Insomnia Gaming Festival criticised for using volunteer workers

Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth played such a central role in the Hunger Games franchise that it is impossible to imagine the movies without them on the screen.

Lenny Kravitz is a music icon and a successful actor. However, lately he is best known for his role in the Hunger Games franchise.

Thania Garcia Lenny Kravitz is pumped for his first hosting gig at the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards. “I’m just ready to get out there and I’m grateful to still be here,” the 58-year-old rocker tells Variety. “After all the years I have behind me — to still be so vibrant and feel so inspired — is truly a gift. And in this very special case, it’s beautiful to meet and witness the people coming up now in this generation. It’s a special moment in my career.” Fresh off his In Memoriam performance at the 95th Oscars ceremony, Kravitz’s schedule is as busy as can be. Aside from hosting the awards show on March 27, Kravitz is also set to deliver a “roughly four-minute” medley of at least three of his career-defining tracks — a challenging feat for the artist, whose catalog spans over three decades of hits.

Manchester United and Man City have been given a degree of Premier League fixture clarity ahead of the run-in.

the March Madness games online, that's happening on Sling TV and Hulu with Live TV. Hulu begins streaming with Sunday Selection and their live coverage won't stop until the nail-biting March Madness Championship Game ends.

Manchester United's pre-season tour to the United States of America can be the ideal opportunity for Donny van de Beek to stake his claim for a place in Erik ten Hag's first-team squad next season.

Tom Brady is ready to be the one sitting in the bleachers. The retired Buccaneers star recently held an “unofficial retirement party,” in Tampa, Florida where he opened up about life after football.Brady’s party was hosted by Brady’s NFT company Autograph. According to PEOPLE, the 45-year-old said his focus is his children.

the March Madness games online, that's happening on Sling TV and Hulu with Live TV. Hulu begins streaming with Sunday Selection and their live coverage won't stop until the nail-biting March Madness Championship Game ends.

Criterion Games general manager Matt Webster has announced the founding of Fuse Games, and has told NME why he stepped away from EA to start a new studio with other Criterion veterans.Announced today (March 16), Fuse Games is based in Guildford, UK, and currently numbers 17 employees.The studio has already started work on a AAA title with “significant funding”, and has claimed its debut game will fuse “uncompromising attention to game-feel with blockbuster spectacle and player-centric innovations in social gameplay, self-expression, and creativity”.Speaking to NME, Webster shared more on the direction that Fuse will take for its first game.“Over the last decade, Fuse’s founding team has had a lot of experience in a variety of genres, with work on games like Battlefield and Battlefront, as well as racers like Burnout and Need For Speed when we were at Criterion,” reflected Webster. “It’s too early to announce what we’re working on at Fuse right now, but we’ll be sticking to the values that have served us well over the years – working fast, rapidly iterating, and letting our team be creative within the genre.”While Webster will serve as the studio’s general manager, he is joined by four other co-founders who worked alongside him at Criterion.

The Last of Us. Based on the hit video game from developer Naughty Dog and distributed by Sony, HBO’s nine-episode drama was an instant success when it debuted in January, earning rave reviews and the second highest ratings for a series premiere since 2010 with 4.7 million viewers across HBO and HBO Max. In fact, The Last of Us only grew more popular in the weeks after launch, notching higher ratings to reach 7.5 million viewers by the fourth episode. In the hands of series creators Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) and Neil Druckmann (a co-creator of the original game), the show deftly balances the original, action-packed source material with the narrative nuance afforded by serial TV.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Kuwaiti-born writer-director Zeyad (also known as “Z”) Alhusaini, whose action movie with comedic undertones “How I Got There” recently won the audience award at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival, has joined United Talent Agency for representation in all areas. The groundbreaking film about two best buddies from childhood, named Salem and Asad, who stumble upon a gun shipment and try to seize this opportunity to get rich quick is set entirely in the Persian Gulf. “How I Got There” provides a relatively realistic glimpse of Kuwait’s present-day melting-pot of cultures, and its underworld of gun-running mercenaries, gangs, and terrorists, plus the local rap scene.

