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Arsenal almost signed Spanish winger on deadline day

Racing Santander’s sporting director Chema Aragon has claimed Arsenal pursued a move to sign Pablo Garcia from Real Betis, before the player’s eventual transfer to the Verdiblancos.Photo by Charle...

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Sep 3 • 12:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
No. 18 Penn State vs. Marshall Preview & Prediction

It's been over eight months since Penn State football last played a game. In that time, the Nittany Lions have established almost an entirely new coaching staff, added 15 signees, seven walk-ons and a program-record 40 transfers, watched 74 players leave either via the transfer portal, the NFL or graduation, and even switched apparel partners …

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Sep 3 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Farke on Rodon, bids for Okafor and facing Brighton

Leeds United boss Daniel Farke has been speaking to the media before Saturday's Premier League game against Brighton at Amex Stadium (kick-off 15:00 BST). Farke confirmed defender Joe Rodon will be out for eight to 10 weeks with a "serious hamstring injury", adding: "It is a big blow for us because he is a key player for us." The Leeds boss also said it is up to him to decide when the right time is for Gabriel Gudmundsson to return from injury.

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Sep 3 • 11:03 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Aryna Sabalenka destroys US Open reporter over ‘partying’ question

One of tennis' best players did not care for this line of questioning.

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Sep 3 • 9:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Ghost of Yotei is Getting a Roguelike Survival Mode That Includes Ghost of Tsushima's Jin

PlayStation blockbuster Ghost of Yotei is getting a new single-player roguelike mode, Most Wanted, as part of its Complete Edition that includes upcoming expansion Echoes of Sekigahara.

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Sep 3 • 9:17 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com
‘Halloween: The Game’ Review – Stealth, Stalking, and Michael Myers Shine In An Uneven Horror Exp…

The latest from IllFonic, the studio that has carved out a niche for itself as the ultimate authority on multiplayer horror with Friday the 13th,

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Sep 3 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • bloody-disgusting.com
Halloween Cleverly Carves Its Own Path Through Horror Multiplayer

Michael Myers comes alive in IllFonic's latest asymmetrical haunting grounds.

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Sep 3 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • gamespot.com
Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen devs say Western and Japanese players want different things from the game

There's a reason players are split on some of the changes Capcom made to Dragon's Dogma 2 with recent updates.

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Sep 3 • 8:43 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Ravens’ 53-man roster by acquisition: Draft picks, signings, trades

Examining how the Ravens acquired every player on their initial 53-man roster.

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Sep 3 • 7:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Can Dontayvion Wicks elevate his game enough to become Eagles' WR2?

Dontayvion Wicks arrives in Philadelphia ready to prove he can be more than a role player.

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Sep 3 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • nbcsportsphiladelphia.com
Olid promises 'brave' Man Utd with new-look style

New Manchester United manager Eva Olid has urged her players to be "brave" and have an "attacking mindset" this season.

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Sep 3 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Who are the British players in the NFL?

BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team explains who the British players are in the National Football League

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Sep 3 • 3:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Cardinals Legend Sends Warning Over Michael Wilson Extension Talks

The Michael Wilson contract extension talks have been one of the biggest player storylines for the Arizona Cardinals this offseason. Cardinals legend Adrian Wilson decided to share his two cents on the topic.The legendary safety and 2015 Ring of Honor inductee published a nine-post thread on X on the Michael Wilson extension talks. He cautions […] The post Cardinals Legend Sends Warning Over Michael Wilson Extension Talks appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 3 • 2:26 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Nordi Mukiele: Right Back or Centre Half?!

Was Nordi Mukiele actually Sunderland’s best player against Fulham - and could his future lie at the heart of the defence rather than at right-back?

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Sep 3 • 1:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘Right in your face’: The science behind Maryland field hockey’s press defense

While the intensity of the Terps’ press defense stays consistent, part of what makes it so effective is the different shapes the players take on.

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Sep 3 • 12:33 AM EDT • Science • dbknews.com
SEC reportedly considering removing LSU from conference

The LSU Tigers have been moving forward with plans to add a few players to their roster who have signed professional contracts. However, it sounds like the SEC is considering expelling LSU from the conference if that happens. While adding those players to the roster would violate NCAA and SEC rules, a Louisiana state court…

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Sep 2 • 11:07 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sony and Microsoft say they’re not obligated to pass U.S. tariff refunds to consumers, echoing Nintendo

