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Image: Netflix The Witcher edges closer to its penultimate chapter, and a fresh trailer released Tuesday offers a first look at where this season will take the characters. Following the events of season 3, which left Geralt, Yennefer and Ciri scattered, the new trailer follows each on separate paths. Ciri (Freya Allan) has joined the...
The game launches on October 10 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. Electronic Arts has published the launch trailer for Battlefield 6. The footage highlights the sheer scale of destruction players can unleash across matches and the single‑player campaign — all set to Limp Bizkit’s “Break Stuff.” Prepare for an intense immersion into total...
Photo: Leah Gallo/Disney Early in Tron: Ares, Julian Dillinger (Evan Peters) — a Silicon Valley archetype — pitches Dillinger Systems to the U.S. military by 3D-printing a futuristic tank and unveiling an AI to pilot it. He hopes spectacle will mask fragility: the devices fail after just 29 minutes. That premise doubles as a tidy...
Activision has opted to feature Korn’s “Freak on a Leash” as the trailer soundtrack for The Haunting event. On October 9, The Haunting event will launch in Black Ops 6 and the Warzone battle royale. The games will receive a range of themed additions along with new operator skins — notably a Yautja look inspired...
Luna Legend Interviews the Stars of Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie Luna Legend — Courtesy Photo At just nine years old, Luna Stephens is proving she has a knack for interviewing. Months after hosting a Billboard Family Q&A with her father, John Legend, she sat down to chat with Gloria Estefan and Laila Lockhart Kraner about...
Taylor Swift on Travis Kelce’s Secret, Custom Engagement Ring: “I Still Can’t Believe It” October 6 — Interview on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon Taylor Swift says she’s still awed by her engagement — and by the fact that fiancé Travis Kelce crafted the perfect ring and kept it hidden for months before proposing....
Analysts tallied mobile game downloads for September 2025 and compiled a ranking of the most-downloaded titles. Mobilegamer.biz released September’s mobile game download figures based on data from the AppMagic service. The report does not include the Chinese Android market. Roblox remains untouchable in terms of installs, despite a notable decline—from a platform record of 33...
Donald Trump Responds to Bad Bunny’s 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Announcement By Billboard Donald Trump, Bad Bunny — Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images After news broke that Bad Bunny will headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show in 2026, former President Donald Trump weighed in during a phone interview on NewsMax, expressing surprise and skepticism...
Photo: Shout! Studios There was an era before Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings redefined fantasy filmmaking—an era when sword-and-sorcery pictures didn’t demand blockbuster budgets. Even relatively gritty studio endeavors like Conan the Barbarian and Dragonslayer felt lavish beside the legion of low-budget knockoffs and location-shot B-movies that catered to devoted genre fans. So...
Under EU law, companies must inform consumers in advance about service price increases. Microsoft was unable to push through a Game Pass price increase in certain EU countries. One user in Poland reported that their subscription was set to auto-renew, yet on October 1 the company charged their card 63 Polish zloty (roughly $17) instead...
