The Lane
Sneakers, hip-hop, anime, gaming — every story we’re telling, ranked by what’s trending right now.
Sneakers, hip-hop, anime, gaming — every story we’re telling, ranked by what’s trending right now.
adidas ended the partnership in October 2022 and spent the next two years selling the leftovers. The numbers are the clearest ownership lesson the business has produced.
Top Dawg built a roster on long development deals. When its biggest artist walked to a company he co-owns, the whole model's math changed.
Sandy Bodecker took a dead 1985 basketball shoe, gave it a fat tongue and a Zoom insole, and handed skaters a currency Nike never controlled again.
EMPIRE turned distribution into a full-service alternative to signing. The label-services model is now the default path, and it has its own price.
Satelight's adaptation of Toshiaki Iwashiro's 2008 Jump manga runs Mondays, 13 episodes through December 28, with English subs and a dub.
Strip away the celebrity and NOCTA is a case study in how Nike builds a sub-label: one new silhouette, a fleece program, and a distribution lane it keeps for itself.
Three 6 Mafia's tape-era menace became the rhythmic grammar of drill and phonk. The Academy Award was the strangest stop on a road that ran through Orange Mound, not Hollywood.
Jerry Lawson's Fairchild Channel F invented the swappable game cartridge in 1976. The line from him to Gordon Bellamy to Brass Lion is shorter and thinner than it should be.
Kim Jones put a $2,200 price tag on Peter Moore's silhouette, 5 million people entered a raffle for 8,000 public pairs, and Jordan Brand learned it could charge luxury money for a retro.
Fourteen years after Kendrick Lamar's major-label debut, the decision that mattered wasn't the Aftermath signing. It was keeping Digi+Phonics in the room.
Howard White sat in the 1984 pitch and stayed 45 years. Larry Miller ran the brand from 1999 to 2006 while hiding a murder conviction. Wilson Smith III designed the 16 and 17. Their names are not on the box.
Dilla's drums and the West 7 Mile battle circuit built the technical standard. The current generation turned it into a distribution strategy that mostly skips the majors.
GKIDS and Fathom bring the film back for a five-night Ghibli Fest run, after two filmed screenings of the stage production earlier this month.
Barcelona gold, a second ring and a Super Bowl ad with a cartoon rabbit, all in one 1992 shoe. Space Jam was four years away and the 7 had already written the pitch.
A Florida label says his old contract is still live and the Anderson .Paak project breaks it. The album is still scheduled for Friday.
Rockstar leaders told Bloomberg the world is packed with hand-built rooms, and the story leans closer to Red Dead Redemption 2 than GTA 5. Launch is November 19.
A Ghanaian streetwear label gets its own Jordan 3. Style code IU0737-001, SNKRS on December 11, with an EMEA date reported a week earlier. Price isn't confirmed.
Two days after The Disciple hit Netflix, RZA is telling People he tried to get out of the Once Upon a Time in Shaolin deal and has since made peace with it.
Tumbled black leather, Dark Concord underneath, style code HJ6779-002. SNKRS is the only retailer listed so far, and the price reads $205 in one place and $215 in another.
Deshae Frost won by second-round TKO in Miami on October 16, and the bad blood between YK Osiris and DDG nearly spilled out of the commentary booth.
Season 3 premieres Jan. 10, 2027 on Japanese TV and runs six months straight. The streaming partner outside Japan isn't confirmed.
Two weeks after a report moved it to December 18, the Whitaker Group skate shop's first Jordan is listed for Friday, October 23 at $200 with raffles already open.
The venue blamed weather and travel delays for postponing the October 16 Carter Classics stop in West Virginia. No new date yet; tickets will be honored.
Nikeland pulled tens of millions of visits on Roblox and Jordan Brand has lived inside NBA 2K for years. The proof that any of it moves real pairs is still missing.
The APB 11 Low lands Friday, the 12 "Fireside" and two Air Jordan 1s follow Saturday. Dates, prices and style codes, with the Halloween-weekend pairs queued behind them.
Seventeen tracks on October 16 through 1017 Global Music and Atlantic, with Summer Walker, ICE DAVIS and OJ da Juiceman. It was announced with about a week of runway.
The 1985 letter from the league named a red-and-black Nike shoe worn in October 1984. That shoe was the Air Ship. Nike sold the story anyway, and it still sells.
Southern women were writing the explicit, regionally specific rap that now dominates the charts twenty years before the industry decided to fund it.
Cosplay on the Crunchyroll Anime Awards stage in Tokyo, a song called Otaku Hot Girl, and a fandom she never treated as a marketing quarter.
Black nubuck, New Emerald and Tour Yellow, style code JF9225-001. SneakerFiles lists January 2, 2027 at $215. Sneaker Freaker says the date is still unconfirmed.
A roughly five-minute single out October 16 on DreamChasers, distributed by Stem. It follows Meek's July release "Nightmares To Dreams."
Square Enix's monster-raising RPG is on PS5, Xbox, Switch 2, Switch and PC. $59.99 standard, $94.99 Digital Deluxe with 48 hours of early access, and a demo is out.
Jordan Brand's Día de los Muertos Air Jordan 1 Low OG (IZ4686-216) went on sale Oct. 13 in Mexico in a numbered run. Nice Kicks reports no US release update.
A whiteboard post on Friday gave the title order, 17 tracks and only two guest spots: Rylo Rodriguez, and Future with Young Thug. The album is due November 6.
Michael Jordan predicted somebody would wear patent leather with a tuxedo. Boyz II Men did it at the Grammys, Busta put it in 'Woo Hah!!,' and Biggie made it Brooklyn formalwear.
On T.I.'s expediTIously podcast, the attorney said Thug asked him to meet Lil Durk's team and that scheduling, not willingness, was the only obstacle. A bond hearing is set for next month.
Episode 1 hit Crunchyroll October 13. A global game rebuilt Japan around 'Golden Valley,' and one kid plays his way toward the top of it.
Mid at $140, Low at $130, both set for November 2026 as part of the movie's 30th anniversary push.
Police say a 29-year-old man shot near Old Fourth Ward on April 25 later died. Both rappers face felony murder and armed robbery charges and are being held without bond.
Nintendo dropped two short trailers on October 17: one built around Link's ocarina melodies, one around combat, with Ganondorf at the organ and Dark Link in the Water Temple. Launch is November 5.
Listed for March 13, 2027 at $215. White leather, Carmine nubuck, Nike Air on the heel — and a 2021 pair some heads still haven't forgiven.
A whiteboard post on X shows a 13-track list with titles and features crossed out, a "#FREESATCHAMO" tag and no release date.
Tinker Hatfield designed the 10 as a eulogy while Michael Jordan was hitting .202 in Birmingham. Then Jordan came back, hated the shoe, and wore it anyway for 55 at the Garden.
Thirty-two years after Scarface went platinum in seven weeks, The Diary still reads as the strongest case for a Southern label keeping its own paper.
The second cour premiered October 13 with a new trailer, two theme songs and a fresh cast member. Here's who's back and where to watch.
Black, Picante Red and green glow on the tongue Jumpman, the 23 and a translucent outsole. HQ7978-001 is a general release with family sizing.
One of four men convicted in the 2020 killing told XVTV the shooting "was never supposed to go like that." Here's what's confirmed about the case and where each man stands.
Tathvamasi Studios' debut hits PS5 October 30. An exploration adventure drawn from Rajput forts, Theyyam culture and Himalayan monasteries, with rhythm in the movement.