Back in July, Sony executives told investors that the company expected to receive $508 million in refunds from the U.S. government, after tariffs that the PlayStation-maker paid were ruled mostly in 2025 were found to be illegal. “Most” of the refund would by recouped by Sony’s gaming division, its chief financial officer said. This week, Sony’s lawyers are arguing that the company is not legally obligated to pass those proceeds on to consumers who paid for recently price-hiked PlayStation consoles. That’s in the face of a lawsuit from gamers calling on them to do exactly that. “Paying fair market price for voluntarily purchased consumer goods is not a legally cognizable injury in fact,” the lawyers wrote in a legal motion filed on Monday, as they asked a judge in California’s Northern District to dismiss a potential class action lawsuit over the tariff refunds. Microsoft made a similar argument two weeks ahead of Sony’s lawyers, in a similar lawsuit brought by a gamer in federal court in Washington State. As Microsoft’s legal team put it on August 21, in their request for a dismissal of that lawsuit: “There is nothing unjust about Plaintiff purchasing an Xbox at an advertised price and getting exactly what he paid for—regardless of whatever theory he devised months later about Microsoft’s cost structure.” Both legal fights are set to go on for some time. How things got to this point U.S. tariffs impacting a wide range of imported goods, including game consoles, had kicked off in early 2025. In May 2025, Microsoft raised the price of its Xbox consoles, citing “market conditions and the rising cost of development.” They raised them again that September. In August of that year, Sony raised the price of PlayStation 5 consoles, citing “a challenging economic environment.” Sony later told investors that its tariff fees for the fall quarter were nearly $200 million. in February of this year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the 2025 tariffs illegal, prompting impacted companies to begin to request refunds. In turn, consumers began suing the likes of Sony and Microsoft to get what they said was their share. The gamers in the Microsoft and Sony lawsuits argue that the 2025 price hikes of PlayStation and Xbox consoles, which added $50 or more to their sticker price, were due to illegal tariffs and should now be returned to consumers. The Sony suit started in May, when a group of gamers sued in federal court in California, saying Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation) would be unjustly enriching itself if it did not pass tariff refunds to its PS5 buyers. “Sony is poised to be paid twice for the same unlawful tariff burden: once by its customers (through elevated prices) and once by the U.S. government (through tariff refunds),” the gamers’ lawyers wrote at the time. They called for Sony to partially reimburse anyone who bought a PlayStation in the U.S. since August 1, 2025. The Microsoft suit, filed by gamer Trevor Hastings against the Xbox giant in July, made similar claims. The console makers push back In late July, Nintendo’s lawyers, facing a similar suit accusing them of double-dipping on tariffs and refunds, replied with arguments that previewed Microsoft’s and Sony’s: “Nintendo or one of its retailers set a price for each product, and consumers decided whether that price was worth paying,” they wrote. Sony has buttressed that Nintendo-style argument this week by saying that the gamers have failed to prove that tariffs were the reason for its August 2025 PS5 price hike. They call thatclaim “speculative and illogical.” Other factors, including “inflation, currency fluctuations, component costs, logistics, competitive dynamics, or demand,” could have played a role. (No, the Sony lawyers do not break down the costs and factors that officially triggered the price increases). Microsoft has also argued that there’s no proof in these lawsuits that tariffs drove all or some of the price increase, as it seeks to dismiss the tariff refund suit it’s facing: “Plaintiff provides no specific allegations that would establish any pricing differential attributable to tariffs or suggest any possibility that Microsoft applied then or could recreate now any dollar-for-dollar calculation of tariff-related pricing—any more than it could any other market factor that affects pricing.” To further skewer the gamer side’s argument in its case, Sony’s lawyers have pointed to what might be a surprising defense: yet another PlayStation 5 price hike from this past spring, after the tariffs were ruled illegal. “If the original price increase were attributable to tariffs, SIE [Sony Interactive Entertainment, aka PlayStation] would have had no reason to raise prices again after the Supreme Court invalidated the IEEPA tariffs.” … “If tariffs were the cause of the price increases, one would expect SIE to lower prices once the tariffs were eliminated—not raise them again. Instead, the timeline confirms that the pricing of PlayStation consoles includes a diverse and dynamic set of input costs.” Judges have not yet ruled on the arguments made by Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo. Last week, Panic, the company behind the small, yellow Playdate handheld said it would be passing its tariff refunds on to consumers. It is the only gaming hardware maker to have made such a pledge. Game File is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my reporting, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe Item 2: A reporter’s second Second Life Wagner James Au, who from 2003-2006 was paid by San Francisco-based tech company Linden Lab to be a full-time journalist embedded in their virtual world Second Life, is returning to the company. This time, he’ll be an editorial advisor and business development specialist, he tells Game File. The new role will involve trying to share the stories of people inhabiting Second Life’s ongoing online world with reporters and by extension the public. Au plans to continue to also chronicle some of that through his long-running blog New World Notes. I’ve known Au since the mid-2000s and featured him in a 2007 article for the Columbia Journalism Review about reporters like him opening up virtual news outlets within Second Life. As I wrote at the time: On April 22, 2003, writing as Hamlet Linden for the New World Notes blog on Second Life’s Web site, Au introduced himself. “For the next few months, Linden Lab has invited me to set aside my journalist cap, and instead, don the digital beanie of their in-house virtual correspondent.” He wasn’t paid to keep it positive. He wrote about builders and eccentrics, but then in August of that year, he reported on a tax revolt against Linden Lab (a complaint about the fees it charges users who build stuff) led by a resident whose avatar was a big cat. Second Life has always been less of a video game and more of a virtual world where people can live, hang out, make art, sell virtual items and flirt. Back in 2007, Au described touring it as “sort of like underwater lucid dreaming.” For the past two decades, Au has maintained New World Notes as an independent publication. But he said he’s been drawn back to Second Life and Linden Lab as a place to directly work. The virtual world has around 650,000 monthly active users, he said, “which is actually about what it was during the hype wave.” Au says he’s still finding rich stories in Second Life, the kind that keep him interested 20 years into the beat: “Over the last few months for instance, I wrote about an SL creator in Venezuela whose apartment was destroyed by the earthquakes, so the global SL community rallied to get him back on his feet,” he told me. “Then there’s the woman from a Middle Eastern country who explored her lesbian sexuality in SL, then earned enough from her virtual jewelry to escape her abusive family situation and country.” Au wants to beckon more reporters to give Second Life another look. He argues that it is often ahead of internet trends, noting, for example, an early backlash in the community against AI-made art. Now the platform is drawing curiosity from more of the user-generated content community who’ve grown up with the likes of Roblox, according to Au. “Second Life was too early during its hype wave in 2005-2010, but it now feels right for a new wave of interest,” he told me.

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Sep 2 • 8:21 PM EDT • Technology • gamefile.news
Georgia AG urges SEC to suspend, expel LSU if school rosters former NFL players

A state judge is set to rule Thursday on whether former NFL players can suit up for LSU as Georgia's attorney general pushes commissioner Greg Sankey to impose severe conference penalties

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Sep 2 • 6:59 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
Reading 5-0 Mansfield Town: Player Ratings

Another strong showing, this time at home to Mansfield, helped Reading get up and running in the league.

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Sep 2 • 6:53 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Patriots’ Captain Announcement Has Fans Questioning One Major Omission

The New England Patriots have their captains for the 2026 season. It didn’t take long for the conversation to shift toward the player who wasn’t among them. New England announced Tuesday that quarterback Drake Maye, tight end Hunter Henry, safety Kevin Byard III, cornerback Marcus Jones, linebacker Robert Spillane and offensive tackle Morgan Moses were […] The post Patriots’ Captain Announcement Has Fans Questioning One Major Omission appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 2 • 6:52 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Science Hill’s Kiantai Harris named Week 2 Player of the Week

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Science Hill running back Kiantai Harris ran his way into the school record books Friday night. The junior rushed for a single-game school record 367 yards on 25 carrie…

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Sep 2 • 6:30 PM EDT • Science • wjhl.com
Uber to shed 10% of workers as it moves to cut costs and simplify its business

CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said Uber is removing organizational layers and taking other steps to boost its efficiency.

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Sep 2 • 6:14 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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ASU's Matthew Mayich had heat stroke, lack of oxygen to brain

Matthew Mayich, the Arizona State hockey player and Blues draft pick who collapsed in an offseason workout suffered exertional heat stroke that reduced the flow of oxygen to his brain, his attorney told ESPN.

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Sep 2 • 4:14 PM EDT • Sports • espn.com
Tech parties are becoming major players in the sports ownership industry: Sportscorp's Marc Ganis

Marc Ganis, Sportscorp founder and CEO, joins 'Closing Bell' to discuss the recent spate of sports team sales, the role private equity has played and much more.

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Sep 2 • 4:00 PM EDT • Sports • cnbc.com
Premier League Clubs Spend Record $4.7B on Player Transfers

The Premier League’s transfer spending dwarfed the rest of Europe’s Big Five.

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Sep 2 • 3:50 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Fantasy football sleepers: 4 late-round targets for 2026 drafts

When talent meets opportunity, good things can happen. Here are four players you can get late in your drafts who have significant upside.

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Sep 2 • 3:14 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen Fixes the Sequel’s Biggest Flaw, but Combat Still Fights the Player for Control

We went hands-on with Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen at gamescom 2026, checking out the new features and content in the upcoming DLC.

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Sep 2 • 3:00 PM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com
The line in the SEC between college professional sports still matters

As the SEC begins another college football season, it's being burdened by the legal debate over professional players returning to play.

