God of War was a gigantic success when it was released on the PlayStation 4 back in 2018. This was not only because it was the latest entry in the series, but because it told a story that was far deeper than any God of War game before it. Of course, longtime fans of the franchise have always been able to play the game exclusively on PlayStation consoles. With the games developed by Sony-owned Santa Monica Studio, it makes sense why that is the case.
In a stunning turn of events on Tuesday, PlayStation announced that God of War will break exclusivity. Despite being developed by a first-party Sony studio, God of War will be ported to PC in January 2022. So anyone who wanted to play the game but did not own a PlayStation can now do so by purchasing the game through Steam or the Epic Games Store.
This is gigantic news for a few reasons, namely that PlayStation is willingly porting one of its biggest franchises. While this isn’t the same as putting the game on an Xbox, PlayStation has always been very finicky about porting its games. They’re one of the few companies that still believe in exclusives, and seeing them port God of War may indicate that the time of exclusives is coming to an end, or at least that they’re going to be more willing to head down this path in the future.
Cardi B’s philosophy when it comes to clapping back is pretty clear; after all, she posted her thoughts directly to Instagram. “No one ever notices when you’re being provoked,” she wrote, “Just when you retaliate.” However, even acknowledging this age-old adage, which applies to street fights and NBA technical fouls alike, Cardi hasn’t stopped defending herself online when trolls attack — especially when it comes to her family.
With a hearing in Cardi’s assault trial over a 2018 strip club brawl coming up, some detractors on Twitter have taken to predicting that she’ll lose the case, despite pleading not guilty to the charges of assault and reckless endangerment. Cardi faces a maximum sentence of four years in prison (which seems unlikely, even if she loses), something a few folks on Twitter took great delight in hooting about (for what it’s worth, it looks like the comments are mostly coming from Nicki Minaj stans, which … maybe not the best time for all that, guys).
However, Cardi had a message for one of them after gloating “You’re going to prison” on one of Cardi’s recent tweets. “Before I go to prison you gone see me breakin more records and making more Ms,” she taunted. Another mocking tweet derided Offset’s potential shortcomings as a parent, prompting Cardi to defend him and wonder “why people think is sweet to play wit my kids.”
Before I go to prison you gone see me breakin more records and making more Ms https://t.co/LQWk6CSPe8
Despite being one of Twitter’s reigning queens of clever comebacks, Cardi did admit that she got tired of defending herself from detractors on both sides when she discusses politics. With that realization may come another — you should never, ever feed the trolls.
While Alexis Rodney has already lent his talent to some big franchises through his work in Guardians of the Galaxy, Halo: Nightfall, Outlander, and the upcoming Dungeons and Dragons movie, the British actor is now getting the chance to take the lead in the upcoming British dark comedy Young Guns. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rodney is the latest star to join the film and will be playing “illegal immigrant Shaka, who accepts a lucrative contract to assassinate the alleged founding member of the Ku Klux Klan’s U.K. branch at the annual British KKK karaoke event” in an attempt to prove himself as a worthy provider for his young daughter.
Hailing from the London-based Dark Matter Studios, Young Guns is written and directed by Henk Pretorius (The Unfamiliar, Transference, Leading Lady) with both Llewelynn Greeff (The Unfamiliar, Leading Lady, Blood and Glory) and Cassian Elwes (Mudbound, The Butler, Dallas Buyers Club) producing. The film is currently shooting in London, with hopes of releasing internationally sometime in 2022.
In addition to Rodney, Jill Winternitz (Good Omens, The Sandman, Havoc), Jack Bennett (Gangs of London, The Dig), and U.K. X Factor winner Shayne Ward (Black Ops,G-Loc) are also set to star in the upcoming film that the filmmakers have already called a “darkly hilarious maze of events.” Based on the description, we’d be inclined to agree, and are eager to see how it shapes up over the course of the next year.
Autumn is the season of changing leaves (depending on where you live), cooler weather, and darker beers. We’ve covered many — of — these — brews in recent weeks. Today, we’re going to turn our attention to yet another dark beer and one of our favorites: the stout.
Dark and malty, stouts are filled with roasted coffee and chocolate flavors, dried fruits, nuts, spice, and so much more thanks to the judicious use of heavily roasted malts, funky yeasts, and scant hops. It’s a perfect, bold beer to welcome the days of thick sweaters and crackling fires.