A new unboxing reveal shows the whole shoe. Sole Retriever lists Nov. 7 at $215.
Nearly six years after his ex-manager sued him, a Cook County judge ruled Pat Corcoran took secret vendor kickbacks and must give back up to $1.5 million and hand over ChanceRaps.com.
The Vikings-colored Air Jordan 9 'Super Freak' (JK1415-100) is reported for Feb. 13, 2027 at $215. Complex has the new first look; Jordan Brand hasn't confirmed.
TMZ reports Sean Combs left FCI Fort Dix on Friday for a smaller low-security prison in Pennsylvania. The Bureau of Prisons has not said why.
New key visual and trailer ahead of the Oct. 20 Netflix premiere. Kai Ikarashi directs, TRIGGER animates.
Cream and brown, $220, arriving Oct. 24 per Sneaker News. Official images surfaced Oct. 12.
A motion filed Oct. 15 asks a federal court to make the U.S. Marshals address his pretrial conditions in Haskell, Texas. His trial is set for Feb. 22, 2027.
The overhauled Final Fantasy Brave Exvius port hits PS5, Xbox, both Switches and PC Thursday. The free Chapter 1 demo has been out since September, and its save data carries over.
Tentatively Jan. 23, 2027 at $215. Navy leather, French Blue accents, and the UNC colors Mike never wore on court.
Judge Martin Fein ordered 500 prospective jurors summoned and the public kept out of the courtroom, citing improper juror contact in the 2023 trial that ended in a mistrial.
Nov. 27, 2026 at $230. Black nubuck, Nike Air on the heel, and it's not supposed to be limited.
Two producers built a platform out of a quarantine livestream, sold it, sued to get paid, and settled for a bigger stake. The valuation question never got answered.
Sekiro: No Defeat debuts in January, Yuri!!! on ICE returns to theaters Oct. 19, and the games-to-anime pipeline keeps widening.
Reportedly Feb. 13, 2027, Super Bowl weekend, at $215. White leather, purple patent, gold "Super Freak" on the tongue.
A Cook County judge ruled Oct. 13 that Pat Corcoran breached his fiduciary duty with hidden merch payments. Final figures come Nov. 30.
The co-op climbing game from Aggro Crab and Landfall brings every content update to PlayStation, with crossplay for up to three friends.
Expected Jan. 9, 2027 at $215. Light Graphite suede, chartreuse accents, and a shape that's supposed to stay close to 2005.
The anniversary edition added three unreleased songs from the album era, including "Butterflies" with Thundercat on bass.
Nike was ready to kill the Air Force 1 two years after launch. Three Baltimore stores kept it alive, and New York turned it into the Uptown.
Verzuz stays in R&B for its next night: two catalogs built on Bad Boy-era heartbreak and Def Jam-era slow jams, live Thursday at 9 p.m. ET.
A Cartoon Network block that started in March 1997 decided which anime a generation of Black kids would carry into adulthood. The selection was made by two people in Atlanta.
Chris Gibbs turned a 1989 New York transplant on La Brea into the shop Jordan Brand trusted with the Air Jordan 1's silhouette itself.
A post that starts at Robert Johnson's unmarked grave ends at the same question hip-hop keeps dodging: who gets paid for the foundation.
Rockstar's launch trailer arrived Oct. 15 with Jason and Lucia, a swamp flashback and an original Justice single featuring SZA and Tame Impala.
From the Forum Buckle Low to the Gazelle and Campus runs, a Puerto Rican artist quietly took over the job adidas had spent a decade outsourcing.
The post answers a DJ Akademiks claim about festival fees. The claim is unverified and the arena math is the real conversation.
The 2019 Cactus Jack 6 added a stash pocket to a 28-year-old shoe and sold out at $250. The British Khaki follow-up proved the trick worked twice.
TMZ says he fought Christopher 'Dudus' Coke over the prison-perks fallout. The Bureau of Prisons says it never happened. Page Six says he hit his head on a bunk.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 premieres Oct. 20, 2026, with all 10 episodes at once on Netflix. What's confirmed, what's not, and why the week changes.
Twelve SKUs: the Air Jordan 11 'Space Jam' Dec. 12, 'Magic Ball' Nov. 11, 'Green Screen' Nov. 16 — and a Laser pair you can't buy.
Early Monday at a Scottsdale lounge, Blueface asked Chrisean Rock to marry him. By Wednesday both had fresh ink — his Benjamin Franklin portrait included.
Coin Crew Games is turning the puzzle-room sequel into an open-world campus, with co-op from day one.
Trophy Room's 2021 Air Jordan 1 sold out before most people could load the page, and the backdoor allegations that followed said more about retail than about the shoe.
Three days before Halfway 2 Jesus drops, Kid Rock says Eminem is off '7 Sins' and onto 'Heal My Faith.' Lil Wayne takes the original slot.
Sneaker News breaks down the 12-SKU Space Jam collection: the retro on Dec. 12, Green Screen and Magic Ball in November, and pairs that won't release.
The lead single from Disc 2 drops Friday. The deluxe gathers the alter-ego records from his eight-year gap, rebuilt with new verses.
Aniplex of America and Fathom Entertainment say Walpurgisnacht Rising hits U.S. theaters Jan. 16. What's confirmed.
A reported Air Jordan 16 SP for Summer 2027 would be her third Jordan project. No images, no price, no confirmation yet.
BULLY (Deluxe) is reportedly entered for Album of the Year, with "FATHER" up for Record and Song of the Year. Nominations land Nov. 16.
Auroch Digital opened pre-orders with a 10% PS Plus discount and revealed two champions, Morvenn Vahl and Lyssa Revenya.
Reported Nov. 5 at $155 in girls' sizing. The real question is who gets to buy it.
The judge who presided over the case says she was interviewed for it. Kurrco says it's 90 minutes and directed by Shianne Brown. Netflix hasn't confirmed.
The Air Jordan 3 "Santa" IF4396-601 is slated for November 21, and the price depends on which outlet you ask.
On Jimmy Kimmel Live, 50 Cent told the story of a flower arrangement from Diddy and his own reply. Plus what is and isn't confirmed about Combs's reported hospital visit.
Netflix's 'Something Real' sneak peek for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is at 1.9 million views on YouTube. The premiere is 11 days out.
A $150 skate shoe with a tearaway upper became the most expensive general-line Dunk ever made, and dragged the entire SB program back into the mainstream.
Five years after the backstage stabbing at Once Upon a Time in L.A., the estate has reportedly ended its wrongful death suit against Live Nation and the festival's security and promoters. Terms are undisclosed.
A new IGN video shows a boss battle and the combat system. The Blood Steel Uniform is a digital Deluxe Edition exclusive.
Jordan retired on October 6, 1993, with the 9 already built. It became the only numbered Jordan he never wore in an NBA game, and the one cast in bronze outside the United Center.
On Power 106 he said another album is coming right after QROMELIFE, and the Migos and Takeoff projects are in the works.
Jordan wore the Fire Red and Black Metallic 5s on court. A sitcom kid from West Philly wore the Grape, laceless, every Monday night. Guess which pair the culture remembers.
50 Cent says Eminem passed on the Street Fighter soundtrack because of other plans, and reportedly let an album announcement slip. Details are thin.
Ashito Aoi gets promoted to the A Team and immediately learns how far behind he is. Season 2 streams on Crunchyroll.
The first all-black Air Jordan 16 returns to the market in a patent leather finish, marking a major move for Jordan's vaulted silhouettes.