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Sep 2 • 2:37 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Rockstar Is Finally Ditching 'Tap X To Sprint' In GTA 6, But Not Everyone Is Happy: 'I’m Honestly A Little Disappointed'

For some players, this is good news; for others, it's the end of an era

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Sep 2 • 2:00 PM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
Decagon on Saturn’s South Pole (Color)

Recent NASA Hubble Space Telescope images show the gas giant Saturn and its southern pole, where astronomers have discovered a 10-sided atmospheric wave. Observations show the decagon extends through multiple layers of Saturn’s atmosphere.

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Sep 2 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
Uber to cut thousands of jobs in sweeping restructuring effort

The ride-hailing giant's CEO said Uber is cutting management layers, consolidating teams and requiring most remote workers to relocate to key office hubs.

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Sep 2 • 1:56 PM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe gets a surprise Switch 2 update, bringing eight-player split-screen to the evergreen racing game

Nintendo sneakily updates a bunch of games. Mario Kart 8 gets a free Switch 2 update with 8-player split-screen, while Smash Bros Ultimate improves its online.

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Sep 2 • 1:11 PM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Ace Combat 8 reveals live service online multiplayer modes that include PvE, PvP, PvPvE battles, and a hangout space

Bandai Namco has revealed the full scope of its Ace Combat Online online modes, including PvP, PvE, and a social space for player avatars.

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Sep 2 • 12:28 PM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Auburn vs. Baylor Preview And Prediction

There might not be another player I’m more interested to watch this weekend than DJ Lagway . We already know about the talent. Now we find out whether a fresh start can finally unlock it. Lagway transferred to Baylor after throwing for 4,179 yards and 28 touchdowns during two seasons at Florida , and he’s…

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Sep 2 • 11:58 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Erin Rae of V-103 has the latest in entertainment headlines

Lionel Richie is recovering in the hospital, Dyson releases a new smart toothbrush, and a man who was pretending to be an NFL player has gone viral.

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Sep 2 • 10:58 AM EDT • Entertainment • fox5atlanta.com
Top 10 players facing make or break season, including C.J. Stroud and Marvin Harrison Jr.
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Sep 2 • 10:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
RuneScape Arrives on XBOX for the First Time in 25 Years with Survival Adventure RuneScape: Dragonwilds!

Welcome to RuneScape: Dragonwilds, a survival game set in the RuneScape universe for 1-4 players, arriving in 1.0 September 15, on XBOX Game Pass.

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Sep 2 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • news.xbox.com
Xbox Network outage now fixed, Microsoft confirms

Microsoft has confirmed that the Xbox Network is experiencing a major outage which is preventing players from signing in to Xbox devices.

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Sep 2 • 9:36 AM EDT • Technology • trueachievements.com
Dragons Dogma 2 Devs Says RPG Players Want Opposite Things

Balancing player expectations between the two regions proved challenging

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Sep 2 • 8:45 AM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
Current LSU football stars embrace NFL players returning to college

LSU football's leadership council gave head coach Lane Kiffin the thumbs up to add former NFL signees.

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Sep 2 • 8:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Best NFL player for every franchise before and after 2000: Peyton Manning earns unique distinction

From Peyton Manning and Tom Brady to Jim Brown and Jerry Rice, we pick each NFL franchise's best player from two eras

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Sep 2 • 8:16 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
Surprise Switch 2 Upgrade Brings Wild 8-Player Split-Screen Mode To Mario Kart 8 Deluxe For Free

Still the king

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Sep 2 • 8:11 AM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
EA SPORTS FC™ 27 Brings Fans Closer to The World’s Game With New Partners, Leagues, and Stadiums

Powered by the support of global football partners, EA SPORTS FC™ 27 captures The World’s Game with unrivalled authenticity. Today, Electronic Arts announced an expanded roster of leagues, clubs, partners and stadiums coming to EA SPORTS FC 27, bringing players closer to the football they love through one of the most authentic representations of The World’s Game. Additions include new and renewed partnerships with a number of major European clubs, the highly anticipated return of Liga MX, and the continuation of EA SPORTS FC’s long-term relationship with the Bundesliga, the ROSHN Saudi League and the A-League. FC 27 AUTHENTICITY “With EA SPORTS FC 27, we’re building on years of bringing our community closer to football,” said James Salmon, Senior Director Partnership Marketing, EA SPORTS FC . “New and renewed partnerships bring more of the clubs, leagues, players and stadiums fans care about into FC 27, with the authenticity they expect from us. Together, they make The World’s Game

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Sep 2 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • news.ea.com
La Canada QB Joe Bell is in sports heaven with baseball teammates

In throwback to 1980s, La Canada has seven baseball players on its varsity football team, embracing the multiple-sport athlete.

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Sep 2 • 7:30 AM EDT • Sports • latimes.com
Champions League players to wear new ‘debut patches’ in 2026-27 season

The patches will then be integrated into a unique trading card that will also be signed by the player.

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Sep 2 • 6:40 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
‘Feels like coming home’: Seven writers pick the best sports stadiums

Sometimes, the venue is just as special as the players.

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Sep 2 • 6:15 AM EDT • Sports • washingtonpost.com
Stoke improve despite Thomas exit

BBC Radio Stoke's Mark Elliott reflects on Stoke City's first win of the season despite the transfer of influential player Sorba Thomas to Hull City.

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Sep 2 • 6:03 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Former Patriots find new homes after NFL roster cuts

The Patriots trimmed their roster from 91 to 53 players over the weekend.

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Sep 2 • 5:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dabo Swinney on NFL players going back to college: It's embarrassing, we have no rules
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Sep 2 • 5:20 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
August Monthly Review: ChatGPT In Epic

