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Former rugby league star’s son and alleged Coconut Cartel gangster shares bizarre ‘gun dance’ video as he taunts authorities from overseas
Iziah Utai, the 24-year-old son of former NRL player Matt Utai and an alleged member of Sydney’s Coconut Cartel gang, has posted a video of himself dancing with a pistol and a magazine of bullets while apparently hiding overseas. He is wanted by NSW Police over the death of an underworld figure last year, and…
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Q-Tip’s strange inability to release an album: “Cold feet”
Q-Tip, formerly of A Tribe Called Quest, spent years struggling to get solo albums released, despite the material eventually proving successful once it reached audiences. Following his gold-selling 1999 debut Amplified on Arista Records, subsequent projects were repeatedly shelved or derailed, not because of poor quality, but due to label nervousness and corporate upheaval, illustrating…
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HBO Just Officially Introduced a Notorious Batman Villain to the DC Universe
HBO’s Lanterns has slipped a significant DC Comics Easter egg into its third episode, potentially laying groundwork for a well-known Batman villain to enter James Gunn’s rebooted DC Universe. During a flashback showing John Stewart’s recruitment interview in an abandoned shopping mall, a sign for “Janus Cosmetics” appears in the background, a company with deep…
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Venice Film Festival Changes Course To Reinstate Jury Press Conference: How It Went Down
The Venice Film Festival has reversed course and reinstated its opening jury press conference, days after telling Deadline the event had been scrapped due to a “scheduling conflict”. The U-turn followed Deadline’s reporting on the cancellation, which prompted a backlash from the press over concerns about transparency, given the press conference is a longstanding fixture…
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The 10 Nastiest Video Game Foods That’ll Ruin Your Appetite
Polygon has compiled a list of the most stomach-churning food items found in video games, highlighting how developers occasionally use their design skills to create deliberately unappetising virtual meals rather than tempting ones. The feature celebrates these grotesque details as memorable moments of world-building or dark humour, even though the foods typically serve a practical…
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“It’s doom, but with the added vibe of a winter burial on the outskirts of a desolate industrial town.” Nintendocore, unblack metal and some of the weirdest metal subgenres you never knew existed
This is a lighthearted guide to obscure metal subgenres for fans who feel mainstream labels like “death metal” or “black metal” no longer capture the sheer scope of the genre’s fragmentation. It highlights how metal has splintered into hyper-specific hybrid styles over the decades, each blending unrelated sonic traditions to create increasingly niche and unusual…
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Preview: Forget the Soulslikes, This Bizarre New PS5 Game Is Channelling Shenmue Instead
At Gamescom, Push Square previewed Showa American Story, a bizarre new PS5 console exclusive from Chinese studio NEKCOM that draws heavy inspiration from Sega’s cult classic Shenmue rather than the wave of gothic Soulslikes currently emerging from Chinese developers. The action RPG’s premise stems from an urban myth from Japan’s 1980s economic boom, imagining a…
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Reform’s arms-cash donor row, Carney squares up to Trump, and huge WhatsApp money-laundering network exposed
Also today: rare species flourish in Hertfordshire’s heatwave, Sabalenka eyes US Open defence, and tributes to Optimus Prime star Peter Cullen as Melinda French Gates doubles Olivia Rodrigo’s charity festival haul to $20m.
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This newly-announced FPS will let you blast through the worlds of Medieval Europe’s weirdest artist, and I really hope it includes the 500-year-old butt song from hell
Hieronymus is a newly announced first-person action-adventure game inspired by the surreal, grotesque paintings of the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch. It matters because it turns Bosch’s distinctive medieval imagery into an interactive setting, combining exploration, combat, magic and alchemy in a style rarely used for games. Players control Helena van Aken as she confronts bizarre…
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RIKKI ROCKETT Looks Back On ‘Hollyweird’, POISON’s Final Album Of Original Material: ‘It’s Not Our Best Work’
POISON drummer Rikki Rockett has reflected candidly on “Hollyweird”, the band’s 2002 album and its last collection of original material, describing it as disjointed and not the band’s best work. His comments came in a new interview explaining why the record was left out of his forthcoming memoir, “Ghost Notes: My Life In Poison”, due…