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Gucci and esports platform Faceit have announced the Gucci Gaming Academy, which will help proffessional players get signed with top esports teams, starting with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO).  Players involved with the academy program will be chosen from the CS:GO Faceit Pro League (FPL), and given the support they need to get signed by top esports teams. This includes in-game, psychological, physical coaching, hardware and networking support from both Gucci and Faceit. The Gucci Gaming Academy aims to act…

The Umbrella Academy season 3 trailer is out. On Thursday, Netflix unveiled a nearly two-and-a-half-minute-long trailer for the third season of the superhero series to pique the curiosity of fans. In The Umbrella Academy season 3 trailer, we see the Hargreeves siblings in an alternate timeline where their adoptive father never founded The Umbrella Academy, which is an important part of their identities. This reality, instead, is home to an organisation named The Sparrow Academy where they are simply unwelcome. This sets…

The trailer for the third season of The Umbrella Academy has been released, and the time paradox created by the Hargreeves siblings in the show’s sophomore season has really come back to bite them in the ass! Here’s the trailer, which pairs the always-welcome “Ballroom Blitz” by Sweet with the somewhat less-welcome Kugelblitz, a pug- and livestock-disintegrating consequence of their temporal paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs6alRuY1UU The Umbrella Academy Season 3 Here’s the synopsis of Umbrella Academy season…

Netflix has shared the new trailer for the third season of The Umbrella Academy, the superhero show based on the comic book series by My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way. The new season, premiering June 22 on the streaming service, finds the Umbrella Academy facing off against the mysterious Sparrow Academy via a paradox that loops together multiple timelines. In the alternate reality, the siblings were never adopted by millionaire Reginald Hargreeves, and instead, he took in seven different individuals, dubbed the…

During the height of the pandemic, absence truly made the heart grow fonder. I found myself missing social activities that I barely ever did before lockdown. For instance, despite only ever doing an escape room once or twice in my life, I suddenly wished I could get some friends together to go out and yell at each other as we fail to solve puzzles. Escape Academy, the first game from Iam8bit’s new publishing arm, looks to recreate that experience in digital space. The first-person puzzle game drops players in a…

Kanye West’s faith-based school is searching for new talent.Earlier this week, Donda Academy announced it will auditions for its gospel choir on behalf of Sunday Service—a worship music group Ye started in January 2019. The choir, led by Jason White, has performed alongside Kanye at Sunday Service events across the country, and even assisted his stage productions and musical records.Months after the Sunday Service launched, White spoke to Rolling Stone about his role as choir director as well as the team’s overall…

Friends, it’s been exceedingly difficult to naturally produce enough feel good brain juice to function as a normal person. Even the things that I normally take so much joy in, like video games, are just not hitting like they used to for so many reasons. But after spending some time with Escape Academy by playing a little and talking to the developers, I think I have the serotonin delivery system I’ve sorely needed. Escape Academy by Coin Crew Games is a narrative puzzle game formatted to look and feel like real-life…

Days after a news report alleged that the Oscars Best Cheer Moment win for Zack Snyder’s Justice League may have been rigged, the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences has defended the result. This year, the Academy Awards introduced two new categories that were adjudged not by the jury but by fans through online voting on Twitter. A scene from Zack Snyder’s Justice League won the Best Cheer Moment award by amassing the maximum votes. On Friday, a news report that analysed the hashtags for the voting claimed…

According to the show's creator, Steve Blackman via a Reddit AMA Tom Hopper ate up a scene that was cooked to perfection thanks to a mountain of steaks that the actor had no choice but to get through. In the third episode of season two, Jack Ruby (Holland Hayes) barges in on Luther's meal, wanting to know the whereabouts of Allison's (Emmy Raver-Lampman) home. The selected dish of the day was steak, which, while perfectly simple, needed to be tended to in between takes to ensure what was being done…

CGC, or the Certified Guaranty Company, has announced its first-ever CGC Comics Academy, taking place over the 9th and 10th of July this year. This two-day seminar is an opportunity to learn comic book grading from the CGC experts, and even get a job working there. CGC grades comic books in terms of physical quality. before slabbing them in sealed sheets of transparent plastic, to preserve their grade for all of eternity. And now you might get to do that as well. It's free to apply for and attend the CGC Comics Academy,…