Death, taxes, another frontier lab healthcare launch inspiring truly insane LinkedIn takes. As much as I want to stay away, I repeatedly am the crewman unplugging his ears whenever we pass these sirens. So it’s not the first and probably not the last time we dial up the typewriter rather than tie ourselves to the mast. The full blow-by-blow timeline: Health API Guy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe The End of the Standalone PHR (Jan 8): ChatGPT Health arrives for consumers, at the time powered by b.well. I was bullish on the approach in that the best way for the PHR to finally solve distribution was to meet consumers were they already are (i.e. When Horizontal Meets Healthcare (Jan 9): OpenAI for Healthcare puts out the shingle for enterprises, with SharePoint ingestion standing in for the EHR integration the product actually needed. Another One: Anthropic’s Healthcare Debut (Jan 16): Claude's version, on HealthEx rails instead of b.well, with Agent Skills for FHIR development as the one true vertical-specific investment. ChatGPT for Clinicians: The Trap Sprung (Apr 24): OpenAI filled in the missing GTM middle with a free product for verified clinicians, effectively peeling the enterprise wrapper off ChatGPT for Healthcare and taking the PLG fight directly to OpenEvidence. OpenAI’s Second Attempt at Health (Jul 31): a relaunch of their patient specific app, now branded Health in ChatGPT, where the privacy partition came out, the connectors thinned, and b.well disappeared in favor of first-party FHIR work against a smaller network Beyond a Shingle So what was announced now? Today, we’re introducing a new electronic health record integration that brings authorized patient context from Epic into ChatGPT for Healthcare, along with the Healthcare Public Data plugin for direct, structured access to official healthcare datasets like PubMed, DailyMed, and CMS Coverage. Together, these capabilities bring ChatGPT closer to the systems and sources healthcare teams trust, while supporting the controls and compliance healthcare work requires. The core portfolio is unchanged from prior announcements we delineated and discussed (aside from the relaunch of patient-facing). Since trade publications still seem to be confusing them by using the wrong names: Enterprise sales motion: ChatGPT for Healthcare Protecting their core product / PLG: ChatGPT for Clinicians Consumer/patient-facing product: Health in ChatGPT So really, this is a feature release (specifically for ChatGPT for Healthcare when it comes to EHR integration). What’s cool about it, though, is that we are moving beyond just putting out a shingle. Everything in the January enterprise launch was horizontalizable: Horizontal tech companies thus generally start verticalization with their “putting out a shingle phase”. Telling the world you’re open for business as a horizontal tech company reliably attracts early inbound interest from buyers who are already trying to force-fit horizontal tools into domain-specific workflows and are eager for any signal that the vendor intends to support their use case more directly. Nothing was really vertical specific, which is exactly what you'd expect from the ultimate hypergrowth horizontal company dipping their toes into specific industries. But eventually you have to stop changing the sign on the door and start changing the product. Can you guess where the horizontal product was going to run out of road? This is the core dilemma writ large: verticalization requires differentiation, while scale economics of consumer and horizontal push toward unification. I’ve buried the lede so deep here it will be painful to some readers, but what should be shocking to no one is that my perspective is that EHR integration is the only path that meaningfully resolves this tension for ChatGPT for Healthcare. Integration with Microsoft Sharepoint is fine, but it is categorically insufficient for any product that hopes to influence clinical decision-making. SMART Money Well here we are, eight months later! Real vertical investment has begun, which surprised a few people. One friend in the industry messaged me: “Absolutely no way Epic gave ChatGPT API access.” Looking forensically at the announcements, the integration is notably read-only across appointment notes, laboratory results, medications, and specialist documentation. So while I’m not a betting man, I'd wager the house this is a SMART on FHIR launch: That sounds a lot like USCDI! The recommended path for the workflow they outline would be SMART on FHIR Their Health AI lead’s post is evocative of both standalone and EHR launch SMART, which another termed “ChartGPT” and “EHR Plugin” The implementation burden for SMART on FHIR is the lowest of the available integrative paths This is the team who literally did patient-facing SMART on FHIR with Epic last month Most importantly, if you’re a horizontal company, you generally still haven’t taken the full plunge and thus (overly) value reusability. SMART on FHIR is the logical compromise: healthcare-specific enough to matter, but standardized enough to reuse. Nobody Asked Judy Another friend asked “I thought they had to go to each health system, or did they go direct to Epic and now health systems opt in?” Given the trust paradigms in healthcare, this functionally cannot be Epic hoovering up all the data for OpenAI and shoving ChatGPT in their customers’ faces (or they would revolt). However, I do believe the aforementioned terrible coverage by TechCrunch and other outlets is probably responsible for that question, given the 325 million reference. When using FHIR as a business associate to an Epic customer, there is no EHR gatekeeping to speak of, as that isn’t how fhir.epic.com works: You register an app You pick your APIs You test against the sandbox APIs You list as “Ready for Production” Hospitals pick your app You test and go live with them Bluntly, nobody had to say yes or no in Verona (nor were they given the chance). Vendor Services (their next developer tier up that I doubt OpenAI is using quite yet in this initial release) certainly has contractual paperwork that some resent, but even there, the twin pressures of mounting antitrust and information blocking make outright gatekeeping increasingly fraught. My friend’s sentiment is, to me, representative of a broader industry neurosis, perhaps a sort of scar tissue of prior eras: people assume the gate is still there and never actually try the door. There are certainly other ways Epic (and any EHR) can put its thumb on the scale, but they are not so dumb as to stand in front of a federally mandated API and play bouncer at this exact moment in time. So I think they can and probably should go deeper, as this release is at best parity and at worst behind vertical-specific competition. OpenEvidence did a basic SMART launch with Sutter Health in February, allowing for more convenient evidence search by providers. They then add patient-context (the equivalent SMART on FHIR flow to what we see here) when Cedars-Sinai went enterprise-wide in May. UpToDate has four distinct applications across deeper workflows like patient engagement listed in Epic Showroom and announced a partnership with Epic to power Art at UGM Abridge and other ambient scribes have invested deeply into the deepest bidirectional clinical copilot workflow with integrations well beyond SMART on FHIR. In that light, the “Who is OpenAI primarily targeting here?” is clear. This release brings them into striking distance of OpenEvidence, but not the others quite yet. They are the only one of the three you can reach without building something truly Epic-specific. When will they go further? Competition is a great motivator to overcome the horizontal demons and start building things that can’t be reused: not across industries, not across EHRs, maybe not past the customer you built them for. That’s the price of actually verticalizing. The question is if and when OpenAI will be willing to pay it. Month in Review Here is the monthly review. As a reminder, this is a regular round-up of the month’s posts and other content to surface things you may have missed across regulation, litigation, interoperability, and beyond. AI assistance is used in these bullet summaries so I can focus on articles. Articles Published: None this month Video Content: The Information Exchange: Standards-based Thruple Edition (Aug 14): Back to school for us too, with Brad reporting in from the CMS Health Tech Ecosystem’s one year anniversary in DC. We get into the January CMS-0057 deadline, the fall rulemaking reading list, and why enrollment still keeps most apps off FHIR. The Information Exchange: Epic Dúnadan Edition (Aug 25): A UGM roundup with Ryan Brickner joining for the first time to check our takes against what the building actually thinks. Rangers, Ergo sitting on top of EHI, and a down-market lineup that needs some cuts. Regulatory: Stacked Deck, Bad Hand (Aug 05): ONC’s website refresh took the entire HIT Policy Committee record with it, so I rebuilt the archive and went looking for the regulatory capture story everyone assumes is buried in there. Stacking the deck and winning the hand turn out to be very different things. The Sixth Generation of Patient Access (Aug 19): A quick catalog of the five generations of patient access we’ve layered on since HIPAA, and the two candidates now competing to be the sixth. One is planned. The other is the market routing around the plan entirely. Court cases: Three Cases Walk Into a Docket (Aug 06): Two surprise settlements cleared the board in a single week, and then Judge Maddox dropped ninety-four pages on Vyne v. Henry Schein. The sleeper is a DMCA holding that makes direct-to-database a considerably riskier business model. Epic v. Health Gorilla: Into the MDL (Aug 10): Nine class actions are headed to Miami, and the Panel signaled it wants to bring the case that spawned them along too. That would leave Epic arguing the requests were obviously fraudulent in one courtroom and unknowable in the other. Amazon v. Perplexity: Agents Are Legalized! (Aug 11): The Ninth Circuit vacated the injunction against Comet, holding that the user is the one accessing the servers rather than the company that built the agent. A real win for agentic access, and a much narrower one than the headline suggests. Veeva v. Epic: Come At Me, Bro (Aug 26): Epic’s response brief wants the dismissal affirmed and, unusually, wants the opinion published as precedent. Buried in it is Epic’s own description of what its non-competes actually prohibit, which current and former employees should read closely. EHRs: The Contract Epic Would Never Sign Today (Aug 04): A 1999 SEC exhibit catches Epic licensing nearly its entire product line, Tapestry included, to the company that became TriZetto. The marketing services menu attached to it is the part that will make you blink. Forecast from Verona (Aug 07): The Epic Almanac makes one argument six different ways: the AI is only as good as the networks behind it. Emmie headlines, Art’s context stack is the most ambitious part, and Penny finally gets an autonomous coding date on the calendar. Works With Epic MyChart (Aug 17): Epic’s first new Showroom category since the death of Workshop certifies hardware instead of software, badge on the box and all. Made for iPhone, but for blood pressure cuffs, and rough news for anyone selling the RPM stack sitting in between. UGM Hot Takes 2026 (Aug 20): Everyone else covered the AI announcements, so I went after Savvy deleting the payment gateway, Rangers as Boost with the timer removed, and a down-market lineup with too many entries. Plus the Health Grid tidbits I cannot help myself on. MyChart Central Grows Up (Aug 24): Device data and Emmie turn Epic’s identity hub into a full consumer platform, which is both a logical answer to ChatGPT and a bit of a mistake. It also happens to be the best scraping target Epic has ever shipped. Industry Analysis: The Wrong Yardstick (Aug 12): Vertical software keeps getting judged against Superhuman and Notion, which is the wrong bar entirely. Your user is comparing your product to a whiteboard and forty phone calls before lunch. Primitives vs. Abstractions (Aug 27): Developers want building blocks, systems of record prefer to hand out business logic, and both sides have a real case. There’s no test from the outside that separates the engineering reason from the competitive one, which is why this keeps ending up in court. Cross-industry Comparisons: The Two Kinds of Platform Power (Aug 18): Attention power and record power are different problems that keep getting handed the same regulatory toolkit. Congress’s latest swing at Big Tech shows both what’s possible and where it falls apart. The Dogs of (Platform) War (Aug 21): A CourtListener alert turned up a property management fight with healthcare’s exact shape and none of the Cures Act. Shell prospects, ghost accounts, a notetaker bot that came back to haunt someone, and a lawyer arguing both sides of the same theory in two states. Fractals All the Way Down (Aug 31): Yardi dominates property management right up until you zoom into one segment, where AppFolio owns it outright and Yardi doesn’t appear at all. Where you draw the line around a B2B software market is about to decide an awful lot of cases. Other News: If Judy Had the Courage (Aug 13): A short eulogy for the era when software was allowed to look insane: WinAMP, bold colors, and everything the grey chatbot era has taken from us. External Media: Portland Monthly Health Tech Meetup: Erin O’Brien channeled my own feelings - maybe it’s just because it’s August and beautiful, but the monthly edition of the PDX Health community meetup was a ripper. Make sure to reach out if interested to join for the next one. STAT’s Coverage of Epic This Month: Brittany Trang of STAT did a fantastic job of breaking the FTC investigation that’s been lurking, as well as UGM related coverage, so I had to give her her wish of a meme. Fall Conferences: I’m pumped to be kicking off my fall conference season in NYC at Nabla Accelerate next month, which Chrissy provided the link to apply for. Here’s the rest of my schedule in case you want to meet up: Commonwell (Redwood Shores, CA): Oct 13-14 Open@Epic (Madison, WI): Oct 21-22 eHealthExchange (Austin, TX): Oct 27 Sequoia Project (Austin, TX): Oct 28-29 HLTH (Vegas): Nov 15-18 RSNA (Chicago): Nov 29-Dec 3 Posts I Liked: HTI-6 Should Unbundle API Certification: Josh Mandel makes the case that HTI-6 should split (g)(10) into separate authorization and data certifications, so a PACS or a genomics platform can certify only the role it actually performs. Imaging is the urgent example, but the structure solves a much bigger problem. On implementing ePrior Auth with Epic: Scott Rossignol’s field notes from a live ePrior Auth build on Epic, including the two app registrations nobody warns you about and the CPT mapping problem waiting at the end. CMS-0057 implementations are going to be such a beast. Healthcare point solutions are starting to look a lot like streaming services: Spencer Dorn runs the cable-to-streaming arc against health IT and lands squarely on the bundling half of the cycle. Bundling can be good! It can also be bad! Life is nuanced. Health API Guy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe

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'I'm counting down the hours until my first training session'

Fulham's deadline day signing Manuel Angel says it will be "a real privilege" to play for his former youth academy coach Alvaro Arbeloa at Craven Cottage. The 22-year-old midfielder has signed a three-year deal, becoming the third player to leave Real Madrid for Fulham this summer. "It is an incredible feeling to have signed for such a legendary club as Fulham, the oldest club in London," Angel said.

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Eight-Player Splitscreen Added to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Nintendo has conjured up an eight-player splitscreen mode for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, available now in a free update on Switch 2.

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2026 preseason recap: Former Huskers to find their place in the NFL

These three former Husker athletes competed in the NFL preseason to prove they had what it takes and secure their spot on an NFL team. One of the most recent, Emmett Johnson, was the fifth-round pick for the Kansas City Chiefs. Other players such as Ty Robinson and Ameer Abdullah made teh NFL in previous years.

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — As some former NFL players attempt to return to college football, University of Tennessee Chancellor Donde Plowman told ESPN the SEC is standing firm on its rule banning players who were drafted or listed on professional rosters from returning to play. Plowman, who is the president of the SEC’s executive committee, […]

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Tracking ex-Packers players signed by other NFL teams

The Packers released 30 players at final cuts. Where are they signing? Tracking the ex-Packers here.

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Eagles updated practice squad: Complete list of 17 players

The Eagles filled their practice squad by signing Kiran Amegadjie, Jaydon Blue, Danny Gray and Robert Longerbeam

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Browns' Carson Schwesinger Lands in ESPN Top-100 Player Ranking

Cleveland Browns star defensive player Carson Schwesinger has landed in the ESPN Top-100 Player Rankings.

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'I'm working with what I've got'

Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder praised his 'committed' players after they beat Bolton Wanderers to secure their first win of the season.

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Denver Guard Epitomizes Broncos Toughness, Resilience

The Denver Broncos have some tough players, but no one embodies their resilience like guard Ben Powers.

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NVIDIA DLSS 5 Launches in NBA 2K27 September 3rd, DLSS Comes to STAR WARS Zero Company, Onimusha: Way of the Sword & The Blood of Dawnwalker

Each week, new games and apps integrating NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex, and advanced ray-traced effects are released or announced, delivering the definitive PC experience for GeForce RTX players. In the last few days, STAR WARS Zero Company and Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 have launched with DLSS....

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PlayStation argues "reasonable consumers" already know they don't actually own their digital games

PlayStation lawyers have argued that "reasonable" players aren't being deceived by Sony's small print, which says digital game purchases don't grant ownership.

