If anyone else announced that they were going to make a movie based on the Choose Your Own Adventure books, I would sigh with disdain. But the thing is, the ones who announced it are Radio Silence, or in other words, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, creators of Ready or Not or Scream (2022). And, since they haven’t failed so far and have become a duo with their own voice and something to say, it might be worth seeing if they have something planned or if it’s going to be the disaster that we all (yes, everyone) foresee. If you go to the right, go to […]
If anyone else announced that they were going to make a movie based on the Choose Your Own Adventure books, I would sigh with disdain. But the ones who announced it are Radio Silence, or in other words, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, the creators of Ready or Not or Scream (2022). And, since they haven’t failed so far and have become a duo with their own voice and something to say, it might be worth seeing if they have something planned or if it will be the disaster that we all (yes, everyone) foresee.
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If you are of a certain age, you will remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books, where you basically had to choose which path to follow in the book. Help the old lady or run away? Go to the haunted mansion or gear up at the store? The collection, which originally appeared from 1979 to 1998, has had new titles in recent years and, in some way, has managed to revitalize itself. Is it enough to bring the audience to the cinema? You never know in today’s Hollywood.
It is known that alongside them, in the script, will be Tom Bissell, who has not only worked on Andor and The Disaster Artist, but has also written 11 novels and is co-author of Uncharted 4 and Gears of War. So, he knows a thing or two about what he is doing. The only question is whether in times of video games and artificial intelligence, the adaptation of nostalgic books where the charm was, precisely, choosing your own path, has a place in the current box office.
For now, not much more is known: hopefully, they will try to do something similar to Bandersnatch, that episode of Black Mirror that Netflix ended up removing because it consumed too much of its servers but marked a turning point in non-linear storytelling (in fact, I would say it is the perfect adaptation of Choose Your Own Adventure). Will this team know what they are doing, or are we facing a fiasco that we didn’t even choose ourselves?
Bad news for Destiny 2 fans. Bungie has announced that they will stop developing new content for their popular online shooter starting June 9. That will be the date they release their last content patch, at which point the game’s servers will remain open, but there will be no new game content. This final update, in any case, will be packed with content. Defined by the developers as “a love letter to the players,” it will add a version of the Portal Director, as well as bring back an old acquaintance for the veterans: the races […]
Bad news for Destiny 2 fans. Bungie has announced that they will stop developing new content for their popular online shooter starting June 9. That will be the date when they release their last content patch, at which point the game’s servers will remain open, but there will be no new game content.
This latest update, in any case, will be packed with content. Defined by the developers as “a love letter to the players,” it will add a version of the Director of the Portal, in addition to bringing back an old favorite for the veterans: the races of the Sparrow Racing League from Destiny. All of this in an update that was originally scheduled for last March but was delayed for reasons that were not commented on at the time.
A Study in Trouble
Bungie is currently in a very delicate situation. Marathon,which was released on March 5, is performing below Sony’s expectations, who bought the studio in 2022 for 3.6 billion dollars. Since then, Bungie has not met the expectations of the Japanese corporation regarding account performance, announcing a depreciation of almost 750 million dollars in its value.
This leads to the conclusion that, according to journalist Jason Schreier in Bloomberg, Bungie is not working on any new projects. Although they have proposed making Destiny 3, among other games set in the Destiny universe, Sony has not given them the green light for any of these projects. At the same time, Schreier claims that a series of massive layoffs are about to occur within the company. It seems that Bungie, with the end of Destiny 2, may also be at the end of an era for the company.
When in 2005 Family Guy invented the fictional trailer for The Passion of the Christ 2: Crucify This! no one imagined that Mel Gibson would get to work shortly after. And here we are, more than twenty years later, waiting for the arrival of The Resurrection of Christ. Not the real resurrection, of course, but the double movie that the director has made in the hope of capitalizing on an audience that, for some inexplicable reason, has adopted religion as a trend. Amen, Mel Gibson’s idea was, at the very least, striking: to release part 1 on the 26th of […]
When in 2005 Family Guy invented the fictional trailer for The Passion of the Christ 2: Crucify This! no one imagined that Mel Gibson would get to work shortly after. And here we are, more than twenty years later, waiting for the arrival of The Resurrection of Christ. Not the real resurrection, of course, but the double movie that the director has made in the hope of capitalizing on an audience that, for some inexplicable reason, has adopted religion as a trend.
