Prince Harry has confirmed he will return to the UK in just over a week’s time to attend a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games, which he founded.
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Eurogamer, multiple GAME staff members spoke to the site anonymously and confirmed that most non-managerial staff will now be employed on zero hours contracts. They also added that this was not unexpected.GAME Staff affected by the layoffs will reportedly be told via phone or email, but it is unclear how many will be affected.
Several GAME shops closed in December 2023, and it is not known at this time if these layoffs will mean more will follow suit. NME has reached out to Frasers Group for comment.GAME has seen many of its high street shops close over the last few years and instead shift to concessions stands within Sports Direct and House of Fraser shops.
The Frasers Group purchased GAME in 2019 for £52 million.In February this year, it was announced that GAME shops would stop all trade-ins of old video games. Going to GAME to trade in an old game for a new, discounted, second hand one is something many UK kids have done.
Unfortunately, stores will also stop selling pre-owned games and consoles.This news follows recent industry trends of digital sales overtaking physical media. In 2022, 60 per cent of all games sold in North America were digital.
The convenience of digital is hard to ignore, but digital storefronts don’t last forever, as the closing of the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U digital stores shows. And with games getting more expensive, second-hand markets help many players get access to titles they otherwise couldn’t afford.In other news, Amazon‘s Fallout TV series is dropping all of its episodes on Prime April 11, but people can watch the first episode for free on Twitch, too.
.Prince Harry has confirmed he will return to the UK in just over a week’s time to attend a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games, which he founded.
Prince Harry is heading back to the United Kingdom.
Jim Halpert (played by John Krasinski). Rainn Wilson, who played Dwight Schrute for eight years, recently took to Instagram to share the room service he received during a stay in Florence, Italy.The 58-year-old actor’s meal came complete with a knife and fork encased in bright red Jell-O.A holdover from the UK version of the show, the gag started in the pilot episode with a stapler.
Homeland star David Harewood has said he is worried about the creep of identity politics in acting and argued that white performers should be able to “black up.”
Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s fortnightly strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films making noise in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it’s ever been, but breakout hits are appearing in pockets of the world all the time and it can be hard to keep track. So we’re going to do the hard work for you.
When it comes to innovative kitchen technology designed to making cooking as stress-free as possible, Ninja comes to a mind. The American brand has seen an astronomical rise in popularity in the UK in recent years, partly thanks to its pioneering range of energy-saving air fryers and multi-cookers, which have come in handy during the ongoing cost of living crisis.
Swift dropped her highly anticipated album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” Betches Media shared an Instagram carousel of images with a meme of “Dance Moms” star Abby Lee Miller holding up pieces of paper listing some of Swift’s famous exes.As her current boyfriend, Travis Kelce, was at the top of the pyramid, Taylor Lautner, Harry Styles, Tom Hiddleston, Calvin Harris, Joe Alwyn, Jake Gyllenhaal and Matty Healy followed.Notably, Harris, Alwyn, Gyllenhaal and Healy were the four on the bottom.Even more, Swift “liked” a “Hunger Games” meme that jokingly showed Alwyn as a dead tribute in the franchise. “Every time we get a new lyric the hunger games cannon goes off,” the tweet that Betches Media shared read.Swift actually collaborated with The Civil Wars for The Hunger Games’ “Safe & Sound” in 2012.Swift and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, meanwhile, began dating over the summer.
People looking to take advantage of the new Independent Savings Account (ISA) rules that give greater freedom to savers will struggle to find any major bank following them, as no high street banks are currently offering partial transfers or multiple accounts to their customers.
Martin Scorsese is reportedly set to work on a Frank Sinatra biopic with longtime collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio, according to sources.Variety reports that the Killers Of The Flower Moon director is looking to film the project back-to-back with an adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s 1973 book Life Of Jesus. He is said to be seeking DiCaprio to play Sinatra and Jennifer Lawrence to play his second wife, the actress Ava Gardner.The film has already attracted interest from major studios.
