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...A few months into the pandemic, when large parts of a bored, hunkered-down world were thinking about buying Animal Crossing: New Horizons, an excitable, expansionist Microsoft was thinking about buying the...
...Its cartoon fantasy game Animal Crossing — complete with a Turnip Exchange for trading types — is a blueprint for a metaverse....
...while the skipper lays down a steady stream of puns and Christmas cracker jokes....
...He is not an obvious hero, neither cute animal nor chiselled action hero: a squat Italian plumber with a paunch and a bottlebrush moustache....
...“We are social animals and we consume entertainment socially,” said Mr Parkes. “If you are isolated in virtual space, it will never become a mainstream entertainment form.”...
...The Christmas crackers are the usual mix of new, must-have toys and some familiar faces....
...Once a regular fixture, movie night had become a rarity in the Cipriano household of late....
...He also reports for FT Magazine on the oldest evidence of brood care being found in Canadian fossils and an African lake known as “Darwin’s Pond” providing evidence of how animals can split into two or more...
...The Chinese movie mogul behind Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has formed a joint venture with a London-based start-up Mubi to launch a film streaming service in China....
...Wheat is a versatile crop, grown in a variety of climates and used in products from bread to noodles to animal feed. After years of high prices, farmers have grown two straight record harvests....
...The statutory slapstick overkill arrives in the last reel, as everything animal/vegetable/mineral fizzes around New York’s sky in a baddies-versus-goodies showdown....
...The 160-year-old McVitie’s brand will be relaunched on Monday with a £12m advertising campaign, focused on “sweet” animals that Martin Glenn, chief executive, said was aimed at “supporting our efforts to...
...As a singer and dancer, especially in the two numbers she made deathless during her career, “Animal Crackers” and “On the Good Ship Lollipop”, her technique was impeccable....
...“It’s very similar to movie studios. There are movie studios that have been around for 60-plus years that still can’t manufacture blockbusters....
...(And by the way, never buy a fragrance in China, unless you don’t mind it being tested on animals – he tells me that even European and US brands have to allow their perfumes to be animal-tested there if...
...There was an argument from the corporation side that the animal went for Blancheau’s provocative ponytail rather than a gratuitously sought foot or arm....
...I fed and stroked a cute Eyepet I hatched from an egg on my living room carpet as Move transposed the animal on to the living room scene captured by the camera....
...He pauses, before adding: “They even made a movie where I was – I don’t know if I was hanged or shot. It was shown in the cinema in my neighbourhood [in Paris].”...
...Toy Story and Toy Story 2 did that: they made a “human” drama from a bunch of interacting dolls and plastic animals....
...Xbox 360 users turning on their console from today will be able to update their Facebook status with whatever movie, game or entertainment they are enjoying, as well as view their Facebook stream, status...
...But such growth would puzzle even Robert Langdon, Angels and Demons’ cipher-cracker, since most signs point the other way....
...Crocodiles are the Best Animals of All! By Sean Taylor Frances Lincoln, £11.99 No prizes for guessing who thinks crocodiles are the best animals of all – but can his fellow creatures prove him wrong?...
...Up close she is dazzling, both delicate and humming with the animal vitality of the charismatic politician....
...This idea of unpredictability also applies to Experience Realtime Movie: it is at once simple and bizarre....
...“Animal crackers lover grew up to be Ambassador to Czechoslovakia”. 5. “War wife and radium inventor cashes her chips.” Send your answers to: arts.quiz@ft.com by midnight on Wednesday November 8....
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