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Electronic Arts Cancels "Black Panther" Video Game, Closes Cliffhanger Studios
Yara Sameh A long-awaited video game based on Disney and Marvel's cultural phenomenon movie 'Black Panther' has been scrapped at publisher Electronic Arts as part of the closure of the game's developer, Cliffhanger Games. As a result of EA shuttering Cliffhanger, multiple employees have been laid off at both that studio and across EA's mobile and central teams. The number of staffers cut is less than the 300 that EA let go last month when it canceled its next planned 'Titanfall' game, and the company is working to place these individuals with other teams throughout EA. In an email sent to staff Wednesday, EA Entertainment president Laura Miele said the moves were made to 'sharpen our focus and put our creative energy behind the most significant growth opportunities.' The cuts come as EA chief Andrew Wilson has made it clear the company's priority is its biggest franchises, including EA Sports, 'The Sims,' 'Battlefield,' 'Apex Legends,' and the upcoming game 'Skate,' rather than making licensed games. 'These decisions are hard,' Miele said. 'They affect people we've worked with, learned from and shared real moments with. We're doing everything we can to support them — including finding opportunities within EA, where we've had success helping people land in new roles.' This marks the third round of layoffs EA has made this year. In April, EA reduced its staff by more than 300 employees with approximately one third of the cuts made at developer Respawn, which was making 'Titanfall' and one additional project, both of which were in 'early-stage incubation,' according to Respawn. The layoffs mainly affected the teams working on games 'Apex Legends' and 'Star Wars Jedi.' read more New Tourism Route To Launch in Old Cairo Ahmed El Sakka-Led Play 'Sayidati Al Jamila' to Be Staged in KSA on Dec. 6 Mandy Moore Joins Season 2 of "Dr. Death" Anthology Series Don't Miss These Movies at 44th Cairo Int'l Film Festival Today Amr Diab to Headline KSA's MDLBEAST Soundstorm 2022 Festival Arts & Culture Mai Omar Stuns in Latest Instagram Photos Arts & Culture "The Flash" to End with Season 9 Arts & Culture Ministry of Culture Organizes four day Children's Film Festival Arts & Culture Canadian PM wishes Muslims Eid-al-Adha News Egypt confirms denial of airspace access to US B-52 bombers News Ayat Khaddoura's Final Video Captures Bombardment of Beit Lahia News Australia Fines Telegram $600,000 Over Terrorism, Child Abuse Content Arts & Culture Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's $4.7M LA Home Burglarized Sports Former Al Zamalek Player Ibrahim Shika Passes away after Long Battle with Cancer Sports Neymar Announced for Brazil's Preliminary List for 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers News Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly Inaugurates Two Indian Companies Arts & Culture New Archaeological Discovery from 26th Dynasty Uncovered in Karnak Temple Business Fear & Greed Index Plummets to Lowest Level Ever Recorded amid Global Trade War Arts & Culture Zahi Hawass: Claims of Columns Beneath the Pyramid of Khafre Are Lies
Business of Fashion
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Business of Fashion
Can Gaming Go Glam?
