The change means that Paramount Games Studio, which was established this year, will be combined with WBD teams like Rocksteady Studios and Hogwarts Legacy developer Avalanche Software, Variety reports.
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Yuanyuan Sun, aka Abeeeer, was photographed on the bike during the race and wrote a statement later admitting that she “did indeed violate race rules,” The Athletic reports. Sun wore Brooks China gear during the event, and the sponsor has terminated its relationship with her.
It’s just another incident of sportsy influencers dropping the ball with brands they represent, following a disastrous golf ad and the shenanigans at the US Open.
Following public exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, a collection of “props, annotated scripts, production materials, awards, filmmaking equipment and personal possessions” from the Stanley Kubrick Film Archives will be going up for auction thgrough Bonhams London starting on February 3rd, 2027.

Aaron Sorkin’s follow up to The Social Network puts the Facebook Files scandal on the timeline.
It took only about a week for someone to take the source code from the adorable but discontinued sampler and turn it into a free virtual instrument called NIBBI. You can download it and play it as a standalone app, open it in your DAW, or just tinker with it in your browser.
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The streamer has been pivoting to TV-based games of late, but some new app store listings — as spotted by RPG Site — show that a mobile version of Monster Hunter Rise is on its way to the service. The timing is particularly interesting as the mobile-focused MonHun spinoff Outlanders is also launching at the end of October.


Premium subscribers already get 12 hours of (primarily English) audiobook streaming every month, and that perk is now expanding from 22 to over 180 countries be the end of 2026. The offering includes 350,000 titles, “including new catalogs in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, and more, spanning over 120 languages.”
Apple TV subscribers in the US can experience Formula 1 in the enhanced audio format for the first time starting October 23rd with the US Grand Prix in Austin.
Following today’s completion of the $110 billion Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery megamerger to form Skydance, the company announced three new board members: Powell Jobs, former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, and newly-appointed Skydance co-CEO Ynon Kreiz. Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is also joining as a “board advisor.”
Though AI studio Fable has not yet announced which distributor will put its animated Gods Don’t Give Gifts feature into theaters, Variety reports that the project is now slated to premiere on December 4th — which would make it eligible for submission for the upcoming Oscars.


At Fate’s End, a new game from the developers of Spiritfarer, blew me away when I tried it earlier this year, but its release date just got pushed from 2026 to 2027. Bummer. Ahead of the official launch, though, you can now check out a demo on Steam and a new gameplay trailer.
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