A new report has suggested that Elon Musk's plan to buy Twitter is in "serious jeopardy", with the billionaire believing that the social network's spam account figures are not verifiable.

According to The Washington Post, Musk and his team have doubts over the figures Twitter has provided in regards to how many spam accounts are registered on the service. The publication's sources say Musk's belief that these figures are not verifiable means that he does not have enough information to evaluate Twitter's prospects as a business venture. It is expected that Musk will take "potentially drastic action" in response.

Starting in May, Musk threatened to walk away from his Twitter buyout if the platform didn't meet his demands over spam accounts. He initially said that he would not purchase the social network unless it could confirm less than 5% of accounts were fake or spam bots, and while Twitter itself claims that the number does indeed hover around 5%, Musk appears to be unsatisfied with their data.

While Musk may well take "drastic action" and attempt to step away from the deal, it will not be a clean break. As The Washington Post reports, Musk has agreed to complete the buyout unless something "major" happens to Twitter's business, and it is believed that this fake accounts issue would not legally qualify as such. Experts also believe that Twitter will fight for the deal to go through; while the company initially tried to fend off Musk's takeover, it is expected that Twitter will weaken should the deal collapse, and so it's in Twitter's interests to see the deal through.

If Musk should somehow be able to terminate the deal based on the fake accounts, he will still be expected to pay a $1 billion "breakup fee".

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO began his buyout with an offer of $44 billion back in April, which was accepted soon after by Twitter. Since then, the deal has seen a variety of ups and downs, including Twitter founder Jack Dorsey claiming Musk is "the singular solution I trust" and Musk sending Twitter's current CEO a poop emoji.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Features Editor.
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Stranger Things actor David Harbour has said method acting, through which actors fully embrace their characters by effectively playing them in real life too, is "dangerous" and "silly".

Speaking to GQ, Harbour explained that he was trained in classical American method acting but, as he's grown older, he's decided that it's not effective at all.

"When I was younger — it’s so embarrassing — but I remember playing that famous Scottish king and being like, ‘I’m gonna kill a cat’ or something. 'I’m gonna go murder something to know what it feels like to murder'," he said. "I didn’t actually do it, obviously. Not only is that stuff silly, it’s dangerous, and it actually doesn’t produce good work."

Harbour also spoke of Daniel Day-Lewis, who's perhaps the most famous example of an actor who uses method acting. "He’s an extraordinary actor who I’m captivated and fascinated by [but] when he explains his process it sounds like nonsense to me," Harbour said.

Harbour joins a number of other actors speaking out against method acting in recent months as back in April Mads Mikkelsen, Will Poulter, and Samuel L. Jackson all criticised it.

"It's bulls***," Mikkelsen said plainly. "But preparation, you can take into insanity. What if it's a s*** film, what do you think you achieved? Am I impressed that you didn't drop character? You should have dropped it from the beginning. How do you prepare for a serial killer? You gonna spend two years checking it out?"

Jared Leto is also well known for method acting, which caused extended downtime on the set of Morbius as he insisted on using his character's crutches at all times, which pushed bathroom breaks to 45 minutes. When the film was released, IGN said it was mediocre in our 5/10 review.

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Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer whose coverage of day-to-day news means he writes about everything from Thanos's butt to political movements within the industry, but mostly about video games. Ryan has six years of journalism experience and before IGN wrote mostly for national newspapers in the UK including The Times, i, and The Scotsman. Find him on Twitter @thelastdinsdale.

Stranger Things actor David Harbour has said method acting, through which actors fully embrace their characters by effectively playing them in real life too, is "dangerous" and "silly".

Speaking to GQ, Harbour explained that he was trained in classical American method acting but, as he's grown older, he's decided that it's not effective at all.

"When I was younger — it’s so embarrassing — but I remember playing that famous Scottish king and being like, ‘I’m gonna kill a cat’ or something. 'I’m gonna go murder something to know what it feels like to murder'," he said. "I didn’t actually do it, obviously. Not only is that stuff silly, it’s dangerous, and it actually doesn’t produce good work."

Harbour also spoke of Daniel Day-Lewis, who's perhaps the most famous example of an actor who uses method acting. "He’s an extraordinary actor who I’m captivated and fascinated by [but] when he explains his process it sounds like nonsense to me," Harbour said.

