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Spalletti: We want to dictate the game
The Men’s First Team host AC Milan on Matchday 3 of the 2026/27 Serie A season, with both teams having won their opening two matches of the season.Coach Luciano Spalletti spoke to the press ahead of...
Cowboys have struggled in recent season openers
The Cowboys have struggled in recent season openers… except when playing the Giants
Game thread: Indiana Hoosiers football vs North Texas Mean Green
Indiana football is set to welcome North Texas to Memorial Stadium for the 2026 season opener. Follow along!
OpenAI acknowledges 'wiki incident' and need for more transparency around unintended AI behavior
OpenAI said on Saturday that its agents had appropriated wiki sites as impromptu message boards, adding that more transparency was needed around such incidents.
Analysis: Late goal costs Cherries... again
New Bournemouth boss Marco Rose had just finished giving high fives to his staff on the bench when Newcastle pulled a goal back - scoring 101 seconds after Malick Thiaw's own goal. Marco Rose's side had outfoxed and outplayed Newcastle for the majority of the opening period with an intelligent display. Evanilson fired over from a good position after Sven Botman gave the ball away, while a slick counterattack culminated in a tame finish by Marcus Tavernier.
Oregon State football vs Houston updates. Score, highlights, analysis
The Oregon State Beavers and first-year head coach JaMarcus Shephard open the 2026 football season at Houston. Follow along for live updates.
Boeing opens its own medical clinic at Port San Antonio
Boeing's new 4,200-square-foot medical clinic near its Port San Antonio facility will provide primary and dental care to its workers.
Texas, Texas State meet for first time since 1930
No. 5 Texas opens the season against a veteran Texas State team that will provide an early test for Will Muschamp's new-look defense.
Kansas Opens Season With Dominant Win Over LIU
Kansas Opens Season With Dominant Win Over LIU
Five standout players from Michigan State football's win over Toledo
Five standout players from Michigan State's season opening win over Toledo
OpenAI Agents Hijacked German Site, Researchers Say
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – OpenAI agents carried out more than 15,000 edits on a German-language wiki site, repurposing it as a message board to share tactics for bypassing restrictions and avoiding detection, according to researchers who uncovered the activity in late August.
Arsenal v Chelsea: Key stats and talking points
Arsenal and Chelsea meet on Saturday having each won both of their opening matches. BBC Sport examines some of the key themes ahead of Sunday's meeting at Emirates Stadium (16:30 BST). Arsenal will aim to continue a strong start to their title defence by winning their opening three Premier League matches for only the second time in the past 21 seasons.
Daniil Medvedev is Having Fun Again
Daniil Medvedev is once again through to the second week of the US Open, without dropping a set and getting broken just once. The Russian had a rather manageable draw to start the tournament. However, everything was on the line in his third-round match against Arthur Rinderknech. The Frenchman had beaten Medvedev the last time …
Weak hydrogen bonds dethrone copper as the most stable metal binder, opening a new path for metal selection
- KAIST researchers reversed a decades-old metal-complex stability trend by tuning weak hydrogen bonds around the complexes without altering the metals’ direct coordination environments - The discovery could provide new design strategies for selective metal separation and recognition, catalysis, and biomimetic systems
Nearly 50 years in business, The Pantry is Macomb County’s breakfast table
Joe Moceri originally opened the Sterling Heights location in May of 1978, serving up omelets, crepes, pancakes, sandwiches and the kind of hospitality that keeps generations of diners coming back.
These 7 Cookout Mistakes Can Lead to Food Poisoning | Hartford HealthCare
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Business roundup: Three up-and-coming businesses reach Columbia
Marcos Pizza, The Fifth Season and The Plant Shop are now open in Columbia.
Penn State vs. Marshall live updates: Score, highlights, analysis
Penn State hosts Marshall for the 2026 season opener in Beaver Stadium. Follow for live score updates, highlights, injury updates, and analysis.
Texas vs Texas State live updates: Score, video, predictions, analysis
Texas hosts Texas State in the 2026 season opener. Follow live score updates, highlights, injury news, key plays and instant analysis.