She directed the 'Bombs' visual and posted a diary entry about a two-year build toward her debut album. No title, no date yet.
Edgerunners 2 lands Oct. 20. If the anime gets you curious, here's the game side of the world.
The long-vaulted 487471-300 grail gets its first-ever retro on October 31, 2026 for $215.
Judge Paige Whitaker says it's for Netflix and Passion Pictures, aimed at 2027. Here's what's confirmed and what's still chatter.
The "Binary Blue" collab moved from Sept. 18 to Dec. 18 at $200. What changed, what we don't know, and what to do with your reminder.
A clip from Oct. 9 has Boosie arguing his catalog beats anyone's. It follows his back-and-forth with Turk, and Wayne's name came up next.
Weak Kingsley, D, Roman Carax and Talia Yang carry the new standalone story. Who they are, who's behind the series, and what we still don't know.
The Air Jordan 15 "Snakeskin" lands November 7 at $240 as the Black Pack's loudest quiet flex.
Ferg posted that he finished a new album and asked who wants to distribute it. Rocky offered AWGE: 'U know where home is.'
Nine games across Extra and Premium, with The Midnight Walk out today and Poppy Playtime: Chapter 2 on Oct. 27.
The Air Jordan 11 "Green Screen" drops in mid-November at $255, and the date still isn't locked down.
All The Machines is giving away UN/T-01, an 808-style drum machine plugin. Drumforge's Kickforge is free for a limited time, too.
The Air Jordan 5 "Halloween" (HQ7978-001) lands October 17, 2026, for around $215-220 with a Black, Picante Red, and Green colorway.
The battle rapper reportedly released a diss track targeting Papoose and boxer Claressa Shields. Context from the Remy Ma feud.
The isekai comedy returned Sept. 26 with a new cast. Why a villain-reincarnation story keeps landing, and what's confirmed about season 2.
June 9, 2018. $225. A Houston Oilers blue on Tinker Hatfield's 4 with a Cactus Jack tab on the heel. Eight years later it still trades near $850, and every rapper collab since has been priced against it.
Reported for Friday, Oct. 16, ahead of DON'T BE DUMB (Disc 2). Here's what's actually been said.
The Scope of Authority Premium Warbond adds a bolt-action, an anti-materiel rifle, an infinite-ammo energy rifle and camouflage armor.
First retro of the 2005 colorway lands October 31 at $215, with a shape Jordan Brand says sits closer to the original.
Master P's tank ran on volume and a distribution deal that kept the masters. Cash Money's 1998 Universal agreement did the same thing with better lawyers. Both changed what a Southern label could demand.
Pewter nubuck, College Navy mesh, and Nike Air on the heel. No official school branding, release set February 27, 2027.
Her "Bombs" video dropped Oct. 12 as part of Swap Sessions. The debut album has no title and no date yet.
Katsuhiro Otomo's 1988 film gave hip-hop its visual vocabulary for collapse and ambition — a music video, a Supreme collection and forty years of borrowed frames.
Jordan Brand runs a second business above the retro calendar: 2,300-pair Bin 23 drops at $355, player exclusives that leak into auctions and friends-and-family pairs in editions of 23.
Ferg posted that his new album is done and asked who wants to distribute it. A$AP Rocky answered in six words.
First Year 1 Pass character, Ray Chase voicing, a Dark Phoenix transformation, and a 3-hour PS Plus trial live now.
On the Oct. 1 earnings call, Elliott Hill said Jordan Brand has been 'oversupplying our iconic retro product' and will 'deliberately reduce the volume and frequency' of retro launches, as it already did with the Air Jordan 1. Ten retros a month was the number.
After 30 years, Duane 'Keffe D' Davis — the first person ever convicted for the 1996 shooting that killed Tupac — was sentenced to 40 years to life in Clark County. What actually happened, and what we still cannot confirm.
IX6986-047 lands Holiday 2026, reportedly only in Middle Eastern markets: Soft Pearl leather, Pomegranate trim, '23' embroidered in Arabic on the tongue, embossed mosaic geometry where the elephant print goes, and a burgundy box.
Wu-Tang Clan's The Disciple: A Wu-Tang Fable — a third in a line of Netflix documentaries — premieres Oct. 16, 2026, with the trailer dropping today. What's confirmed.
Crunchyroll confirms the return of Maoyun and the imperial court intrigue for Fall 2026.
IZ1800-200 surfaced in official Nike photos on Sept. 30: a matte iridescent upper that shifts green to purple in place of patent leather, a black midsole, and Holiday 2026 timing. Sneaker News confirms it's tied to the film; the nickname is still under wraps.
KenTheMan's I Love 304s landed Oct. 13, 2026 — a 5-track EP with the Houston area code in the title. What it is, what's unverified, and why it matters.
Castlevania: Belmont's Curse launches Oct. 15, 2026. What's confirmed, what's not, and why it's a support slot.
IQ5492-001 went up on Nike.com Friday: black nubuck, cracked leather overlays, exposed 'XXIII' stitching, a possessed Jumpman on the tongue and a green glow-in-the-dark sole. Sneaker News had it for mid-October at $130; it's $140 and it's out.
JPEGMAFIA's Experimental Rap Tour closes at The Tabernacle in Atlanta on Oct. 24, 2026 — the label's own finale. What's confirmed, what's not.
StockX cut staff, GOAT consolidated, eBay bought its way into authentication, and the flip that paid rent in 2021 stopped paying anything.
Beanie Sigel, Freeway, Memphis Bleek and the Young Gunz built the Roc's second wave. Two decades on, the stories they tell about that era are more valuable than the deals were.
The new Sgt. Frog TV anime debuted October 3, and Crunchyroll is streaming it.
Tinker Hatfield borrowed a P-51 Mustang's shark mouth, a running shoe's 3M and a Back to the Future sole. Thirty-six years later, the retros still struggle to copy all three.
Roc-A-Fella to Def Jam to Roc Nation, and the Reasonable Doubt fight that turned a friendship into a corporate-governance question.
Deadline reports Paramount is developing it with Lorenzo di Bonaventura producing and CD Projekt Red co-producing. No director, cast or date yet.
The inside-out Air Jordan 3, with elephant print everywhere except the toe and heel, returns in Varsity Red for Super Bowl LXI weekend in LA. Early word from @zSneakerHeadz and Sneaker Files.
Twenty-seven years on, the Brooklyn solo debut still sounds like a musician's record. The label that released it was funded by money from a very different world.
The Air Jordan 4 "Pink Thunder" HV0823-001 lands December 19 in women's sizing, with the Thunder Yellow swapped for Rust Pink.
Lil Wayne sued Cash Money in 2015 over an unpaid advance and a shelved album. The paperwork exposed how an imprint deal really distributes money.
VIZ Media confirmed a new Naruto TV anime limited series is in the works. Details land Oct. 10, Naruto's birthday, at the 'NARUTO: What's Next?' stage at New York Comic Con, with Junko Takeuchi, Noriaki Sugiyama and Studio Pierrot's Yoshihiro Tominaga, streamed worldwide.
Fewer than half of releases resell above retail, StockX and GOAT take 11 to 15 percent off the top, and the easy double is gone. Follow the money on a $215 pair.
HotNewHipHop says the unreleased Watch the Throne-era cut is out there. What's reported, what isn't, and why it probably isn't dropping.
Sixty-plus rappers, one PS2 disc, and a rights structure so tangled that EA has spent twenty years unable to re-release the best hip-hop game ever made.
