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August 2026 PS Plus Essential Games Available to Download Now
Three PlayStation Plus Essential games for August 2026 are now live in the UK and Europe, with the US store expected to update later the same day. The lineup includes Big Walk on PS5, plus Dying Light 2 (PS5/PS4) and Signalis (PS4), giving subscribers three titles to claim at no extra cost. As usual, the…
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Stellar Blade: Blood Rain’s AI music video should be viewed with “understanding in mind”, says studio boss
Shift Up CEO Kim Hyung Tae has defended the studio’s use of an AI-generated music video promoting Stellar Blade: Blood Rain, after players criticised its poor quality on social media. The video, posted to the official Shift Up YouTube channel in late July, shows protagonist EVIE singing an original song titled “Wanna be in Love”,…
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Green councillor who defeated council leader quits
Andy Davies, the Green Party councillor who won the Walkley seat from Sheffield Council leader Tom Hunt in May’s local elections, has resigned after just three months in the role, citing mental health and personal reasons. His departure ends Hunt’s three-year Labour leadership of the council and triggers a by-election, the second in Sheffield within…
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Southampton will win Championship this season – Downes
Southampton midfielder Flynn Downes says the squad have a “chip on their shoulder” and are determined to win the Championship this season, despite the club starting the campaign on a four-point deduction. The penalty follows the Spygate scandal that saw Saints removed from last season’s play-offs, with head coach Tonda Eckert recently charged by the…
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Love Me Tender review – Vicky Krieps custody-battle drama is intelligent, sensual and bitter slice of life
This review of *Love Me Tender*, adapted by writer-director Anna Cazenave Cambet from Constance Debré’s autobiographical novel, praises Vicky Krieps for an intelligent, restrained performance as a woman battling to see her son after her marriage collapses. The film matters as a rare, unsentimental portrait of homophobic bias within family courts, following Clémence as she…
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The 1999 Robert Downey Jr movie despised by the people who made it: “I hate that film most”
The article text provided for this piece could not be retrieved — the page returned only site navigation and menu labels (e.g. “Music”, “Film”, “Travel”, “Art”, “News”) rather than any actual story content. As a result, no factual details about the 1999 Robert Downey Jr film in question, or the quote attributed to its cast…
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Tadanobu Asano, Yukino Kishii’s Cannes Title ‘All the Lovers in the Night’ Lands North American Distribution (EXCLUSIVE)
Bitters End has secured North American distribution for “All the Lovers in the Night,” the Cannes Un Certain Regard title starring Yukino Kishii and Tadanobu Asano, with Several Futures taking the US rights and Ritual Films handling Canada. The deal is part of a broader international rollout for the Yukiko Sode-directed film, which is based…
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Oil profits spike as Middle East war fuels energy prices and Trump blasts soaring earnings – business live
Oil giants including BP, ExxonMobil and Chevron have reported surging profits, driven partly by higher energy prices linked to the Middle East conflict, prompting a sharp rebuke from Donald Trump and condemnation from environmental campaigners. Trump said the companies should “give some of that profit back to the public” and cut consumer fuel prices, while…
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Critics slam ‘absurd’ plans for an Aussie state to ease drug-driving penalties for medicinal cannabis
The New South Wales government is defending planned reforms that would ease drug-driving penalties for some medicinal cannabis patients, after critics warned the changes could compromise road safety. Legislation due to be debated in the state parliament this week would allow eligible prescription holders to avoid penalties following a first and second positive roadside drug…
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Metro Bank customer fights for £14,000 refund after AI-linked fraud
A Metro Bank customer, Sussex businessman Zoli Rutter, is fighting to recover £14,244 taken from his account after fraudsters exploited his linked debit card to buy credits for the Anthropic AI chatbot Claude. Despite Rutter confirming to the bank that an initial suspicious transaction was unauthorised, Metro Bank failed to freeze his account immediately, allowing…