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There’s a new face keeping watch over Midtown Manhattan. Rachell “Valkyrae” Hofstetter has signed a deal with Gymshark, and to celebrate its new spokesperson, the activewear brand gave the popular streamer her own Times Square billboard.

Hofstetter became one of the biggest streamers on the internet by playing games like Among Us and Fortnite, but she is also a fitness enthusiast. Despite joking about her “frail gamer body,” she has posted snippets of her workout routine on Instagram.

Her deal with U.K.-based Gymshark makes her the face of a retailer known for its athleisure apparel. At the time of this post, Hofstetter is featured at the top of the Gymshark website. Customers can also peruse a collection of “Valkyrae favorites” if they want to try on some of the 30-year-old creator’s favorite fits.

For Hofstetter herself, the Times Square placement is a highlight of the Gymshark partnership.

Murder is afoot once more in the latest Knives Out mystery from writer/director Rian Johnson. So is the world’s greatest detective, Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), who’d grown bored during the pandemic and needed a new case to crack. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery sticks to sequel conventions in that it goes bigger than its predecessor. Still, it also switches tone for a much sillier, more convoluted affair meant to entertain.

Just as Benoit Blanc tires of Zoom chats and games of Among Us, he receives a unique invitation by billionaire Myles Bron (Edward Norton) to attend a weekend murder party on his private Greek island. Also joining the revelry are Bron’s longtime friends Duke (Dave Bautista), Birdie (Kate Hudson), Claire (Kathryn Hahn), and Lionel (Leslie Odom Jr.). Duke’s girlfriend Whiskey (Madelyn Cline) and Birdie’s suffering assistant Peg (Jessica Henwick) round out the bunch.

Streamers who spend too much time online are often told that they should go outside and “touch grass.” Across a recent series of videos, several prominent 100 Thieves partners took that advice literally. 20 members of the esports and entertainment organization — including co-owners Jack ‘CouRage’ Dunlop and Rachell ‘Valkyrae’ Hofstetter — bid farewell to the second-annual Creator Camp by playing a massive game of ‘2 Truths 1 Lie.’

Creator Camp, first organized last year, invites 100 Thieves creators to a lakeside setting, where they can partake in classic summertime games and activities. The 2022 edition of the get-together has a new sponsor in AT&T, but its premise is mostly the same. If you’ve ever wanted to see extremely competitive gamers play incredibly low-stakes games, Creator Camp is the series for you.

The finale of the 2022 Camp presents the 100 Thieves crew with a classic campfire format. By playing ‘2 Truths 1 Lie,’ these creators revealed some fascinating facts about themselves.

Valkyrae has new management.

The streaming star, whose real name is Rachell “Rae” Hofstetter, has signed with Range Media Partners. The upstart talent management firm will work with Hofstetter alongside UTA, which continues to represent the 30-year-old gamer.

Hofstetter, who plays games like Among Us and Valorant, is a rising force in the streaming community. In 2021, she was named as a co-owner of 100 Thieves. The multimedia gaming brand raised a 60 million funding round later that year.

Since the end of her two-year exclusive contract with YouTube Gaming earlier this year, Hofstetter’s primary YouTube channel has been pretty quiet. With her business ventures, she claims to be “investing away” from streaming.

Her agreement with Range links her up with a company that is eager to work across all platforms. The buzzy management firm made waves when it was established in 2020, and it endeavors to steer its “clients’ brands into areas such as Web3, E-gaming,...

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Top YouTube streamer Rachell “Rae” Hofstetter, also known as “Valkyrae,” has signed with Range Media Partners and will be managed by Kai Gayoso, Range Media’s head of digital.

Hofstetter is best known for streaming titles like Among Us, Fortnite and Valorant and has amassed more than 3.7 million subscribers on YouTube. Though the content creator initially got her start by streaming on Twitch, she later moved over to YouTube after striking an exclusive multiyear deal with YouTube Gaming in 2020. Earlier this year, Hofstetter re-signed with YouTube for a deal that goes until 2024.

Flanked by other popular Twitch streamers who have made the move over to YouTube — such as DrLupo, Myth, TimTheTatMan and LazarBeam — Hofstetter is one of the most-watched female streamers on YouTube and has been outspoken about encoring more women to join the gaming space. She has also received awards like Streamer...

