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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues his anti-vax crusade by cancelling million-dollar bird flu vaccine deal with Moderna.

Taylor Swift has re-acquired her music catalog, six years after her old label, Big Machine Label Group, sold it to Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings. She did not disclose the amount. Swift announced the deal in an emotional and lengthy statement on her website Friday. “Hi. I’m trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent, but right now my mind […]

While Cliffhanger Games’ Black Panther title is no longer in development, EA is reassuring fans that its multi-project partnership with Marvel is still going strong. Earlier this week, EA announced that it was canceling its Black Panthervideo game and shutting down developer Cliffhanger Games. The Seattle-based developer was formed shortly before work on Black Panther began, and its closure could leave a considerable number of employees out of work.

As part of its preview of New World’s upcoming hardcore seasonal world, Amazon has sent along a new Q&A-style dev blog explaining the studio’s reasoning for the planned ruleset. As we’ve been covering, season 8’s seasonal server effectively flattens the game’s leveling curve so that PvP players can zip from “zero to endgame-ready in just […]

How many times do we need to see the words Elden Ring Nightreign typed before it teaches people the difference between reign, rein, and rain? I don’t know, but the marketing folks are aiming to find out as they’ve been flooding our inboxes with Nightreign news for the last month. But that’ll finally slow down […]