The end of 2020 is going to be gigantic for the gaming world, as it will see Xbox and PlayStation launch their next-generation consoles with some big titles will be tied to those drops. The 2020 holiday season will also now feature the release of one of the most highly anticipated games of the year, as Cyberpunk 2077 has pushed its release date from September 17 to November 19.

CD Projekt Red made the announcement on the Cyberpunk official Twitter account, noting that while the game is done in terms of content, they have a lot of work to do to go through the world and clean out bugs and other potential glitches or issues that pop up. As such, they want to push the release back to ensure when the game releases it is ready to play in total and won’t be buggy.

It’s the latest game release to get pushed back, and while the release says nothing about the COVID-19 pandemic, one has to wonder if that played a role in making it more difficult to collaborate on sweeping through the game and finding and fixing bugs that led them to realize they’ll need two more months to ensure it’s ready to go.

They also note that some journalists have been granted access to the game to play through and give their impressions, and the developers are eager “and quite stressed” to hear back on opinions of the game. They are still planning on hosting Night City Wire on June 25 to give fans a deeper look at the game and what to expect when Cyberpunk 2077 does finally drop in November.

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Jamie Foxx has been trying to get his Mike Tyson biopic made for so long, the initial Variety report notes that he “can be seen next in Sony’s reboot of Annie.” Annie came out in 2014. But while guesting on Mark Birnbaum’s Instagram Live series Catching Up, the Oscar winner confirmed that the movie finally happening is a “definitive yes.”

“Look, doing biographies is a tough thing. Sometimes it takes 20 years to get them done. But we officially got the real ball rolling,” Foxx, who previously played Muhammad Ali’s cornerman Drew Bundini Brown in Michael Mann’s Ali, told Birnbaum. He already looks the part of Iron Mike. Foxx showed off his muscular physique, noting that “every other day, I do 60 pull-ups, we do 60 dips, we do 100 push-ups,” but, he joked, “I ain’t got no calf muscles, so we’re gonna have to get some prosthetics for that.” CGI will be employed. “Just the technology of how I’m gonna look, I guarantee you people will run up on me in the street, and ask for autographs, and think that I’m Mike,” Foxx said.

The Collateral star (Collateral came out even longer ago than Annie, but whatever, it rules) also teased that the biopic will cover Tyson’s “different lives… We want to show, everybody evolves. I think when we lay the layers on Mike Tyson in this story, I think everybody from young and old will be able to understand this man’s journey.”

Foxx begins discussing the biopic at the 53-minute mark (and shows off his muscles at 56:35) in the video below.

(Via Entertainment Weekly)

Australian indie group The Beths have a new album on the way: Jump Rope Gazers comes out on July 10. Usually, it’s normal for bands to head out on tour around the time they drop a fresh record. We’re not living through normal times, though, so like many other artists, The Beths had to delay touring plans during the pandemic. That said, The Beths are actually doing it: The band has announced they will be performing an honest-to-goodness concert next month.

This isn’t some sort of drive-in concert where even cars have to be six feet apart, either: They’ll be performing at Powerstation in Auckland, Australia, an indoor venue. The band’s Elizabeth Stokes wrote in the announcement, “Very surreal to say this: Auckland, we’re doing a gig. It’s July 11th, the day after our album comes out. I can’t tell you how much we are looking forward to playing a show and playing new songs. It’ll be pretty special, come and hang.”

Australia as a country has handled itself well during the pandemic, which makes a July concert there a real possibility. The country is apparently on course to “have largely eradicated the coronavirus” by July, according to an announcement from public health officials earlier this month.

Jump Rope Gazers is out 7/10 via Carpark. Pre-order it here.

After tapping Angel Olsen to give a disco-infused contribution to his 2019 Late Night Feelings record, acclaimed producer Mark Ronson decided to rework one of her All Mirrors tracks. Applauding her fourth studio record as one of his “favorite albums from last year,” Ronson breathed new life into Olsen’s “New Love Cassette” with an oscillating remix.

