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Izak Rankine trade news, rumours, whispers, Gold Coast Suns, Adelaide Crows, how a deal could work, analysis, latest

Izak Rankine trade news, rumours, whispers, Gold Coast Suns, Adelaide Crows, how a deal could work, analysis, latest

It shapes as one of the biggest, most complex deals of the trade period. But unfortunately for the Gold Coast Suns, it involves another one of their budding stars departing.

Foxfooty.com.au confirmed a report from the Herald Sun that Suns young gun Izak Rankine has been offered a five-year, $4 million deal from the Adelaide Crows as he considers a move back to South Australia.

Originally thought to be close to re-signing with Gold Coast, who are reportedly offering around a $650,000-a-season deal and won’t match Adelaide’s offer, the report states the 22-year old is highly likely to be playing at West Lakes in 2023 given the size of the offer.

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However as Rankine isn’t a free agent, he’d need to be acquired via trade, setting the stage for one of the most fascinating negotiations between the Suns and Crows in some time.

Pick No. 3 in the 2018 draft, Rankine showed promising signs early in his career before really elevating his game in 2022 into the competition’s elite bracket.

Rankine has booted a career-best 27 goals from 16 games this season while averaging 13.6 disposals per game (both ranked above average as a general forward by Champion Data), and his 1.5 goal assists ranks fifth in the league (ranked elite).

What’s more, his 2.9 forward 50 ball gets rank first in the competition and his 10.6 AFL Player Rating ranks ninth (both elite). His 6.4 score involvements per game (elite) come in fifth in the league including three games in 2022 with 11 score involvements.

And from Rounds 8-15 Rankine was the No. 1 ranked overall forward in the competition during a stretch where he ranked second in score assists.

“They signed probably six of their top eight players over the last six months and you just expected Izak will sign … then this comes in as a bit of a wildcard, so incredibly tough for the Gold Coast,” Roos legend David King said on SEN.

“Rankine is going to be a top liner. The ball’s not even kicked to him and his ability to hit the scoreboard is second to none.

What would Rankine cost in a trade? (Photo by Albert Perez/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images

A potential future face of the Suns and just 46 games into his AFL career, Rankine’s upside is scary, and he’s clearly only going to keep getting better, thus complicating his trade value given he’s not yet the final product.

So what’s he worth in a deal right now and how might it look?

Adelaide currently holds Pick 4 in the draft — a pick that could yet get moved back also pending on where potential Pick 1 and father-son draftee Will Ashcroft lands.

You’d think Adelaide’s first pick would be the starting point to any trade, but surely the Suns would want more.

A second first-round pick from the Crows feels like overs, especially considering it’d likely again be a top five selection or thereabouts. Would the Suns accept a first and second rounder?

Looking at recent history, the Adam Cerra trade from last year is a fair comparison given he was also aged 22, an early draft pick (No. 5) and still coming into his prime but didn’t yet qualify for free agency.

The Dockers ultimately received Carlton’s Pick 6 as well as a future third rounder despite originally putting a bigger price on Cerra’s head — although Fremantle had other deals to get done including acquiring Jordan Clark.

Prior to that, Jaeger O’Meara moved from the Suns to Hawthorn at the end of 2016 when he was also aged 22 and rated as one of the best young talents in the game.

O’Meara while playing for the Suns (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images)Source: FOX SPORTS

O’Meara, who joined Gold Coast with the No. 1 pick of a special ‘mini draft’ as part of its early concessions, only cost the Hawks Pick 10 and a future second rounder.

Then there was the original Adam Treloar (who was also 22) trade back in 2015 that saw the star midfielder along with Pick 28 move from GWS to Collingwood for Picks 7, 65 and a future first rounder.

Similar to O’Meara, Treloar was drafted by the Giants as an under-age selection.

But making Rankine’s situation slightly more unique is that he was a bona fide top three pick (and taken ahead of the likes of the King brothers, Connor Rozee and Bailey Smith in the highly-rated 2018 draft), and factoring in that the Suns have already lost so much young talent over the years to add a potential extra tax of sorts.

And losing too many young stars to rival clubs has seen Gold Coast already top up with a stack of early picks in recent years.

