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Microsoft has nixed the Xbox Game Pass offer that introduced new customers to the subscription service for £1, one week before Starfield‘s launch.According to Games Radar, players realised that the offer disappeared over the weekend (August 26) and that the timing appears to be related to the upcoming launch of Starfield.Originally, players were able to get their first month of Xbox Game Pass for £1 in order to see the benefits of the service, such as playable first-party launches on day one, discounts and backwards compatible classics from the Xbox 360 era.In March, Xbox’s head of global communications Kari Perez said that the offer had been killed off as it “[evaluates] different marketing promotions for new members in the future”. The company then rolled out a system where current users could invite five of their friends to free two-week trials of Xbox Game Pass.Following that, the offer was resurrected in July, but it was shortened to 14 days of Xbox Game Pass for £1 for new customers just a month later.Xbox Game Pass is available in three different versions – console, PC and Ultimate.

Meghan Markle’s mom is keeping up with the Kardashians. On Saturday, Doria Ragland was all smiles as she posed alongside Kim Kardashian and momager Kris Jenner at the This Is About Humanity’s 5th Anniversary Soirée in Los Angeles. In one photo, the 66-year-old appeared between mother and daughter while sporting a sunny, pink and orange paisley dress.

Meghan Markle could be rolling in dough if she plans on relaunching her Instagram presence!

Meghan Markle is set to hop back onto socials and relaunch her own Instagram page, which could reportedly make her up to a whopping £1 million per post. Meghan hasn’t had her own Instagram account since 2018, and stepped away from her joint Instagram account with Prince Harry in 2020 when they stepped back from their official royal duties.

Gordon Cox Theater Editor Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, the musical “If/Then”: These aren’t the usual conversational touchpoints in a discussion about a video game. But all three of those musical theater references, and many more, were brought up by the creators of the new video game Stray Gods on the latest episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety’s theater podcast.

Michael Oher is making new claims against the Tuohy family in recent court documents obtained by ET. The 37-year-old former NFL player and subject of the Oscar-nominated film,, filed a new request to the courts for 19-years-worth of accounting from the Tuohy family, claiming that Leigh Anne Tuohy and her husband, Sean Tuohy, used him for their business and marketing ventures.Oher, who previously played for Old Miss and the Baltimore Ravens while under a conservatorship with the Tuohy family, has filed a motion alleging he hasn't seen any money for the past 19 years from the use of his name, image, and likeness, and “never permitted [the Tuohys] to use his name, likeness, and image in any way.”Oher, who previously accused the Tuohy family of tricking him into signing paperwork to make them his conservators and told him it was a part of the adoption process, alleges that the Tuohys have falsely claimed that he is their adopted son and used him in their marketing and business ventures.

Loossemble will make their official debut this September.Loossemble, a portmanteau of “LOONA” and “assemble”, is a quintet that recently formed under CTDENM and features five LOONA members: Hyunjin, Yeojin, Vivi, Gowon and Hyeju. The group were formed in late-July, following the five members’ departure from Blockberry Creative.Yesterday (August 20), Loossemble released a trailer called ‘..searching for their friends’, which teased that the girl group would be releasing new music on September 15.

Emmerdale legend Matthew Wolfenden, who has played David Metcalfe for 17 years, has reportedly quit his role on the ITV soap.

An Emmerdale legend has quit the show after 17 years on the soap. Matthew Wolfenden, 43, who plays David Metcalfe, will be written out of the show in the coming months. A TV source told The Sun that the star's character could be killed off.

Are you a gamer? Video games make up an industry that is worth hundreds of billions of dollars around the world and includes millions of fans.

A young TikTok star has “a long road to recovery” ahead of him after falling off a 60 to 80-foot cliff in Hawaii.

Although the tide could turn in the coming weeks with the expected approval of Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, investment and M&A in the gaming sector declined again in the second quarter.

Callum McLennan The Canary Islands video game scene is still building fast. Here ar some of the talents helping to lead the charge, drawing from across the Islands and far beyond a crop of talented software engineers, directors, and artists: Mateo Costa Currently a senior 3D Artist at Drakhar Studio and art director for Foxter Studio, Mateo Costa’s five-year journey in the Canary Islands includes credits on “Paw Patrol” and “Hotel Transylvania.” His cherished project, “Arico: Tales from the Abyss,” represents the creation of a new IP.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Argentina’s Tarea Fina, a producer on Cannes Camera d’Or winner “Las Acacias,” International Oscar entry “The Sleepwalkers” and Ventana Sur hit “Sublime,” has boarded “A Loose End,” the third feature as a director from Uruguay’s Daniel Hendler, a Berlin Silver Bear winner for Best Actor in Daniel Burman’s 2004 international breakout “The Lost Embrace.” Set up at Montevideo’s Cordon Films, founded in 2007 by producer-TV director Micaela Solé and Hendler, “A Loose End” (“Un cabo suelto”) is one of the highest-profile projects announced on Monday by the San Sebastián Festival as part of its Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, its industry centerpiece. Written by Hendler, his third directorial outing returns to a central theme in his first two features as a writer-director: Identity.

Woman’s Day even claims that Chiara has already met the indomitable Danish queen who is apparently keeping a close eye on her grandson and eventual heir. Quite what she will make of Chiara and her family will be interesting to learn.

Sporting a grey WGA-branded “strike” t-shirt, writer-director Charlie Kaufman led a packed-out masterclass this morning in the main hall of the Bosnian Cultural Center at the Sarajevo Film Festival.

Snacking on chocolate is widely considered to be a guilty pleasure by most.

Papers, Please got a Game & Watch-inspired demake to celebrate its 10th anniversary, as well as a “hard mode” featuring wanted posters and VIP travellers.The demake – which is playable on itch.io and is titled LCD, Please – has been a hit with fans who have asked developer Lucas Pope to think about potentially releasing this version for the Playdate. Check it out below:While it is not as colourful as the original, it functions in an identical way to Papers, Please, albeit with a classic aesthetic.

Four years on and one spin-off later, fans of HBO‘s “Game Of Thrones” still haven’t forgiven David Benioff and D.B. Weiss for botching the show’s final episodes.