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X‑Men don't exist in Marvel's Wolverine, and Spider‑Man won't appear

Despite showing Jean Grey and Mystique, Marvel's Wolverine centers solely on Logan rather than a team of X‑Men. Marcus Smith, the game's creative director, said the developers wanted to build a Wolverine story in a world where mutants aren't well established. Smith clarified

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Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven Arrives on Peacock

Ridley Scott returned to historical action with Kingdom of Heaven, directed by Scott and written by William Monahan. Set in the 12th century during the Crusades, Orlando Bloom stars as Balian de Ibelin, a widower who joins his father, navigates the Christian army's politics and must defend Jerusalem.

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Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like?

Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? The quiz presents five iconic figures — Paul Atreides, Captain Kirk, Princess Leia, Ellen Ripley, and Max Rockatansky — and uses eight short questions to match you with one of them. The questions probe how you lead under pressure, your greatest strength in a crisis,

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How to Rob a Bank is modern day Heat meets Twitch

Director David Leitch, of Deadpool 2 and Bullet Train fame, dares to ask: What if Michael Mann's 1995 American crime-thriller Heat took place in the modern day? The result is the daring, adrenaline-pumping action film How to Rob A Bank. Featuring a star-studded cast of Nicholas Hoult, Zoë

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Crossword editor’s desk: celebrating 30,000 cryptics with a treasure hunt

Cryptic No 30,000 has been published, and here — in the order solvers experienced it, but presented in reverse — is how the milestone was marked. In 2024, seeing we were approaching the last half of the 29,000-numbered puzzles, we decide the best way to celebrate it is to have

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Not every publisher is running from GTA 6, Devolver says

GTA 6 has loomed over the industry for so long it feels like a force of nature, prompting fans to speculate about trailers and pushing many publishers to reshuffle release dates ahead of its November 19 launch. Devolver responded to a Kotaku headline on Twitter, noting "not every publisher&

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Prime Video Cancels Stargate Revival, Producer Joseph Mallozzi Reacts

Prime Video has scrapped a new Stargate series developed by Martin Gero, Joseph Mallozzi confirmed. Gero worked on the project for two years and it had been greenlit in November of 2025. Mallozzi said, "Creator Martin Gero developed a new Stargate series over two years, ultimately crafting a show

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Which Taylor Sheridan World Do You Belong In?

Taylor Sheridan's four worlds — Yellowstone, Landman, Tulsa King and Mayor of Kingstown — are brutal, complicated and built on power, loyalty and the price of survival. Sheridan doesn't write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. A ten-question

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London Gallery Weekend 2026: 10 must-see shows

London hosts hundreds of world-class galleries and thousands of exhibitions, yet high rents and a difficult economy have forced many spaces to close — the Tiwani Contemporary recently announced it will shut. Even so, London Gallery Weekend, now in its sixth year, brings the city's biggest and brightest galleries

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Vasana Montgomery apologizes after N-word videos resurface

Vasana Montgomery has issued a statement after being removed from the Season 8 cast, following the resurfacing of videos that showed her using a racial slur. “I want to address a couple videos from my teen years that have recently resurfaced,” Montgomery began in a statement posted to her Instagram

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Final Fantasy 14 seasonal events schedule: what to expect

Final Fantasy 14 runs a steady rotation of seasonal events, from Valentine's, Easter and Halloween variants to celebrations inspired by Japanese holidays and in‑world festivities. Square Enix rarely posts exact dates far in advance, but each event tends to return at roughly the same time each year.

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Unbeatable Squirrel Girl makes Krenko, Mob Boss obsolete

Krenko, Mob Boss has long been the poster child for explosive token strategies, but a new card from the Marvel Super Heroes set changes the matchup. Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is a four-cost 4/4 Squirrel Human Hero that creates a 1/1 green squirrel token when she enters the battlefield

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A convincing theory links God of War Laufey's cube to Metatron's Cube

Phranque, the talking cube unveiled in the God of War Laufey trailer, was widely mocked on first viewing. Enthusiasts online, however, have proposed a more serious interpretation: that the cube is a physical manifestation of Metatron's Cube, an idea first highlighted by GameSpot. Learn Religions describes Metatron'

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Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man previews bloody, darkly comic horror

The red-band trailer for Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man offers a brief, grisly look at a film that mixes gore and laughs. The setup nods to recent horror hits that used eerie children as a central mystery — Weapons made that device key with its Aunt Gladys twist — but Roth’

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Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In?

Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for. Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn't write heroes — he writes people who do

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Matt Brown faced breakup and a broken truck in days before his death

Matt Brown’s body was pulled from the Okanogan River in Washington state Saturday. He was 43, and his brother Bear said he died by suicide; in a TikTok video Bear added that "it does look like the injury is self-inflicted." Family friend Chay Moore, who was part

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Which gaming clip won $500? May's best gaming videos

A new highlight reel gathers the internet's best gaming clips from May, covering frenetic battles and sandbox hijinks. Submissions included firefights in Counter-Strike 2, Marathon and Battlefield 6, alongside comedy moments from Crimson Desert, Minecraft and Subnautica 2. The ten-minute compilation features several standouts: a giant riding a

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Strauss Zelnick added as playable wrestler in WWE 2K26

Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick is now a playable wrestler in WWE 2K26. On June 3, the game received a season three update that added new content, including Terri Wilson and Brian Pillman, but Zelnick was not mentioned in the blog post; he quietly went live in the game. His

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'Star Wars' Director Pitches Wild Crossover With 'Backrooms'

A24's Backrooms became the studio's top-grossing domestic release in less than a week, opening just after The Mandalorian and Grogu and quickly overtaking that entry in the Star Wars line. Rather than a straight box-office battle, the releases were often seen as counter-programming. Shawn Levy is

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Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive?

Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you'd actually make it out of alive. The quiz asks prompts such as: "You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do?"; "In a world of scarcity, what

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The moment I knew: he’d never wanted children but would with me

In 2003, in my early 30s, I was working for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s company The Really Useful Group in Sydney. I’d seen several shows Pete had designed and liked his work; when he came to my office to show his portfolio we hit it off and ended up

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Who is Kevin Sobieski? Meet Andy Cohen's rumored boyfriend

Andy Cohen turned heads when he stepped out with businessman Kevin Sobieski while celebrating his 58th birthday in New York City. The Bravo personality and his rumored boyfriend were photographed holding hands as they made their way to Via Carota in the West Village on June 2, 2026. The duo

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Legendary Warhammer artist John Blanche has died

John Blanche, a hugely influential illustrator known for his work on Warhammer 40,000 and other Games Workshop properties, has died. Artist Trish Carden announced his passing on Facebook, saying he had died earlier this week and sharing a message requested by Blanche's wife Lin: "John was

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Yuji vs. Denji Death Battle focuses on characters, not power levels

Death Battle’s latest YouTube episode pits Jujutsu Kaisen’s Yuji Itadori against Chainsaw Man’s Denji, and the match proves less memorable for its outcome than for how carefully it dissects both protagonists. Rather than treating the fight as a simple power-scaling exercise, the hosts lean into deeply detailed

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Deborah Ann Woll: Faye's acrobatic combat matches Kratos's brute force

Sony Santa Monica opened State of Play with 20 minutes of gameplay from God of War Laufey, introducing a new protagonist in Kratos's second wife and Atreus's mother, Faye. Her distinctly agile move set contrasts with Kratos's brawny, lumbering movement. In a "meet