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I had a favorite version of Mulan growing up (Anita Yuen in the 1998 Taiwanese TV series). I obsessed over Chinese period TV series like Legend of the Condor Heroes, My Fair Princess and The Book and the Sword. I consider myself fairly well-versed in Chinese historical figures, especially those represented in ‘90s and 2000s entertainment in Asia. So when I found out that a UK-based studio had made a VR game called The Pirate Queen based on a forgotten female leader who was prolific in the South China Sea, I was shocked. How had I never heard of her? How had the Asian film and TV industry never covered her?

Love crossword puzzles but don’t have all day to sit and solve a full-sized puzzle in your daily newspaper? That’s what The Mini is for!

If you've ever caught yourself jamming out to a Latin-filled song in a Final Fantasy game, or any other game in which Nobuo Uematsu was credited as a composer, you might've been wondering just what the heck the singers are saying so elegantly, yet powerfully.

Fans are wondering if in her Eras Tour. With lip-syncing becoming a controversial topic, as some artists don’t sing live and simply mime along to a backing track, some wonder if one of the world’s biggest music superstars is also lip-syncing while on tour. Also, does Taylor Swift use autotune and pitch correction? Here’s what we know.

Calling all Onmyoji heroes! The Yin and Yang Division welcomes a sensational new collaboration with the world-famous virtual singer Hatsune Miku! Here’s your chance to add the talented Miku to your team in the Onmyoji and Hatsune Miku collaboration.

Warning: spoilers for Gen V below!

Fans are wondering if got a new haircut. Did she cut her hair short? Here is everything you need to know about the Friends star’s latest haircut.

Fortnite Festival Season 2 is here with the surprise entry of iconic singer Lady Gaga slated as the highlight. The collaboration marks the entry of the singer to the gaming world which will officially begin from February 22, 2024. The game will feature some of Gaga's famous songs as playable Jam Tracks which will give a chance to players to perform on a stage. The Fortnite Festival Season 2 will feature Gaga-inspired items from her latest album, "Chromatica”. Check what you can get from the new season, including new outfits, Jam Tracks, and much more.

It appears Lady Gaga is going to make an appearance in Fortnite Festival, as the singer is teasing an upcoming collaboration with Epic Games.

Later this week, NFL’s broadcast cameras will be focused on Taylor Swift, while they capture each and every reaction the singer has to boyfriend Travis Kelce’s action on the field. Oh, and a football game will be taking place, too – an important one, the Super Bowl. In order to get you in the mood, EA Sports is adding Madden NFL 24 to the EA Play vault on PS5 and PS4 from 8th February, 2024.

Fans of Taylor Swift and politicians expressed outrage on Friday at AI-generated fake images that went viral on X and were still available on other platforms. One image of the US megastar was seen 47 million times on X, the former Twitter, before it was removed Thursday. According to US media, the post was live on the platform for around 17 hours.

Musician T-Pain has confirmed that he's involved with the upcoming GTA 6, and that developer Rockstar didn't want him participating in popular GTA Online roleplay servers.

When you think of pirates, history mainstays like Blackbeard might come to mind alongside the fictional Jack Sparrow. An important but often forgotten name, however, is Cheng Shih. Not only is Cheng Shih one of history's most successful pirates, but she's also the woman who took over her late husband Cheng Yat's pirate armada after his death, putting her in indirect control of 40,000-plus pirates for a nearly decade-long stint in Chinese waters in the early 19th Century. While Cheng Shih's story can be found on pages of books and elsewhere, Singer Studios aims to bring her story to life in VR. 

While much has been said about the Forza franchise’s peculiar approach to fear of missing out, Forza Horizon 5 is not about to let go of its entire seasonal content model. It’s good, then, that the new season is here to stave FOMO off, even if only by a bit.

Square Enix has confirmed that SaGa Emerald Beyond! is going to be released on April 25th, 2024. The news has come from the SaGA Glimmerfest 2023 35th anniversary livestream. Two main characters from the game have been detailed including Tsunanori Mido and Ameya Aisling, along with their companions and allies.

