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Jade Raymond has left PlayStation.
Bloomberg has the story. Raymond, also a , had founded and led the PlayStation-owned Haven Studios, which has been working on a multiplayer heist game called Fairgames.
According to Bloomberg's report, Fairgames had been scheduled for a fall 2025 release, but that has been pushed to spring 2026.
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- Tom's Guide
I skipped Fallout 76 at launch — here's why I finally gave it a shot in 2025 (and you should too)
I love Fallout. Exploring a vast, post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with horrible enemies has always brought a smile to my face. I'm also prone to getting addicted to online looter shooter games like Destiny 2 and I even got sucked into The First Descendent. So when Fallout 76 came out, it should have been the game for me. But based on the negativity from Fallout fans when it launched, I passed. Now, it's 2025, and the game has been chugging along since 2018. It's had hours and hours of content added to it, and it's become closer to the Fallout experience I always hoped it could be. It doesn't have as much personality as the numbered Fallout games (and New Vegas), but it has one key factor that keeps me coming back: it's incredibly fun. Is 2025 finally the perfect time to lose yourself in the Appalachian wasteland? I think it just might be, and here's why. For me, one of the biggest reasons to jump back into Fallout 76 is the value. Because the game is a few years old, you can get it for cheap most of the time. Even at full price, the game is $39 on Steam, PlayStation and Xbox. It's on Game Pass and can often be picked up on sale, either from the first-party platform store or from retailers like Amazon. I've been primarily playing through Game Pass, as I have an active subscription. The ridiculous number of quests and vast wilderness available to explore make it feel like a game that should cost a lot more. I've played more than 40 hours of the game in a few weeks, and it feels like there are a million more quests for me to do and powerful items to find. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. And then there's the building mechanics... Fallout 76 offers a lot of content for the price. You can spend hundreds of hours exploring the wastelands if you like the game, so you'll certainly get your money's available on: Xbox and PlayStation I was a little worried that Fallout 76 might not be fun without a group of friends to play with. My normal group of looter shooter friends has dispersed between various games, with a few still hanging onto Destiny 2. Getting them to try Fallout 76 was a no-go, so it was just me rolling solo (and playing with randoms). Fortunately, after grinding my way past level 50, I can say that I'm having a blast without friends. Friends or not, the core loop of shooting enemies, looting their corpses and leveling up your character is fun and addictive, which is what you want to see from a game like Fallout 76. Whether you play a V.A.T.S. character or one who sprays all over the place, there's a lot of fun to be had in Bethesda's semi-MMO version of Fallout. While the Bethesda game may not have the official Steam Deck badge, in my experience, the game works just fine. And best of all, you don't need to do anything crazy with the settings to get it working. All I did was install the game and launch it. No startup tweaks and no crazy settings to change. Just run it and go. It's not perfect — the frame rate is lower than a traditional gaming PC or console, but the fact that I can play my current looter-shooter addiction while my family does other stuff with the TV is amazing. Now, if only there were a way to transfer characters between platforms (there isn't and probably never will be). Bethesda offers a quality of life (QOL) subscription for Fallout 76 that provides things like scrap and ammo storage, preventing you from having to deal with the headache of encumbrance as much. It costs $99.99 per year or $12.99 per month. I signed up for a month, and it's great to have if you're playing a ton of the game. However, I played all the way to level 50 without it, and it was fine. Will I keep my subscription after the first month? Probably, because I'm incredibly addicted to the game and I like the QOL changes. But I could also live without it, and I think you can, too. I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm late to the Fallout 76 party. Players around the world have already known how good the game was for some time, and I'm just walking in like a beginner trying to tell people the game is good. Are there bugs? Sure. Does it crash occasionally? Of course, it's a Bethesda game. Do any of those things stop me from loving the game and wanting to finish this article to play more of it? Not even close.
