As giant and vast as the video game industry is there are six companies who stand above the rest. They are the three hardware publishers in Microsoft (Xbox), Sony (PlayStation), and Nintendo (Switch), and the three largest software publishers in Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and Activision Blizzard. When a huge AAA game comes out it’s almost always a product of one of these six companies and it’s been this way for quite some time.
On Tuesday, a massive deal was announced that has the potential to impact the entirety of the video game industry. A report from the Wall Street Journal stated that Microsoft planned to purchase Activision Blizzard. Later on, the report was confirmed and Microsoft put out an official statement about Activision joining the Xbox “family.”
Today is a historic moment. We are excited to announce that the world-renowned franchises and talented people at @ATVI_AB will be joining Team Xbox!
As we pursue that mission, it is incredibly exciting to announce that Microsoft has agreed to acquire Activision Blizzard.
Over many decades, the studios and teams that make up Activision Blizzard have earned vast wellsprings of joy and respect from billions of people all over the world. We are incredibly excited to have the chance to work with the amazing, talented, dedicated people across Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, Beenox, Demonware, Digital Legends, High Moon Studios, Infinity Ward, King, Major League Gaming, Radical Entertainment, Raven Software, Sledgehammer Games, Toys for Bob, Treyarch and every team across Activision Blizzard.
The deal is fascinating on a number of levels, including the timing, as it comes after months of scandals regarding Activision Blizzard’s treatment of employees, which resulted in Xbox head Phil Spencer telling employees the company was “evaluating” their relationship with the publisher amid calls for Activision CEO Bobby Kotick to resign. How Microsoft handles the Kotick situation and the fallout from the workplace misconduct and sexual harassment scandals that Activision Blizzard has been embroiled with will be one of the first things they have to do with this new acquisition.
Details of the purchase so far are that Xbox will be buying the company for a record $68.7 billion. This is easily the largest acquisition in the history of the industry in not only money but potentially impact. Microsoft isn’t just buying a large name with the Activision Blizard purchase, it’s giving itself exclusive ownership over massive titles like Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Candy Crush. These are some of the biggest titles in all of gaming and now they belong to Microsoft.
While this is obviously great news for Microsoft and the Xbox, it is a massive blow against their biggest rival in the console space, Sony. The PlayStation’s largest selling digital games in 2021 featured Call of Duty multiple times across two consoles. Now, if Microsoft wanted to, it could simply make Call of Duty an Xbox and PC exclusive. Will they do that? We’re not sure yet, but it’s a possibility and gives Microsoft and the Xbox a level of power that it has never had before. This deal is massive today and we’re going to be seeing waves from it for years.
Over the weekend, Andrew Giuliani made some bizarre headlines of his own. On Saturday, the New York Post reported that Giuliani the Younger bravely attempted to step in and break up a fight on the streets of New York, and ended up getting smacked in the face with a flower pot of all things. Andrew, who is running for governor of New York despite getting a total of zero votes in a straw poll last summer, told the Post that he was on his way to a meeting with the head of the New York Young Republicans when he encountered a man and a woman having a vicious argument and decided to insert himself into the middle of their dispute.
“I got between the two of them,” Giuliani told the Post. “He had a flower pot. I think it was intended for her but it hit me on the left side of the face. Thankfully it was a plastic pot and not a clay pot. The soil mostly hit me. But I wan’t expecting it. It was a little bit of a shock.”
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Giuliani remembers the woman yelling “you leave me no money, bitch” just before the man attempted to hit her. When Giuliani began dialing 911 for assistance, said man with said flower pot reportedly threatened to “beat the sh*t” out of the gubernatorial wannabe. Presumably, that is when the aforementioned planter connected with Giuliani’s face.
According to the Post, the police arrived about 15 minutes later and filed a report, but no arrests have been made. The paper also included the following paragraph, which has “Pulitzer Prize!” written all over it:
“Locals in the area say the uptick in crime has been noticeable over the last five years. The incident was not far from where a violent perv slashed a man who confronted him about masturbating in front of his wife just days earlier.”