ARTSwego series returns with variety across 2026-2027 season
OSWEGO — SUNY Oswego’s ARTSwego Performing Arts Series will bring the campus and community another robust lineup of performances exploring various themes in history, culture, music, dance and the environment.The season opens Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. in Tyler Hall’s Waterman Theatre with “Magdalen.” This one-woman play written by Erin Layton is inspired by the true stories of women and girls who labored in Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries during the mid-20th century. × This page requires Javascript. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings. kAm~? }@G] d 2E f A]>][ (2E6C>2? %962EC6 H:== H6=4@>6 z:?8D #6EFC?[ 2 s2==2D\32D65 7@FC\A:646 G@42= 8C@FA AC2:D65 7@C :ED 5J?2>:4 2 42AA6==2 A6C7@C>2?46D[ 3=6?5:?8 C9JE9> 2?5 3=F6D[ ;2KK[ 8@DA6= 2?5 A@A H:E9 EC25:E:@?2= G@42= 7@F?52E:@?D] %96 ~DH68@ w:89 $49@@= r92>36C $:?86CD H:== @A6? E96 A6C7@C>2?46] p5>:DD:@? 7@C 2== z\`a DEF56?ED :D 7C66 E92? E96 #:492C5 p] $9:?6>2? u@F?52E:@?]k^Am#placement_726068_0_i{width:100%;margin:0 auto;}var rnd = window.rnd || Math.floor(Math.random()*10e6);var pid726068 = window.pid726068 || rnd;var plc726068 = window.plc726068 || 0;var abkw = window.abkw || '';var absrc = 'https://ads.empowerlocal.co/adserve/;ID=181918;size=0x0;setID=726068;type=js;sw='+screen.width+';sh='+screen.height+';spr='+window.devicePixelRatio+';kw='+abkw+';pid='+pid726068+';place='+(plc726068++)+';rnd='+rnd+';click=CLICK_MACRO_PLACEHOLDER';var _absrc = absrc.split("type=js"); absrc = _absrc[0] + 'type=js;referrer=' + encodeURIComponent(document.location.href) + _absrc[1];document.write('');kAm%96 D6C:6D 4@?E:?F6D u63] ad 2E f A]>][ :? (2E6C>2? %962EC6 H:E9 y@5J $A6C=:?8^%:>6 {2AD6 s2?46] %96 }6H *@CA2?J FD6D 49@C6@8C2A9J[ >65:2 2?5 4C@DD\5:D4:A=:?2CJ D2? 3@5J 2?5 E96 6?G:C@?>6?E] qJ 4@>3:?:?8 52?46 H:E9 E@A:4D @7 6?G:C@?>6?E2= D4:6?46[ G:DF2= 2CE[ >FD:4 2?5 >65:2[ E96 4@>A2?J 6I2>:?6D DFDE2:?23:=:EJ[ 4=:>2E6 ;FDE:46 2?5 E96 4@??64E:@? 36EH66? A6@A=6 2?5 E96 ?2EFC2= H@C=5]k^AmkAmp#%$H68@ 4=@D6D :ED D62D@? H:E9 {:>:?2= q=F6[ 2 AC@;64E:@? 2?:>2E:@? 3J {@D p?86=6D\32D65 EC2?D5:D4:A=:?2CJ 2CE:DE xD236= q62G6CD[ 7C@> pAC:= a E9C@F89 pAC:= b_[ a_af]k^AmkAm%96 D:E6\DA64:7:4 H@C< H:== 36 AC@;64E65 @?E@ 2 H2E6CD4C66? 7=@2E:?8 @? v=:>>6C8=2DD {28@@? 7C@> fib_\`_ A]>] 52:=J] q62G6CD H:== 4@?5F4E C6D62C49 2E ~DH68@ E9:D 72== E@ 56G6=@A E96 2?:>2E:@?[ H9:49 H:== 5C2H :?DA:C2E:@?D 7C@> E96 F?:G6CD:EJ’D F?:BF6 =2:?2= q=F6 :D AC6D6?E65 :? A2CE?6CD9:A H:E9 E96 4@?4FCC6?E “w*s#~$i p (@C=5 w6=5 3J (2E6C” 6I9:3:E:@? :? %J=6C pCE v2==6CJ[ H9:49 H2D 4@\4FC2E65 3J q62G6CD 2?5 82==6CJ 5:C64E@C s2G2?2 #@36566] %96 {:>:?2= q=F6 AC@;64E:@?[ w*s#~$ 6I9:3:E:@?[ 2?5 C6=2E65 82==6CJ AC@8C2>>:?8 2C6 7C66 2?5 @A6? E@ E96 AF3=:4]k^AmkAmp5>:DD:@? E@ 2== @E96C p#%$H68@ 6G6?ED :D 7C66 7@C $&}* ~DH68@ DEF56?ED]k^AmkAmu@C @E96CD[ E:4AFD r6?E6C 3@I @77:46 @C @?=:?6 2E k2 9C67lQ9EEAi^^E:42E:@?[ G:D:E k2 9C67lQ9EEAi^^@DH68@]65F^2CEDH68@Qm@DH68@]65F^2CEDH68@k^2m]k^Am googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('ad-2978731'); });
2026 Season Opener Countdown: 8 Days Remaining
We continue our countdown to the Panthers opening the 2026 season against the Chicago Bears
Browns hoping improved health can lift defensive line entering opener
The Browns defensive line dealt with injuries through the first half of training camp. As the opener nears, though, they're starting to get healthy.
