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| Nintendo to hold Direct presentation Tuesday | Nintendo has officially announced a new Nintendo Direct presentation for Tuesday. The event will take place at 10 a.m. ET and stream live on the Nintendo YouTube channel. The new Direct will mark Nintendo's first full-length presentation since September and run for about 50 minutes. It will highlight upcoming video games coming to Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2. Following the presentation, the Nintendo Treehouse: Live event will showcase gameplay from some of the titles featured during the Direct. That portion will run about 95 minutes. |
| 'Persona 6,' new 'Spyro' announced at Xbox Games Showcase | The Xbox Games Showcase returned Sunday, with highlights including Persona 6 and Spyro: A Realm Beyond. The event featured announcements, trailers and news about upcoming video games coming to Xbox consoles. Persona 6, the first new main entry in the Atlus franchise in nearly 10 years, was announced to come to Xbox Series X/S, Xbox PC, PlayStation 5 and Steam. A release date has not been set. A moody teaser trailer for the game follows the camera through a graveyard to a headless statue, hinting at a darker and more mature return for the series. In addition, Persona 4 Revival, a remake of Persona 4 Golden (2012), will release on Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5 and PC on Feb. 18, 2027. |
| Jemaine Clement: 'Alice and Steve' co-stars bonded over embarrassment | Jemaine Clement plays Steve in Alice and Steve, on Hulu Monday, and had never met his Alice, Nicola Walker, before the show. The characters are lifelong best friends. In a recent Zoom interview with UPI, Clement, 52, said he and Walker bonded quickly over having to act silly together in public. The pair is introduced running through the streets after a funeral. "There are all these people who are waiting to cross the bridge but they had to wait so they'd be watching us acting drunk," Clement said. "Those kinds of things are quite hard to do where you're acting like nobody's watching, but actually there's 100 crew watching and some members of the public watching. |
| Celebrity couples step out at the Tony Awards | Celebrity couples stepped out Sunday to celebrate the best of Broadway at the Tony Awards. Daniel Radcliffe and Erin Darke, John Lithgow and Mary Yeager, and Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos were among the pairs to attend the event at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Other couples included Ben Platt and Noah Galvin, Corbin Bleu and Sasha Clements, Adrien Brody and Georgina Chapman, Usher and Jennifer Goicoechea, and Bobby Cannavale and Rose Byrne. In addition, Aubrey Plaza and her partner Chris Abbott made their red carpet debut as a couple after confirming in April that they are expecting their first child. |
| Famous birthdays for June 8: Julianna Margulies, E.R. Fightmaster | Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include: -- U.S. first lady Ida McKinley in 1847 -- Architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1867 -- Scientist Francis Crick in 1916 -- College Football Hall of Fame member/U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White in 1917 -- U.S. |