While Giuliani did point out a possible suspect in a photo lineup, he admitted that he wasn’t 100 percent sure it was indeed the man with all the flower power behind his fist. He then turned the moment into a political talking point by admitting that he didn’t expect any more to come of it under new Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s watch, and that his first priority if elected governor would be to remove Bragg. “Any DA which violates their oath of office … I would relieve him of his duties,” Giuliani told the Post.
Over the weekend, Donald Trump held his first public rally since July in Arizona. He belched out his usual assortment of lies (and one accidental truth) in front of thousands of followers, who are convinced that Trump will run again in 2024. He hasn’t said one way or the other, but that snake-eating-its-own-tail scenario seems increasingly likely to happen, depending on two factors: if he can “dominate the 2022 midterms as a so-called kingmaker inside the GOP,” as CNN put it, and Joe Biden’s approval rating.
If Trump’s midterm involvement pays dividends in November, people in his orbit say, it is increasingly likely that he will mount a comeback presidential bid in 2024. Three Trump advisers said his behavior in public and private over the past four months has left them with the impression that he does plan to run again as long as he thinks he can win. One of those indicators is Trump’s increased outreach to pollster Tony Fabrizio, who compiled a 27-page autopsy after the 2020 election that detailed which demographics had drifted away from Trump and sought to explain the reasons for those shifts.
Those closest to Trump believe he’ll run in 2024 if “Biden’s approval rating is still hovering in the low 40s next spring because, Trump and his team believe, that would indicate a loss of support for Biden among independent voters.” Biden is currently around 42 percent, but “if Biden is back up to 46 percent approval or above, everyone is universally in agreement that Trump is out,” an aide told CNN.
Four percent. That’s the measly difference between Trump running for president again in 2024, or spending his golden years wandering around his Mar-A-Lago kingdom. Make of that what you will the next time you get a phone call from a pollster.
In the midst of yet another spat between Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former president Donald Trump last week, conservative author and media personality Ann Coulter came out swinging in support of DeSantis, and now, she’s ratcheting up her campaign against Trump by directly contacting the press about what she thinks of Trump’s status in the Republican Party. In short, he’s toast.
In a blunt statement to The New York Times, Coulter made it clear that she feels DeSantis is the future of the party, not Trump who continues to threaten another presidential run in 2024:
In an email, Ms. Coulter, herself a part-time Florida resident, put a finer point on what makes Mr. DeSantis’s rise unsettling for the former president. “Trump is done,” she wrote. “You guys should stop obsessing over him.”
Coulter’s email to the Times continues a run of scathing attacks on Trump. After the former president demanded to know DeSantis’ vaccination status last week — Trump has become increasingly pro-vax once he realized he should be heavily milking Operation Warp Speed for credit — Coulter came to the Florida governor’s defense by flat-out calling Trump a “con man.”
“Trump is demanding to know Ron DeSantis’s booster status, and I can now reveal it,” Coulter tweeted. “He was a loyal booster when Trump ran in 2016, but then he learned our president was a liar and con man whose grift was permanent. I hope that clears things up.”
Adele’s “Easy On Me” has made staying at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart look easy, as the tune has done it for a while now. The song’s successful run continues this week, too: On the new Hot 100 dated January 22, “Easy On Me” is No. 1 for the ninth total week. “Easy On Me” is nearly Adele’s longest-running No. 1 song ever in the US, as it’s just a hair behind “Hello,” which topped the chart for ten weeks in 2015 and 2016.
Gunna had the highest-charting debut of the week with “Pushin P,” as the Future and Young Thug collaboration places at No. 7. The track is now Gunna’s third top-10 hit, Future’s fifth, and Thug’s sixth. Meanwhile, Gayle’s TikTok-boosted hit “ABCDEFU” enters the top 10 for the first time at No. 9.
