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Star Ocean changed the game for RPGs, 30 years ago this month

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Love and Deepspace fans are begging the developer to bring back Valko

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Abu Dhabi-based MGX raised a $49B AI-focused fund, exceeding its $45B target, and plans to deploy as much as $10B annually from the fund over the next few years (Dinesh Nair/Bloomberg)

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Sony shutting down PlayStation Store on PS3, Vita by 2027

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Letter: the US says Anthropic "agreed to proactively detect and address security risks" of Fable 5 and Mythos 5; a source says Anthropic developed a "safeguard" (Financial Times)

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Sony says it will close the virtual PlayStation 3 store in select markets in 2026 before closing PS3 and PS Vita stores "in all other countries" in July 2027 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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How do Minions reproduce? Minions & Monsters director answers 3 extremely specific questions

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Streaming vs. Theaters

The Onion

Salivating Brewers Fans Chase Down Mascots In Sausage Race

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MAHA Voter Feels Betrayed   By Continued Survival Of Own Children

The Onion

Damn It, Mom’s Totally Going To Make You Host Christmas Now

The Onion

Anya Lopez and Sara Jarrett

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Anti-Vaxxer Dating App Gaining Popularity

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Harvard Faces Pressure To Fire Confederate Generals

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Trump Indicates Desire For Speedy End To World

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Sources: Meta plans a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI compute and models, to compete with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud; META jumps 9% (Bloomberg)

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Sony is closing the PS3 and Vita digital stores

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Sony announces end of PlayStation physical disc production

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A researcher says a vulnerability in Apple's Hide My Email tool lets anyone see a user's real email address; first reported in June 2025, Apple has not fixed it (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

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Taiwanese authorities detain two Super Micro staff and an Albatron manager after a raid of Super Micro's local offices this week over Nvidia shipments to China (Bloomberg)

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