As was the case last year, Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards 2021 was a remote ceremony, boasting major talent, stellar musical performances and a whole lot of the network’s signature slime.

Hosted by Saturday Night Live cast member and Nickelodeon alum Keenan Thompson, the broadcast celebrating kids’ favorite TV shows, movies and games was notable, given the return of a number of winners from recent years.

Some of the night’s major awards went to Wonder Woman 1984 (Favorite Movie), Alexa & Katie (Favorite Kids TV Show), Stranger Things (Favorite Family TV Show) Robert Downey Jr. (Favorite Movie Actor) and Millie Bobbie Brown (Favorite Female TV Star, Favorite Movie Actress). While Stranger Things triumphed in the same category last year, Brown had previously claimed the award for Female TV Star.

On the music side, top awards went to Ariana Grande (Favorite Female Artist) and Justin Bieber (Favorite Male Artist...

As the year 2020 wore on, people found ways to entertain themselves through various games. One such game ended up being the murder mystery/horror movie-inspired sensation Among Us, a game many players enjoyed even if it broke a couple of friendships along the way.

Related: 10 Modern Successors To Classic Video Game Characters

Yet, there is perhaps evidence that Among Us isn't as good as people make it out to be. That the game is rife with issues. From technical problems to repetitive gameplay, there's evidence of Among Us's overhype. But could it be said that there are other more overrated games?...

The world of video games always goes through fads: Super Mario, Halo, The Sims 4, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Among Us... There's always some new game taking the world by storm. But one thing has always remained a constant throughout the decades and that's tycoon games.

Related: The 5 Best Video Game Remakes Of 2020 (And The 5 Worst)

The tycoon game originated with 1973's Lemonade Stand, which saw gamers running a simple lemonade stand. Since then, the genre has remained all about building and managing various empires with the purpose of becoming profitable and successful. From theme parks to restaurants, here are the tycoon games with the highest scores on Metacritic.

Refresh for updates: The Senate has spoken, and President Donald Trump has once again avoided impeachment. The 45th President of the United States issued a statement thanking his legal team and supporters.

More to the point, he vowed that “Our movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun.” Trump would have been barred from holding any future federal office if he was convicted.

Upon Saturday’s ruling a number of Hollywood figures including Mark Ruffalo, Padman Lakshmi and Wanda Sykes voiced their opinions on the decision, which acquitted Trump of impeachment charges.

While some expressed their disappointment with the outcome of the impeachment trial, others went after Sen. Mitch McConnell who gave a speech criticizing Trump, despite voting that the former president “not guilty” for inciting an insurrection on Jan. 6.

See some reactions below.

GOP doublespeak like McConnell displayed happens when you are desperate to get corporate donations...

Among Us is one of the most popular online multiplayer games, which can be played on a variety of devices, from smartphones and tablets to video game consoles. Taking place in space, players are either crewmates or imposters. Who's who? Well, all the fun is in figuring that out.

It's a great game to play among friends and family of all ages, though it's mostly loved by teens and tweens. Fans of the game love to show off their fandom by sporting gear and paraphernalia, from clothing to jewelry, all featuring the game's theme and characters.

Related: Among Us Hat Graph: All 94 Hats Ranked From Cute To Sus 

Just in time for Valentine's Day, there are tons of great Among Us gift ideas to get for a special someone on your list, whether it's a romantic partner, family member, friend, or even child.

There’s an incredible, immediate intimacy in opening your phone, seeing that someone is live on Instagram, and clicking over to see their face staring straight into yours. Even as the comments and emoji reactions scroll by at a frantic pace, joining these videos can seem like an intrusion — as if you didn’t mean to call someone but now that you have, you might as well stick around and see what they have to say.

On Jan. 13, a week after furious insurrectionists stormed the Capitol building, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went live on Instagram to recount her experience in the wake of the event — or at least as much of it as she could, legally and emotionally speaking. Gazing directly into her phone’s camera as comments flew by, Ocasio-Cortez spoke for a full hour about realizing the extent of the threat, feeling unsafe alongside Republican colleagues she couldn’t trust,...