Shoppers are going wild for Ninja's latest space-saving air fryer, which has been hailed as a “game changer” by happy customers.The gadget giant, known for its popular air fryers, has released a world-first today - the Ninja Double Stack XL 9.5L Air Fryer SL400UK, £269.99 here.This innovative appliance launched in the UK on Wednesday, 17 April after an unprecedented pre-order demand, with thousands of shoppers already snapping it up from Ninja direct and other retailers like John Lewis and Very.The Double Stack XL is designed to cook food in four layers and features two drawers large enough to accommodate an entire chicken each. Unlike most of Ninja's iconic wide air fryers and grills, the Double Stack is narrower but taller, taking up 30% less space than an equivalent capacity air fryer while still fitting under standard kitchen cupboards.
Ted Lasso and Game of Thrones, was minding her business in a beautiful one-shouldered lavender beaded gown at the Olivier Awards in London on April 14, posing confidently and electing not to stick her leg out of the dress's side slit. Because, like, it's her choice how much to reveal, and she will show leg if she wants to, .However, in a video captured by a fan and posted to Twitter, a photographer at the event apparently asked her to “show me leg,” prompting this perfectly British take-down: “Oh my god.
The Vicar Of Dibley star shared her thoughts on what she perceives as society’s quickness to cancel people, saying “we are expected to present ourselves as perfect”.This follows French being told to “catch up” in a conversation surrounding JK Rowling’s controversial comments about the trans community.Speaking recently on the Happy Place podcast with Fearne Cotton, French began: “We’re all talking about inclusivity and favouring difference and all the rest of it. And that’s all great, I love the idea of that, but that’s not how we’re living.”She explained: “We’re living the opposite of that – we’re massively intolerant, quick to blame, litigation, bullying and trolling and all of this dreadful stuff which has got nothing to do with understanding how other human beings operate.”French continued: “We are people who know we make mistakes, we know we have shortcomings, we know all this stuff but because we are expected to present ourselves as perfect and only celebrate all the perfect things, it’s just wiped out any margin for error.The British comedian also spoke about the need for “robust debate” and a greater understanding between people.
As Britain’s Got Talent returns to our screens for the 17th year, the annual talent show is once again jam-packed full of unique and memorable acts that will capture the hearts of audiences at home. From singers to dance troupes, magicians to pogo-stick acrobats there’s definitely been no shortage of excitement among the judges.
EXCLUSIVE: Nick and Jon Hamm’s Free Turn Entertainment has set a hybrid game-podcast mystery about the Cold War as its next project.
Jordan Moreau After starting out as a post-apocalyptic video game series, “Fallout” is finally stepping out of the vault and onto TV screens. From Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, the masterminds behind HBO’s “Westworld,” Prime Video’s “Fallout” takes viewers back to the 1960s before blowing things up — literally. A jaw-dropping nuclear explosion, rivaling the skull-rattling blast seen in Nolan’s brother Christopher’s best picture winner “Oppenheimer,” kicks off the series, before then jumping over 200 years into the future.
Kit Harington, who played the beloved “Game of Thrones” character Jon Snow, delivered some heartbreaking news about the potential spinoff series on Tuesday. “I hadn’t really ever spoken about it, because it was in development,” Harington, 37, told Screen Rant.
just weeks after bashing him during her short-lived stint on “Celebrity Big Brother UK.”Speaking on her family’s podcast “The Osbournes,” Sharon doubled down on her decision to critique the former “Late Late Show” host. Admitting that she and her longtime pal Louis Walsh “got into so much s–t” for revealing their opinions, Sharon’s son Jack Osbourne added, “You weren’t a f–king saint — you went after everyone as well.”“All I said was Anna Wintour’s a c–t,” Sharon chimed in, before Kelly Osbourne noted that it wasn’t just the Vogue Editor-in-Chief Sharon took aim at.“You f–king went off at James Corden,” Jack said, noting that his mom’s comments about him were “fair.”“That’s fair,” Sharon said.
James Corden, calling him “fair game”.The media mogul and former X Factor judge previously took aim at the comedian and host during her stint on Celebrity Big Brother. There, she called out his habit of “constantly” name-dropping: “I go to him, ‘I really like your shoes’, and he goes, ‘Yes, Stella McCartney’.
A scan using equipment available in most hospitals could be a 'game changer' in diagnosing heart disease instead of the traditional route of invasive surgery.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, HBO’s Game of Thrones spinoff, has cast its two leads.