In a bit of beauty industry news that could read like the result of a very niche Mad Lib: The actress Chloë Grace Moretz and the pop star Rina Sawayama have created a cyberpunk cosmetic line, called Godmode, catered toward female gamers. The label is the first to launch from Closer Brands, the incubator beneath the UK-based Closer Group, The Business of Beauty has learned. Godmode's first collection comprises five products, including a cool-toned highlighter called Genesis Glow that approximates the pallid blue light cast off by screens; it will debut in early June on a direct-to-consumer website. On Tuesday morning, the brand teased an 'unlock' code on its founders' Instagram channels as well as its own, and intends to keep the exact launch date a secret for now. The launch reflects a broader effort on behalf of the beauty and fashion industries to engage female gamers, a growing segment of the population aided by the pandemic. While plenty of beauty brands have collaborated with popular coed games like The Sims or Roblox, Godmode seeks to integrate the two worlds more fully, creating a cast of characters and a universe of lore through marketing and a makeup collection. Godmode, itself, is not an actual video game or affiliated with one. 'Female gamers are everywhere,' said Mark Loy, the founder and executive chairman of Closer Group and the founder of Spring Studios. 'But brands barely speak to them.' Gender parity in the gaming population has narrowed significantly in the past few decades; in the US about 53 percent of gamers identified as male, 46 percent as female and 1 percent as non-binary, according to a 2024 report from the Entertainment Software Association. When it comes to preferences, however, there are some distinctly gendered trends; while about half of men who game play 'live service' titles like Fortnite or Grand Theft Auto, nearly 70 percent of women prefer mobile games, according to a 2024 Deloitte survey. The brand's first drop, Genesis, includes the Genesis Glow Highlighter, which approximates the pallid blue glow of a screen's light. (Godmode) Godmode achieves a more unusual milestone in the beauty industry as the first brand of its era to be fronted by not one but two celebrities, though Loy is reluctant to use the c-word. 'It's important to us that it's not seen as a celebrity brand,' he said. With celebrities or without them, Godmode will need to create something more explorable, more tangible and more playable than gamified product drops paired with hyper-lush marketing imagery to gain and maintain credibility with its gamers. 'Rina and I have the ability to build a new world for beauty that isn't just, 'Oh, you like this product, buy this product,' right?' Moretz said. A Perfect Match The realm of video games, only a handful of decades old, has historically been a place where brands go to meet men: the cult bar arcade game Tapper was a branded effort from Anheiser-Busch, and brands like Mercedes-Benz have more recently sponsored esports leagues and made its S-Class available in Mario Kart. Fashion and beauty companies, by contrast, have only recently entered the category. In 2020, MAC Cosmetics gifted a batch of 12 makeup looks to users of The Sims, which has also offered paid expansion packs sponsored by H&M (in 2007) and Moschino (in 2019). Meanwhile, a number of brands including E.l.f. Cosmetics and Givenchy, and most recently the fragrance and flavors conglomerate Givaudan, have created minigames for Roblox, the online game with 90 million monthly average users. Givaudan's 'The Garden of Memories,' in which players help a cute woodland creature craft perfumes, has logged about 60,000 players since it launched in France in January. Many of these are attempts to hook young consumers, rather than consumers who game, which has required a carefully calibrated approach by Closer. Godmode crystallised in 2023, as the incubator sought out celebrity partners. Moretz and Sawayama were deemed a perfect match for the gaming-inspired brand — the former had expressed interest in working on a beauty label to her agents at CAA, while the latter is an ambassador for Playstation. The two met for the first time in New York when they convened to shoot promo photography. Co-founder Chloë Grace Moretz appears as Chroma, her Godmode alter ego, with makeup by Daniel Sallström. She is partial to the brand's Level Up Lip Liners. The uncommon dual-founder structure was not lost on the greater public when news broke earlier this month that Moretz and Sawayama were collaborating on a beauty line. A representative example, from X: 'I don't think I would have put them together, but hey, good for them!' The co-founders corral audiences from different fields of the entertainment industry, but are also passionate gamers themselves, they told The Business of Beauty. Sawayama is a fan of tycoon-style titles like Two Point Museum, while Moretz enjoys open-world roleplaying games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Final Fantasy XIV. 'Once I realised how much you can customise and go deep into this character lore and create your own story, it's just a whole different form of gameplay,' Moretz said. A promotional still from Godmode's launch film animated by the production company All of Us Here. (Godmode) Loy pointed out that the two are 'emotionally and financially invested' in Godmode, but declined to elaborate on the partnership structure. He also hinted at forthcoming collaborations that could see Godmode entrench itself in the world of gaming beyond a product that is 'rebranded with somebody's IP.' There will also be immersive spaces, similar to the ones Closer has designed for brands like Louis Vuitton and Miu Miu. For the brand's debut, the co-founders will reveal their Godmode alter egos, with the brand's product drops — beginning with 'Genesis' in the summer, and another planned for the fall — released as chapters of an intergalactic series. 'If you're not a gamer, it's hard to understand the fantasy,' Sawayama said. Sign up to The Business of Beauty newsletter, your complimentary, must-read source for the day's most important beauty and wellness news and analysis.
