Epic Games is most known for Fortnite, the ever-popular battle royale shooter. The game is currently in its fifth season, which has seen the addition of God of War’s Kratos, Halo’s Master Chief, and The Mandalorian’s Din Djarin. With the season ending in a few weeks, a new Fortnite theory may reveal what Season 6 has in store. RELATED: Epic Games Continues Its ‘Free Fortnite’ Campaign As Apple Legal Battle Continues...
In a followup interview after the Lumen in the Land of Nanite tech demo, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney discussed how the engineers were able to get the UE5 engine to perform at this sort of level on the PlayStation 5 hardware. Sweeney’s response highlighted the console’s customized solid-state drive, which could be a game changers for developers within the next console generation. RELATED: Epic Reveals Online Services Tools for Any Dev to Offer Crossplay, More...
Every Thursday at 8am PT/10am CT, Epic releases the new games for the week and, except in rare circumstances, reveals the games for the coming week. As such, while players can grab Obduction and Offworld Trading Company on the Epic Game Store now through July 22, they already know what they can claim for the end of the month: July 22-July 29. These two games are Verdun and Defense Grid: The Awakening, and here’s what fans should know about each game....
A three-wicket win at Worcestershire on Thursday was Surrey’s ninth consecutive four-day win and sealed a first Championships title since 2002. Captain and opener Burns has been integral to that triumph and a second-innings 66 at New Road followed his fourth hundred of the season first time around. The 28-year-old has now passed 1,000 first-class runs in each of the past five seasons – returns that are sure to be in the thoughts of national selector Ed Smith, considering Alastair Cook’s retirement from Test cricket and Keaton Jennings’ ongoing struggles at the top of the order....
Gareth Southgate’s team cruised to a 6-0 victory in the Bulgarian capital, with Ross Barkley and Raheem Sterling both scoring twice to take England to the brink of qualification. But Sterling was one of the players targeted by racist chanting during the match, which was stopped twice before half-time – initially for a stadium announcement calling for the abuse to cease before a group of Bulgaria fans were ejected from the Vasil Levski National Stadium....
Southgate has temporarily bypassed this, by calling up 4 goalkeepers for the upcoming friendlies against Holland and Italy - Jack Butland, Jordan Pickford, Joe Hart and the uncapped Nick Pope. However, there are also other keepers such as Ben Foster, Fraser Forster and Tom Heaton - who have all played for England. The question is, who should be wearing the keeper’s jersey in Russia? The Worrying Form of the Keepers Most of the aforementioned keepers have had poor seasons with their club teams....
LIVE: Follow England vs. France updates from the World Cup A matchup that is potentially big enough for a World Cup final itself, let alone a last-eight clash, this tie should deliver plenty of action, as two of the free-scoring sides at the tournament meet. As well as the overall tactical battle, there will be plenty of individual clashes between world-class stars, including Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappe. Who will win the midfield battle between Jude Bellingham and Aurelien Tchouameni?...
While India’s bowlers did a commendable job in trying to defend 148 in good batting conditions on Friday, their batsmen will need to stand up and be more counted, particularly the opening pair of Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma, who are yet to make a significant contribution thus far in the series with the bat. With the ball, Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal have looked good in both games as has Umesh Yadav, but the management surely would expect a bit more from both Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Hardik Pandya with the ball in hand as they look to win their maiden T20I series on English soil....
The last Test match of the tour will begin shortly and India should aim to finish the tour with a win. Kohli’s men need to fix several issues to obtain a victory in the last Test match. For instance, India’s batting has been disastrous and the Indian batsmen collapsed easily in the English conditions. Though skipper Kohli is the leading run-scorer of the series, the other batsmen have failed miserably....
With the series locked at 1-1, England’s limited-overs captain Eoin Morgan has reignited the recent debate on the lack of context surrounding bilateral ODI series. He revealed his affinity towards tri-series and pondered about the lack of such tournaments in recent times. Looking ahead to the ODI series decider in Leeds, Morgan asserted, “I am not a huge fan of bilateral series. (But) having a game like this is crucial for us....
