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Stevie Bonifield

Stevie Bonifield

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    Crunchyroll’s shop will require a subscription starting next month.

    As Polygon reports, buying something from Crunchyroll’s store will require a Mega or Ultimate subscription, which got a price increase earlier this year. The basic Fan subscription tier isn’t included. Crunchyroll also says its updated store will focus more on convention-style products, like “collectibles, curated drops, and limited-release products.”

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    Stevie Bonifield
    The Writers Guild of America is suing to block Paramount’s Warner Bros. Discovery merger.

    The WGAE and WGAW are jointly filing a lawsuit alleging the merger violates antitrust law, following a similar lawsuit filed by a dozen state attorneys general. The WGA says it has “opposed the merger since day one,” adding:

    [T]he proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. merger would reduce competition between buyers of film and television writing services, giving the combined entity increased incentive and ability to suppress writers’ compensation, erode deal terms, create new barriers for emerging writers to build sustainable careers and diminish the volume and diversity of content reaching audiences.

    Disclosure: The Verge’s editorial staff is also unionized with the Writers Guild of America, East.

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    Stevie Bonifield
    Good Mythical Morning will release new episodes on Netflix and YouTube simultaneously.

    According to the Hollywood Reporter, the partnership also includes new episodes of Mythical Kitchen and Last Meals, and follows similar deals to bring other YouTube shows to Netflix, like content from digital media brands. Mythical Entertainment’s shows will begin premiering on the same day on both platforms starting September 7th.

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    Stevie Bonifield
    Pebble responds to cracked screen reports, says it’s replaced 330 Pebble Time 2s.

    Pebble says it’s sent free replacements to everyone who reported Time 2 hardware issues like cracked screens and broken touch panels “regardless” of whether the defective watches (out of 19,000 in service) were still covered under its 30-day warranty.

    …we will continue replacing reasonable reports of glass cracking for free as long as we can. At some point, we will shift to offering a replacement at a highly discounted amount.