Hi-Fi RUSH Developer Tango Gameworks Has Now Officially Closed Its Doors
17 Jun
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Hi-Fi RUSH Developer Tango Gameworks Has Now Officially Closed Its Doors

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Top Stories Tamfitronics One of the employees highlighted the studio's "last day"Image: Tango GameworksLast month, Xbox shared the news it would be shutting down four studios including the developers behind the critically-acclaimed title Hi-Fi RUSH. While things have been looking more positive on the Xbox front over the past week, a now-former Tango Gameworks employee has shared an update on this closure, seemingly confirming the studio has completely shut down.As highlighted by our friends at VGCdeveloper Takeo Kido shared multiple pictures of the Japanese studio - noting how it was the "last day of work" with the studio then closing. In these pictures you can see the lobby featuring some Fallout icons as well as some Hi-Fi RUSH-related works, and another picture shows the studio's "last meal", with tables covered in pizzas and the staff...
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Spotify’s First Post-Bundled Royalty Statements Have Arrived — 97% of All Subscription Accounts Are Now Lower-Paying Bundles
17 Jun
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Spotify’s First Post-Bundled Royalty Statements Have Arrived — 97% of All Subscription Accounts Are Now Lower-Paying Bundles

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Top Stories Tamfitronics Spotify’s bundles-of-joy are now wreaking havoc on royalty statements (Photo: Katrin Bolovtsova)Top Stories Tamfitronics Spotify’s hard shift toward bundling and its associated loopholes have officially started hitting publisher royalty statements, according to documents shared with Digital Music News this week. So far, it looks like Spotify has taken an extreme turn toward cut-rate bundling recategorizations—here’s a look at the preliminary statements.Last week, Digital Music News calculated that Spotify accounts for an impressive 42% of all mechanical royalties paid in the U.S., based on a tranche of confidential royalty statements from February of 2024. Now, it looks like that percentage is going to drop significantly, thanks to an extreme shift towards bundling that is now impacting music publisher bank accounts.And make no mistake—this is now impacting music publisher wallets in...
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UK polls point to ‘electoral extinction’ for Prime Minister Sunak’s Conservatives, World News
17 Jun
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UK polls point to ‘electoral extinction’ for Prime Minister Sunak’s Conservatives, World News

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Top Stories Tamfitronics LONDON — Three British opinion polls released late on Saturday (June 15) presented a grim picture for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party, and one pollster warned that the party faced "electoral extinction" in July 4's election.The polls come just over halfway through the election campaign, after a week in which both the Conservatives and Labour set out their manifestos, and shortly before voters begin to receive postal ballots.Sunak surprised many in his own party by announcing an early election on May 22, against widespread expectations that he would wait until later in the year to allow more time for living standards to recover after the highest inflation in 40 years.Market research company Savanta found 46 per cent support for Keir Starmer's Labour Party, up two points on the previous poll five days...
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Chris Hemsworth found it ‘liberating and refreshing’ to shed ‘heroic Thor space’, Entertainment News
17 Jun
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Chris Hemsworth found it ‘liberating and refreshing’ to shed ‘heroic Thor space’, Entertainment News

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Top Stories Tamfitronics Chris Hemsworth found it "somewhat liberating and refreshing" to ditch the "heroic Thor space" and play a villain in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.The 40-year-old actor has starred as Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since the 2011 film of the same name and reprised the role in several subsequent movies, but he was grateful to step away from playing a hero to star as Dementus, the warlord leader of the Biker Horde, which abducted Furiosa, and eventual ruler of Gastown, in George Miller's fifth instalment in the blockbuster post-apocalyptic action franchise.Speaking to SFX magazine, he said: "It was somewhat liberating and refreshing to kind of shed the heroic Thor space and transform into something different, and not have to be restricted by the expectations of the hero, guess.The first time I...
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