Harbour joins a number of other actors speaking out against method acting in recent months as back in April Mads Mikkelsen, Will Poulter, and Samuel L. Jackson all criticised it.

"It's bulls***," Mikkelsen said plainly. "But preparation, you can take into insanity. What if it's a s*** film, what do you think you achieved? Am I impressed that you didn't drop character? You should have dropped it from the beginning. How do you prepare for a serial killer? You gonna spend two years checking it out?"

Jared Leto is also well known for method acting, which caused extended downtime on the set of Morbius as he insisted on using his character's crutches at all times, which pushed bathroom breaks to 45 minutes. When the film was released, IGN said it was mediocre in our 5/10 review.

Thumbnail Image Credit: Netflix

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer whose coverage of day-to-day news means he writes about everything from Thanos's butt to political movements within the industry, but mostly about video games. Ryan has six years of journalism experience and before IGN wrote mostly for national newspapers in the UK including The Times, i, and The Scotsman. Find him on Twitter @thelastdinsdale.

Some Hearthstone players have been offered 150 free booster packs - with a value of $180 - to return to Blizzard's Warcraft-themed card game.

As reported by PC Gamer, various lapsed Hearthstone players have shared that they had been offered huge bundles of cards if they started playing again. The biggest offer was for 75 Standard Packs and 75 Voyage to the Sunken City Packs, which would otherwise cost players at least $179.96.

The offer is "common industry practice," according to Blizzard. "We run many different limited and targeted tests such as this to better determine what drives former, new or current players' interest, which is a common industry practice," a spokesperson told PC Gamer.

"This was a region-specific test for Hearthstone in the UK and France for a subset of relevant players who were first randomly sorted into groups before being assigned a corresponding offer between 20 and 150 packs."

Nevertheless, the test has caused some complaints within the Hearthstone community as the game has received criticism for its microtransaction market. Reddit user Lichnaught, who received the full 150 packs, asked "why grind gold daily when you can just not play for a couple of months?"

Other users complained in the comments that they also recently returned after taking a break but didn't receive any packs, while others said they've played Hearthstone every day for years and never received anything like this. Given that Blizzard was testing free packs for lapsed players, that potentially could become a more set reward in future.

Hearthstone recently nerfed its infamous Drek'Thar card – which could only be bought for $25 – and offered refunds to the players who already bought it. The Diamond Drek'Thar was released in early April to significant player outcry due to its high price tag.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer whose coverage of day-to-day news means he writes about everything from Thanos's butt to political movements within the industry, but mostly about video games. Ryan has six years of journalism experience and before IGN wrote mostly for national newspapers in the UK including The Times, i, and The Scotsman. Find him on Twitter @thelastdinsdale.

Some Hearthstone players have been offered 150 free booster packs - with a value of $180 - to return to Blizzard's Warcraft-themed card game.

As reported by PC Gamer, various lapsed Hearthstone players have shared that they had been offered huge bundles of cards if they started playing again. The biggest offer was for 75 Standard Packs and 75 Voyage to the Sunken City Packs, which would otherwise cost players at least $179.96.

The offer is "common industry practice," according to Blizzard. "We run many different limited and targeted tests such as this to better determine what drives former, new or current players' interest, which is a common industry practice," a spokesperson told PC Gamer.

"This was a region-specific test for Hearthstone in the UK and France for a subset of relevant players who were first randomly sorted into groups before being assigned a corresponding offer between 20 and 150 packs."

Nevertheless, the test has caused some complaints within the Hearthstone community as the game has received criticism for its microtransaction market. Reddit user Lichnaught, who received the full 150 packs, asked "why grind gold daily when you can just not play for a couple of months?"

Other users complained in the comments that they also recently returned after taking a break but didn't receive any packs, while others said they've played Hearthstone every day for years and never received anything like this. Given that Blizzard was testing free packs for lapsed players, that potentially could become a more set reward in future.