Buzz Feed
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
22 Stories About People Catching Their Partners Cheating
We asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us the story of how they caught their partner cheating. Here are their most shocking stories: "He accidentally sent me a picture of another woman wearing my lingerie and then accused ME of sleeping with a woman." "The first time I caught him (there were many) I was 8 months pregnant with our first child. I logged into his email because he said that was where his mom sent a recipe I wanted to make. I found an email from his 'slave' to her 'master.'" "I walked in on her having sex with the other woman! But I didn't get mad or sad, because I'm a positive person. I just winked and said, 'Room for one more?' It was fun and we were actually a throuple for a while! But in the end, it fell apart, and we all kind of hate each other now." "My bestie called me hysterically sobbing last month. She had received an anonymous text from a woman claiming to be her husband's other woman. She provided detailed descriptions of the inside of their home in which she had slept with him while my friend went to visit her dying father out of state. The other woman had also contacted the husband's first wife, who joined a group chat with my best friend and the other woman to compare notes. Turned out the husband is a serial philanderer and pathological liar who has lied and cheated on every woman he's ever been with." "Way back in the day, he gave me a birthday gift. It was a DVD of Clueless. It wasn't my birthday. He swore it was and then went into a detailed explanation on why he was correct. He distinctly remembered us discussing the movie, which class we were in, and other details. That wasn't me. Turned out it was his other girlfriend's birthday. He just got us confused. I dumped him." "My then-girlfriend had just moved in less than a month prior. She'd given me a whole speech about how she'd cheated on every other serious partner she'd had, but had never felt the urge to cheat on me, then left for work. Within 10 minutes of her leaving for work, I grabbed her laptop (at the time, the only way for us to watch anything was through a cord hooked up to a laptop and the TV). I wanted to play The Sims on my laptop while watching something on the TV, so I was going to watch something she had downloaded to her laptop. Then I found a video of her hooking up with some guy at the beach. I knew that it wasn't an old video because I helped her pick that bathing suit top out since we moved in together." "I literally came downstairs in my own house and caught my then-fiancée naked in bed with her supposed friend! It was 6 a.m. and I had to go to work. I was only temping, so as angry and upset as I was, I couldn't afford not to go into work on time. So I made sure they were aware of my emotions by slamming the door when I left. Ten minutes later, I got a text saying, 'Thanks for waking us up!' She was one cruel, callous person, and looking back, I'm glad I dodged that bullet!" "I found a message on his phone from a mutual friend of ours that read, 'I can't stop thinking about all the things I want to do to you when I see you again.' We'd been together for six years, and I was four months pregnant at the time." "She had done some unexpected personal grooming and packed lingerie to take to work with her. When we got home at the end of the day, and she went off to get ready for bed (clearly not intending to sleep with me), I pulled the very used lingerie out of her bag and confronted her. She evaded initially but ended up confessing it was some guy from her work she had only met a couple of days earlier. That was three weeks ago. She's still sleeping with the new guy while I've moved out, and I am trying to figure out how we sell the house we bought together seven months ago. So, fun times." "She was having too many 'girls night out.' I was skeptical. I checked her location on Find My Friends and saw she was at the neighbor's house. He's single. A betrayal like that is devastating." "I went to the doctor for an IUD for birth control after our second child, and while the doctor was inserting the IUD in my cervix, she informed me that I had an STI. I had only had sex with him for the past 10 years." "She said she was at a friend's studying. I had suspicions about a guy she was working with, so I drove about 30 minutes to his house and found her car there. I parked out front and called her. She picked up, and I just let her bury herself as hard as I could. I asked her what she was studying, what the girl's name was she was studying with, where she lived, and everything I could think of to make her fumble about. Then I told her to look out front of the house she was in. When I saw her peek through a blind, I waved and told her to find a new place to live and to come get her things. I know things hadn't been great for a while, but it was still a bummer to end like that." "I was suspicious, my spider senses were tingling. She left her laptop open, so I logged into her work email. Her lover was a coworker. Nothing was in the inbox. The dummy deleted all the emails but didn't delete her trash. It was all there." "My ex used to run a construction business with a childhood friend. They were very close, and his friend was at our wedding. Ex started stealing money from the business and lying about jobs. I didn't know this until his friend showed up at our home demanding we pay him back. My ex refused and told him he was going solo in the business. The friend looked me dead in the eye and told me the woman's name. No other info but just the name. I immediately knew what he meant by the look in his eye. He then gave me the address. The house was built by my husband, four years prior." "He told me that he was at his parents' and would probably be spending the night. I was over at his parents for dinner. They had seen me on my way home from work and invited me over. I was about to ask him when he would be finished with work so that he could meet me there, then I saw the message." "I was rubbing her stomach in bed, and she made a joke about not being pregnant, assuring me she'd had a pregnancy test two weeks before. We hadn't seen each other