The Air Jordan 9 Boot NRG "Anthracite/Multi-Color" IX8455-060 is a $240 Holiday 2026 pair with a reflective, iridescent finish. Date not confirmed.
Dizaster vs. Rum Nitty, Calicoe vs. T-Top and Tay Roc vs. Illmac are set for NOME 16. What URL has confirmed so far.
Every Air Jordan retro landing Sept. 28 to Oct. 3: the Howard AJ1 Low on Thursday, J Balvin's AJ4 and the 'Fearless' AJ6 Low on Friday, then the Black Pack and the women's 'Fireside' AJ3 on Saturday.
Westbrook Studios and The Malar Group are developing '215,' set in late-1980s West Philadelphia. What's known so far.
Netflix confirmed Oct. 1 that the remake streams weekly in the U.S. starting Oct. 17, six days after each Japanese episode and Crunchyroll's Oct. 11 simulcast in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The NYCC panel is Oct. 8 with the English Beerus and Whis.
First images of the Air Jordan 6 'White/Infrared' (CT8529-105) surfaced Monday. It's the first retro since 1991 to put Nike Air on the heel. Nov. 7, $215.
Våld Labs' Ravik is in free public beta: eight channels, 47 engines, generative sequencing. AU, VST3 and iOS.
Rockstar revealed six GTA VI radio stations, previews you can hear now, and a Southern rap station hosted by Trick and Trina.
New early images of the women's Air Jordan 3 'Purple Haze' (CK9246-500) show a fully tonal Infinite Lilac build with snakeskin where the elephant print usually goes. Expected April 3, 2027 at $205.
A Spotify listing, an Instagram Story hoodie, and no word from Rockstar. What's reported, what isn't confirmed.
Snakeskin lands on the 15, stingray lands on the 17 Low, both $240 on November 7 — the exotic-leather treatment finally reaches the retros nobody re-ups.
Complex and HotNewHipHop now both report Ye performed three songs in Carti's ComplexCon set. What we know, what we don't, and the week ahead.
Four Classic Clogs, $70 to $80, Foot Locker exclusive. The Denji pair runs a jagged chainsaw attachment across the upper, Pochita gets a mini saw on the toe, Power gets horns off the heel strap. Early release Oct. 8 at New York Comic Con, wider drop later this fall.
The Air Jordan 3 "Not Nice List" (IF4396-001) burns the cement grey black on November 21, playing off Nike's own 1985 ad of Santa coming down the chimney in Air Jordan 1s.
In a new i-D cover story, NBA YoungBoy says he'd quit right now, but his kids and his influence are keeping him in. What's said, and what isn't.
A CD Projekt Red developer says the Cyberpunk 2077 Switch 2 effort gave the team its DLSS experience for the Witcher 3 remaster.
Official images of the Air Jordan 1 Mid 'Sail/Pistachio Frost' (BQ6472-124) dropped Sept. 26. Sail leather, a full Pistachio Frost sole unit, $130, Fall/Winter 2026 with no date yet.
URL added Dizaster vs. Rum Nitty to the Oct. 25 Night of Main Events card in London, the same night as Tay Roc vs. Illmac.
Air Jordan 11 Lapis (IZ1800-400) takes the annual 11/11 women's slot on November 11, following Bred Velvet and Pearl — but the renders on the internet right now are still mockups.
On a Sept. 29 episode of Quiet Part Out Loud, Dame Dash described a final meeting with Jay-Z and claimed Reasonable Doubt rights were the ask. These are Dame's allegations.
adidas put Dragon Ball Z on seven silhouettes in 2018 and set the template. Converse, adidas and the rest have been chasing that release calendar ever since.
The white, black and True Red 13 was a mid-season colorway until Denzel Washington bought a pair on Coney Island in 'He Got Game.' A Black director gave Nike its best product placement for free.
Offset and Don Toliver's 'Every Night' is out and sits on the GMFU rollout. The album date is Oct. 23. Here's what we know.
EA's exclusive NFL license is the most profitable arrangement in sports games. The players whose likenesses fill it negotiate through a union deal separate from the league's.
Fresh off the women's AJ11 Low, the Whitaker Group's JAIDE has an Air Jordan 1 Low OG in black, white and pale Pistachio Frost, first shown on Jordan Brand's new 232323232323 site. December release.
An Oct. 6 filing says Chad Hugo's complaint can't say which songs he's owed on. Hugo's side says Pharrell held back Neptunes and N.E.R.D. money. No ruling yet.
Jordan Brand's olive-toned AJ4 (JA5911-320) is expected Oct. 2 at European retailers only. $215. No MJ backstory, just a clean military-toned 4, and the U.S. is shut out at retail.
MotorCity Casino sued over a $100,000 debt. Michigan's bad-check law could double it. The casino has until Oct. 23 to seek a default.
Re:Zero Season 4 wraps the Recapture Arc with an extended 45-minute Episode 19 on September 30 — roughly double the normal runtime, and no Season 5 announced yet.
David Falk got a rookie $500,000 a year, a royalty on every pair, and a cancellation clause Nike never got to use. Every athlete deal since has been a copy of the paperwork.
In an i-D cover story, NBA YoungBoy says the situation is bigger than him and that his legacy is his kids.
One More Level's first-person Soulslike hits PS5 October 13 after a delay. The price is the headline.
Fujiwara was photographed in a black and blue Travis Scott x Fragment Air Jordan 1 Low that matches the design he teased and deleted in June. There's no release info, and it could still be a sample.
UVI Prisma, a $149 instrument, is free at Loot Audio while codes last. Våld Labs' Ravik drum synth is in free public beta.
J Balvin's yellow croc Air Jordan 4 moved off Friday. It's now called 'Amazonas,' drops first on jbalvin.com Sept. 28, then globally Oct. 2 at $225.
Stones Throw released Donuts on Dilla's 32nd birthday and he died three days later. The story of how it was made is more complicated than a sampler on a bed tray.
Netflix's two-part LEGO One Piece special premieres Sept. 29, with the live-action Straw Hats voicing their brick versions and Usopp retelling Seasons 1 and 2 to Chopper his way.
The women's-exclusive Air Jordan 5 'Sunset' returns today, September 25, for the first time since 2006. $205 on SNKRS, with select retailers also listing it.
GloVerse connects clients with hairstylists and makeup artists. Beta is live in Atlanta, full app targeted for December.
Mortal Kombat landed October 8, 1992, and NBA Jam followed. Midway's Chicago shop built the two loudest games in America on a business model that paid in coins.
A retail Air Jordan 4 'Encore' was reported for May 2027. Now it's reportedly off the calendar, and Eminem's manager answered the rumor with one word.
Thirteen years after Nipsey Hussle sold 1,000 copies at $100 apiece in a day, Proud2Pay still reads as the clearest argument any rapper has made about pricing.
Jordan Brand's 2026 Día de Muertos Air Jordan 1 Mid (IZ4718-283) got official images. $145, October, with a Xolo dog on the tongue and a Spanish line inside the box lid.
Aaliyah in August 1996, Ginuwine in October 1996, Missy in July 1997. Three albums, one producer from Norfolk, and a rhythm nobody on radio had heard before.
Crunchyroll's Fall 2026 English dub slate is out. Cast and dates aren't, and the Black Clover dub is the one people are watching.
The Air Jordan 1 Low OG “Last Dance At The Garden” revives the night Jordan played through blisters in old Chicago 1s at Madison Square Garden — dropping September 26 at $155.
Kanye and Just Blaze sped up Bobby Bland, the Jackson 5 and Bobby Byrd and built Roc-A-Fella's sound in two weeks. Every one of those records had an owner.
