EA has officially announced ‘Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered’

John Mayer has tested positive for COVID-19 a second time, leading to the next four shows on his ‘Sob Rock’ tour being pushed back to May.The songster shared his diagnosis overnight (February 25), confirming that alongside himself, several members in his band have also wound up with the virus. It comes just days after Mayer’s touring drummer tested positive, with Questlove stepping in to fill his role at the band’s New York City gig.Whelp.

Code Orange have dropped a visually stunning concert film titled Back Inside The Glass, which the hardcore outfit initially premiered as a ticketed livestream event.The one-off gig went down in October of 2020, streamed live – in VR, no less – from the Preserving Underground Church in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. It was particularly notable for its immersive and cinematic visuals, with the band performing to a fave-camera setup on an entirely projection-mapped stage.The show saw Code Orange perform over half of their fourth album, ‘Underneath’ – they’d released it in March of 2020, but couldn’t perform it to a proper crowd until 2021 thanks to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

LCD Soundsystem will be the musical guests on this weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live.Set to air tomorrow night (February 26), the episode will be hosted by John Mulaney, marking his fifth time presenting the late night sketch show.It’s the second time James Murphy and co. have played SNL, the first time being back in 2017 when they were promoting their last album, ‘American Dream’.With each episode of the show, the hosts and musical guests get together to shoot a promo for the forthcoming episode.

Turning Red, wherein powerhouse siblings Finneas and Billie Eilish – the former appearing as part of the fictional boyband 4*Town (a tongue-in-cheek riff on *NSYNC) – take fans right back to 2002.Titled ‘Nobody Like U’, the song is an almost scarily accurate pastiche of early ‘00s pop. It starts with washed-out vocals, clicky synth beats and quasi-flamenco strumming, before bursting into a lively bop driven by bold, modulated piano chords and stacked lead vocals.Opening the intently cheesy, ultra-nostalgic track, the fictional 4*Town quintet – flanked by Eilish on backing vocals – croon: “I’ve never met nobody like you / Had friends and I’ve had buddies, it’s true / But they don’t turn my tummy the way you do.”Check out the lyric video for ‘Nobody Like U’, replete with scrapbook-esque nods to relics of ‘00s culture, below:Finneas voices the role of Jesse in Turning Red, with his “bandmates” rounded out by Robaire (as portrayed by Jordan Fisher), Aaron T (Topher Ngo), Aaron Z (Josh Levi) and Tae Young (Grayson Villanueva). The film is set for a worldwide release on March 11.

It’s never going to fit in there, you think. Surely not. But every time, the giant stuffed Chinese answer to a crepe somehow manages to fold its way into the bag, before a plastic fork is jabbed unceremoniously into its innards.

A few weeks ago, on an up-to-that-point uneventful Monday tea-time, my dog - a tricolour King Charles spaniel called Diesel, died - aged 15 years and three months.

FIFA 21 executive producer Aaron McHardy has released a statement explaining why not all of the progress made on current-gen versions of the game will be transferred over to next-gen.McHardy shared his statement with Eurogamer, following the global release of FIFA 21 today (October 9) on current-gen consoles.

Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate is coming to next-gen systems along with a wave of new features, Warner Bros. Games has announced.The new edition is set to launch on November 17 for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Nintendo Switch and Google Stadia.

Electronic Arts has begun teasing what seems to be a remaster of 2010’s Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.A countdown timer has appeared on the official Need For Speed website, set to end on Monday, October 5 at 4pm BST (8am PT).

Super Smash Bros Ultimate will soon be unveiling its latest post-launch character, Nintendo has announced.The short presentation is expected to air at 3pm BST on October 1 and will run approximately for three minutes, followed by a “brief message from [game] Director Masahiro Sakurai”. Fans can tune in through the company’s YouTube channel, which will be airing the live show.Check out the announcement tweet from Nintendo below:The next #SmashBrosUltimate DLC fighter will be revealed tomorrow at 7am PT! The video presentation will be roughly 3 minutes long, followed by a brief message from Director Masahiro Sakurai.

Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered has been rated, suggesting that the game’s launch is fast approaching.As discovered by Video Games Chronicle, the rating was made by Korea’s Games Rating and Administration Committee suggests the title could be getting an official announcement soon ahead of its release.The translated rating described Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered as a “PlayStation 4 racing game with the content of racing on the road.” It also stated that the game has “slight violence,” through its “speeding or reckless driving and attacking police vehicles,” which resembles the traditional Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit gameplay loop.Earlier this year, VentureBeat reported that the title would be hitting the Nintendo Switch this