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Splatoon Raiders fans are already shipping its characters, somehow
Splatoon Raiders players have quickly begun pairing the game’s characters romantically, despite its story containing little explicit romance. The reaction highlights the longstanding enthusiasm for “shipping” within the Splatoon community and shows how even a brief ambiguous interaction can prompt extensive fan discussion and creativity. The focus is a post-boss cutscene in which Shiver expresses…
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Spaceballs: The New One Creators on Making Mel Brooks’ Yogurt CGI and Paying Tribute to John Candy | Comic Con 2026
Spaceballs: The New One was presented to a packed Hall H audience at San Diego Comic-Con, marking Rick Moranis’s long-awaited return to the screen as Dark Helmet nearly 40 years after the original film. The sequel aims to parody both Star Wars and the wider culture of nostalgia, with Josh Gad saying there is now…
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Rick Moranis Makes Comic-Con Debut for ‘Spaceballs’ Sequel
Rick Moranis made his first-ever Comic-Con appearance to promote Spaceballs: The New One, Amazon MGM’s sequel to Mel Brooks’s 1987 Star Wars parody. His return as Dark Helmet is significant because he has largely stayed away from film and television this century, prompting a standing ovation and chants from the Hall H audience. The panel…
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‘Spaceballs: The New One’ Invades Comic-Con With Send-Up Of Marvel’s Hall H Panels Of Yore
Amazon MGM Studios used its Hall H presentation at San Diego Comic-Con to promote ‘Spaceballs: The New One’ with a parody of Marvel’s elaborate franchise-announcement panels. The event underscored the sequel’s intention to revive Mel Brooks’s satirical approach, targeting modern blockbuster culture as well as the ‘Star Wars’ conventions mocked by the 1987 original. The…
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SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure
SpaceX’s 13th Starship test flight successfully deployed its first third-generation Starlink satellites and completed a simulated landing of the upper stage, but its Super Heavy booster failed during a planned landing burn and exploded on impact with the Gulf of Mexico. The mixed result matters because Starship is intended to make Starlink launches far more…
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Jails will ‘run out of space in November’, review chief warns – as Andy Burnham pauses early release scheme amid furore over PC Andrew Harper’s killers
A prison-capacity review chief has warned that jails in England and Wales could run out of space by November, increasing pressure on the Government to manage overcrowding. Andy Burnham has paused an early-release scheme after controversy over its possible effect on the killers of PC Andrew Harper, whose case has heightened public concern about prisoner…
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Starship’s 13th test deploys 20 V3 Starlink satellites
SpaceX completed the 13th test flight of its Starship rocket, deploying 20 next-generation V3 Starlink satellites for the first time. The mission was a technology demonstration rather than an expansion of customer service, testing both the satellites’ higher-capacity systems and Starship’s development towards a rapidly reusable launch vehicle. The V3 satellites were designed for up…
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One of NASA’s Most Important Deep Space Observatories Hit by Spanish Wildfires
Wildfires near Madrid have swept through NASA’s Deep Space Communications Complex at Robledo de Chavela, one of three global sites used to communicate with spacecraft including Voyager 1 and the James Webb Space Telescope. All personnel were evacuated safely, and NASA has moved operational support to its Goldstone facility in California, avoiding any interruption to…
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Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA’s Deep Space Network complex in Spain
A fast-moving wildfire near Madrid forced NASA to evacuate its Deep Space Network complex in Spain and suspend operations there temporarily. The site is a key part of the global network that communicates with more than 40 missions, including Artemis, the James Webb Space Telescope and the Voyager probes, although NASA said support had been…
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Everything You Need to Know About Shakira’s Residency in Madrid: Dates, Tickets & More
Shakira will stage a 12-date Madrid residency this autumn as part of her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour, with organisers aiming to make it a wider cultural event rather than simply a concert series. The temporary venue will include Macondo Park, where ticket-holders can explore pavilions devoted to Latin music, food, literature, art…