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Split Fiction has sold more than seven million copies

Hazelight’s co-op adventure, directed by Josef Fares and published by EA Originals, launched on 6 March 2025. Wikipedia and SteamPulse put sales past seven million by April 2026. Steam reviews sit at 97 percent positive.

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Two small studios put finished co-op games on Steam this summer

Tempete Studio shipped Lost in Tandem on 22 July. Journey Bound Games shipped Wild Ice on 19 August. Both are complete objects with a price, a pad count, and a ship date.

Australia

Hanson took the energy package to the Press Club on 17 June

Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club address on 17 June put One Nation’s energy plank on a national stage: keep dispatchable plant, treat gas as a strategic asset, stop treating a new gas appliance as a moral problem. Polls that week still had the party at 28–29 percent.

Australia

The nuclear sentence is on the Press Club transcript

Hanson’s 17 June National Press Club appearance put civil nuclear back in the national argument: commission a reactor, repeal the net-zero statute that made the conversation feel illegal. Construction is not a 2027 retail product. The conversation is no longer a dare.

United States

Washington is telling the NRC to stop taking a decade

President Trump ordered a nuclear-industrial rebuild: fuel cycle, uprates, a target of moving U.S. nuclear from about 100 gigawatts toward 400 by 2050. In January the Energy Department put $2.7 billion into domestic enrichment. In August 2025 it named the first eleven reactor-pilot projects.

United States

Day one ended the LNG export pause

On 20 January 2025 President Trump signed E.O. 14154. The Energy Department, the same day, ended the Biden-era pause on non-FTA LNG export applications. Commonwealth LNG in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, got the first post-pause license on 14 February 2025.

Game Reviews

Commodore puts six Alien Breed games on modern machines

Pixel Arcadia on 24 August 2026 named Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection. Commodore publishes. Antstream builds. Team17 licenses. 24 September on PC, PlayStation and Xbox. Switch later in 2026.

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Review: Symphony is still a castle

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night shipped in Japan on 20 March 1997 and in North America on 2 October 1997. Alucard, a map that folds back on itself, and a PlayStation disc that taught a generation what a castle is.

Australia

Quorn Park is the NEM’s first single-hybrid GPS plant

On 27 August Potentia finished a A$190 million hybrid 10 km northwest of Parkes: 98 MW solar, 20 MW / 40 MWh battery, one GPS, one controller. About 160,000 panels. Zen Energy holds ten years of offtake.

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Devil May Cry 5 arrives as a Switch 2 cart

Capcom put the physical Devil Hunter Edition on Nintendo Switch 2 on 28 August. Digital has been on the eShop since 23 June. The series turned 25 on 23 August.

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Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 launches on PS5, Xbox and PC

Daybreak and Cold Iron dated the sequel 25 August 2026. Four-player co-op, five classes plus Specialist, Horde maps at launch. $49.99 standard. Switch 2 waits until 29 September.

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