Browns hoping improved health can lift defensive line entering opener
The Browns defensive line dealt with injuries through the first half of training camp. As the opener nears, though, they're starting to get healthy.
Browns hoping improved health can lift defensive line entering opener
The Browns defensive line dealt with injuries through the first half of training camp. As the opener nears, though, they're starting to get healthy.
Watch: All 8 Arsenal Goal of the Month contenders
The shortlist includes goals from the men’s, women’s and academy sides, with supporters now able to choose their favourite.Arsenal have opened voting for August’s Goal of the Month, with eight s...
Nebraska football vs Ohio live updates, stats and highlights
Nebraska football plays Ohio to open the 2026 season. Follow live score updates, highlights, injury news, key plays and instant analysis.
Explore the Cosmos at Carnegie Science Observatories’ Annual Open House in Pasadena
On Sunday, October 11, Carnegie Science Observatories welcomes one and all to its annual Open House from 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm—a great chance to enjoy the cooler-
“Don’t See Shohei Ohtani Doing This” – MLB Fans Give MVP Verdict After Pete Crow-Armstrong’s Insane Catch in Cubs Win vs Marlins
Fans rallied behind Cubs CF Pete Crow-Armstrong, and some even offered their final verdict on the NL MVP debate after the 24-year-old made a stunning catch to dismiss Marlins LF Heriberto Hernández in the series opener at LoanDepot Park on Friday night. Tracking back the fly ball, he reached the last tip of the dirt track, just between the 400-ft board and the adjacent advertising board.
Expert score prediction: Nebraska vs. Ohio
Another season opener that will provide the landscape for where Nebraska can go. Once again, this season is another crucial one for Matt Rhule.
New York Yankees Announce Trent Grisham Update After Exiting Padres Game
The New York Yankees began a weekend series with the San Diego Padres on Friday night.And right when they finally seemed like they were getting healthy again, with players returning and superstar Aaron Judge on the cusp of making his comeback, they suffered another notable setback during the series opener.Trent Grisham Exits Padres Game With […] The post New York Yankees Announce Trent Grisham Update After Exiting Padres Game appeared first on HEAVY.
Vikings Given Clear Kyler Murray Advice Before Packers Game
The Minnesota Vikings will have a new QB1 this season as they open the 2026 NFL season against the Green Bay Packers on Sept. 13. Kyler Murray won the QB battle in OTAs and the early part of training camp over J.J. McCarthy. Murray will bring mobility to the Vikings’ offense, which looks to hit […] The post Vikings Given Clear Kyler Murray Advice Before Packers Game appeared first on HEAVY.
Mensah throws 5 TDs, Toney sets record in Miami’s win over Stanford
STANFORD, Calif. — Darian Mensah threw five touchdown passes in his Miami debut, Malachi Toney set a school-record with 234 yards receiving and the seventh-ranked Hurricanes opened their season with a 45-6 victory over Stanford on Friday night.
Rutgers Called Out by NJ State Government Over UMass Upset
The Rutgers Scarlet Knights opened the 2026 season with a nightmare. The team not only lost to UMass, but did so in blowout fashion by a final of 37-21.UMass has been one of the worst teams in FBS over the past decade and just went 0-12 last season. That made the Week 1 showdown a […] The post Rutgers Called Out by NJ State Government Over UMass Upset appeared first on HEAVY.
Troy produces a dominating season-opening victory over Amsterdam
Troy, a football team that lost in the 2025 Super Bowl against Niskayuna, opened its 2026 season in style Friday with a resounding 47-8 victory over Amsterdam.
Fulham vs Crystal Palace – Predicted lineup and team news
Alvaro Arbeloa is still waiting for his first Premier League win as Fulham head coach when Crystal Palace visit Craven Cottage on Saturday. The Cottagers sit 16th after opening defeats to Chelsea and ...
From a taqueria to a café: The California businesses linked to relatives of ‘El Mencho’
The brother and youngest daughter of the man who led the Jalisco New Generational Cartel opened business ventures in the cities of Hemet and Perris
New Entertainment Venue Featuring Restaurant, Bar Opens In Stratford
The venue is a "restaurant, arcade, and bar experience built around classic games that defined generations," according to its owners.
New and old East Lansing businesses see boost amid MSU football season opener
Football season has officially returned to Michigan State University and with it, thousands of fans returned to East Lansing — causing a boost for some downtown businesses.
