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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

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Cape Fear review: Amy Adams and Javier Bardem’s immaculate update

'Ever look around and wonder if we deserve all this?' a woman asks by the swimming pool; her husband replies, 'No.' This is the latest screen incarnation of John D MacDonald's taut psychological thriller, published in 1957 as The Executioners and adapted for the

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The Post-PlayStation-Showcase Fallout

The latest God of War entry, Laufey, does not star Kratos — Faye, his dead wife, takes center stage in the afterlife — and that choice has drawn a wave of online backlash. Much of the negativity reads like another round of anti-woke reaction, amplified by social media’s engagement incentives: the

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Super Mario Galaxy Movie Overtakes The Lion King at Box Office

For decades, Disney's 1994 film The Lion King stood as the studio's highest-grossing hand-drawn animated feature, earning $763.5 million in its initial run and $979,161,632 over multiple re-releases, including an IMAX run in 2002, a 3-D release in 2011 and a 30th anniversary

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Which action hero would be your perfect partner?

A ten-question quiz promises to assign you the action hero built to have your back. It asks how you travel, communicate mid-mission, handle capture, and what you need in the final moment, using those answers to reveal the partner best suited to your instincts and style. If your match is

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Unitree's Dancing Robots Did a Somersault on AGT

On the Season 21 premiere on June 2, soft-spoken 26-year-old Yufei Wu from China walked onto the Americas Got Talent stage with an unexpected entourage: a brigade of robots. The studio erupted into shrieks as the machines joined him, leaving an air of uneasy curiosity about what would follow.

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868-Back makes hacking as cool as '90s Hollywood thought it was

868-Back layers a nostalgic, neon-soaked presentation over a deceptively stern puzzle-roguelike. Pixel art, notebook doodles and bass-heavy music combine with technobabble to make every foray into a backdoor server feel like an old-school cyberpunk set piece. On the surface the rules are simple: turn-based runs on randomly generated 6x6 grids,

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Stars Reach: Raph Koster's new sci-fi sandbox MMO

Raph Koster, best known for Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies, has unveiled Stars Reach, a sci‑fi sandbox MMORPG due to launch this summer. The game is the first from Playable Worlds, which Koster co‑founded in 2018. Players can explore the universe, find planets to settle, and build

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Final Fantasy and Star Wars face the same problem, says former Square Enix exec

Former Square Enix business director Jacob Navok has argued that Final Fantasy and Star Wars share a common issue: their core fans are aging while the pipeline of new, younger fans is small. He shared a Variety report that the latest Mandalorian and Grogu movie has struggled at the box

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YouTuber Enters Rockstar North Lobby; Police Allegedly Called

A YouTuber who makes videos about Grand Theft Auto 6 filmed himself entering Rockstar North’s office lobby and says local police were called. The creator, German YouTuber ÜberGaming, posted the video on June 2 showing him entering the lobby after staying in a luxury hotel across the street. The

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Blade Runner's Biggest Omission: Mercerism from the Book

Even after its 1982 box-office flop, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner grew into a cult classic. Having read Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? before watching the film, the writer found the two works strikingly different: the movie borrows the basic premise but trims

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Netflix's 2-Part Assassin Thriller Quietly Fixed What John Wick Couldn't

Bob Odenkirk was an unusual choice to lead an action franchise, but Nobody's 2021 success proved he could shoot, stab, and mangle bad guys with the best of them. Nobody 2 underperformed at the box office compared with the first film, yet delivered arguably more — and gorier — mayhem,

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Simon Cowell Hosts AGT Judges' Callbacks in His Garden

America's Got Talent introduces a new Judges' Callbacks round in Season 21 that sends selected acts to perform in more intimate settings — including Simon Cowell's garden. The idea began when a producer suggested each judge pick contestants they'd like to see a second

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'Alaskan Bush People' star Matt Brown's cause of death revealed

An autopsy by the Okanogan County Coroner in Washington ruled the death of 'Alaskan Bush People' star Matt Brown a suicide, caused by a single penetrating gunshot wound to the head. The report noted contributing circumstances of subsequent immersion in water — a river — and that he was under

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Marvel's Wolverine will be a linear single-player adventure, not open world

Insomniac has confirmed Marvel's Wolverine is not an open-world or sandbox game. Game director Mike Daly said, "We did not set out to make an open world game or a sandbox game. What we really wanted was high octane, high intrigue, linear single-player adventure, and the missions

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Laufey reveal sparks 'Meanwhile' Faye meme

It hasn’t even been 24 hours since God of War Laufey was announced, and fans have already turned its premise into one of the series’ funniest jokes. Only about 20 minutes of footage has been shown, and the reveal that Laufey runs parallel to the 2018 Norse-themed reboot set