Among Us, the super popular online game from Innersloth, has just taken another step toward immortality: the animated fan film! It would seem that the fine folks over at Ckvfx have put together a sweet little 15-minute CG movie based on the who-is-the-real-killer styled game. If, like my kids, you are a fan, then I'd definitely check out the full movie up top! In case you weren't in the know, the story of Among Us goes like this: 4-10 players attempt to hold their spaceship together…...

Every now and then an online game comes out of nowhere and takes the world by storm, and Among Us is the latest to do so. As Among Us is about a group of crewmates who are getting picked off one be one by an imposter, the game is full of mystery and surprises, and it has led to a lot of parallels between science fiction movies too.

Related: The Best Sci-Fi Movie From Each Year In The 2010s, Ranked

Whether it’s a manhunt in space, a thrilling cat and mouse classic, or a captivating Australian movie about time loops, there are so many movies that seemingly share DNA with the game and are full of surprises.

New Delhi, Dec 23 (Ians) The mystery-party-action game 'Among Us' which is very popular among the kids in India saw a surge in popularity during Covid-19 lockdowns, with roughly half a billion people playing it in November.

According to market research firm SuperData, ‘Among Us' is now the most popular game ever when it comes to monthly players.

Since ‘Among Us' is not heavily monetised, earnings figures are comparatively smaller.

"The PC version (which has a $5 upfront price) accounted for the majority of revenue from August to November (64 per cent) despite having only 3 per cent of the total 500 million players were playing the PC version," the report said.

'Among Us' was the most downloaded mobile game globally in November 2020 according to data from Sensor Tower.

The game clocked 53.2 million installs, which represented a 50 times increase from November 2019.

As per the report, digital games as a whole in November earned $11.5 billion, a record in monthly revenue.

YouTube gaming phenom Seán 'Jacksepticeye' McLoughlin has reached new heights with his annual Thankmas holiday fundraising stream -- which this year raised $1.4 million for Red Nose Day, a campaign to end child poverty, hunger, and food insecurity.

For the first time this year, McLoughlin asked fans and fellow creators to launch their own Thankmas streams alongside his -- with over 7,500 creators signing up to do so on creator-centric fundraising platform Tiltify. All told, the Thanksmas campaign has raised $4 million -- and counting -- with Red Nose Day committing to match up to $1.5 million of all funds raised.

McLoughlin held his 10-hour stream on Sunday, though the campaign will continue to run through Dec. 20. Over the course of the event, YouTube itself donated $100,000 to the cause, PewDiePie and Valkyrae appeared for a creator-studded game of Among Us, and McLoughlin dyed his hair green as an incentive to drive donations.

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Nintendo hosted an Indie World Showcase livestream this morning and gave players a long list of games that are headed to the Nintendo Switch, including an announcement that some titles are headed to the eShop today. Some great games were announced including Among Us, Spelunky and the recently released sequel, Super Meat Boy Forever, When […]

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Tim Burton’s 1990 movie Edward Scissorhands turned 30 last week. Check out some fun facts about this classic gothic masterpiece.

“Tim Burton’s goth masterpiece (gothsterpiece?) Edward Scissorhands is turning 30. Get your Robert Smith hair going, put on some black leather, and let’s see what you know about one of the most iconic films of the 1990s.”

Read more at Mental Floss.

Cheesy, lighthearted, and gay, The Christmas Setup is the perfect queer holiday movie you should watch in 2020.

“I didn’t go into The Christmas Setup thinking I would tear up. I went into Lifetime’s first gay-focused holiday romance with the expectation that it would be as sweet and heartwarming as hot chocolate, but not expecting much more because this was, still, a Lifetime movie.”

Read more at The Mary Sue.

From Among Us to The Last of Us Part II, check out I’s tribute to their...

Jake Paul’s contentious claim last month that he built YouTube’s first content house with Team 10 brought one of the space's forebearers into the spotlight -- the now-disbanded supergroup known as Our2ndLife (O2L).

O2L -- which comprises Connor Franta, Ricky Dillon, Sam Pottorff, Jc Caylen, Trevi Moran, and Kian Lawley -- is widely considered one of YouTube’s first big creator collectives, having spawned, at the height of their fame, a live tour and accompanying documentary. And though the group disbanded in 2014 to pursue solo careers, they reunited yesterday -- though on Twitch, not YouTube -- to play the popular multiplayer social deduction game Among Us. “Let’s go back to 2014 for a day,” read various teasers that the group posted on social media ahead of the event.