It held selections 5 (Mac Andrew) and 7 (Elijah Hollands) respectively over the last two drafts, 1 and 2 in the 2019 draft (Matt Rowell and Noah Anderson) and 2 and 3 the year prior (Jack Lukosius and Rankine).

So would the Suns really want or need more picks? Finals should be firmly on the agenda next year after the club has finally made inroads in 2022, currently sitting 11th on the ladder with nine wins and on track for its best ever season.

Port Adelaide legend Kane Cornes wasn’t yet convinced Rankine is going to be a “top liner,” but emphasized the Crows would have to give up something given he’s not a free agent — proposing a swap for Riley Thilthorpe or a package of Josh Rachele and Darcy Fogarty if draft picks don’t appease the Suns.

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“Adelaide would hope that (Pick 4) gets it done, but Rankine was a Pick 3 four years ago and is probably better than what you’re going to take a put on with Pick 4 in this year’s draft, which probably goes to ( Pick) 5 or 6, so that won’t get it done,” he said on SEN.

“They (the Suns) don’t want or need draft picks… is it Rachele and Fogarty or something like that for Rankine?

Of course, the Crows could dig their heels in if they can’t meet Gold Coast’s demands and try and walk Rankine to the pre-season draft (and hope other clubs don’t pounce on him).

This happened most recently in 2019 when Jack Martin joined Carlton via the pre-season draft after the Blues and Suns failed to reach a deal during the trade period.

King believes the Suns should take a stand and be willing to let Rankine walk for nothing if it comes to it.

“I just wonder if they would say, ‘you know what, we’re not going to do this deal, we’re going to take a stand. We’ve got enough first-round picks, future picks coming in, trade commodities to be able to shift if we want to go down that path. Let’s dig our heels in and say if you want to leave you can go to the draft’,” he said.

“Why not? Does it really rock their boat (losing him for nothing)? Do they say, ‘do we just draw a line in the sand?’ Because this is going to continue to happen if they allow it to happen.

“I think they’ll take a stance. I don’t think they’ll say, ‘oh yeah, no worries, what do you (Adelaide) want to discard? You don’t think Rachele is going to be a top-liner? OK, give us Rachele.’ That’s of no value to them.”

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Australia

Abdi Abdullah Ali jailed for stabbing manslaughter of Matthew Bristow in Adelaide

Police officers and a police car on a road in front of a house

A man has been sentenced to five years’ jail for killing a man by stabbing him in the heart during a drug-fueled wrestle in Adelaide.

Matthew Scott Bristow’s body was found by a passer-by on a footpath at Prospect in February 2020.

He died from a single stab wound to the heart.

Abdi Abdullah Ali was found guilty of manslaughter by an unlawful and dangerous act, but was acquitted of a murder charge.

The Supreme Court heard both men had been affected by drugs and the circumstances of the offending were unclear — but it was likely the men had wrestled with a knife while inside a car.

Matthew Bristow
Matthew Scott Bristow was found dead in Prospect.(Supplied: Facebook)

Justice Anne Bampton said she accepted Ali had no intention of killing Mr Bristow or grievously injuring him, but said Mr Bristow’s death had caused “untold grief” to his family.

His mother had told the court through a victim impact statement that her life had been “consumed by agony.”

“She poignantly said that her son died alone and that the blood that spilled on the lonely street of Prospect was her blood,” Justice Bampton said.

The court heard Ali, who was born in Somalia, turned to alcohol and drugs as a teenager and woke up in a car in Adelaide one day after attending a party in Melbourne.

“It seemed you had been stuck here, treading water, drinking, taking drugs and living a much less productive lifestyle,” Justice Bampton said.

She sentenced Ali to five years and three months’ jail with a non-parole period of four years and two months.

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Democrats secure breakthrough with Kyrsten Sinema on climate bill | usnews

Senate Democratic leaders say they have reached an agreement on the party’s major climate and economic bill with Kyrsten Sinema – the centrist Democrat whose opposition remained a major hurdle to passing the most ambitious US climate legislation yet.

The support of Sinema, a former member of the Green Party who has evolved into one of Congress’ most conservative Democrats, was crucial to the passage of the bill, which tackles energy, environment, health and tax measures. Its success is seen as the Democratic party’s most substantive chance to deliver domestic policy progress before the midterm elections.