Amen, Mel
Gibson’s idea was, at the very least, striking: to release part 1 on March 26, 2027, and part 2 just a little over a month later, on May 6. However, he has decided to change his plans so that both installments fall on Ascension Day, which Christians believe is when Jesus ascended to the kingdom of heaven. Thus, the first installment will arrive on May 6 of next year and the second on May 25, 2028. Well then, so be it.
Seeing the little success that experiments like 28 years later have had, which released two installments in one year, with the second one sinking, it is normal for the director’s team to have been afraid. This, however, does not fear hyping up his audience, stating that “We have created something powerful. This film represents a large part of the work of my life, and it has demanded everything from me as a director and artist. This is much more than a movie for me. It is a mission I have carried for over 20 years to tell what I believe is the most important story in the world“. In case you haven’t noticed, he expects the Christian audience to fill the theater. And of course, he will achieve that.
It is worth remembering that The Passion of the Christ already grossed 612 million dollars in its day, making it the highest-grossing R-rated film in history (until the arrival of Deadpool and Wolverine). These sequels promise to break all records and demonstrate that Gibson’s controversies are more than forgotten at this point. Whether they will succeed or not remains to be seen.
A ransomware attack doesn’t always arrive with alarms going off.
Sometimes it looks like a normal Monday until files refuse to open. A production database stops answering. Someone finds the ransom note on a system nobody can afford to lose. Then there’s a payment demand, a countdown, and a room full of people realizing the problem has already moved beyond IT.
In sensitive industries, that shift happens fast. Work stops. Internal teams get buried. Customers start calling. By the end of the first day, suppliers, insurers, lawyers, and regulators may already be part of the conversation.
Industry trackers logged 2,283 ransomware incidents worldwide in the first quarter of 2026, just under the record set in late 2025. Not exactly comforting. These groups aren’t lone hackers guessing their way through an attack. They divide the work, follow playbooks, pressure victims, and in some cases operate with a discipline that feels uncomfortably corporate.
What leaked ransomware negotiations show
Once the ransom note appears, even basic decisions get harder. Shut systems down? Call counsel? Tell customers? Speak to the attackers? Wait?
“The first key step is not to panic: every minute of confusion is a minute of downtime. The clock starts now,” says NordStellar cybersecurity expert Vakaris Noreika.
NordStellar’s recent Ransomware Negotiation Report looks at 246 leaked negotiation transcripts from 2020 to 2026. The chats show how extortion groups push victims, where companies tend to lose control early, and what can still buy time after the attackers are already inside.
One thing often gets misunderstood: opening a negotiation channel isn’t the same as agreeing to pay.
Used carefully, that channel gives incident response teams room to breathe. They can check backups, trace the intrusion, test claims about stolen data, and see whether the criminals actually have what they say they have.
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The first hour can make things worse
When a company hasn’t prepared for ransomware, the first instinct is usually blunt. Turn things off. Cut communications. Get control back.
It’s understandable. It can also make the investigation harder.
After a serious accident, you don’t move the evidence around before investigators arrive. Ransomware has the same problem. Act too quickly in the wrong direction and you may destroy the traces needed to understand what happened.
A few mistakes show up again and again.
Turning servers off too fast. Volatile memory may still hold temporary encryption keys, active processes, command-and-control addresses, or other evidence investigators need.
Going quiet for days. Attackers may assume backups are being restored or that the company plans to ignore them. That’s when they may leak data, threaten the company publicly, or start contacting customers directly.
