ST. LOUIS (AP) — 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 Østvold Lindheim helps counsel children who’ve been traumatized by their experiences in hospitals. But she doesn’t 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 Crab’s Treasure isn’t shy about its inspirations. If an area titled “The Sands Between” isn’t clue enough, this colorful soulslike about a crab questing to retrieve his shell serves up constant reminders of FromSoftware’s oeuvre, especially Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. That doesn’t make Another Crab’s Treasure just another FromSoftware clone in an increasingly crowded…

3.02pm EST15:02 And here is Dominic Fifield’s 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 Brendan’s boys. Celtic v RB Leipzig: Europa League – live! Paul Doyle is watching “The” 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 that’s 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…

None Dec. 10, 2017: Buffalo Bills running back LeSean McCoy runs past Indianapolis Colts outside linebacker Barkevious Mingo in a snow storm at New Era Field. The Bills won in overtime, 13-7. Timothy T. Ludwig, USA TODAY Sports None Dec. 20, 2013: The Baltimore Ravens’ Michael Oher (74), Marshal Yanda (73) and Gino Gradkowski stand…

A rueful Magnus Carlsen lamented his gun-shy, conservative play after Sunday’s draw in the seventh game of his world championship title defense against Fabiano Caruana in London, which left the best-of-12-games match in 3½-all deadlock. The Norwegian champion, playing with the white pieces, kicked off with the same Queen’s Gambit as the second game (1.…

League of Legends cinematic, “A New Dawn.”Image: Riot GamesYesterday, one current and one former employee of Riot Games filed a class action lawsuit against the League of Legends publisher, accusing it of endemic gender-based discrimination and fostering a “men-first” environment. The lawsuit comes three months after a Kotaku investigation into the sexist culture at Riot…

“The Legend of Zelda” won multiple game of the year awards in 1998, but was it the best seller? “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time”/Nintendo Starting from the humble days of “Pong” and “Space Invaders,” video games have grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry, with single games garnering hundreds of millions of sales. As the…

Best answer: Not exactly. NVIDIA winded down production of the 500GB Shield TV Pro in 2018. It’s no longer available from retailers such as Amazon or Best Buy but still appears to be for sale direct from NVIDIA’s website for $299 (linked below). Alternatively, you can find consoles on eBay selling for as high as…

PlayStation Classic is a faithful reproduction of the experience of playing original PlayStation games in the mid-1990s. In that respect, it succeeds. What it lacks is passion.This piece originally appeared 11/27/18. We’re bumping it today for the PlayStation Classic’s release.With Nintendo roundly rejecting the idea of a Nintendo 64 Classic in the foreseeable future, PlayStation…

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario — Liam Kirk occasionally takes a 15-minute stroll from Peterborough Memorial Centre to The UK Shoppe in search of a taste of home. Kirk, 18, is 3,400 miles away from his family in Maltby, England, playing ice hockey — a sport many of his friends teased him about while growing up.In June, the…

Bit Brigade isn’t cashing in on the speedrunning or vintage video game craze. They’re musicians first, and NES players second, which means they don’t care about internet fame. It’s all about the stage.”We’re a rock band,” bassist Luke Fields said. “You need to come see us play a rock show.”If Fields sounds like your dad…

Illustration: Sam WoolleyOn March 25, 2015, the weather in Bellevue, Washington was just warming up enough to play hacky sack, a favorite activity of the employees at the game development studio Her Interactive. That morning, they had something more pressing to think about, though: they couldn’t log into their computers. Server problems, some reasoned. They…

So I’ve decided, after watching Ella Purnell traipse humorously about the wasteland, that I want in on this Fallout thing, too. So where does an aspiring Wastelander, one who has little experience with the series, start? The answer to that is usually “at the beginning,” but I’m gonna focus on Fallout 3 through Fallout 76…

Collecting video games is easy. All you have to do is create an eBay account and click “Buy It Now” on every video game you ever wanted. Congratulations, you have a video game collection! Your bank account balance is now negative a million dollars.It’s collecting video games without going broke that’s hard. In the first…

Cover Story Codenames! Catan! Sorry! Transform screen time into game time with these immortal classics. For some families, game nights are at the very core of who they are and how they live together. From generation to generation, brothers and sisters and cousins in game families have shared in-jokes, swapped anecdotes, and passed down the…