Starting at the overnight score of 0 for 0, Rory Burns and Jack Leach got off to a steady start, adding 26 runs for opening wicket. Boyd Rankin got the breakthrough, dismissing Burns for 6. Jason Roy then came to the crease and looked uncertain at the start before opening up his shoulders. The nightwatchman Leach on his part showed great temperament and made the most of the conditions....
Quinton de Kock walked in and although he lost Bavuma within an over, looked in spectacular touch. He raced to a 36 ball half-century before a Stokes blinder sent him on his way. Vernon Philander’s half-century took the Proteas to 361 but the all-rounder suffered an injury and couldn’t take the new ball for the visitors. Buoyed by the absence of Philander, Cook and Jennings played comfortably to take England to 80 before Morkel broke through with the wicket of Jennings....
Sarri had admitted in a previous press conference that he would have to give more minutes to his fringe players due to the tight schedule that lay ahead. However, when he named Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Andreas Christensen in the starting lineup, even the staunchest Chelsea fan must have been surprised and pleasantly so. There was mounting pressure on Sarri to start Callum Hudson-Odoi ever since Gareth Southgate picked him for the England national team and threw him right in the deep end against Montenegro....
The 20-year-old joined RB Leipzig during the January transfer window, on loan from the Merseyside outfit, and has made five appearances for the club since his arrival. And despite having spent only two months at Leipzig, the forward is of the opinion that the English topflight is quite physical to the German top division. “It’s different to the Premier League,” Lookman told Bundesliga website. “The Premier League is a lot more physical, but most of the teams here like to play football in terms of more passing and moving....
Annabel Dorrestein, a Ph.D. candidate from Western Sydney University, has been studying flying foxes (otherwise known as fruit bats) on the island—which is located around 960 miles northwest of the closest point on the Australian mainland. However, the scientist’s research has often been interrupted by robber crabs living up to their name and trying to steal her equipment. “They have been bothering me ever since I started my Ph.D.,” Dorrestein told ABC News....
The beginning of each Valorant round starts with a buy phase where players acquire weapons and abilities whilst scoping their half of the map as the opposing team is blocked on their side till the actual battle commences. At this stage, most weapons and abilities are disabled except for the friendly fire ability which does not harm teammates. Therefore, nothing can actually be used to kill the players prior to beginning the round....
Now the bottled-water industry is fighting back. On Friday, NEWSWEEK has learned, The New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle will each carry a full-page ad containing a message from the International Bottled Water Association. This week’s campaign will be the first industrywide advertising since 1999. In the ads, the industry pushes the notion that “calorie-free, refreshing water” is a healthy choice in a country where diabetes, obesity and heart disease afflict so many people....
Tearing occurs when these pool in the eyes and sometimes spill over onto the cheeks—akin to crying but without sadness. Tearing, in this case, is a symptom of an underlying issue. If you treat that cause, the tearing should stop. In some cases, though, there may actually be more than one factor at play. Look for all the factors that may be contributing here, including colds, allergies, a blocked tear duct, and more....
Needless to say, Fortnite makes enormous amounts of money for its developer Epic Games. Earlier this year, Epic went over Apple’s head and created a direct payment system in its mobile version. Through this, players could pay Epic directly for in-game purchases instead of giving Apple the profit percentage that Epic’s contract with Apple demanded. Apple removed the game from its store, Epic sued Apple and launched an anti-Apple marketing campaign that’s ongoing....
Root delivered a captain’s innings in his opening game in charge to lay the foundations for a 211-run victory on Sunday and quash inevitable suggestions that extra responsibility might affect his own form. As he looks to turn the screw in the second test, his only problem is whether to retain two spinners at a ground which traditionally favours seamers. While Root will bat away suggestions aired by former England captain Geoffrey Boycott that his side should secure a four-test whitewash, England are well-placed to inflict their first home series victory on South Africa since 1998....