Mentioning insurance or law enforcement too early. If the group learns there’s a cyber insurance policy, the demand can climb. If they think law enforcement is involved, they may shorten the deadline or publish data sooner.
In many cases, isolating affected systems at the network level is a better first move than simply powering them down. Stop the spread, but preserve the evidence. Give the specialists something to work with.
Running the response
After the first wave of panic, the incident has to be run as a business crisis, not just an IT outage.
Ransomware hits continuity, legal exposure, regulatory reporting, customer communications, and reputation. Leaving all of that on a system administrator isn’t fair. It usually doesn’t work either.
Internal teams know the infrastructure. They may not know how professional extortion groups behave once negotiations begin. External incident response specialists and cybersecurity counsel should come in early, while technical staff focus on diagnosis, backups, containment, and clean recovery.
And the attackers’ claims need to be tested.
Double extortion is common now: criminals encrypt files and threaten to publish stolen data. But exaggeration is part of the script. Sometimes the stolen “database” is a few old files. Sometimes the screenshots are real. Decisions need proof, not panic.
A company can ask for file lists or samples: directory screenshots, document names, or files that could only have come from compromised systems.
It can also request a decryption test using two or three small, non-sensitive files. Forensic teams should compare any samples against outbound traffic and the known incident timeline.
Facts lower the temperature. If attackers can’t prove they stole sensitive data, the company has more room to move. If they can, legal, technical, and communications teams can work from evidence instead of fear.
Talking can buy time
The leaked transcripts show how heavily ransomware groups depend on pressure. In 41.9% of the cases NordStellar studied, attackers used deadlines to force quick decisions. In 45.5%, they offered temporary discounts, often before outside advisers or response teams had time to get involved.
Talking still isn’t surrender.
Only 25.6% of the analyzed negotiations ended in payment. In the other 74.4%, the communication channel mostly bought time while the company worked to regain control.
That time matters. Teams may still be checking whether offline backups are intact. They may need to rebuild clean servers in isolated environments, look for persistence mechanisms in database replicas, or confirm whether regulated personal data, including GDPR-covered data, was affected.
The communications side is moving too: customers, partners, insurers, regulators. Say too much too early and you can create confusion. Say too little and you may underreport.
If payment really is the only way to avoid operational collapse, negotiation can still reduce the damage. NordStellar‘s analysis found an average discount of 57% after negotiation. The first number in a ransom note is rarely the real floor.
Acting before the ransom note appears
By the time a company is reading a ransom note in a Tor chat, the attackers have already set most of the terms.
The earlier fight often happens outside the perimeter. Leaked credentials. Exposed access points. Employee email addresses in stealer logs. Supplier accounts for sale. Company data circulating in places security teams don’t normally watch.
NordStellar focuses on that earlier stage. Built by Nord Security, it gives security, IT, risk, and compliance teams a view of their company’s external digital exposure before attackers can turn it into access.
Dark web and leak-channel monitoring
NordStellar watches criminal forums, exposed code repositories, underground marketplaces, and leak channels where corporate credentials or sensitive company information may surface.
It won’t replace internal controls. It shows what may already be visible from the outside.
Early detection of compromised access
If an employee’s credentials or a supplier login appears for sale, the response can start before the account is used.
Revoke access. Force a password reset. Review the affected device. Check whether the same exposure appears anywhere else.
It’s the difference between finding a copied key on the street and waiting until someone tries it at the front door.
Risk alerts your team can use
NordStellar turns large volumes of underground data into prioritized alerts tied to business risk. The goal isn’t to collect every possible signal. It’s to know which exposures need attention first, especially the ones that could affect operations, brand trust, or sensitive assets.
The best ransomware negotiation is the one your company never has to enter. NordStellar‘s full report is available on its official website, along with guidance on preparing your infrastructure before a countdown timer appears on-screen.