The reunion was entirely in the name of charity. And, according to O2L, it was a...

The Game Awards are back to celebrate the best titles of the year. Taking place in three studio locations — Los Angeles, Tokyo, and London — the event is hosted once again by executive producer and presenter Geoff Keighley, with special guest appearances from Brie Larson, Christopher Nolan, Gal Gadot, Keanu Reeves, Tom Holland, John David Washington, Reggie Fils-Amie, and more.

And of course, the ceremony wouldn’t be complete without some Huge announcements regarding upcoming games. Last year’s event brought us the reveal of the Xbox Series X. How will The Game Awards top itself this year? Fans will just have to wait and see!

Gamers can watch the festivities live in the stream below:

Favorites at this year’s award ceremony include The Last of Us Part II (11 nominations), Hades (9 nominations), Ghost of Tsushima (8 nominations), Doom Eternal (5 nominations), Fall Guys (4 nominations), Half-Life: Alyx (4 nominations), and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles...

Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II, created and directed by Neil Druckmann, swept The Game Awards on Thursday. A follow up to the original 2013 video game, The Last of Us Part II took home a total of seven awards at Geoff Keighley’s annual awards show.

Upon receiving the Game of the Year prize from Christopher Nolan, Druckmann expressed gratitude for his team and their supporters.

“More than anything and I know I speak for the whole team, we’d like to thank our friends and family to who stuck by us while we were making this game. You continue to inspire us in making better games but also in how we make these games,” The Last of Us creator said.

While The Last Of Us Part II took home the best performance, best direction and Game of the Year prizes, other big winners of the evening were Ghost of Tsushima,...

Last year, aspiring rapper Yng Martyr was barely holding on to a job as “a web designer that didn’t know how to design websites.” “I was in a nine to five that was God-awful,” he remembers. “I hated it.”

Faced with the prospect of wasting away at work, most people would decide to jump to a new company or go back to school. Yng Martyr is not most people: He saved up vacation time, went on leave, took out a $15,000 dollar loan from the bank, and promptly spent the...

Nelson Makengo’s “Rising Up at Night” from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Omar El Zohairy’s “Feathers of a Father” from Egypt won the prizes for films in post-production in Marrakech Film Festival’s Atlas Workshops, which is for projects from Africa and the Arab world.

Documentary feature “Rising Up at Night,” produced by Rosa Spaliviero and Dada Kahindo, follows a community in Kinshasa as it attempts to restore its electricity supply. It is set against the backdrop of a society “where violence, extreme poverty and corruption are king,” according to the director, whose “Up at Night” won the short documentary award at IDFA last year. “Rising Up at Night” won the Prix Brouillon d’un Rêve, and was selected by IDFAcademy, Berlinale Talents and Durban Film Mart.

“Feathers of a Father,” produced by Juliette Lepoutre and Pierre Menahem, charts the liberation of an Egyptian family after...

“Fortnite is dead” felt like an increasingly popular sentiment in 2020. You certainly didn’t have to look too hard to find comments from gamers who felt that it was the end of an era for a game so popular that it was prominently featured in the highest-grossing movie of all-time.

But in recent months, it felt like the game had fallen off the cultural radar. Whenever you looked at Twitch, it seemed like most of the service’s most popular streamers had moved on to Call of Duty: Warzone, Valorant, and a legion of viral games like Fall Guys, Among Us, and Genshin Impact. Fortnite rarely felt like the game to watch anymore.

Even as the spread of Covid-19 forced most people into quarantine and boosted the success of games like Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Fortnite struggled to work its way back into the narrative the same way that it had in the past.

Disney Plus’ “The Mandalorian,” Marvel’s “Avengers” films and Netflix’s “Stranger Things” are the top entertainment franchises, according to a new survey from the National Research Group.

Beginning in January 2019, Nrg, a global insights and strategy firm, conducted more than 350,000 interviews about 700 entertainment franchises to discover which were considered the most bold, inspiring and thought-provoking by U.S. consumers. The results were analyzed to determine which franchises are most likely to withstand the test of time and continue to evolve and reinvent themselves to remain relevant to their global fans.