Backing from all 50 Democratic senators will be needed to pass any legislation in the evenly-divided Senate given the party’s narrow majority and Republican resistance to acting on the climate crisis.

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, said lawmakers had achieved a compromise “that I believe will receive the support” of all Democrats in the chamber. His party needs unanimity to move the measure through the 50-50 Senate, along with vice-president Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote.

Sinema, the Arizona senator seen as the pivotal vote, said in a statement that she had agreed to eleventh-hour changes in the measure’s tax and energy provisions and was ready to “move forward” on the bill.

She said Democrats had agreed to remove a provision raising taxes on “carried interest,” or profits that go to executives of private equity firms. That’s been a proposal she has long opposed, though it is a favorite of other Democrats, including the conservative West Virginia Democratic senator Joe Manchin, an architect of the overall bill.

The carried interest provision was estimated to produce $13bn for the government over the coming decade, a small portion of the measure’s $739bn in total revenue.

Securing Sinema’s support was the next challenge for Democrats after Manchin, the centrist Democrat famed for thwarting his own party’s climate goals, surprised Washington last week by backing the plan.

Manchin, who has made millions of dollars from his ownership of a coal-trading firm, made an abrupt U-turn last week and announced support for $369bn in spending to support renewable energy and reduce emissions.

Schumer has said he hopes the Senate can begin voting on the bill – known as the Inflation Reduction Act – on Saturday. Passage by the House, which Democrats control narrowly, could come next week.

Final congressional approval of the election-year measure would be a marquee achievement for Joe Biden and his party, noting an accomplishment they could tout to voters as November approaches.

Oliver Thousandman contributed reporting

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Technology

YouTube rolls out pinch to zoom feature for Premium users

YouTube rolls out pinch to zoom feature for Premium users

YouTube has a program that allows Premium subscribers to access brand new features that aren’t quite fully baked. Today, YouTube dropped a new one called “pinch to zoom” for viewers that allows you to zoom into a video on-screen, even in landscape mode.

YouTube Premium subscribers get a lot of little extra features like background play and downloaded videos built into the YouTube experience. With the ability to try different new experimental features, Premium users can discover new tools before anyone else.

Prior experimental features have since made their way into the full YouTube experience. Being able to voice search in a browser found its way to YouTube through the experiments page. Another experiment brought to Premium users was easier playlist management, allowing users to easily drag and reorder upcoming videos around.

Today, YouTube added its new pinch to zoom feature to the experimental features page. This is a little different than the long feature available to everyone that allows you to fill your screen in landscape mode. Rather than filling your screen, pinch to zoom allows you to use two fingers to zoom into the video player. Once zoomed in, you can move around and look at parts of the video closer. This feature looks to be made specifically for portrait mode viewing.

YouTube pinch to zoom

If you’re a Premium member, you can find the new feature in the YouTube app on Android; just tap your profile photo and then hit Your Premium benefits. From there, you can find the Try new features page and turn on YouTube’s pinch to zoom. It may take a while to kick in until you can give this new tool a shot.

Pinch to zoom will only be available until September 1, giving YouTube Premium users enough time to try the new feature out and leave feedback. We’ll likely see this feature in full down the road, though we’re not sure exactly when and if the tool will come to unpaid members.

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Victoria Beckham reportedly feuding with new daughter-in-law Nicola Peltz: ‘They can’t stand each other’

It seems there’s a feud brewing between victoria beckham and her new daughter-in-law, Nicholas Peltz.

According to Page Sixthe pair are no longer speaking as their relationship reportedly unraveled in the lead-up to Nicola’s $5 million wedding to Victoria and david beckham‘s are, brooklyn beckham this past April.

“They can’t stand each other and don’t talk,” a source told the outlet. “The build-up to the wedding was horrendous.”

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David Beckham, Victoria Beckham, Nicola Peltz and Brooklyn Beckham were close and went on vacations together ahead of the wedding in April. (instagram)

The source said that in the months before Nicola and 23-year-old Brooklyn’s star-studded Miami wedding, the 27-year-old actress and her wealthy family – she is the daughter of billionaire Nelson Peltz – did not want Victoria “to be any part of the planning”. The source claimed that Nicola wouldn’t clue the former Spice Girl in on anything and “communication was minimal.”