The I-III collection comes native to Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series and PC on Oct. 8. What's in it, how it's sold, and the free Switch 2 demo.
Fan footage shows Ye, Bianca Censori and Carti crossing the convention floor on day two. What's confirmed, what isn't, and Ye's court week.
Offset named the album GMFU and gave a date in an Instagram post. What he said, what's missing, and how it lands after Quavo's QRÖMELIFE.
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III – The Curse of the Serpent closes the Ōoku trilogy on Netflix today, Sept. 29. It's 87 minutes of ukiyo-e horror, plus a snake god built on 150 years of grudges.
Fans on RapVerdict gave Tay Roc the win 2-1, but Rum Nitty took Round 1 big. What the numbers say, what they don't, and the clips URL keeps posting.
Capcom's expansion arrives Oct. 9 with a $29.99 DLC price, a $49.99 bundle and the first Switch 2 release. What's in it and what changed first.
The Pharrell-produced album lands Oct. 23 on Republic, with Clipse on 'Bodies on the Floor' and a Paris studio origin story.
A free envelope-based ducker with 16 curves, MIDI trigger and lookahead, plus Apogee's Soft Limit going free again. What each does and where to get them.
Akira Toriyama died in March 2024 and the tributes came from Chance the Rapper and Denzel Curry before they came from most networks. That order says everything.
Digital Nas announced his retirement over royalties on Donda and Vultures, then said it's being handled. What he said, the paper trail, and what it means for every beatmaker.
Konami's 2D return hits PS5, Xbox Series and PC Oct. 15. Base game is $29.99, Midnight Edition $39.99, and Switch comes later in 2026.
URL posted Tay Roc's name flips on Rum Nitty from Summer Madness XVI. Here's what a name flip is, why the clip travels, and who owns the footage.
Polarity MEQ matches your mix to a reference. Soundins PhaXer fixes low-end that disappears in mono. Both are free, with formats and platforms.
A day after Season 4's finale, the 'DEVIL'S PARTY! 2' event announced Iruma-kun's first anime film with a brand-new story, ahead of the manga's 10th anniversary in March 2027.
At ComplexCon, Barker went West Coast on the album and named Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar and Lil Wayne as his GOAT rappers.
Fuse Games' racer hits PS5, Xbox Series and PC Oct. 6 at $59.99. Deluxe is $79.99, the physical Collector's Edition $159.99.
Roger Linn designed the MPC60 for Akai in 1988. J Dilla's MPC3000 sits in a Smithsonian case. Between them is the machine that standardized how hip-hop is built.
Four people were injured outside ComplexCon, Lucki took a neck laceration, and Complex has now issued a statement. Carti's camp is silent and no arrests have been announced.
The U-17 World Cup: Final Member Selection Match arc premieres September 30 on Crunchyroll, pulling Ryoma Echizen back into a franchise nearly as old as the fans still watching it.
A viral clip shows Lucki with an apparent neck injury after an alleged clash with Playboi Carti's entourage. No police, hospital or artist statement yet.
Saber Interactive's survival horror hits PS5, Xbox Series and PC Oct. 8 at $39.99, with Doug Bradley back as Pinhead.
The $390.7 million run with SZA makes Kendrick the highest-grossing touring rapper in history.
Physical CDs reportedly circulated at the Sp5der booth. A fan clip shows a trap cut with Thug on vocals, but nothing is official and there is no stream yet.
'Steel Ball Run' swapped JoJo's tradition of licensed Western ending songs for an original track by Japanese rapper Yuki Chiba, produced by Dr. Luke. The fan response has been loud.
On Raven-Symoné's Tea Time podcast, Chance said he's thinking about dropping 'Chance' from his name. Here's what he said, why, and what's still unconfirmed.
Atlus dropped a new trailer with fresh music and gameplay on Oct. 3. What it shows, the Feb. 18 date, and the Switch 2 delay.
HotNewHipHop reports that fans are replaying Eminem's 2017 ultimatum after his feature on a Kid Rock track surfaced. What's known, and what isn't.
Applied Acoustics Systems rebuilt its free Player with a new browser, parameter editing and a starter library built on its physical-modeling engines.
Tokyo Revengers' final arc, the War of the Three Titans, premieres Friday, Oct. 2 in Japan with a new director and a Tokyo carved up between three gangs after Toman is gone.
A judge cut the award in the Chris Brown dog-attack case, and Maria Avila took the lower number instead of a third trial.
Pearl Abyss moved Charting the Unknown from Oct. 15 to Oct. 29. What the expansion adds, which platforms get it, and the reason given.
Thirty-two years after Common Sense and No I.D. made Resurrection, the album reads as the founding document of a Chicago production lineage that still prints money.
Kurrco posted the date Oct. 2. No title, no cover, no tracklist yet, and the Dominique question is wide open.
REMATCH's Blue Lock crossover went live September 24, five days before the anime's Neo Egoist League arc takes over Crunchyroll.
The producer joins Kodak Black, Denzel Curry and NLE Choppa in Republic's rap fighting game. The world premiere is Oct. 8 at NYCC.
Six new cars, the SUGO circuit, a Car Concierge and a new opening cinematic hit PS4 and PS5 at 11 p.m. PT.
The promoter confirmed it after a month of mixed messages. Refunds start Oct. 12, the same day as his civil trial.
Fourteen songs, Pharrell steering, and a feature list that runs from Future to Justin Timberlake.
Crunchyroll confirmed English, Spanish and Portuguese dub episodes for the Elbaph Arc land in October, with a New York Comic Con panel October 9.
On the Tea Time podcast he said he's weighing dropping "Chance" and letting the craft carry the name. Here's what he actually said.
S-Game says development is complete for the Oct. 29 launch on PS5 and PC. Here's what's confirmed on price, editions, the delay and the 11-minute look.
Mass Appeal's stage adaptation of the 1984 hip-hop film has a director, a book writer, and a music supervisor.
URL is posting individual battles from the card, including Twork vs Ave and Chess vs Ill Will.
Season 4 of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime wraps its first two cours and comes back for part three in July 2027. First, the demon lord Rimuru took out gets his own spinoff series.
Nas and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani sat down for a short documentary on the Bronx School of Hip-Hop in Claremont.
A new entry in the beloved adventure franchise may be in the works after Intergalactic, possibly led by Shaun Escayg.
Proud2Pay, a $100 mixtape, a smart store on Slauson and a stake in the plaza around it. The model was never about music revenue.
Compressors, EQs and two tape machines, free on Gumroad. Drum-bus people, this one's for you.
The Gomu Gomu no Mi Air Max Plus, IR0968-500, is the only Devil Fruit pair the U.S. gets through SNKRS, September 25 at $210. The Ope Ope pair went through boutiques and is already at resale.
Ross surrendered Thursday on a felony battery-by-strangulation charge tied to an Aug. 28 incident at his Star Island home. He says the allegations are fabricated. A judge set bond at $5,000 and told his lawyer she had no idea who he was.
Embark opens the game to everyone Oct. 8 to 12 as Frozen Trail drops. Pendola Pass, new ARC enemies, the reward pass and the dates that matter.
With QRÖMELIFE out, HotNewHipHop reports Quavo told Complex that a final Migos album built on Takeoff's recorded vocals, a posthumous Takeoff record and a Quavo-Takeoff joint project all land next year. Tyler says his 'Baby Breath' verse is top 25 ever. The first reviews are in.