Williams sisters fall in thrilling return to US Open doubles
Serena and Venus Williams electrified Arthur Ashe Stadium but fell to Chan Hao-ching and Maya Joint in three thrilling sets in their return to the US Open women's doubles on Friday.Venus, 46, and Serena, 44, hadn't played Grand Slam doubles since the 2022 US Open and last won a title together at Roland Garros in 2018.
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Rye football brings fireworks in season-opening win over Cornwall
Rye's football team won its season opener, 39-21, over Cornwall on Sept. 4.
49ers officially sign veteran DE, place another DE on IR
The San Francisco 49ers' already thin defensive line depth is being tested before their regular season opener.
Chiefs Abruptly Part Ways With Quarterback After Injury
The Kansas City Chiefs had the day off from practice on Friday, but the front office and coaching staff kept busy. They will return to the practice field Monday and begin ramping up to host the Denver Broncos in the Week 1 season opener. For now, however, the Chiefs are still fine-tuning their roster and […] The post Chiefs Abruptly Part Ways With Quarterback After Injury appeared first on HEAVY.
Miami Hurricanes football takes on Stanford in 2026 season opener
Photos from the game between the Miami Hurricanes and the Stanford Cardinal on Sept. 4, 2026, in Palo Alto, California.
Referee announced for Packers’ Week 1 matchup vs. Vikings
Green Bay gets one of the most flag-happy refs for their Week 1 opener against a divisional opponent
Mental health counselor offers support for families during extended deployments
A veteran counselor is encouraging military families to seek support and communicate openly as some U.S. troops face extended deployments in the Middle East.
Cascadia Health opens 10-bed secure mental health treatment facility in Southeast Portland
A new secure residential treatment facility in Southeast Portland is now open, adding 10 beds for adults with serious mental illness as Oregon continues expandi
Court Filings In A.I. Suit Invoke Copyright Law, Culture and Sports
Filings made Friday in The New York Times’s closely watched lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft included a range of copyright law and cultural references.
The Seattle Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft over copyright infringement
The lawsuit joins a growing list of copyright complaints against OpenAI and other AI companies, including suits from publishers, authors and musicians.
Florida State vs. SMU availability report
Florida State football and SMU open conference play on Monday night with a Labor Day matchup from Doak Campbell Stadium, the first-ever meeting between the schools in Tallahassee. For the second year in a row, the ACC will mandate that schools release availability reports 48, 24, and two hours before kickoff for all in-conference matchups. […]
Alcaraz knows health a big part of his success
NEW YORK — Feeling better than he expected after a four-month absence, Carlos Alcaraz is planning to take more breaks during the tennis season. Alcaraz returned to play at the U.S. Open after being sidelined since April by a right wrist injury. The defending champion advanced to the fourth round Friday with a 6-3, 6-4, […]
Cuyahoga County's first Behavioral Health Crisis Center to open this month
The 24/7 crisis care opens Sept. 28 at The Centers Glick Recovery Campus, located at 2322 E 22nd St. in Cleveland, to any adult experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis.
Gainesville’s The Streatery enters soft opening mode with new businesses opening
$4.5-million construction started in April.
Postal Service Internal Watchdog Opens Inquiry After Whistle-Blower’s Complaint
The Trump administration’s effort to screen mail-in ballots for the midterms is facing numerous challenges.
Maui Chamber reminds community to submit nominations for the Mayor’s Small Business Awards
The Maui Chamber of Commerce is reminding community members that nominations are open for the 2026 Mayor’s Small Business Awards, with nominations due Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. Nominations are being accepted for businesses, nonprofits, or individuals who are making a difference in Maui County.
