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Demi Lovato at Caron Treatment Centers’ New York Gala, Cipriani 42nd Street — April 21, 2025. Michael Ostuni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Trending on Billboard Demi Lovato celebrated Halloween by fully embodying their longstanding internet alter ego, affectionately known as “Poot Lovato,” with elaborate makeup, a bald cap and bespoke styling to recreate the look...

Swedish House Mafia Alexander Wessely Trending on Billboard New Year’s plans just got bolder: Swedish House Mafia will share the San Francisco stage with Skrillex and Four Tet for two consecutive nights, December 30–31, 2026. Both performances are scheduled for Pier 80 — the expansive waterfront warehouse that has hosted Portola Festival since 2022 —...

Artists Rally After Hurricane Melissa Devastates Parts of the Caribbean Published October 30, 2025 An aerial view of damaged buildings around the St. John’s Anglican Church following Hurricane Melissa in Black River, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica on October 29, 2025. RICARDO MAKYN/AFP via Getty Images In the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa — a powerful Category 5...

Possessor(s) key art — Heart Machine. Heart Machine has initiated another round of layoffs this month, mere weeks before the studio’s upcoming action title, Possessor(s), is scheduled to launch on November 11. Earlier in October the team confirmed it had cut an unspecified number of roles and ceased development on its Early Access project, Hyper...

Paramount and Activision are teaming up on a Call of Duty feature film. Paramount — the studio behind Top Gun: Maverick and the recently canceled Halo live-action series — confirmed in September that it has partnered with Activision to develop a Call of Duty feature film. The studio has since named Peter Berg (Friday Night...

Early reactions to Netflix’s fourth season of The Witcher have been bleak. Rotten Tomatoes has published the first batch of reviews for The Witcher’s fourth season, and they landed at record-low levels. At the time of writing, the critics’ score stands at 55% — the poorest showing across the main series — while the audience...

The roster of dangers in the cubic realm keeps expanding. Minecraft’s developers have released a showcase trailer for upcoming content. Mojang Studios invites players to discover the new mobs. Introducing the Camel Husk (Cadaver Camel) — an undead camel that is not destroyed by sunlight. The creature itself is passive, but it spawns with an...

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion continues to inspire creative experiments built on Unreal Engine 5. Artist L. Torres (Leo Torres) remains active with the modern engine, reimagining fragments of Oblivion’s world in an updated visual style. He recently released another showcase trailer. This time the focus falls on the city of Bruma: Bruma has long...

Paramount Pictures’ upcoming Call of Duty adaptation is steadily revealing more details. Paramount Pictures has struck a deal with Activision to develop a Call of Duty feature, and the first names attached to the project have surfaced. According to Deadline, Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone, The Ranch) and Peter Berg (Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon) will spearhead the...

Image: Focus Features Bugonia co-writer Will Tracy admits he doesn’t retain every detail of Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 dark sci-fi black comedy Save the Green Planet! That surprised some — Tracy, who collaborated on Yorgos Lanthimos’s new adaptation, didn’t study the original script obsessively. Instead he screened the film once, jotted a few impressions, and set...

Jason Kelce Mistakenly Labels Sabrina Carpenter a “Hip-Hop” Artist on Kylie Kelce’s Podcast October 30, 2025 • By Staff Clip from Kylie Kelce’s “Not Gonna Lie” podcast. On the October 30 episode of Kylie Kelce’s podcast Not Gonna Lie, former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce sparked laughter — and a fair bit of confusion —...

The franchise will soon return with a new installment. The grand strategy title Europa Universalis 5 is scheduled for release in early November. Paradox Interactive has specified launch times for different regions. If plans hold, EU5 will launch on November 4 at 20:00 Moscow time. The developers have already mapped out a content roadmap extending...

Billboard Live Music Summit 2025: Usher to Be Honored as Touring Artist of the Year Los Angeles — November 3, 2025 Published in partnership with AEG Presents. Billboard Live Music Summit 2025 The Billboard Live Music Summit returns to Los Angeles on November 3, spotlighting Usher as the Touring Artist of the Year. With eight...

Image: Production I.G Star Wars: Visions debuted in 2021 as a bold experiment: nine distinct anime studios were invited to reinterpret the Star Wars mythos in short-film form. The results were wildly varied — from a Hutt-fronted rock group to a frenetic duel between mirror-image Sith — and the series broadened its horizons in season 2,...

Zohran Mamdani Nails a New York Music Quiz — But Misses a Billy Joel Classic October 30, 2025 Zohran Mamdani at a campaign rally in Forest Hills Stadium, New York, on October 26, 2025. — Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images With New Yorkers headed to the polls on Tuesday, November 4, Democratic Socialist mayoral hopeful...

User-created mods constitute a meaningful portion of the game, but dissecting the game’s code has long been a nontrivial challenge. Mojang Studios recently delighted the Minecraft modding community by announcing changes to the Java Edition intended to simplify mod creation. Minecraft Java Edition is having obfuscation removed — going forward the game will be distributed...