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Japan goalkeeper Okuma signs for Aston Villa
Aston Villa have signed Japan international goalkeeper Akane Okuma for their Women’s Super League squad, subject to visa approval. The 21-year-old joins from INAC Kobe Leonessa, adding an experienced international to the club’s ranks as it looks to strengthen ahead of the new WSL season. Okuma began her senior career at JEF United Chiba before…
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FAST Provider Wedotv Launches in India With Samsung TV Plus (EXCLUSIVE)
FAST channel provider wedotv has struck its first distribution deal in India, bringing four channels to Samsung TV Plus and reaching millions of Samsung Smart TV users across the country. The agreement adds wedotv Big Stories, wedotv Cars, wedotv Movies and wedotv Sports to the platform. wedotv Big Stories is produced in partnership with Big…
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Europe slaps AliExpress with €550 million fine for selling dodgy goods
The European Commission has fined AliExpress €550 million ($630m/£467m) for failing to curb the sale of illegal and counterfeit goods on its platform, marking the largest ever penalty issued under the EU’s Digital Services Act. The fine follows a year-long warning to the Alibaba-owned marketplace, after which Brussels concluded the company had still not done…
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A.R. Rahman Launches ARR Immersive App for Apple Vision Pro (EXCLUSIVE)
Composer A.R. Rahman is launching ARR Immersive, an app for Apple Vision Pro that brings together a decade of his immersive storytelling projects. The launch, arriving on 22 July, matters because it marks the first time footage from “Le Musk” — Rahman’s 360-degree virtual reality film that premiered at the Cannes XR Festival — has…
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Mini Review: 70’s-style Robot Anime Geppy-X (PS5) – Zany PS1 Shooter Is a Real Treat
Push Square has reviewed 70’s-style Robot Anime Geppy-X, a PS5 re-release of a Japan-only PS1 scrolling shooter from 1999 that the outlet’s editor had never previously heard of. The remaster, produced by Implicit Conversions (the studio behind PS Plus Premium’s emulated catalogue), is praised less for its combat than for its remarkable presentation, which the…
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Eiichiro Oda’s ‘ONE PIECE’ Vol. 115 Rises to No. 1 on Japan Book Hot 100
Eiichiro Oda’s manga ONE PIECE Volume 115 has risen from No. 2 to No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Book Hot 100 chart released on 16 July, retaking the top spot by leading physical book sales and picking up additional points from e-commerce and social media activity. The chart, which combines physical sales, e-books, library…
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Snow Man’s ‘Good Time’ Tops Japan Hot 100
Snow Man’s digital single “Good Time” has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, marking the nine-member boy band’s 15th chart-topper on the ranking. The song led downloads while also placing highly across streaming, radio airplay and video, and its success pulled two further Snow Man tracks into the top 100, giving…
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Police block thousands of ‘cockroach’ protesters marching on India’s parliament
Thousands of supporters of the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) movement defied a police ban in Delhi on Monday, attempting to march on India’s parliament to demand the resignation of the education minister. Police used tear gas and baton charges to disperse the crowds, injuring several demonstrators, in one of the most visible displays of…
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Are England finally improving in ODI cricket?
England’s one-day international side is showing signs of genuine improvement, having beaten world number one side India 2-1 in a recent ODI series, adding to a 4-0 T20 series win. This comes as a welcome upturn for coach Brendon McCullum, whose July has been far brighter than late June, when Test captain Ben Stokes retired…
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Forget Indiana Jones, Tom Hanks’ Globe-Trotting Adventure Is Winning Over Global Audiences
Tom Hanks’ 2006 mystery thriller The Da Vinci Code has been finding renewed popularity with streaming audiences, with the article arguing it outperforms even a globe-trotting adventure franchise like Indiana Jones in current appeal. Directed by Ron Howard and based on Dan Brown’s bestselling novel, the film represented a distinctive moment in mid-2000s cinema when…