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There’s something quietly hilarious about how turn-based games, slow, methodical, numbers-driven, allegedly “unsexy,” are sitting on some of the richest storytelling material gaming has ever produced, while Hollywood keeps rebooting the same safe nonsense for the fifteenth time. These games already think in episodes. They already live on character arcs, moral compromises, long-term consequences, and the slow burn of tension. If anything, turn-based games are overqualified for television. So no, this isn’t a ranked list, no “number one would totally break Netflix” nonsense. These are ten games, unordered, unapologetic, that feel like they were accidentally written as prestige TV and…

The contract will expedite military modernisation and DoD readiness. Credit: Tada Images/Shutterstock.com. The US Army has granted Salesforce a 10-year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract capped at $5.6bn. The contract includes a five-year base ordering period with an optional additional five years. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more The deal, structured through Computable Insights, a Salesforce subsidiary, aims to provide the Department of Defense (DoD) with data management and cloud technology solutions designed to enhance operational efficiency and decision-making. Under the agreement,…

WASHINGTON — The deployment of National Guard and active-duty Marine forces to several US cities cost American taxpayers around $496 million in the last six months of 2025, according to an official government estimate. And if those deployments were to continue at end-of-2025 sizes, it would cost approximately $93 million per month, according to a new estimate by Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Phillip Swagel. The information was revealed in a letter sent in response to an inquiry by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D- Ore., the ranking member of the Senate Committee on the Budget.  Furthermore, Swagel gave a general cost…

Israel’s Ministry of Defense confirmed that the 1,000th “David” armored 4×4 vehicle has been rolled out in the United States, marking a milestone in a long-running procurement program supporting Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) operations. The vehicle was produced by MDT Armor at its U.S. manufacturing facility and delivered under the Ministry of Defense’s Mission to […]

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — The month of January serves as Spiritual Readiness Month, and Navy Region Hawaii is proud to highlight its Chaplains Religious Enrichment Development Operation (CREDO) program, a free and vital resource dedicated to the spiritual and personal wellness of commands, service members and their families. The Navy Region Hawaii CREDO program is a cornerstone of support for Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands personnel and dependents, offering a variety of no-cost workshops, retreats, and seminars designed to build healthy relationships, spiritual fitness, positive mindset and resiliency. “Here at Navy Region…

Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Republic of Poland 26.01.2026 Deputy Prime Minister Radosław Sikorski met in Warsaw with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud. The talks covered Polish-Saudi cooperation, Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, and other international issues, with a particular focus on the Middle East. The ministers also signed a document waiving visa requirements and a memorandum allowing for the establishment of the Saudi-Polish Coordination Council. Saudi Arabia is Poland’s strategically important partner in the Gulf and Middle East region. Since renewing Polish-Saudi diplomatic relations in 1995, the two countries…

TikTok has quietly become one of the most influential platforms in the contemporary information environment, not because it promotes a particular ideology, but because it systematically prioritizes emotional engagement. More than a venue for entertainment or cultural trends, the platform operates as an algorithmic environment that reinforces affective responses through repeated exposure and feedback. During the Israel–Hamas war, TikTok’s design offered a clear illustration of how modern propaganda often functions less through explicit persuasion than through the cultivation and amplification of emotionally primed attention.This analysis draws on an original survey of 193 U.S. college-aged TikTok users, recruited in person from…

Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Governor of the Leningrad Region Alexander Drozdenko at the State Hermitage Museum. January 26, 2026 19:00 St Petersburg Alexander Drozdenko began by briefing the President on the Road of Life marathon held the previous day, which took place despite temperatures of minus 17 degrees Celsius. The event commemorated those who defended Leningrad during its blockade by Nazi forces from September 8, 1941, to January 27, 1944. The Governor also reported on the launch of design work for a major Museum of Remembrance dedicated to the victims of the genocide of civilians during the…

General Dynamics NASSCO is looking to U.S. Navy for interest in new VLS reloading destroyer tenders, known as AD(X), as part of a combined buy of common hulls with the future AS(X) submarine tender. Crystal City, Va — General Dynamics NASSCO unveiled its internally developed concept for an AD(X) destroyer tender at the Surface Navy Association’s National Symposium in Washington last week, pitching the ship class as a near-identical ship to the AS(X) submarine tender NASSCO is building for the U.S. Navy. NASSCO provided new details on AS(X) as well as the potential AD(X) destroyer tender in an interview with…

President Xi Jinping continues to centralise power in the latest purge of top leadership. Credit: RAF.Contributor via Shutterstock China President Xi Jinping has purged the country’s Central Military Commission, removing key figures The move will further centralise power within the Chinese Communist Party around Xi, but remove vital military experience UK Prime Minister heads to Beijing, following on from Finland’s Prime Minister, as Xi seeks to reorientate Europe towards China China’s announced investigation into two senior Chinese military officials has raised questions over the make-up of the highest offices in the country’s opaque defence structures, including a potential move to…