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Red Bull Racing kunngjør endringer i ledelsen, og omformer F1-teamet …

Red Bull Racing kunngjør endringer i ledelsen, og omformer F1-teamet etter en rekke avganger

Formel 1-teamet Red Bull Racing har kunngjort en stor endring i ledelsen, med ny Chief Performance and Design Engineer og Head of Performance, "endringer som støtter teamets langsiktige tekniske ambisjoner og gjenspeiler teamets fortsatte fokus på å utvikle interne talenter, samtidig som det tiltrekker seg ledende ekspertise fra hele sporten."

Ben Waterhouse har blitt utnevnt til Chief Performance and Design Engineer, med ansvar for design- og ytelsesteamene for kjøretøyene, og rapporterer direkte til teknisk direktør Pierre Waché. Og Andrea Landi, tidligere fra Ferrari, tiltrer 1. juli som Head of Performance, og overtar Waterhouses tidligere rolle og rapporterer til ham.

Disse grepene er et svar på den siste tidens mange avganger, som senest inkluderer den bekreftede avgangen til Max Verstappens løpsingeniør og nære venn Gianpiero Lambiase, som slutter seg til McLaren, men ikke før hans nåværende kontrakt utløper ved utgangen av 2027.

Tidligere har Red Bull mistet nøkkelpersoner av ulike årsaker, som Helmut Marko, Christian Horner, Adriean Newey og Jonathan Wheatley.

DC Universe's Clayface schijnt niet voor de zachtaardigen te zijn

Je zou verwachten dat een DC Universe-film vrij toegankelijk en enigszins comfortabel is, maar voor de aankomende Clayface, die naar verwachting in oktober in première gaat, lijkt dat helemaal niet het geval te zijn.

Tijdens CinemaCon gaf DC Studios een eerste blik op de film en volgens de aanwezigen was het niet voor mensen met een zwak hart. GeekTyrant legt uit dat Clayface "hard leunt op body horror" en dat er vanaf het begin gruwelijke en verontrustende scènes zijn, waarin zelfs Tom Rhys Harries' hoofdpersonage Matt Hagen met een ontbrekend ooglid wordt getoond.

Duidelijk moeten we een film verwachten met een veel gruwelijkere focus, ook al zal die ook het meer komische element van Clayface verkennen door uiteindelijk Hagens transformatie in het kwaadaardige monster te tonen.

Het rapport merkt op dat "DC niet op veilig speelt met dit personage" en dat het meer is dan alleen een gewone stripboekadaptatie, want "het is iets veel verontrustenders."

Geregisseerd door horrorexpert Mike Flanagan, gaat Clayface over zes maanden in première, na een kleine vertraging, wat betekent dat het waarschijnlijk niet lang meer duurt voordat er een speciale trailer voor de film verschijnt. Ga je over een paar maanden Clayface in de bioscoop kijken?

Red Bull Racing annoncerer ledelsesskift og omformer F1-teamet efter en række exits.

Formel 1-holdet Red Bull Racing har annonceret en stor ledelsesændring med ny Chief Performance and Design Engineer samt Head of Performance, "ændringer der understøtter holdets langsigtede tekniske ambitioner og afspejler dets fortsatte fokus på at udvikle interne talenter, samtidig med at førende ekspertise tiltraks fra hele sporten."

Ben Waterhouse er blevet udnævnt til Chief Performance and Design Engineer, hvor han har ansvaret for design- og køretøjspræstationsteams, og rapporterer direkte til teknisk direktør Pierre Waché. Og Andrea Landi, tidligere fra Ferrari, tiltræder den 1. juli som Head of Performance, hvor hun overtager Waterhouses tidligere rolle og rapporterer til ham.

Disse tiltag svarer på den seneste række af afgange, som senest inkluderer den bekræftede exit af Max Verstappens raceingeniør og nære ven Gianpiero Lambiase, som tilslutter sig McLaren, dog først når hans nuværende kontrakt udløber ved udgangen af 2027.

Tidligere havde Red Bull mistet nøglepersoner af forskellige årsager, som Helmut Marko, Christian Horner, Adriean Newey og Jonathan Wheatley.

DC Universe's Clayface vil tilsynelatende ikke være for sarte sjeler

Man forventer at en DC Universe-film skal være ganske tilgjengelig og litt behagelig, men for den kommende Clayface, som forventes å ha premiere i oktober, vil dette tilsynelatende ikke være tilfelle i det hele tatt.