“We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” from Disney’s Encanto, also achieves a new peak at No. 4, which ties it for the second-highest Hot 100 placement ever for a song from a Disney animated film. It’s tied with Elton John’s Lion King classic “Can You Feel The Love Tonight” and Vanessa Williams’ “Colors Of The Wind” from Pocahontas. The only song ahead of it is Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle’s Aladdin staple “A Whole New World,” which topped the chart for a week in March 1993.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
With his third studio album slated for an early 2022 release, Rod Wave begins his latest campaign with a sentimental new single, “Cold December.” Looking back on his uneven love life, Rod croons, “It’s safe to say I been this way since I was eighteen / The same night I fall in love, I feel it fadin’.” In the accompanying video, a young actor reenacts Rod’s lyrics as he recounts various flings through the years from the porch of a snow-covered cabin.
Rod made his return this week after a high-flying 2021 that saw him release his second studio album, SoulFly, which became his first-ever No. 1 album. He also became a highly-coveted feature artist, appearing on tracks alongside Polo G, Lil Baby, and Lil Durk, assisting Polo on the song “Heart Of A Giant” from Polo’s own chart-topping effort Hall Of Fame and contributing to Baby and Durk’s The Voice Of The Heroes cut, “Rich Off Pain.”
Polo returned the favor on Rod’s SoulFly single “Richer,” while Rod’s singles “Street Runner” and “Tombstone” helped propel the project to No. 1 debut. After the album’s release, Rod followed up with the singles “Time Heals” and “Already Won” with Lil Durk.
You can watch the “Cold December” video above and stay tuned for Rod’s new album.
Monday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day or, as Seth Meyers describes it, “a day full of Republican politicians who support voter suppression efforts and have spent months fanning a crazed right-wing panic over so-called ‘critical race theory’ deceptively quoting Dr. King out of context.” Among those guilty of this clueless, casual racism is newly elected Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin, who Meyers reminded viewers “signed an executive order banning the teaching of critical race theory on his first day in office and then went on Fox News and quoted Dr. King.”
Of course, the quote Youngkin referred to was King’s famous line that “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” Meyers couldn’t help but note that this is possibly “the only MLK line Republicans have ever read,” and as such, regularly take it out of context. But Meyers seemed even more annoyed by Florida senator Marco Rubio who, like so many of his fellow Republicans, “can’t be bothered to read any further than the exact quote they’re looking for.”
Case in point: Rubio, who on Monday tweeted what Meyers described as a “deceptively quoted line from Dr. King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, without any additional context:
“When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.”
“Did you read any further than that, or did you just pull up the text in the speech and do a Control+F for ‘Things that make it sound like he agrees with me,’” Meyers wanted to know. “‘Cause, dude, you’ve got to read at least like two more lines.” Of course, had Rubio kept quoting, he would have understood why context matters, as King went on to say:
“This note was a promise that all men—yes, black men as well as white men—would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.”
Meyers spoke for many of his fed-up audiences members when he said “It’s times like these where you really wish that Rubio would just go back to his old job as the picture that comes with the frame.”
There are a lot of great bourbons out there, with more hitting shelves every season. By the very law of averages, we also have to admit that there are a fair few subpar and even shitty bourbons too. The natural response to this variance is to assume “the more it costs, the better it must taste” — but that’s patently untrue. Bourbon, mostly, is local and made from a grain that the U.S. government pays farmers to grow. That means that even at the height of this bourbon boom, you can still get very high-quality juice for an affordable price.
It should come as no surprise to any afficanado that there are delicious bourbons to be had for between $10 and $20 right now. Costs are held down by big companies knowing what they’re doing thanks to generations of development and refinement. Will it have spent tons of time in the barrel? Probably not. But it can certainly share a mashbill with more nuanced, longer-aged expressions.
The ten bottles of cheap bourbon whiskey below are expressions we find to be exceptional at this price point for 2022. Some of these work on the rocks or even as everyday sippers, some of them are better as cocktail bases — all of them taste good and all of them clock in at under $20.*
*Price will vary depending on your state’s taxes — these prices are from Total Wine’s online shop in Louisville, Kentucky.
Luxco’s Ezra Brooks is a throwback to the Mad Men days of bourbon. The juice is a standard rye-infused bourbon without an age statement. It’s made as a workhorse whiskey that’s easy to find and cheap when you do find it.
