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Aspyr Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection should have been a slam dunk. The new package contains some of the best Star Wars video games ever made, which are all now widely available with multiplayer support across all modern platforms. Star Wars: Battlefront II is my favorite game of all time, so I was ecstatic about its announcement at February’s Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase. It is gratifying to have these two Battlefront games bundled together on a platform like Nintendo Switch, where local co-op or…

Several Republican senators slammed the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday over its “deeply troubling” conduct in a recent case against the cryptocurrency company DEBT Box. The SEC brought the case against DEBT Box in July, accusing the company of “an ongoing, sprawling, fraudulent securities offering” that defrauded investors of at least $49 million. The federal judge overseeing the case granted the agency’s request for a temporary restraining order that froze DEBT Box’s assets after…

Barbie scored eight Oscar nominations, but lead actor Margot Robbie and filmmaker Greta Gerwig were left out in the major categories of Best Actress and Best Director, respectively. Fans of the film reacted to the snub and took to X to point out how this reflects ‘patriarchy in the Real World.’ (Also read: Oscars 2024 full list of nominations: Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer leads with 13 nods) Barbie scored eight nominations at the 2024 Oscars, but snubbed Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig in key categories. Fan…

The saga of Peregrine is coming to a tragic end, with the lunar lander scheduled for reentry through Earth’s atmosphere after failing to touch down on the Moon.China's Plan to Land Astronauts on the MoonAfter 10 days of journeying through space, Astrobotic has positioned its lunar lander on a trajectory towards Earth to perform a controlled re-entry over a remote area of the South Pacific on Thursday, January 18 around 4:00 p.m. ET, the company wrote in an update.Peregrine launched on January 8 on board United Launch…

Two of the country’s leading civil rights organizations went after Elon Musk on Wednesday after the tech billionaire linked a safety scandal that has grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 jets to diversity hiring efforts. Dozens of 737 Max 9 aircraft have been grounded since Friday after a window panel blew out of an aircraft midair due to loose bolts. Inspections have found similar loose bolts in other aircraft, causing major safety concerns. In the wake of the news, X owner Elon Musk claimed, without evidence, that…

Video game voice actors have been raising concerns about the use of AI voices in games, after the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA announced a deal with an AI company yesterday (January 9). In a statement, SAG-AFTRA announced that they have reached a “groundbreaking AI voice agreement”. According to the statement, this agreement will allow Replica Studios, a leading artificial intelligence voice technology company, to “engage SAG-AFTRA members under a fair, ethical agreement to safely create and license a digital replica of…

Breadcrumb Trail LinksMusicCelebrity'Green Day goes from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it,' Tesla CEO says on X Get the latest from Mark Daniell straight to your inbox Sign Up Published Jan 02, 2024  •  3 minute read Elon Musk attends the 2022 Met Gala celebrating "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022 in New York City. Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris /Getty Images for The Met Museum/VogueArticle contentElon Musk has dismissed Green Day’s dig at…

Green Day used their performance on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve on Sunday night to make the ABC special’s audience aware of their political views. During a performance of the group’s 2004 hit “American Idiot,” initially written during George W. Bush’s presidency about the Iraq war, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong changed the lyrics from, “I’m not part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda.” The tweak, which the rockers previously made during a performance of the song…

Breadcrumb Trail LinksWorldMusicCelebrity'Green Day is now Green Done. Don't they understand it's no longer Hollywood Cool with the rest of us to take potshots at DJT?' Get the latest from Mark Daniell straight to your inbox Sign Up Published Jan 01, 2024  •  Last updated 10 minutes ago  •  3 minute read Billie Joe Armstrong performs with Green Day at the 2017 Global Citizen Festival in Central Park, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017, in New York. Photo by Michael Noble Jr. /THE ASSOCIATED PRESSArticle contentGreen Day made…

Green Day took the stage during ABC’s broadcast of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest and used the opportunity to call out Trump supporters by changing the lyrics to their 2004 hit “American Idiot.” Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong drew cheers from the live audience when he sang out, “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda” during his performance. The original line is, “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda.” “American Idiot,” which the punk trio wrote in response to 9/11 and the policies of George W.…