Former Riot Games Exec Jarred Kennedy Joins Virtual Concert Startup Wave

The Weeknd has previewed an excerpt of a new track as part of his recent extended reality livestream held on TikTok last Friday (August 7).The show, ‘The Weeknd Experience’, was announced in late July and billed as a “live fan interactive & immersive XR moment”, where The Weeknd would perform tracks from his latest album, ‘After Hours’, as a digital avatar.During the performance, which comprised five tracks in total, the rapper played a snippet of an unidentified song before launching into

Colton Underwood has teamed up with Chat4Good to answer everything that fans want to know, Us Weekly can exclusively announce. The fan-centric platform creates global virtual fan events to benefit a variety of charities.The former Bachelor, 28, will participate in an intimate conversation with Us Weekly‘s Emily Longeretta on Tuesday, August 11, starting at 9 p.m.

Riot Games has announced that it will be rescheduling several upcoming patches and tweaking its release timeline in order to give its employees some time off.The developer revealed through a news post that starting from August 10, a majority of the company’s employees will be taking a week off to recharge and disconnect.

The Daves are coming together to create a “visual and musical feast designed to lift viewers’ spirits during a time of international uncertainty”. And by that we mean Dave, as in Dave, and Dave, as in Dave Attenborough.

Riot Games has confirmed that a deathmatch mode will be introduced to Valorant sometime during the game’s upcoming Act 2.The free-for-all deathmatch mode will feature 10 players per game, the same as a standard Valorant match, with the first player to reach 30 kills wins.

virtual concert in the Natural History Museum in London on Thursday night.The gig was viewed by people around the globe and was definitely one of the highlights of lockdown! Getting to collaborate with other like-minded souls is truly an honour.

Jordan Moreau More than 150 people in Rhode Island accidentally received tax refund checks signed by none other than Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney, rather than their state officials.According to CNN, the misprinted signatures were on 176 tax refund checks. The error was the result of a technical glitch in the printing system for the state’s Division of Taxation.

Rhode Island’s Division of Taxation turned into a literal Mickey Mouse outfit this week when 176 refund checks were accidentally mailed out bearing the cartoon character’s “signature.”The checks, mailed Monday, were signed “Mickey Mouse” where General Treasurer Seth Magaziner’s name belonged, and “Walt Disney” in the spot reserved for State Controller Peter Keenan, according to multiple reports.The “test signatures” were mistakenly misprinted on the checks due to a “technical error” in the

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerThe Rhode Island Dept. of the Treasury is evidently a Mickey Mouse operation.A resident of the state received a sales tax refund this week, but noticed that the names of General Treasurer Seth Magaziner and State Controller Peter Keenan had been substituted.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe Weeknd will hop on the virtual stage in TikTok’s app next week for a special augmented-reality, live-streamed concert featuring songs from his hit album “After Hours.”“The Weeknd Experience,” created by TikTok in partnership with XO, Republic Records, and Scooter Braun-backed virtual concert startup Wave, will feature a performance by the Grammy-winning R&B-pop artist, who will appear in digital-avatar form to play songs from his new album “After Hours.”The

Riot Games has leaked details about Killjoy, the upcoming 12th agent for its multiplayer shooter Valorant.The developer accidentally published a news post all about the upcoming character, with descriptions of her abilities and videos of them in action. However, no images of Killjoy herself were revealed.

Riot Games had revealed that it will introduce a new rank system to its online tactical shooter, Valorant.Senior producer Ian Fielding announced the new system, called Act Rank, on the official Valorant website.

Ted Johnson At virtual concert for Joe Biden on Sunday, John Legend and Andra Day performed a socially distanced duet of Greatest Love Of All, a chorus and Kristin Chenoweth sang numbers with specially written campaign lyrics, and Barbra Streisand delivered eight minutes of closing remarks that were both an endorsement of the candidate and a sharp rebuke of Donald Trump.“Let’s face it, Trump is unfit, mentally and morally, to hold this distinguished office,” Streisand said.The fundraising

“His Dark Materials” cast prepare for their second season and celebrate their debut at this year’s Comic-Con @ Home.

Riot Games has confirmed that the recently leaked characters for its tactical shooter Valorant are actually old ideas that have now been scrapped.Over the weekend, Valorant fans uncovered two unreleased agents called Shatter and Crusader, alongside audio files, abilities and more. However, lead character designer Ryan “Morello” Scott has revealed that those characters are just “super old cancelled characters”.“I’ve talked a bunch on my [Twitch] stream about Crusader getting the axe.

Virtual entertainment company Wave revealed Monday that former Riot Games executive Jarred Kennedy has been appointed as COO, where he will oversee core operations and expand the scale of digital concert experiences. In the role, Kennedy will report to Wave CEO and co-founder Adam Arrigo.