Final Fantasy maker Square Enix and Final Fantasy XV team Luminous Productions set themselves a monstrous task with Forspoken. Releasing an open-world fantasy game in such a crowded landscape to players growing increasingly tired of these games’ endless task lists and vast worlds seems like folly. However, this isn’t just …
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Fashion Nova, an erstwhile brand collaborator to artists Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, is in hot water over alleged efforts to suppress negative reviews of its products online. The fast fashion juggernaut is being fingered by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for filtering consumer feedback on its e-commerce site …
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Vanessa Bryant’s lawsuit over the graphic souvenir photos that Los Angeles County first responders allegedly snapped at the scene where her husband, daughter, and seven others perished in a helicopter crash two years ago can proceed to trial, a federal judge ruled Wednesday night. The widow of NBA superstar Kobe …
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With murder convictions secured for Ahmaud Arbery‘s three killers, justice has been served — in part. But what about accountability for a pair of district attorneys who allegedly helped shield the killers from arrest for months? Decrying “what appears to be a cover up of this really serious crime,” Brandon …
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The Milwaukee Bucks clambered aboard the team plane, a Delta charter departing from Wisconsin, where coronavirus cases were about to triple over the course of the NBA Finals. Players and essential support staff squirmed down the aisle of the Boeing 727, bound for Arizona, where 900 new cases would be …
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Matthew Taylor Coleman, the California surf instructor who allegedly said that his belief in QAnon drove him to murder his two children last month and leave their bodies in a field in Mexico, could face the death penalty in San Diego federal court, according to a new indictment filed Wednesday. …
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Known for her young adult suspense novels including I Know What You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. Griffin, and Stranger With My Face, Lois Duncan essentially stopped writing the genre after her daughter Kaitlin Arquette was murdered in 1989. Now, there’s been a break in one of the most notorious …
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Booksmart star Beanie Feldstein will tackle Fanny Brice in the upcoming Broadway revival ofFunny Girl. Performances are set to start in the spring of 2022 at a to-be-announced theater. The first official Broadway revival ofFunny Girl will be directed by Michael Mayer, who won a Tony Award for directingSpring Awakening. …
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On a warm June evening, Lily Marotta and Steven Phillips-Horst, comedian hosts of the podcast Celebrity Book Club with Steven and Lily, are talking over each other at Cafe Mogador in Manhattan. “That’s why we love the East Village, because we feel like — ” Marotta says. “We’re total Patti …
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Early on a February morning in 1922, silent film director William Desmond Taylor was found dead from a gunshot wound in his apartment in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles. The murder, which remains unsolved, became a national scandal in an already depraved era of the movie industry. At least …
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