Rams stick to their routine as Australia opener against 49ers draws closer
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‘Tailgater of the Game’ returns to K-State football
MANHATTAN (KSNT) – A local non-profit is bringing back its annual “Tailgater of the Game” program for the 2026 K-State football season. The Kansas Beef Council (KBC) is giving tailgaters the chance to win prizes and get special recognition. The program will return at the Wildcats home opener against Nicholls State University. Staff with the […]
Democrat Manny Rutinel resigns from state House to focus on competitive race in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District
Democratic Rep. Manny Rutinel resigned from the state legislature Friday to devote his full attention to his campaign in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District, where he is challenging Republican U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans. The open seat in House District 32 will be filled by a vacancy committee. The Adams County Democratic Party has not responded to […]
15 discouraging hours with Onimusha: Way of the Sword, and 10 brilliant ones with He Who Watches
In the last few weeks, while playing some video games that I might review, I emailed two cries for help. I sent the first to a rep for Capcom, confessing that the company’s samurai game Onimusha Way of the Sword (out today for PC and console) was crushing me. “Feels like I’m playing ‘hard’ mode, not ‘normal,’” I wrote. “And I don’t want to have to knock it down to “story”. I’m exploring, trying to level my gear, but these two-phase boss fights with no mid-fight checkpoints are brutal.” I wagered I was only about halfway through the game, if that. I wasn’t sure I could keep up with the steepening difficulty curve. Was I missing something? Then, on Monday, I took some photos of some puzzles that were baffling me in the mind-bending He Who Watches (out now on PC), wrote out lengthy descriptions of how I’d been trying to solve them and asked Bobby Vanden, the game’s solo developer, for a nudge in the right direction. I told Vanden I’d spent hours on these puzzles. “I’m stuck in triplicate,” I told him. Could he tell me if the solutions I was attempting were even on the right track? I didn’t mention that the puzzles—coupled with major time pressures from other work—were stressing me out so much that playing the game was giving me headaches. This double dose of panic was unusual. I’m used to managing a workload full of reporting and reviewing, used to a crowded schedule and the need to stay calm amid the bustle. But I was stressed about these games. No one was forcing me to review them, nor even play them. I’d simply found them interesting enough to start, hoped they’d be interesting enough to write about and I’d sunk hours into them assuming I’d made the right call. Suddenly, however, I felt trapped. I was emailing for a way out. Above: This guy took me about an hour to beat. The feedback I got from Capcom confirmed my fears. They didn’t say it, but I will: Onimusha Way of the Sword is not for me. It’s a brutally hard game in need of a normal difficulty level. It’s a game that spikes so severely during its abundant boss fights—yet offers such flawed ways to improve when outside of them—that it feels like a bait-and-switch. In the new Onimusha, you play as famed samurai Musashi Miyamoto, aided by a magical soul-absorbing gauntlet that is possessed by a lady who offers advice. (Way of the Sword is a continuation of Capcom’s long-dormant Onimusha series, but that set-up had me wondering if the company was cribbing from their ill-fated Bionic Commando reboot; read about “wife-arm” when you get a chance). Way of the Sword is partially set in 17th century Kyoto, an explorable city where Miyamoto can fight demons, help civilians and eventually rescue ghostly dogs. The city evolves over time, with new mini adventures and obtainable loot on offer, all feeding into systems that promise to upgrade your gear and sword-fighting skills. Upgrades, however, are so incremental as to be imperceptible, causing the exploration of Kyoto to feel like inconsequential busywork. From that hub, players can go on linear missions into forests and old temples, where they will encounter many of the game’s tough bosses. Combat in Way of the Sword is akin to many modern melee games. Players are asked to mix attacks with dodges and parries. They’re encouraged to deplete an enemy’s stamina bar in order to do greater damage to its health bar. The old Onimusha games’ signature move was the issen, a counter-attack so sudden it’s all but pre-emptive. You strike just as they begin to strike toward you, beating them to the cut. By definition, the issen is a high risk move, leaving you wide open to pain. It feels risky in the game, especially against bosses, who can maul you in just a few blows. A game might train you to perform an issen well by offering a variety of lesser enemies who are not as tough as the boss but get close. Or it might offer a toehold against bosses by saving or checkpointing the player’s progress when a boss’ first health bar has been destroyed and before the second health bar appears. It might offer the less skilled player a chance to over-level their character, should the player simply commit to playing through its optional sidequests. Way of the Sword does none of this. Fighting its trivially easy grunt enemies and then its ferociously adept bosses is like playing a game of chess where I’ve got a rook, while the opposing side is all pawns and five queens. Bosses simply don’t checkpoint. You may be able to clear a boss’ first phase without taking much damage. Good for you. Do it again, every time you fail the second