To find the best American-made craft stouts, we once again turned to the brave pros who bide their time behind the bar, asking a handful of well-known bartenders to tell us their favorites for fall. Below, you’ll find their roasted, malty, and bold selections. We’re getting thirsty just thinking about them. As always, click on the prices to try these yourself!
The best stout to ease your way into fall is the AleSmith Speedway Stout. It has a strong coffee chocolate flavor, and it is smooth even though it has a high alcohol content. What could be better than that on a cool, fall day?
Allagash Black
Allagash
Eric Heinel, certified sommelier and beverage director for David Burke in New York City
Allagash Black, just an absolutely perfect beer. My favorite stout of all time, not too heavy but full of flavor. Dark, malty, rich, and robust enough to warm you up on a cold, fall evening.
World Wide from Dogfish Head skips right past easing in to fall — landing at a hefty 18 percent ABV with plenty of barley and depth. Moderation is great in moderation. This packs a punch and is worth sharing with a pal. You’ll be happy you did.
High Water Campfire Stout
High Water
Sue Stia, bartender at TPC Jasna Polana in Princeton, New Jersey
High Water Campfire Stout with coffee is my go-to fall stout. It’s filled with flavors of rich coffee, caramel, with a little sweetness to ease into fall. A great beer for autumn.
Mothers Brewing Winter Grind
Mothers Brewing
Emily Lawson, bartender and founder of Pink House Alchemy in Fayetteville, Arkansas
I wait all year long until I can grab a six-pack of Winter Grind from Mothers Brewing out of Springfield, Missouri. This beer is blended with cold brew coffee, making it rich and stout. Plus, a single beer gives you the perfect amount of pep and chill vibes.
It’s rich, creamy, and perfect for rolling into cooler weather.
New English Zumbar Coffee-Chocolate Imp Stout
New English
Stephen George, director of outlets and bartender at 20 | Twenty Grill in Carlsbad, California
When I switch over to a stout, it’s like flipping a switch. I go all-in with New English Zumbar Coffee-Chocolate Imp Stout — on Nytro, if available. High octane and full of rich coffee and chocolate flavor, a very well-balanced Imp Stout.
New Holland Dragon’s Milk
New Holland
Katherine Ball, consumer engagement & mixology director at Black Button Distilling in Rochester, New York
I don’t think this will surprise anyone who knows me, but it has to be New Holland Brewing Co. Dragon’s Milk Stout. It’s Bourbon Barrel Aged, dark and roasty — but not intimidating.
It’s absolutely one of my favorite beers year-round.
Southern Tier Warlock
Southern Tier
Rachel Stidham, bartender at Paul’s Landing in St. Petersburg, Florida
The Warlock Imperial Pumpkin Stout from Southern Tier is the perfect choice to help you transition from summer to fall. It’s a solid choice for the change of seasons loaded with delicious flavors of pumpkin pie, dark chocolate, and a hint of coffee.
As an unapologetic fan of the pumpkin spice season, I will be reaching for Pumpkin Spice Yeti by Great Divide in Colorado. The rich and heavily roasted trademark stout gets brewed with coffee and warm spices reminiscent of the fall season. It pairs well with hayrides, scarf weather, and pumpkin carving.
This beer might seem a little bold and potent for early fall drinking, but we just can’t wait for cold weather to crack some open. This award-winning 9 percent ABV Russian Imperial stout is filled with notes of freshly brewed espresso, dark chocolate, and sweet malts. It’s sure to warm you up on chilly fall evenings.
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When most people go to McDonald’s, the end result is usually the customer ending up with some food to eat. If you’re Ye, though, that happens, but also your visit gets turned into a national ad campaign.
Two days ago (October 18), the artist previously known as Kanye West visited a McDonald’s location in Sweden and had himself a meal. Those who oversee the restaurant in the country saw an opportunity, as they went ahead and used Ye’s order as promotional material. The very next day, the chain shared images on social media of Ye’s order — chicken sandwich, chicken wings, fries, chocolate milkshake, frappé, and dipping sauces — and included the slogan “Treat Yeself.”
The McDonalds in Sweden has now made an advertising campaign based on Ye’s recent order and they’re using the slogan “Treat Yeself” pic.twitter.com/NO1h7CgCcz
Attentive music fans might at this point be wondering where the love for Adele is: The singer recently declared that she absolutely stans McDonald’s, saying, “My ideal meal, my death row meal, my last meal would be a chicken nugget with a Big Mac and then fries. That’s my three-course. I eat it at least once a week.”
