Disney+ UK price rise: the small print says £6.99
From 14 October, Disney+'s cheapest UK deal costs £5.99 a month, up from £4.99. Disney's own small print hints the ad plan's monthly price is heading to £6.99, but the company hasn't said when.
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Fury v Joshua on Netflix: no pay-per-view, big test
Fury v Joshua will stream live on Netflix on 11 December at no extra cost to subscribers. It's the end of the £20 pay-per-view for a fight this big, and a huge test of Netflix's live streaming in the UK.
GTA 6's £350 collector's box doesn't include GTA 6
Rockstar's Vice City Collection costs £349.99 in the UK, five times the price of the game, and comes with a gator figure, a shot glass and no copy of GTA 6.
Xbox cuts leave Hellblade's Cambridge studio on the brink
Xbox has cut 268 more jobs and reshuffled its studios. Two deals to sell Ninja Theory, the Cambridge studio behind Hellblade, fell through, and staff now face a consultation on closure.
Netflix's UK ad plan: pay more, see more ads
At its first UK Upfront, Netflix told advertisers its ad plan reaches 14 million UK viewers and unveiled Pause Ads and income targeting. Weeks earlier, it raised the price of that plan by a third.
YouTube will let you write your own algorithm. Sort of
YouTube will let you describe the feed you want and have Google's Gemini AI build it. It's a welcome bit of control, a quiet admission about algorithms, and US-only for now.