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Oblivion Remastered is coming to Switch 2 in August.

Xbox has just confirmed some pretty dire news : it's drastically restructuring its business which has sadly resulted in the loss of 1,600 employees, with a further 1,600 set to depart within the next 12 months.

One particular area of the business that has been affected is Zenimax Media, which is responsible for Bethesda Softworks along with multiple development studios. Bloomberg's Jason Schreier has reported that Zenimax will be "impacted significantly" by Xbox's big reset, with studios such as iD Software and ZeniMax Online Studios set to cut a sizeable portion of staff.

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NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte admitted he has no idea how to make Russian President Vladimir Putin engage in peace talks with Ukraine.

“I cannot predict what needs to happen for Putin to come to the negotiating table. I think nobody in this room can predict. It’s difficult to look into this guy’s mind and head,” Rutte said at a press conference in Ankara ahead of the NATO Summit on Monday.

“When it comes to the peace process, obviously, you need two to tango. Volodymyr Zelenskyy is willing to sit down with Putin in whatever format to solve this terrible war. And obviously, so far, Putin has declined,” Rutte added.

While Kyiv has been notching military victories on the battlefield and increasingly striking targets deep in Russian territory, Moscow continues to attack Ukraine with dozens of ballistic missiles as the latter scrambles to shore up its dwindling air defenses.

The latest attack on Monday , just before the summit, killed at least 22 people and wounded over 90 in Kyiv alone, with Zelenskyy admitting a lack of PAC-3 interceptors meant Ukraine did not shoot down even one of 20 ballistic missiles launched at it. He urged partner nations to deplete their stocks for Kyiv.

Rutte condemned the attack and urged allies to provide everything Ukraine needs.

“Putin is willing to sacrifice up to 35,000 of his own men, which is crazy on the battlefield. Can you imagine what an impact that has on all those families?” he added, urging Russians to think twice before joining the army.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov said in a video statement posted to the Kremlin’s Telegram channel Monday that Russia would prefer to solve “the Ukraine conflict” in a diplomatic manner, and hoped Donald Trump’s team of negotiators would soon renew its efforts at peace talks, praising the U.S. president’s consistent position on the conflict.

Zelenskyy is planning to meet Trump on the sidelines of the NATO Summit to discuss air defense supplies and next steps to force Putin to the negotiating table, a top official familiar with the talks told POLITICO.

“Well, I think he[Putin] does feel pressure. He wants to end it, and Ukraine wants to end it. And we’re in talks, and we will see if we can get it ended,” Trump told reporters on Monday.

“I think we’re getting much closer to end than most realize. President Putin wants it to end, and President Zelenskyy actually wants it to end now. And we’re going to NATO, and we’re going to talk about.”

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The patient: A 63-year-old woman in Massachusetts

The symptoms: The patient went to the emergency department after experiencing nausea and vomiting for about a month, along with decreased appetite. She told doctors that she'd also experienced a burning pain in her upper abdomen and right side of her torso, which wrapped around to her back. She'd tried treating these symptoms with two common over-the-counter medications for acid reflux, but the treatments didn't help.

In the year prior, the patient had started taking semaglutide, a type of drug known as a GLP-1 receptor agonist — the same class of drug as Ozempic. These injected drugs are used to treat type 2 diabetes and assist in chronic weight management; in this case, the woman had a history of type 2 diabetes and obesity. Since starting the medication, she'd lost about 40 pounds (18 kilograms), but notably, that weight loss had accelerated over the previous month, she noted.

What happened next: Doctors took a CT scan of the patient's abdomen and pelvis. This revealed that the bile ducts, which move bile from the liver to the gallbladder and small intestine, were slightly dilated. The woman also had "heavy stool burden" but no signs of obstructions in her bowels, and her stomach was slightly stretched out due to carrying "semisolid material."

To take a closer look, the medical team then used magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography, a noninvasive scan that examines the bile ducts, gallbladder, pancreas and pancreatic ducts. The scan confirmed that the bile ducts were dilated and revealed a mass in the stomach that appeared to be trapped air. The doctors then examined the upper digestive tract, from the esophagus to the top of the small intestine, with an endoscope.

The diagnosis: The endoscopy revealed a large mass in the woman's stomach, known as a gastric bezoar . These masses are tightly packed blobs of partially digested or undigested materials.

The treatment: Semaglutide and other GLP-1 agonists typically cause delayed gastric emptying, which means they slow the rate at which the stomach empties its contents into the intestines. The woman was taken off that medication upon hospital admission.

