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Sony and Kirkbi, the company behind the Lego Group, have announced an investment of $2 billion into Epic Games, creators of the massively popular video game Fortnite. As announced via Epic Games’ website on Monday, the two companies will invest $1 billion each into the Unreal engine and Fortnite developer. Epic founder Tim Sweeney said that the funding […]
The demise of Kmart continues this week, as the former retail giant announced the closure of one of its last four remaining stores. The Associated Press reports the Avenel, New Jersey location will close permanently on April 16, leaving just three Kmarts in the United States. The remaining stores are in Westwood, NJ, Bridgehampton on Long Island, and Miami. Kmart, which […]
YK Osiris has been accused of exploiting the death of Tyre Sampson, the 14-year-old boy who died after falling from an amusement park ride in Orlando. “If anybody knows his family, tell them to DM me because I want to pay for his funeral cost,” Osiris wrote on Instagram, shortly after the tragedy. The Jacksonville artist later told […]
The first comic book to feature Captain America has sold for a whopping $3.1 million at auction, making it one of the most valuable comic books in history. Captain America Comics No. 1 was purchased Thursday as part of Heritage Auctions’ comics and comic art event that concludes Sunday. Published in March 1941, the highly coveted copy spanned 45 pages, […]
YNW Melly’s manager 100K Track shared some words of support for the “Mixed Personalities” artist and his mother in a new interview that arrives following a recent public controversy over money allegedly owed. During an appearance on the Tippie Toe Podcast, Track—as seen around the 46:25 mark in the video above—addressed Melly fans and urged listeners to […]
It seems Kanye West lost out on a huge payday. According to TMZ, the Grammy-winning artist gave up millions of dollars by pulling out of his 2022 Coachella gig. Sources tell the outlet Ye was set to receive $8 million plus a $500,000 production fee for his headlining performances on April 17 and April 24. Though his decision to drop out […]
Jacksonville native YK Osiris has confirmed he’s looking to pay for the funeral of a 14-year-old boy who died in March after falling from a ride at an amusement park in Orlando. He floated the offer last week on Instagram. While chatting with TMZ at LAX on Tuesday, Osiris revealed he’s in dialogue with the family of Tyre Sampson, who died after falling out […]
Rihanna has joined Forbes’ annual billionaires list for the first time in her career. The 34-year-old multi-hyphenate officially reached billionaire status back in 2021 with an estimated net worth of $1.7 billion. Forbes’ Madeline Berg attributed Rihanna’s wealth not to her music outputs, but to her wildly successful ventures into fashion and beauty. According to the publication’s […]
Fortnite developer Epic Games and Microsoft’s Xbox raised $144 million over the course of two weeks for Ukrainian relief organizations, Deadline reports. The proceeds will be split between Direct Relief, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the United Nations World Food Programme. Epic Games announced last month that all money made from March 20 through April 3 would […]
T-Pain took to Instagram this weekend to call out an impersonator using his name to send emails in an effort to scam people out of money. The artist shared a screenshot of one such message, which contains several grammatical errors and claims “NAPPY BOY ENTERTAINMENT” is offering “marketing /Distribution publishing deals” in exchange for “a small fee of […]
