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Tribal Leader Roundtable: Resilience and Gaming
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Tribal Leader Roundtable: Resilience and Gaming

Five tribal leaders discuss the steps their tribes are taking to uphold their long-term cultural and economic resilience, and the key focus areas for their gaming and entertainment enterprises. Here is what they had to say…  Coly Brown, ChairmanWinnebago Tribe of NebraskaWinnaVegas Casino Resort – Sloan, IAWarHorse Casino – Omaha & Lincoln, NEIron Horse Bar & Casino – Emerson, NEwinnavegas.com / warhorsecasino.com / winnebagocasinos.com / winnebagotribe.com RESILIENCE: Our tribe is aggressively pursuing a diversified economic strategy designed to provide jobs, create economic growth, and generate discretionary income to fund tribal initiatives. Our economic entities – including our gaming operations – directly empower our cultural efforts by providing essential funding...
Why Was ‘Wicked’ Split Into Two Movies?
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Why Was ‘Wicked’ Split Into Two Movies?

Sorry to Stranger Things and my many husbands in that show (Joe Keery, Charlie Heaton, Jamie Campbell Bower, etc.), but Wicked is currently all I care about. And if you, too, left the theater last November crying for reasons related to “Defying Gravity,” you are not alone.Wicked: For Good is now finally here—but if you're wondering why Wicked was split into two movies to begin with, then we’re here to fill you in. Director Jon M. Chu explained it pretty succinctly on Twitter way back in 2022, saying, “Here's what happened: as we prepared this production over the last year, it became increasingly clear that it would be impossible to wrestle the story of WICKED into a single film without doing some real damage to it. As we tried to cut songs or trim characters, those decisions began to feel ...
Tyler, The Creator is Apple Music’s Artist of the Year
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Tyler, The Creator is Apple Music’s Artist of the Year

A record-breaking streaming year, festival headlines, and a feature-film debut seal the deal for the genre-shifting artist. You’ve listened to his album and got lost in Don’t Tap The Glass, you’ve seen him on stage, crushing  that impossible verse in Outkast’s “Bombs Over Baghdad” at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, you might have even played him in Fortnite — and now he’s Apple Music’s Artist of the Year. Tyler, The Creator’s 2025 run wasn’t just impressive — it was a flex from one of the most inventive minds in modern music. Over the past year, listeners logged more than 4.5 billion minutes of his music on Apple Music, marking his strongest year ever on the platform. Much of that momentum came from CHROMAKOPIA, his most personal and fully realised...
Sandfall Interactive expresses shock as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 matches Baldur’s Gate 3’s record-setting run at the 2025 Golden Joystick Awards: ‘What the f**k is happening’
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Sandfall Interactive expresses shock as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 matches Baldur’s Gate 3’s record-setting run at the 2025 Golden Joystick Awards: ‘What the f**k is happening’

Back in April, former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider described Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as "kind of to JRPGs what Baldur's Gate 3 was to CRPGs." He was more than just a little correct, as it turns out: Two years after Baldur's Gate 3 won a record seven Golden Joystick awards, including Studio of the Year, Clair Obscur tied the mark at the 2025 event—including a Studio of the Year win for Sandfall Interactive."We know we are lucky enough to experience all of this, so we just want to share the deep feeling that we all have," Sandfall Interactive CEO and creative director Guillaume Broche said, accepting the Golden Joystick trophy for Ultimate Game of the Year. "What the fuck is happening right now?"It's been an unbelievable year for us. We don't really fathom everything that's going ...
Music City Drum & Bugle Corps Announce DCI 2026 Show Title: Venomorphosis
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Music City Drum & Bugle Corps Announce DCI 2026 Show Title: Venomorphosis

2025 is coming to a close, but that means that we're that much closer to the start of the 2026 Drum Corps International season.While show announcements have been few and far between since the dramatic end of the 2025 DCI season, Music City took advantage of the downtime and announced its 2026 program title, "Venomorphosis."No tagline or show description was provided alongside the show announcement and graphic, so fans are going to have to wait a bit longer for information regarding repertoire and additional show details.Interested in catching a performance of 'Venomorphosis' this summer? Check out the full Music City summer tour schedule below and purchase your tickets to a show over on DCI's website!Also, be sure to follow Music City on Instagram and Facebook, and keep up-to-date with all...
Black Book inductee Citro seeks removal — CDC Gaming
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Black Book inductee Citro seeks removal — CDC Gaming

Thursday, November 20, 2025 2:45 PM Image aggregated from Las Vegas Review-Journal. Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal Email, LinkedIn, and more It’s sometimes hard to tell where the entertainer, Las Vegas tough guy Frankie Citro, ends and the genuinely emotional family man Frank Citro begins. The 80-year-old Las Vegan has been a fixture on the Nevada Gaming Control Board’s List of Excluded Persons, also known as the “Black Book,” for 34 years this month. Earlier this month, Citro made a splash when his attorney delivered a formal request to be removed from the list – something that has never been done before by a living person. Within the next ...
Major Labels Announce Deal with AI Music Startup
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Major Labels Announce Deal with AI Music Startup

Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group and Sony Music have all negotiated a licensing deal with Klay Vision Inc., an AI music technology company. WMG’s signing yesterday made Klay, a self-described “ethical AI” company, the first to land a deal with the three major label groups. Bloomberg reported that the deal will provide the foundation for a new streaming service that will allow users to remake songs in different styles; with access to the major labels’ sprawling catalogs, Klay will now be able to train its models using millions of recordings. A press release from Warner describes Klay as “an entirely new subscription product that will uplift great artists and celebrate their craft,” rather than “a prompt-based meme generation engine designed to supplant human artists.” In contras...
Gaming Trends for the Holidays
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Gaming Trends for the Holidays

Holiday shoppers looking to score big with gamers have plenty of exciting options this year. Gaming and tech trends expert Scott Steinberg previewed what's new in the gaming world, including two of the most anticipated titles of the season. With gaming now a universal hobby, he notes that today's titles offer super immersive experiences with incredible visuals and storytelling. Whether you're shopping for a lifelong player or someone just joining the fun, this year’s releases make it easy to find the perfect gift. Learn more at Ubisoft.com for a closer look at the games creating buzz this holiday.This segment is paid for by Ubisoft Source link
Mark Wahlberg in Dumb-Fun Apple TV Sequel
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Mark Wahlberg in Dumb-Fun Apple TV Sequel

Can’t get away for the holidays? Depressed over not being able to spend Christmas in the beautifully decorated cities of London and Paris? No problem. The sequel to Apple TV’s hit 2023 movie The Family Plan is there for you. In the imaginatively titled The Family Plan 2, former covert assassin turned contented family man Dan Morgan (Mark Wahlberg) brings his family to Europe for a fun-filled vacation. But if you’ve seen the first film, you already know that things are not going to go as planned, and that Dan’s violent past will once again catch up with him. The main difference between this film and its predecessor, besides its obviously increased budget, is that now Dan’s family is already aware of his violent past and seem tickled pink by it. Wife Jessica (Michelle Monaghan) even...