Fox News
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- Fox News
Barbara Walters turned down Clint Eastwood romance because she didn't ‘mix business with pleasure'
Print Close By Brie Stimson Published June 23, 2025 Barbara Walters told it like it was. The pioneering journalist, who died in 2022 and is the subject of a new documentary streaming this month, paved the way for other female reporters who followed her, breaking ground with news-making interviews. But she was also controversial. Here are six highlights from the new documentary "Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything." BARBARA WALTERS' TOUGH INTERVIEWS 'HAVEN'T AGED WELL,' FORMER COLLEAGUE CLAIMS Flirtatious moment with Clint Eastwood While interviewing Clint Eastwood at his California ranch in 1982, Walters and the "Dirty Harry" actor discussed how he keeps most of his feelings inside, often not even sharing his worries with romantic partners. "You would drive me nuts, and I would drive you crazy because I would be saying, 'But didn't you? Or haven't you?'" Walters told Eastwood as they sat facing each other on a picnic bench. "Well, we could try it and see if it worked out," he answered dryly with a smirk. They both then laughed awkwardly, and Walters answered, "We'll start with this interview and if this is OK, we'll say, 'Well, maybe we'll do another interview… and…" After a long pause, Walters said to the camera, "I think we'll stop and reload" as everyone burst out in laughter. "Barbara had her fill of romance," gossip columnist Cindy Williams said in the documentary. "She thought a lot of guys were sexy. She was interested in the possibility of sex. She liked it. She liked men." "She was never cynical about love, and she was definitely a romantic kind of person," makeup artist Lori Klein said. "But romance just never worked in her life for long." Walters revealed on "The Tonight Show" in 2014 that Eastwood had asked her out to dinner after the interview, but she said no because she had work. "This is a sad love story," she told host Jimmy Fallon. "I did this interview with Clint Eastwood something like 30 years ago. He was very flirtatious, and I was very taken (with him). He asked me if I wanted to have dinner... and I said, 'No, I have to work.' You know, I don't mix business with pleasure," which she said she later regretted. "I could have been Mrs. Clint Eastwood!" she added. Obsession with 'money, fame and power' "She was obsessed with three things: She was obsessed with money, fame and power," Peter Gethers, the editor of her autobiography, told the documentary. "When I would have conversations with her about her father, her father was a scoundrel. Her father was irresponsible with money, he was not a perfect family man. Scoundrel was the right word. And I think she was both horrified by that and attracted to that." He said one of the most difficult things in editing her autobiography was dealing with her close relationship with the late attorney Roy Cohn. "I said to her, 'I would put Roy Cohn in my top 10 of horrible people in the 20th century,'" Gethers said. "But she loved him." Williams explained that because Cohn was famous, "it was worthwhile for Barbara. Barbara was famous, so it was worthwhile for Roy. They were two people who loved PR." 'PSYCHO' ACTRESS VERA MILES PUT FAMILY BEFORE FAME, STEPPED AWAY FROM STARDOM ON HER TERMS: AUTHOR Walters didn't have the 'strongest moral compass' and was 'transactional' Gethers also claimed that Walters "didn't have the strongest moral compass. A lot of the relationships she developed were career moves. And she was a pretty transactional person." Walters once explained a controversial favor Cohn did for her. "When my father lost everything, he also had not paid his taxes in New York. And Roy Cohn said, 'Don't worry about it,'" Walters was quoted as saying in the documentary. "'I will take care of it.' I don't know how he did it. I don't know what judges he talked to. I forgot about ethics, and I had been severely criticized by my friends and I can understand because Roy did some terrible things, but this was my father and he saved him." Gethers elaborated, "She didn't see things in that kind of moral light. That stuff was always in the shadows. She could forgive anyone who was really good to her no matter what they did in the other parts of their lives." "You can never know about what's transactional, what's not, but you can wonder," David Sloan, ABC News executive producer, said of Walters. Jealous of Diane Sawyer Martin Clancy, a former ABC News producer, said in the documentary, "Barbara watched Diane warily because she was really in the same altitude as Barbara. Other correspondents were not a threat. I think Barbara secretly resented Diane for being younger." Reporter Cynthia McFadden explained that Sawyer had booked Katharine Hepburn "fair and square" for an interview once and Walters put "a lot of pressure" on the actress to do an interview with her instead, but Hepburn wouldn't do it. "If I showed up on Mars, she would have a note there in the Barbara Walters stationery just requesting an interview with anybody who might happen to show," Sawyer jokingly said in a clip shared on the documentary. Reporter Connie Chung said she realized "how stupid" she was to accept a job at ABC working with Sawyer and Walters while they were "in this monstrous spat to win stories and I was caught in the middle." McFadden said she spoke with Walters about Sawyer many times, and she was "certainly dogged by Diane's very existence. She often said Diane was the perfect woman. She used the word 'blonde goddess.' This ideal woman. And she, Barbara, couldn't compete with that. She could work harder, she could know more people, but she couldn't compete with that. The blonde goddess." BARBARA WALERS LEFT BEHIND MESSAGES ABOU THEIR 'SENSE OF ISOLATION' AS A CHILD – AND WHAT DROVE HER SUCCESS Victor Neufeld, a former ABC executive producer, said Walters would tell him, "Diane is married to Mike Nichols. I'm not married to Mike Nichols. I would say, 'Barbara, you can marry anybody you want.' Her insecurities were really nightmarish." McFadden added, "This has been interpreted, I think, by a lot of people to say that Barbara was not good to other women. And I think that is a canard. Not at all. She couldn't tolerate having Diane Sawyer rise in what she saw as a direct challenge to what she had accomplished. What a sadness. Talk about the death of joy." She 'neglected' her personal life for the sake of her career Walters is quoted in the documentary as saying that she was 23 years old when she first got married and went straight from her parents' house to her first home with her husband. "And it was a marriage that never should have been," she said. She also adopted her only child, Jackie, when she was in her 30s during her second marriage. "This idea of a working mother seemed like an oxymoron. People didn't think you could take care of a child or take care of a husband and have a full-time job," Katie Couric said of Walters' struggle to balance motherhood and her career. Walters explained once that she only took two days off after she adopted her daughter. Walters once said she was disappointed when her second marriage ended because, at that time, their daughter was 4. "I don't think I was very good at marriage. It may be that my career was just too important. It may have been that I was a difficult person to be married to, and I wasn't willing perhaps to give that much. But through it all there was this career I felt I needed to have, and I loved it." She added, "When I was in my 20s and 30s, when I should have been dating, I was working day and night. I didn't have those kinds of years. I didn't have those years until I was in my 30s and 40s. Mine was a very delayed romantic period." Walters said in an interview she didn't realize how much Jackie struggled with having a mother who was a celebrity, revealing that she ran away when she was 16. "She had a charged, complex relationship with her daughter," Oprah Winfrey said. "I remember her telling me once it's really fulfilling having children, and you should really think about it, and I was like 'OK, but I'm looking at you, so no,'" Winfrey said, adding that she knew she could only do one thing well and being a mother and a career woman are both sacrifices. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER McFadden said Walters told her "many times that she'd made mistakes as a mother, she'd made choices for herself, for her work." "The View" co-host Joy Behar said she didn't think anything was ever enough for Walters. "But that was her secret to keep getting better and striving all the time. I think that her personal life suffered because of that." "I felt like she neglected her personal life and poured so much into her work life that I'm not sure she was a truly happy person." — Katie Couric on Barbara Walters Walters was quoted as saying that young people would come up to her and say they wanted to be her. "And I say, 'You have to take the whole package.'" She also once said on "The View," "To this day I feel guilty" about not being there for her daughter enough. McFadden, who interviewed Jackie as an adult about her relationship with her mother, said she felt Walters worried their relationship was "shaky" and thought she and her daughter might have "fallen out again." Walters said once, "Look, are there times when I look at people, I've got a friend, for example, who's got four children and 11 grandchildren, and she says, 'Look at your life,' and I say, 'Look at your life. I mean, how rich you are. Four children, 11 grandchildren. That's richness.' But I don't have that. I didn't take that path." Couric added, "I felt like she neglected her personal life and poured so much into her work life that I'm not sure she was a truly happy person. And I remember thinking I want to make sure that I have a family, that I don't just have a big