“Consumers are ready for entertainment franchises to lean into important cultural conversations and create a new reality — one in which optimism, diversity and curiosity unite rather than divide us,” says Jon Penn, CEO of Nrg.

To little surprise, Disney and Marvel dominated the top 20 entertainment franchises with 70% of the entries, which included titles from the film, TV and video game industries.

Photo: Among Us, Orange is Sus/Inner Sloth Impostors vs. Crew In Among Us, the recently viral online multiplayer game from InnerSloth, each player controls a different-colored astronaut, tasked with performing routine tasks on a spaceship. Each round, a few of the players are secretly given the role of ‘impostor’, and must stealthily sabotage the spaceship, avoid detection, and kill the crew. When a dead crewmember is discovered, an emergency meeting begins, during which all players can vote on who they think the impostors are. This goes on until either all of the impostors have been discovered or all of the crew are dead. Aesthetically, the game is quite simplistic. The crayon-colored cartoon astronauts have legs but no arms, and when they die they look like a holiday roast with a single bone sticking out of the torso. The game takes a familiar survival horror trope--being trapped in an isolated...

Among all the triple-a titles getting released, one small indie game managed to take the world by storm. Among Us has attracted all sorts of people due to its simple premise and easy accessibility. The game is about a group of crew members trying to repair their space facilities, while simultaneously trying to identify which among them is secretly a killer impostor. It is basically like John Carpenter's The Thing.

Related: 5 Classic Nintendo Games That Will Appreciate In Value (& 5 That You Should Sell Right Now)

A game session can get pretty intense and frustrating at times, with these being some of the common grievances people experience within the game.

When you think of video games, it’s easy to envision a relaxing hobby spent chilling out and letting off some steam with the likes of Animal Crossing or Skyrim. That said, on the other side of the same coin, there’s a whole other world out there crammed with stress-inducing, controller-breaking frustration.

Indeed, while many gaming experiences are designed around the concept of pleasure and relaxation, there’re tons of titles that attempt to do the exact opposite to their playerbase. From the survival horror of Alien: Isolation to the brutally unforgiving RPG action of Dark Souls, it’s fair to say that there’s a burgeoning market for all those hardcore, masochistic enthusiasts out there. In other words, in the realm of gaming, stress can sometimes be, well, fun.

Interestingly, a recent study by website BonusFinder – in collaboration with a bunch of real-life sports scientists – has revealed some...

Though everyone loves the InnerSloth game Among Us, some have likely played it so much that they are burning out on it. Everyone loves to run around, accomplish their tasks, and find the imposters. Though it first came out in 2018, its popularity has exploded lately due to influencers on social media playing it and celebrating it. However, at this point, some are searching for another idle type game to play. In that vein, ask yourself a question.

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Do you do Google doodle? If you have not yet played Google doodles, you are really missing out. Google doodles began in the late nineties, and since then, there have been over 2,000 Google doodles. These doodles are released on holidays or to commemorate special days throughout history. They can range from music mixers to arcade type games. They are wonderfully creative, extremely innovative,...

Scientists have confirmed that there’s water on the Moon. Here’s what that could mean for future lunar expeditions.

“Scientists have gathered some of the most compelling evidence yet for the existence of water on the moon – and it may be relatively accessible. The discovery has implications for future missions to the moon and deeper space exploration.”

Read more at The Guardian.

The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg credits author Vladimir Nabokov for changing the way she communicates.

“The road to becoming a Supreme Court justice is paved with legal briefs, opinions, journal articles, and other written works. In short, you’d likely never get there without a strong writing voice and a knack for clear communication. Ruth Bader Ginsburg learned these skills from one of the best: Vladimir Nabokov.”

Read more at Mental Floss.

One of the most stereotypical features of witches is their pointy hats,...

The game Among Us is the latest mobile game to gain an immense following worldwide. Based in a space-like setting, players have increasingly drawn comparisons between the game and films like John Carpenter's The Thing for its mystery premise. Players get to play the roles of 'Crewmates' while one among them remains to be an 'Impostor'. Unless the Impostor has been spotted, it continues to hunt down the Crewmates.

Related: 10 Best Horror Movies Set In Outer Space, Ranked

The game is a worthy addition to deduction games and can draw several cinematic parallels, be it in the sci-fi, horror, or thriller genres.