phase. As for the the central Kyoto hub, I kept pace with all of its added side activities and never felt like I was overpowered. Bosses could still easily buckle me. The new Onimusha, I concluded, is just too discouraging to keep playing. The advice I got from Capcom had been well-intentioned. They reminded me of the game’s various systems. They alerted me to an optional assist that flashes recommended button inputs (basically: counter this move; dodge that move). It was a little helpful. So was dropping down to “story mode,” which I tried last night. Story mode turns on those button prompts by default. It makes countering and dodging way too easy, nearly automatic. I don’t consider myself a master of action games like these, but I’ve cleared the likes of God of War, Stellar Blade, Star Wars Jedi and others of sub-Sekiro difficulty and had a fun time doing so. Not here. Not yet. Unless they patch Onimusha: Way of the Sword and add a middle difficulty or just checkpoint the damn bosses when they’re between health bars, my streak of loving Capcom games released in 2026 will likely end at two. It’s a shame, because I was having a good time finding those ghostly dogs. And then there’s He Who Watches, a phenomenal first person puzzle game with Portal vibes, except instead of a portal gun you’ve got a magical bow that shoots one arrow that can activate switches or be used to drag blocks. The twist is an actual twist: you can also walk on walls and the ceiling, reorienting gravity as you do, thereby placing blocks onto those other surfaces. Walking on walls and ceilings to solve problems is really the best thing. Would that I could in reality. He Who Watches consists of locked-room challenges, each brief enough to only require about a minute to actually solving, though it will take five, 10, eventually 30 minutes to figure out said solutions. They are not obvious! It’s a game of layered mechanics and shocking solutions. For example, see if you can follow this: You can drag a block to a wall. Then you can walk on the wall, which now feels like the floor, and drag that block across the wall. Later, back on the floor, you might realize you can look up. The block is still on the wall, stuck to it. You can shoot your magic arrow to its underside. Doing so creates a tether, so that you can yank the block off the wall and carry it, as if it were a balloon, into the spot where you need it to be to solve the puzzle. Here, watch Vanden explain some of the game’s basics in this launch trailer: As with any great puzzle game, the solutions to He Who Watches’ puzzles elicit relief and amazement. Oh my god, that worked! I didn’t even think that could be possible! Learning to solve the game’s puzzles feels like learning magic. But, oh, does the game get hard. Its Steam reviews, mostly glowing, are full of players remarking how quickly He Who Watches made them sweat. Wrote one: “loving this one already although my brain is hurting!” Wrote another: “As you get further in the game it feels like you need an IQ level of at least 120+.” Vanden has shown some mercy. Each locked room puzzle includes an optional junior version of the puzzle, meant to teach you. Difficulty nevertheless ramps severely. By the time I was emailing Vanden for help, I was struggling to even clear one of the hint puzzles. When I messaged him, my stress was exacerbated by strange things I’d found in the game’s various hubs: suspicious passageways, odd blocks and some intriguing locked doors. These were hints of secrets, I realized, yet I sensed I needed to play further into the game to understand them. I was stuck, but I wanted to see the rest. Vanden offered to give me the exact solutions, to solve those three puzzles for me, but first he gave four nudges. Three were for the specific puzzles, but his best hint was for all and ultimately proved to be a terrific life lesson: go back a bit, he suggested. Do the puzzles right before those. They were teaching you something. Focus on what their lesson was. Don’t rush, in other words. Recognize what you’ve accomplished. Build off of that. I did so. I absorbed the lessons. I saw those three tough puzzles in a new light. I solved one the night after he wrote back, another the morning after. I left a third for another time. I didn’t need it and I wanted to plunge deeper into the game, closer to the moment when I was sure I could start unlocking those secret doors. My head stopped hurting, too. He Who Watches feels special. It’s got more challenges, and I’m undeterred. It’s also nice that its puzzles don’t have a surprise second health bar. Game File is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe Item 2: In brief… 🎮 Ilari Kuittinen, co-founder of Helsinki-based Housemarque (Super Stardust HD, Resogun, Returnal) has stepped down from his studio, after a 31-year run, saying he’s “ taking a rare and well-deserved breather.” Sony purchased Housemarque in 2021, and the studio released its newest game, Saros, earlier this year. Trend-watch: Sony-owned Insomniac saw its founder Ted Price retire in early 2025, after a 30-year run. Sony-owned Sucker Punch saw its co-founder Brian Fleming step down in late 2025, after a 28-year run. 👀 Savvy Games Group chief Brian Ward is stepping down from the Saudi-government-backed games conglomerate, Bloomberg reports. No word on a long-term successor yet, nor if this augurs any closer integration between Savvy and Electronic Arts. EA was purchased by a consortium led by Saudi’s sovereign wealth fund, in early August. 