Ex-Call of Duty designer "who survived the crunch" in order to launch Black Ops 1 & 2 calls out executives "raking it in" from sales of remasters

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Sony has issued a new PlayStation 5 firmware update amid the homebrew community's ongoing effort to jailbreak the console. PS5 system software update 26.07-14.20.00 is available now and weighs in at 1.2 GB. While Sony’s official patch notes suggest its only function is to improve “the messages and usability on some screens,” some believe it may perform other functions under the hood. PS5 firmware update 26.07-14.20.00 patch notes:We've improved the messages and usability on some screens. The PlayStation homebrew scene hit the headlines in recent weeks for releasing PS5 jailbreaks for prior firmwares. For example, late last month, a jailbreak that supported all PS5 consoles running firmware 7.00-13.60 sent shockwaves through the homebrew community. At the time, it meant that all PS5s, including the PS5 Pro, that hadn't been updated within the previous week, were compatible with the jailbreak. This is of huge significance for Sony and the security of the PS5, as people with a jailbroken PS5 can modify their console, potentially opening the door to video game piracy.

In Japan, physical sales are even stronger. Physical disc-based copies of Resident Evil: Requiem on PlayStation consoles may have been more popular than all versions of the game on Xbox, a new report has found, while unearthing a trove of other statistics about physical sales.

17 years later, Johnny Depp’s take on John Dillinger still commands attention Hollywood has spent decades returning to the Prohibition and Great Depression eras, a time period when gangsters became folk heroes, law enforcement reinvented itself, and the American underworld was undergoing a violent transformation. We’ve seen Brian De Palma capture the larger-than-life pursuit of Al Capone in The Untouchables, while Sam Mendes explored the tragic weight of family ties in Road to Perdition. John Lee Hancock flipped the script to highlight the gritty lawmen hunting Bonnie and Clyde in The Highwaymen. While all of these movies are classics in their own right, none have Johnny Depp as the lead.

The price of Xbox's next generation console, codename Project Helix, may be higher than many of us expected. Helix, which is reportedly going to ship as two devices, is estimated to cost close to $2,000. That's according to a wide-ranging new report and profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma by Fortune Magazine. In it, it's claimed Xbox's internal estimates have arrived at a staggering price: between $1,200 (~£900) and $1,800 (~£1,345). This is not simply the cost of components and manufacturing, it's the price Xbox reportedly expects the console to cost consumers, assuming it is not subsidised.