Tasting Notes:
Classic yet mild notes of caramel corn, vanilla, and oaky spice lead the way. There’s a continued sense of those notes on the palate, with a hint of dark chocolate and spice when a little water is introduced. The end is short, caramel sweet, and has hints of kettle corn with a watery vibe that mutes the finish.
Bottom Line:
This is a good place to start any cheap bourbon journey. This feels classic without any obtrusive notes. It’s a little watery on the backend for me, but that does make it a great candidate for shots with a beer back if you’re looking to let loose a little.
The bourbon in this bottle is a standard “small batch” though there’s not a whole lot of information on what that entails, exactly. What we do know is that the juice comes from Buffalo Trace’s Mash Bill #1, which is the same base as Eagle Rare, E.H. Taylor, Stagg, and Buffalo Trace Bourbon.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a truly basic bourbon vibe on the nose and throughout the palate. Vanilla extract, slightly wet oak, and that raw Buffalo Trace leather dominate the nose, it’s almost exactly like the one on Buffalo Trace Bourbon. The taste pretty much stays in that arena with caramel apples and floral honey popping up next to a slight metallic note and soft mineral water mouthfeel. The end is short and sweet and leads you back to that leather, oak, and vanilla primarily.
Bottom Line:
Since Buffalo Trace Bourbon is becoming more and more allocated across the country, this is a great fill-in for that bottle. It’s not as refined but it’s very close. Plus, it’s about $10 cheaper per bottle, which isn’t too bad. That said, this (like BT Bourbon) is a great mixer and only a sipper if you have a glass full of rocks and your shelf is empty.
This bourbon is Beam’s signature low-rye mash bill. It’s aged for four years before the barrels are blended and it’s cut down to 80 proof. This is a lot of folks’ entry point into the wider world of bourbon because it’s a quaffable whiskey that’s very affordable and on pretty much every liquor store shelf right at eye level.
Tasting Notes:
You can sense the corn next to classic bourbon notes of caramel, vanilla, and orchard fruit with a hint of cherry wood. The sip centers the vanilla and caramel as a distant echo of oak arrives on the tongue that leads back to that cherry vibe but now it’s almost cherry candy. The sip warms with a bit of spice next to a sweetened caramel corn edge alongside more cherry candy on a short and sweet finish.
Bottom Line:
There’s no getting around Jim Beam being one the most solid budget bourbons in the world. It’s reliable, easy-drinking, and actually has some depth to it. What’s wild is there isn’t a watery note even though this is cut down to 80 proof. It’s light, sure, but still stands up as a full-bodied whiskey.
This whiskey is made from Beam’s other mash bill, which is high rye and also the base of Basil Hayden’s. From there, the whiskey rests for a few years in Beam’s expansive rickhouses before it’s vatted, proofed down with that soft Kentucky limestone water, and bottled.
Tasting Notes:
This is very even-keeled between the nose and palate. You’re drawn in with notes of cream soda and maybe even Vanilla Coke next to a touch of Beam cherry and oak. That cherry leans into spicy cherry tobacco territory with a light chewiness next to notes of cinnamon, clove, and maybe a touch of black pepper. The end is short, hot, and leaves you with a cherry-vanilla-pepper sensation.
Bottom Line:
This is another bottle that somehow hides all that water needed to proof it down beneath some very bold whiskey. While this is the perfect shot and beer pick, it also works pretty damn well in a highball since the bigger flavor notes will hold their own against the water (or ginger ale) and ice.
This was an old-school “bottled in bond” from the Barton Distillery in Bardstown but they dropped the b-i-b designation. The juice in the bottle used to be at least six years old but today it’s at least four. All of that sounds like deterrents from this bottle but it’s still 100 proof and there are still barrels up to six years old in the mix, meaning this still works well at this price point.
Tasting Notes:
This comes in big on the nose with a deep buttery caramel sauce next to blueberry pie, wet oak, and peppery peppermint tobacco. The taste carries over the pie and adds a big scoop of vanilla ice cream, a dusting of almost sweet cinnamon, and more of that oak as a soft leather note dips in and out with a hint of vanilla tobacco. The end is pretty abrupt but marries the cinnamon to the mint to create a spicy menthol tobacco finish that’s fairly dry (though short).
