8K TVs: Not Dead Yet, But Pretty Close

When Microsoft and Activision Blizzard agreed to push back the closing date of their proposed merger by several months,  the effort was intended to handle a UK appeal of the deal's rejection. After submitting a revised deal, the UK regulators seem likely to  approve Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition.

The Diablo 4 Season 2 reveal is targeted for the first week of October, Blizzard reveals. The next Diablo 4 update livestream is planned to go over what we can expect to see from the upcoming Season of Blood, but Diablo community manager Adam Fletcher confirms that we won’t be seeing it for a couple more weeks.

Only two episodes in, and The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon viewers can't stop gushing about the Norman Reedus-led spin-off. Comparing it to some of the zombie franchise's most beloved chapters, like the original show's first season and Fear the Walking Dead's season 3, fans have recently take to Reddit to describe the latest outing as "amazing" and "special".

One of the biggest DIY repair sites, iFixit, has revised its repairability score on the iPhone 14, explaining its software  «now limits many basic iPhone repairs» because it requires would be repairers to have replacement parts remotely authenticated by Apple.  

A Red Dead Redemption 2 PS5 and Xbox Series X version was discussed internally at Microsoft, potentially pointing to an incoming new-gen remaster.

Of the many developer concerns surrounding Unity's new install fee, the company's rules for charity exemptions remain a particularly sore spot. With one developer already claiming its charity efforts have been dismissed by Unity for supporting what the company has deemed "political groups," those concerns have only worsened. 

Developers of indie puzzle game Orgynizer have claimed that Unity said organisations like Planned Parenthood are "not valid charities" and are instead "political groups."

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a game where death comes easily, and developer Larian Studios is more than content to let important characters fall foul of all manner of nasty ends – sometimes even before you’ve met them. It’s handy, then, that the Baldur’s Gate 3 Speak with Dead spell is very easy to access on any playthrough, but it can be a bit of a pain to work out which of the many corpses in the massive RPG game are actually worth chatting to. Fortunately, things just got simpler with one of the best Baldur’s Gate 3 mods.

Artificial Intelligence is transforming Slack, the widely used workplace messaging platform, its CEO told AFP just nine months after taking on one of the most high profile jobs in Silicon Valley.

Retribution, the Liam Neeson-led thriller that released theatrically in August 2023, is making its way to Premium Video on Demand (PVOD) this month.

It is generally a bad sign when a TV show or film franchise that has heretofore shown a complete lack of interest in space suddenly decides to go to space. This is one of the first things they teach you in screenwriting school, right after “enter late, leave early” and just before “you can always fix it in post, it’s no big deal.” It has been a little while since I was in school, but I’m pretty sure it was Dalton Trumbo himself that said, “Going to space will change the hierarchy of power in your story’s universe, and look at how well that worked for Black Adam or F9.” Space — it’s a bad idea! Unless you are The Morning Show. Then it’s when things really start to get good.

For the first time in its 16 year history, Apple is releasing an iPhone without a proprietary connector. Apple announced in a livestream today that the new iPhone 15 will launch with USB-C, ending the 11-year reign of its Lightning port (only half a decade or so after it probably should've made this move).