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Bird and Johnson helped elevate the NBA’s reputation with their epic battles in the 1980s, so it’s only fitting that as each conference crowns a champion, these legends are honored. The two, winners of three regular season MVP awards each, had a generational impact on the game that even Michal Jordan credited. In fact, after Jordan completed his first threepeat in 1993, he felt like he had set a new bar because “Magic, Bird … never [won three consecutive tiles]....

The season of transfers is never a good one for clubs across the world of football. For every side that gains a new world-class act, another side loses one. Money is all that seems to speak now, with loyalty a distant destination few care to embark on the journey towards. Barely a week into the official summer transfer window, Manchester’s adopted son, Wayne Rooney seems quite open to a switch to Arsenal, who themselves saw their protege, Robin van Persie, go the other way last summer....

Now The Forgotten City is being transformed into a fully fleshed-out standalone game. In a recent interview with Game Rant, Nick Pearce revealed the changes that fans of the original mod can expect in the standalone version of The Forgotten City. With a significant expansion of the game’s world and story, as well as the return of some familiar faces, Pearce feels fans are likely to be pleasantly surprised....

Interestingly, this experience of The Forgotten City mod is completely different for future players in the standalone game. In Unreal Engine, boasting prettier graphics than its Creation Engine mod predecessor, the story is divested from Skyrim entirely. While this higher fidelity standalone title does look fascinating, it had none of those elements when it took Skyrim’s fanbase by storm. All of the incredible things The Forgotten City does, time loops, multiple endings, and open puzzle solutions, were all in the mod....

We need new ideas for fighting global poverty, ideas as sweeping as those that set the stage for global recovery after World War II. Today international institutions dedicated to sustaining financial markets are far from perfect. But they are more effective than those dedicated to public goods: preserving peace, alleviating poverty, protecting the environment, improving health, monitoring labor conditions. This disparity has distorted global development. Trade and financial markets generate wealth effectively but cannot take care of other social needs....

Plenty of gamers have been particularly disheartened by the lack of attention Rockstar has paid to Bully. Taking place in the fictional school of Bullworth Academy, it follows Jimmy as he navigates a relatable social scene filled with cliques. Jimmy attempts to shake up the school’s hierarchy and put a stop to bullies’ reigns of terror. Although it has seemed like Bully would never be resurrected, recent actions by Rockstar offer a little more room for optimism....

Announced on stage at Unpacked, Samsung said that the feature will be system-wide just like it is on the Pixel. This means however that it will not work with phone calls or music, but it does work with all types of video including voice calls. Even though Live Caption is billed as an accessibility feature, anyone can use it and benefit from it. Cleverly, the processing all happens on device without the need for a data connection....

European football on the line As with every derby game, both sides will be gunning for a win. But with Celta still in with a chance of finishing in seventh and securing the final Europa League spot, the potential three points look even more important. For relegated Deportivo, meanwhile, the game will be the last chance to get one over their local rivals for the foreseeable future. Depor have lost each of the past three meetings and won’t want their losing streak extended to four matches....

The six games nominated for Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2022 are A Plague Tale: Requiem, Elden Ring, God of War Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West, Stray, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Out of these, the two games that stand the most likely shot at being crowned Game of the Year are Elden Ring and God of War Ragnarok, as they are the two highest-rated new video game releases of the year....

During its second stage in Zadar, Croatia, the tour had to be cancelled ahead of the final after Bulgarian star Grigor Dimitrov tested positive for COVID-19. Later Borna Coric, Viktor Troicki, Novak Djokovic, as well as tournament director Goran Ivanisevic, all tested positive for the virus too. Featuring some high-profile players, the Adria Tour, which was hosted and funded by Novak Djokovic and members of his family, was under scrutiny from the very beginning....

It was a tragedy that the spectacular 4x400m gold medal-winning team at the Commonwealth Games was tainted by dope. Three of that quartet – Ashwini Akkunji, Mandeep Kaur and Sini Jose – received a one-year ban on Friday. Dev S Sukumar I was there at the Jawarharlal Nehru Stadium on 12th October 2010, captivated by something that can perhaps never be relived. Memories of that day are still fresh – four Indian girls holding off the rest of the competition at the Commonwealth Games; the night sky was dark but the stadium was engulfed in hysterical energy, and as they hugged each other after winning the 4×400, we in the media looked at each other in amazement....

Every gun has a history, and this one was potentially explosive. Federal officials quickly traced the XS-15 mechanism to a company in Maine owned by one Richard Dyke. Until last month, he was Bush’s state finance director in Maine. He’s an ally of top Bush political supporters; he had flown down to Austin, Texas, to take part in a luncheon with the governor. And, as bad luck would have it, Dyke’s company bears an unfortunate name: Bushmaster Firearms....

RELATED: Coolest FPS Games To Play Online For many FPS fanatics, the genre might appear stale with how many games have copied Halo or Call of Duty. It is certainly a problem, but there are plenty of challenging FPS titles that will give the most experienced gamers a challenge. From competitive multiplayer games to one-life single-player campaigns, here are the hardest FPS games anyone can play today. Updated on September 20, 2022, by Ritwik Mitra: Many people consider the modern era of first-person shooters to be devoid of any challenge, which couldn’t be further from the truth....

Then, there’s Alfrid, the Master of Lake Town’s right-hand man. Alfrid is a character who fits into a category all of his own: self preservation. He is the kind of slimy weasel who will do literally whatever it takes to end up on the winning side, regardless of if that side is good or evil. He gravitates towards power and authority, simply because he wants to benefit from the wealth and the infamy of whoever is in charge, without having to do any of the work for himself....

The discussion has opened up about Breath of the Wild 2 and its plot, since there still is not much to go on with the new gameplay trailer presented at E3 2021. Time and the Goddess of Time, Hylia, have been a staple part of the franchise ever since the lore split the Zelda timeline in two after Ocarina of Time’s ending. Additionally, Nintendo has been quick to retcon the lore of Link, Zelda, and their reincarnations throughout time and space, giving the franchise some space to innovate and expand....

Last year’s The Invisible Man was written and directed by Leigh Whannell, the horror icon behind the Saw and Insidious franchises. The film brought in over twenty times its production budget, despite its difficult release window, proving itself an enormous success for several intriguing reasons. RELATED: Iconic Horror Movies That Elevated Genre Tropes H. G. Wells’ 1897 sci-fi novel The Invisible Man is the tale of a scientist who invents a chemical method of becoming invisible, which he finds himself unable to reverse....

The JGMaker Artist-D is a fully-fledged IDEX printer at less than half the price you’d usually pay for one. Unfortunately, some design issues prevent it from greatness. The JGMaker Artist-D falls into the second camp. It is an Independent Dual Extruder (IDEX) printer capable of large dual color prints and dual printing—simultaneously printing two models. Launched initially on Kickstarter, the Artist D can currently be ordered directly from JGMaker for just less than $600....

For the next month Murad’s home was a canvas tent he shared with dozens of aspiring guerrillas in a training camp near Khost. Rising before dawn, the teenagers prayed in the mosque, jogged in the arid hills, then devoted their afternoons to assembling and learning to shoot Kalashnikov assault rifles. In the evenings, the young recruits sat on the floor of the mosque as the camp commanders cited Quranic passages justifying global jihad....

The 30-year-old wicket-keeper, who made his debut for the state in 2008, has played 77 matches, scoring 4046 runs at an average of 43.50 and has been part of back-to-back Ranji Trophy winning campaigns in 2014 and 2015. But cricket was not Gautam’s first love. instead, it was football and it was his uncle, who insisted that he take up the former. “I started playing at the age of 10....