancing a single save file until each title reaches 100% completion. What began as a simple save-passing exercise has run for years across multiple Grand Theft Auto classics, turning a handful of rounds into an international community that

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These 20 one-season anime are perfect for unwinding during the weekend

Immersing yourself in a sprawling anime can be deeply rewarding, but series like One Piece or JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure — which even reinvents its narrative midstream in the Netflix Steel Ball Run adaptation — demand a major time commitment. Sometimes you just want a self-contained dozen-episode run to binge over a

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How to open the New Sanctuary vault in Fortnite

Working out how to open the New Sanctuary vault in Fortnite has left many players stuck. The triangular base deep within the New Sanctuary was a great place for rare loot last season, but Season 2 of Chapter 7 removed the method that previously unlocked the door. The vault sits

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Nicholas Brendon criticized Sarah Michelle Gellar in eerie video days before his death

Nicholas Brendon went live on Facebook on March 14 in a 45-minute video while sitting outside what appeared to be his home. The actor, best known for playing Xander Harris on all seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, rocked in a chair and coughed aggressively, at one point coughing

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Toby Fox says most of Deltarune team has moved on from Chapter 5

Toby Fox posted on Bluesky with an update on Deltarune's fifth chapter. Professional testers are familiarizing themselves with the build and will begin formal testing on April 1, while Japanese translation quality assurance is projected to be completed in April. He added that “most of the development team

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Crimson Desert sells over 2 million copies in less than 24 hours

Crimson Desert, an open-world action-adventure from Pearl Abyss, sold more than 2 million copies in less than 24 hours, the studio said on X. Pearl Abyss thanked fans and players for joining them in Pywel and said it would listen closely to community feedback and make improvements quickly. The game

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Honors Chuck Norris

Veteran action movie star Chuck Norris passed away on Mar. 20 at the age of 86. He made his name as a martial artist and began his film career in the late 1960s, eventually amassing roughly 60 credits. Best known for his eight-year run as Cordell Walker on Walker, Texas

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20 Years On, Matt Damon's 91% RT Crime Classic Dominates Streaming

Matt Damon recently voiced frustration with the constraints of streaming while promoting The Rip, saying films designed for a streaming audience typically feature heavy exposition to account for other distractions. He is returning to a more theatrical, cinema-first form of filmmaking and will headline Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey

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'Buffy' alum Nicholas Brendon faced legal disputes before his death

Nicholas Brendon was suing Britton Excavating and Construction Services for more than $120,000, saying he paid $79,441 for renovations to make his Ohio home accessible for his medical needs but that only a $7,622 fence was completed before the contractor ended the job. In December, company owner

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These are my 20 RPG freak pick must-plays for $10 or less in the Steam Spring Sale

I love an RPG, and going through my Steam Library I realized a ton of my all-timers are on sale for pennies. Way more than 20, but I don't make a modest-yet-comfortable middle class income for world beater advice like "You should buy The Witcher 3 on

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This lost Hungarian animated gem, Bubble Bath, is streaming free online

Bubble Bath, the delirious 1980 feature by Hungarian animator György Kovásznai, is now streaming free on Tubi and Kanopy and available on Eternal Family; Deaf Crocodile has also released a Blu-ray. It was the only feature Kovásznai completed before his 1983 death. The plot is spare: prospective groom Zsolt flees

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Amy Duggar cries over cousin Joseph's wife Kendra's arrest

Amy Duggar tearfully responded to the news of her cousin Joseph Duggar’s wife Kendra’s arrest in a video shared on her Instagram Stories. “I don’t know what’s going on, and our local news is saying that there’s more and there’s been someone else who’

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The great RPG debate: Defined playable characters or blank slates?

What makes a better RPG: a pre-defined protagonist with an immutable history and personality, or a blank slate you can mould? Blank-slate games often offer broader roleplaying options and replay value—Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Dragon Age (to a degree), Fallout and Skyrim are given as examples. Still,

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Ryan Gosling's quieter, more powerful space film: First Man

Before Project Hail Mary, Ryan Gosling reunited with Damien Chazelle for First Man, a docudrama about Neil Armstrong’s path to the 1969 moon landing. The film stages technical problems and professional problem-solving much like the Andy Weir adaptations, but it also dwells on the unsolvable, emotionally charged moments the

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Writers reframed Lae'zel and Shadowheart's romance by finding common ground

Lae'zel and Shadowheart begin Baldur's Gate 3 with a noticeably strained relationship, but writers Kevin VanOrd and John Corcoran say those tensions were shaped deliberately. VanOrd recalls sitting down with Corcoran early in development to compare the characters and set some narrative limits. Both companions struggle

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Everyone’s Falling In Love With Picking Up Cats In Crimson Desert

Crimson Desert divides players, but one feature has earned near-universal affection: the ability to pick up cats. The game lets you pet dogs, sure, but it also gives felines center stage, answering the long-standing question of whether games will let you fuss over kitties as well as pooches. Gruff ol’

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Yellowstone's Jamie Adoption Retcon Undermines the Dutton Feud

Just when Yellowstone seemed headed for a Shakespearean family tragedy, a Season 3 reveal changed the rules. In Episode 7, "The Beating," Jamie Dutton learns he was adopted at three months and that his biological father murdered his mother. The twist reframed months of mounting tension between Jamie

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10 Years Later, Anya Taylor-Joy’s Best Psychological Thriller Still Holds Up

Ten years after its release, Split is finding a new audience on streaming and has reappeared in Apple TV’s global VOD top 10 in multiple countries. The M. Night Shyamalan thriller has continued to attract viewers who revisit it or discover it for the first time. Made for just

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Lamb shanks with orzo and rhubarb galette: Anna Tobias' Easter recipes

Easter immediately brings to mind two things for the writer: cracking dyed red eggs together in the Serbian-style conker game played each year, and lamb. The lamb shank here is a straightforward, moreish take on a popular Greek recipe, and rhubarb makes a seasonally pretty pudding. To make the shanks,

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A Pokémon FireRed failure that could only happen in 2026

Autosave has dulled my instinct to hit the save button, and eight hours into the newly ported Pokémon FireRed on Nintendo Switch I lost my progress because I never saved. I paid $19.99 for a nostalgic return to Kanto and spent several evenings catching bugs, picked up an early

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Nicole Kidman seen holding hands with Simon Baker after premiere

Nicole Kidman was seen holding hands with her Scarpetta co-star Simon Baker on the red carpet in New York City on March 3. They were later photographed close at the afterparty, with observers saying their chemistry "clearly wasn't faked" and that they "stayed close all