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Usually when a guy gets traded just a year after signing a multi-year free agent deal there’s a story there. This anecdote about Indians-turned-Phillies-turned-Indians-again slugger Carlos Santana is no exception. According to a long-form article posted by ESPN on Monday, Santana momentarily lost his cool when he smashed a TV during the waning moments of […]
Epic Games is dealing with yet another lawsuit over the inclusion of popular dances in Fortnite without permission from its originator. Two former players from the University of Maryland men’s basketball team filed the suit Monday, accusing Epic of copyright infringement and violating their publicity rights, The Verge reports. They also claim the publisher “consistently sought to exploit African-American talent, in particular in Fortnite, by copying their dances […]
The U.S. Copyright Office doesn’t think Alfonso Ribeiro has strong claims to the “Carlton Dance.” The 47-year-old actor is currently suing Take-Two Interactive and the developers behind Fortnite for including the dance he created while acting on the series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but correspondence between Ribeiro’s attorney and the office reveals that they aren’t […]
The video game industry racked in an insanely impressive $43.4 billion in 2018, making it the best domestic year for the industry on record. The news of the banner year came from the Entertainment Software Association and The NPD Group. The organizations noted that the number marked an 18 percent growth over 2017. “2018 was another […]
Netflix is really feeling itself. After hiking up its subscription prices earlier this week, the streaming giant’s CEO Reed Hastings boasted about how the company is now so huge in the world of entertainment that it no longer considers companies like HBO and Disney its main rivals. “We compete with (and lose to) Fortnite more […]
Epic Games made serious bank this year. Knowledgeable sources told TeleTech that the video game and software development company grossed $3 billion in profit for 2018—a jaw-dropping gain that was undoubtedly driven by the Fortnite series. The news arrives just months after Epic Games was valued at around $15 billion following a funding round led by private equity […]
Alfonso Ribeiro is the latest celebrity building a case against Fortnite over an appropriated dance move. According to TMZ, the former Fresh Prince star is suing Epic Games for allegedly stealing the signature “Carlton Dance” he created while playing Carlton Banks. Ribeiro alleges the company is using and selling the dance under the “Fresh” emote, which […]
