Culture

Mortal Shell 2 open beta was downloaded 250,000 times over the weekend

Playstack says the open beta demo for Mortal Shell 2 was downloaded 250,000 times over the weekend. Developer Cold Symmetry called the response "incredible," adding that seeing new players and longtime fans dive in, share feedback, and get excited means a lot to the team. The studio

World

Xi Jinping arrives in Pyongyang on trip to revitalise China-North Korea ties

Xi Jinping has arrived in North Korea for a two-day trip, his first visit in nearly seven years. Footage published by Xinhua showed an Air China plane carrying Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, touching down at Pyongyang’s Sunan international airport. A red carpet and honour guards greeted the

Culture

Ten questions about the Ocarina of Time remake

Nintendo’s summer Direct revealed a remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo Switch 2, due later this year. The brief trailer offered little beyond a tapestry and a shot of Link asleep, so nearly everything else remains unknown. Key open questions include how Link

Culture

Cryptic crossword No 30,029

1 down. Doctor oversees surgical procedures that went a bit wrong. 6 letters. 2 down. Riverside waiter, earring perhaps, with shaved head? 6 letters. 3 down. Smear bit of fish with virus onto vessel. 10 letters. 4 down. See 19. 5 down. Guard on visits reading novel. 9 letters. 6

Culture

Kevin Costner's 'Horizon' Climbs Prime Video Charts After Theatrical Flop

Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1 was added to Prime Video on Jun. 1, and viewers have been repeatedly watching the over three-hour-long epic. The film has climbed into Prime Video's streaming charts and is the sixth most popular movie on the platform this week, behind Jack Ryan:

Culture

Stephen King Praises Peacock’s Teacup as a One-Season Horror Binge

Peacock's Teacup is a one-season pressure cooker of paranoia, body horror and ambiguous mysteries. Stephen King dubbed it "all killer, no filler." Though it never got renewed, that finality makes the show perfect for a late-night binge. The series adapts Robert McCammon's novel Stinger

AI

Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5: Mythos model with built-in guardrails

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, a version of its Mythos-class model adjusted with safety controls. Fable 5 uses the same underlying model as Mythos but adds safeguards that block responses in specific high-risk areas of cybersecurity and biology. When a prompt veers into those areas, the model falls back

Sports

What missing automatic World Cup qualification means for England

England's chance to secure automatic qualification for the 2027 Women’s World Cup evaporated in Mallorca as Spain ran out 4-0 winners, the Lionesses' heaviest defeat since 2009 and the most emphatic loss of Sarina Wiegman's tenure. Spain now have the upper hand and will

Business

Industry reactions to OpenAI's IPO filing

OpenAI submitted a confidential S-1, joining Anthropic and SpaceX in the race toward public markets. The company cautioned that "it may be a while" before shares are publicly listed, as AI labs shift from private development to public earnings calls, financial disclosures, and new regulatory scrutiny. Perplexity CEO

Culture

Attachment review – adoption and the care system in a short monologue

Adoption and the care system are at the emotional centre of Julia Cranney’s new monologue. Mat (Paislie Reid) and her partner, James, enter early permanence — a pathway in which babies and toddlers are placed with prospective adopters who initially foster them, with the possibility the child could return to

Culture

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey: Tickets Now on Sale

Tickets for Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey went on general sale June 9, 2026, after earlier rounds of sales quickly sold out. Early 70mm IMAX showings made available on July 17, 2025, were snapped up immediately, and when wider IMAX sales opened on June 4 demand

Culture

Rich Paul gives rare insight into romance with Adele, reveals how they met

Rich Paul said he met fiancée Adele "through a friend" and had "known her for some time," describing their early connection as something that "happened very organically" amid shared social circles. He admitted he’d heard her "monster hits" but hadn’t

Culture

Donald Duck has extra fingers in Kingdom Hearts Collection art

Square Enix’s newly announced Kingdom Hearts Collection (1–3), revealed during the Nintendo Direct showcase, features official artwork that fans have noticed looks off: Donald Duck appears to have a mismatched number of fingers. In some images he shows three fingers on his right hand and four on his

