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Candace Owens Trashes the MAGA-Friendly Kid Rock Super Bowl Halftime Show, and It’s Not Pretty
Candace Owens bashes the Turning Point USA show by calling it a scam and "corny capitalism."
Directive 8020, The Next Dark Pictures Game, Gets May Launch Date And New Trailer
Supermassive Games’ next Dark Pictures Anthology game, Directive 8020, has a new launch date after being previously delayed out of 2025. You can look for the new sci-fi horror adventure on May 12.
Directive 8020 is Supermassive’s first sci-fi story and centers on the stranded crew of a crashed colony ship on planet Tau Ceti f. The game stars the ship’s pilot, Briana Young, played by actress Lashana Lynch (Bob Marley: One Love, The Woman King), who must decide who among her team to trust as an alien organism capable of perfectly mimicking any crewmate infiltrates the ship. A new trailer shows off the game's action and drama.
Like previous Supermassive titles such as The Quarry and Until Dawn, Directive 8020 is a cinematic, choice-driven adventure where your decisions steer the plot in various directions and can affect who survives and who perishes. However, Directive 8020 is a more active experience, with players using stealth to sneak around enemies in fully explorable environments. Directive 8020 can be played solo or with friends in five-player couch co-op. Online multiplayer will arrive as a free update post-launch.
Directive 8020 also has a new feature called Turning Points, which allows players to rewind and revisit key decisions. This makes it easier to keep favorite characters alive should they perish, view different outcomes without replaying the entire game, and collect missed achievements. Those looking for a more hardcore experience can play Survivor Mode, which presents the story with pure permadeath and no re-dos.
Directive 8020 was originally scheduled to launch on October 2, 2025, but was delayed due to layoffs at Supermassive. The game will be available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on May 12.
Chinese AI companies like Alibaba and Tencent are releasing new models and spending millions on "red envelope" freebies to woo users ahead of the Lunar New Year (Cissy Zhou/Nikkei Asia)
Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia:
Chinese AI companies like Alibaba and Tencent are releasing new models and spending millions on “red envelope” freebies to woo users ahead of the Lunar New Year — HONG KONG — China's biggest AI companies are releasing new models and handing out “red envelope” …
Halle Berry Fiercely Responds to Reporter’s Comment About Her Age — and Phew!
Halle Berry may be a veteran in Hollywood and used to dealing with the media. But there's one thing she's absolutely done with and now, she sounding the alarm on it!
Halle Berry Fiercely Responds to Reporter’s Unnecessary Age Comment
Halle Berry may be a veteran in Hollywood and used to dealing with the media. But there's one thing she's absolutely done with and now, she sounding the alarm on it!