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In another time, the Bitcoin 2025 convention at Las Vegas’ Venetian hotel casino last week might have been most memorable for its cringeworthy moments. There was a group that wore shirts with the slogan “Jesus Loves Bitcoin” on the back. David Bailey, CEO of the parent company of conference host Bitcoin Magazine, tried to buy bitcoin in an on-stage transaction — and it didn’t work. Interludes featured music by a string quartet; they covered the techno instrumental “Sandstorm” by Darude. The company Realbotix demoed Aria, an uncanny humanoid robot, who stood...

The Sand Land action-rpg is right around the corner, so promotion has been ramping up of late. The latest preview to surface taps an iconic piece of music to fuel the hype, as "Sandstorm" by Darude helps bring the desert themes to life. Really, we should have seen this one coming, right? Sand Land - Sandstorm Trailer Related: Sand Land Game's Final Developer Diary Video Heads to Forest Land Viz Media publishes Akira Toriyama's Sand Land manga. Here's how Bandai Namco describes the game: Sand Land is a popular manga created in 2000 by Akira Toriyama, the author of Dragon Ball and Dr. Slump, that has gained worldwide popularity since its publishing. In a desert world where demons and humans suffer from extreme water shortages, Beelzebub, the Fiend Prince, and Rao, a small-town sheriff, form a tag team and set off on an adventure in search of a hidden water source.

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Big changes are coming to EA's hockey sim with NHL 24's updated gameplay, goalies AI, presentation, and expressive World of Chel mode. In fact, it might all coalesce into something that might make this year's installment the best time for hockey fans to get back onto the ice. Last year's NHL 23 was praised for its updated visuals and bombastic crowds, the latter of which helped capture the excitement of being at a real hockey game. However, EA's NHL 24 improves on those aspects even further while also updating its presentation and gameplay with an impressive Exhaust Engine to help the hockey simulator series reach new levels of intensity.

Although NHL 24 will be released on current- and last-generation consoles on October 6, 2023, that isn't holding...

A scary-funny British satire that cringes in horror at the all too familiar sort of affluent, over-educated millennials who are somehow both self-obsessed and deeply ashamed of themselves at the same time,

Its story hinges on a simple notion about the unnatural forces that might compel a 31-year-old neurotic like Pete (co-writer Tom Stourton) to keep even his most toxic college friendships on life support: He’s mortified about the man he used to be, but the only people who can let him off the hook are the ones who knew him back then. They’re the only ones who might be able to appreciate how much he’s changed. So while Pete is plenty amped up for the rural getaway that his old chums have planned for his birthday — only real ’90s kids will fully understand how funny it is when he blasts “Sandstorm” by Darude to get the...

Imagine the protagonist of a Richard Curtis film woke up on the morning of whichever wedding or funeral they were to attend, suddenly cursed with self-awareness. The resulting movie, a comedy that elicits such bone-deep cringe it’s indistinguishable from horror, might look a lot like Andrew Gaynord’s “All My Friends Hate Me,” a ferociously witty, deeply British evisceration of upper-class Millennial anxiety, dedicated to the truism that if you can’t spot the asshole in any group of five or more people, the asshole is you.

Pete (Tom Stourton) is just back from a volunteer stint at a refugee camp, and is setting off in high spirits to spend his birthday weekend in the enormous stately home owned by his friend George (Joshua McGuire). Pete’s down-to-earth girlfriend Sonia (Charly Clive) will join him the following day, but initially it’s just going to be him and his...

Gene Kelly’s iconic dance under a downpour in “Singin’ In the Rain” is arguably one of the most famous scenes in movie musical history… so, of course, the internet is going to turn it into a mashup.

One adept poster on Twitter named Cuppycup noted that the famous song can be swapped out with any track that has the same beats per minute, and Kelly’s fancy footwork synchronizes perfectly. To demonstrate, Cuppycup paired the clip with a song that’s about as far as you can get from postwar showtunes: Darude’s “Sandstorm”

May I have your attention? Sandstorm and Singin’ in the Rain have the same Bpm. ???-️ pic.twitter.com/ZyAcij7OfF

– cuppycup (@cuppycup) October 16, 2018

And Cuppycup didn’t stop there, showing the clip with several other songs that are a Bpm match, most notably another toe-tapper about precipitation: “It’s Raining Men.”

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Even if you don't know the name, you'll be pretty hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't know the song "Sandstorm," by Darude. The song is played ironically and unironically in clubs, video game compilations, and around 90% of sporting events, but how did it come to be? Vice contacted Darude and he explains his origins, which in turn explains how the song came to be. Check it out below, and let us know how "Sandstorm," has affected your life. ...