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After the big box office hits of the first three movies in the A Quiet Place franchise, it’s now going from the big screen to the gaming screen with a new video game release.
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A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead for Sony PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X drops on Thursday (Oct. 17) for $29.99 at Target and other retailers.
And if you’re a Target Circle member, you can order now and get A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead delivered straight to your home in two days (with orders over $35) — or you can pick it up at your local Target store for free.
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Not a member? Sign up for a free membership to take advantage of all that Target Circle has to offer, including access to “deal of the day” products, instant savings on select items, three months of Apple TV+ to watch hit originals, access to exclusive shopping events — such as Target’s Deal Days and early Black Friday deals — and other perks.
If you want to take it a step further, you can sign up for the Target Circle Card (with no annual fee), which offers an extra 5% discount on all purchases, two-day free shipping with no order minimums and more. Learn more about the Target Circle Card here.
In addition, A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead is available at Walmart and Amazon.
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‘A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead’ for PS5
Release date: Oct. 17
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‘A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead’ for Xbox
Release date: Oct. 17
Much like the movie series, A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead is a first-person survival horror game with stealth elements that find you in the middle of a post-apocalyptic world where alien monsters destroy civilization. The aliens are attracted to noise, so any noises you make in the game (and while playing the game), may find you running for your life to safety.
In fact, the game has a setting that lets you enable the microphone in your controller to detect any noise in your physical living space, so any noise you make in the real world can affect your gameplay. This sounds awesome!
Although A Quiet Place is predicated on staying absolutely silent to survive, the game, like the movies, features an orchestral score. However, it’s unclear if film’s composers Marco Beltrami or Alexis Grapsas created the music for the game.
Priced at $29.99 and available for purchase at Target, Walmart and Amazon, A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead is out now. In the meantime, watch the story trailer for the game, below:
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After the release of Mario Party Superstars in 2021, Nintendo is ready to drop the 19th installment in the long-running and beloved Mario Party franchise.
With returning favorites, such as Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and Peach, and new playable characters, like Ninji and Pauline, Super Mario Party Jamboree for Nintendo Switch drops on Thursday (Oct. 17) for $59.99 at Target and other retailers.
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And if you’re a Target Circle member, you can order now and get Super Mario Party Jamboree delivered straight to your home in two days (with orders over $35) — or you can pick it up at your local Target store for free.
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Not a member? Sign up for a free membership to take advantage of all that Target Circle has to offer, including access to “deal of the day” products, instant savings on select items, three months of Apple TV+ to watch hit originals, access to exclusive shopping events — such as Target’s Deal Days and early Black Friday deals — and other perks.
If you want to take it a step further, you can sign up for the Target Circle Card (with no annual fee), which offers an extra 5% discount on all purchases, two-day free shipping with no order minimums and more. Learn more about the Target Circle Card here.
In addition, Super Mario Party Jamboree is available at Best Buy and Amazon.
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Super Mario Party Jamboree
Release date: Oct. 17
As for the game itself, Super Mario Party Jamboree is a multi-player game with up to four players that features more than 110 mini-games across seven boards with 22 playable characters. It also introduces two online modes with rooms up to 20 players (via Nintendo Switch Online).
In our play through, we found Super Mario Party Jamboree to be loads of fun, especially in multi-player mode, with bright animations and a massive amount of characters to pick (our tester played as Shy Guy and Mario throughout the game). While it is still a good game to play in single-player mode, this game, at its core, is a party game and meant to be played with a group of friends and family.
Additionally, the “Koopathlon” online play gives you a dose of friendly competition with gamers from around the world, while the “Bowser Kaboom Squad” online challenge give you an opportunity to work together with someone in a shared goal.
One of the most fun minigames in the collection is “Rhythm Kitchen,” a new musical game show. Players cut veggies and fruits to the beat of the music to create tasty dishes and become a superstar chef in the game.
Priced at $59.99 and available for purchase at Target, Best Buy and Amazon, Super Mario Party Jamboree is out now. In the meantime, watch the overview trailer for the game, below:
Want more? For more product recommendations, check out our roundups of the best Xbox deals, studio headphones and Nintendo Switch accessories.
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Cynthia Erivo has seen the internet’s Wicked memes, and she’s not a fan.
On Wednesday (Oct. 16), the singer-actress blasted a few of the viral edits of the upcoming film’s new poster, which finds Erivo staring at the camera as costar Ariana Grande whispers in her ear in a reimagining of the original Broadway poster for the Wicked musical. When the new poster dropped earlier this month, however, some fans were unhappy that it wasn’t a more exact recreation, which led to people editing the new poster so that it looked more akin to the original — but Erivo isn’t letting it fly.
“This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen,” said the artist — whose album Ch. 1 Vs. 1 peaked at No 77 on the Top Album Sales chart in 2021 — sharing one of the edits on her Instagram Story. “The original poster is an ILLUSTRATION. I am a real life human being, who chose to look right down the barrel of the camera to you, the viewer …because, without words we communicate with our eyes.”
