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David Hayter Returns as Solid Snake in Rainbow Six Siege Crossover

Metal Gear Solid’s bandana-furrowing Snake is teaming up with Splinter Cell’s Sam Fisher as Rainbow Six Siege’s newest operator. Ubisoft revealed the crossover with a trailer that has the two espionage heavyweights bro-ing out before taking down enemies. The Solid Snake operator arrives in Siege with Operation

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Ohio State Professor Put on Leave After Tackling Filmmaker

Ohio State University placed assistant professor Luke M. Perez on administrative leave after he physically clashed with a documentarian who sought a follow-up question for E. Gordon Gee after an interview. Dr. Perez is part of the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture and Society, a center created by

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Metallica's 'Escape' Played Live Once and Became One of Their Least-Loved

When Metallica released Ride the Lightning in 1984, the album produced several classics — 'Fight Fire With Fire,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' 'Fade to Black' and the title track. One track, however, has rarely been embraced by the band: 'Escape' was performed

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Blades of Fire heads to Steam with 2.0 update

Announced last year, Blades of Fire was presented as MercurySteam's spiritual successor to the hack 'n' slash Blade of Darkness. Interest at launch was muted — the game "arrived to all the fanfare of a tax audit." MercurySteam has dubbed the (non-Mercury) Steam version "

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Predator: Badlands, Marty Supreme and what to stream this weekend

Predator: Badlands arrives on Hulu this weekend, following a young Yautja named Dek who must prove himself by killing an unkillable apex predator. He teams up with a badly damaged android played by Elle Fanning. Also new: Ryan Prows’ Night Patrol, a bloody horror that examines white supremacy; Johannes Roberts’

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MCU fans reassess controversial Phase 4 film: 'had so much potential'

As Avengers: Doomsday approaches, some fans hope the MCU has finally found its groove after a rocky period between RDJ's imminent return and his departure in Avengers: Endgame. One frequently discussed misstep from that stretch is Thor: Love and Thunder, which lead actor Chris Hemsworth has admitted could

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Solo Leveling Season 2 Audio Drama Lands in English on Feb. 16, 2026

Pocket FM will release the English version of the Solo Leveling Season 2 audio drama on Monday, February 16, 2026. The production is a collaboration with K-audio producer Soundist Entertainment and features Yuri Lowenthal as Sung Jinwoo. The audio drama has been rolling out since mid-2025 as a premium, full-cast

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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry enjoy Valentine's dinner in LA

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle kicked off their Valentine’s Day weekend with a dinner in Beverly Hills, stepping out at Funke. Markle wore a brown puffer coat, black pants and a sleek updo, while Harry chose a black jacket and jeans; the pair smiled as they left the upscale

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Can you guess which videogame these potions are from?

For as long as there has been damage in videogames, there have been humble healing items: bandages, mushrooms, herbs. If you can consume it, you can probably regain health, and the simple potion remains a favourite. Do you know your potions well enough to guess which ten videogames the following

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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die ending explained by the director and writer

In Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, an alleged time traveler played by Sam Rockwell appears in a Los Angeles diner with a plan to avert the apocalypse, recruiting volunteers including Juno Temple, Zazie Beetz, Michael Peña and Haley Lu Richardson. Director Gore Verbinski and screenwriter Matthew Robinson take

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Meghan shares rare look at Lilibet in Valentine photo

Meghan Markle posted a Valentine’s Day photo on Instagram showing Prince Harry holding their 4-year-old daughter Lilibet, who wore a pink dress and matching tights and clutched a bouquet of balloons. The image offers a rare glimpse of Lilibet’s face as she hugs her father. “These two + Archie

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Which role — tank, healer, or DPS — do you play in MMORPGs and why?