Bottom Line:
This bourbon has no business being this complex for this price. Part of that is due to the higher ABV — which is similar with the rest of the list from here on out. Pour this over a rock or two and it’s a good drink. It makes a mean cocktail, too.
This is a quality whiskey from Heaven Hill’s expansive bourbon mash bill (78 percent corn, 12 percent malted barley, and ten percent rye). That means this is the same base juice as Elijah Craig, Evan Williams, several Parker’s Heritages, and Henry McKenna. It’s a bottled-in-bond, meaning it’s from similar stocks to their iconic Heaven Hill Bottled-in-Bond and another one further down on this list.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a clear caramel, cream soda, and floral honey sweetness that draws you in on the nose next to a touch of dry leather. Dark spice lingers in the background with a bit more of that vanilla-forward cream soda sweetness on the palate with a mild sense of Graham Crackers and honey tobacco. The end has a touch more of that spice, followed by a moment of oak buried under the creamy vanilla, honey, and leather.
Bottom Line:
This is another whiskey that really shines once you pour it over ice. The water helps this open up a bit and release a bolder flavor profile. That higher ABV also means you can make a killer cocktail with this without breaking the bank, which is great if you’re just starting to refine those skills.
Guess what? This is the same mash bill from Heaven Hill as the bottle above. The difference is that the barrels chosen for this brand follow a different flavor profile than the ones for the bottles above and below this entry.
Tasting Notes:
The nose on this one is pure banana bread brimming with buttery cake, walnuts, cinnamon and nutmeg, and a touch of honey. The palate leans into the wood with a No. 2 pencil vibe that leads towards dry vanilla husks and a touch of salted caramel-covered peanuts. The back end of the sip stays sweet and nutty as wintry spices cut with orange oils drive a slowish finish.
Bottom Line:
This is a pretty distinct whiskey and shows how vastly different barrels can be, even when they sit right next to each other in a warehouse. All of that aside, The nuttiness, salty sweetness, and spice really help this stand out that little bit more, especially in a Manhattan or old fashioned.
Look, Heaven Hill makes great whiskey, especially inexpensive bottled in bonds. This b-i-b is tailored for the Evan Williams flavor profile with a softer touch than Dant or Brown above, even though we’re talking about the same mash bill, same warehouses, and same parent company.
Tasting Notes:
This opens with a dry cornmeal base next to salted caramel, rich vanilla, and a touch of sweet fruit orchard wood. The palate adds in whiffs of black pepper next to musty cellar wood and a hint of spicy chewy tobacco that has a hint of cherry buried in there somewhere. The end is short-ish while highlighting the sweet cornmeal, spicy/fruity tobacco, and rich vanilla that creates a soft mouthfeel on the finish.
Bottom Line:
This is a quintessential “everyday bourbon” that should be on every bar cart, specifically if you’re looking for something to mix solid cocktails with. I also really like this on the rocks. It’s easy, affordable, and tastes damn fine for a $16 bottle of whiskey.
The juice is a tribute to what Jim Beam was — both in the label and in the bottle — before Prohibition. Yes, Jim Beam used to be known as Old Tub Bourbon worldwide. The bourbon is standard Beam that hits an old-school flavor profile. The whiskey is bottled-in-bond at 100 proof and goes through no filtration before bottling.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a subtle roughness to this whiskey that draws you in — rough-milled dry corn, raw honey, freshly sawed wood, soft cherry, and vanilla pods. The caramel popcorn sweetness is there but not overdone as the vanilla, woody oak, and very distant spice and cherry come together to create an all-around easy-sipper by the end. As that end lingers, you get a final note of orange citrus that’s counterpointed by a lingering sense of limestone.
Bottom Line:
This is a great bottle at a great price. It’s slightly familiar if you’re into Jim Beam, but that little bit more nuanced. It’s also the perfect mixing bourbon if you’re looking to make some whiskey-forward cocktails.