Culture

Little Devil Inside misses Summer Game Fest again, 11 years after Kickstarter

Little Devil Inside, first revealed on Kickstarter in April 2015 and spotlighted during Sony’s PlayStation 5 reveal stream, did not appear at this June’s Summer Game Fest or the other major showcases. The game has repeatedly promised release windows but has yet to arrive for players who first

Culture

Trojan Horse popcorn bucket debuts for The Odyssey

The Odyssey popcorn bucket has arrived, shaped like the Trojan Horse and designed to open and close in the middle to store popcorn. Fans had guessed either Odysseus's helmet or the Trojan Horse; the latter fits given that Christopher Nolan's film adapts both The Odyssey and

Science

Cosmic Origins Seminar, 10 June 2026

The ASTRA Initiative. Cosmic Origins Seminar, 10 June 2026. Speaker: Jessica Gaskin. astra initiative, astra, cosmic origins, cosmic, origins, seminar, 10 june, june 2026, jessica gaskin, speaker

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Dragon’s Dogma 2 Dark Arisen DLC arrives, one-save file complicates access

Nintendo Direct revealed Dark Arisen, a full expansion for Dragon’s Dogma 2. The add-on borrows its name from the original game’s praised expansion and introduces a northern region called Norgan, along with new characters, dungeons, weapons and skills. Dragon’s Dogma 2 only allows a single save file,

Culture

Every Year After arrives on Prime Video June 10

Every Year After, adapted from Carley Fortune's novel Every Summer After (2022), premieres on Amazon Prime Video on June 10, 2026. The series follows Sam Floreck (Matt Cornett) and Percy Fraser (Sadie Soverall) when Percy returns to the lakeside town of Barry's Bay after a tragedy;

Crypto

Ether Eyes $1,500 Support After 25% Open-Interest Decline

Ether's futures market has seen open interest drop 25% to $12.6 billion from $16.6 billion in May, with Gate.io experiencing the largest fall — about 45% to $2.68 billion from $4.84 billion on May 7, matching levels from April 11, 2025. Bybit's

Culture

The "Chronically Online" Are Having Their Moment Thanks to 'Backrooms'

For years YouTube served as a proving ground for filmmakers outside traditional channels, and that path has yielded some of 2026's biggest hits. Recent films such as Backrooms, Obsession and Iron Lung trace back to creators who built careers on the platform — Kane Parsons, Curry Barker and Markiplier.

Sports

Alisha Lehmann keeps training on Jamaica holiday with Montel McKenzie

Alisha Lehmann is not letting recent footballing heartbreak stop her from staying in peak condition. The Swiss forward shared gym snaps and a mirror selfie with partner Montel McKenzie before revealing the pair were enjoying a sun-soaked holiday in Jamaica, even posing in front of a giant sign on a

World

US navy sea drone rescues soldiers after Apache shot down

US Central Command said two US Army AH-64 Apache crew members were rescued after their helicopter went down while patrolling regional waters. The soldiers were recovered within roughly two hours and are in stable condition, and CENTCOM said the cause of the aircraft loss is under investigation. Navy Capt. Tim

Culture

Eve Hewson recalls 'bonkers' day Barack Obama visited Disclosure Day set

Eve Hewson said she was intimidated by the very idea of Disclosure Day, and that the role of Jane Blankenship came after Steven Spielberg hand-selected her to read the script, having followed her since their work on 2015's Bridge of Spies. Spielberg told her he was "really

Culture

From Ciara Miller to Ariana Madix: One designer's revenge dresses

The Bravosphere’s recent reunions have produced a new kind of response to betrayal: the revenge dress. Ciara Miller stunned at the Season 10 Summer House reunion in a mesh-illusion Di Petsa gown with sculptural draping, while Ariana Madix debuted a gold Di Petsa “wet” dress when she began hosting

Culture

Everything we know about Final Fantasy 7 Revelation

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation is the third and final act in the Remake trilogy. It will launch in spring 2027, though no specific date has been set. Revelation is also the first game in the trilogy to arrive on all platforms simultaneously, including PC; there are no PC store pages