in three months because she was studying in Scotland." "My boyfriend and flatmate went out for drinks while I stayed home with the flu. I fell asleep on the sofa watching TV and woke up to noises upstairs. It sounded like moaning and kissing. My heart sank, and I felt like throwing up as I silently crept to my bedroom to peer in. My flatmate was on top of my boyfriend, half-naked. She saw me and leaped off, then ran out to her bedroom and shut the door. I yelled and banged on it, but she ignored me. I went to him to yell and get an explanation, but he pretended he was asleep, completely ignoring me, and denying it the next day." "I parked outside his house and asked him what he was doing. He said, 'Just relaxing at home,' but he wasn't home. Went through his phone that night and found everything. He was cheating with at least four other women." "She handed me her phone and asked me to proofread an email she was going to send to her director that morning, and in came a text from some dude I'd never heard of. They had hooked up the week before while I was on a work trip. They'd been sexting for weeks. They met while she was out with girls." "I went to the mailbox to retrieve the mail and found a statement from a bank we didn't use with her name and another man's name on it. That's when I knew we were done." "She left her diary on the lounge room floor when she went to work. I debated reading it but eventually gave in. It was then I found out about her screwing my brother multiple times when I was working night shifts. When I confronted her about it, she called me out for reading her diary and for working the night shift, therefore not being home when she got horny. I tried to explain the difference in levels of the bad things we did, but she didn't see any." And fiinally, "She didn't come home after dropping our youngest off at preschool, which is only two miles away, for the afternoon session. I noticed she had makeup on and showered early, on her day off, which never happened. I watched her location, and she was in a rural area she never goes to, and it wouldn't zoom in. Finally, it zoomed in, and I screenshot it. I drove down and walked in on her, buck naked, in his trailer waiting for round two. He was outside smoking a cigarette, and when I walked up, he looked like he thought I was about to kill him."
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
NFL schedule release: Colts delete, apologize for 'Minecraft'-inspired video over Microsoft rights, Tyreek Hill joke
You know that trope in which two people show up to a party wearing the exact same thing? The Indianapolis Colts did that with the kings of NFL schedule release day and it wasn't even their biggest problem. A schedule release video in which best-selling video game "Minecraft" is used to roast every opponent is such a specific idea, and yet the Colts and Los Angeles Chargers both did exactly that on Wednesday. The Chargers have been doing stuff like this for years, first with anime in 2022 and 2023, then "The Sims" in 2024. In the case of 2025, the Chargers used the Microsoft-published title to take digs at Jameis Winston, Mike McDaniel, the Colts' QB battle, the Minnesota Vikings' playoff stumble, the Pittsburgh Steelers' purgatory, the Tuck Rule, Jason Kelce's phone destruction, the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl destruction (maybe a bridge too far for the ring-less Chargers) and the Micah Parsons-DeMarcus Lawrence feud. should we REALLY make our schedule release video in minecraft?yes yes yesyesyesyes yes yes yesyes yes yes yes yesyes yesyes yes yesyes yesye yes yesyes yes yesyes — Los Angeles Chargers (@chargers) May 15, 2025 It got awkward, however, when the Colts posted a shockingly similar video. We also can't give you the Colts' tweet with the video, because it was taken down roughly an hour after it was posted. That decision raised eyebrows until the team released a statement Thursday. In that statement, the Colts explained the video was taken down due to a rights issue with Microsoft and an inappropriate joke about Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill. Per ESPN's Adam Schefter, the Colts also reached out to Hill's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, to pass along their apologies. Statement from the Colts: "We removed our schedule release video because it exceeded our rights with Microsoft and included an insensitive clip involving Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill. We sincerely apologize to Microsoft and Tyreek." — ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) May 15, 2025 Fortunately, the internet is rather good at preserving stuff like this. As you can see, the Colts' production values are a step behind the Chargers', but we'd argue the roasts are of a similar quality. That's fine, I downloaded the Minecraft schedule release for the Colts 🤷🏾♂️. — CLew 🏈🏀⚾️🥊 (@droppedballspod) May 15, 2025 So, why were the Chargers allowed to keep their video up? The Chargers thought about the rights issue before posting the video. The team obtained Microsoft's blessing to use Minecraft, and started its video by stating, "Minecraft used with permission from Microsoft Corporation." The Colts had no such message. We will also point out the Washington Commanders' "Roller Coaster Tycoon" parody, the Atlanta Falcons' "Mario Kart" parody and the San Francisco 49ers' "Oregon Trail" parody all don't feature the actual names or logos of the games those teams are spoofing. It also appears the joke about Tyreek Hill's maritime legal troubles, might have been too spicy for someone's tastes. The Colts did at least have a backup video, in which they just have players guess whom they're playing. Some teams will make multiple videos for schedule release day, such as the Los Angeles Rams putting out a Brenda Song local news parody and a player guessing game similar to the Colts'. Close enough. — Indianapolis Colts (@Colts) May 15, 2025 Meanwhile, the New York Jets just decided to have fun with the situation. we had a Minecraft video ready, but decided to change it last minute. our turn now. 😉∞️ — New York Jets (@nyjets) May 15, 2025 This all goes to show you really never know what's going to happen on NFL schedule release day.
