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Arthur Fery gives Alex de Minaur stern test before bowing out in Cincinnati
Wimbledon semi-finalist loses 7-5, 7-6 in third round
Disappointment on day of GB Davis Cup squad call-up
The most pertinent question surrounding the rapidly blossoming career of Arthur Fery is exactly how far he could possibly take his game. Fery’s unexpected breakthrough run at Wimbledon last month was immense, but now he faces the intriguing challenge of seeing how he stacks up against the elite over the course of a gruelling 52 weeks on tour. newssport.cv
Fery ended his first tournament since Wimbledon with countless reasons to be positive about his progress even as he was outperformed by Alex de Minaur in a rain-swept encounter, with Fery, the 32nd seed, making life incredibly difficult for the fifth seed for over two hours and fighting desperately until the end before falling 7-5, 7-6 (3) in the third round of the Cincinnati Open.
Continue reading...Australia swing axe after Darwin disaster with Jake Weatherald dropped for second Bangladesh Test
Opener pays price after scores of 23 and 0 in first Test defeat
Matthew Renshaw drafted into 13-man squad in his place
Jake Weatherald has paid the price for an underwhelming performance in Australia’s shock Test defeat to Bangladesh, with Matthew Renshaw drafted into a 13-man squad to replace the opener for the second and final match of the series starting on Saturday.
Weatherald went into the first Test in his home town of Darwin with a question mark over his place in the side, having largely failed to make an impact since coming into the Test set-up as a late-blooming debutant at the start of the 2025-26 Ashes series.
Continue reading...Warner Bros. mentions existence of 'second installment of Hogwarts Legacy,' and that's about it
First reported by Game Informer, Warner Bros. Discovery provided the slightest of acknowledgements that a sequel to 2023's Hogwarts Legacy is in the works as part of a recent letter to its shareholders.
It's the sort of victory lap / "Gentlemen, to money!" deal you usually expect of the form, and I cannot overstate how tiny the HogsLegs mention is. "We expect Games [capitalization theirs] to more meaningfully contribute to segment profitability going forward as our pipeline expands," the company wrote, "including the second installment of Hogwarts Legacy."
So, it exists—which you probably could have guessed based on the first game's' explosive sales success back when it launched. God willing, the sequel will meaningfully contribute to segment profitability going forward.
PCG news writer Morgan Park liked Hogwarts Legacy well enough in his review, but found the experience soured by the real world context of its release. The wholesome adventures of Harry Potter and his assorted demi-human companions (who may or may not have been buried under an oil pipeline) have taken a darker cast with each passing year due to the strident anti-transgender political activism of Potter author J. K. Rowling, who still owns and profits from the Potter IP.
It's not just icky public statements or whatever: Rowling has been a leading voice in the global movement to get so worked up about trans people and bathrooms that you pass discriminatory laws about it. She has put that Potter money where her mouth is as a financial backer of anti-trans causes in the United Kingdom, and recently threatened to sue Amnesty International over its criticism of a Rowling-funded, trans-exclusionary women's support network.
Nasty stuff, and Rowling's agenda has already cast a pall over HBO's coming adaptation of the original books. The nastiness certainly didn't hurt Hogwarts Legacy's own prospects back in 2023, but anti-trans persecution has only grown more acute—and Rowling more personally associated with it—in the intervening years.
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You'll be "quite easy to kill" in Blood of Dawnwalker during the day because Rebel Wolves didn't want "an overpowered protagonist"
The Blood of Dawnwalker director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz recently teased the legendary abilities players will need to possess if they want to kill the final boss right after the prologue, and now we have a little more context around why that's going to be such a humbling stretch goal. According to Tomaszkiewicz, you'll be "quite easy to kill" for about half of the time you're playing the game.
Talking to Edge Magazine for issue #427, Tomaszkiewicz says protagonist Coen's nature as a human-vampire hybrid makes him particularly vulnerable when the sun's shining. See, Coen is essentially a human during the day, stripped of most of the Vampiric powers that keep him safe when the sun goes down.
"When the sun goes down, he becomes a vampire and has vampire powers," Tomaszkiewicz says, adding that Coen's powers are dramatically nerfed during the day. That's very intentional and stems from Rebel Wolves' philosophy that overpowered heroes make for weaker stories.
"He has some powers, but he is quite easy to kill. That was important for us, because we didn't want to create this overpowered protagonist – that makes it hard to tell stories. We wanted someone who can be hurt, can die, because those stakes are really important."
It sounds like Blood of Dawnwalker's combat will vary pretty significantly from day to night, but if you want your best shot at survival, you'll want to master its directional parrying system, which Tomaszkiewicz recently compared to Guitar Hero of all things.