The Holy Trinity—tank, healer, and DPS—has shaped MMORPG party roles for roughly 25-30 years. It remains an inescapable framework across the genre, even in games like Guild Wars 2 where support or tankier builds still fill similar functions. Some games tweak the formula: City of Heroes adds a

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Prime Video Has Rescued the 'Predator' Director's Viking Misfire

Streaming has given a second life to a gritty, atmosphere-first Viking survival adventure that many wrote off after its theatrical run. FlixPatrol places The 13th Warrior in the Prime Video U.S. Top 10 this week, where it peaked at #6 yesterday and sat at #7 at the time of

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Overwatch dating sim returns with fewer romances than China version

Loverwatch—the cheeky browser-based dating sim where you win the hearts of various Overwatch heroes—is back for a limited time. It first appeared as an impromptu Valentine's Day celebration in 2023. At launch you could romance Genji, Hanzo, or Mercy. Last year, China received an exclusive sequel

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Gisèle Pelicot’s Memoir Recasts Shame After Her Husband’s Crimes

In A Hymn to Life, Gisèle Pelicot, with Judith Perrignon and translated by Natasha Lehrer and Ruth Diver, describes how a decades-long marriage unraveled after her husband was first caught taking upskirt photos in a supermarket. Written with matter-of-fact precision, the memoir alternates between the ordinary details of domestic life

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Texas Chain Saw Massacre leaving Netflix on February 18

Texas Chain Saw Massacre will leave Netflix on February 18. The Tobe Hooper-directed film is a classic that redefined the slasher genre. Co-written by Hooper and Kim Henkel, the movie follows a group of young adults who encounter a house full of demented butchers who chase them with chainsaws (and

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Rosie O'Donnell says she secretly returned to US to 'see if it was safe'

Rosie O’Donnell said she secretly returned to the United States for two weeks to see family and to test how hard it would be to get in and out of the country. She told Chris Cuomo on SiriusXM’s Cuomo Mornings that she wanted to hold her children after

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Inside Tomb Raider's creative PC mapping community

When Lara Croft's grittier incarnation drew players in 2013, Axel Hatté began building custom levels for Core Design's older Tomb Raider games. He had long been intrigued by the level editor bundled with 2000's Tomb Raider: Chronicles, but it took 13 years before he

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How to get Blank Collars in Mewgenics

Blank Collars are a class in Mewgenics that work differently from other collars. When you buy a Blank Collar from Tracy it joins your collection but appears in the Collars menu as a duplicate of one of the collars you already own, letting you bring multiple cats of the same

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Movie fans debate films rescued by great endings

A Reddit thread asked, "What movie had an ending that saved the whole film?" and users shared picks that turned otherwise middling films into memorable experiences. One fan picked The Others: "When you think you're just in a haunted house movie, you start to get

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Predator: Badlands becomes Hulu's most-watched U.S. movie after one day

Predator: Badlands began streaming on Hulu in the U.S. and on Disney+ internationally yesterday. After one full day on the platforms, it ranked as the most popular movie worldwide on both services. Dan Trachtenberg directed the sequel and co-wrote the screenplay with Patrick Aison. The film, which reached theaters

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Surveying Popes Creek

George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, in a brick house along Popes Creek in Westmoreland County, about 80 miles south of Mount Vernon. The Operational Land Imager on Landsat 8 captured the lands west of Popes Creek—now the George Washington Birthplace National Monument—on January 19, 2026.

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James Van Der Beek bought $4.76M ranch with friends' help a month before his death

James Van Der Beek purchased the Texas ranch he had been renting since 2020, closing what appears to have been an off‑market deal for $4.76 million on Jan. 9. The actor died on Feb. 11 at 48 after a years‑long battle with stage 3 colorectal cancer. Friends

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Mewgenics proves turn-based tactics excel at drama and excitement

Turn-based tactics can look intimidating or even dull, but at their best they are the natural home of drama and excitement. Mewgenics has become a surprise hit this month and even scored a 92% review, despite appearing on paper as a niche cat-breeding project. The game’s surface is goofy

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How Hollywood Turned Wuthering Heights Into a Romance

Many students go into Emily Brontë’s novel expecting a swoony romance and leave shocked by its brutality. Victorian reviewers found Wuthering Heights disturbing and violent, and the first known film adaptation, a lost 1920 silent, advertised itself as “Emily Brontë’s tremendous Story of Hate.” The 1939 Laurence Olivier–