After Reggie made allegations involving RaKai on a Sept. 30 IG Live, Kai Cenat went live, told him to take any evidence to police, and said he's filing a lawsuit. RaKai has denied the claims. Ray has left Clover.
The FromSoftware adaptation that played Japanese theaters and closed SCAD AnimationFest in Atlanta is being reworked into an 8-episode TV series with added footage. It streams on Crunchyroll starting January 2027.
Ken Carson closes his tour Saturday, Carti headlines Sunday, and Carti is co-artistic director with Hiroshi Fujiwara. Exclusive drops include Carti x I.AM.GIA and Carti x Mitchell & Ness NBA jerseys.
Three PS5 games hit PlayStation Plus Monthly Games on October 6, and they're available until November 2.
The first release since his bipolar diagnosis, rehab and his mother's death in August is a six-minute Phillip Youmans video shot in Atlanta. It ends on her voicemail.
Complex confirmed through Eminem's camp that '7 Sins' is an official track on Kid Rock's Christian rock album. The foreword frames it as two Detroit friends who disagree politically. Fans are split. Separately, Eminem has an NYCC capsule coming and an arcade game that's already playable.
The second trailer for The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 reveals 'AIYOU' by Eve as the ending theme. Yorushika has the opening. It premieres Friday, October 2 on NTV and Crunchyroll.
TMZ reports FCI Fort Dix moved Sean Combs to the Special Housing Unit after an NBC News report alleged a contraband phone, massages and Hennessy. His release date is now Jan. 21, 2028.
The free Spec IV update arrives in October and December with two circuits, 12 cars, and Family Mode.
Judge Fitzgerald signed the continuance Sept. 30, calling the case 'so unusual and so complex' that the Speedy Trial Act clock can't hold. The Nov. 4 bond review is now the date that matters.
The comedian fronts TIME's 2026 TIME100 Next list, with Mark Wahlberg writing the tribute. Ye congratulated him, and Druski answered with a clip from Ye's unaired 2007 HBO pilot. His movie with Kai Cenat and Kevin Hart is on Prime Video.
Overgeared premieres October 2 on Crunchyroll, the latest Korean webtoon riding the wave Solo Leveling opened up — build something from nothing, one grind at a time.
QRÖMELIFE is the headliner. Mac Miller's The Divine Feminine gets a 10-year deluxe, Victoria Monét drops 22 songs with SZA, and NoCap, Russ, Armani Caesar, Ari Lennox and WondaGurl fill out a thin fourth-quarter Friday.
The review embargo lifted Oct. 1. Critics are calling it the best Gears in years, with one loud dissent.
Two years after City Girls, the solo debut has a date and a feature list: Quavo, G Herbo, Lil Baby, Kodak Black, Shenseea and Vybz Kartel. Two singles, '2008' and 'F U,' dropped at midnight.
On Instagram Live he said he was done with a business 'full of weirdos and snitches' and would open a restaurant. The follow-up reel: 'I AINT NEVER QUIT @ NOTHING!'
The 1984 film gets a musical with The Wiz director Schele Williams and Hell's Kitchen playwright Kristoffer Diaz, backed by Mass Appeal and the movie's original producers. Same week, Nas sat with Mayor Mamdani at the city's first public hip-hop high school.
Sony's Quick Spectral Super Resolution is live in Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei. PSSR stays a Pro thing.
Episode one of 'Exploring the Unexplored' finally aired Sept. 26 after the wind delay. He reportedly became the first streamer to go live from inside Þríhnúkagígur's magma chamber, lost a tug-of-war to a Viking, and announced in-person Streamer University auditions in Europe.
100 Entertainment says Virgin promised $500,000 to market the 2022 album and spent about $179,000, with nothing on radio. The suit, filed Sept. 30, says Game fronted costs that were then recouped from his own royalties.
Two Harlem legends who never battled for real met at Rone's 'The Nicest' in July, in a format where the bars are praise. The footage hit YouTube Oct. 1 and cleared 110,000 views in a day.
Twin Swans' folklore stealth-horror game hits PS5 Oct. 26. You play the woman the village already decided is guilty.
Thursday at Little Caesars Arena was night one of the North American leg of Tour Ma Vie. Latto, who opens the run, came out for their Big Mama duet, reportedly the first time they've done it live together. Chicago is Saturday.
Quavo and French Montana open the month on Oct. 2. Then everything worth clearing your schedule for lands on one Friday.
URL booked Tay Roc's next battle four weeks after Atlanta. Summer Madness XVI is out now on the URLTV app.
Telltale's noir fairy-tale is coming to PS5, Xbox, Switch 2, Switch, and PC with upgraded visuals and an hour of bonus content.
Developer Shnolk's Monomodule runs the original Elektron Monomachine DSP code inside an emulated chip. It's free, open source, and works on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Saturday, Oct. 31 is a stadium show in Houston, and the production is built around a spherical stage wrapped in Earth and moon visuals. The calendar leading up to it is crowded.
One post, no dates, no venues. Rod Wave says he already talked to YoungBoy about a stadium run, and the internet took it from there.
Ember Lab pushed the sequel out of this year for polish and showed the story, the canine companion and the temples.
A free project from developer sd88me brings native VST2 plugins to the first-generation MPC Live, One, X, Key and Akai Force, with a Discogs browser in the mix.
Chief Keef and King Louie turned a South Side subgenre into an export. London remade it, Brooklyn imported it back, and the city that invented it got policed for it.
Charlamagne Tha God watched HBO's Jay-Z In 8 and came away angry — not at Hov, but at the man across the table. His problem: Rick Rubin's questions never pulled the real stuff out.
On Nov. 18, the eve of GTA 6's launch, Miami hosts the Bucks on a Vice City court in a Vice City uniform. The 14-piece Court Culture merch collection went up on the Heat Store Friday and started selling out within hours.
Quavo revealed his baby daughter at the end of Monday's QRÖMELIFE short film, then told Complex's Idea Generation that fatherhood gave him 'a new fire.' The album drops Friday, Oct. 2.
Two Meek Mill songs leaked over the weekend, so he posted both himself on YouTube. 'Philly Heathens' is getting love. His drill take on Nico & Vinz's 'Am I Wrong' is not.
On the STILL400 podcast, B.G. pitched a Hot Boys film in the Straight Outta Compton lane and Juvenile called out Warner Bros., Lionsgate and Universal by name. It's a pitch, not a deal, but the story is there.
MP1st reports, and VGC partially corroborates, that the studio's next game after Intergalactic is a new Uncharted directed by Lost Legacy's Shaun Escayag, with Nate 'in some form.' Druckmann said in 2023 the studio had 'moved on.'
Ultimate Rap League says Summer Madness XVI lands on the URLTV app Tuesday, Sept. 29. It's the sold-out Atlanta card with Tay Roc vs Rum Nitty 2 on top.
A developer got native VST2 plugins running on first-generation Akai MPC and Force units. It's free, open source, and it runs on the hardware itself.
DAWception is a free, open-source mini-DAW that loads as a VST3 plugin inside whatever you're already running — built to route around track-count limits like Live Lite's eight.
Rockstar's marketing art now carries the ESRB Mature 17+ rating with the same descriptors as GTA 5, while Australian and New Zealand store pages say R18+ with 'sex scenes.' LOVE Magazine's Issue 27, out Oct. 5, previews new screenshots and the writers on Lucia.
Twenty-eight years after the Bosstown sessions, the album that made Atlanta the center of rap is also a case study in what creative control costs.
