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Space and gaming led the headlines today as Europe’s new heavy Ariane 6 rocket made a high-profile debut, lofting 32 of Amazon’s broadband satellites into low Earth orbit from the Guiana Space Center in a successful first flight of the Ariane 64 configuration; the mission demonstrated the launcher’s full four-booster capability and precise deployment into an orbit around 465 kilometers. In AI news, OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark running on Cerebras plate-sized chips, a coding-focused model offering very fast inference (reported at more than 1,000 tokens per second) and a huge 128,000-token context window, initially available as a research preview to ChatGPT Pro subscribers with API access rolling out to select partners. PlayStation’s State of Play brought a flurry of gaming updates: Santa Monica Studio confirmed a long-term remake project to rebuild the original God of War trilogy for modern platforms while a surprise canon prequel, God of War: Sons of Sparta, launched on PS5 today as a retro-style 2D action platformer developed with Mega Cat Studios; Sony also revealed PS Plus Game Catalog additions for February, including Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 arriving on February 17 alongside titles like Neva and Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown. Fans of classic franchises got more to look forward to as Konami announced Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 will land on August 27 with Metal Gear Solid 4 finally becoming available beyond PS3 plus Peace Walker remasters and bonus legacy content, and Konami, Annapurna and developer Screen Burn showcased Silent Hill: Townfall’s first gameplay trailer, teasing a foggy island setting, first-person exploration, and a 2026 release on PS5. On streaming, Prime Video released dual teasers for Spider-Noir — a stylish live-action reimagining starring Nicolas Cage as a noir-era Ben Reilly presented in both black-and-white and a colorized “True Hue” — giving viewers an intriguing look at a classic character in a fresh tone. Overall it was a busy cycle for launches, previews and platform updates across space, AI and entertainment.