Apparently, ever since the extravagant affair – which was held at the luxurious Peltz family estate – it’s been “non-stop petty drama” and the tension is coming between Beckhams and their son.

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Nicola Peltz and Brooklyn Beckham will tie the knot in Miami on April 9.
Nicola Peltz and Brooklyn Beckham tied the knot in Miami on April 9. (Instagram)

“They haven’t spoken to him much in the last few months,” said a source, adding that Brooklyn’s parents weren’t happy when on Instagram he posted a cover of Nicola gracing the cover of British magazine Tatler with the headline calling her ” The New Mrs. Beckham.”

Prior to the Page Six report, there was much speculation about the relationship between the Beckhams and the newly minted Peltz Beckhams. The Beckhams were always a tight-knit clan and they embraced Nicola into the fold when she and Brooklyn started dating in 2020.

The group posted sweet snaps of their vacations together and they were constantly gushing about each other and ‘liking’ each other’s social media posts.

But after the April nuptials, that all seemingly came to a halt.

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Speculation monsoon emerged that the feud stems from the treatment the Beckhams allegedly received from the wealthy Peltz family before and during the wedding.

According to the Mirror, Victoria and David and their three other children – Romeo, Cruz and Harper – were not invited to sit at the top table at the reception. Instead, the seats were taken up by Nicola’s billionaire father Nelson, fashion model mother Claudia Peltz and her siblings de ella.

“The top table was all Peltz’s and it really felt as though the Beckhams were not at the forefront,” a source told the outlet.

“There was a feeling that the wedding was all about the Peltz family, as you can imagine, as it was their house and their daughter and their son making the speeches.”

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Kara Childerhouse: Michael Lichaa acquitted of domestic violence charges

Kara Childerhouse: Michael Lichaa acquitted of domestic violence charges

Former NRL star Michael Lichaa has been acquitted of domestic violence charges after his former partner refused to turn up to court and ex-teammate Adam Elliott vouched for his version of events.

The 18-month saga finally drew to a close on Friday when Mr Lichaa was found not guilty of assaulting his former partner Kara Childerhouse during a heated late-night incident at his south Sydney home.

Mr Lichaa, 29, has persistently denied assaulting his former finance and Magistrate Melissa Humphreys on Friday acquitted him of common assault and intimidation charges.

His trial before Magistrate Melissa Humphreys took a sensational twist on Thursday when Ms Childerhouse refused to turn up to Sutherland Local Court to give evidence.

Despite being subpoenaed and midway through her testimony police were unable to contact her after knocking on her door and calling her.

The court heard that she no longer wanted to take part in the proceedings and was pregnant and worried about the stress of reliving the incident.

All of her testimony which she had given up until that point was excluded though a statement, in which she retracted the allegations, was admitted into evidence.

It left the prosecution with no evidence to tend on the assault charge.

Police had alleged he was involved in an argument, which prompted concerned neighbors to call police to his Connells Point home.

The court has heard that the incident occurred after Mr Lichaa caught Ms Childerhouse performing a sexual act on his mate and former teammate Adam Elliott.

Mr Elliott told the court on Thursday that he had been drinking for 12 hours following a party at Mr Lichaa’s home.

When it was suggested that Mr Lichaa had assaulted Ms Childerhouse, he said “I disagree.”

Mr Elliott told the court that Mr Lichaa exclaimed “what the f*** are you doing?” and he went outside and walked back and forth in a heated state.

A witness previously told the court that she heard a man saying loudly “I’m going to f***ing kill her”.

His lawyer James Trevallion denied that amounted to an offense of intimidation, adding there was no evidence the words were said in her presence.

“Clearly it was a situation where there was a lot of emotion and feeling and it would be remarkable when walking up and down the street if he wasn’t yelling and screaming and emotional and upset about what had occurred,” Mr Trevallion told the court on Friday.

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Australia

Comancheros boss Mark Buddle extradited to Melbourne to face drug importation charges

Comancheros boss Mark Buddle extradited to Melbourne to face drug importation charges

Comancheros boss Mark Buddle has been extradited from Darwin to Melbourne to face court over the alleged importation of $40 million worth of cocaine into Australia.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) said officers escorted the 37-year-old on a chartered flight from Darwin to Melbourne this morning.

