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Taylor Swift Namedrops Grand Theft Auto On Latest Album
19.4.2024
In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past 12 hours or so, pop superstar Taylor Swift unleashed a double album on the world, and as a Swiftie, it is my moral obligation to be deeply annoying about it. I’m not here to review the album though, but instead highlight a line from it that...
Game Pass, Like Network TV, Is Using Sports To Help Keep The Numbers Up
12.3.2024
With little warning, Microsoft surprised folks and announced that NBA 2K24 was coming to its video game subscription service, Game Pass. More games being added to Game Pass is always nice for its subscribers, and this latest addition continues a trend that indicates that Microsoft is looking...
Twisters Is A Sequel To The Best Movie Of All Time, Not A Remake Of It
12.2.2024
During Super Bowl LVIII, a teaser trailer dropped that baffled a lot of viewers—it wasn’t the Despicable Me 4 one making fun of AI, but an action-packed Twister teaser. The trailer showcased the July 2024 movie starring Normal People’s Daisy Edgar Jones and Top Gun: Maverick’s Glen Powell as storm...
Jack Dorsey Evokes Bitcoin At Super Bowl Wearing “Satoshi” T-Shirt
12.2.2024
Twitter co-founder and Block Head Jack Dorsey quietly brought Bitcoin to last night’s celebrity-filled Super Bowl event – though most average viewers may not have noticed. The tech billionaire was photographed in one of the stadium’s booths surrounded by artists like Jay-Z and Beyonce. Unlike...
The 31 Best Super Bowl LVIII Commercials, Ranked From Solid To Iconic
12.2.2024
Super Bowl LVIII, with its thrilling overtime finish and luxury box shots of Taylor Swift and Blake Lively, has come and gone, and so now we must honor those generous corporate patrons who shell out millions so Tom Brady can stay on television. This is all we have, for the staff of The A.V. Club...
Kraken Exec Questions Efficacy of Crypto Ads at Super Bowl Despite Global Reach
12.2.2024
Kraken’s Chief Marketing Officer, Mayur Gupta, believes the Super Bowl is no longer an effective avenue for crypto marketing. Speaking before Sunday’s US National Football League championship final, he told FOX Business that Kraken did not buy advertising space in the event because...
Report: Crypto Ads Sideline in Super Bowl LVIII Despite Recent Bitcoin ETF Launches
11.2.2024
Following a wave of cryptocurrency ads securing airtime for promotions during the 2022 Super Bowl, the subsequent year witnessed an absence of crypto entities airing commercials in the event. The trend is set to continue into 2024, as highlighted by a recent analysis on the subject. Although...
Madden's Super Bowl Predictions Are More Accurate Than You Think
6.2.2024
Super Bowl LVIII week is upon us, as we’re merely days away from the showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers. For a couple of decades now, we’ve had Super Bowl simulations played out via EA Sports’ John Madden Football video game. It’s been a crapshoot, in large part, with...
Larry David Reflects on Super Bowl FTX Ad: ‘Like an Idiot, I Did It’
3.2.2024
At the premiere of “Curb Your Enthusiasm’s” final season, Larry David expressed remorse for his participation in a Super Bowl commercial for FTX, reflecting on the decision as misguided after the cryptocurrency exchange’s bankruptcy. Larry David Admits Regret Over FTX Super...
Patrick Stewart Uses Hey Arnold Star As A Football In New Super Bowl Ad
1.2.2024
I didn’t expect to check Twitter or X or whatever today and see a Super Bowl advertisement featuring Patrick Stewart, Master Chief, Arnold from Hey, Arnold!, the band Creed, Knuckles from the Sonic franchise, and Survivor host Jeff Probst. Yet, folks, here we are. Welcome to 2024. It sucks. Read...
Super Bowl 58 Wagers Heat up — 49ers Lead as Crypto Betting Markets Favor Their Victory
30.1.2024
In just under two weeks, the National Football League (NFL) champions of the American Football Conference (AFC), the Kansas City Chiefs, and their counterparts from the National Football Conference (NFC), the San Francisco 49ers, will clash in the much-anticipated Super Bowl 58. As of right...
Final Fantasy’s Most Divisive Minigame Deserves More Love
8.1.2024
In 2021, Croatian Budimir Šobat broke the world record when he held his breath underwater for 24 minutes and 37.36 seconds. So it’s always been kind of silly that athletes in Final Fantasy X hold their breath indefinitely to play the full-contact underwater sport of Blitzball. Yet this is also...
Chinese Chess Champ Stripped Of Title After Taking A Dump In A Bathtub
28.12.2023
When you accomplish something big, like winning a major tournament, how do you celebrate? Maybe you jump around in excitement, salty rivulets streaming down your face in a rush of emotions. Maybe you pop a bottle of champagne and spray it around like an NFL player after the Super Bowl. Or,...
How K-Pop Made League of Legends Immortal
6.12.2023
The longevity of League of Legends is astounding. Across the industry, developers are trying to grab a share of the lucrative live-service games pie. Since 2009, the enduring popularity of this multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game has made it a golden goose: often imitated, but never...
AI Is Already Transforming Voices In The Biggest Games
23.10.2023
Viktor Vektor’s office is one of the most gruesome places in all of Cyberpunk 2077. A back-alley ripperdoc, he makes a living cutting patients open, swapping out their synthetic implants, and bandaging them back together again. It’s ground zero for where the meat meets the metal in the sci-fi RPG’s...
Tom Brady’s Estranged Wife Gisele Bundchen Claims FTX Collapse ‘Blindsided’ Her
25.3.2023
Former U.S. National Football League (NFL) quarterback Tom Brady’s estranged wife Gisele Bundchen has said she was “blindsided” by the collapse of crypto exchange FTX. Bundchen claimed that she only invested in FTX because her financial advisors recommended it. Bundchen...
Crypto ad deals for Super Bowl LVII fell apart after FTX collapse: Report
6.2.2023
There had reportedly been a few deals for crypto commercials in this year's Super Bowl that fell apart following the collapse of FTX, but at least one project is giving away NFTs
Crypto.com Launches US Exchange — Institutional Investors Granted Access First
15.3.2022
The digital currency exchange Crypto.com has revealed it’s launching a crypto trading platform in the United States to waitlisted users and then a progressive rollout will follow. Furthermore, the company says the trading platform’s VIP users will get access to “exclusive...
NASCAR Launches Daytona 500 Digital Collectibles via the Wax Blockchain Platform
18.2.2022
On Friday, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) announced the firm launched digital collectibles for this year’s Daytona 500. NASCAR’s series of limited-edition Daytona 500 NFT drops is part of a partnership with the Wax blockchain team. NASCAR Reveals 2022...
Hollywood Star Ryan Reynolds on Crypto: ‘It’s Emerging as a Huge Player’
17.2.2022
Famous actor Ryan Reynolds says crypto is “emerging as a huge, huge player.” The Hollywood star added that “companies are doing a good job of bringing it into a sort of safer, more mainstream light.” Ryan Reynolds Sees Crypto as a Huge Player Hollywood actor Ryan...