job, and I always got the sense that Barbara wished she had paid more attention to that." Gethers said, "I never got the sense from talking to her that there was one love of her life. Her job was the love of her life. I mean, when she would glow, she wouldn't glow talking about the men in her life, she would glow talking about creating 'The View.' She was as driven a person as I've ever met." LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Oprah suggests Walters stole Monica Lewinsky interview from her Before Walters did Monica Lewinsky's first sit-down interview in 1999 that was watched by 70 million people, Winfrey suggested she was set to talk to the infamous former intern. "We had an agreement with Monica Lewinsky's team, and then Barbara swooped in," Winfrey said, "and said to Lewinsky, I can give you a better deal. I can not only do a primetime Barbara Walters special, but I can offer you 'Nightline,' I can offer you 'Good Morning America,' I can offer you…' And I just had 'The Oprah Show,' so, I didn't like that." Walter said it took her a year to get the interview, which started by getting Lewinsky's lawyer on her side. Lewinsky, who was interviewed for the documentary, said Walters made her feel "put at ease quite quickly." Winfrey added, "Because Barbara had been number one, she had been it, she had been the madam, she saw that as her rightful place in the space, and if there was something that deserved a special one-on-one interview, I think she felt that she was the one who was supposed to have it. And 9.9 times out of 10 she got it." CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP "Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything" will premiere on Hulu on June 23. Print Close URL
Fast Company
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- Fast Company
Rich Kleiman is building Boardroom into a membership club, and it's all about legacy
Since launching Boardroom in 2019, Rich Kleiman and NBA star Kevin Durant have grown the media company into an influential player that confidently straddles business, sports, and entertainment across content, films, TV, and events. Its newest venture is a membership club that Kleiman sees as key to building a long-lasting brand legacy. 'I really want to build a sustainable brand that lasts,' Kleiman tells Fast Company. 'By having this core membership community, and having them become, in a lot of ways, voices of this brand, I thought was really crucial.' Launching later this month, the Boardroom Members Club will feature regular members-only events, VIP access to Boardroom flagship activations at NBA All-Star, Art Basel and more, exclusive networking opportunities, and a private digital platform. 'For me, I saw this boom in membership clubs in the city, and while they all have their own thing, whether it's the food or the location or the brand name or the type of people that go there, I didn't think that there were actually communities there that benefited your career,' says Kleiman. 'And for me, I felt like that was my special sauce, understanding the importance of being in a room with the right mix of people.' Boardroom's media arm churns out newsletters, social posts, and content that reaches over 52 million unique monthly visitors. The company is on track to nearly double revenue in 2025, and average monthly reach has increased by 74% in 2025. Its film and TV output in recent years includes the Apple TV series Swagger, Showtime's Emmy-nominated doc NYC Point Gods, and the Oscar-winning short Two Distant Strangers. However, it was events like Boardroom's annual CNBC x Boardroom Game Plan Summit that showed Kleiman the potential in combining quality content and the community of people who gather around it. Like an IRL LinkedIn for cool people. 'I thought that was really exciting, and I wanted to create a version of it that was exclusive to members,' he says. 'I wanted that to feel a bit exclusive, because those conferences can be overwhelming for people that are trying to get information and trying to connect.' Members Club events will have the same vibe and feel of the brand's bigger events but with more intimate programming. 'The big names are still in the room, but make them truly accessible and they understand that like they're there now to integrate with this community,' says Kleiman. 'And [those big names] want that too. It's really infectious for anyone at any level, to be around that type of hunger and that type of curiosity and excitement. Seeing our consumers and knowing they're part of our brand and in our comments and at our parties, but they wanted more, and I wanted to give them more.' The combination of not only connecting with Boardroom content, but with fellow fans and members that can impact their own careers and businesses, is where Kleiman sees the most long-term potential. 'For me, the real excitement is creating something that I can point to potentially decades from now and say, 'That was us, we built that.'