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Dredge, clockwork puzzler Mechinus and Demonschool.The Official Selection was announced today (March 9) and features over 30 games that will be playable during London Games Festival, which will run between March 29 and April 9.The games are spread across five categories: Best Of British, High Energy, Historial Adventure, International Innovators and Pixel Power.You can check out the festival’s Official Selection below.When London Games Festival kicks off, these games will be showcased at the Platform Bar Exhibition.Elsewhere, London Games Festival will also feature partner events with W.A.S.D, the BAFTA Games Awards and Now Play This.

Sons of the Forest developers Endnight Games, the developer of the survival success story has hinted at a few plans for the game’s path to 1.0 release.Endnight is keeping most of their cards close to their chest, but a lot of the details are focused on plans for companions Kelvin and Virginia. You can see the entire Q&A, with questions harvested from the game’s Discord and Reddit communities, in the below video (via PC Gamer.)“We have big plans to keep adding tasks Kelvin can complete, some ideas in progress are having him help construct a wall around your base, or fortify/repair the base when needed.

Capcom Spotlight has been announced for next week, with the developer telling fans to expect “updates and new information” about its upcoming games.The Capcom Spotlight will take place next Thursday (March 9) at 10:30PM, and Capcom says it will run for approximately 26 minutes.As for what the show will contain, Capcom’s website claims it will feature “updates and new information about our upcoming games,” including its Resident Evil 4 remake and Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection.When the showcase begins, you can watch it through the YouTube video below.Capcom’s next major release is Resident Evil 4, which will launch for PlayStation, Xbox and PC on March 24.Last week, Capcom shared a third trailer for the remake during Sony‘s State Of Play presentation. Besides a new look at the remade 2005 game, the latest trailer also revealed that Resident Evil 4 will bring back the series’ iconic Mercenaries game mode.The developer is “hard at work” creating the mini-game, and plans to launch it as free downloadable content (DLC) after Resident Evil 4 has launched.NME got to preview the Resident Evil 4 remake back in October 2022, and hailed it as a “worthy remix” of the original game.“Things look better, enemies seem smarter and altogether it’s a tougher game, without compromising on the weird humour and slightly clunky combat that made Resident Evil 4 work in the first place,” reads our preview.

Jena Malone is opening up about a difficult time in her life. Known for her roles in everything from

Xbox Game Pass is losing some beloved titles!

"Hunger Games" star Jena Malone spoke out about allegedly being sexually assaulted while filming the adventure movie. Malone, 38, took to Instagram to share her traumatic experience after working on the final film of the franchise, "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2." "---trigger warning--- This photo was taken right after I wrapped up mocking Jay part two and I had to say goodbye to everyone on set," Malone wrote.

Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part Two in 2015.Malone took to Instagram on Wednesday (March 1) to break the news, posting a photograph of herself in a field in the countryside of France after filming for Mockingjay had wrapped.She reminisced on her time there and the events leading up to it, writing: “Even tho this time in Paris was extremely hard for me, was going thru a bad break up and also was sexually assaulted by someone I had worked with, I was so full of gratitude for this project, the people I became close with and this amazing part I got to play.”A post shared by Jena Malone (@jenamalone)Malone would go on to say that she has “worked very hard to heal and learn thru restorative justice, how to make peace with the person who violated me and make peace with myself”. Malone did not name her alleged assailant throughout her post.She would later respond to a commenter who said her assailant “got to walk away with no repercussions,” saying: “That’s not true.

Jena Malone is opening up about a past sexual assault. The 38-year-old actress, who starred as Johanna Mason in the final three “Hunger Games” films, took to Instagram on Tuesday to reflect on how she felt when her journey with the franchise came to an end.