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“Every single employee at Nintendo Europe” was tasked with playing Animal Crossing: New Leaf daily, months before launch, by former boss Satoru Iwata, says ex PR
A former Nintendo Europe PR employee has claimed that ex-Nintendo president Satoru Iwata required every member of staff at the company’s European division to play Animal Crossing: New Leaf every day for months ahead of its release. The claim highlights the hands-on approach Iwata was known for taking towards Nintendo’s output, treating staff engagement with…
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SUFC News: Wilder breaks silence on Blades future as turmoil sparks departure fears – thestar.co.uk
Chris Wilder has addressed uncertainty over his future as Sheffield United manager amid reports of boardroom unrest following the club’s Championship play-off final defeat. He indicated that he wanted to remain at Bramall Lane, but concerns over the club’s direction and internal decision-making had prompted fears that he could leave. The uncertainty followed a season…
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Ahead of The Beatles’ New Biopic, Beatlemania Is Back With T-Shirts, Mugs, Books & More Merch
Ahead of Sam Mendes’ four-part Beatles biopic, due for release in April 2028, Billboard has rounded up officially licensed merchandise for fans keen to celebrate the band before filming wraps. The films will each focus on a different member, with Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, Joseph Quinn and Barry Keoghan playing Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George…
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Rock Band Was a Multiplayer Experience Truly Unlike Anything That Came Before or Since
Rock Band remains, to this day, the most unique and physically satisfying gaming experience I’ve ever had. And at Official Xbox Magazine, we played it so much that we ended up pissing off our sister magazines in the building.
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Wild Pink Make Sense of It All on New Album Still Coming Down: Track by Track Exclusive
Wild Pink have shared a track-by-track guide to their new album, Still Coming Down, out now via Fire Talk Records. It marks the band’s sixth studio album and the follow-up to 2024’s acclaimed Dulling the Horns, seeing frontman John Ross continue exploring modern American life through vivid, idiosyncratic songwriting on a record that leans further…
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50 Years Ago Today: The Rolling Stones Right the Wrongs of Altamont at Massive U.K. Festival
Fifty years ago, on 21 August 1976, the Rolling Stones headlined a huge open-air festival at Knebworth House in England, drawing around 100,000 fans in what was billed at the time as one of Britain’s most significant rock events. The show mattered because it came after a turbulent year for the band: it was staged…
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Prince Harry, Elton John & Other Privacy Case Claimants Ordered To Pay Daily Mail Publisher $13 Million
Prince Harry, Elton John and several other public figures have been ordered to pay $13 million (£9.5 million) towards the legal costs of Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail, after losing their privacy lawsuit against the company. The seven claimants, who also include Liz Hurley and Baroness Doreen Lawrence, must make the payment by…
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“It’s Intimate, It’s Close, And It’s Not Loud” Kloyd Interviewed
Clash Magazine spoke with London-based, Yorkshire-raised producer Kloyd about her recent project ‘New Love’, an emotionally raw electronic record that blends spectral, trip-hop-inflected sound design with a deeply personal narrative. She describes music-making as a cathartic, almost diaristic process, one shaped by her formative years studying music production in Leeds while immersing herself in the…
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Turnstile reveal Elton John collaboration on NEVER ENOUGH companion album
Turnstile have confirmed NEVER ENOUGH: VERSIONS, a “reimagined” companion to their Grammy-winning 2025 album NEVER ENOUGH, will be released on 28 August via Roadrunner Records, alongside a fresh run of US tour dates. The Baltimore band describe the project as neither a remix nor a covers album, and its release is notable chiefly for the…
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Why we film in the street…
This is a short, casual clip from a creator explaining their reasoning for filming content out in the street rather than in a studio or other controlled setting. The video appears to be a quick, personality-driven short offering a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their creative process, likely touching on the energy, spontaneity or authenticity that street…