Game Awards Names Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Game of the Year — Full Winners

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Lead At the 12th Game Awards on Thursday at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, Sandfall and Kepler Interactive’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was crowned Game of the Year. The French action-adventure also took home Best Independent Game, Best Narrative and Best Art Direction, among other honors, and performer Jennifer English won Best Performance for … Read more

Reddit Sues Australian Government to Block Under-16 Social Media Ban

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Lead Reddit has filed a legal challenge in Australia’s High Court seeking to block a newly enacted law that sets 16 as the minimum age for accounts on certain social media services. The measure, which the government says aims to protect children’s mental health and limit online exploitation, took effect Wednesday and has already forced … Read more

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Dominates at the Game Awards – The New York Times

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Lead On Dec. 11, 2025 at the annual Game Awards ceremony, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a debut title from French studio Sandfall Interactive, won nine prizes including Game of the Year. The role-playing game earned a record 12 nominations and took home honors across narrative, direction, art and music categories. Critics and viewers noted the … Read more

Humans made fire 400,000 years ago, study shows

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British researchers report evidence that people in what is now eastern England were creating and reusing fire about 400,000 years ago. Excavations at the Paleolithic site of Barnham in Suffolk revealed heat-altered clay, flint tools fractured by very high temperatures and two fragments of iron pyrite — a mineral that sparks when struck. Geochemical testing … Read more

The Game Awards 2025 – Every Winner and Xbox Reveal Plus New Details on Control Resonant, Diablo IV, Tomb Raider, and More

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Lead At The Game Awards on December 11, 2025, the industry celebrated the year’s standout releases while several major Xbox-related reveals debuted to a global audience. Blizzard premiered Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred, confirming a new campaign, two new classes including a Paladin, and an April 28, 2026 launch across Battle.net, Xbox One, Xbox Series … Read more

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2025

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Lead: On December 12, 2025, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the debut title from Sandfall Interactive, captured the top honor at The Game Awards, securing Game of the Year and sweeping most of its nominations. The ceremony in Los Angeles saw the indie RPG beat high-profile contenders including Death Stranding 2: On the Beach and Hades … Read more

Falcons Rally Past Buccaneers 29-28 as Cousins and Pitts Power Atlanta, Jeopardize Tampa’s Playoff Push

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December 11, 2025 — In a dramatic Thursday night game at Mercedes‑Benz Stadium, the Atlanta Falcons upset the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 29‑28. Veteran Kirk Cousins threw for 373 yards and three touchdowns to tight end Kyle Pitts (166 yards, three TDs), and Zane Gonzalez split the uprights with a 43‑yard field goal as time expired. … Read more

Jen Shah cries during emotional reunion with family after prison release

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Reality TV personality Jen Shah was visibly emotional when she returned to Salt Lake City on Wednesday, reuniting with friends and family at Salt Lake City International Airport after being released from a federal facility in Texas. Photographs and video show Shah smiling, accepting flowers and hugs, and at times breaking into tears as loved … Read more

Trump grants federal pardon to Tina Peters, escalating pressure on Colorado over her detention

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Lead On December 11, 2025, former President Donald Trump announced a full federal pardon for Tina Peters, the one-time Mesa County clerk convicted last year in Colorado for her role in efforts to access voting systems tied to false 2020 fraud claims. The clemency is symbolic at the federal level and does not erase the … Read more

Japan earthquake: Magnitude 6.7 quake off Aomori prompts tsunami advisory

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Lead Shortly before noon local time on Friday, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Aomori Prefecture at 11:44 JST (02:44 GMT), according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The shock, recorded at a depth of 20 km, produced multiple smaller aftershocks and prompted a tsunami advisory for parts of Japan’s Pacific … Read more

Trump Signs Order to Preempt State A.I. Laws

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Dec. 11, 2025 — President Donald Trump signed an executive order in the Oval Office on Thursday directing federal authorities to establish a single nationwide regulatory approach to artificial intelligence and to challenge state laws that, in his view, fragment U.S. policy. The order empowers the attorney general to sue states whose A.I. restrictions conflict … Read more

Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles for you – Ars Technica

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Jonathan Blow has spent roughly a decade building the puzzle architecture behind Order of the Sinking Star, producing about 1,400 individual puzzles during a development run that exceeded nine years. The extended timeline was made possible in part by the commercial success of his previous game, The Witness, which reportedly grossed over $5 million in … Read more

Do Kwon Sentenced to 15 Years Over $40bn TerraUSD Collapse

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Do Kwon, the South Korean co‑founder of Singapore‑based Terraform Labs, was sentenced to 15 years in a Manhattan federal court after pleading guilty to conspiracy to defraud and wire fraud over the 2022 collapse of the TerraUSD stablecoin and Luna tokens. U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said the scheme misled investors and produced severe … Read more