An Instagram clip of "Ugly" tripled his usual reach in 48 hours, and the internet mostly wanted to talk about his looks.
Rich Homie Nard publicly asked Young Thug to forgive Rich Homie Quan. Thug answered in the comments: Quan is his brother forever, he never spoke on him, and players make mistakes too.
Eurogamer reports The Coalition staff expect cuts after launch and worry a Metacritic bonus payable in late October requires still being employed. Story director Juan Vaca was laid off days after the game went gold. Same week, Asha Sharma told the NYT: 'Xbox is not for sale.'
Offset walked into Quavo's surprise QRÖMELIFE listening session Sunday night and stood beside him as 'Away,' their first collab since Culture III, played. The album drops Oct. 2, and Quavo says a final Migos album is coming.
PoohMan, a 26-year-old tied to BloodHound and DrillCity, was chased and shot on Chicago's South Side hours after BloodHound Q50's funeral. No arrests, no motive named.
BigXthaPlug's fourth solo album, 'Better Over Time,' lands Oct. 30 via 600 Entertainment/UnitedMasters: 18 tracks, led by 'LITE' with Belly Gang Kushington, announced with a football-themed trailer.
QSSR, a 'performance tier' of PS5 Pro's PSSR built with AMD, patched into Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei on Oct. 1 and will be offered to all PlayStation developers. Same day, Yōtei's Complete Edition launched to strong reviews with Jin Sakai playable.
The R&B singer was arrested Sunday night in Hollywood, Florida, on DUI, battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting charges — held for a hearing with no bond set and no official account of what happened.
In one week Lil Uzi Vert posted gym progress, called the next album 'one of my best,' and showed up in JT's date-night photo looking like somebody fans didn't recognize.
BLK Prime Boxing and promoter Skyy Myles say Blueface and Wack 100 streamed Chrisean Rock's pro boxing debut free on Kick instead of the $29.99 pay-per-view — and want him to pay for what it cost them.
Wings of Theve launched Oct. 2 on PS5, Xbox Series and PC with an 87 on Metacritic and an 88 on OpenCritic, second in franchise history only to 2001's Shattered Skies. The campaign and the first-person storytelling are the praise; story beats and multiplayer are the knocks.
YBK Audio's Instrument Player strips a DAW down to just the plugin — VST3 hosting, a searchable library and a five-minute MIDI buffer — free on Windows through October 19, then $10.
The Gang Starr method was a chop, a scratched hook and one studio in the Garment District. Premier bought that room in 2003 and lost it to condos in 2014.
In a Sept. 26 Instagram breakdown, Trippie Redd said labels are marketing developing rappers like the next Uzi or Juice WRLD — and admitted his own sound helped build the problem.
Jay-Z executive produced NBA 2K13 in 2012. Fourteen years on, 2K's annual soundtrack is a distribution platform that breaks records without paying like one.
XXL's Freshman-issue "Doin' Lines" Q&A has Cash Cobain crediting 50 Cent as his entry point, naming Kanye West his favorite producer, and admitting spending money is the habit he can't shake.
Two weeks after Papoose's 'Jezebel' diss, Remy Ma surprise-dropped the six-track 'Alimony' EP, name-checked Nicki Minaj on the opener, then showed up to her release night wearing his song title on her back.
"Safe" beat Megan, Travis, Tyler and Don Toliver for Best Hip-Hop. Snoop hosted, Gunna debuted "High Noon" in a burning saloon, and "Chains & Whips" lost Best Collab to Madonna.
Aaron Garbut says the team answered the pressure by making everything bigger instead of cutting anything. Launch is 49 days out.
Ross's on-and-off girlfriend posted injury photos on her IG Story and wrote "he saw a punching bag." Ross hasn't responded. 50 Cent skipped the jokes: "domestic violence is not a joke."
Quavo posted the 14-song tracklist for the Pharrell-executive-produced 'QRÖMELIFE,' out Friday, Oct. 2: Future, Offset, Lil Baby, Yung Miami, Justin Timberlake, and Pharrell with Tyler, The Creator and A$AP Rocky on one song.
In episode 6 of HBO's 'JAŸ-Z In 8,' Rick Rubin plays 'Jail' from 'Donda' and Jay-Z talks through his verse, calling Ye 'one of the most brilliant creatives we're ever going to see.'
The free Remastered upgrade pushed an eleven-year-old game to 120,975 players at once on launch day, topping a peak that stood since January 2020.
Rocky said in August that Ferg dropping the A$AP name hurt him. On Complex's 'In Motion,' Ferg answered: it's personal for Rocky, the tattoo is still on him, and the name change is about growing up.
URL turned street battles into a pay-per-view business with a global audience. The writers carrying it — Loaded Lux, Murda Mook, Tay Roc — are still negotiating one purse at a time.
Benjamin Provo's team wants Ye's mental-health defense kept out of the October 12 discrimination trial, and they're using Ye's own deposition to do it.
Kai Cenat's subathons rewrote the platform's subscriber records and AMP turned a group house into a media company. The split on every sub still runs through Amazon.
DDG got the key to Pontiac, Michigan in April, live on tour. Kendrick got Compton's a decade earlier, with a proclamation attached. Both are on record now.
ILIO and producer LifeStyleDidIt dropped a free ten-preset demo pack for Spectrasonics Omnisphere 3, built for modern R&B and trap soul.
QueenzFlip walked into Girls Love Karaoke with a Kick stream running. He walked out having been checked by Rory over a 'suckers' comment and cursed out by Remy Ma over his take on Papoose's 'Jezebel.'
The reviews are glowing and the Switch 2 port is being called a standout. The Steam Deck numbers say CD Projekt's 'runs just fine' line needs an asterisk.
Cardi and Jeffrey Azoff's Full Stop have split amicably, per TMZ. The four-year run covered the long road to a No. 1 second album. Her next team hasn't been named.
Kai's 'Exploring the Unexplored' series was set to go live Sept. 25. Reports say high winds pushed the launch to Saturday, Sept. 26, at 7 a.m. ET. It's his first international trip stream since Nigeria.
A masked, unannounced four-song set at SoFi Stadium on Friday night: 'Runaway,' 'All of the Lights,' 'Flashing Lights,' 'Can't Tell Me Nothing.' It's his first stage since the Soldier Field homecoming.
Phantom Liberty turned three on Sept. 26. The studio marked it with a player's screenshot and no announcements, which says something about where Night City stands.
Primal is Young Thug's new creative holding company, built to create, buy and scale businesses with artists, athletes and creators, and to make sure the talent keeps equity. First ventures land in the coming months.
Two Fox News clips in two days: a direct-to-camera midterm ask that ends on 'vote red,' then a Lara Trump teaser calling Democrats 'petty and childish.' The Barbz are split.
OTF Jam, who testified for the prosecution in Lil Durk's murder-for-hire trial, threatened Memo600 in an IG Story. Memo fired back: you snitched and got life instead of doing three years.
Game Informer's 14-page GTA VI cover story is live. Rockstar confirms hurricanes, localized weather, 170+ animal species and a long list of side activities, 51 days out from Nov. 19.
At Variety's Power of Women summit, Latifah said an open casting call is on the way and the role might be split across different eras of her life. 'My life is exhausting.'
Dungeon Family to So So Def to snap and trap to the streaming era — four distinct sounds, one city, and a set of studios, clubs and radio relationships that made each handoff possible.
SoniX Audio's DRUMFLX is a free hip-hop, trap and drill sampler built by producer KXVI, who's worked with Future, SZA, 21 Savage and Lil Tjay.