💿 Square Enix has denied a Japanese media report that the company was planning to go private. In very different Square Enix news, the company revealed that the physical version of Final Fantasy VII: Revelation, the April 2027 finale of its radical remakes of FFVII, will include just one disc in its case, requiring a download for the rest. The first two FFVII remakes in the trilogy shipped on two discs apiece. While Square hasn’t commented on the reason why, a feature here in Game File last month broke down the processes and costs for physical games. The expense of a second disc comes out of the game publisher’s cut of each copy. Square could be saving in excess of a dollar a copy with this move. 🟥 Grand Theft Auto IV’s 26-minute ’‘extended look” gameplay showcase that premiered on Netflix last week—and was exclusive to the platform for six hours—drew 31.1 million views in its first four days, the streamer announced. (Netflix calculates views as total viewed hours divided by runtime; excludes replays). Compared to YouTube: The version that later premiered on Rockstar Games’ YouTube channel is sitting at 22.6 million views after seven days (YouTube’s more liberal counting system tallies anyone who viewed even just the first few second.) Compared to other Netflix mega-events: Last year, Stranger Things season 5’s first four episodes, which debuted together, drew a record 59.6 million views in their first few days on Netflix. For more of a live event type of comparison, in 2024, the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson boxing match drew 65 million concurrent streams as it happened; Netflix didn’t release live numbers for the GTA premiere. ☁️ Microsoft is changing the way it charges for cloud gaming, from an all-you-can-play offer for Xbox Game Pass subscribers, to caps for the subscription’s tiers (15 hours per month at the Ultimate tier), with the option to buy more hours in bulk beyond that. The company also said it will sell batches of cloud gaming time to non-Game Pass subscribers, details TBA. Microsoft does not release figures for cloud game usage, but said its changes would impact 4% of Game Pass subscribers. That implies a small portion of its subscribers exceed the 15-hour monthly mark. Cloud gaming offers the promise of playing games without the need for console or PC hardware, as the graphics, sound and controls are all transmitted via a streaming connection. Microsoft notes that its cloud gaming service can be used for a range of things, including Xbox One players using it to play newer-gen Xbox Series games via streaming; and people playing games via streaming, sans any console, “in markets where consoles are less available or affordable.” (That latter use case could even be relevant in Xbox’s home market soon, as console prices keep rising.) 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(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) During the week of this report, Spider-Man: Brand New Day hit theaters and went on to become one of the biggest films of all time. So, you know what that means! It’s time for a poll! Recently, Project Hail Mary came to Prime Video and became a top five film for them, but didn’t smash streaming records, a feat I cautiously thought it could accomplish. Can Spider-Man 4 do better? To set the stakes, some of the biggest films of all time do just okay on streaming. Wicked, Top Gun: Maverick, and Barbie come to mind... But unlike those films, Spider-Man: Brand New Day is a Sony film which means it’s headed to Netflix, the world’s largest streamer. Now, per friend of the newsletter and my go-to Netflix expert, Kasey Moore of What’s on Netflix, Sony films usually appear on Netflix 120 days after they premiere, which means Spidey 4 would land on Netflix on, checks notes, 28-November, one of the two biggest streaming weekends of the year! But Sony occasionally delays its biggest hits for a bit longer, to give them more time to make money on PVOD, so Spider-Man: Brand New Day might not swing onto Netflix until late December or even February 2027. Loading... Okay, on to this week’s issue. Since The Super Mario Galaxy Movie made its way to Peacock, I’m looking at the true workhorse of streaming viewership: kids films. And the surprising film that bested most Netflix animated movies. All that, plus Hulu has a new show that might be a hit (for them…?), two “Devils” square off on streaming, Zendaya tries to find some streaming magic, Netflix’s I Will Find You continues to do well, House of the Dragon tries to break into the season three top ten, some big NBC sports and summer programs, what friendly neighborhood Spider-Man character actually generates the most viewership on streaming, all the flops, bombs and misses, and a whole lot more. Let’s dive right in! (Reminder: The streaming ratings report focuses on the U.S. market and compiles data from Nielsen’s weekly top ten viewership ranks, Luminate’s Top Ten Data, JustWatch and Reelgood interest data, Samba TV household viewership, company datecdotes, Netflix hours viewed data, Google Trends, and IMDb to determine the most popular content. While most data points are current, Nielsen’s data covers the weeks of July 27th to August 2nd, 2026. You can find a link to my terminology here.) Subscribe Film - As The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Hits Peacock, How Have Kids Films Fared in 2026? Like Mario hopping on a Koopa, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie landed on Peacock on 30-July. (Yeah, I kinda forced that Mario reference.) How did it do? Great, just like the first film. It got 13.0 million hours on its opening, and that’s good enough to take second place among Peacock films on the Nielsen charts all time: As I mention all the time, Peacock just isn’t the world’s biggest streamer—in fact, nowhere close—so its films struggle to put up numbers like Netflix (or even Prime Video and Disney+). So this is a solid debut