Mikel Arteta says Arsenal are actively looking for more new signings in the transfer market but admits there is only a small pool of available players who can take them to the next level.
The top stories and transfer rumours from Thursday's newspapers...
Arsenal have held further talks over a deal for Aston Villa defender Ezri Konsa but remain short of Villa's valuation for the England defender - Daily Mail
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Published Aug 12, 2026, 7:51 PM EDT
A tabletop-inspired tactical RPG from former Blizzard devs is free to play for a few days
Image: Secret DoorPlaying a tabletop RPG sounds great right up until you have to actually schedule one. You need a group of willing players, someone prepared to run the thing, a working knowledge of a small library’s worth of rules, and, most daunting of all, a night when everyone is free.
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In 2026, gold has been a tough trade to time right, falling from a 10-year high over $5,300 an ounce that it reached early in the year by as much as 18%, according to Goldprice.org. But last week was the precious metal's best week since January, while gold mining stocks had their hottest five-day run since 2008. With volatility in the gold trade leaving it with a year-to-date return that is now close to flat, some are betting that the trading chart direction is going to continue up. But there are potential pitfalls ahead. After all, even with its recent dramatic moves, the price of gold is still higher by over $1,000 in the past one-year period.
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Published Aug 12, 2026, 7:00 PM EDT
Quit Laughing, Shijima delivers fun supernatural action but not enough horror
Image: Kohei Horikoshi/ShueishaKohei Horikoshi, the creator of the best-selling manga My Hero Academia, is back with a new story. Quit Laughing, Shijima is a one-shot manga published in the latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump. Advertised as a horror story, Horikoshi’s latest work is a fun supernatural adventure featuring your stock teenage protagonists and some creepy creatures, but fails to live up to the high bar of the greatest manga horror.
Even though we still haven't seen a gameplay trailer, Grand Theft Auto 6's pre-release sales have been "unprecedented," according to publisher Take-Two. So why doesn't the public company just tell us specifically how many GTA 6 preorders it's sold?
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Anthropic recently made the decision to watermark Claude’s outputs — inserting invisible code into the chatbot’s editorial text that marks it as AI-generated.
Anthropic rolled out this new policy to satisfy the EU AI Act’s Transparency Code, which now requires tech companies to label content that has been AI-generated or edited in a manner identifiable to computer systems. Yet while European regulators may be happy, some AI users are decidedly not.
Arsenal have received an offer from Galatasaray for Gabriel Martinelli, Spain midfielder Martin Zubimendi could also leave the Gunners for Chelsea and Newcastle push for Benfica defender Amar Dedic.
Galatasaray have submitted a 45m euros bid (£38.4m) to Arsenal for 25-year-old Brazil forward Gabriel Martinelli. (Florian Plettenberg), external
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave that post by the end of August, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday.