• Eminem's single "Killshot," a diss track directed at the rapper Machine Gun Kelly, topped YouTube's global and US songs charts for a second straight week, the company said on Tuesday.
• Kelly's single "Rap Devil," the diss that prompted "Killshot," came in at No. 3 on YouTube's US songs charts this week, its third straight week in the top five.

Eminem's feud with the rapper Machine Gun Kelly is dominating YouTube's music charts weeks after their beef began.

Eminem's single "Killshot," a diss track directed at Kelly, had the largest debut of a hip-hop song in YouTube's history earlier this month. The song topped YouTube's global and US songs charts for a second straight week, the company said on Tuesday.

Kelly's single "Rap Devil," the diss that prompted Eminem's "Killshot," came in at No. 3 on YouTube's US songs chart. This is the song's third straight week in the chart's top five.

Eminem threw the first overt punch in his beef with Kelly by calling the rapper out on the song "Not Alike" from his new album, "Kamikaze," which topped the Billboard 200 album chart after its release on August 31.

"I'm talkin' to you, but you already know who the f--- you are, Kelly / I don't use sublims and sure as f--- don't sneak-diss / But keep commenting on my daughter Hailie," Eminem rapped on "Not Alike." He was referring to a 2012 tweet from Kelly calling Hailie, who was then 16 years old, "hot as f---."

Eminem released "Killshot" on September 14, 11 days after Kelly dissed him with "Rap Devil."

As of Tuesday, "Killshot" had over 111 million views on YouTube, while "Rap Devil" had over 114 million views on the site.

Listen to "Killshot" and "Rap Devil" below:

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• Kosmicd12, a video game speed runner, set a new world record by completing "Super Mario Bros." in 4:55.913

The simple fun of Super Mario Bros. made it an instant classic when it hit the original Nintendo in 1985, but over the years, players dedicated to beating the game as fast as possible have turned it into a sweet science. Yesterday one gamer managed to set a world record after completing "Super Mario Bros." in 4 minutes and 55.913 seconds, beating the previous record by less than one second.

Kosmicd12, a speed runner on Youtube and Twitch, completed the game on a standard Nintendo console with a regular controller, using a number of exploits and previously known tricks to skip through the game. 

Kosmicd12 had held the world record in the past, but after this run he said it may not be possible to get the time any lower than 4:55.

Then again, that's what was once said about running a 4-minute mile. 

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• Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison at a Norristown, Pennsylvania, court on Tuesday. 
• The 81-year-old comedian faced up to 10 years in prison after he was convicted in April of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman over a decade ago. 
• A judge declared Cosby a "sexually violent predator" ahead of his sentencing, requiring the comic's name to appear on a sex-offender registry. 

Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison at a Norristown, Pennsylvania, court on Tuesday.

The 81-year-old comedian faced up to 10 years in prison after he was convicted in April of drugging and sexually assaulting Temple University women’s basketball administrator Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia estate in 2004.

Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill made the decision after declaring Cosby a "sexually violent predator" ahead of his sentencing, requiring the comic to appear on a sex-offender registry and undergo monthly counseling for the rest of his life. 

"It is time for justice. Mr. Cosby, this has all circled back to you. The time has come," O’Neill said in his sentencing decision.

Cosby's lawyers asked that he be allowed to remain free on bail while he appealed his conviction, but the judge denied the bail request and ordered Cosby to be imprisoned immediately. Cosby was led away in handcuffs.

Prior to the sentencing, Cosby’s lawyers had asked for house arrest, saying Cosby — who is legally blind — is too old and vulnerable to do time in prison. Prosecutors asked for five to 10 years behind bars, saying the comic could still be a threat to women. He will serve his time in state prison.

Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele rejected the notion that “age, infirmity, should somehow equate to mercy.”

“He was good at hiding this for a long time. Good at suppressing this for a long time. So it’s taken a long time to get there,” Steele said.

Cosby’s lawyers had fought the “sexually violent predator” designation, arguing that Pennsylvania’s sex-offender law is unconstitutional and that he is no threat to the public at his age. But O’Neill said prosecutors had met their burden of proof by “clear and convincing” evidence.

When the ruling came down, a woman in courtroom shot her fist into the air and whispered, “Yes!”

Meanwhile, Constand said in a statement submitted to the court and released Tuesday that she has had to cope with years of anxiety and self-doubt that had left her “stuck in a holding pattern.”

Constand, 45, said her training as a professional basketball player had led her to think she could handle anything, but “life as I knew it” ended on the night she said Cosby knocked her out with pills and penetrated her with his fingers as she lay nearly paralyzed on a couch.

Constand said she now lives alone with her two dogs and has trouble trusting people.

“When the sexual assault happened, I was a young woman brimming with confidence and looking forward to a future bright with possibilities,” she wrote in her five-page statement.

“Now, almost 15 years later, I’m a middle-aged woman who’s been stuck in a holding pattern for most of her adult life, unable to heal fully or to move forward.”

She also wrote: “We may never know the full extent of his double life as a sexual predator but his decades-long reign of terror as a serial rapist is over.”

In the years since Constand first went to authorities in 2005, more than 60 women have accused Cosby of sexual misconduct, though none of those claims have led to criminal charges.

Cosby was smiling and joking with his spokesman and sheriff’s deputies as he settled into the courtroom Tuesday. On Day 1 of the sentencing, the comic laughed at times as the psychologist for the state testified.

Cameras were not allowed in the courtroom; they are generally banned in Pennsylvania.

Cosby became the first black actor to star in a prime-time TV show, “I Spy,” in 1965. He remained a Hollywood A-lister for much of the next half-century.

Associated Press writers Maryclaire Dale, Michael R. Sisak, and Claudia Lauer contributed to this report.

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• Tinder has been testing a new feature called "My Move" that lets women message a match first before allowing men to message them.
• The feature isn't available in the US yet, but Tinder says it plans to roll it out to American users in the future if the test goes well.

Tinder has rolled out a new feature on its app in India that allows women to limit conversations with male matches to those they choose to start — a female-centric option that draws similarities to rival dating app Bumble.

The new feature, which will roll out to the US if the test is successful, has existed on India's version of the popular dating app for "several months," Reuters reported Tuesday. Women who turn on the "My Move" feature in their settings will be the only one in heterosexual matches who can initiate chats.

MarketWatch first reported back in February on Tinder's plans to release the Bumble-like feature. Mandy Ginsberg, chief executive at Tinder's parent company Match Group, told MarketWatch that the new feature was important in giving women more control over how they engage with matches and was "not a reaction to any competitor." 

"We have to constantly listen to what women want and address their needs, not just on Tinder but on all products," Ginsberg said in February. In addition to Tinder, Match Group also owns popular dating sites Match.com and OkCupid.

Bumble and Tinder have long had an intense rivalry that includes lawsuits claiming patent infringement and theft of trade secrets. Additionally, Tinder co-founder Whitney Wolfe Herd — who left the company and sued Tinder, alleging sexual harassment and discrimination — went on to co-found rival Bumble.

While Tinder boasts an estimated 50 million users compared to Bumble's 37 million, the newer Bumble has been closing the gap and expanding at faster rates than its rival. Tinder parent Match Group also reportedly attempted to acquire Bumble in the past year, but was unsuccessful.

Bumble declined Business Insider's request for comment Tuesday in response to news of Tinder's women-centric feature. Instead, a spokesperson pointed to comments that Wolfe Herd, Bumble's current CEO, made to TechCrunch back in February that commended "any company making business decisions that empower women."

India serves as Tinder's largest Asian market, which made it a suitable place to test out the new feature, Match Group executive Taru Kapoor told Reuters. Kapoor, general manager for the company in India, says Tinder is trying to attract more women to the app in India, which was ranked 130th out of 189 countries the United Nations evaluated for gender equality in 2017.

"Women have the autonomy on how to be engaged, to be empowered, to control their experience," Kapoor said. "We’re a platform based on mutual respect, consent, and choice."

Although the option does not yet exist on Tinder's U.S. edition, the company told Reuters it plans to eventually roll it out to the rest of its global audience if the trial runs successfully. No set date for this release was made available.

Tinder had not responded to request for comment by the time of publication.

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• Michael Avenatti is an attorney whose most famous client is Stormy Daniels.
• He has inserted himself into the national conversation this year, often making claims about high-profile people, including President Donald Trump and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
• Avenatti is also considering a 2020 presidential bid.
• Here's a look at his career, and claims he's made over the last several months.

At the moment, Michael Avenatti may be the most high-profile lawyer in America. The 47-year-old seasoned litigator has made headlines in recent months thanks to his famous client, porn star and director Stormy Daniels.

Just days before the 2016 US election, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen arranged a $130,000 payment to Daniels to keep her silent about an affair she allegedly had with Trump in 2006.

Avenatti has since sued the president, on Daniels' behalf, accusing Trump of invalidating a non-disclosure agreement, and of defaming Daniels. Avenatti says the violation allows Daniels to reveal her side of the story to the public, and in March, she started doing just that with a blockbuster "60 Minutes" interview on CBS News.

Appearing on dozens of cable news shows, tweeting frequently, and often making claims that he has explosive information on people in the news, Avenatti has attempted to make himself a household name — and he's even mulling a 2020 presidential bid.

Most recently, he announced that he has evidence of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh participating in sexual misconduct in high school and that he was representing a group of people who could back up the claims.

Here's what you should know about Michael Avenatti:

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Avenatti graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996. Three years later, he received his JD degree from George Washington University.

During college and law school, Avenatti worked for The Research Group, a campaign research firm founded by Rahm Emmanuel, former President Barack Obama's chief of staff and the current Democratic mayor of Chicago.

Source: Chicago Magazine

After graduating law school, Avenatti worked at O'Melveny & Myers, a high-powered Los Angeles law firm. Over the course of his legal career, he has contributed to several high-profile cases involving Paris Hilton, Jim Carrey, and members of the rock band The Eagles.

• AMC Theatres now has over 380,000 members on its movie-ticket subscription service, AMC Stubs A-List.
• A-List (and probably MoviePass) also helped the chain have its first yearly US attendance increase since 2015.

AMC Theatres continues to capitalize in the wake of the MoviePass craze.

The largest theater chain in the world announced a new milestone on Tuesday for its movie-ticket subscription service, AMC Stubs A-List. 

In three months of being in existence, membership is now over 380,000. That's a 120,000-member increase during the last six weeks, according to the chain. And A-List members are seeing a wide variety of movies, as the company's data shows that subscribers have seen more than 363 different movie titles in just under three months.

The popularity of A-List, and likely of MoviePass as well, has also led to AMC projecting its first yearly US attendance increase since 2015, though the release did not specify what the exact increase was. 

“With 380,000 members enrolled in just three months, AMC Stubs A-List is demonstrating that it encourages moviegoers of all ages, locations and backgrounds to come to movie theatres more often, and they’re bringing family and friends along with them," Adam Aron, AMC Theatres CEO, said in the release. "The early success of this program is evident as AMC is projecting an attendance increase at our U.S. theatres for the first time in three years. This is very good for AMC, and very good for our guests and movie studio partners."

With MoviePass scaling down to just catering to the occasional moviegoer, the only major competition AMC's "three movies per week for $19.95" a month plan has is Sinemia. 

Following the survey from the National Research Group, which named the Sinemia's "two movies for $7.99 a month" plan as the most attractive for moviegoers, Sinemia announced an unlimited monthly plan for $29.99.

There may be a new rivalry heating up in the battle for movie-ticket membership supremacy.   

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As the fall TV season gets underway, a few fan-favorite shows are returning with new seasons next month.

To find out which returning series audiences are anticipating the most for October, the TV tracking app TV Time analyzed data from its 13 million global users to see which upcoming TV series viewers had followed the most frequently on its app.

The list includes the upcoming seasons of Netflix shows like the animated comedy "Big Mouth" and "Marvel's Daredevil," along with the latest season of The CW's hit series "Riverdale."

Here are the 5 returning shows that viewers are anticipating the most for October, according to TV Time:

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5. "The Walking Dead" (Season 9) — Premieres October 7 on AMC

Summary: "We see our survivors a year and a half after the end of the war, rebuilding civilization under Rick’s steadfast leadership. It is a time of relative peace among the communities as they work together, looking to the past to forge the future, but the world they knew is rapidly changing as man-made structures continue to degrade, and nature takes over, changing the landscape and creating new challenges for our survivors."

4. "Castlevania" (Season 2) — Premieres October 26 on Netflix

Summary: "A vampire hunter fights to save a besieged city from an army of otherworldly beasts controlled by Dracula himself. Inspired by the classic video games."

3. "Riverdale" (Season 3) — Premieres October 10 on The CW

Summary: "While navigating the troubled waters of sex, romance, school and family, teen Archie and his gang become entangled in a dark Riverdale mystery."

• "The Old Man & the Gun" director David Lowery looks back on trying to ignore the fact that he was directing Robert Redford's final acting performance.
• The legendary actor announced five months before shooting started that he was retiring after the movie. 
• Lowery tells Business Insider what Redford's final day on set was like.

David Lowery was taking a jog when he got the news.

It was November 2016, and Lowery's brief escape from the constant presidential election coverage was suddenly interrupted by his phone vibrating non-stop. He glanced down to find numerous texts from friends sending him stories about Robert Redford, one of the greatest actors who ever lived and the star of Lowery's next movie, “The Old Man & the Gun” (in theaters on Friday), announcing that it would be his final film. Redford would be retiring from acting.

“The weight on my shoulders was immediately immense,” Lowery told Business Insider while sitting in the lobby of a midtown Manhattan hotel last week, thinking back on that moment, which came five months before production began. “But I realized I can’t think of that or I’ll consciously craft a swan song as opposed to making a great Robert Redford movie.”

It was just the latest wrinkle in a movie Lowery and Redford had been trying to get off the ground for years.

Juggling a Robert Redford movie and rebooting a Disney classic

The two connected following Redford’s Sundance Film Festival in 2013, where Lowery premiered his gothic crime drama, “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints.” Redford was so taken by the 1970s-influenced feel that he contacted Lowery and presented him with a movie he wanted to do — the life of career criminal Forrest Tucker. 

Based on a 2003 New Yorker story on Tucker, who since age 15 had spent most of his life getting sent to prisons and eventually escaping from them (by Tucker’s count, 18 times successfully and 12 times not), the movie would look at Tucker (played by Redford) at age 70 as he goes on a string of bank heists after escaping San Quentin State Prison.

“To get a call from Robert Redford asking if you want to develop a movie with him was one of those pinch yourself moments,” Lowery said.

But Redford wasn’t the only person in Hollywood who wanted to work with the writer-director. The same day Lowery met with Redford to talk about the movie he also had a meeting at Disney for another life-changing moment: an offer to direct a reboot of “Pete’s Dragon.”

Suddenly Lowery was juggling writing scripts for two major pillars in Hollywood. It played out that “Pete’s Dragon” got off the ground faster than “The Old Man & the Gun,” so the director had to have the uncomfortable talk with Redford about putting their movie on hold for a couple of years.

“He just wanted to make sure that I still wanted to make the movie,” Lowery said.

The meeting went so well that Lowery came out of it with Redford agreeing to take a small role in “Pete’s Dragon.”

Though the movie wasn’t a huge moneymaker for Disney, it raised Lowery’s profile in the business (he’s now prepping to make a reboot of “Peter Pan” for the studio), and the time on set with Redford led to both being very comfortable with each other going into “The Old Man & the Gun.”

With “Pete’s Dragon” out of the way (Lowery also made the indie “A Ghost Story” shortly after), Lowery could focus on how to make “Old Man & the Gun” into the kind of cops-and-robbers movie that would play best to his strengths.

Lowery admitted that in early drafts of the script he wrote his best imitation of a Michael Mann heist movie like “Heat” or “Thief,” but realized he was just kidding himself. Instead, he turned to his star as his inspiration.

“I’m interested in folklore and myths, and there’s something about actors who have been around for as long as Robert Redford that ties into that,” Lowery said. “He has become part of the folklore of our culture, and he is a legend, and that became the focal point for me.”

Recapping a legendary career with just one take

“The Old Man & the Gun” is a movie that feels like it’s not from this era, and that’s probably why Redford sought out Lowery to make it. Shot on grainy Super 16mm, it matches the movie’s analog early 1980s feel, down to the big town cars and Casey Affleck’s bushy mustache (he plays the cop after Tucker).

“When everyone saw the first cut it took everyone a moment to get on the same page,” Lowery said about showing the movie to its distributor, Fox Searchlight. “But we showed it to Redford and he said, ‘Don’t change a frame.'"

The heart of the movie is Redford’s performance. With a sly grin and a twinkle in his eye, he plays Tucker as the charming bank robber without a care in the world. And to create a mythology for Tucker, Lowery used the iconic status of his star. While showing flashbacks of Tucker's past escapes, old photos of Redford are used for Tucker’s mugshots and a brief clip from one of Redford’s old movies, 1966’s “The Chase” (in which Redford plays an escaped convict), is used to portray Redford as young Tucker on one of his escapes.

"At a certain point you know you need to see his face," Lowery said of getting the footage of a younger Redford. "You want to see it."

It’s hard to say if Redford is really retiring from acting (at “The Old Man & the Gun” premiere he sort of walked it back when talking to Variety), but if this really is his last movie, his last day on set proved he ended his career in the slick Sundance Kid style that made him a legend.

Redford’s last day wasn’t a complex scene, Lowery recalled, it was just a shot of him talking in a phone booth. But how he performed it was what will stay in the director’s mind.

“We planned on doing a couple of angles of the phone booth shot, so we set up a dolly shot first, but in just one take he nailed the whole thing,” Lowery said. “The whole way through had the perfect tone and I said, ’It’s perfect, let's call it a day,’ and we said that was a wrap on Robert Redford and everyone applauded. I know from ‘Pete's Dragon’ that he always gives a little speech at the end of the movie to make sure everyone feels as appreciated as they deserve to feel, so he did that, and then he got in his car and drove away.”

Redford’s flawless one-take of the scene is in the movie, and though most will not recognize its significance, Lowery wouldn't have it any other way. Disguised as a minor scene, he accomplished his mission of making just a great Robert Redford movie, not his coda.

However, the brief moment speaks volumes for Lowery,

“You can see him almost laughing in that take, like a weight has been lifted off his shoulders,” he said. “You can tell that after we say cut he can go home. Seeing that shot and then thinking about his career, I can just see the joy on his face.” 

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• The Xbox One is getting a long-requested feature: The ability to play games using a mouse and keyboard.
• Not all games will support mouse/keyboard controls, and it's not clear if games that do will allow gamepad players to compete with mouse/keyboard players.
• In taking this step, Microsoft is allowing developers to implement support for keyboard and mouse controls if they so wish — it's not required.

The promise of home video game consoles has always been one of convenience. Plug the console in to the wall, then to the TV, and turn it on — video games!

But there's a whole subset of gamers who are willing to sacrifice a bit of that convenience for more control: PC gamers are the type of folks who are happy to trade an easy-to-use gamepad for a cumbersome, albeit more precise, keyboard and mouse setup.

So the logic goes: Using a mouse to aim is far more accurate than using a thumbstick, and using a keyboard enables far more options than the few buttons on a standard gamepad. 

As such, some folks are going to be especially excited to hear that Microsoft is adding full-on keyboard and mouse support — on a system level — to the Xbox One family of game consoles. 

What that means for the tens of millions of Xbox One owners in practical use is that some Xbox One games will offer support for keyboard and mouse controls. To be all the way clear: Xbox One gamepads will still be the default control method for all Xbox One games.

Microsoft is careful about this distinction in its announcement. "Mouse and keyboard support for games is added on a title-by-title basis, entirely at developers’ discretion," the post on Xbox Newswire reads. "Mouse and keyboard input is not enabled by default for games." 

The first such game to offer support is "Warframe," a free-to-play third-person shooter; no other games have announced support thus far, but there are plenty that make sense.

Will your favorite keyboard and mouse be supported? That remains to be seen. Microsoft says that, "most wired or wireless USB keyboards and mice will work." Additionally, the company is partnering with gaming peripheral maker Razer to create something purpose-built for use with the Xbox One — presumably something with a couch in mind, as opposed to a traditional desk setup for PC gaming.

We've yet to see what this new setup looks like, but Razer teased it in a brief clip on Twitter:

Some Xbox One users will see keyboard and mouse support as soon as a few weeks from now, with a wider rollout scheduled for further down the line. Support will roll out in upcoming Xbox One system updates.

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• Netflix's upcoming horror series, "The Haunting of Hill House," had a 100% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes as of Wednesday.
• Critics have called the series "the first great horror TV show" and described it as "perfect Halloween bingeing."
• The 10-episode first season comes to Netflix on October 12.

Netflix's upcoming horror series, "The Haunting of Hill House," doesn't drop on the streaming service until October 12, but already critics who have seen it are buzzing about it.

Netflix describes the series, based on the 1950s novel of the same name, as "flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it." But fans shouldn't expect a direct adaptation, as critics have said the series is more of a reimagining.

The 10-episode first season is directed by Mike Flanagan, known for horror films like "Hush," "Before I Wake," "Ouija: Origin of Evil," and Netflix's "Gerald's Game." It stars Carla Gugino, who reunites with Flanagan and Netflix after starring in "Gerald's Game" last year.

The series had a 100% critic score on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes as of Wednesday. Though it's early and the score is based on just seven reviews, it's a promising start.

GQ's Tom Philip called "The Haunting of Hill House" the "first great horror TV show," even better than the likes of "Black Mirror" or "American Horror Story."

"It's not for the faint of heart, and it's f---ing fantastic," Philip wrote.

Forbes' Merrill Barr said the show is "out to scare and on that front, it succeeds from the get-go and makes for perfect Halloween bingeing along with everyone's various slasher movie marathons."

The one small but common criticism seems to be that the show builds slowly. Daniel D'Addario wrote for Variety that the show "doesn't immediately make a case for itself" but that it's "an effective scare-fest that is at its best when the tale does more than jolt the viewer."

Based on first reactions, "The Haunting of Hill House" is sure to keep viewers up at night.

Watch the chilling trailer below:

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• "Fortnite" is the first game to allow players across competing video game consoles — the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch — to all play together.
• The announcement of support for cross-console play with "Fortnite" comes after months of Sony refusing to allow it.
• Both video game fans and video game publishers have been pushing back on Sony's stance for months, and Sony is finally giving in.

"Fortnite" is the biggest game in the world, and it's playable on pretty much anything that runs video games: Your smartphone (both iOS and Android), your computer (PC and Mac), and every current game console (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch).

It's exactly the same game across all those different platforms and, in many cases, you can play with people on whatever platform they're playing on. If you're playing "Fortnite" on Switch, you can play with people on phones and Xbox One and computers.

There's just one major exception: PlayStation 4 players were siloed off from Microsoft's Xbox One and Nintendo's Switch. Worse, if you bought stuff in "Fortnite" on PlayStation 4, none of it would show up if you played the game with the same account on another platform. Bummer!

And that was specifically due to Sony refusing to allow the game to play nice with the competition. 

That all changes today, as Sony is officially giving in and allowing "Fortnite" players on PlayStation 4 to play with people on Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, and Mac. Moreover, if you buy stuff in "Fortnite" on PlayStation 4, it will now show up on other platforms (so-called "cross-commerce" support).

That's a really big deal — "Fortnite" is the first-ever game to allow players on all platforms to play together. As Sony puts it: "This represents a major policy change for Sony Interactive Entertainment."

That's for sure! Wednesday's announcement has been a long time coming. 

It all started with 'Minecraft'

The Microsoft-owned blockbuster is available on pretty much everything that plays games, from consoles to phones to handhelds.

Microsoft, which makes the Xbox One and directly competes with Sony's PlayStation 4 and Nintendo's Switch, publishes "Minecraft" on Sony and Nintendo (and Apple and Google) platforms in addition to its own Xbox consoles.

More importantly, even though Microsoft owns "Minecraft," the game can be played across competing devices. "Minecraft" players on Xbox One can join up with players on iPhone, Switch, Android, and PC/Mac — even if you're playing in a virtual-reality headset!

But Xbox One can't play with PlayStation 4 and vice versa.

That same situation applied to "Fortnite," which launched on Nintendo Switch earlier this summer. Xbox One players could play with those on iPhone/iPad, Nintendo Switch, PC, and Mac, but not PlayStation 4. Worse still, none of the stuff that "Fortnite" players purchased on their PlayStation 4 — like the Battle Pass, or any gear — would show up on other platforms, even though "Fortnite" uses an Epic Games account across all platforms. 

Sony refused to budge, which sparked outrage from players. It even spawned a hashtag: #BlameSony.

And PlayStation 4 owners weren't the only ones upset — major game makers and publishers repeatedly, openly criticized Sony's decision to silo the PlayStation 4 multiplayer experience from competing platforms.

"We cannot have a game that works one way across everywhere else except for on this one thing," Pete Hines, a Bethesda Game Studios senior vice president, said in a recent interview regarding the upcoming launch of "The Elder Scrolls: Legends" on game consoles.

"The Elder Scrolls: Legends" is a competitive card game, similar to Blizzard's "Hearthstone," that's the same across all platforms, visually and gameplay-wise, whether you're playing it on an iPhone or a PC. The game is turn-based, so it doesn't require precise, reaction-based controls.

In so many words: There's no technical reason it couldn't work across competing platforms like the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4.

Thus far, Sony has only announced cross-play support for "Fortnite," but it sounds like things are in early days. Support for "Fortnite" across competing game consoles starts out in beta today, with more news promised for the future.

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2018 has been a pretty good year for television, but not for new network shows. 

Most of the new shows that have come from the big broadcast networks feel like they've been done over and over again, like the medical drama "New Amsterdam" on NBC. And others, like ABC's "A Million Little Things," feel like knock-offs of successful shows like "This Is Us."

In fact, network television has had a bad year generally, delivering many unwatchable or mediocre shows. While there are some promising new shows on the networks like CBS' "Murphy Brown" reboot and ABC's "Single Parents," most are performing poorly with critics and audiences. 

We rounded up the worst new fall TV shows on the networks, ranked according to critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

We also included each show's description from the network, the Rotten Tomatoes audience score (which often differs from the critic score), and a revealing quote from a critic.

Here are the worst new TV shows of the 2018 fall season:

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"New Amsterdam" — NBC

Description: A new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital.

Critic Score: 29%

Audience Score: 77%

"Even if you are familiar with television's tendency to make shows about great white-dude geniuses who tell everybody else what's what and inspire the uninspired, the bluntness of the instrument at issue here might surprise you." -Linda Holmes, NPR

"A Million Little Things" — ABC

Description: A group of friends become motivated to living fuller lives after the unexpected death of a close friend.

Critic Score: 36%

Audience Score: N/A (the show premieres Wednesday, September 26)

"A weepy wannabe from the This Is Us playbook that doesn't build much of a case for caring about the characters, much less weeping over them." -Verne Gay, Newsday

"I Feel Bad" — NBC

Description: Em et, the perfect mom, boss, wife, friend and daughter, is learning to be okay with being imperfect.

Critic Score: 43%

Audience Score: 44%

"When it's not burying us in an avalanche of creaky sitcom clichés, it's creeping us out with inappropriate sex jokes. ... All I could think while watching is: They cancelled Great News for this??" -Dave Nemetz, TVLine

• YouTube star Brandon Rogers was one of the first creators to get a show on Facebook's Watch platform when it debuted in fall 2017.
• Rogers said Facebook was very hands-off in the process, giving him a flat budget and near-total creative freedom.
• He said Facebook did give him one note, however: "tone down the blood and feces."

YouTube star Brandon Rogers, who has 4.5 million subscribers, was one of the first creators to get his own show on Facebook Watch when the platform launched in 2017 — but he's still not sure if Facebook liked it.

During a wide-ranging interview about his rise in the industry, Rogers described the process of making the show, titled "Stuff & Sam."

When Facebook approached Rogers in early 2017, he was having trouble making money on YouTube because his videos kept getting flagged as inappropriate and demonetized, he said. In YouTube's quest to keep advertisers away from hate videos, many creators saw some of their videos cut off from ads. This was colloquially called the "adpocalypse" by many YouTubers.

(YouTube declined to comment and Facebook did not respond to a request for comment.)

During the "adpocalypse," Facebook "brought me into the office," Rogers said. "We had a YouTube sh--talking contest. They offered me a 20-episode web series."

Rogers worked on that series for about six months, putting aside most of his work on his YouTube channel. He had complete creative control and got a flat budget. He worked with just two other people on it and had little overhead.

"We made a good chunk of change from it," he said.

And while he was proud of how the show turned out, he doesn't really know how Facebook felt.

"Every time I would talk to them, they'd say, 'Oh it's funny' — but they have to say that … I don't know whether they liked it or not," he said.

He said he only got one real note.

"They did call me once, once to specifically tone down the blood and feces," he laughed. "Not eradicated. But just toned down. That was really the only thing."

When "Stuff & Sam" launched in October 2017, Facebook only demanded exclusivity on it for two weeks, after which Rogers put the episodes on YouTube. The show ended up getting much more viewership on YouTube. For instance, the first episode currently sits at 127,000 views on Facebook and 2.5 million on YouTube.

"I couldn't be mad," he said. Rogers said he thought Facebook helped him reach a different audience, and that he noticed more men coming to his live shows following the release, whereas before it was mainly women.

And there was another benefit: YouTube started to listen to him.

"I mentioned [to YouTube] how much I loved Facebook," he said. "Suddenly YouTube, they remonetized my videos, every video I put up, untouched. Facebook helped me get my YouTube mojo back."

Read our full profile of Rogers, who was nominated for a Streamy Award in the Comedy category on Tuesday.

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Director Lars von Trier seems to be actively looking for controversy.

New posters for his upcoming film, "The House That Jack Built," depict various characters from the movie, mostly female victims, tied up and contorted into impossible shapes. These posters come after the movie prompted over 100 people to walk out during a screening at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year because of its disturbing and gratuitous violence.

Variety reported that the scene that caused the initial walk-out was when Matt Dillon's serial-killer character, Jack, shoots two small children with a hunting rifle and blows their heads off.

Social-media reaction to the film complained about extremely graphic scenes of mutilations of women and children, and it was called "disgusting," "unpleasant," and "torturous."

The posters are below:

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• Kevin Hart was famously rejected from the trophy presentation stage after the Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl.
• Hart could be seen on TV being pushed away by a large security guard as the trophy passed next to him.
• Eight months later, Hart is still upset about the moment, calling it "personal."

Philadelphia native Kevin Hart was just a happy Eagles fan after Super Bowl LII, but that glee quickly turned sour thanks to some tequila, his attempt to join the trophy celebration, and a large security person who wasn't having it.

After the Eagles completed their first Super Bowl victory, 41-33 over the New England Patriots, a drunk Hart tried to crash the trophy presentation only to be rejected by security with a firm hand to the chest.

On Wednesday, Hart was a guest on ESPN's "Get Up" to promote his new movie, "Night School." Hart was playing a word-association game with host Mike Greenberg when the awkward Super Bowl moment was brought up. 

Hart is still upset and didn't seem to want to talk about it.

"I'm still upset," Hart said. "The hand on the chest, still not getting up there with the trophy, It's a lot. It's personal. Just keep going."

At the time, fans roasted Hart on social media.

When Greenberg asked Hart if he had seen the video a lot, he was able to find a moment of levity in the part that made him most upset.

"I've seen it a lot, but that's what pisses me off the most," Hart said. "The whole reason I was going up there was to get to the trophy. I had no idea the trophy went right by me (while arguing with security). I literally had no idea. All I had to do was turn around, and it was right there."

You can see Hart's comments here, via ESPN, including the source of his courage — 1942 tequila:

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• The analytics startup iSpot.tv has raised $30 million in Series C funding.
• The company is one of a handful of firms promising advertisers better information on ad viewership and performance by pulling data directly from TVs.
• The funding is part of a larger push among investors to figure out a better way of tracking TV ads and proving they work, as the medium looks to protect its $70 billion ad haul from digital titans Facebook and Google.

Ad budgets are threatening to leak out of TV, in part because digital media is seen as providing brands better data to track whether their ads are working.

So venture capital is starting to pour into the TV industry, aiming to help the medium get better at analytics.

Case in point: The Bellevue, Washington-based startup iSpot.tv has raised $30 million to help accelerate its TV ad measurement alternative.

iSpot is one of a handle of tech companies to emerge in the past few years promising better, more digital-media-like measurement of TV.

Instead of using old fashioned panels or ‘Nielsen people meters,’ companies like iSpot, Samba TV, and Alphonso pull data directly from smart TV screens.

These firms, which collectively have raised upwards of $100 million in recent years, claim to have real, direct data on what people are watching at a given moment and what ads are on screens. In iSpot’s case, it has a deal with the TV manufacturer Vizio.

Critics of these firms say that while their data is valuable, each is limited to a specific universe of people who own certain TVs. And these firms are only able to pull raw data from what is on TV, not who is watching.

But, iSpot and others are promising advertisers they can go further than just tracking ads. They can in various ways match up data on consumers with advertisers’ data, ideally helping advertisers figure out if their ads lead to sales inquiries or purchases.

iSpot founder and CEO Sean Muller said the company already works with 200 brands such as T-Mobile to help them better understand how their ads are performing, and that iSpot's revenue has doubled over the past year.

“There is a $70 billion market that is shifting rapidly,” he told Business Insider. “The goal is not to replace Nielsen, but we see the market moving toward a performance or business outcome business."

The ability to track which ads lead to which results is typically referred to as attribution in ad circles. It's where Facebook and Google are seen as having a massive advantage. That's a gap TV needs to close, and iSpot thinks it can help.

Muller said that iSpot didn’t need to raise money, but as the company grew his investors saw an opportunity to go bigger. The plan is to invest in engineering talent, more consultative offerings for clients, and ideally getting iSpot’s tracking data plugged into more TVs.

It’s unlikely that iSpot will be able to completely lock up that market, Muller said. Samsung for example, has it’s own ad tracking system, while Sony works with Samba. Plus, there has been some recent consumer backlash against TV companies tracking viewing without people's express permission.

“Three companies make up 85% for the TV market, and we have one of them. You can’t capture every single touchpoint on TV. No one can. But we think we have the largest opt in platform for tracking TV on the planet.”

This new funding represents iSpot’s series C round. Investors included Insight Venture Partners and Madrona Venture Group. iSpot.tv has raised $57.8 million to date

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• According to an official synopsis from the movie studio Fox, the next "X-Men" movie will simply be called "Dark Phoenix."
• This would make it the first "X-Men" movie in the main series to not feature "X-Men" in the title.
• The film's first trailer debuts Wednesday during "The Late Late Show."

Fox appears to be going for a cleaner title with its next "X-Men" movie. It will simply be called "Dark Phoenix," according to a new poster for the movie and Fox's official synopsis. That makes it the first movie in the main series to not have "X-Men" in its title.

Fox did not immediately return a request for comment.

The synopsis is below:

"In 'Dark Phoenix,' the X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe: one of their own, Jean Grey. During a rescue mission in space, Jean is nearly killed when she is hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. Wrestling with this entity inside her, Jean unleashes her powers in ways she can neither comprehend nor contain. With Jean spiraling out of control, and hurting the ones she loves most, she begins to unravel the very fabric that holds the X-Men together. Now, with this family falling apart, they must find a way to unite — not only to save Jean’s soul, but to save our very planet from aliens who wish to weaponize this force and rule the galaxy."

And here's the poster:

Aside from spin-offs that are loosely connected to the "X-Men" universe, such as "Logan" and "Deadpool," every movie in the primary series has had "X-Men" in the title: "X-Men," "X2: X-Men: United," "X-Men: The Last Stand," "X-Men: First Class," "X-Men: Days of Future Past," and "X-Men: Apocalypse."

It's been unclear whether the movie would be called "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" or not. This Entertainment Weekly story from last year referred to it as both with and without the "X-Men" label, and the film is listed on IMDb as "X-Men: Dark Phoenix." But Fox's official synopsis should put the confusion to rest.

The title refers to a classic X-Men comic book story called "The Dark Phoenix Saga." Director Brett Ratner attempted to loosely adapt the same story with "The Last Stand" in 2006 to disappointing results.

"Dark Phoenix" has experienced a rocky production, as it was pushed back from this November to February 14, 2019 and has reportedly been going through extensive reshoots, according to Montreal newspaper La Presse.

The film's first trailer will debut Wednesday night during "The Late Late Show with James Corden."

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• According to Steam, more than 27 million players have registered an Xbox 360 controller with their account, making it the most popular option by far.
• Steam is the most popular PC gaming social network and storefront, making it a pretty good indicator of larger market trends. 
• Steam Input allows PC gamers to use more than 200 different video game controllers with their PC games, but console gamepads remain the most popular.
• Together, the Xbox 360 and Xbox One gamepads account for 64% of the registered controllers on Steam.

Despite being nearly 13 years old, Microsoft's Xbox 360 controller is by far the most popular controller for gamers on P PC gaming's single largest platform, Steam. According to a report from Steam, 27.2 million players have registered an Xbox 360 controller since 2015, making it more popular than PlayStation 4 and Xbox One gamepads combined.

In 2015, Steam introduced Steam Input, allowing users to easily configure and edit the layout of just about any controller. This cleared the way for players to use whatever device they prefer for their computer games. Before that change, PC developers typically defaulted to supporting the Xbox 360 controller — because it was made by Microsoft, it connected deeply and reliably with the Windows operating system, and besides, many gamers already had one included with their Xbox 360 consoles.

PC gaming is becoming easier thanks to Steam Input integration, and gamers now have more controller options than ever. Steam Input supports more than 200 different controllers, including one made by Steam itself. The software helps ensure compatibility with most PC games without the need for developers to specifically add it themselves.

More than 30 million players have registered at least one controller to Steam, and more than 15 million have registered multiple devices. Nowadays, the Xbox 360 controller accounts for 45% of all controllers registered on Steam, with PlayStation 4 controllers taking 20% of the share, and Microsoft's Xbox One — the successor to the original Xbox 360 — making up another 19%.

Though nearly two-thirds of Steam users have either an Xbox 360 or Xbox One controller registered, improved support for other devices will begin to chip away at its lead. Still, controllers connected to major consoles will remain popular due to their owner's familiarity and the ease of adoption for PC.

However, as Steam continues to improve the implementation of new controllers, alternatives to the Xbox controllers have become increasingly popular. Steam introduced full support for Nintendo's Switch Pro controller in May 2018, about a year after its release, and it is now one of the most popular devices with more than 450,000 players using it. The Steam controller has about 1.5 milion users, and has been used for a larger variety of games than any other, the report says. 

Controllers from the most popular consoles will likely remain popular with PC gamers too, due to owner familiarity and the ease of adoption, but Steam Input data shows that there's no shortage of gamers looking to customize their experience with their favorite device.

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• The Ryder Cup starts this week in France with Team USA hoping for their first win on European soil in 25 years.
• On Wednesday, celebrities participated in the celebrity challenge match.
• Samuel L. Jackson and Kurt Russell were paired together, leading to a great golf joke.

The Ryder Cup tees off this week at Le Golf National in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, outside of Paris, with Team USA looking for their first win on European soil in 25 years.

On Wednesday, things kicked off with the celebrity challenge match with stars such as Greg Kinnear, Luke Wilson, John McEnroe, Yanick Noah, Condoleezza Rice, Kelly Slater, Nick Jonas, Niall Horan and Michael Phelps among those playing.

The celebrities also included Samuel L. Jackson and Kurt Russell, who were paired together, leading to a great golf joke. It turns out they look like an older version of another famous golf pair, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.

Take it away, Club Pro Guy.

That deserves a golf clap.

The joke is made all the better by the budding bromance between Tiger and Mickelson in recent years. It is easy to picture them being inseparable in 18 years, or at least let's hope that is the case.

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• The day before she appeared on "Shark Tank," Doddle & Co cofounder Nicki Radzely froze up and forgot her name during the final rehearsal.
• Radzely, who was pitching the Pop Pacifier, had to appear on the show alone because her cofounder, Janna Badger, had just given birth.
• Despite all the commotion, Radzely earned multiple offers, ultimately accepting $250,000 from Kevin O'Leary.

Nicki Radzely and Janna Badger, the founders of Doddle & Co, were supposed to appear on "Shark Tank" together.

But a few days before the episode was scheduled to film, Badger, who was living in Seoul, South Korea, gave birth to her third child. Radzely would have to dive into the tank alone.

Doddle & Co makes baby products. including pacifiers and teethers; on the "Shark Tank" episode, Radzely was pitching the Pop Pacifier, which is designed to stay clean because the nipple pops back in every time it falls. At the time, the company was just four months old.

The day before the episode was filmed, there was a final rehearsal with the show's producers. "I went out on the rehearsal stage feeling really confident, that I'd done this before to some degree and that I was going to hit the ball out of the park," Radzely told Business Insider.

But when the producers drew back the curtain, Radzely said, there was no audience, no stage. All she could see was "a sea of desks and laptops and everyone completely silent, staring back at me."

Undeterred, Radzely looked at the producers and said, "Hi. My name is…"

"I completely froze and forgot my name," Radzely recalled. The producers gave her a second chance, reassuring her that she'd be fine. "I was like, ‘OK, you got this. You know what you're doing.'"

Once again, she walked through the curtain and said, "Hi. My name is…" This time, the producers took pity on her, telling her simply to practice before the next day.

Radzely went back to her hotel room in a state of panic and spent the next 12 hours rehearsing.

Standing on the "Shark Tank" stage, Radzely was perfectly poised and delivered her pitch seamlessly. She received multiple offers, including a joint offer from Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, and Lori Greiner. Ultimately, Radzely opted to accept Kevin O'Leary's offer: $250,000 for 10% of the company.

After the show, according to Doddle & Co, the deal fell apart, because the founders didn't like the terms and conditions.

Still, the founders have no regrets about having Radzely appear on "Shark Tank." Today, Doddle & Co has reached nearly $1 million in sales.

"The show was tremendous for the brand," Radzely said, largely because it put their name out into the world.

In that sense, she said, "we got a good deal."

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