It is the final move in a series of extraditions.

Mr Buddle was taken into custody by AFP officers in Darwin earlier this week after being extradited to Australia by Turkish authorities.

He was deported to Turkey from Northern Cyprus last month, and taken into police custody in the capital, Ankara.

A digitally blurred image of a man being put onto a plane seat by AFP officers.
The Australian Federal Police released images of the extradition.(Supplied: Australian Federal Police)

Mr Buddle is understood to have left Australia in 2016.

He had been living in the self-declared republic of Northern Cyprus after being granted a residence permit in August 2021.

The area declared its independence in 1983 but is recognized by only one of the United Nations’ 193 member states, Turkey.

Mr Buddle became president of the Comanchero Outlaw Motorcycle Gang in 2010 when former leader Daux Hohepa Ngakuru left Australia.

He was understood to have been leading the Comanchero Motorcycle Club while living overseas.

Mark Buddle
Mr Buddle was national president of the Comanchero motorcycle gang.(AAP, file photo)

A Darwin judge on Wednesday granted a request for Mr Buddle to be extradited to Melbourne.

Now in Victoria, Mr Buddle faces two charges over the alleged importation of more than 160 kilograms of cocaine in 2021.

Both the charges of importing a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug and conspiracy to import a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug carry a maximum sentence of life in prison.

A court sketch of a bald man wearing a face mask and tracksuit.
Mr Buddle did not make an application for bail.(abcnews)

Mr Buddle appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court this morning for a brief administrative hearing.

The 37-year-old was wearing trackpants and escorted by two guards.

He met Magistrate Kieran Gilligan before taking a seat and looking around the courtroom.

Mr Buddle did not make an application for bail and was remanded in custody until his next court appearance in November.

He waved and gave a thumbs up to his lawyer as he left the courtroom.

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Kari Lake wins Arizona Republican race for governor

Kari Lake wins Arizona Republican race for governor

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Former news anchor and Trump-backed candidate Kari Lake has won the Republican nomination for Arizona governor, elevating a candidate who has embraced the former president’s false election claims in a key swing state.

Lake did so after declaring victory prematurely on Wednesday when she had only a slim lead over land developer Karrin Taylor Robson (R), who nabbed the backing of former vice president Mike Pence and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R). And Lake had already warned that her own primary de ella might be tainted by fraud she refused to provide proof for.

“We out-voted the fraud, we didn’t listen to what the fake news had to say,” Lake told reporters, according to the Arizona Mirror. “The MAGA movement rose up and voted like their lives depended on it.”

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Lake’s victory was one of several for prominent election deniers in Arizona. If these Republicans win in November, they will be empowered to dramatically upend the election process in a key state in 2024 and beyond. Arizona became ground zero for unfounded 2020 election conspiracies after Biden narrowly beat Donald Trump there — the first time a Democrat has taken the state since 1996.

Lake will face Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) in the general election. Hobbs defended the election process in Arizona as the person in charge of certifying Biden’s victory in 2020.

“This bitter primary race that fractured the Republican Party on a local and national level has finally come to an end and the result is a nominee who has taken an extreme position on abortion, elections, guns and more,” said Raquel Terán, the chairwoman of the Arizona Democratic Party.

Other election deniers who prevailed in Tuesday’s Arizona GOP primary were venture capitalist Blake Masters, now set to face Sen. Mark Kelly (D) in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country, and secretary of state nominee Mark Finchem.

Masters ran an ad saying “I think Trump won” and Finchem, a state lawmaker, was outside the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, before rioters stormed the building in a deadly attack. He has self-identified with the Oath Keepers, a far-right extremist group and self-styled militia, and said he would decertify Arizona’s 2020 election results if he had the power to do so.

Endorsed by prominent election conspiracy theorists MyPillow founder Mike Lindell and former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, Lake has said she doesn’t recognize Biden as the country’s legitimate president. She has said if she had been governor in 2020, she wouldn’t have certified Biden’s victory. And if she wins in November, Lake’s most dramatic election-related proposals would eliminate machines that tabulate votes, like electronic equipment from Dominion Voting Systems used by Maricopa County, where more than half of Arizona residents live, and replace them with people to hand count millions of ballots from individual precincts where voters would be required to cast their ballots in person.

