Billie Eilish

The Bad Guy herself, Billie Eilish, will be the next musical megastar to grace the Fortnite Festival mainstage, following in the footsteps of Lady Gaga and The Weeknd. Eilish revealed she will take the stage today, 23rd April, presumably with a list of free-to-player bangers.

Billie Eilish is the latest music artist to join Fortnite as part of Season 3 of its Fortnite Festival, a Rock Band style music game mode. Previous Fortnite Festival artists include,  Lady Gaga, The Weeknd, and Ariana Grande.

Next week’s free Epic Games Store title has seemingly been revealed ahead of its official announcement.

Just yesterday, we learned that Billie Eilish would be headlining Season 3 of Fortnite Festival, the free-to-play music mode which has slowly but surely cornered the periphery market. With the update now live, there were a few welcome extra additions. For starters, guitar controller support for Harmonix's previous effort, Rock Band 4, is now available, meaning those dusty old axes can finally be put to good use.

Epic Games has announced that FortniteFestival season 3 will feature pop star Billie Eilish.

You may be able to give those plastic Rock Band guitars you have stuffed away in the attic a new lease of life. Fortnite Festival (a Rock Band-style mode that debuted in Fortnite in December) now supports several Rock Band 4 controllers across PlayStation, Xbox and PC, as detailed in a blog post.

Fortnite Festival should feel even more like Rock Band today, as guitar controller support is finally added to the game mode. Only certain controllers are compatible, but it at least makes it possible for some of us to recreate the good ol' days of rhythm games being playable with big plastic controllers, even if not all the instruments are available right now.

The latest Fortnite Festival update has finally added support for Rock Band 4 guitar controllers.

For fans of all things green and subversive, you’ll be delighted to know that Billie Eilish is coming to Fortnite — and we’ve got the release date and what to expect explained so that you can dive straight in.

Metroid’s Samus Aran missed out on an appearance in Fortnite because Nintendo wanted the character to only be available on the Switch version of the game.

Fortnite is making some changes to how «confrontational» emotes are displayed to other players. While Fortnite does not currently allow players to speak directly to enemies, emotes have frequently been used as a taunt after eliminating an enemy player. There are some emotes like «Take the L» or «Laugh It Up» that can be seen as toxic to some fans of the series, which can ruin the enjoyment of the game for some players.

Billie Eilish is coming to Fortnite this month.

Billie Eilish is the next artist to take over Fortnite Festival, joining the game tomorrow. This was just confirmed by Eilish herself over on Instagram, also revealing her Fortnite skin.

After The Weeknd and Lady Gaga's release, singer-songwriter Billie Eilish seems to be next up on stage for Fortnite Festival. Developed by Harmonix, the studio behind the Rock Band games, Fortnite Festival is a rhythm game in a similar vein to Harmonix's previous releases. Players either play in a group or solo, hitting notes on a track depending on which instrument they decide to play.

Epic Games has announced a new Fortnite setting that will let players toggle visibility on four emotes that “can sometimes feel a bit overly confrontational”.

A Fortnite fan has created a concept that imagines what it would be like if the game had a skin based on Fallout. Fortnite has a long list of collaborations with various personalities, such as Lewis Hamilton, Ariana Grande, and Neymar Jr. When it comes to skins based on other games, Fortnite has an equally impressive list of team-ups, adding a slew of beloved characters.

Fortnite fans have expressed their disappointment in a new J Balvin Icons skin that simply uses an older skin's design and recolors it. Recolored skins in Fortnite are usually offered as optional styles, but the new one is a separate purchase and costs 1,500 V-Bucks.

A roadmap for all of the content and collaborations coming to Fortnite in 2024 has reportedly leaked and hinted at crossovers with Pirates of the Caribbean and Metallica, although reliable Fortnite leakers seem split on whether it's real or not.

AI roundup: With the use of AI expanding rapidly, over 200 musicians including the Jonas Brothers, Katy Perry, Billie Eilish and others have signed an open letter against AI replacing the work of human artists. They urge tech companies to take steps against people stealing or using their artwork, music, writing, etc. In other news, Yahoo acquired Artifact, an AI news platform founded by Instagram co-founders. Check out more about AI news from today, April 3, 2024. 

As AI eventually starts branching out into the music industry that may potentially harm the livelihood of famous musicians, notable stars such as Katy Perry, Billie Eilish and a multitude of others have decided to collectively address this problem by reaching out to developers, companies, services and other entities the only way they know how; through a letter. The contents of this letter reveal that these high-profile artists have become voices of those who cannot be heard in the AI era, and do not wish that this technology replaces the raw talent and skill that humans possess.

The Oscars is one of the biggest — if not the biggest night in the American entertainment industry every year, and the 2024 Oscars were no different. All the stars were out tonight, from best actor nominees like Jeffrey Wright, Paul Giamatti, and Cillian Murphy to best director nominees like Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, and Jonathan Glazer.

During the 2024 Oscars ceremony, Ryan Gosling took to the stage with everyone from Simu Liu to Slash to perform “I’m Just Ken” — one of the breakout (and award-nominated) songs from Barbie.

After a winter barrage of award shows — the Emmys, the Golden Globes, the Grammys — the grandaddy of them all, the Academy Awards, are around the corner. The 96th Oscars may be a coronation for “Oppenheimer,” which comes in with a leading 13 nominations, though other films, including “Barbie,” “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Poor Things” are in the mix.

It's the end of the year, which means it's almost time for The Oscars. Shortlists for potential nominations have recently been making their way onto social media, including the award for Original Song, which many thought could be won by The Super Mario Bros. Movie for Bowser's very silly yet memorable love song 'Peaches'. Unfortunately, it's been snubbed entirely.

You won’t find Rock Band Unplugged at the top of many Best PSP Games lists, but the Harmonix spin-off – released during the peak of plastic peripheral popularity – was one of the finest games you could find on Sony’s handheld during its pre-PS Vita renaissance circa-2009. A stripped-back version of the main console games, this portable reimagining saw you switching between instruments, completing “phrases” by rhythmically tapping buttons in time to the music.

One of three brand new modes, Fortnite Festival is one part of Epic Games's plans to seemingly suck all of gaming into one ever-expanding ecosystem.

Monologues are Mike Flanagan’s specialty. From his earliest movies, he’s loved to let characters wax poetic about their motivations, the supernatural, or honestly just about anything. Of course, when he turned his focus to television and started making miniseries, he got even more room to let his penchant for speeches run wild, and for the most part he’s made the best of it, especially in Midnight Massand The Haunting of Hill House. But his latest series for Netflix, The Fall of the House of Usher, contains his worst-ever monologue (and perhaps one of the worst monologues ever committed to paper) and shows that he, and the series, aren’t great at writing about wealth.

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. 

When it comes to streaming video, the content pile is vast, and you've got the whole weekend to decide how you want to slice it. There are now too many shows and movies to choose from, spread across too many video-streaming services. We make it easy for you. Each week, we highlight the streaming content we're excited to watch or think you should binge. Fire up your media-streaming device of choice, and start watching.

Gone are the pandemic-era days of pop stars performing in their living rooms(Opens in a new window) and getting glammed up for an at-home gala(Opens in a new window). But even though entertainment and events are in-person again, that doesn’t mean everyone wants them to be.

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Barbie 's third act. Make sure you’ve seen the movie before reading any further.