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
NFL schedule release: Colts delete, apologize for 'Minecraft'-inspired video over Microsoft rights, Tyreek Hill joke
You know that trope in which two people show up to a party wearing the exact same thing? The Indianapolis Colts might have just done that with the kings of NFL schedule release day. A schedule release video in which best-selling video game "Minecraft" is used to roast every opponent is such a specific idea, and yet the Colts and Los Angeles Chargers both did exactly that on Wednesday. The Chargers have been doing stuff like this for years, first with anime in 2022 and 2023, then "The Sims" in 2024. In the case of 2025, the Chargers used the Microsoft-published title to take digs at Jameis Winston, Mike McDaniel, the Colts' QB battle, the Minnesota Vikings' playoff stumble, the Pittsburgh Steelers' purgatory, the Tuck Rule, Jason Kelce's phone destruction, the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl destruction (maybe a bridge too far for the ring-less Chargers) and the Micah Parsons-DeMarcus Lawrence feud. should we REALLY make our schedule release video in minecraft?yes yes yesyesyesyes yes yes yesyes yes yes yes yesyes yesyes yes yesyes yesye yes yesyes yes yesyes — Los Angeles Chargers (@chargers) May 15, 2025 It got awkward, however, when the Colts posted a shockingly similar video. We also can't give you the Colts' tweet with the video, because it was taken down roughly an hour after it was posted. That decision raised eyebrows until the team released a statement Thursday. In that statement, the Colts explained the video was taken down due to a rights issue with Microsoft and an inappropriate joke about Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill. Statement from the Colts: "We removed our schedule release video because it exceeded our rights with Microsoft and included an insensitive clip involving Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill. We sincerely apologize to Microsoft and Tyreek." — ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) May 15, 2025 Fortunately, the internet is rather good at preserving stuff like this. As you can see, the Colts' production values are a step behind the Chargers', but we'd argue the roasts are of a similar quality. That's fine, I downloaded the Minecraft schedule release for the Colts 🤷🏾♂️. — CLew 🏈🏀⚾️🥊 (@droppedballspod) May 15, 2025 So, why were the Chargers allowed to keep their video up? The Chargers thought about the rights issue before posting the video. The team obtained Microsoft's blessing to use Minecraft, and started its video by stating, "Minecraft used with permission from Microsoft Corporation." The Colts had no such warning. We will also point out the Washington Commanders' "Roller Coaster Tycoon" parody, the Atlanta Falcons' "Mario Kart" parody and the San Francisco 49ers' "Oregon Trail" parody all don't feature the actual names or logos of the games those teams are spoofing. It also appears the joke about Tyreek Hill's maritime legal troubles, might have been too spicy for someone's tastes. The Colts did at least have a backup video, in which they just have players guess whom they're playing. Some teams will make multiple videos for schedule release day, such as the Los Angeles Rams putting out a Brenda Song local news parody and a player guessing game similar to the Colts'. Close enough. — Indianapolis Colts (@Colts) May 15, 2025 Meanwhile, the New York Jets just decided to have fun with the situation. we had a Minecraft video ready, but decided to change it last minute. our turn now. 😉∞️ — New York Jets (@nyjets) May 15, 2025 This all goes to show you really never know what's going to happen on NFL schedule release day.