“Our poster is an homage not an imitation, to edit my face and hide my eyes is to erase me,” she continued. “And that is just deeply hurtful.”
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Erivo added that the edited posters were “equal to that awful Ai of us fighting” — referring to a viral AI-generated video that animates a fight between the EGOT winner and “Yes, And?” singer using their likenesses on the movie poster — and “equal to” a past meme joking about the color of her famously green-skinned character’s private parts. “None of this is funny,” she wrote. “None of it is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us.”
The Pinocchio star plays Elphaba — aka the Wicked Witch of the West — in the upcoming film duology, the first installment of which hits theaters Nov. 22. Grande is locked in as Glinda the Good Witch, with Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey, Bowen Yang and Ethan Slater rounding out the cast.
After saying her piece on the edits, Erivo shared the Wicked movie’s actual poster on her Story to “cleanse your palette,” she told viewers. About three hours later, Grande also shared the poster on her own Story.
See the official artwork below.
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Travis Kelce may be known for his football skills, but now he’s leaning on his natural charm as the host of Prime Video‘s new game show Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? The series will join the streamer’s “winning Wednesdays” lineup with a three-episode premiere airing Oct. 16 for a 20-episode run.
Kelce was confirmed as host for the show back in April, with Taylor Swift even making an appearance on set to support the 35-year-old.
Each episode will feature a new contestant vying for a $100,000 grand prize. All they have to do is successfully answer 11 questions with the help of a classroom of celebrities. If the concept sounds familiar, you’re not wrong: Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? is MGM Alternative’s (a division of Amazon MGM Studios) spinoff of the 2007 game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
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How to Watch Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? Online for Free
You can watch Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? online exclusively on Prime Video. The first three episodes are available to stream, and new episodes will arrive every Wednesday. If you’re already a Prime member, you just need to log into your account and head to Prime Video to watch the game show for no additional cost.
Don’t have a Prime membership? Amazon is offering a 30-day free trial for new users who sign up. You’ll be able to watch Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? for free in addition to everything else within the Prime Video library. Once the free trial is over, you’ll be charged the regular subscription fee of $14.99 a month, or $139 a year.
Looking for more savings? Adults 18-24 and college students can get a six month free trial and 50% off subscription when you sign up for a student membership. Qualifying government programs can also get you a 30-day free trial and half-off membership fee when you sign up for the EBT/Medicaid membership.
In addition to being able to stream Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? for free, a Prime membership will let you watch Prime Originals including The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Killer Heat, Fallout, The Idea of You, The Boys, Gen V, My Lady Jane, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Expats, Citadel Diana, Tragically Hip No Dress Rehearsal and The Legend of Vox Machina.
To expand your content options, you can add premium channels to your subscription through the Prime Channel storefront including Paramount+, Max and Starz.
Watch the trailer for Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? below:
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The loss of several Hip-Hop legends over the past few years has ushered in a somber spirit to the culture. As Hip-Hop turned 50, and with a constant stream of premature health tragedies, a chance encounter on Wall Street between a cardiologist, a health advocate, and a music artist led to The CHECK IN being born.
To help mitigate this ongoing health crisis in the culture, Dr. Joseph A. Puma of Sorin Medical, Health Advocate and Media Personality Kenya Gipson (Coach Kenya), and rapper, Maino decided to tackle some of the disparities in care affecting communities of color “head on” by creating a platform that’s both entertaining and informative. It’s designed to empower individuals everywhere to take the fate of their health into their own hands through a preventative approach. Since most health situations can be treated and avoided if detected early, the program aims to ease some of the anxieties faced daily when it comes to understanding and learning about one’s health to make informed and educated decisions.
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How is The CHECK IN – Hip-Hop’s first health platform – different from other platforms in the space?
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The CHECK IN is Hip-Hop’s first health and wellness platform designed, from inception, to change and save lives. By telling real stories of hip-hop artists and others in the game, The CHECK IN educates and informs in an entertaining way. One particular episode features artist and rapper Lady Luck, who had life-threateningly low blood counts that required four blood transfusions; these low counts were caused by chronic bleeding from uterine fibroids, which affect three in five women of color by age 50. Had she waited to connect with Dr. Puma, she would have run the risk of an extremely dangerous and potentially negative outcome. Hearing first-hand accounts from artists and executives in the hip-hop world in this program will highlight symptoms and diseases viewers have possibly never heard of, so they can seek out testing and treatments that could benefit themselves. For example, many signs of coronary artery disease can be missed using traditional diagnostic and stress tests. The advanced CT scan technology is a three-minute, non-invasive test that captures images of the heart and prostate in men, and fibroids in women. With education and awareness, we can reduce the morbidity and mortality of common illnesses that afflict the community.
What will people experience from The CHECK IN?
