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NME recently caught up with Riot Games to learn how Teamfight Tactics‘ musical Remix Rumble update came to life. Launched last week (November 21), Remix Rumble is a Teamfight Tactics (TFT) set that tasks players with building teams of music-themed fighters from the world of League Of Legends. As part of the mode, several Riot Games bands – such as K-pop group K/DA, metal band Pentakill, and boy band Heartsteel – make an appearance, along with new acts that range from emo to country. As players recruit more units in these…

Riot has revealed the next champion who will be added to League of Legends' extensive roster: Hwei, the visionary. The new champ is a mid-lane mage with a complex kit themed around painting and a brooding, emo design.In the lore, Hwei is an Ionian champion who uses art both to confront criminals and comfort their victims. He is haunted by his own overwhelming creativity and troubled past, which would explain his brooding design. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Hwei also has history with one of League of Legends'…

Choujin X Vol. 1Written and illustrated by Sui Ishida.Translated by Jan Mitsuko Cash.Lettered by Evan Waldinger.Published by Viz Media. What sold me on this book was things taking a hard turn into the unexpectedly insensate. The premise of Choujin X was interesting enough, teenage best friends who are made to fight demons decide to become demons themselves. In Sui Ishida’s new manga series, a breakthrough in evil choujin technology makes body-morphing superpowers injectable. I thought I was reading a somewhat rote…

Under a canopy of pink wisteria, Klondyke stands on a bar, lip-syncing My Chemical Romance’s Ghost of You in leather and lace. About 60 Black and brown faces packed into this tiny Brooklyn venue sing along as the drag performer opens a glass jar and guzzles the inky liquid inside. The elixir paints the inside of their mouth black as they act out the impassioned final chorus. This is Bipoc Emo Night, a burgeoning scene that celebrates the experience of queer, Black, and Indigenous emo fans.Emo, an abbreviation of…

The League of Legends European Championship (LEC) has released an emo rock ballad called ‘Heartbreaker’ to celebrate the broadcast’s return tomorrow (January 21) – watch it below. Like the broadcast’s 2021 song ‘Reckless With My Heart‘, ‘Heartbreaker”s lyrics revolve around League of Legends pro player Carl Martin Erik ‘Rekkles‘ Larson. The upcoming LEC split will see Rekkles not only return to his long-time team Fnatic after several years away, but also return to the LEC after spending a year playing in France’s…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeA Sunday evening in 2018: Kevin Smith was sweating profusely. The director had been feeling nauseous, too, but he’d put that down to the fact he was in the middle of filming two stand-up sets for a special. And then, in his dressing room at the Alex Theater in Glendale, California, he collapsed on the floor and vomited all over the tiles. At Glendale Memorial Hospital, Smith learnt…

Last night in Inglewood — on its first of five sold-out shows at the Forum — My Chemical Romance seized the arena, lit it up in red and claimed it for the vampires of Los Angeles.The New Jersey band first crashed its hearse into the hyper-masculine, Warped Tour punk-o-sphere some 20 years ago, and helped develop the sound and aesthetic for the rock subculture that became known as emo: melodic, anguished pop-rock that delves unflinchingly into heartbreak and trauma.Along with My Chemical Romance, bands such as Paramore,…

In recent times, fires caused by EVs have been a pressing issue of concern. EVs from a variety of brands have caught fire from problems that were later investigated to have stemmed from the battery. Recently, eight people had lost their lives when a short circuit triggered a fire in an electric vehicles showroom in Telangana State. Fire-proof EV battery?EMO, an EV startup located in Bangalore, founded by Rahul Patel and Sheetanshu Tyagi, might have the solution for battery fires. While the founders earlier worked in the…

Cardi B shared some photos of her from high school days and offered some reflective commentary.“Ghetto teenager……fun fact -The emo kids in school were actually really cool and will give me free cigarettes,” she tweeted, alongside four images of her from her younger years. She can be seen sporting various face and ear piercings, smoking, and holding a bottle of liquor.When fans started to call her emo, she decided to set the record straight. In a second tweet, she responded to a follower, “I wasn’t EMO….I was pierced cause…