Metal Gear fans have surprisingly got a lot of joy from Taylor Swift's birthday plans this year as the singer heads to Outer Heaven to celebrate. 

Square Enix has confirmed that SaGA Emerald Beyond! is going to be released on April 25th, 2024. The news has come from the SaGA Glimmerfest 2023 35th anniversary livestream. Two main characters from the game have been detailed including Tsunanori Mido and Ameya Aisling, along with their companions and allies.

From Star Wars to Naruto, Epic Games has managed to nab all kinds of brand crossovers for its skins and characters - and it still hasn't counted out going for Nintendo.

Maleficent 3 is officially in the works, according to the Wall Street Journal, and Angelina Jolie will be returning as the titular fairy. 

Prime Video has dropped the first teaser trailer for The Boys season 4 and... oh my god.

Made playable for Genshin Impact Version 4.2, Furina is the current Hydro Archon of Teyvat. She strikes a balance between buffing and healing, primarily relying on her Elemental Skill and shifting Arkhe alignment. Her Elemental Burst should be prioritized next, leaving her Normal Attack for last.

Made playable in Genshin Impact Version 4.2, Furina is the fifth Archon introduced to players. As the Hydro Archon, Furina embraces the healing qualities of the Element while providing excellent attack buffs for your team.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's producer, Yoshinori Kitase, recently said that he "can't say anything" about Genesis being in the game, which makes it sound like he probably won't make an appearance.

Nintendo has revealed that Splatoon 3 is getting Chill Season this coming December 1, 2023.

Yakuza fans are once again debating the performance of longtime protagonist Kiryu Kazuma's new voice actor Yong Yea after Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth clips were shared online.

Grammy-winning British singer-songwriter Adele is currently in the middle of a multi-year Las Vegas residency at Caesars Palace. «Weekends with Adele» runs until 2024, and the idea came about after the artist found herself fed-up with the touring life but still wishing to perform in more intimate settings where she can talk to the audience a whole bunch. Which is why she's now in PC Gamer, because it turns out her son's a Rust nut.

Iconic British singer Adele made a homemade Rust costume for her son for Halloween. Appearing on stage during her Las Vegas residency, Adele opened up about her attempt to make a Rust costume for her son — but it wasn’t exactly easy.

Grammy award-winning singer Adele made a homemade Rust costume for her son for Halloween.

Alan Wake 2‘s most talked about scene was almost cut from the game, the game’s creative director has revealed.

Final Fantasy 14 vocalist Susan Calloway has seemingly deleted her Twitter account in what appears to be an attempt at damage control, as several fans have discovered the singer has been liking extremely racist and transphobic tweets for the past 6 months.

This could just be how I process sad news, but whenever one of my fave actors or singers passes, I go and relive their best work. With the late great Matthew Perry, my brain connects him to three different mediums. In the sitcom Friends, I'll cherish him as Chandler Bing, aka Miss Chanandler Bong. He also shone as Oz, the slapstick dentist from the film The Whole Nine Yards. Most importantly, I'll remember when he used his considerable talent to play against type as Benny in Fallout: New Vegas.

The first season of Gen V is almost at an end and the events of season 1's penultimate episode mean that the stakes have never been higher for the students of God U – and, potentially, for the world at large.

Award-winning singer and songwriter Post Malone is bringing «two weeks of mayhem» to Apex Legends in November. What does that mean? I'll be blunt with you: I have no idea.

Happy October, Polygon readers!

Hey there, Fortnite lovers! Fortnite never shies away from collaborating with other big franchises, including Star Wars and Marvel. The game has hosted many successful events themed on franchises like these since its launch.

It might sound odd at first, but if you're looking for a good avenue for music discovery, you might want to consider Netflix. Many of the shows and movies on the platform have carefully chosen soundtracks curated by talented music supervisors—and they're all available for you to enjoy on Spotify. 

If you love free PC games as much as we do, you won’t want to miss this pair of absolutely gorgeous indie puzzlers, which can be yours completely free this week. Out of Line and The Forest Quartet are both up for grabs as part of the recurring Epic Games store free game promotion, and they’re two rather different but equally beautiful puzzle games.