Authenticity. Each story featured on The CHECK IN has a unique background and covers real-life health scenarios with real-time solutions. The audience will immediately be able to understand these and relate to themselves and their family in order to take a positive step towards addressing their health. The goal of each story is to create healthier, more positive outcomes in communities of color.
For example, Steven “DJ Suss One” Sussman, a beloved radio DJ in the game who can be heard spinning across the airwaves and on The Sherri Shepherd Show, lost a loved one to heart disease. Like many of us who have lost a parent, it’s critical to consider the genetic connection to diseases. That’s what led him to The CHECK IN, where he underwent Sorin’s state-of-the-art Heart Scan that provides patients with HeartFlow’s AI software imaging technology so they can see firsthand how their heart is functioning.
Another story told on The CHECK IN is of music moguls like Dame Dash, founder of The America Nu Network, and his journey with Type 1 diabetes since age 15, and also explores the story of music executive Steve Lobel, who shares his recent encounter with a debilitating and near death health scare from prostate enlargement.
The CHECK IN is Hip-Hop, stories, health, and healing all rolled into one platform. Dr. Puma, Coach Kenya, and Maino are bringing the conversation of Hip-Hop and Health to the mainstream. Hopefully, by highlighting all of the resources available to the community and having some of Hip-Hop’s biggest players share their stories, we can help catch health complications early and prevent heart disease where possible, especially those affecting communities of color. To find out more about The CHECK IN and to see their latest episode, you can click here.
Connect: @sorinmedicalny @mainohustlehard @coachkenya
Fresh off releasing new album Spill the Feels led by the DJ Khaled-featuring single “LOVE, MONEY, FAME,” SEVENTEEN’s ongoing global takeover steps into the Big Apple as the K-pop powerhouses partner with Spotify for an exclusive pop-up experience made for their most loyal fans, affectionately known as Carats.
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Billboard can exclusively reveal details for Spotify x SEVENTEEN Present: Carat Station NYC, for Oct. 26 in Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood offering fans an in-person experience through their own whimsical, SEVENTEEN-themed world.
Like the band’s recent pop-up with Spotify in Seoul, the immersive experience will let local Carats explore a fantastical train station in the clouds with special, fan-centric details inside. Attendees can explore interactive kiosks and photo ops, including personalizing your light stick at the Charms Customization Station, indulging in Korean delicacies at the Dining Concourse, and exploring the Carat Street Flower Market that will be exclusive to the NY location.
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“K-pop is now a major global and growing genre on Spotify and our Carat Station pop-ups represent that,” Lucy Davidson, Lead Label Partnerships at Spotify, tells Billboard. “By bringing the activation to New York City, we’re showing SEVENTEEN’s fans around the world that we see them too…Spotify’s Music teams in Korea, the U.S. and Japan worked in lockstep to create unique events in each city that feel both authentic to that particular place and connected to the larger Carat fandom. That’s why you’ll see common threads throughout each experience, but unique elements as well — like the Flower Market kiosk in New York City.”
Spotify will send personal invitations to SEVENTEEN’s top listeners in the NYC area starting today (Oct. 16), and the event will be open to the public at a soon-to-be announced location. Fans can also make reservations which will be honored on a first-come, first-served basis. RSVP at this link here.
SEVENTEEN also shared an exclusive message with their fans reading on Billboard, saying, “Hi Carats! Thanks for stopping by Carat Station in Seoul this past week. We hope you had so much fun! New York, don’t worry! We have a surprise coming your way too. October 26. See you soon!”
“The Carat Station concept was inspired by the idea that the fan journey starts long before the concert begins,” Davidson adds. “Fandoms are built in the hours leading up to the ‘big moment,’ whether through streaming the music, exploring the artist’s stories, watching videos, or connecting with other fans. Every genre has a unique fandom and K-pop is no different. We know New York’s Carats will be looking for insider details in every corner and so we’ve done our best to deliver SEVENTEEN-specific references for them to discover throughout the experience.”
Carat Station NYC runs parallel to the upcoming U.S. leg of SEVENTEEN’s RIGHT HERE world tour that kicks off its U.S. leg with two shows at Chicago’s Allstate Arena on Oct. 22 before two dates at the UBS Arena in New York.
Get ready for Spotify x SEVENTEEN Present: Carat Station NYC with images from the recent Seoul experience below and check out Spotify’s SEVENTEEN WORLD TOUR [RIGHT HERE] playlist.
SEVENTEEN x Spotify Seoul
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SEVENTEEN x Spotify Seoul
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SEVENTEEN x Spotify Seoul
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SEVENTEEN x Spotify Seoul
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SEVENTEEN x Spotify NYC
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BLACKPINK’s JENNIE performed her hit solo single “Mantra” on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Oct. 15, following the song’s recent release. The track marks the singer’s first release since signing as a solo artist with Columbia Records in partnership with her label ODDATELIER in September. Performing packed crowd on Kimmel, JENNIE did not disappoint as she gave […]