Wonder Woman Director Patty Jenkins Wants To Make The Series A Trilogy

Wonder Woman 1984 may be coming soon (or at least, we think it is), but director Patty Jenkins is already looking ahead to a third film. In an interview with German magazine Geek, quoted by Twitter account @DCMovieNews2, Jenkins has said that three Wonder Woman films may be it for her.

“WW84 gave me a chance to do a lot of things that I couldn’t accommodate in the first movie,” Jenkins told Geek. “I was so happy to tell the Wonder Woman origin story. It was almost her birth, but we really haven’t seen what she is capable of. It is exciting for me to show her at the peak of her strength. But it is also very important that she fights an internal struggle: she is a Goddess and tries to help humanity. She is not only someone who fights evil, she tries to show bad people how to improve. It’s an interesting dilemma.”

While nothing is set in stone yet about a third movie, it’s heartening for Wonder Woman fans to hear Jenkins has a strong plan for the character’s arc across the trilogy.

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Diablo Immortal, The Upcoming Mobile Spin-Off, Shows Off Classes And Combat

Diablo Immortal, the mobile revealed at BlizzCon 2018 to considerable controversy, has debuted some new footage. The new trailer shows off six of the game’s classes, and how the combat in this spin-off is shaping up.

We get a quick look at the Barbarian, Crusader, Demon Hunter, Monk, Necromancer, and Wizard classes, which seem likely to return in this game.

The new footage, which was uploaded to the Chinese Diablo Immortal website, is direct from Chinese gaming convention ChinaJoy. As pointed out by Polygon, it also shows off Baal, the villain from Diablo II. It seems like they will be returning.

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The Twitter Bitcoin Hacker Is A Former Minecraft Scammer

On July 15, a Twitter hack targeting some of the platform’s most high-profile users caused chaos on the site, with Twitter temporarily restricting verified users from posting at all. The hack had users like Bill Gates, Kanye West, and Obama tweeting out a bitcoin scam to millions of followers.

Now, a 17-year-old Florida teenager has been arrested over the hack, and a New York Times profile has delved into his history of hacks and online scams. Friends told the New York Times that Graham Ivan Clark started playing Minecraft at age 10 to escape an unhappy home life, and soon became adept at scamming other players.

Like many young gamers, Clark dabbled with YouTube, building an audience playing Minecraft in PVP-oriented servers. He reportedly used the username Open, or OpenHCF. The Times report tracked down a number of players who had been scammed by someone with the same username–usually offering to sell a username or a rare cape and then blocking the user once money had been sent.

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PS5: Next Announcement Reportedly Scheduled for This Month

A new report claims that Sony plans to make new PlayStation 5 announcements this month.

Bloomberg says a PlayStation official – who remained anonymous, as the plan isn’t public – explained that Sony “tentatively” plans to make its next announcement in August.

It’s not clear when that announcement will take place, nor what it will be. That said, it feels likely that the announcement would centre around the console’s price and release date, which the remain the major unknowns around PS5 (and its competitor Xbox Series X).

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That would fit into Sony’s recent statement saying preorders for the console won’t come as a surprise – meaning it’s feasible that this next announcement will serve as the early warning for preorders opening.

Worldwide Head of Marketing Eric Lempel previously said “I think it’s safe to say…we’ll let you know when preorder will happen. It’s not going to happen with a minute’s notice. We’re going to at some point let you know when you can preorder PlayStation 5. So, please, don’t feel like you have to go run out and line up anywhere until you receive official notice on how that will work.”

When preorders do arrive, it seems as though Sony may be limiting orders to one per household. Here’s everything we know about PS5 preorders right now.

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Whatever this announcement is, we know it won’t be a part of August 6’s State of Play, which will focus on upcoming third-party published PS4 and PS VR games, with check-ins on PS5 games announced at the PS5 reveal showcase, but will feature “no big PS5 announcements.”

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Blizzard Employees Have Started Sharing And Comparing Their Pay In Wage Revolt

Blizzard Entertainment staff are revolting over pay, after an internal study meant to ensure fair pay didn’t produce the desired results for workers. According to a Bloomberg report, employees began sharing an anonymous salary spreadsheet on Friday, encouraging people to share their salary and recent pay increases.

Most of the pay increases given after Blizzard’s study were less than 10%, which Bloomberg reports is significantly less than most people expected. Employees at Blizzard Entertainment have previously described having to skip meals to make rent, while one veteran claims they are making less now than they were with Blizzard almost a decade ago.

Last year, Blizzard Entertainment was asked by parent company Activision Blizzard to cut costs, resulting in hundreds of cut jobs, with new responsibilities foisted onto remaining workers without a pay increase. The same story has repeated for a number of years, even as the company posts record profits.

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Sony Sold Fewer PS4s This Quarter, But Digital Sales And PS Plus Subs Are Way Up

Sony’s latest financial report, covering the first quarter of the 2020 financial year, is now live, and there are some interesting takeaways about how the PS4 is going. Sales for the system were down, but with good reason, and a majority of software sales were digital.

Sony is reporting that PS Plus subscription numbers have risen to 45 million, while the increase in PS Now users is also “significant”. 45 million is a big increase from the 41.5 million figure reported in May, which suggests that a lot of players stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic are playing online.

The pandemic also likely accounts for the huge increase in digital game sales. 74% of PS4 game sales for the quarter were digital, with The Last of Us Part II and Ghost of Tsushima cited as big sellers. The latter broke the record for a new IP on the system, while the former is the fastest-selling game ever for PlayStation.

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