for that streamer. And as we saw last time, The Super Mario Bros. Movie had a HUGE second life on Netflix when it moved streamers. This chart doesn’t even show how long the first Mario lasted on Netflix: a whopping, KPop-esque 31 weeks. For NBCUniversal, though, the big win was the second Mario movie grossing $429 million in America and over $1 billion globally. But yeah, to add a very strong streaming performance only makes its success even greater. Illumination pretty clearly has another hit franchise on their hands. This is a good time, though, to check in on kids films so far in 2026. We’ve had a few big, big titles, a rare Netflix success, and some disappointments. Let’s start with the top animated films since November of 2025, over their first four weeks on the charts, along with a few of the “best all time” animated films: (As a reminder, if a film doesn’t make the Nielsen top ten lists, I don’t have data for it, so it gets a “zero” in terms of viewership. Now, it had some viewership, but I don’t know what it is, so it gets a zero.) I added a few titles to get an idea of what the best of the best looks like in terms of animation. And you can see, through four weeks, Zootopia 2 can now claim “one of the biggest streaming films of all time” titles. GOAT too did surprisingly well, besting Netflix’s biggest films (Swapped and In Your Dreams) through four weeks. When I’ve talked about how films can have varying performances on streaming compared to their box office, this is what I mean. Goat just managed to gross even $103 million at the box office—so it’s popular, but just barely—but did very well on streaming. Of course, what set Encanto and KPop Demon Hunters apart from the rest was their absolutely insane longevity. Here are the kids film charts through eight weeks to show that: And really KPop Demon Hunters just kept going, and no 2025 or 2026 kids films have had that sort of longevity. I can’t wait to see the sequel in theaters. Film - Two Devils and a Drama As I wrote last week, in the past, theatrical-first film flops weren’t eligible for “Miss of the Week” or “Miss of the Year” honors/dishonors, but since so many more films go to theaters first these days, I’ve made them eligible now! But it’s complicated. You see, this is a Streaming Ratings Report, emphasis on streaming, which makes analyzing this week’s two biggest streaming misses—The Drama on HBO Max (A24’s dramedy starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson) and Prime Video’s The Devil Mouth (a killer shark movie starring young attractive people)—somewhat tricky. The Drama isn’t eligible for Luminate, but The Devil’s Mouth only had 1.5 million hours in its first week: The Devil’s Mouth notched 5.2 million hours according to Nielsen. Meanwhile, The Drama missed the charts entirely. Not great! But Prime Video is a much bigger streamer than HBO Max. That said, HBO Max titles are on Prime Video, but I think Prime Video prioritizes their original/exclusive titles, which helps boost their viewership. Complicating this further, The Drama made $48 million in the US—while A24 sells foreign distribution; the $57 million of overseas grosses helps A24 sell overseas rights for money in the future—off of a $28 million budget (which seems low for Zendaya and Pattinson, so they might have backend). The Devil’s Mouth, though, had zero dollars at the box office. The other stats for The Devil’s Mouth are bleak, and by “bleak”, I mean horrendous: a 4.7 on 15K reviews on IMDb (yikes) and a 46 on Metacritic (double yikes). The Drama, though buzzy online, only has a solid (but far from elite) 7.1 IMDb score on 121K reviews and a 59 on Metacritic (which is far, far lower than I’d have guessed). So which film is the “Miss of the Week”? I’m giving it to The Devil’s Mouth for one simple reason: it’s a horror film. And almost all horror films, even poorly reviewed horror films, should get a shot in theaters to at least try to recoup some of their budgets. The Drama made money at the box office and The Devil’s Mouth didn’t. It’s just like the situation last issue with Obsession and Masters of the Universe. Sure, Obsession didn’t pop on the streaming charts, but at least it already made it money at the box office. And as we’ve been seeing for years now and we’ll see all fall, theatrical films just do better on streaming. After all, the big “devil” winner this week was actually The Devil Wears Prada 2 with 14.8 million hours according to Nielsen. That’s right, The Devil Wears Prada 2—one of the box office success stories of May—came to streaming and parlayed its $220 million box office into 14.8 million Nielsen hours. Disney also put out a datecdote that it had 15.2 million “views” globally in five days, but again we don’t have a lot of great context for what that means. Here’s how it stacks up to other Hulu films, since I’m categorizing this mainly as a Hulu title (though it was also on Disney+): Share Quick Notes on Film We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out… Whether Hulu has a new hit show on its hands... The top first and third seasons of all time and which shows are climbing those charts… What version of Spidey is the most popular... What sport and TV show are performing better on NBC than the NBA... All the flops, bombs and misses... ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. Coming Soon! Next week, wow, things stay so busy. One of streaming’s biggest shows of all time, Ted Lasso, returns along with new YA-ish shows from Hulu (The Shards, from Ryan Murphy) and Prime Video (Sterling Point). The Challenge moves to Paramount+, plus My Life with the Walter Boys returns to Netflix and Futurama returns to Hulu. 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