Subnautica 2 has been for years the game on the most wanted lists on Steam and at its launch, on May 14, it was an absolute sales success. Sweeping among critics and the public, managing to captivate an audience eager for more Subnautica, they have achieved what seemed impossible: it is the fastest-selling game of 2026. This translates into spectacular figures. Subnautica 2 is sweeping. A week after its release, according to Rhys Elliot, market analysis director at Alinea Analytics, Subnautica 2 has sold 4.1 million copies and has generated 100 million […]
Subnautica 2 has been for years the most wished game on Steam and at its launch, on May 14, it was an absolute sales success. Sweeping among critics and the public, managing to captivate an audience eager for more Subnautica, they have achieved what seemed impossible: it is the fastest-selling game of 2026. This translates into spectacular figures.
Subnautica 2 is taking the world by storm
One week after its release, according to Rhys Elliot, market analysis director at Alinea Analytics, Subnautica 2 has sold 4.1 million copies and generated 100 million dollars in revenue. In comparison, on Xbox it has sold a much more modest 100,000 copies, demonstrating the problem Microsoft has in attracting audiences to its platform.
That said, there is a reason for it. According to Elliot, “many Xbox players accessed Subnautica 2 through Game Pass,” so the total number of players is “well above six million.” This makes Subnautica 2 the best-selling and most played game of 2026 so far.
Something that didn’t seem so likely just a few months ago. The company that was going to publish it, Krafton, tried to cancel it to avoid paying 200 million in profits to its creators if they met the objectives. Finally, although the game has been self-published by its developers, Unknown Worlds, the judge in the trial where it was decided to return the rights stated that, if the conditions for their bonus are met, Krafton will still have to pay them the same. Something that seems to be more than sealed already.
For all these reasons, it points out that Subnautica 2 is one of the great games of the year. And Unknown Worlds is one of the big winners of 2026 in the video game industry. While they started poorly, it seems they are going to end this year very well.
The Iran war has been one of the most controversial and divisive wars in recent history. If it can even be called divisive when it seems that no one wanted it to happen. Terrible for the economy and world politics, that will not stop Hollywood from turning it into a spectacle. And doing so with the director most in love with the American militaristic machinery: Michael Bay. A director in love with the army According to Deadline, Bay is working on a movie about the Iran war. An adaptation of a book by Michael Zuckoff, announced to be published in 2027, narrates minute by […]
The Iran war has been one of the most controversial and divisive wars in recent history. If it can even be called divisive when it seems that no one wanted it to happen. Terrible for the global economy and politics, that will not stop Hollywood from turning it into a spectacle. And doing it with the director most enamored with the U.S. military machinery: Michael Bay.
A director in love with the army
According to Deadline, Bay is working on a film about the Iran war. Based on a book by Michael Zuckoff, set to be published in 2027, it narrates minute by minute the story of two soldiers whose F-15E Strike Eagle was attacked by the Iranian army. Surviving in the Zagros mountains until they could be rescued by their comrades, they had to fight against a hostile army in an epic tale that is likely to be tremendously exaggerated.
Bay himself has confirmed to Deadline what tone we can expect. “I have had a fantastic relationship over my 30-year career with the Department of Defense and the incredible members of the US military,” he stated about his historical relationship with the military. He affirmed that the film “is about all those who answered the call in one of the most complex, dangerous, and intricate operations in modern history. It celebrates the heroism and unwavering dedication of our members.”
While there is no release date of any kind, it is expected to arrive sometime between 2027 and 2028. And given Bay’s statements and his history, we can assume it will be a great pyrotechnic spectacle and a whitewashing of the Iran war. Whether this is what society needs or not is something we leave for each reader to decide.
In February, New York City’s Attorney General, Letitia James, filed a lawsuit against Valve for the use of loot boxes in their games. In her own words, in Counter-Strike 2 “children and adults alike are illegally gambling for the chance to win virtual prizes.” Arguing that loot boxes are essentially unregulated gambling, and that they should be treated by law as such. Valve with questionable arguments The legal department of Valve has responded with a tremendously weak defense. Claiming that “people enjoy surprises” and that “part of the appeal […]
Last February, New York City Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against Valve for the use of loot boxes in their games. In her own words, in Counter-Strike 2 “children and adults alike are illegally gambling for the chance to win virtual prizes”. She argues that loot boxes are essentially unregulated gambling and should be treated by law as such.
