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As spicy as the PlayStation State of Play that took place a couple of weeks ago was overall, there was one major first-party game that was notably absent from the showcase: Marvels Wolverine. Insomniac Games latest superhero blockbuster was already slated for a fall release and now the studio has revealed exactly when youll be able to get your claws on it. Marvels Wolverine is coming to PS5 on September 15.Thats it. Thats the announcement. Theres no new trailer to accompany the news, other than a six-second release date reveal video that popped up on YouTube. Insomniac previously said it would reveal more details about Marvels Wolverine this spring.Technically, this release date means that Marvels Wolverine will debut in the last week of summer rather than in the fall. Still, its one of the relatively few blockbuster games you can expect in the tail end of this year because many major developers and publishers will be staying well clear of GTA VI. Insomniacs game will have a couple of months of breathing room before GTA VI soaks up all of the air in the gaming world when it arrives on November 19 assuming Rockstar doesnt announce another delay. However, parent company Take-Two plans to rev up its marketing machine for the game this summer, so its looking like GTA VIs release date will hold this time.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/playstation/marvels-wolverine-will-hit-ps5-on-september-15-175500927.html?src=rss
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Apple just dropped a full trailer for the fifth season of its hit sci-fi show For All Mankind. This is the first real look at the upcoming batch of episodes, which premiere on March 27. We got an extremely short teaser trailer last month but that only showed a guy on a motorcycle riding across Mars. This is the first real-deal trailer and it's absolutely stuffed with footage indicating where the next season will take viewers. I'm going to get into some spoilers here, so read at your own risk. For the uninitiated, For All Mankind is an alternate history show that started with a simple premise. What if Russia landed on the moon before America? That has since ballooned into all kinds of stuff which include, as mentioned above, a potential war on Mars. For All Mankind is a show famous for its time jumps, and season five takes us all the way to an alternate version of 2012. Many of the show's original surviving characters are still kicking around, but they are old as paste and not exactly fit for high-octane space travel. Remember, the first episode started in the 1960s. Franchise lead Ed Baldwin (Joel Kinnamen) looks particularly dusty. Much of the footage features newer characters, including the grandson of Baldwin. Season four ended with a Mars colony asserting its independence via asteroid theft. Now it looks like Earth is striking back, which could lead to a full-scale war. This is giving me The Expanse vibes, which is never a bad thing. The show must be clocking good numbers for Apple TV+, as the streamer recently announced a spinoff called Star City. Details are scant, but it looks to cover similar events of the mainline show from Russia's perspective. New episodes of For All Mankind air each Friday. This season will feature ten episodes and concludes on May 29.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/tv-movies/for-all-mankinds-latest-trailer-teases-a-war-on-mars-174822481.html?src=rss
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A common theme in online age verification laws is the tension between user privacy and preventing children from accessing harmful or inappropriate content. Now the UK is sending a not-so-subtle message to Reddit on the subject, to the tune of 14.5m ($19.6 million). The nation's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) accused the company of using childrens data and potentially exposing them to inappropriate content.Children under 13 had their personal information collected and used in ways they could not understand, consent to or control, UK Information Commissioner John Edwards wrote in a statement. That left them potentially exposed to content they should not have seen. This is unacceptable and has resulted in todays fine.In July 2025, Reddit began requiring age verification to access adult content in the UK, in compliance with the Online Safety Act. However, that's only used to block under-18 users from sexually explicit, violent or other mature posts. The platform also prohibits users under 13 from accessing it altogether and enforcement of that policy is lax. It merely requires users to declare, when signing up, that they're over 13. The ICO (accurately) described the method as "easy to bypass."In its defense, Reddit told the BBC that it "didn't require users to share information about their identities, regardless of age, because we are deeply committed to their privacy and safety." The company said it would appeal the decision. "The ICO's insistence that we collect more private information on every UK user is counterintuitive and at odds with our strong belief in our users' online privacy and safety," the spokesperson added."It's concerning that a company the size of Reddit failed in its legal duty to protect the personal information of UK children," Edwards said. "Companies operating online services likely to be accessed by children have a responsibility to protect those children by ensuring theyre not exposed to risks through the way their data is used. To do this, they need to be confident they know the age of their users and have appropriate, effective age assurance measures in place.Reddit failed to meet these expectations, he added. They must do better, and we are continuing to consider the age assurance controls now implemented by the platform. The ICO also accused Reddit of failing to conduct a data protection impact assessment by January 2025.The Guardian notes that the 14.5m fine is the third-largest handed down by the ICO. It trails only a 20m fine for British Airways involving a data breach disclosure and an 18.4m penalty for Marriott Hotels for exposing over 300 million customer records in a hack.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/reddit-fined-196-million-over-age-verification-checks-in-the-uk-173705048.html?src=rss
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