State officials, many of them Republicans, have warned that counting all ballots by hand would make it impossible to meet statutory deadlines.

Lake, if elected, also wants to terminate mail voting, exchanging it for a one-day election, and strengthen voter identification and auditing requirements, which already exist in Arizona.

The 52-year-old mother of two began her career in Iowa after studying journalism at the University of Iowa. After many years in the industry that ended with her frequently being criticized for sharing misinformation on her social media accounts, Lake left her anchor position at Phoenix’s local Fox station in March 2021. Three months later, she announced her campaign for governor.

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Lake won the endorsement of Donald Trump that September and has in many ways modeled her campaign after that of the former president. Even before the primary, Lake was telling her supporters of her not to trust the results of Tuesday’s primary — unless she wins.

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If Lake wins in the fall, her leadership would move the state further to the right after Biden won Arizona in the 2020 presidential election — a possible shift that has alarmed many more conventional Republicans in the Grand Canyon State. Lake has pledged to try to enact election-related policies that could fundamentally upend the way Arizonans vote — and how their votes are counted.

Hannah Knowles, Colby Itkowitz and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez contributed to this report.

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Another PlayStation Game Quietly Comes To The PC

Another PlayStation Game Quietly Comes To The PC

While a big deal has been made about some former PlayStation exclusives coming to the PC — like Horizon and God of War — no deal was made last week whatsoever about a game with a much lower profile, but which I love regardless.

That game is Hohokum, which was first released on the PlayStation 4 (and PS3, and Vita) in 2014, and which remains one of the most chill video game experiences available. A collaborative work between artist Richard Hogg, developers Honeyslug and the record label Ghostly, Hohokum is to beautiful 2D adventure where you play as a worm…kite…thing that just floats around its various levels, poking around a colorful landscape just to see what happens.

It’s magic. I love this game so much that amidst all the hardware drama and blockbuster releases making up our roundup of the last console generation I wrote a whole thing just about this little game, which I described as being — in terms of meeting its ambitions — perfect.

You move a big snake thing around a floating landscape, and sometimes you run into things, and sometimes you fly through things. You’re never fighting, talking, not really doing much of anything.

Yet for Hohokum these aren’t limitations. They’re a canvas.

It’s a game that understands the links between interaction, visuals and soundtrack to a terrifyingly perfect degree. Each is inspired by and reliant on the other two, to the point where once it gets going Hohokum is almost synaesthesic.

one thing Hohokum is now providing to also be is timeless. Eight years on from its original release its art style hasn’t aged a day, and technically looks as though it could have been released yesterday. The accompanying heavyweight soundtrack also sounds as good in 2022 as it did in 2014, no doubt helped by the fact that many of the artists involved — like Tycho — are still killing it today.

So if you haven’t owned a PlayStation in a while and never got to check this out, I cannot recommend it highly enough. Annapurna has published this PC version (which, admittedly, is probably why less of a fuss was made than if Sony had released it), and it’s out on Steam now.

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Lady Gaga confirms she will star in Joker sequel alongside Joaquin Phoenix

Lady Gaga has confirmed she will be in the next joker movie, playing the Harley Quinn to joaquin phoenix‘s supervillain.

Gaga made the news official by sharing the title sequence from the film on Instagram – which you can watch above.

The film, titled Joker: Folie a Deux is set to release on April 10, 2024.

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Lady Gaga at the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. (WireImage)

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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gaga’s Harley would exist “in a different DC universe” than the one played by margot robbie in suicide squad (2016), birds of prey (2020) and Suicide Squad (2020).

The film will see former joker director Todd Phillips return as director and co-writer alongside Scott Silver.

The second installation of the series is highly-anticipated, given the success of joker in 2019.

The first film broke box-office records as the first R-rated movie to hit the US$1 billion mark, reports Peopleand also earned 12 Oscar nominations, including a Best Actor win for Phoenix.

Phillips teased the sequel back in June, sharing a red script for the film and another black and white photo of Phoenix reading the script.

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No other cast members have been released for the project.

But there is a clue in the film title.

‘Folie à Deux’ is a French term referring to a delusion or mental illness shared by two people. So perhaps there are some dark and twisted journeys ahead for Phoenix and Gaga.

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