The Tony Awards will return to Radio City Music Hall on Sunday for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic. It's Broadway's biggest event of the year, celebrating the best theater on the Great White Way. "West Side Story" star and Oscar winner Ariana DeBose is host of the show and spoke to CNN earlier this week about what to expect. "I think I'm going to be doing what everyone thinks […]
Microsoft is releasing an Xbox app for smart TVs, enabling consumers to stream Xbox video games even if they don’t own consoles. Microsoft said Thursday that it will first bring the app to Samsung’s 2022 smart TVs and then expand distribution to other manufacturers. It’s a bold bet for Microsoft, after Xbox’s hardware revenue jumped 92% last year. The company said the app will be available starting June 30, in 27 countries. […]
The 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards are here, and it's time to celebrate all your faves. And this year, the crop of nominees is particularly fave-centric — from big-time standbys like Euphoria, Tom Holland and Spider-Man: No Way Home as well as Ted Lasso to darlings like Hacks breakout star Meg Stalter and beyond. But as we know, there can only be one winner per category. Find them all below: BEST MOVIE Dune Scream Shang-Chi and the Legend […]
A Stradivarius violin “of outstanding power and beauty” used to play Over the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz is expected to break records when it is put up for auction next week. The 308-year-old violin, previously owned by Toscha Seidel, one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century, was created during Antonio Stradivari’s celebrated “golden period” and is expected to sell for more than $20m (£16m) when it […]
Sega has released a look at the world and exploration of Sonic Frontiers, giving us a glimpse of just what it might be like to go fast, open world style. The video from IGN shows Sonic ascending to the top of some ruins before heading out into Frontiers' open world, which has drawn the inevitable comparisons to Breath of the Wild. Although, as Graham noted after yesterday's much briefer teaser, it's all […]
There’s been no shortage of David Bowie content since the music legend’s 2016 death, including a 2020 biopic that earned the chagrin of his son Duncan Jones and didn’t have the rights to his music. Now a second posthumous Bowie film is on its way, boasting those shimmering buzz-phrases “estate approval,” “never-before-seen footage,” and “exclusively remastered music” (40 songs, to rub salt in Stardust’s wound). Moonage Daydream comes from Brett Morgen, the director of the Emmy–nominated Kurt Cobain doc Montage of Heck and […]
God of War: Ragnarok developer Santa Monica Studio has detailed how accessibility features have been expanded for the sequel. Using the previous God of War's accessibility features, the studio has added more than 60 ways to adjust gameplay and make the title more approachable. Some of the new systems include more customization options for subtitles, expanded sound effects captions, and a fully re-engineered and responsive user interface. These elements have […]
The Country Music Hall of Fame has announced a new group of inductees for 2022. Rock & roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis will be inducted in the Veteran category, neotraditionalist Keith Whitley will join the Hall in the Modern category, and former RCA Records executive will become a member in the Nonperforming category. Brooks & Dunn handled the announcements in the Hall of Fame’s rotunda, marking the first time in two years that they’d […]
This week Apple announced that it is discontinuing the iPod – one of its most successful products that revolutionised the way we listen to music. Apple launched its first iPod Classic back in 2001 with a $399 price tag, which shocked fans who had become accustomed to using significantly cheaper portable CD players and Walkmans. Fast-forward almost 21 years to today, and your old iPods could now be worth an eye-watering amount […]
