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Mario’s never been a stranger to sports. But during the Nintendo GameCube era, the popular Italian plumber seemed more familiar scoring points on a field or court than he was jumping from platform to platform.While there’s no shortage of fantastic sports spin-offs starring Mario and his Mushroom Kingdom friends, one of them reigned supreme for the pure fun factor. In 2005, Super Mario Strikers saw Mario finally taking to soccer, one of the few sports he hadn’t yet conquered, creating one of the most timeless pick-up-and-play experiences in all of gaming.Like any great Mario sports game, Strikers is focused squarely on taking the real-life, high-stakes actual sport and making it an approachable good time that anyone can enjoy. Strikers turns the 11-on-11 sport into a more readable five-on-f...

San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle is known to have one of the best personalities in the NFL, but football fans might have a different opinion after a recent interview conducted with the veteran pass catcher.The 49ers star was recently asked by NFL reporter Jordan Schultz about his favorite sports movies of all time. However, while his top 5 movies certainly included some fan favorites there will also some big names left off of his personal rankings.RELATED: NFL International Series reveals new locations for future games abroadGeorge Kittle went the classic route with Denzel Washington’s Remember the Titans as his number one pick, while Cars, Happy Gilmore, Friday Night Lights and Miracle rounded out the top five.#49ers TE George Kittle ranked his top five all-time sports movies:1...

I've recently been putting some systems together on behalf of some friends for Christmas presents, and getting hold of just the RAM alone has been a bit of a nightmare. Trying to find the DDR5 6000MHz memory kits you want on sale, in stock, or priced less than a black-market kidney has been difficult. Twice, already, I've recommended buying a prebuilt PC (which is not something I'd normally do when building them myself) as individual kits are bumping up the price of a PC build by hundreds of dollars. In contrast, prebuilt gaming PCs seem to be absorbing the RAM price increases, so far anyway, and this is basically the case with today's spotlighted deal. MSI's Codex R2 gaming PC is just $929, unbelievable value in the current climate. The MSI Codex R2 gaming PC features very decent compone...

In our eyes and to our ears, there’s no better family of musical genres to usher in the holiday season than roots music. Bluegrass, Americana, old-time, country, blues, and beyond – they’re all perfectly suited for the coziest time of year, for togetherness, for parties and gift giving and cookie icing. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or Winter Solstice – or even if you feel like opting out of the ruckus altogether – there is roots music for you.Each year, we like to share our picks for the rootsiest time of the year in BGS Wraps, a weekly collection of songs, videos, albums, shows, tours, and events that celebrate the season. We share a few of our favorites, mostly brand new but often classics and timeless selections, too. Plus, we collect all that we can into a runnin...

Two Sundays ago, I booted up my PlayStation 5 excited to watch a new, previously unreleased chapter from Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” saga. But instead of opening up Amazon, Netflix, YouTube or any of the dozen streamers that live on my PlayStation, I opened Fortnite. That’s because for the first time in the history of the free-to-play cross-platform game, Fortnite was the launch platform for this exclusive new Tarantino short. You heard that right. Oscar-winning, indie trailblazing auteur Quentin Tarantino and Fortnite, the shooter video game that has Gen Alpha (and beyond) enthralled. The unlikely pairing is the latest example of Hollywood cozying up to the video game industry. Last year, Disney announced a $1.5 billion investment in Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite. T...

Bruce Houghton from Bandsintown, Hypebot, the Skyline Artists agency and Berklee joins Michael Bandvold and Jay Gilbert on a new Music Biz Weekly Podcast to talk about touring, the American Music Fairness Act and more.Houghton shares how Skyline Artists is closing down after 35 years. Together they dive into the the new realities of touring and he offers his advice to artists.The three also dive into the American Music Fairness Act which would require US terrestrial radio stations to finally pay the performers of the songs broadcast. Right now radio only pays the songwriters and not the actual performers. Internet radio and streaming pay both.Watch and listen here or on your favorite podcast platform. FIND MORE FROM MUSIC BIZ WEEKLY & OTHER GREAT MUSIC BUSINESS AND INDIE MUSICIAN PODC...

Fennica Gaming has introduced its online casino titles to players in Québec through Loto-Québec’s digital platform, the sole regulated online gaming channel operating in the province. The rollout represents the company’s first presence in Canada and adds a new stage to its broader international expansion. Teams from Veikkaus Group marked the event with coordinated celebrations in Helsinki and Montreal, while preparing for the upcoming release of the supplier’s eInstant products. Québec Launch Supports Wider Expansion Plans The company described this moment as a key development in its efforts to grow across regulated jurisdictions. “Expanding into Canadian market and to Québec is an important milestone for us. We aim to scale rapidly and to deliver high-quality content to regulated markets....

Ah, the licensed video game. Once a collection of underwhelming retellings of big-screen blockbusters, littered with haunting polygonal nightmares (Hagrid, that’s you) and aimless Atari attempts (yes, E.T., that’s you), we’ve seen an uptick in actually good adaptations in recent years, with the upcoming Terminator 2D: No Fate looking like a promising attempt at turning James Cameron’s classic into some enjoyable retro action. So, we thought we’d pick out the best of the bunch. We do have a few little rules, though, that stop just any old film-adjacent game from making the list. They need to either be:A direct translation or adaptation of a feature filmAn official movie sequel or prequel.Or a game that attempts to continue the story or provide backstory and additional canonical lore.Termina...

StubHub has released its 2025 Year in Live Experiences report, offering a snapshot of the artists and trends shaping the new era of touring. From blockbuster acts like Coldplay and Kendrick Lamar to emerging stars across multiple genres, live entertainment is entering a transformative phase. K pop continues its rapid rise in the United States. According to the report, K-pop events have grown 520 percent in less than three years, now accounting for 10 percent of all stadium shows. The genre has evolved from a global niche to a major driver of large-scale touring. Latin music also expanded its global footprint. Bad Bunny in particular saw a 50 times increase in international demand, while regional Mexican artists climbed StubHub’s top ranking lists. Nearly 12 percent of Latin fans now come ...

Marvel’s Blade is one of the most intriguing upcoming superhero games, and it stands out immediately because of the team behind it: Arkane Lyon, the award-winning studio known for Dishonored and Deathloop. Marvel Games and Bethesda Softworks officially confirmed the project as a mature, third-person, single-player action game starring the iconic Daywalker, Eric Brooks. The announcement sent a shockwave through the gaming community, not just because Blade is an underused Marvel character in modern gaming, but because Arkane’s commitment to immersive storytelling and atmospheric world design aligns perfectly with the darker tone of Blade’s universe.The game is set in a quarantined section of Paris, where a sudden outbreak of supernatural activity forces civilians indoors and turns the city s...