Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on October 14, 2019. Alexey Nikolsky/Getty Images Russia is imposing steep discounts on its crude, undercutting Saudi Arabia’s oil prices, Bloomberg reports. Russian barrels were cheaper than Saudi Arabia’s from April through June. The discounted oil is heading to…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Leslie Grace at the premiere of DC’s “The Suicide Squad” in 2021. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Warner Bros. Discovery canceled the release of the “Batgirl” movie this week. CEO David Zaslav defended the decision during the company’s investor call on Thursday. “Our job is to protect the DC brand and that’s what we’re going to do,” he said….
Alex Jones testifies at his defamation trial in Texas. Briana Sanchez/Pool via REUTERS Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene praised Alex Jones after his Sandy Hook defamation trial ended. She is one of few MAGA influencers who showed support for Jones throughout the trial. On Thursday, Jones was ordered to pay $4.1 million over his bogus claims…
Pedestrians walk past a Now Hiring sign in Arlington, Virginia, on March 16, 2022. Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images US stocks fell on Friday after July’s strong jobs report showed big gains despite fears of a recession.The US added 528,000 new jobs in July, about double expectations as the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%.The strong employment gains…
We called the Beats Studio Buds the best device from the company for most people when they came out last year, and it remains one of our top picks if you’re looking for a pair of relatively affordable wireless earbuds. They’re an even better buy when you can grab them on sale — Amazon currently…
Foldable phones are still kind of awkward, unproven devices. But over the last three generations (with a fourth presumably on the way), Samsung has made major strides with its designs, paving the way for innovative (though sometimes quite pricey) alternatives to the typical glass brick. And when you combine that with sales of nearing 10…
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war… and if Games Workshop has its way, plenty of Warhammer 40,000 video games to play. The sci-fi tabletop universe is enjoying a video game boom, with a handful of great games set within its very grim and very dark universe launched in recent…
A new game development kit (GDK) for the Xbox Series S will “optimise” the console’s memory allocation, Microsoft has revealed. “Hundreds of additional megabytes of memory are now available to Xbox Series S developers,” explained the game dev team in a new video (see below) all about the GDK’s updates (thanks, The Verge). Microsoft says…
Back in 2018, Belgium declared loot boxes in games were a form of gambling and therefore illegal, but it appears this law isn’t being enforced. Loot box researcher Leon Y Xiao has written a report stating the country’s gambling law regulation of video game loot boxes has been ineffective, as reported by GamesIndustry.biz. Despite the…
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is arguably FromSoftware’s most difficult game, but now you can use that to your advantage in Elden Ring. Modder Hotbite has ported over animations from Sekiro’s final boss, so now your Tarnished can adventure through The Lands Between with some incredibly flashy moves – spotted by PC Gamer. Spoilers for Sekiro’s…