Neil Druckmann closed The Last of Us Day by confirming 'a couple' of new projects that expand the canon past Part I and II. Intergalactic won't be shown again until 2027.
In a sworn 12-page declaration filed in Manhattan federal court, the Jane Doe who sued Shawn Carter in 2024 says she never met him. Hov has dropped her from his malicious-prosecution suit, and the case now runs only against Tony Buzbee.
Kristina Khorram spent more than a decade running Sean Combs' world and was named by prosecutors as an alleged co-conspirator. Now she's reportedly on Usher's R&B Tour team, and two more ex-Combs staffers came with her.
DDG turned Hit-A-Thon 2 into an album. It came out September 25 with Lil Yachty, Real Boston Richey and 42 Dugg on it, days after a Slim Jxmmi security clip took over the timeline.
Playground Games let Xbox FanFest attendees in London get hands-on with Fable's combat demo on Series X. The number everyone came back with was 60 — locked, not almost.
Updated Grand National Tour totals, now including Australia and Latin America, come to $390.7M from 2.037M tickets across 47 shows, the highest-grossing touring year by a rapper. TDE's Punch: "390 is nuts."
Ye's lawyers want the Oct. 12 Donda Academy trial moved to May 2027, citing St. Petersburg concerts that lost their venue and a key witness who was deported.
4Block Lil Mari was shot and killed on a Chicago bike path. Reports tie his death to a video mocking BloodHound Q50, who was killed September 13. Police haven't confirmed any link, and no one has been arrested in either case.
Sony Japan's new PS5 Pro sales run is only open to players with 60+ hours logged over two years. It's an anti-scalper play timed to GTA VI demand, and the U.S. could use one too.
A nor'easter wipes out Ed Sheeran's two Foxboro shows at Robert Kraft's Gillette Stadium, the dates Macklemore was barred from. Ticket prices were already sliding, and every opener had already walked.
The VMAs air Sunday, September 27 from the Peacock Theater in LA. Snoop Dogg hosts. Cardi B & Kehlani, Megan Thee Stallion, Travis Scott, Tyler, The Creator and Don Toliver are up for Best Hip-Hop Video.
Two very different Friday albums: Tee Grizzley's 16-track They Forgot on 300, and Apollo Brown and Skyzoo's Luxury Tax, ten years after The Easy Truth.
Bungie's roadmap: an October refresh, the "Symbiosis" update in December, then connected PvE, PvP and PvEvP in March 2027.
50 Cent partnered with TCSJOHNHUXLEY on '50 Cent Headcrack,' a dealer-run casino version of Cee-Lo. It debuts at G2E in Las Vegas September 29 to October 1.
On a new VladTV segment, Vlad points to documents from Boosie's federal gun case and says they show him shifting blame to his security guard. It comes while Boosie is trying to get $300K back from the lobbyists he paid for a pardon push.
Native Instruments pushed a free Maschine 3.7 update with a Euclidean sequencer, note probability and a random note generator, plus a rage expansion built with Snipe Young.
Dynasty Warriors 3: Complete Edition Remastered lands October 1 with Weapon Fusion, new evasion mechanics, and a PS5 Pro upgrade.
Home Team, a Luke Records group, filed a federal suit September 21 saying Jermaine Dupri and Jacquees copied their 1992 'Pick It Up' on a 2023 song with the same name. Mass Appeal is named too.
High Schoolers LLC, OutKast's trademark company, filed a federal suit against Oakland's Ovrkast. on September 16 — he says he never signed the name-change deal they claim he broke.
No vibes-based ranking. Every placement here is attached to a specific record and a specific reason the record changed what came after it.
Rockstar's GTA 6 Collector's Edition ships without the game for $400. A fan already 3D-printed the Macca the Gator figure at home instead of paying for it.
Santa Monica Studio detailed the Digital Deluxe Edition and pre-order bonus, confirmed Feb. 16, 2027, and showed Faye's Serpent Bow for the first time.
The Game Business put Physint's budget at about $400 million. Jason Schreier and Jez Corden say Xbox signed Kojima's spy game for far less, with film/TV rights and better terms on OD. Still a rumor.
Gears of War: E-Day reviews go live Oct. 1 at 6 a.m. PT, the same day Premium Edition owners start playing. It's a 14-hour Emergence Day campaign with wall-bouncing gone and a 12-player Horde mode.
Naughty Dog's Sept. 28 drop: Clicker armor for Ghost of Yotei, a Youtooz figure, free PSN avatars. HBO added John Goodman, Laura Bailey and Ian Alexander to Season 3.
Bulkhead Studios' 100-player military shooter crossed 3 million units on Steam early access in a little over two weeks — and the studio is already warning the hype won't hold.
Embark Studios is testing a PvE-only toggle from October 13 to 20, and the studio's own player-split data says a real chunk of the base wants fewer people trying to kill them.
Mojang's co-op dungeon crawler sequel launches Sept. 29 on Xbox, PS5, PC, Switch and Switch 2, day one on Game Pass, and introduces Minecraft's first new dimension in more than 14 years.
Final Fantasy Resonance's newest trailer puts Cecil Harvey's light-and-dark split front and center, joining Terra, Squall and Zidane ahead of an October 22 launch on five platforms.
Alinea Analytics estimates Resident Evil Requiem has passed $500 million, the fastest in the series. The Zach Cregger movie opening didn't bring in many new players, and discounts drove the sales.
Leslie Benzies' Build A Rocket Boy has appointed administrators after confirming it can't pay creditors, one week after another round of layoffs. The MindsEye flop finally caught up with it.
NetherRealm's chief shot down the rumored Insomniac fighting game and the Injustice 3 and MK playtest claims. Then he added that not being playtested doesn't mean not in development.
Sucker Punch's Ghost of Yotei Complete Edition bundles two paid content packs onto the base game October 1: story missions and a new bounty-hunting mode.
No Loading Games' Cyberpunk: Edgerunners – Hunted puts David, Lucy, Rebecca and Maine on your tabletop for a real-time co-op mission against Night City's worst.
A helicopter lifted a 'Welcome to Vice City' sign onto the Kaseya Center. Miami-Dade gets about $975,000 for it, police objected, and it stays up until April 2027.
Game Informer's issue 382 has a 14-page GTA VI cover story built on interviews with Rockstar's lead designers. It covers new weather and wildlife systems, has 12 exclusive screenshots, and goes digital Sept. 29.
An hour before launch, Remedy cut enemy health and boss stun thresholds after reviews said the fights were too hard. On Steam, the patch forced a full 92GB re-download.
Xbox strategy chief Matthew Ball says GTA 6 is 'breaking records for Xbox' after The Verge's Tom Warren reported pre-orders were skewing hard toward PS5. When asked for Xbox's market share, he didn't give one.
Sony's DualSense Wireless Controller – Lisa Limited Edition goes on pre-order October 2 for $84.99, with a merch line and her Press Play EP right behind it.
A before-and-after clip of Geralt torching Drowners drew 'looks worse' reactions five days before launch. The tech argument runs straight through Night City.
Marvel's Wolverine dropped September 15 on PS5 and GamingBolt called it a 10 out of 10 — here's what the reviews agree on, and where they don't.
Bandai Namco released the first 16-plus minutes of Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve ahead of its October 2 launch. The legendary pilot you're flying with turns out to be a propaganda creation, and he doesn't make it.
Former lead systems designer Kurt Kuhlmann says Starfield wasn't 'anywhere near successful enough' for a sequel, and the team was too small for the idea.