Nathan Evans is a singer from the fine town of Airdrie in Scotland and, during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, became TikTok famous for a very old reason: sea shanties. This young man is a master at belting out the salty old songs of our forebears, and his renditions of classic sailor songs found a wide audience: over 2020 his versions of standards like Leave Her Johnny, The Scotsman and The Wellerman were all over TikTok with millions of views.

An absolute icon has come to Pokémon. The Pokémon Company announced a new collaboration with Hatsune Miku on Monday. Called “Project Voltage,” the partnership includes art and music inspired by the singer and Pokémon franchise. Now that we’ve gotten to see some of the art, it shows that Hatsune Miku was always ready for battle.

Just a few days after being announced by ubiquitous YouTube presence Mr. Beast, the high-profile «Creator League» esports series has collapsed in a swirl of confusion and anger about its use of blockchain technology and accusations that the whole thing was in fact an NFT launch.

The media artists union SAG-AFTRA has voted to expand its ongoing Hollywood strike to encompass the games industry.

Cozy MMO Sky: Children of the Light just made history with a massive in-game concert. 

Movie-watchers are sharing their love for the non-actors who gave surprisingly strong performances, from Eminem in 8 Mile to Kevin Garnett in Uncut Gems.

Breakneck development of artificial intelligence risked repeating mistakes made by the tech industry at the start of the social media era, Microsoft president Brad Smith told a business forum on Friday.

Keep your Wordle win streak going right through the weekend with our help. There's today's Wordle answer ready and waiting if you need it, more general tips and advice if you don't, and a clue for the August 26 (798) game if you're just after a nudge in the right direction.

Wordle 798 answer for August 26: It is quite surprising that Wordle has not thrown a curve ball since the beginning of this year. But this is great news for all the regular players. The end of the year was pretty rough as players had to endure some unorthodox words which were pretty challenging to solve. But today is not one of those days and you can enjoy solving the puzzle in peace. But if this cold weather has made it hard for you to get out of the blanket and take on a brain twister, then don't worry. You can simply take a look at these Wordle hints and clues that give you an advantage even before you begin the puzzle. And if you've already begun and need the solution, then you can just scroll to the bottom.

Acclaimed actress Lucy Liu has shared information about her new video game project, The Pirate Queen: A Forgotten Legend, in an interview during the Future Games Show at Gamescom.

It's September 4, 2022, and around 10,000 people are shouting "Beast, Beast, Beast" in a shopping mall in New Jersey: YouTuber MrBeast is on his way to launch his first burger restaurant, and the crowd is hysterical.

UK-based prog-metal band TesseracT are embarking on a new music video game experience, releasing War Of Being into Steam Early Access.

The most remarkable thing about Stray Gods isn’t that it’s a narrative-based role-playing musical murder mystery. No, it’s that, despite being a narrative-based role-playing musical murder mystery, Stray Gods ends up as a disappointingly tedious experience.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has a lot of classes, and a lot of those classes just so happen to be powerful magic users like Druids, Wizards, and even Bards. Whilst many classes share many spells, there are some unique ones scattered here and there. With so many spells to pick from, even at level 1, what do you pick?

For 16 years, Jeremy Vaught had control of the @music account on Twitter. But no more. 

The best song of the summer is not only a joke, it’s not even out yet. But it’s “Planet of the Bass” by DJ Crazy Times and Ms. Biljana Electronica, and purely based on the 51-second clip uploaded by Kyle Gordon — the alter ego of DJ Crazy Times — when it does drop, I will never get it out of my head. Not only does it make me want to put my hands up in the air (put my hands up in the air), I agree with its timely messages: War should stop, and women are my favorite guy.

It looks like there is another favorite app in the town! After dominating the App Store's top apps listing for a few days, Meta's Instagram-powered text-based platform Threads lost its top position to another contender. But interestingly, it was not a new app that beat it to the top, but instead, an app that has quietly existed since 2019 and all of a sudden exploded in popularity. The app in question is Remini, an AI photo editing app. So, why did it become so popular and highly rated now, in 2023? The answer is TikTok.