Hearthstone recently nerfed its infamous Drek'Thar card – which could only be bought for $25 – and offered refunds to the players who already bought it. The Diamond Drek'Thar was released in early April to significant player outcry due to its high price tag.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer whose coverage of day-to-day news means he writes about everything from Thanos's butt to political movements within the industry, but mostly about video games. Ryan has six years of journalism experience and before IGN wrote mostly for national newspapers in the UK including The Times, i, and The Scotsman. Find him on Twitter @thelastdinsdale.

Netflix has added support for spatial audio on a number of its original shows and movies.

Stranger Things, The Witcher, The Adam Project, the Fear Street trilogy, and Castlevania are among the small selection of Netlfix projects that now have spatial audio. The upcoming Resident Evil show will also support it.

Spatial audio, sometimes known as 3D audio, helps increase immersion by creating a 'sphere' of sound, enabling noises and effects to be heard from more precise locations, rather than simply just left or right stereo channels. Importantly, this is still provided through a stereo speaker set up, so your regular TV, soundbar, or headphones should work just fine with this new audio system.

Netflix has teamed up with Sennheiser to provide spatial audio on streamed movies and shows, so the streaming giant is definitely working with a company renowned in the world of sound.

"Netflix spatial audio helps to translate the cinematic experience of immersive audio to any stereo, so the work creators do to bring you into the story happens no matter what device you use to watch Netflix," the streamer said in an update post.

To find all of Netflix's supported spatial audio content, simply type 'spatial audio' into Netflix's search bar to see a list of all of the movies and shows that have been upgraded.

Netflix said that spatial audio will roll out "starting" now, and so it seems like we can expect more shows and movies to be upgraded in the future.

Elsewhere, 3D audio in gaming has become a big part of making next-gen games feel more immersive, and was a selling point for the PS5.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Features Editor.

Netflix has added support for spatial audio on a number of its original shows and movies.

Stranger Things, The Witcher, The Adam Project, the Fear Street trilogy, and Castlevania are among the small selection of Netlfix projects that now have spatial audio. The upcoming Resident Evil show will also support it.

Spatial audio, sometimes known as 3D audio, helps increase immersion by creating a 'sphere' of sound, enabling noises and effects to be heard from more precise locations, rather than simply just left or right stereo channels. Importantly, this is still provided through a stereo speaker set up, so your regular TV, soundbar, or headphones should work just fine with this new audio system.

Netflix has teamed up with Sennheiser to provide spatial audio on streamed movies and shows, so the streaming giant is definitely working with a company renowned in the world of sound.

"Netflix spatial audio helps to translate the cinematic experience of immersive audio to any stereo, so the work creators do to bring you into the story happens no matter what device you use to watch Netflix," the streamer said in an update post.

To find all of Netflix's supported spatial audio content, simply type 'spatial audio' into Netflix's search bar to see a list of all of the movies and shows that have been upgraded.

Netflix said that spatial audio will roll out "starting" now, and so it seems like we can expect more shows and movies to be upgraded in the future.

Elsewhere, 3D audio in gaming has become a big part of making next-gen games feel more immersive, and was a selling point for the PS5.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Features Editor.

Hall H is definitely the place to be at San Diego Comic-Con. It's the room where all the biggest movie and TV news happens every year. It's been a long time since a comic book publisher has managed to nab a slot in this exclusive venue, but leave it to Keanu Reeves to finally break that trend.

IGN can exclusively reveal that Reeves will be attending Comic-Con and taking part in a panel devoted to his comic book series BRZRKR. Dubbed "Keanu Reeves’ BRZRKR: The Immortal Saga Continues," the panel will focus on the upcoming finale of the BOOM! Studios series and the future of the franchise as Netflix continues to develop a live-action film adaptation and anime series. Based on that title, we also wouldn't be surprised if a sequel to the comic is revealed during the panel.

The panel will be held on Friday, July 22 from 3:00-4:00pm PT. Joining Reeves will be co-writer/co-creator Matt Kindt, the movie's screenwriter Mattson Tomlin, Matt Gagnon (Editor-in-Chief, BOOM! Studios), Eric Harburn (Executive Editor, BOOM! Studios), and Stephen Christy (President, Development, BOOM! Studios).

Written by Reeves and Kindt and drawn by Ron Garney, BRZRKR chronicles the bloody life of B, an immortal demigod who's spent 80,000 years honing his skills as a killer. In the modern era, B works as an agent of the US government, hoping to finally uncover a way of ending his unnaturally long life.