Valve with questionable arguments
Valve’s legal department has responded with a tremendously weak defense. Claiming that “people enjoy surprises” and that “part of the appeal of many popular collectibles, such as baseball cards or cereal boxes, is the possibility of opening a closed box and being surprised with a rare item”. Stating that “no legislature or court has ever condemned this act as illegal gambling”.
The problem is that this is not true. The European Parliament declared that loot boxes are gambling in 2023, tightening its PEGI this past March in relation to this legislation. So it doesn’t seem that this defense has much ground to stand on.
What would happen if the New York justice system sided with the attorney general? That Valve would have problems. The lawsuit demands the equivalent of three times the profits Valve has made from loot boxes and to prevent them from selling them in the future in the state of New York. With the logistical issues this would entail, not to mention the legal precedent it would set. So Valve could be in trouble. If their attempt to pull a Saul Goodman doesn’t end up backfiring.
Once upon a time in… Hollywood is one of the most celebrated films of Quentin Tarantino’s recent career. It is no wonder. Its reflection of Hollywood, the 60s, the Manson family, and Los Angeles in general is interesting, bold, and no less controversial. That is why film lovers and audiences in general eagerly await its sequel, The Adventures of Cliff Booth. It has finally received a release date. The Adventures of Cliff Booth will hit IMAX theaters worldwide on November 25 for just two weeks. It is the exhibition contract […]
Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood is one of the most celebrated films of Quentin Tarantino’s recent career. It’s no wonder. Its reflection of Hollywood, the 60s, the Manson family, and Los Angeles in general is interesting, bold, and no less controversial. That’s why cinephiles and viewers in general are eagerly awaiting its sequel, The Adventures of Cliff Booth. It has finally received a release date.
The Adventures of Cliff Booth will hit IMAX theaters worldwide on November 25 for just two weeks. This is Netflix’s standard theatrical release contract for films they believe have a chance in the awards circuit and need at least that time in theaters to be considered for the Oscars. This is why we will be able to enjoy this movie in theaters for two weeks and on streaming on Netflix starting December 23.
That doesn’t mean we will see another Tarantino movie. On the contrary. The Adventures of Cliff Booth will be directed by another of the great directors of our time: David Fincher. With Brad Pitt returning to the lead role and the inclusion of cinematographer Eric Messerschmidt and composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross ensuring that this will be a memorable experience.
Although there is still quite a bit of time until the movie’s premiere, there is no doubt that it will be one of the major cinematic events of the year. And although with its limited release it will not compete for the top spot of the highest-grossing films of the year, something it could do under different circumstances, it is undeniable that it will make its way onto many lists of the best films of the year. So we will have to keep an eye on what David Fincher offers us in his vision of this unique Tarantino film.
Sony is not escaping the mouths of gamers. Not for the better. For every interesting news like the upcoming State of Play on June 2, there are at least a couple of much less positive news. The general perception is that Sony is in serious trouble this generation. PlayStation 5 is a console that is perceived as lacking video games, and moreover, it seems that Sony is not doing anything to improve that situation. In fact, it seems they have no problem worsening it. PlayStation 5 will have exclusives, but in what way Hermen Hulst, CEO of Studio Business […]
Sony is not escaping the mouths of gamers. Not for the better. For every piece of interesting news like the upcoming State of Play on June 2, there are at least a couple of much less positive news. And the general perception is that Sony is in serious trouble this generation. PlayStation 5 is a console that is perceived as lacking video games, and moreover, it seems that Sony is not doing anything to improve that situation. In fact, it seems they have no problem worsening it.
