Def Jam teases a “special announcement” for video game fans

Public Enemy and Def Jam are back in business together.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorPublic Enemy, the legendary rap group that helped shape socially conscious hip-hop into what it is today, have returned to Def Jam Recordings, the label that hosted their most iconic recordings.The reunion launches with a remix of the group’s classic 1989 song “Fight the Power (Remix 2020),” which opened the 2020 BET Awards in June featuring Nas, Rapsody, Black Thought, YG, Jahi and Questlove. The song, originally featured in Spike Lee’s film “Do the Right Thing,”

Public Enemy are to release a new album on Def Jam this September.‘What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?’ will be the first Public Enemy record on Def Jam, the label on which they made their debut, in over two decades.Released on September 25, Chuck D said returning to Def Jam was “necessary.”Speaking about the new record, he said: “Cultural Institutions are important.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsMartin Owen’s sci-fi comedy Max Cloud has landed at Well Go USA, as the entertainment group secured the film’s North America distribution rights.Max Cloud, from the Let’s Be Evil and Killers Anonymous director, brings viewers back to an age of classic video games as a teenager named Sarah (Isabelle Allen) finds herself living in a virtual world populated by the her favorite game’s most infamous villains and bosses.

Premiere: "I think that could be a really interesting period around the Cold War. Traditionally, I think [the games have] gone back further than that.

Audrey Cleo Yap The Suicide Squad is ready to take on Superman — and, well, the entire Justice League.

Jordan Moreau DC FanDome, the first-ever virtual showcase for DC Comics, proved that it’s still possible to put on an engaging event packed with new announcements during the pandemic. Superhero fans got first-ever looks at Robert Pattinson as the next Batman and Dwayne Johnson as the anti-hero Black Adam.

Jordan Moreau After years of rumors and fan theories, a new “Batman” video game has finally been announced.“Gotham Knights” was revealed on Saturday at the DC FanDome virtual event.

Queen‘s Brian May has teased an announcement from the band in a cryptic new video.Posting on Instagram this afternoon (August 19), the legendary guitarist shared a brief clip which sees him performing to thousands of fans, alongside drummer Roger Taylor and the band’s current vocalist Adam Lambert.While the video stopped short of revealing what’s in store for Queen fans, it confirmed that the announcement will arrive at 12AM BST on Friday (August 18) and 4PM/7PM PDT/EDT tomorrow.Responding to

High Score looks to change that, and while it isn't the game-changer we had hoped for, it's a solid nostalgia-fueled starting point for anyone interested in the early days of gaming, even if its approach to gaming is to mash as many buttons as it can and hope a solid story comes out of it. Covering gaming from the stand-up arcade cabinets of the late '70s and early '80s to the move to 3D graphics for home consoles and personal computers in the early 1990s, almost all of High Score's episodes are

Animal Farm is receiving the video game treatment later this year.From indie developer Nerial, Orwell’s Animal Farm is an adventure game set in the world of famous novel and will be using the medium of video gaming as a new method to share the timeless tale.

Busta Rhymes got Chris Rock to make a very special announcement this week.

The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater video game franchise was an absolute revelation in the industry, as well as a huge attraction for gamers on the whole. I know even just personally, growing up it was one of the most popular things you could be playing, whether or not you knew anything about skateboarding, or even if you were interested in it.

Smashing Pumpkins are teasing a new announcement, launching a series of countdown clocks on their website.The new countdown, which fans were alerted to via the band’s social media accounts, features five clocks, the first of which runs out in 12 days.The other clocks run out, respectively, in 33, 54, 75 and 96 days from now (August 15).

Consumer video game spending in the U.S. totaled $3.6 billion across in July, according to the NPD Group, an increase of 32 percent compared to a year ago.

Chrissy Teigen may have big news in her husband John Legend’s new music video for “Wild”.

Sufjan Stevens is set to release his new single ‘Video Game’ tomorrow (August 13).The track is the second to be previewed from the artist’s upcoming new album ‘The Ascension’, which is set for release on September 25.Following on from the arrival of the LP’s first single ‘America’, which came out last month, Stevens is now prepping the release of ‘Video Game’.

Nickelback have unsurprisingly faced the wrath of the internet after teasing a new announcement that’s set to be made this Friday (August 14).The maligned Canadian rockers tweeted yesterday “FRIDAY 8/14”, prompting speculation that they’re about to release their first new album in three years.But instead of widespread excitement, the announcement just cemented their place as the internet’s favourite whipping boys.One Twitter user responded: “You don’t have to do this.”Another commented: “Hearing