“I felt that by setting up that he was born 80,000 years ago, there is this perspective there,” Reeves told IGN in a 2021 interview. “There's a lot of places that we can go from there, and opportunities that we can go to. Which is fantastic. The first four issues were an origin story and of the modern day, the way the scientists and government are studying him. Now that we've done that we can go to chapter two and kind of push that forward.”

For more on San Diego Comic-Con, find out how to watch the show and what to expect from the first Comic-Con since 2019.

Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

Hall H is definitely the place to be at San Diego Comic-Con. It's the room where all the biggest movie and TV news happens every year. It's been a long time since a comic book publisher has managed to nab a slot in this exclusive venue, but leave it to Keanu Reeves to finally break that trend.

IGN can exclusively reveal that Reeves will be attending Comic-Con and taking part in a panel devoted to his comic book series BRZRKR. Dubbed "Keanu Reeves’ BRZRKR: The Immortal Saga Continues," the panel will focus on the upcoming finale of the BOOM! Studios series and the future of the franchise as Netflix continues to develop a live-action film adaptation and anime series. Based on that title, we also wouldn't be surprised if a sequel to the comic is revealed during the panel.

The panel will be held on Friday, July 22 from 3:00-4:00pm PT. Joining Reeves will be co-writer/co-creator Matt Kindt, the movie's screenwriter Mattson Tomlin, Matt Gagnon (Editor-in-Chief, BOOM! Studios), Eric Harburn (Executive Editor, BOOM! Studios), and Stephen Christy (President, Development, BOOM! Studios).

Written by Reeves and Kindt and drawn by Ron Garney, BRZRKR chronicles the bloody life of B, an immortal demigod who's spent 80,000 years honing his skills as a killer. In the modern era, B works as an agent of the US government, hoping to finally uncover a way of ending his unnaturally long life.

“I felt that by setting up that he was born 80,000 years ago, there is this perspective there,” Reeves told IGN in a 2021 interview. “There's a lot of places that we can go from there, and opportunities that we can go to. Which is fantastic. The first four issues were an origin story and of the modern day, the way the scientists and government are studying him. Now that we've done that we can go to chapter two and kind of push that forward.”

For more on San Diego Comic-Con, find out how to watch the show and what to expect from the first Comic-Con since 2019.

Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

Pokémon Puzzle League will become the 17th Nintendo 64 game available on Switch when it arrives on July 15.

Announced on Nintendo's YouTube channel, players can enjoy the classic puzzle game steeped in Pokémon nostalgia as part of the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack – which costs $49.99 and is the only way to play N64 games on the console.

Re-join the gang of Ash, Misty, Brock, and Pikachu as they head to Puzzle Village and take part in a whole new type of Pokémon battle. Though the puzzle format is fairly common now, Pokémon Puzzle League took inspiration from NES title Panel de Pon where players must align blocks of the same colour in order to gain points.

The game recreates not only the look of the classic Pokémon anime, however, but also the different encounters Ash has with other Pokémon trainers. Players will take on gym leaders such as Lt. Surge and even Team Rocket. IGN named it among the ten best Pokémon games and in our 8/10 review said we "highly recommend this game to any child, teenager, or adult who likes the puzzle genre."

Pokémon Puzzle League joins 16 other N64 games already available on the Expansion Pass including F-Zero X and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.

The full range of N64 titles currently available on Switch is Banjo-Kazooie, Dr. Mario 64, F-Zero X, Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, Mario Kart 64, Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Paper Mario, Pokémon Snap, Sin & Punishment, Star Fox 64, Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Win Back: Covert Operations, and Yoshi’s Story.

The Expansion Pass also grants access to SEGA Genesis games alongside DLC for Nintendo titles including Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Happy Home Paradise and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's Booster Course Pass, which doubles the number of tracks eventually available in the game from 48 to 96.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer whose coverage of day-to-day news means he writes about everything from Thanos's butt to political movements within the industry, but mostly about video games. Ryan has six years of journalism experience and before IGN wrote mostly for national newspapers in the UK including The Times, i, and The Scotsman. Find him on Twitter @thelastdinsdale.