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“Hot Ones” is going solo. BuzzFeed announced a deal to sell First We Feast, the studio behind the popular YouTube chicken-wing-eating celebrity talk show “Hot Ones,” for $82.5 million in cash to a group of investors. The consortium of buyers includes First We Feast founder Chris Schonberger and “Hot Ones” host Sean Evans, alongside podcast
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SPOILER WARNING: This story includes spoilers for Amazon Prime Video‘s “Secret Level.” Amazon’s new 15-episode adult-animated anthology series “Secret Level” features original stories set within the worlds of various video games. These run the gamut from classic ’80s games to today’s complex tactical titles. But they’re each adapted in somewhat surprising ways, the best example of
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Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said the mammoth turnout of viewers to watch Jake Paul fight Mike Tyson was a success — notwithstanding the video glitches that disrupted the livestream. “We hate to disappoint members for one second,” said Sarandos, speaking Tuesday at the UBS Global Media & Communications Conference in New York. “On that night,
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Netflix and Mastercard want to turn culture into commerce through a new partnership. Under the pact, Mastercard cardholders will have access to exclusive benefits for Netflix’s immersive live, in-person experiences based on its popular programming, including presale tickets. Mastercard will be the “preferred payments partner” for some of Netflix’s immersive in-person events and experiences, including
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Thank goodness: On Friday, gaming star and YouTube creator Seán William McLoughlin, better known as Jacksepticeye, debuted his latest edition of annual charity event Thankmas at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. Filled with fellow online stars joining, the drive raises money for the nonprofit Crisis Text Line with the donations for the 2024 show
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The nominations for the 2024 Game Awards were revealed Nov. 18 — less than a month out from the show itself. And seeing as one of the key moments of the Geoff Keighley-hosted annual event is the giant montage performance of that year’s best score and music noms, it’s a good thing Game Awards Orchestra
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For lots of avid gamers this holiday season, there will be Indiana Jones — and then everybody else. Microsoft’s gaming division, after spending billions on developers and publishers over the last three years, is seeing its big bets pay off. In the fourth quarter of 2024, when consumers largely look to buy and gift AAA
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The fight over whether TikTok remains legal in the U.S. could be heading to the Supreme Court. On Friday, the U.S Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld a federal law that will ban TikTok in the country over national security concerns — unless Chinese parent company ByteDance sells its interest in the app by Jan.
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Can James Cameron give people a new reason to buy Meta‘s Quest mixed-reality headsets? Cameron’s Lightstorm Vision stereoscopic technology venture inked a deal with Meta to “scale the creation” of 3D entertainment experiences “featuring big-name IP,” spanning live sports and concerts, feature films and TV series, the companies announced. Under the pact, Meta Quest will
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Ubisoft will be shutting down its free-to-play first-person shooter game “XDefiant” in the new year. On Tuesday, the game publisher announced that new downloads and player registrations would no longer be available for “XDefiant,” though the game would still be releasing its Season 3 content “in the near future” and the game’s servers will be
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Sam Altman, CEO of artificial-intelligence power player OpenAI, believes that the next major developments in the AI sector will be more disruptive than people expect. Altman, speaking at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit in New York City on Wednesday, predicted that as soon as 2025 the industry will begin to see the first examples
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Lumina, a newly launched talent and IP media group, is putting forward a $2 million strategic investment from BAFTA and Grammy-nominated producers Thomas Benski and Marisa Clifford towards game studio Creators Corp. Creators Corp., a Webby award-winning studio with a focus on developing through “Fortnite” maker Epic Games’ Unreal Engine for Fortnite (UEFN) tech, was
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Jerry Seinfeld has apologized to Howard Stern for comments he made about the radio personality in a recent podcast interview, including that Stern lacked “comedy chops.” “I really feel bad for what I said about my friend Howard Stern in a conversation with David Spade and Dana Carvey, talking about the glut of comedy podcasts,”
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An Apple commercial for the new iPad Pro tablet showing an industrial press literally crushing a TV, musical instruments, books and more ignited an angry backlash among many in Hollywood and other creative industries. The ad, titled “Crush!”, shows an array of various objects — including a record player, a piano, a guitar, an old
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Marvel fans will be invited to enter the MCU as the lead characters in a new mixed-reality app coming exclusively to Apple’s Vision Pro headset. Marvel Studios and ILM Immersive, Lucasfilm’s storytelling studio, announced “What If…? – An Immersive Story,” a one-hour AR and VR experience touted as the first interactive Disney+ original story created
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Tubi will give up-and-coming creatives a streaming platform — and funding — for their passion projects, with an assist from Issa Rae. The Fox Corp.-owned free, ad-supported streamer launched Stubios, which it calls “a fan-fueled studio” for aspiring filmmakers and their fans. The idea: Tubi will give viewers the power to greenlight content from selected
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“Whose fault is it that you’re gay?” There comes a point in every episode of “That’s a Gay Ass Podcast” when host Eric Williams lobs that question. He’s being provocative, clowning on the homophobia he and his listeners have faced. He’s also genuinely curious, using it to pinpoint the moment or piece of pop culture
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Jessica Casano-Antonellis is exiting SiriusXM to join the new Disney, Fox Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery sports-streaming venture as head of communications. Casano-Antonellis, PR head of PR for Disney’s streaming division, will start at the still-unnamed joint venture as senior VP of communications on Monday, May 6. Disney, Fox and WBD unveiled their partnership in
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SAG-AFTRA will license Nielsen‘s streaming content data, which the union will to enforce the terms of its 2023 contract with Hollywood studios. Under the deal for Nielsen’s Streaming Content Ratings, SAG-AFTRA will have “an objective source of domestic viewership data for original streaming programming,” the parties announced. The data will inform the union’s forecasting and
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As consumers turn apathetic toward information collecting online — and Washington cracks down on foreign-owned apps like TikTok — the urgency of data privacy and protection seems increasingly unavoidable in daily life. “Technically Optimistic,” a podcast from Laurene Powell Jobs’ Emerson Collective, seeks to address that in ways that don’t make the average listener’s eyes
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