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Finding Ocarina of Time’s hidden collectibles is a lot easier with the help of Zelda Notes.
Finding Ocarina of Time’s hidden collectibles is a lot easier with the help of Zelda Notes.
As a follow-up to last year’s FilmStream Collective Fund, Tubi and Kickstarter are launching the Fandom Fund — a new initiative that will give independent creators access to resources which can be used to help produce projects that will ultimately live on the streaming service beginning in 2027.
It looks like the horror resurgence isn’t going away anytime soon: Deadline reports that a new Friday the 13th film is in the works, suggesting the streaming prequel series Crystal Lake was something of a success. It’s slated to premiere in 2027 with franchise veteran Steve Miner as director.
In addition to places like YouTube and Twitch, you’ll be able to stream this year’s edition of Geoff Keighley’s big awards show, which takes place on December 10th, on Disney’s streaming platform.
According to a Disney press release, “As the evening unfolds, viewers can expect major announcements and surprises from some of Disney’s most anticipated titles in gaming.”
Akai is launching the MPC 3.10.1 and MPC Sample 1.4 firmware updates, both of which include support for the new SDKs the company is offering as part of its efforts to embrace the modding community, now that vibecoding has made hacking them trivial. Of course,
NBCUniversal has some updates in the works for the Peacock mobile app, including AI-powered content browsing and a singular Clips Feed for vertical videos (which includes the existing feed for Your Bravoverse). Live vertical video tests are also being expanded to The Voice live simulcasts, NCAA basketball games, andgolf. There’s no launch date for any of these updates, but tests will be running until early 2027.
More than 5.2 million copies of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time were sold in the first four days following its launch on November 5th. That’s the blockbuster hit the Switch 2 console has been waiting for, and a thematically appropriate throwback to the boost that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild gave to the original Switch.
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The change goes into effect on January 26th. The company says you can use the email or sign-in ID connected to your account instead, but you’ll need to set a password or passkey for it. Creating a new Nintendo account with a Google or Apple account also won’t be an option anymore.
That’s according to Sony and Microsoft blog posts today about the pre-loads that started today. The game is set to launch on November 19th.
You’ll only be able to gift digital games to people that you’re in a family group with, but still, it’s nice to see that this feature will exist at all. It’s set to roll out on November 16th, Nintendo says.
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There are now eight more English-speaking voice options in various accents, and two new Spanish voices available for DJ, if you feel like personalizing that experience. You can also turn off the commentary that Spotify DJ makes between songs if you’re sick of hearing it talk, which will your music play with fewer interruptions.
You can hand-select every title or have Tubi help assemble something for you that you can work with, and then you can share your Mixtape with other people. Seems basically like a playlist feature, but for things on Tubi.
Skydance merged Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery’s games teams last month, but now it’s making cuts, Aftermath reports. In a statement to Variety, a Skydance spokesperson said that the company has “made the difficult decision to scale down some of our projects.”
According to CBS News, a passenger overheard someone say “bomb” and “explosion” while waiting for a Frontier Airlines flight to depart at Ontario International Airport on Sunday night. Police detained the person who made the comments, who said he was talking about his Call of Duty gameplay on a FaceTime call with a friend.
The game, set to launch on November 19th, was delayed twice. Based on that line from CEO Strauss Zelnick, which he said on today’s Q2 fiscal year 2027 earnings call, seems like that’s not happening again. Pre-orders for the game are tracking “far above” initial expectations.
Zelnick closed the call by saying that “I know you all are going to have a great time playing GTA VI while you’re at home for the holidays.”
The company says it will eventually merge them into a single streaming platform, but it will bundle both subscriptions first. In its latest quarterly earnings, Paramount Skydance said the merger will move faster than its integration of Pluto TV with Paramount Plus, which took 18 months.
The company, which owns GTA VI developer Rockstar Games, also says in a Q2 2027 earnings presentation that “we know that the numbers will speak for themselves soon enough.” The game launches on November 19th.
YouTube’s data is returning after Billboard changed how it counts ad-supported streams in chart rankings. Starting in January, 1,000 paid streams will be counted the same as 1,500 ad-supported streams, a narrower gap than the previous ratio, which YouTube said ignored “the massive engagement from fans who don’t have a subscription.”
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Business Insider reports a leaked slide deck says Disney is “Ramping up to adding 500 new vertical clips per day, and introducing creator content in early 2027.” Disney’s still planning to merge Hulu and Disney Plus, and plans to add “new content types