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An indie advent calendar for Switch owners Nintendo is ringing in the holidays with a special event spotlighting independent games. The Inside the House of Indies Holiday Event starts today and runs through this Friday, highlighting new and upcoming indie games headed for the Nintendo Switch. Each day of this week, Nintendo will upload a new video at 9 a.m. PT. Each one will shine a light on updates, announcements, and news from Nintendo’s indie partners. For a good example of what to expect, today’s Day 1 spotlight…

Airbnb is partnering with several major landlords and management companies to list designated apartment buildings where renters are allowed to offer short-term sublets on the site.The company said Wednesday that a new page on its website will list so-called Airbnb-friendly buildings, which will give tenants the option to host their apartments just as homeowners can.Typically, rental buildings prohibit tenants from subletting for short stays.To start, Airbnb is showcasing 175 apartment buildings in more than 25 major…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Few events capture the attention of the globe like the Men's FIFA World Cup—in 2018, the event boasted a viewership of 3.5 billion people. Yet, despite the enormous popularity of the World Cup, host cities and countries invariably lose money on the event itself, with FIFA capturing most of the profits despite its non-profit status. …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Winning the FIFA World Cup significantly increases GDP growth in the two quarters following the competition by up to 0.25 percentage points, according to new research from the University of Surrey. However, hosting the event—often seen as a glittering prize for a nation's economy and reputation—does not…

On December 16th, a hyper-realistic avatar of the late East Coast rap legend Notorious B.I.G. will be holding a concert and performing tracks from his catalogue in Meta's Horizon Worlds. The show, which will use a virtual recreation of 90's era Brooklyn as a backdrop, will also feature performances by guest artists like Bad Boy Records founder Sean "Diddy" Combs and a narrative journey of Biggie's life by American music journalist Touré Not everyone's impressed that Meta is bringing an artist back from the dead in avatar…

Hollywood star Anne Hathaway has revealed that while agreeing to host the 83rd annual Academy Awards in 2011 she knew that she was signing up for a gig that would be criticized no matter who watched. According to Fox News, Hathaway, while appearing on `Watch What Happens Live` with Andy Cohen, played a game where she had to give a one-word reply on pictures from her past. When Cohen showed Hathaway a photo of her on stage with James Franco, she quickly responded, "We sucked." The audience erupted in laughter, including…

There are many reasons why you need to have a website. Those reasons are establishing an online presence, advertising your business, capturing more leads, and increasing your credibility. Thankfully, publishing a website has become more accessible thanks to web hosting. Web hosting is a service wherein you can upload your website for everyone on the world wide web to see. Most people would like to believe that web hosting is simple, but the reality is quite different. So, before you get an account, here are three web…

A new update for Battlefield 2042 reworks the Orbital map and adds the option to host persistent servers that stay live, even when nobody is online. Following the rework of Renewal in September’s update, Battlefield developer EA Dice has “improved gameplay flow” by making adjustments to the Orbital map. The update released earlier today (October 20) and adds “more cover and assets” as well as “terrain improvements”. Orbital is now “more action-packed with an improved atmosphere”. In conquest mode, two flags have been…

Russia on Tuesday fined TikTok for failing to delete content that violates Russian laws on 'LGBT propaganda' and streaming service Twitch for hosting a video interview with a Ukrainian political figure that Moscow said contained 'fake' information.Neither company immediately responded to a Reuters request for comment. Interfax reported that a TikTok representative in the courtroom had insisted the proceedings be terminated, without giving further details.The fines mark the latest step in Moscow's long-running dispute with…

John Carpenter attends the screening of Escape from New York at the 2019 TCM 10th Annual Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, California.Photo: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for TCM (Getty Images)As the marketing for Halloween Ends—and Halloween itself, for that matter—builds into a crescendo of spookiness, the director responsible for some of the holiday’s most memorable frights is turning his attention elsewhere: specifically to Godzilla, shining star of Shout Factory TV’s upcoming movie marathon, featuring the great John…