A lot of Wild Turkey’s character comes from the hard and deep char they use on their oak barrels. 101 starts with a high-rye mash bill that leans into the wood and aging, having spent six years in the cask. A little of that soft Kentucky limestone water is added to cool it down a bit before bottling.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a sweetness that feels like buttery toffee and creamy vanilla with a note of citrus next to charred oak. The taste delivers on those notes and adds more vanilla pudding, peppery rye spice, butterscotch, and a hint of fresh and sweet tobacco leaves. The end is bold and long with the spice, oak, and sweetness lingering on the senses while giving you a warming “Kentucky hug.”
Bottom Line:
There’s just something about this bottle that rings true. It’s not the most mind-blowing bourbon ever (and it’s not meant to be) but it can stand up to bourbons twice and even three times the price. In fact, this is better than some of those bourbons. That’s truly exceptional.
After dropping the first Moon Knight trailer on Monday night, Marvel not only gave fans a glimpse at Oscar Isaac‘s haunted hero, but also at Ethan Hawke‘s villainous character, who is a pretty obscure pull from the comics. As details about the upcoming Disney+ series trickled out, fans had theorized that Hawke would be the Sun King or possibly even Dracula, which would tie him into Mahershala Ali’s Blade movie that was teed up in the post-credits scene for Eternals. Instead, the Moon Knight trailer revealed that Hawke will be playing Dr. Arthur Harrow.
First introduced during a revamp of the Moon Knight comics in the ’80s, Harrow is a brilliant scientist who won the Nobel Prize for his work in the “field of pain theory,” according to the Marvel Database. However, his work was revealed to have ties to Auschwitz, which put him in the crosshairs of the Nuremberg tribunal, which definitely did not want a Nazi scientist running around carrying out pain experiments from the Holocaust. After being alerted of Harrow’s presence by the Priests of Khonshu, Moon Knight began tracking down the villainous doctor.
Harrow was also using his research to build a horde of zombie-like followers, which we may have caught a glimpse of in the Moon Knight trailer as Hawke is seen being worshipped like a cult leader. In fact, over the summer, Hawke told Seth Meyers that David Koresh was an inspiration for his character, so it’ll be interesting to see what the MCU does with this live-action version of the obscure villain.
Marvel’s Moon Knight starts streaming March 30 on Disney+.
Irish rock legends U2 have released 14 albums now, most of which have topped the charts around the world and yielded popular singles. That said, many thinkpieces (like this one, this one, and this one) have been devoted to exploring why the band is so polarizing or even hated. Heck, there are even key elements of the band that Bono himself isn’t in love with, like his own singing and the name “U2.”
In a recent interview on the Awards Chatter podcast (as The Times notes), Bono said that most of his recorded vocal performances on U2 songs make him cringe:
“The one that I can listen to the most is ‘Miss Sarajevo’ with Luciano Pavarotti [from Original Soundtracks 1, a 1995 album by U2 and Brian Eno’s side project Passengers]. Genuine, most of the other ones make me cringe a little bit. Although ‘Vertigo’ probably is the one I’m proudest of. It’s the way it connects with the crowd. I’ve been in the car when one of our songs has come on the radio and I’ve been the color of, as we say in Dublin, scarlet. I’m just so embarrassed.”
He added, “I do think U2 pushes out the boat on embarrassment quite a lot and maybe that’s the place to be as an artist, you know, right at the edge of your level of embarrassment. And the lyrics as well, I feel that on Boy and other albums, it was sketched out very unique and original material, but I don’t think I filled in the details, and I look back and I go, ‘God,’”
As for the name “U2,” Bono said, “I still don’t [like it]. I really don’t. But I was late into some kind of dyslexia. I didn’t realize that The Beatles was a bad pun either. In our head it was like the spy plane, U-boat, it was futuristic — as it turned out to imply this kind of acquiescence, no I don’t like that name. I still don’t really like the name. Paul McGuinness, our first manager, did say, ‘Look, it’s a great name, it’s going to look good on a T-shirt, a letter and a number.’”
For the record, this isn’t the first time Bono has said he not big on “U2” as a band name. In 2002, for example, Larry King asked how the group band came up with the name and Bono said in reply, “Oh, I don’t like the name, U2, actually.”
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