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As Xbox and PlayStation sales reach new lows, analyst says the "US hardware market has not been in a more precarious position since the early 80s"
PS5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles are more expensive than ever in most markets, thanks largely to memory components being gobbled up by AI data centres. Now, analyst Mat Piscatella worries the console market, at least in the US, hasn't looked this dire since the early 1980s, which was maybe not-so-coincidentally when the industry absolutely collapsed. Read more
Rolling Stone
Willie Nelson Endorses James Talarico in Texas Senate Race
"He's a good man who will be a good senator," says the country legend
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Variety Toasts Pete Davidson at The New York Party With Gayle King, Ana Navarro and Kareem Rahma
New York is having a moment. In June, the Knicks pulled off the impossible and won their first NBA championship in 53 years, sending the city into a frenzy of infectious energy. “I was at my friend Justin’s house with a bunch of straight people, which was fun,” Nicky Campbell, fashion TikTok star and one […]
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Gears Of War: E-Day How’s It Selling? Let’s Unpack Things
Microsoft's latest console exclusive, Gears of War: E-Day , launched this week, and now we've gotten the first glimpse at how the game is performing commercially. Multiple analysts have weighed in, and there are numerous factors at play beyond pure sales, due to Game Pass and other factors. So let's break things down. Rhys Elliott of Alinea Analytics released a report that said the game has sold about 230,000 copies so far, with Steam sales accounting for 168,000 and Xbox (across console and PC) making up the other 62,000. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teClq4qYyzQ Straight sales do not tell the whole story, though, because E-Day is available on Game Pass, which Elliott said "cannibalized" the majority of sales. He said Alinea's data showed than 1.7 million people acquired E-Day through their Game Pass subscription as opposed to buying a copy outright. There is more nuance there, too, a
Variety
How Skydance Will Remake the Illustrious Culture of Warner Bros. Pictures More Than Any Owner Before
There have been many quiet Mondays at the Burbank offices of Warner Bros. Pictures, usually following a bomb like the one the studio just suffered with Tom Cruise’s “Digger.” The cryptic eco-disaster project will represent a loss of hundreds of millions when all is said and done. But the silence this past Monday was compounded […]
Variety
Remi Wolf on the Meaning Behind Her New Album ‘Mud,’ Her ‘Off Campus’ Cameo and Friendship with Hayley Williams
Remi Wolf hasn’t landed a spot on “Survivor,” one of her favorite shows she’s always wanted to be on, so she instead put her mental fortitude to the test by rolling around in a makeshift mud pit. She quickly realized she’s “never gonna make it on that show if I can’t handle this in such […]