Among Us is has taken the world by storm and what appears to be a simple game with a basic interface has been flooded with tons of players all over the world, which has likely caused a strain on the development team and their servers. Hence, the growing popularity of Among Us is also quickly becoming one of its weaknesses. There are plenty of times when the game just crashes out of nowhere.

Related: 10 Horror Movies To Watch If You Like To Play Among Us

Other problems include long queues due to server issues and bugs or glitches that prevent the game from being a perfect social game. Luckily, it's not the only quick game around and there are tons of backups for when Among Us doesn't want to cooperate. Some of them are also similar and should keep players and even their friends preoccupied.

U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took over Twitch yesterday, as more than 400,000 viewers sat down to watch her stream a few hours of popular party game Among Us as part of her campaign to encourage people to get out and vote. Joining her were streamers Pokimane, DrLupo, Myth, Maia, Jacksepticeye, MoistCr1TiKaL, Hasanabi, and Disguised Toast as well as Congresswoman and fellow Squad member Ilhan Omar.

In short, it was a pretty cool event, and it was made even better when Congresswoman Omar took to Twitter to share a photo of her gaming PC:

When you’re winning: pic.twitter.com/Fu7CMyCQDA

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) October 21, 2020

We’ll dive into the specifics of the build in a minute, but we should first point out that Omar’s PC is legitimately impressive. That’s not the kind of rig you keep around unless you’re planning on playing and streaming...

Who knew that the newest up-and-coming Twitch streamer would be Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a.k.a. Aoc, the U.S. Representative for New York's 14th congressional district? In a team stream of popular sci-fi murder mystery game Among Us, Aoc was joined by streamers @hasanthehun, @DisguisedToast, @DrLupo, @TSM_Myth, @mxmtoon, @Jack_Septic_Eye, and @MoistCr1TiKaL, as well as fellow representative Ilhan Abdullahi Omar in order to encourage Americans in the audience to get out and vote this Election Day. Aoc's solo stream drew in upwards of 435,000 live viewers, putting her channel in the ranks with the …...

U.S. Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar joined popular Twitch streamers Pokimane, DrLupo, Myth, Maia, Jacksepticeye, MoistCr1TiKaL, Hasanabi, and Disguised Toast for a few games of Among Us on the platform. Unsurprisingly, the stream was a massive hit, launching Aoc’s new Twitch channel to the top of the platform’s charts within minutes.

According to Twitch insider Rod Breslau, Aoc’s debut stream is now “the third highest individual stream by viewership in Twitch history,” peaking at 439,000 viewers. Aoc bagged more viewers than Twitch’s most popular categories, including Just Chatting, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and League of Legends on Tuesday night. As Breslau points out, the stream will go down as one of the biggest moments in Twitch streaming history along with Ninja and Drake’s Fortnite session and Shroud’s return from Mixer.

correction: Aoc's debut stream has now peaked at 439,000 viewers, making it...

Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez has launched a Twitch channel to play online video game Among Us and encourage viewers to vote in the election.

Cortez tweeted her interest in playing on Oct. 19, noting, “I’ve never played but it looks like a lot of fun.” Many streamers and gaming organizations responded, including FaZe Clan, Pokimane, Grand Poo Bear, Disguised Toast and Felicia Day.

Later that day, Cortez tweeted that her plan is to go live on Tuesday. “Spent tonight setting up accounts, mods, streaming & run throughs. Hoping to go live tomorrow night,” wrote the Congresswoman on ...

Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez has launched a Twitch channel to play online video game Among Us and encourage viewers to vote in the election.

Cortez tweeted her interest in playing on Oct. 19, noting, “I’ve never played but it looks like a lot of fun.” Many streamers and gaming organizations responded, including FaZe Clan, Pokimane, Grand Poo Bear, Disguised Toast and Felicia Day.

Later that day, Cortez tweeted that her plan is to go live on Tuesday. “Spent tonight setting up accounts, mods, streaming & run throughs. Hoping to go live tomorrow night,” wrote the Congresswoman on ...

Betrayal, lies, and accusations. Every person needs to experience doing that and being on the receiving end of it every once in a while. Thanks to video games like Among Us, we now get to live out those Machiavellian tactics on-demand without many negative consequences. Suffice to say, Among Us is all the rage right now though it can get rather stressful.