In a statement alongside the remix, Olsen praised Ronson’s handiwork: “The entire process of making All Mirrors has been about letting these songs become something bigger than what I can hear alone. Though I know I’ll always be a songwriter at heart, and I’ll always keep a little bit for myself, I still love to experiment with material and to see what others hear when it comes to sonic backgrounds. A song can go in so many directions if you let it, I love hearing what Ronson hears in this remix of ‘New Love Cassette.’”

The remix arrives just ahead of Olsen’s benefit livestream Cosmic Streams. Kicking off the event Thursday evening, Olsen will perform the entirety of her debut record Half Way Home along with a handful of rarities. A portion of proceeds from the livestream ticket sales will benefit the YMCA in her Ashville hometown.

Listen to “New Love Cassette (Remix)” above.

All Mirrors is out now via Jagjaguwar. Get it here.

Maybe it’s the quarantine getting to him, but Robert Pattinson has proven himself to be quite the agent of chaos when it comes to interviews lately. There was his now-infamous pasta explosion while coordinating his eccentric GQ profile over Zoom, and he’s acquired a penchant for telling reporters that even he doesn’t know what Tenet is about, and he’s in it.

This time around, Pattinson contributed to Entertainment Weekly‘s huge, new Tenet feature by claiming he was freaking out his co-stars by performing car stunts despite having only one day of training.

“I thought that I wasn’t going to be doing any stunt driving in it, but then I ended up doing tons and tons. I remember doing one sequence where me and John David are in a BMW with an IMAX camera rigged on the hood, which means you can’t see anything through the windscreen, basically. And also, if you turn even slightly too much to the left or right, the rig hits the road, which is kind of terrifying. John David’s turning to me and saying, ‘Are you, like, a stunt driver or something? Have you rehearsed this?’ Under normal circumstances you wouldn’t really be allowed to do this. But Chris has so much control over the set, you get to do the actual fun stuff, which normally would be reserved for experts and not people who can’t even parallel park.”

Just like he did during Pattinson’s pasta meltdown with GQ, director Christopher Nolan swooped in to say that the Twilight star is joking. But then Nolan revealed an interesting tidbit. He confirmed that Pattinson only did a day of training, but it was more of ability assessment and it turns out, he’s actually awesome behind the wheel? According to Nolan, the stunt team “found him to be an excellent driver more than capable of safely performing the required shots.”

2 Pattz 2 Furious.

(Via Entertainment Weekly)

Four of the sports leagues that plan on resuming in the coming weeks and months — MLS, NBA, NWSL, and WNBA — all plan on pursuing bubble leagues in various corners of the United States. This approach has some potential flaws, but as Dr. Anthony Fauci explained when talking about the NBA’s plan, a bubble league could be the model for leagues going forward during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As for leagues that aren’t slated to being their campaigns any time soon, things like a bubble league have not been suggested. But in the eyes of Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, the concept of going forward with a football season without a bubble might not be feasible.

“Unless players are essentially in a bubble — insulated from the community and they are tested nearly every day — it would be very hard to see how football is able to be played this fall,” Fauci said, per ESPN. “If there is a second wave, which is certainly a possibility and which would be complicated by the predictable flu season, football may not happen this year.”

Of course, a bubble for football is more complex than a bubble for basketball or soccer, if only because of the sheer number of individuals a team would bring. Rosters with nearly 100 players, plus gigantic coaching staffs, plus gigantic support staffs, plus all the requisite individuals needed to make football games work, means that thousands of people would be placed into a bubble environment. That doesn’t even consider the added complexity of doing this sort of thing with college football, where athletes would presumably be unable to go to class.

All of this is to say that putting together a football season in some kind of bubble would be really, really hard, and that’s before we even consider things like “how on earth can you put together enough practice fields and actual fields for teams to, you know, play football?” The good news, relatively speaking, is that both the NFL and the NCAA have time to put plans together. The bad news, though, is that even the best plan that they can come up with may be nearly impossible to pull off.