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Cowboys practice squad analysis for all signed players

Who is your favorite player on the Cowboys practice squad?

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Ace Combat 8's Multiplayer Is the Most Robust the Series Has Ever Had

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Biggest Questions Remaining After Panthers Trim Roster to 53 Players

Here's what we're still wondering after the Panthers finalized the roster.

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gamescom 2026’s Steam wishlist winners

gamescom wrapped up last weekend, and it was bloody fantastic. It really felt like the industry had a spring in its step again. The show itself was BUZZING, with 368K attendees (+3% over last year), maxed-out exhibit space, and Opening Night Live pulling over 78M online views (+7.5%). Let’s have a look at the games at the event that brought in the most new Steam wishlists between August 23 and 30. One quick thing before we start, and stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but wishlists are NOT a barometer for launch sales (they’re bookmarks, not baskets is what we always say over here at Alinea). With that aside, wishlists are a nice gauge of hype, so let’s dive in. Witche(r)s and Warlocks take the top two spots The biggest game of the event (by new wishlists, anyways) wasn’t a game at all. It was an expansion. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s upcoming expansion, Songs of the Past, nabbed 451K Steam wishlists by the end of the weekend. It’s a big example of something we bang on about constantly: proven IP with built-in fandom is the most powerful force in this market. But said IP can also ripple into other external success stories (more on that later!). Anyway, Songs of the Past debuted at Opening Night Live, and it’s the first Witcher 3 expansion in over a decade, landing next year after a full Witcher 3 remaster (free for existing owners!) arrives next month. The Witcher 3 has sold around 66M copies, and I’ll be one of those owners jumping back in to refresh myself on the core game (like there isn’t enough to play!), then play the expansion next year. This is all part of CDPR’s plan. The studio is clearly whetting everyone’s appetite for The Witcher 4 in 2028 via a classic bridge strategy. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe Releasing a free 4K remaster next month – followed by a proper expansion in 2027 – keeps IP top-of-mind across a huge gap between content (games-wise, anyway). It kind of echoes Capcom’s evergreen catalogue strategy. And outsourcing co-development to Fool’s Theory (a studio led by trusted Witcher 3 veterans) keeps CDPR’s internal headcount focused on The Witcher 4. #2 by wishlists between Aug 23 and 30 went to another giant IP: Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons, published by Wizards of the Coast and developed by Invoke Studios (a team of ex-Far Cry, Watch Dogs, and Splinter Cell devs). It’s due to launch in 2027, and it looks brilliant so far. It’s a dark-fantasy open world with third-person spell-slinging. It’s a very Witcher-ish aesthetic. As you might expect, 48% of Warlock’s Steam wishlisters have played Baldur’s Gate 3, and 46% have played The Witcher 3. One to watch. For sure! Mash-ups: Anime GTA (!?) and a city-builder for kids (and adults) Ananta took #3 with 302K new wishlists. It’s an open-world game that looks like GTA and Persona had a baby. It was published by NetEase, developed by Naked Rain, and got a trailer at Opening Night Live. I got hands-on at the show, and it wears its influences openly; there’s literal web-slinging (very Spider-Man) and a LOAD of mini-games (Like a Dragon). It’s free-to-play and out in January. For Ananta, Naked Rain is taking the free-to-play, cosmetics-only route. That’s certainly a choice for a single-player open-world game. Without gacha mechanics driving high ARPU, Ananta is betting purely on top-of-funnel reach and long-term retention. This puts pressure on skin appeal when there’s no multiplayer lobby to flex in (although, co-op is reportedly coming later). Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe Then there’s Lego Skylines (273K wishlists between Aug 23 and 30), which does exactly what it says on the tin. It’s a cosy Lego twist on the city-builder genre, as shallow or as deep as you fancy (five min quick sesh or ten-hour no-lifer session; latter for me). There’s some family-friendly stuff in there like couch co-op, which is only really viable on console. Iceflake Studios, which Paradox acquired back in 2020 is developing this one. So Paradox is probably looking for a family-friendly onramp to its rad Cities: Skylines games. The overlap there is plain, with 33% of Lego Skylines wishlisters having played Cities: Skylines and 16% Skylines II. There’s no doubt plenty of parents here (and uncles, ahem) planning to indoctrinate the next gen of city-builders. I’ll definitely be playing with my youngest nephew. This one could be big and educational. I’m very curious to see more. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe Mature IP, new and old, rounds out the list As for the rest of the list of gamescom games by new wishlists between Aug 23 and 30: Heroes of Might & Magic III Remake got 189K new wishlists. It remakes the iconic 1999 turn-based-strategy classic in full 3D and 4K. It follows this year’s Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era (~1.8M copies sold, as per our estimates), and around a quarter of the III Remake wishlisters have played Olden Era, including 7% of them this month. Wardogs – a $40 PvP shooter – added another 146K to an already massive pile (nearly 1.6M total). It’s published by Team17 and made by Bulkhead. It plays somewhere between the tactical squad stuff of … Squad and the all-out-chaos battlefield of … Battlefield. It’s up to 100 players, and it’s out in about 10 days. It’s already pre-sold over 500K copies on Steam ($16.6M), boosted by a pre-order-only beta. It sold another 70K copies during gamescom, too. Afterworld managed 121K new wishlists. It’s a Paradox-made post-apocalyptic grand-strategy game, and it was announced at the show. It’s a departure from Paradox’s usual historical stuff, and the studio’s first new setting in over a decade. The Paradox purists are into it, with over half its wishlisters having played Hearts of Iron IV (19% this month) and 41% Crusader Kings III (17% this month). Metro 2039 got 110K during the show, tunnelling its total past 1.3M. Nearly 40% of wishlisters have played 2020’s Metro Exodus, the previous mainline title in the series. The Metro novels are Russian, dev 4A Games is Ukrainian, and it’s set in Moscow, so it’s unsurprising that – after the US (17.3% of wishlisters) – the next two countries are Russia (12.7%) and Ukraine (10.0%). The Blood of the Dawnwalker drew in (the blood of) 108K new wishlisters, now totalling an impressive 1.7M (at a $70 price point, though). It’s an open-world dark-fantasy action-RPG set in 14th-century Europe (with vampires!), made by some former Witcher devs at Rebel Wolves. Again, it shows. Over half of Blood of the Dawnwalker’s wishlisters have played The Witcher 3, and its #2 market is Poland, home of Rebel Wolves. That’s that hometown-hero effect we keep banging on about again! And Blood of the Dawnwalker plays very well, by the way. While it looks like a Witcher clone on the surface, it actually brings a lot to the table mechanics-wise. I love the whole time-as-a-currency spin on RPG gameplay. It gives the game a different, refreshing pace. Essentially, you start Blood of the Dawnwalker with a pool of 480 action points spread across 30 days and 30 nights. As for how the game performs, we’ll be posting some numbers next week, so hit subscribe below to get that in your inbox when it’s ready. Subscribe The Witcher’s legacy ripples Make no mistake: on a high level, this was The Witcher‘s gamescom. The #1 game by wishlisters was a Witcher 3 DLC. Warlock is clearly Witcher-inspired – as is Blood of the Dawnwalker, which was made by ex-Witcher devs. There was a lot of other cool stuff on the floor that we’ll no doubt be covering in subsequent newsletters, though! As always, wishlists went through the roof for sequels, remakes, DLC, and licensed IP. As always, though, these wishlists will likely convert to about 5% to 10% of launch-day buyers, with the probable exception of The Witcher DLC – the exception that proves the rule. Either way, we’ve got a nice, diverse list here – one that is very Witcher-y, Paradox-y, and – if you’re a fan of great games on Steam – a bloody good list. We even got a bunch of new IP to get excited for. Great gamescom! Even if we are still processing that unfathomable number of mini Kölsch beers! One more thing: GTA 6 broke the internet (again) Move aside, Spider-Man and The Odyssey (I love you both, really). But the decade’s defining entertainment zeitgeist is round the corner. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that Rockstar dropped an extended look at GTA 6 last week. It was INSANE, the most impressed I’ve ever been by a showcase like this. You can see the budget seeping through every second of the extended look, and this level of game is unobtainable for any other publisher. Everyone’s going nuts, and rightly so. GTA 6 is out in holiday 2026, and it’ll be the biggest entertainment release ever, full stop. For those without a PS5 or Xbox Series console, a $500-$900 console is a big ask in this economy, but GTA will pull a lot of last-generation-console fence sitters over the current-gen fence either way: The autumn timing puts GTA 6 on (digital) shelves for the holidays, meaning a PS5 or Xbox (let’s be honest, mostly the former) will be on many a Christmas and Hanukkah list. Demand will outweigh the struggling supply, though, and PS5 Pros are already sold out and being sold at a markup via scalpers. Every console that isn’t on a shelf is a sale deferred or lost, and worse, it hands scalpers the margin. GTA has cultural clout that reaches everyone. It’s been a mainstream fixture since 2001’s GTA III and its clout has only grown exponentially since then. There’s a touchpoint for every generation alive. The FOMO-word-of-mouth double punch does the rest. Loading... It’ll reactivate the lockdown cohort, the millions who picked up gaming in 2020-21 and churned. GTA 6 will bring them back. Remember when College Football 25 brought a bunch of US gamers to current-gen consoles? GTA will do that globally. Once they’re back (or upgraded), and all GTA’d out, the fresh current-gen-console folks will check out the rest of the current-gen catalogue they missed. GTA Online, if not free to play, will also lead to a boost for PS+ and Xbox Game Pass, another boost for the ecosystem players. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe Even some of the smug PCMR 60FPS crew won’t be able to resist their FOMO and will bite the bullet on a console to play this one early (then double dip). The consoles cost the same as a decent stick of RAM these days anyway lmao… Don’t get me wrong, though. GTA 6 is no silver bullet for the mature console market, but it does prime the current gen for a couple of strong swan-song years. And it’ll also give the consoles more users from which to maximise ARPU. ‘’We are in the latter half of the lifetime cycle of [the PS5],’’ said Sony President and CEO Hiroki Totoki in a Wall Street Journal interview. ‘’That means we do not need to aggressively sell the console today; rather than that, we are focusing on the current revenue from the current user base.’’ The biggest, best premium games always arrive late in a console cycle, so getting more players aboard now, ahead of that content storm (the new current-gen-only Call of Duty included), is a clear win for the platforms. On the Netflix thing, though: let’s all chill out a bit, like. Half my LinkedIn feed was going bonkers treating the reveal debuting on Netflix like it’s the future of entertainment. It wasn’t. It was a six-hour head start, and Netflix left that detail out of the “first-of-its-kind partnership” press release. The extended look hit Netflix at 3pm ET on 27 August, then went up on YouTube and Rockstar’s site for everyone six hours later. And it was all over social immediately, anyways. This reveal was going to reach an untold number of people whether it debuted on Netflix, YouTube, a Times Square screen, or a group chat. The last trailer did nearly half a billion views in a day with no gatekeeper at all. Netflix just stood next to that audience for six hours, borrowing it. It’s was a tidy deal for Netflix, sure. But every outlet on earth was breaking the thing down frame by frame by the evening anyway. Anyway. I’m hype. And we’ll be covering some GTA numbers on the newsletter soon. So hit subscribe below to get that in your inbox when it’s ready! Subscribe The last word Reply to this email – or reach out here – if you have any feedback for the newsletter – or want to request a game for us to cover. [Alinea Analytics boasts the most accurate PC and console estimates in the business. 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Marathon’s Low Playercount Is Creating Matchmaking And Onboarding Issues

