Taylor Swift has been thanked for her “generous” and “timely” donations to children’s charities in Nashville and Kansas City. The pop megastar has quietly been making major donations to causes of her choosing in recent years, including foodbanks in the UK, the American non-profit Feeding America, to whom she recently gave $1million, and a young fan battling cancer, who she gave $100,000. Now,
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Dogs have been ‘man’s best friend’ for thousands of years, which is a long time to get to know each other. But a new study from Arizona State University’s canine science lab suggests we may not always be reading our dogs’ emotions as clearly as we might think. Our interpretation of their feelings, it turns
Battlefield 6 officially arrived on Friday across PC and current-gen platforms. The highly-anticipated launch had some question marks hanging over it, but those quickly dissipated as soon as servers went live. For one, this is easily the biggest launch for a Battlefield game – at least on Steam, which may well be the game’s biggest
During Rare’s Nintendo days, the studio made a habit of producing cutting-edge games on aging hardware. In late-1994, its pre-rendered platformer Donkey Kong Country allowed the sprite-focused SNES to compete with the polygon-powered PlayStation. However, a contemporary project codenamed Project Dream was struggling to find form. It too employed pre-rendered visuals, but was isometric rather
AMC CEO declares today on Twitter “Our year ends on a high: Netflix’s Strangers Things series finale to show in many AMC theatres this week.” As Deadline already told, you the show’s creators, the Duffer Brothers, posted that 1.1 million seats had been sold as of two days ago in over 620 locations. Aron emphasized
Stephen King, (c)Laurel Entertainment Inc./courtesy Everett Collection There’s something supremely chilling about an actor largely known for nice guy roles taking on a sinister character. We saw Robin Williams play against type in both One Hour Photo and Insomnia, and each example is endlessly unsettling because we are lured in with a false sense of
Sourdough What if a loaf of bread could change your life? For Lois Clary, an exhausted software engineer at a robotics company, her favorite hole-in-the-wall’s sourdough and spicy soup takeout are what gets her through coding all day, week after week, while still limiting human interaction. But when the restaurant has to shut down spontaneously,
Xaviersobased is celebrating the end of his 2025 North American tour with a twitchy new single produced by Ooskully. Arriving a day after the New York rapper’s hometown show at Webster Hall, “Walk to Me” is the first offering since Xavier’s major-label debut, the surprise September EP Once More. You can check out the full
As a young star develops, so too does a protoplanetary disk of dust and gas around it, ready to birth new planets. Scientists have just discovered more about IRAS 23077+6707, the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed by a telescope. First spotted last year, the system is about 1,000 light-years from Earth and has a diameter
Image: Nintendo Life Over the holiday season, we’re republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors from 2025. This article was originally published in August. Enjoy! Most of the time, I’m pretty oblivious to game name trends. It’s normally only when someone points out to me that all AAA games have
After I finally got back into reading and listening to books regularly, once I started hitting my volume goals, I began to set other types of goals for myself. Catching up on classics and iconic works that got by me during my school years was just one of my side-goals, in addition to hitting 150
It’s the end of 2025, which means we’re 25 years into the 21st century. As they’re wont to do, the Losers take inventory of the last 25 years and pick the 10 best Stephen King movies during that stretch. Keep in mind, however, these are strictly feature films — both theatrical and at-home releases –
Liam Gallagher has stoked rumours by teasing possible Oasis activity for next year. Earlier this month, the frontman appeared to confirm that the band would not be touring again until 2027 at the earliest, replying to inquisitive fans on X by tweeting, “We’re not doing anything in 2026 sorry”. That was then followed up by a blunt denial that Oasis would be playing at Knebworth
WASHINGTON — Planet, a company best known for providing geospatial intelligence through its constellation of imaging satellites, sees a significant opportunity in developing orbital data centers for artificial intelligence. Planet announced last month a partnership with Google on what the companies call Project Suncatcher, an effort to demonstrate the ability of AI data centers to
UK games journalist Christopher Dring has confirmed this evening that the Nintendo Switch 2 has now outsold the Wii U, the SEGA Dreamcast and the PlayStation Vita in the biggest games market in Europe, the United Kingdom. This is an impressive achievement given the platform was only released in June. Thanks to Greatsong1 for sending
I still almost can’t believe Silent Hill f actually happened after years of nothing from the series. I also almost can’t believe how good it was, after the okay Message, and bizarre and wildly unpopular Ascension. But happen it did, and it was great – becoming probably my favorite horror game of this year. As
After seven years, it is hard not to deny how Mike Flanagan‘s first and, arguably, the best Netflix horror show features one of the most mind-bending twists in horror history. If there is one twist in the history of the horror genre that is still the best ever, it is the ending moment from The
Courtesy of Universal Pictures Every year, the horror genre has its heavy hitters. This year, I think Zach Cregger’s Weapons, Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein are going to be the titles to beat. All three are presently part of the broader awards conversation, too, demonstrating just how much efficacy the
Last night, December 20, Ariana Grande returned to Studio 8H to host Saturday Night Live for the second time in as many years. During her monologue, Grande parodied Mariah Carey’s recently record-breaking “All I Want for Christmas Is You” and was joined by Bowen Yang, who is leaving the SNL cast midway through his eighth
Here are the answers to the festive maths quiz set on December 23. I hope you enjoyed it. Puzzle 1: You are given nine gold coins that look identical. You are told that one of them is fake and that this coin weighs less than the real ones. Using a set of old-fashioned balance scales,
Marvel Rivals has been getting increasingly creative with its skins, but today’s reveal pushes the game to a new level. Lady Loki, a female version of the god of mischief, is coming to the in-game shop later this week, complete with a new voice lines from a (presumably) new voice actor. You can see the
My Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. “Blood Of Ancients: The First Dreamwalk” The nightmare is finally over for Bly Pharis. No more vampires, spirit warriors, and crazy cops trying to kill her. Yet her life is still in turmoil. With both of her parents dead and no place to go, the “chosen one”
Christmas week was reliably bountiful for Broadway, with early reports of record-breaking grosses for the holiday period coming in hours before the official numbers are released by the Broadway League this afternoon. With news of more house record-busters likely to drift in throughout the day, preliminary numbers are more than impressive for Stranger Things: The
The highest-grossing installment in the Predator franchise, Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator: Badlands, is heading home to Digital next week. The action adventure film arrives on Digital on January 6 before the film’s arrival on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on February 17, 2026. The newest entry in the franchise is set on a remote planet where a
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs‘ sons are set to share their “personal story” of his trial in a new docuseries. Earlier this year, Combs was sentenced to four years and two months in prison following his conviction on federal prostitution-related charges. A judge said a “substantial sentence” was required to “send a message to abusers and victims alike
One of the greatest mysteries the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was developed to investigate was the birth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs). For more than twenty years, astronomers have puzzled over how these gravitational behemoths – weighing millions to billions of solar masses – could exist less than a billion years after the Big
Battlefield 6 is here. It’s breaking series records, and everyone is generally happy with the quality of the launch build. Once players cleared the long log-in queues and started diving in, however, they realised what the media and content creators have been feeling during the review period: the game’s XP grind is just too slow.
Whether it was fighting hordes of orcs keep Middle-earth safe, plumbing the ocean depths, stalking an alien nest, or squabbling over an empty throne, it’s been one hell of a year for board games. Actually, the shelves are creaking under the weight of new favorites. With so many board games setting the community alight in
I watch a lot of movies in a year, and I’ve always operated that way. However, for the majority of my life, I avoided scary movies like the plague. Then, I watched Scream – one of the best horror movies ever made – a few years ago, and that changed my mentality. Now, while I’m
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