PlayStation 5 will have exclusives, but in what way
Hermen Hulst, CEO of Studio Business Group —in charge of first-party studios and adaptations of PlayStation IPs to other media—, communicated last Monday, May 18, to the company’s internal studios that most of their games will become exclusive to PlayStation 5. This has caused quite a stir of discontent among players.
This has nuances. As Hulst himself clarified, this will not affect all video games, since multiplayer games, like Marathon or Helldivers 2, will continue to appear normally on PC. But narrative games focused on an exclusive single-player experience, like Spider-Man, God of War, or Ghost of Tsushima, which have currently appeared on PC, will not have their sequels on PC as their fans might expect.
This is not new information. Bloomberg already warned last March that these were the internal plans within Sony, although without an official confirmation, everything remained up in the air. But now that it has been made, it seems evident what its purpose is: to create a reason for users to buy PlayStation 5 and integrate into the PlayStation ecosystem.
A convenient price increase
If this weren’t enough, PlayStation has decided to raise the prices of all its products. In addition to the fact that PlayStation 5 already increased in price last March, the third time in this generation, they have also decided to raise the prices of their PlayStation Plus service, essential for online gaming. This is something that, once again, has not been well received among users. Having to pay between 1 and 2 euros more on average for each month of the service may seem like a small increase, but it must be added to all the other price increases of the company’s products.
What is the reason for all this? It is because the situation of PlayStation this generation is tremendously precarious. Although they attribute it to the economic and geopolitical situation, due to the price of oil, computer materials, and customs —which they have also tried to take advantage of—, they also face a self-induced problem.
At the beginning of the generation, they decided to firmly bet on games as a service, announcing up to 12 of them for mid-2026. Of those, less than half have survived. With all the released ones being a failure, except for Helldivers 2, it seems that PlayStation’s policy has changed again to refocus on narrative-driven single-player games, with one problem. They have been in development for a long time, and all their studios have been busy making games as a service at the company’s insistence.
If users feel that PlayStation 5 lacks games, it is because the cadence of their release has been minimal. And it is not going to improve in the future. They tried to find their own Fortnite in games like Marathon, but they failed, and now they are trying to save the situation by raising prices, returning to single-player games, and putting the burden of the price on the players. But is this a good strategy? Only time will tell. But what is evident is that Sony is not in a good situation. And to a large extent, it is not because of what they have done to themselves.
Punisher has had, in his surprisingly long career in movies, the faces of Dolph Lundgren, Thomas Jane, and Ray Stevenson, and the creators of the recent The Punisher: One Last Kill are clear about who should be the next actor to portray him in a standalone film: Jon Bernthal. After all, he has been sporting the skull on his chest for almost a decade, and he deserves the recognition, right? I shoot first and ask questions later For now, it’s just a distant idea. Its director, Reinaldo Marcus Green (who was nominated for an Oscar thanks to King Richard), has explained perfectly what […]
Punisher has had, in his surprisingly long career in cinemas, the faces of Dolph Lundgren, Thomas Jane, and Ray Stevenson, and the creators of the recent The Punisher: One Last Killare clear about who should be the next actor to portray him in a standalone movie: Jon Bernthal. After all, he has been sporting the skull on his chest for almost a decade, and he deserves the recognition, right?
Shoot first and ask questions later
For now, it’s just a distant idea. Its director, Reinaldo Marcus Green (who made it to the Oscars thanks to King Richard), has perfectly explained what he wants to happen in the future: “I don’t know what the plans are for the future of Punisher. The only thing we hope to achieve is that people want more. Hopefully, Jon Bernthal and Marvel will come together to create something worthy of what the audience wants to see.” It’s not that what has been done isn’t worthy, of course.
And while we’re at it asking for the Three Kings’ letter, Green ended up saying that “Moving forward, I know that Jon and I would like to make a movie, something global that is on screens everywhere. But obviously, that will be Marvel’s decision“. You know, no pressure.
In fact, Bernthal will fulfill his dream in the upcoming Spider-man movie, where he will accompany the arachnid in one way or another. What happens from here is between Punisher, the machine guns, and Marvel.