The next step with a bezoar is to try and dissolve the mass while it's still in the stomach — and evidence suggests a good way to do this is to give the patient soda.

"Existing evidence, largely from case series and anecdotal experiences, supports the administration of 3 liters [0.8 gallons] of cola, either orally or through a nasogastric tube, within a 12-hour window," doctors noted in a report of the case . "It is not well understood whether acidity, carbonation , or another mechanism accounts for dissolution of the bezoar."

Due to the patient's history of diabetes, she was given diet cola. She also didn't enjoy carbonated beverages, so the typical prescription of 3 liters of soda was cut down to 1.5 liters (0.4 gallons). On the second day after starting this treatment, the patient noted a "tugging" sensation in her abdomen followed by relief of her nausea and abdominal discomfort. An endoscopic exam revealed that the bezoar was no longer stuck in her stomach.

The woman then transitioned to a typical diet in the hospital, and by the time she was discharged, she had no nausea, vomiting or abdominal pain. She did not restart semaglutide but was prescribed acid reflux medication to take daily. She reported that her appetite increased after hospital discharge and her weight rebounded a bit over the following months. Her abdominal symptoms had not returned within a few months of discharge.

What makes the case unique: Gastric bezoars are fairly rare, the report noted. They are found in less than 0.5% of endoscopies of the upper digestive tract. Common symptoms of the condition, such as pain, nausea, vomiting and abdominal discomfort, also appear in many more-common disorders, so they don't necessarily point to the presence of a bezoar in all cases.

The most common type of gastric bezoar is formed of plant fibers and called a "phytobezoar." Eating lots of certain foods, such as persimmons, pineapples, raisins or celery, can raise the risk of phytobezoars because the plants contain a high concentration of indigestible components, such as cellulose, lignins and certain tannins.

However, various medical conditions, procedures and drugs can also raise the risk of bezoars. These include anatomical changes related to bariatric or other gastric surgeries, autonomic nerve damage, and medications that cause delayed gastric emptying, such as GLP-1s. In the woman's case, semaglutide was likely to blame for her bezoar, and discontinuing the treatment helped resolve the problem.

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The cola she consumed also helped. Although that course of treatment sounds strange on paper, it is the preferred first-line treatment over using a scope to physically break up the bezoar in the patient's stomach.

"Bezoars formed from food material may be initially managed with oral administration of cola in patients in a clinically stable condition," the report said. "This intervention is generally cost-effective and is associated with a lower risk of complications than invasive procedures."

For more intriguing medical cases, check out our Diagnostic Dilemma archives .

This article is for informational purposes only and is not meant to offer medical advice.

This article was first published Oct. 15, 2025.

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The latest double whammy that both Grand Theft Auto 6 and PlayStation will soon be ditching disks and going digital has angered fans and roused old discussions of what ownership of videogames and players rights will look like in a digital future. Spoiler alert: it's not great, that's if Hideo Kojima's preminitions are anything to go by . But there are some who are willing to put up a fight.

One such person is none other than La France Insoumise leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who recently took to social media to say the following: "With GTA 6 without a disc in 2026 and Sony's announcement of the end of physical disc sales for games in 2028, the question arises of how we view these products.

Avec GTA 6 sans disque en 2026 et l'annonce de Sony de la fin des ventes de disques physiques pour les jeux en 2028, la question de savoir comment on considère ces produits se pose.Demain, vous paierez sans jamais rien posséder. Ni prêt, ni revente, ni garantie de conserver ce… July 2, 2026

"You will pay without ever owning anything. No loan, no resale, no guarantee of keeping what we've paid for. Videogames are not mere merchandise—they are cultural assets, and the law in force must apply to them."

As it turns out, Mélenchon is sharing a petition to save physical videogames in hopes of combatting a future where game ownership doesn't actually exist. "With the end of physical games, the videogame industry wants to impose a fully digital model on us, where access will be conditional and time-limited," he continues . "The buyer's rights will be denied. This is the triumph of total commodification: you pay full price for nothing more than a simple revocable right of access."

Mélenchon is right, and he's saying what we're all thinking. If ownership rights of digital media aren't expanded upon then mediums such as games will suffer for it. With no control over how we preserve the games we buy and cherish, we run the risk of losing older games that serve as the foundation for our industry and all the rest that follow suit, or as Mélenchon puts it, "our cultural heritage".

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