Under CinemaCon presenterte DC Studios en første titt på filmen, og ifølge de som var til stede, var det ikke noe for sarte sjeler. GeekTyrant forklarer at Clayface "leans hard into body horror" og at det er grusomme og foruroligende scener fra begynnelsen, som til og med viser Tom Rhys Harries' hovedrollefigur Matt Hagen med et manglende øyelokk.

Det er tydelig at vi kan forvente oss en film med et mye mer grusomt fokus, selv om den også vil utforske det mer komiske elementet i Clayface ved å til slutt vise Hagens forvandling til det skurkaktige monsteret.

Rapporten bemerker at "DC spiller det ikke trygt med denne karakteren" og at det er mer enn bare en vanlig tegneserieadaptasjon, da "det er noe mye mer foruroligende."

Clayface er regissert av skrekkeksperten Mike Flanagan og har premiere om seks måneder, etter en liten forsinkelse, noe som betyr at det sannsynligvis ikke vil ta lang tid før en dedikert trailer for filmen gjør sin ankomst. Kommer du til å se Clayface på kino om noen måneder?

Kingdom Come 2 director welcomes LGBT award nomination, then spends around 175 words explaining that it doesn't make him 'Woke'

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 was our game of the year for 2025, and I personally hailed it as a "New RPG classic" in our KCD2 review. Why? Because you can kiss Hans. There's some stuff about emergent, systemic gameplay; an uncompromising design vision; and a well-told, politically complex story in a setting no one else is working in, but make no mistake: I'm just here to hold Hans' hans. Hand. Hands.

I kid (mostly), but the development of Henry and Hans' romantic relationship—if you choose to pursue it—and the pair attempting to interpret their feelings for one another through contemporary chivalric traditions, was really well done. It's a big jewel in the game's crown.

It was so well done, in fact, that KCD2 has nabbed two nominations for Gayming Magazine's 2026 Gayming Awards: KCD2 itself is in the running for "Gayming fan favorite award," while Hans is up for the "Best LGBTQ+ Character Award."

KCD2's creative director Daniel Vávra—who has since departed that role to focus on a Kingdom Come movie—welcomed the nomination on X, writing that he was "really proud" of the Hans/Henry relationship. And then, well, he wrote a whole bunch of other stuff, like a long-winded and less amusing riff on the famous Hideo Kojima "not a gay" tweet.

"I absolutely stand by the fact that the way we did it is exactly how something like this should be done," said Vávra "Non-coercively, naturally, and educationally (because we show how things really were in the Middle Ages without idealizing them)."

(Image credit: Warhorse Studios)

You can probably see where this is heading. Vávra wrote that KCD2 did gay romance right where so many others, apparently, do it wrong: "without shoving it down anyone’s throat or trying to re-educate them like so many titles that are rightfully called 'woke' these days.

"We made the gay community happy and gave them the CHOICE to be themselves, just like we did for others in other choices and quests, and anyone who isn’t interested probably didn’t even notice."

By way of conclusion, Vávra would like you to know that—though the inclusion of gay romances in KCD2 "was my idea, my decision and my responsibility and I had to convince others to do it"—it does not mean that he doesn't "find the abundance of forced 'woke' nonsense in the entertainment industry annoying at the same time."

Vávra is a peculiar figure. In the time of KCD1, his vocal support of the far-right Gamergate movement made him, and the game he directed, something of a saint of right-wing gamers, who perceived him and Warhorse as some sort of bulwark against a scourge of "woke" content they perceived to be laying waste to the games industry.

As someone who plays a lot of RPGs, I don't recall any of them forcing me to kiss anyone of the same gender or indeed, to be "woke," for whatever definition of that word its opponents are using today. Perhaps I'm just playing the wrong ones.

(Image credit: Warhorse Studios)

It's worth noting that this precise same contingent of rabidly conservative gamers promptly turned against Vávra and Warhorse the second they put a prominent person of colour—and, of course, a gay relationship—into KCD2, which suggests they were never really as concerned about this kind of content being done "the right way" as they were about it being present in any capacity whatsoever. For its part, the wider Warhorse studio has said it's "fed up" with being dragged into culture wars.

Personally, I've never gotten the impression Vávra has a particularly cogent or well-considered politics; rather he just seems like a very sensitive person who reacted badly to criticism of the first Kingdom Come and has kept up that tradition in the second game, too.

But regardless of its director's tweets, KCD2 is a very good and very well-written videogame, and I think it fully deserves the plaudits it earned for its depiction of Henry and Hans' romance, whether that makes it woke or not.

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