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Ticketmaster Goes AI-First: New CTO, Brazil Data Leak Unanswered

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Ticketmaster just hired an ex-Amazon executive to make “every function AI-first” — agentic tools, deeper personalization, tougher bot defenses. But as the company collects more data, one question from Brazil is still unanswered: what happened to the leaked ticketing records, and was Ticketmaster ever breached at all? In brief The hires: Jim Freeman (ex-Amazon Prime … Read more

Black Ops 1 & 2 Ports Made $435M in a Month — the Devs Got Nothing

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Activision quietly dropped 14- and 16-year-old Call of Duty games on PlayStation in July. They sold 11.2 million copies in a month. Here is why a $40 port with zero new features became one of 2026’s biggest hits — and why the developers who built the originals say they haven’t seen a dime of it. … Read more

Salesforce to Buy Braze for $5.66B: What the Deal Means

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Salesforce has agreed to pay about $5.66 billion for customer-engagement platform Braze, one of the largest marketing-software deals in years. Here is what Braze actually does, why Salesforce wants it badly enough to pay up, and what changes for customers and competitors. In brief The deal: Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to acquire Braze for … Read more

Battlefront 3 Rumor, Explained: DICE, Bungie or Respawn — What We Know

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Nearly a decade after Battlefront II, a third game is back in serious discussion — not as an announcement, but as a rumor about who might make it. A revived Electronic Gaming Monthly column, aired via the Giant Bomb Game Mess Mornings podcast on October 19, reports that Lucasfilm has been sounding out development partners … Read more

Anthropic in Talks for a Second $45 Billion Nscale Deal: What It Means

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One week after Microsoft walked away from Nscale’s UK data center because the site could not get electricity, Anthropic is reportedly about to double down on the same company. Bloomberg reported on October 19 that Nscale is in talks to sell Anthropic another roughly $45 billion of AI computing power — a second deal on … Read more

Game Pass Loses 9 Games on Oct 31: Which Are Worth Your Time

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Microsoft’s Game Pass rotation takes nine games on October 31, 2026 — including LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Wartales, and three classic Double Fine remasters. With 4 days left, here’s which ones you can still finish, which to buy at the member discount, and which to let go. Update, October 27: Xbox added a … Read more

PS6 Price Crisis: Memory Alone Now Costs Sony $680

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A credible hardware leaker says the PS6’s memory alone now costs Sony more than $680 to build — more than an entire PS5 cost at launch. Here is why AI data centers are driving that number, and what it means for the console’s price. In brief The claim: hardware leaker KeplerL2 (via NeoGAF) says the … Read more

Cyberpunk Edgerunners Season 2: All 10 Episodes Now on Netflix

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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 arrives on Netflix on October 20, 2026, with all 10 episodes at once. Here is the release time, the new cast and story, and why the showrunner says David’s story is finished. In brief Release: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 premiered on Netflix on October 20, 2026 — all 10 episodes dropped at once … Read more

PS5 Games on Xbox Series X: How the PS5X Emulator Actually Works

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On September 8, developer Devran Cosmo Uenal posted a YouTube video that should have been impossible: the PlayStation 5 version of Quake II, booting and playing on an Xbox Series X, controlled with an Xbox controller. The software doing the work is PS5X, his port of the open-source KytyPS5 emulator to Microsoft’s console. Since then, … Read more

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Launch Guide — Verdicts & Dates

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Update, October 27: the October 23 launch date covered in this article has now passed. The verdicts below cover campaign early access only; full-launch multiplayer verdicts are not yet covered here. Call of Duty’s story mode may finally be worth playing again. Campaign early access for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 opened on October … Read more