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Black Ops 2’s PS5 Port Receives Emergency Patch After Hackers Bricked Accounts
Activision has issued an emergency backend patch for the PS5 port of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 after hackers targeted players’ accounts over the weekend, forcing them into unachievable Prestige levels that caused the game to crash. The move addresses one of several legacy hacking issues that have plagued the barebones Black Ops PS5…
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College football is finally back after months of NCAA lawsuits, NIL drama and congressional fights
After nearly seven months dominated by NCAA lawsuits, NIL disputes and congressional wrangling, college football is finally returning, with teams beginning fall practice camps this week ahead of the season starting in 25 days. The offseason drama has overshadowed on-field preparations, but attention is now shifting back to the game itself even as legal and…
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Attack on Titan 3 dodges November launch to avoid GTA 6
Koei Tecmo and developer Omega Force have set a 10 December release for Attack on Titan 3, the franchise’s first new instalment in more than eight years. The game will adapt the manga’s full story, including its divisive ending, but players will experience events through a customisable original character rather than series leads such as…
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Maggie Rogers Needed the Salve of a ‘Big Sports Summer.’ Didn’t We All
Musician Maggie Rogers has spent the summer immersing herself in sport, from the Winter Olympics in Milan to courtside seats at New York Knicks games, Wimbledon tennis and the World Cup, describing it as her “big sports summer”. She tells Rolling Stone that, amid a difficult and disconnected period globally, the shared experience of fandom…
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Megan Moroney’s 4-Word Message After an Abrupt Concert Cancellation Proves You Can’t Keep a Diva Down
Country singer Megan Moroney has returned to the stage in Portland, Oregon, days after abruptly cutting short a Denver concert due to illness. Moroney fell ill just a few songs into her 28 July show, telling the crowd she was too unwell to continue and promising to make it up to them, and later called…
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Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries
Base Power, a startup that installs backyard batteries to help ease strain on the US electrical grid, has raised $1 billion in a Series D funding round, less than a year after its previous billion-dollar raise. The new round values the company at $13 billion post-money and comes as electricity demand surges across the US,…
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Star Wars Officially Rewrites Rey’s Most Controversial Moment
A newly released Star Wars novel, Legacy by Madeleine Roux, has provided an official backstory for one of the sequel trilogy’s most divisive moments: Rey adopting the Skywalker surname at the end of The Rise of Skywalker. The book reveals that Leia Organa had already accepted Rey into the Skywalker family before the events of…
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AC Black Flag Resynced Improved with 5GB PS5 Patch This Week
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is set to receive a new PS5 patch, version 1.0.6, from 4th August, bringing further improvements to the acclaimed and best-selling remaster. The headline addition responds to a frequent community request: the ability to hide protagonist Edward Kenway’s blowpipe from his back. The update also includes a Sony-specific fix that…
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The classic 2002 movie Harrison Ford was happy to shame into existence: “I had been struggling”
He had nothing to do with it. The post The classic 2002 movie Harrison Ford was happy to shame into existence: “I had been struggling” first appeared on Far Out Magazine.
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day 4K and Blu-Ray Preorders Are Live – Here’s Where You Can Buy It
Preorders have opened for physical copies of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, even as the film continues its cinema run and breaks box office records. Fans can now reserve 4K, Blu-ray and steelbook versions ahead of an official home release, though no release date or bonus features have yet been confirmed. Retailers Walmart and Amazon are…