Marathon's low playercount is frequently a topic of conversation, but now it has gotten to a point where it's actively harming the game and its future prospects.

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What the Penguins could look like in 2028

After last week’s look at our 2024 outlook about predicting the 2026 Penguins, let’s take the impossible stab at looking at what the 2028 Penguins could be working with. This task is tough, since barely any players are under contract for the future. Pittsburgh only has six players under contract for 2028-29 as of right […]

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Matias Fernandez-Pardo to Newcastle: Signing from Lille is ‘'very fast' with 'unbelievable power' like Jeremy Doku

With Newcastle United signing Matias Fernandez-Pardo for £51m from Lille, Adam Bate speaks to the players former coach to find out what makes the Belgian forward so good: You could compare him a little bit to Jeremy Doku. He is very explosive, very fast

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Fulham open talks over late move for Bayern defender

With the transfer window nearing its end, Sacha Boey remains a Bayern Munich player, but a late move could now be on the cards for the French right-back.According to transfer reporter Matteo Moretto, ...

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Texas A&M senior DE was 'unbelievably consistent' this preseason

Texas A&M senior DE T.J. Searcy is one of the most underrated players in the SEC entering the 2026 season.

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Arteta builds on firm foundations - still business to be done?

Arsenal have one of the best squads in Europe. The Gunners spent £250m last summer, bringing in eight players as they won the Premier League, and have already spent about £200m this year, turning Piero Hincapie's loan deal into a permanent one (£34.5m), signing Bruno Guimaraes from Newcastle United (£75m), Christos Tzolis from Club Brugge (£34m) and Ezri Konsa from Aston Villa (£55m).

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49ers news: Brock Purdy finally addressed Drew Brees comparisons

The San Francisco 49ers quarterback, Brock Purdy, will be one of the key players in the offense when the team starts NFL regular-season action. He’s coming off an efficient but shortened last season and will be looking to bounce back. Entering his fifth career season, Purdy has been compared to Hall of Fame quarterback Drew Brees, who played for […] The post 49ers news: Brock Purdy finally addressed Drew Brees comparisons appeared first on ClutchPoints.

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Broncos cornerback ranked 4th among NFL’s under-recognized players

Broncos CB Ja’Quan McMillian is perhaps one of the most under-recognized players in the NFL.

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2026-27 Season Preview: Semyon Varlamov

The 2026-27 season is on the horizon for the New York Islanders, so it's time to preview the season and highlight expectations for the team and each specific player.

