In a livestreamed Q&A panel between Nintendo, The Pokemon Company, and Niantic's developers this morning, Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto caught everyone off guard by dropping details on the release target for Pokemon Go Plus, the optional hardware accessory meant to act as a sort of physical tie-in to the game for when your phone isn't handy.
Wading through yet another report that reveals in jaw-dropping detail the level of corruption, cover-ups and general malfeasance at the heart of world athletics it is becoming increasingly difficult to imagine that the "roadmap to reform" unveiled by Sebastian Coe at the beginning of this week can possibly plot a way through the wreckage left by his utterly discredited predecessors.
Kershaw's interactions with microcar enthusiasts were sweet and funny, with him dropping in details so we could envisage the people and cars ("furnished in a luxurious chocolate milkshake colour"), and them full of pithy anecdotes about travelling in the tiny vehicles ("It's like being dragged along the road on your arse on a shovel").
In 1991, Kentucky Fried Chicken decided to drop the detail and go by its initials, J-lo styley.
I have managed to casually drop that detail into numerous conversations over the years, but, truth to tell, I was never completely certain it was true until the other day.
According to Shah, "You would suddenly see stern generals and skeptical officials relax when Thompson dropped important detail to show he cared about the individual".
But since its launch, there has been an undeniable slickness to the way Bungie has presented what are fairly tired old mechanics, and the Dark Below shows no sign of that attention to detail dropping.
After a first half during which the Navarra String Quartet showcase each of the collaborators' classical endeavours, a huge black orb overhead lights up with the colours of each celestial body in turn, while Stevens guides us through the cosmos song by song, dropping in astronomical detail and making sly references to Uranus's ring.
Others investigated and the injunction was dropped after details of the story appeared on the Internet.
The narrator of "In America" is unidentified save for a cool, cerebral voice and some quickly dropped biographical details, like youth in Arizona and California and early marriage to a formidable intellectual many years her senior, that self-consciously call to mind the novel's famous author, Susan Sontag.
Waiting for Activision to drop launch details on Tony Hawk: Ride?