Of course, McDonald’s has enjoyed a healthy relationship with the music world lately, as they have had promotional campaigns with Saweetie, Travis Scott, BTS, and others.
No one is happier that Spider-Man made his Venom debut than Tom Hardy. He’s been teasing a crossover between the Marvel Cinematic Universe and, ahem, Sony’s Spider-Man Universe for what seems like years now. “There’s a Venom-Verse, you know, there’s a Spider-Verse, there’s multiverses, there’s all kinds of canon and lore and mythology to explore both laterally and forward in time. I think with the right people and the right planning, and feedback from the audience, and understanding it’s about making the right choices at the right time,” Hardy said before the Venom sequel came out.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: more sentences should start with, “There’s a Venom-Verse, you know…” Also, the “right time” for a crossover is now, and if Hardy gets his way, Venom will enjoy a tasty spider-snack in Venom 3.
“Happy holidays and Halloween snacks,” Hardy wrote in an Instagram post showing Venom devouring Spider-Man that was quickly deleted.
The actor has made a habit of this: previously, Hardy posted fan art of “little Spidey legs hanging outside the mouth of Venom,” as he described it to Comic Book. “That’s wish fulfillment, that.” Hardy added that Venom’s voice is “always in the back of our minds, you know? ‘When do I get to eat the Spider-Man?’”
Tom Hardy’s social team keeps teasing Venom vs. Spider-Man in deleted IG posts pic.twitter.com/94tkXGVPjP
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Leave it to Thugger to continue to push the boundaries of what we should expect from him. After the success of his debut album So Much Fun, you’d think he’d lean further into the simple trap aesthetics that worked so well there, but instead, he takes a drastic stylistic departure akin to his “country” experiment Beautiful Thugger Girls on his latest album, Punk. However, despite its name, Punk is surprisingly low on power chords and rushed drumming, focusing instead on atmospheric, mellow production that sounds almost folksy.
It’s always been Thug’s way to make a left when everyone else expects him to make a right. Consider the mush-mouthed, yet irresistible chorus from 2014’s “Lifestyle” or the sartorially challenging cover from 2016’s Jeffery — both prime examples of Thug’s tendency to zig instead of zag while still adhering to a core of solid trap-rap fundamentals. Punk finds him again experimenting with sound and style but remaining as true as ever to his core aesthetic. In fact, it’s arguably the truest he’s ever been to himself — or at least, the most honest.
Starting with the very first song on the album, “Die Slow,” Thug is more revelatory here than he’s ever been. Over soft, poetry-house guitar strumming, Thug reveals childhood traumas, a prescient political outlook, and almost militant defiance toward being categorized, demeaned, or held back by societal expectations. Elsewhere on the album, the contrarian production leans tender, like some of the most emotive R&B ballads of the last ten years or so. “Insure My Wrist” is the most romantic ode to jewelry that hip-hop has produced in at least that span, which would be borderline surprising if Young Thug didn’t have a well-established history of being Young Thug.
“Love You More” also surprises, with its Nate Ruess and Jeff Bhasker appearances — but then again, it doesn’t, because Thug once sampled Elton John’s “Rocket Man,” sparking a years-long friendship that led to glowing assessments of Thugger’s talent from the knighted one himself. It’s also a gracious rumination on a relationship mostly bereft of Thugger’s usual cartoonish depictions of sex (although there is one line that reads as more considerate than jokey). Again, eyebrow-raising were it not from the same gentlemen whose catalog of hits includes “Best Friend,” a deceptively encouraging self-love anthem.
That isn’t to say he doesn’t go at least a little hardcore. While “Rich N**** Shit” with Juice WRLD is relatively far from Dead Kennedys — they’re philosophically opposite, on top of the sonic differences — the two rappers go for broke over a thumping, bass-turned-to-eleven beat with some good, old-fashion chest-thumping braggadocio. Meanwhile, the moody “Day Before” brings things full-circle with another confessional, ukulele-strumming introspective jam featuring Mac Miller. The punk promise here comes from the revelation that the song was literally recorded just one day before Mac’s tragic passing.
