During the “Spelljammer: confirmed!” announcement at the recent live-streamed D&D Direct, there was a quick blip on the stream that showcased some of the upcoming minis that would be made for the new adventure. WizKids is producing the minis, and while we don’t have final designs, the company was kind enough to share…
People flooded the streets from Washington, D.C., to Dallas, some chanting: “Abortion rights are under attack. What do we do? Stand up, fight back!”
A lot of people are paying for Paramount+ to watch Halo and Star Trek: Picard, even if neither series has been particularly outstanding. On Tuesday, Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS) announced that it added 6.8 million new Paramount+ subscribers in the first quarter of 2022. With those additions, the platform has almost 40 million customers. Among other content, the company credited its original programming, including the aforementioned Halo and Star Trek: Picard, for the continued growth of Paramount+.
In turn, that subscriber growth contributed to an increase in the company’s bottom line, with revenue from the service growing by 148 percent year-on-year to $585 million in Q1 2022. “The first quarter once again demonstrated the power and potential of Paramount’s unique assets and the company’s continued momentum,” said Paramount Global CEO and President Bob Bakish.”
Paramount’s success is particularly notable given Netflix’s recent struggles. Last month, the streaming giant announced that it lost about 200,000 customers in the first quarter of 2022, marking its first subscriber drop in a decade. The company has since embarked on a series of cost-cutting measures, canceling series like Space Force and gutting the editorial staff of its Tudum fansite.
When the richest man in the world casually cast doubt on medications that help millions through psychological distress over the weekend, his comments met fierce resistance.
A team of researchers scanned the roof of a limestone cave in Alabama and discovered several massive Native American mud glyphs that are estimated to be about 1,500 years old.
The leaked Supreme Court draft decision revealing the high court is ready to dismantle abortion rights is causing fear, confusion and desperation.
Georgia will provide Rivian with up to $1.5 billion in local incentives and tax credits in support of the automaker’s plan to build a new manufacturing plant outside of Atlanta. When Rivian announced late last year it would build its second production facility in Georgia, the company said it would eventually employ more than 7,500 workers at the facility and invest a total of $5 billion into the project. According to Reuters, the startup has until 2028 to meet those goals in order to access all the incentives offered by the state’s government.
The support package is notable for a few reasons. When the company announced the facility, it said it would pay for the expansion with funding it secured from its blockbuster $100 billion IPO. Amazon also has a 20 percent stake in the company, and an order for at least 100,000 electric delivery vans. But despite its strong financial backing, Rivian has struggled to actually deliver cars to customers. At the start of the year, the company delayed the delivery of its 400-mile R1T trucks to 2023. It also announced, and later reversed, a price hike for R1T and R1S pre-orders that led to a shareholder lawsuit.
Though the edit button still has yet to materialize in timelines, and the company is undergoing a tumultuous acquisition, Twitter has been working on new features.
Blah blah George R.R. Martin blah blah The Winds of Winter blah blah 11 years since A Dance With Dragons came out blah blah waiting forever blah blah never finishing it blah blah etc. But now, Martin has offered a vitally important update on the long-, long-awaited sixth volume in his A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy…
Activists fearing soon-to-be Twitter King Elon Musk may turn the platform into a “megaphone to extremists,” are calling on the site’s biggest moneymen to keep the ship afloat.
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