With its innovative plotlines and steampunk airships, video game franchise Final Fantasy has delighted fans and critics for 35 years.. Other poorly rated Final Fantasy films followed -- but one better-received adaptation was a traditional kabuki theatre version of the 10th game, performed in Tokyo this year.
The eagerly awaited new game in the best-selling Final Fantasy franchise came out on Thursday, with fans hailing its high-spec action graphics and grown-up storyline.. Final Fantasy is one of the world's top-selling game franchises, with more than 173 million copies sold globally according to publisher Square Enix.
At the very last second, the Lagos professional gamer wins his battle of "Street Fighter", sending the crowd into roars of joy, a scene unimaginable a few years ago in Nigeria, where the eSports is now in full bloom.. Competitors battled it out in popular eSports games like "Call of Duty: Mobile", "Street Fighter" and "FIFA".
It was once a thriving maritime hub, including for the transatlantic slave trade, but after years of industrial decline, Liverpool's economy is getting a boost from its most famous sons.. Almost half of Liverpool's business tax revenue comes from tourism, local councillor Harry Doyle told AFP. Beatles-related tourism is worth about £120 million ($152 million) per year and supports some 2,500 jobs, according to local government data.
Since it sank on its maiden voyage more than a century ago, the Titanic has had an unshakeable grip on the public imagination.. - Palace of luxury - RMS Titanic set sail on its maiden voyage in April 1912 from Southampton, England bound for New York.
The iconic Glastonbury Festival opened its doors on Wednesday, with a torrential downpour threatening to turn the famous site into a mudbath for the 200,000 music fans set to descend on a farm in southwest England to see acts including Arctic Monkeys, Guns N'Roses and Elton John. .. Dairy farmer Eavis first organised the festival in southwest England in 1970, the day after Jimi Hendrix died, and fans who came to see acts including Marc Bolan and Al Stewart paid £1 each for entry and received free milk from the farm.
France's top appeals court on Wednesday rejected a request to reopen a rape claim against film director Luc Besson, ending one of the most high-profile cases to emerge in the country's MeToo movement against sexual assault.. She filed the initial complaint for rape in May 2018 hours after meeting Besson, before filing another complaint two months later for other alleged rapes and sexual assaults.
Influencer Andrew Tate and his brother appeared in court in Romania Wednesday, their lawyers arguing that the pair, indicted on human trafficking charges, should no longer be under house arrest.. Tate, his brother and two Romanian women were detained late last year and then placed under house arrest at the end of March.
Men's fashion week wraps up in Milan Tuesday after five days of catwalk shows presenting the luxury market's Spring-Summer 2024 collections.. But spoilsport Giorgio Armani, 88, issued his own rule on shorts during fashion week, saying that "Bermuda shorts mean being on a beach or out and about for the holidays."
Paris became a playground for Pharrell Williams and his celeb friends at his debut show for Louis Vuitton, collapsing the distance between fashion, music and money-spinning publicity.. Williams appears to be taking the job seriously, having moved his family to Paris and setting up a music studio at Louis Vuitton's headquarters to balance his professions.
