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The man, from Kentucky, has been jailed for what a judge in the US called his "cynical" actions.

The Democratic National Convention's third night in Chicago featured a folksy 'coach' Tim Walz, Oprah Winfrey and a host of other big names.

Starfield finally got its first land vehicle this week, via a free update Bethesda revealed at Gamescom Opening Night Live alongside the Shattered Space DLC’s release date. While it almost definitely won’t convert you if you weren’t already interested in playing more of the game, it is at least spawning an inevitable array of interesting vehicle mods.As soon as that teaser for the Rev-8 buggy dropped and we all saw it doing some skids to the kind of tune all ‘cor, would you look at this cool thing’ car montages opt for, this was always going to be the case, but the speed’s still remarkable.Since the buggy update dropped on August 20 and everyone got to work running over half the population of New Atlantis in the kind of hit-and-run spree usually reserved for Trevor Phillips or Homer Simpso...

Developer Pearl Abyss has showcased three boss fights from its upcoming open-world action-adventure game Crimson Desert--a masked outcast known as the Reed Devil, the king of a fallen kingdom known as the Staglord, and the massive gem-encrusted Queen Stoneback Crab.The new clips, as revealed at Gamescom this week, show off the variety in Crimson Desert's boss combat, with each enemy requiring different skills and strategy to fight. The clips also introduce a little more of the world of Pywel, including some of the narrative cutscenes that lead into the boss fights.The first of these bosses, the Queen Stoneback Crab, is decribed by Pearl Abyss as a kind of ambush predator, luring in unwary prey with the promise of valuable gems. "A gem-crusted boulder sits stoic and silent, a dazzling prism...

Quick Take Juan Leon, Senior Investment Strategist at Bitwise Invest, highlights the growing influence of stablecoins in the US Treasury bill market. Currently, stablecoins hold approximately 1% of US Treasury bills, but Leon projects this could surge to 15%, potentially making them one of the top three holders of these securities. Leon shared a Bloomberg chart illustrating that as of June, Tether held $80.9 billion in Treasury bills, surpassing Schwab’s US Treasury Money Fund at $70.7 billion and Fidelity Investments’ Money Market Treasury Only Fund at $79 billion. This positions stablecoins as significant players in the market, a role traditionally dominated by the $6.19 trillion money-market mutual fund industry, which held around $2.4 trillion in government debt by the end of June, ac...

The Bitcoin (BTC) market appears to be now experiencing a concerning trend, according to the latest report from an on-chain data provider, CryptoQuant. In the report, CryptoQuant discloses a notable slowdown in the growth of whale holdings, which refers to the accumulation of Bitcoin by large-scale investors. The report reveals that the implication of this trend may be quite negative for BTC. This is because, usually, Bitcoin whales, who hold substantial amounts of BTC, have a considerable influence on the market. When these large holders accumulate, it generally signals confidence in the asset, often leading to price appreciation. However, the current decline in this accumulation suggests that these key market players may be becoming more cautious, raising concerns about the potential for...

Remember that puzzle game Unravel and its star: a cute lad made of yarn called Yarny? He'd tackle headscratchers by unwinding the very fabric of his body, similar to how a human being might feed their intestines through a karabiner and use it as a tether for a spot of rock climbing. Well, some of the minds behind Unravel are working on new game called Hela. This time it's less about yarn and more about being a small mouse who does parkour. Still, it does retain some of the bodily gymnastics of its predecessor. Namely the use of tongues as bungee ropes. Read more

Earlier today, old man James wagged a finger at us all sternly for not writing about Atomfall before. My turn to puff out my cheeks and look not angry, just disappointed: why haven't we covered The Stone Of Madness prior to the below Gamescom 2024 story trailer? I mean, it's only a real-time tactical stealth game set in a cursed 18th century Jesuit monastery, developed by the people behind gorgeously gross metroidvania Blasphemous. It's only got isometric art inspired by Goya and a sanity/trauma system redolent of Darkest Dungeon. Sounds like an automatic RPS write-up to me. Read more

Blizzard brought the goods at Gamescom this year. Diablo 4 fans didn’t just get treated to a new trailer for the upcoming Vessel of Hatred expansion, focusing on the Mercenaries, we also got to see more of the new Nahantu region, and learn about much of what we can expect when we get our hands on it.But the developer had even more surprises for us, and a lot of them affect all players, not just those who intend to buy Vessel of Hatred. Read more

Like it or not, a live-action Naruto movie seems to be coming from Hollywood after spending many years in development hell. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton is currently attached to the project, and while he might have the directing sauce needed to pull off a flashy manga/anime adaptation, we're understandably worried about such a tricky transition regardless. Now, the movie's original writer is trying to calm fans down.Entertainment Weekly recently talked to scribe Tasha Huo, the showrunner for Netflix's upcoming Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft animated series, and of course, tried to extract new information regarding Naruto. To their surprise (and everyone else's), she actually spoke at length about the process of putting that movie together ...