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That's why experiencing it without the chaos might be a nice breather for when you get repeatedly voted out or killed. Hence, it would be nice to see others get accused or killed for a change. Thankfully, other movies offer that opportunity, namely the "whodunit" murder mystery films. Except this time, they come with a flavor-of-the-month-- horror, because it's the Halloween season.

While some decide to invest their hard-earned money in rental housing, stocks or precious metals, others have turned to the world of graded cards as a means of expanding their net worth.

Sports cards have long been a popular (if unconventional) means of investing money, of course, but even the high prices some of those fetch at auction pale in comparison to Pokémon. As the highest-grossing entertainment product in history – total revenue currently stands at an eye-watering $103 billion – it’s perhaps not at all surprising that some of the oldest and rarest merchandise ever created for the franchise demands premiums in the hundreds of thousands. As Pokéfans will undoubtedly already know, several incredibly sought-after cards have gone under the hammer for six-figure sums this year alone, and that list has grown even further today.

Perhaps even more surprising, however, is the identity of the individual who just dropped $220,000 on Pokémon’s so-called crown jewel.

Check out these 11 films from the 2000s that are better than their Rotten Tomatoes scores made them out to be.

“There is perhaps no decade in history with pop culture as trashy as the 2000s. The aughts were infamouslytrashy! Part of what contributed to that, aside from people ravenously consuming tabloids about heiresses and young starlets in outfits of questionable taste, was the lot of outrageous, cringe-worthy, and typically befallen to the category of good-bad-movie-that’s-fun-to-watch that came out at the time.”

Read more at Thrillist.

If you’re an Android user, you need to check for and remove from your phone these 17 apps infected with the Joker malware.

“One of the most persistent pieces of malware targeting Android devices has reared its head again, this time appearing in 17 apps on the Google Play Store. As security company Zscaler explains, the apps in question were infected with the Joker malware.

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

After the Storm (Hirokazu Kore-eda)

Can our children pick and choose the personality traits they inherit, or are they doomed to obtain our lesser qualities? These are the hard questions being meditated on in After the Storm, a sobering, transcendent tale of a divorced man’s efforts to nudge back into his son’s life. Beautifully shot by regular cinematographer Yutaka Yamasaki, it marks a welcome and quite brilliant...

An effective horror keeps you unaware of the danger lurking in the shadows. The less you know about what’s coming the better because you don’t want to end up spending your time guessing how the problem will be solved when you should be experiencing its escalating terror. This means filmmakers won’t be able to rely on jump scares to wake audience members up, a staple in mainstream Hollywood genre fare wanting everything spelled out in lieu of atmospheric tension that builds its mythos as it progresses. The task then falls to indie artists with the creative freedom to place their vision onscreen regardless of bottom-line concessions. They can afford to scare with what’s not made visible as opposed to that which is manipulated to shock with brute force.

Gary King’s latest Among Us (formerly Unnerved) is one such example of how creative license almost always...

Bloody Disgusting has been proud to bring you exclusive stills and an exclusive trailer for director Gary King’s upcoming supernatural thriller, Among Us, and now we’re happy to bring you an exclusive video highlighting 3 reasons Gary and his crew think you’ll enjoy the flick. Ch-ch-check it out! “Whatever killed their son continues to haunt Mallory […]...

Here at The Film Stage, we’ve been following the career of budding independent filmmaker Gary King from his early New York-based films New York Lately and What’s Up Lovely to his spirited musical How Do You Write a Joe Schermann Song. This experimenting with genres has led King to his first horror film Among Us, which boasts a familiar cast from his previous films and bills itself as a love story with a unique horror twist.

Influenced by the 70s, the lush golden era of horror films, King aims to focus more on atmosphere versus a traditional gore fest. It doesn’t hurt either that King’s specialty is with intimate Diy style dramas, so there’s sure to be some interesting choices that eschew the typical tropes of this genre.

Check out the trailer for Among Us, a synopsis and exclusive stills from the film.