Thug brings out the best of his other guests on Punk, as well — particularly J. Cole, who stops just shy of a Thug impression on “Stressed,” a rejuvenated ASAP Rocky on “Livin It Up,” and Doja Cat on “Icy Hot.” While the tracklist feels excessive at times, the runtime comes across smooth, even with the bloat. As to why it’s called Punk, I think it boils down to Thug’s very personality. He’s always been anti-establishment, even as he slowly but surely became the establishment.
This album is his way of shaking himself loose from the tendency to stagnate and calcify as complacency sets in. He isn’t completely successful — perhaps a few more sonic cues from the rock world could have woken up some of the sleepier melodic songs — but the record is unapologetic, one-hundred-percent Thug. What’s more punk than being yourself? Maybe it’s just being willing to redefine exactly what that means, even if it’s just a little bit at a time.
Punk is out now via Atlantic Records and YSL. Get it here.
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Move over Ariana Grande, there’s a new pop star fragrance in the works. Billie Eilish shared that she’s been working on her debut fragrance for years, which is titled “Eilish,” and it’s expected to hit the shelves very soon.
Eilish officially announced the new fragrance in a teaser posted to Instagram. Along with revealing the bronze bottle design, which is shaped like a bust of her, the singer shared her overwhelming excitement about her “dream” scent:
“i am SO EXCITED to finally share my debut fragrance ‘Eilish’ with you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! this is a scent that i’ve been chasing for years and years. this is my favorite smell in the WORLD. fragrance has always been such an enormous part of my life and existence since i can remember, and it was a dream to create this scent and bring my ideas to life. this has been one of the most exciting things i’ve ever done. i can’t wait for it to be yours so soon!!!!!”
The Eilish fragrance is expected to come later this fall. The perfume’s website doesn’t offer much more information, but prompts users to sign up for exclusive details.
Check out Eilish’s fragrance teaser above and sign up for updates on her website here.
Hours ahead of he and the team’s 2021-22 regular-season debut, Jonas Valanciunas agreed to a two-year, $30.1 million contract extension with the New Orleans Pelicans, according to Andrew Lopez of ESPN.
New Orleans Pelicans center Jonas Valanciunas has agreed on a two-year extension worth $30.1 million, his agents Aaron Mintz, Mitch Nathan and Drew Morrison of @CAA_Basketball tell ESPN.
Valanciunas is now committed to the Pelicans for $44.1M over the next three seasons.
New Orleans acquired Valanciunas this summer when they sent Steven Adams and the 10th pick of the 2021 NBA Draft to the Memphis Grizzlies in exchange for Valanciunas and the 17th selection. The contract extension will keep him in the Big Easy through 2023-24 after he was initially slated to become a restricted free agent following this season. This also marks the second consecutive year the Pelicans have traded for a pending free agent center (Adams in 2020) and subsequently extended him prior to the start of the regular season.
Unlike the Adams extension, though, this looks to be a sound team-building decision. Valanciunas is a much better player, squarely in his prime at 29 years old and brings New Orleans a reliable interior scorer outside of Zion Williamson, which they’ve needed in recent seasons. While spacing beyond the arc is probably the ideal complement alongside Zion, someone who can create for himself, provide adequate drop coverage defensively in pick-and-rolls and owns the glass is quite beneficial too.
Valanciunas, who averaged 17.1 points on 63.6 percent true shooting last season, gives Brandon Ingram and Devonte’ Graham a viable pick-and-roll partner and can help buoy non-Zion minutes. He fits rather well on this team and now, he’ll be around for at least three years.
After being convicted of sex trafficking and racketeering in a New York court last month, R. Kelly’s local trial in Chicago has been set for August of 2022 according to Billboard. In that case, the singer stands accused of charges related to child pornography and obstruction of justice for alleged witness tampering and intimidation. Set to begin on August 1, the new trial is expected to last three to four weeks. R. Kelly will be defended in his second trial by his original attorneys Steve Greenberg and Michael Leonard after they abandoned the New York case before it went to trial.
Greenberg also noted during today’s scheduling hearing that the singer had been placed on suicide watch after being found guilty in New York, but was since cleared. Kelly’s sentencing case in that trial is set for May 4, 2022, and the singer faces up to life in prison. Statements made by Greenberg during the scheduling suggested that he would be “revamping” his legal team for an appeal once sentencing was complete. Kelly was present at the scheduling hearing via video call but Billboard notes that he was “unable to unmute himself to answer when asked by the judge to confirm the status of his legal team.”
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