ImageCarmelo Anthony is moving on from the Houston Rockets less than a month into his first season with the team.CreditCreditMary Altaffer/Associated PressThe Houston Rockets have announced plans to cut ties with Carmelo Anthony, forcing the former All-Star into an early-season hunt for a new team willing to extend his N.B.A. career.Before Houstonâs nationally televised game…
TORONTO â Rewind the Toronto Maple Leafsâ most recent 120 minutes of gameplay and fans of the club can find much to celebrate during consecutive starting-goalie-chasing victories over banged-up cellar dwellers New Jersey and Florida. The special teams rediscovered their groove, Morgan Rielly leads all defencemen in points, Frederik Andersen tops all goalies in wins,…
Patrick Kane had a goal and an assist during a five-goal third period to extend the NHL’s longest active point streak to 12 games and help the Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Edmonton Oilers 6-2 at Rogers Place on Thursday for their fifth consecutive victory. The 30-year-old forward has 28 points (10 goals, 18 assists) during the…
Grab that mug of hot cocoa and warm up those mouse-clicking fingers. We’re ramping up to the best time of the year for holiday stocking-stuffing, and the only downside for online shoppers is narrowing down the deals. If you’ve got tech-minded friends on your list, you’ve clicked to the right place: Here are nine discounts…
Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Brawl Stars is nearing its global launch For the last 18 months, Finnish game developer Supercell has been testing its next big thing. Last year, the developer behind mobile hits like Clash of Clans and Clash Royale soft-launched a new game called Brawl Stars. Itâs very different from…
“Resident Evil” is back and looking better than ever. Capcom The newest game in the “Resident Evil” franchise is “Resident Evil 2,” a remake of the 1998 classic, arriving Friday for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.”Resident Evil 2″ is a classic survival horror game â players work to escape the zombie-infested Raccoon City as…
Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)Even though I know all these retro consoles are largely an effort turn my nostalgia into big-time corporate profits, theyâre damn hard to resist. Thereâs just something about gray plastic and the old school boot up sound that hits a deep part of my brain as few things do, so when I…
Although a dedicated graphics card is considered by many to be a must-have for PC gaming, it is not as important as it once was. Sure, you need it to play The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt at ultra graphics settings, but if you donât mind losing a little bit of a visual quality and delving…
USA TODAY Sports Published 7:31 a.m. ET Jan. 18, 2019 CLOSE Chad Millman of The Action Network stops by to help you place your bets heading into the NFL’s Conference Championship games. USA TODAYThe NFL’s conference championship games couldn’t have provided much of a better platform for the league’s stars.All four of the teams remaining…
ImageJulian Edelman and Tom Brady of the New England Patriots celebrated their 13-3 victory over the Rams in Super Bowl LIII.CreditDoug Mills/The New York TimesIn the Year of Offense, the N.F.L.âs championship game didnât have much. A dreary Super Bowl that featured a combined 14 punts ended with a sixth title for Tom Brady and…
When I think of the toughest games of my childhood, the Ghosts ân Goblins series from Capcom immediately comes to mind. Theyâre unforgivingly difficult, taunting you at each corner with a thousand deaths. Arthurâs armor gets shredded by every moving object and even upgraded weapons offer little protection. Whatâs worse is that you have to…
Disneyâs 2012 film Wreck-It Ralph proved that a movie based on video game nostalgia could actually be more than a gimmick. Itâs the story of Ralph (John C. Reilly), a villain in a Donkey Kong-esque 1980s-style retro arcade game, who ventures outside of his own cabinet and into the world of other games to prove…
After about 20 years, PokĂ©mon Red, Blue, and Yellow have been given new life on Nintendo Switch with PokĂ©mon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Evee!, and it feels so good to be back. Coming out for the Nintendo Switch on Friday, the two PokĂ©mon: Let’s Go games take the original PokĂ©mon games and update them for…
One of the great online gaming paradoxes is the group-finder, a feature intended to bring people together that often does the opposite. Itâs a mainstay in online games, a one-size-fits-all solution to the ever-present social gaming problem of âHow do I meet people and progress?â Functional, accessible and a little impersonal, the group-finder makes connecting…
To be clear, there are a lot of highlights here. This is the first mobile processor to support multi-gigabit 5G, and is one of the first chips built on 7-nanometer architecture. The Snapdragon 855 also features (among other things) advances in AI processing and graphics prowess — let’s take a closer look.Wireless connectivityFor all of…
The Mission: Mars room at The Escape GamePhoto: The Escape GameAn escape game can be stressful and frustrating and difficult, or it can be fun and empowering and…still difficult. These tips arenât going to ruin escape rooms by making them too easy. But they might save your next team-building activity from becoming an hour of…
New York TodayImageItâs getting harder to walk between the raindrops.CreditSpencer Platt/Getty ImagesMaybe we should call it the Soggy Apple. New York City just experienced its fourth-wettest year on record.In 2018, 65.55 inches of precipitation fell in Central Park, according to the National Weather Service. Thatâs more than 15 inches, or 31 percent, above normal.This is…
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ST. LOUIS (AP) â Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina plans to begin playing spring training games in mid-March as he recovers from recent knee surgery.The longtime star had a minor cleanup procedure on his left knee last month.”Right now, I’m probably 50 percent with my knee,” Molina said Monday at the Cardinals Winter Warm-Up fan event.…
Child psychologist Maren Ăstvold Lindheim helps counsel children whoâve been traumatized by their experiences in hospitals. But she doesnât just use toys and games to treat her patients.Since 2010, Lindheim has been bringing young patients out into the nature preserve behind the Oslo University Hospital, where she works. There, she sat in the grass with…
Another Crabâs Treasure isnât shy about its inspirations. If an area titled âThe Sands Betweenâ isnât clue enough, this colorful soulslike about a crab questing to retrieve his shell serves up constant reminders of FromSoftwareâs oeuvre, especially Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. That doesnât make Another Crabâs Treasure just another FromSoftware clone in an increasingly crowded…
3.02pm EST15:02 And here is Dominic Fifieldâs report from the game. Olivier Giroud breaks goal duck in Chelsea win against BATE Borisov 3.01pm EST15:01 A host of other Europa League stuff tonight from us. Nick Ames is following Brendanâs boys. Celtic v RB Leipzig: Europa League â live! Paul Doyle is watching âTheâ Arsenal. Arsenal v…
Fallout 4 may use the same engine as Skyrim, but that engine has changed drastically over the years.Screenshot: Fallout 4This morning, news headlines and YouTube videos across the internet declared that Bethesda will not change engines for the upcoming games Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI, setting off a wave of outrage thatâs become oh-so-common…
Jan 14, 2019Tim KeownESPN Senior Writer CloseSenior Writer for ESPN The Magazine Columnist for ESPN.com Author of five books (3 NYT best-sellers)LOS ANGELES RAMS OFFENSIVE TACKLE Andrew Whitworth looks like he’d be employee of the month — every month — at the feed store. Everyone would just stand around and marvel as he heaved bales…
When all is said and done, all of these retro consoles that have appeared recently are the same. They are simply an emulator wrapped in a pretty box with nostalgic controllers. Because of that, there is a lot of options when it comes to hacking or modding them because the software is so basic. The…