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Nearly a year ago we brought you the first trailer for Gary King’s Unnerved. The film, which has since been re-titled Among Us, is gearing up for a home video release — On Demand, Blu-ray and DVD — on August 8th, 2017, from Gravitas Ventures. In order to celebrate that release, we’re bringing you an exclusive look at the film’s brand-new […]...

Gravitas Ventures has secured the North American distribution rights to ‘Among Us’ (formerly known as ‘Unnerved’) and is set to release it via On Demand, Blu-ray and DVD on August 8, 2017. The movie had its world premiere under the title, ‘Unnerved’, at the Phoenix Film Festival. The film’s first teaser was released through MovieMaker …

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A house on the lake holds no solace for two grieving parents in Among Us, and with Gravitas Ventures picking up the North American rights to the film, horror fans can look forward to seeing it on home media this August:

Press Release: Los Angeles, CA - Gravitas Ventures has secured the North American distribution rights to 'Among Us' (formerly known as 'Unnerved') and is set to release it via On Demand, Blu-ray and DVD on August 8, 2017. The film had its world premiere under the title, 'Unnerved', at the Phoenix Film Festival. The film's first teaser was released through MovieMaker magazine. Horror film site Bloody Disgusting said the movie “looks crazy awesome.”

'Among Us' marks the second feature to be sold for distribution by director Gary King and stars Katie Morrison ('The Blacklist'), Mark Diconzo ('Power', 'Elementary', 'Person of Interest...

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Horror/Thriller Among Us has found a place at Gravitas Ventures. The film is set to release it via On Demand, Blu-ray and DVD on August 8, 2017. Check out the official details below.

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Gravitas Ventures has secured the North American distribution rights to 'Among Us' (formerly known as 'Unnerved') and is set to release it via On Demand, Blu-ray and DVD on August 8, 2017. The movie had its world premiere under the title, 'Unnerved', at the Phoenix Film Festival. The film's first teaser was released through MovieMaker magazine. Horror film site Bloody Disgusting said the movie "looks crazy awesome."

'Among Us' marks the second feature to be sold for distribution by director Gary King and stars Katie Morrison ('The Blacklist'), Mark Diconzo ('Power', 'Elementary', 'Person of Interest') and Elena Sanz ('Bent'). '...

"It's pushing through." "What is?" "Something big." A full-length trailer has debuted for a new indie horror film called Unnerved, written and directed by Gary King, an up-and-coming filmmaker who is a friend of this site. The film is about a couple whose child is killed but they still feel his presence. They flee to a remote lake house to escape the unrelenting haunting following them, but (of course) learn that it's still very much with them. Starring Katie Morrison, Mark Diconzo, Elena Sanz and Marty Lang. This looks like it's having fun with the typical horror tropes rather than repeating them, but it's hard to tell where it's all going. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Gary King's Unnerved, direct from YouTube: Whatever killed their son continues to haunt Mallory and Frank no matter which place they go. While hiding out at a remote lake house, Mallory struggles...

Here at The Film Stage we welcome the opportunity to highlight the work of filmmakers who embody the Diy spirit and leverage social media in order to garner a supportive audience. These type of creative people tend to be endlessly passionate about not just making the films they want to, but sharing their experiences making them. Gary King, who may be a familiar name to some, embodies these strengths as a true independent filmmaker and we’ve highlighted his impressive feature film work before from the New York drama What’s Up Lovely to his successful musical How Do You Write A Joe Schermann Song?.

King has recently completed a new horror film entitled Unnerved, starring Mark Diconzo, Katie Morrison and Elena Sanz. The story follows a couple who flee to a remote lake house before discovering a mysterious entity that haunts them from their past. We’re now premiering...

Kenneth Lampl and Darren Tate are the composers of Magnolia Picture’s “Frontera”. What makes them so unique? They've never met in person. Join us as we talk with them about their interesting and unique working relationship.

Working partnerships are common in the movie-making industry. Pooling together knowledge and talent is one way to create a more appealing and more complete product. Furthermore, for large projects with lots of work to do and tasks to complete, it makes the burden easier to bear (we all know how helpful it can be to have a shoulder to lean on). What is not common is having such partnerships develop across an ocean and not in person. For Kenneth Lampl and Darren Tate, that's exactly what happened.

Kenneth Lampl is a Professor of music at Hofstra University in New York. Darren Tate is an international DJ and producer who resides in London. Together,...