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2 Broncos players made PFF’s list of top NFL cornerbacks

The Denver Broncos have two players on PFF's list of top NFL cornerbacks.

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Former Texans Cornerback Skips Town to Join 49ers in Shuffle

One former Houston Texans player departed for greener pastures, while another had no say in the matter but is hoping for the same. The post Former Texans Cornerback Skips Town to Join 49ers in Shuffle appeared first on HEAVY.

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2026-27 Season Preview: Simon Holmstrom

The 2026-27 season is on the horizon for the New York Islanders, so it's time to preview the season and highlight expectations for the team and each specific player.

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Multiple Players Released by Lions Land on Practice Squad

Several players who were recently released by the Detroit Lions have landed on their practice squad for 2026. The post Multiple Players Released by Lions Land on Practice Squad appeared first on HEAVY.

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Pikmin 3 Deluxe 1.2.0 update out now, patch notes - new benefits for Nintendo Switch 2 players

Pikmin 3 Deluxe just got a version 1.2.0 update aimed at Nintendo Switch 2 players, and here are the patch notes.

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Mario Tennis Fever 1.1.1 update out now, patch notes

Nintendo just came out with the latest update for Mario Tennis Fever, with version 1.1.1 now starting distribution for all players. This is a small patch all things considered. It includes one adjustment involving the return of a high ball and a bug fix with the Amp Racket. The full rundown is as follows: Mario Tennis Fever version 1.1.1 update...

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Buccaneers announce practice squad signings

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers today signed the following players 16 players to the practice squad: TE Devin Culp WR Garrett Greene OLB Yasir Holmes DL Jayson Jones G Henry Lutovsky S Ifeatu Melifonwu CB Roman Parodie WR Dean Patterson IV WR Eric Rivers Jr. S J.J. Roberts T Paul Rubelt G Ben Scott QB Easton […]

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NC father at center of US Senate ad says he was ‘swindled’ by GOP political operatives

Ronald Hayes was cautious when he talked to a reporter this week about the political TV advertisement he appears in, talking about the death of his son Shemar, a college football player who was murdered in Charlotte in March 2024 at age 23.

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William Jewell expands mental health resources to provide care after death of football star

William Jewell expands mental health resources to help students, staff and others deal with the death of MicahJo Barnett, standout football player and person

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Aug 31 • 7:09 PM EDT • Health • kshb.com
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ESPN Reveals Huge Record Within Reach for Vikings Star

ESPN ranked the Minnesota Vikings 22nd in their post-draft power rankings released on Monday morning. This was compiled by various ESPN analysts.In addition to just where they stood in the preseason rankings, each team also had a milestone to watch for this upcoming season. For the Vikings, the player and potentially even the milestone aren’t […] The post ESPN Reveals Huge Record Within Reach for Vikings Star appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 31 • 4:47 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Former FSU running back waived by Dallas Cowboys

Former Florida State running back Jashaun Corbin was waived by the Dallas Cowboys as the team trimmed its roster to 53 players.

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Aug 31 • 4:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
49ers, Chargers top sports world poking fun at man who posed as 49ers player

Since two men were arrested with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud, the story has dominated social media, with even athletes and sports teams chiming in.

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Aug 31 • 3:39 PM EDT • Sports • abc30.com
49ers, Chargers top sports world poking fun at man who posed as 49ers player

Since two men were arrested with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud, the story has dominated social media, with even athletes and sports teams chiming in.

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Aug 31 • 3:37 PM EDT • Sports • espn.com
PGA Tour Revamping Fan Code of Conduct Amid Sports Betting Concerns

Several players have raised concerns about sports betting's impact on the game.

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Aug 31 • 2:25 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Brayden Schenn's NHL27 Rating Revealed

EA Sports' latest entry for the NHL video game franchise is almost here, and with it has come their latest rankings and ratings for every player throughout the entirety of the NHL.

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Aug 31 • 10:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Boom Ball bringing baseball entertainment tour, 2027 tryouts to NWA

A touring baseball entertainment show is coming to Northwest Arkansas, and local players have a chance to audition for the 2027 roster.

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Aug 31 • 10:18 AM EDT • Entertainment • fayettevilleflyer.com
Steelers players recall hilarious impostor fan at practice

Pittsburgh Steelers edge rushers T.J. Watt and Alex Highsmith recalled a hilarious incident where a fan in a fake jersey snuck into practice.

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Aug 31 • 10:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
CAA Volleyball Weekly Awards

RICHMOND, Va. – Hofstra’s Beatriz Braga and Geovanna Gonçalves Rocha picked up CAA Volleyball’s first Offensive and Defensive Player of the Week honors of the season, respectively, while North Carolina A&T’s Kirsten Kemper nabbed Rookie of the Week recognition on Monday.

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Aug 31 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • caasports.com
Why do some proteins accumulate even on protein-resistant surfaces?

Proteins with exposed arginine can selectively accumulate even on protein-resistant coatings, as reported by researchers from Science Tokyo. Through an in-depth analysis of which and how proteins adhere to various anti-fouling surfaces, the team found arginine disrupts the protective water layer that normally blocks adsorption. Their results will help scientists develop safer and more effective biocompatible materials for medical devices, such as stents and advanced biosensors.

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Aug 31 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • eurekalert.org
Scientists challenge a 70-year-old “lizard brain” myth

A long-standing picture of brain evolution as newer, rational layers stacked on top of an ancient “lizard brain” may be deeply misleading. Researchers found that evolution instead appears to balance two competing styles of brain wiring, expanding one while shrinking the other depending on what an animal needs to survive.

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Aug 31 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Can Ryan Hopkins win the No. 2 quarterback job?

The Badgers freshman has been one of the more impressive players this offseason.

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Aug 31 • 7:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Buffalo Bills cut 21 players, trim roster down to 53 ahead of the regular season

Notable names released include RB Frank Gore Jr., LB Andre Jones Jr., QB Shane Buechele and WR Trent Sherfield Sr.

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Aug 31 • 7:03 AM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
Draft picks, free agents: Recapping newcomers to Saints' 2026 roster

Recapping the rookies, free agents, and other new players that made the initial New Orleans Saints 53-man roster to begin the 2026 season.

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Aug 31 • 6:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
8 winners and losers from Patriots roster cuts

The Patriots reduced their roster to 53 players on Sunday.

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Aug 31 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
5 players Commanders could target after roster cuts

We look at five players the Commanders could target after Sunday's roster cuts.

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Aug 31 • 4:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Seahawks GM Gets Blunt on Trevon Diggs Decision After Roster Cuts

On Aug. 30, the Seattle Seahawks decided to cut Trevon Diggs as part of trimming their roster to 53 players. Nonetheless, the Seahawks intend to sign the former Dallas Cowboys All-Pro cornerback to the practice squad. Diggs played in Seattle’s final preseason game against the Kansas City Chiefs, where he recorded one tackle and one interception. […] The post Seahawks GM Gets Blunt on Trevon Diggs Decision After Roster Cuts appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 31 • 2:58 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com