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Two devs made a game in 4 months, now it’s made $360,000 in 24 hours as Steam’s 15th best-selling game: “Still a bit unbelievable”
A small two-person development team has seen their newly released game rocket up Steam’s sales charts, earning around $360,000 in its first 24 hours on sale and reaching 15th place among the platform’s best-selling titles. The game was reportedly built in just four months, making its rapid commercial success particularly striking for such a small…
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Infantino’s World Cup plan is part of a desire for expansion that was clear from the start | Paul MacInnes
Fifa’s plan to sell a share of the World Cup’s commercial rights to outside investors is not an isolated move but the latest step in a long-running drive by president Gianni Infantino to expand football’s competitions and grow the revenue they generate. Since his surprise election in 2016, promising reform after the Sepp Blatter era,…
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TOM KEIFER Cancels Shows After Suffering ‘A Severe Vocal Muscle Strain/Injury’
Cinderella frontman Tom Keifer has cancelled the final three dates of his 2026 solo tour after suffering “a severe vocal muscle strain/injury” that left him completely unable to sing. The news continues a difficult run for the veteran rock singer, who had already been forced to postpone one of the affected shows weeks earlier due…
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OG Fallout was “entirely different” from foundational RPGs like Ultima because those games “expect you to be good,” says co-creator: “Fallout has no such expectation”
A co-creator of the original Fallout has said the classic RPG was “entirely different” from foundational role-playing games such as Ultima, because those earlier titles were built on the assumption that players would act as good, moral characters. Fallout, by contrast, was designed with no such assumption, allowing players far greater freedom to behave selfishly,…
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Guillermo del Toro Officially Returns to ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ in First Season 18 Trailer
The official trailer for Season 18 of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” has confirmed the return of filmmaker Guillermo del Toro as the repellent patriarch Pappy McPoyle, alongside the return of the McPoyle family more broadly. The trailer teases another chaotic run for the FX sitcom, following on from last season’s crossover with “Abbott Elementary”…
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Frank Grillo To Lead Political Kidnapping Comedy ‘Show Of Hands’ From P.J. Pesce
Frank Grillo has been cast to lead “Show of Hands,” a political kidnapping comedy written and directed by P.J. Pesce, which is set to film in California using a state tax credit. The exclusive report matters as another notable film role for Grillo, best known for action and genre work in “Superman,” “Peacemaker” and “Tulsa…
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Amy Pascal On Tom Holland’s Spider-Man & Tom Hardy’s Venom Crossover: “We Have Hope”
Producer Amy Pascal has reiterated hope that Tom Holland’s Spider-Man and Tom Hardy’s Venom could one day share the screen together, despite the long-rumoured crossover still not materialising within Sony’s Spiderverse. Speaking alongside Marvel’s Kevin Feige while promoting Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Pascal’s comments keep alive fan speculation about a meeting between the two characters,…
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It’s Official: Influence Media to Buy Anthem for Over $600 Million
Influence Media Partners, backed by BlackRock, has agreed to buy Anthem Entertainment’s music publishing, master recording, and film and TV publishing assets in a deal worth more than $600 million. The acquisition significantly expands Influence Media’s catalogue and underlines the growing role of institutional investors such as BlackRock in the music rights market, where song…
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BioWare’s Former Dragon Age Boss Says a Mass Effect-Style Remaster Trilogy Is Pretty Much Impossible
Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah has said a remastered Dragon Age trilogy in the style of the Mass Effect Legendary Edition is essentially impossible, because virtually no one left at or outside BioWare understands the Aurora Engine that the original games were built on. Speaking to FRVR, Darrah explained that this loss of institutional knowledge…