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The report comes from The Information (and has been covered by Eurogamer), which says that Epic Games is in talks to set up to launch a new entertainment division to create scripted video programming. One project that’s being discussed is a Fortnite movie, although there are no real details about it yet. RELATED: Fortnite Battle Bus Spotted at Universal Studios From the sound of it, the plan is still in its infancy, but Epic Games has been making moves to set up this new entertainment division....

Hart endured an error-stained tournament in France, most damagingly when he let Kolbeinn Sigthorsson’s decisive goal squirm past him in the last-16 defeat to Iceland. The 29-year-old was then dumped out of the first-team picture at Manchester City when Pep Guardiola placed Willy Caballero ahead of him in the pecking order and signed Claudio Bravo from Barcelona. But Southgate has been impressed by Hart’s form during his season-long loan with Torino in Serie A and told a news conference his stock within the squad remains high ahead of a 70th Three Lions appearance....

Beat England on Saturday, or it makes its earliest exit from a Rugby World Cup in 16 years. This was always going to be a crunch match in Pool C: Three Tier One sides can’t fit into two quarterfinal slots. The stakes deepened for the Pumas after losing to France 23-21 on the opening weekend. France still has to play England, too, but having already got past Argentina, the French may not need _ yet _ to beat England to advance....

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - The first wave of an expected 70,000 England fans descended on Marseille on Thursday and wasted no time establishing a foothold in Vieux Port to start three days of drinking and singing ahead of Saturday’s Euro 2016 match against Russia. Noisy and boisterous, bare-chested and full of lager and bravado, they draped the flags around the Queen Victoria “British pub” and roared out their songs of defiance in the time-honoured manner of “England Away”, just as they had in the same port-side bars 18 years ago....

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) secretary Mohan de Silva confirmed receiving the proposals covering the three tests, five one-dayers and a Twenty20 International set to be played between the teams from May 19 to July 5. “We have received the proposals but we haven’t decided yet,” De Silva told Reuters by telephone. Also read: Kevin Pietersen eyes Test return with South Africa in 2018 “We’ll discuss it in our next board meeting and announce our decision in a week or two,” said the official, declining to elaborate, saying he had not gone though the details yet....

However, they are racing the elements with clouds building on the horizon. Stuart Broad took two wickets with the first two balls of the day to start a flow of dismissals, leaving New Zealand to pin their hopes on a stubborn Latham. But after propping up the innings for nearly five hours, the opener was removed midway through the afternoon session for 83. Colin de Grandhomme, required for the second time in the Test to park his natural quick-fire tendencies and graft away, was not out 27 with Ish Sodhi on 16....

The last of Cipriani’s 14 caps was in the build-up to the 2015 Rugby World Cup. Coach Eddie Jones had misgivings over his attitude in a team environment but changed his mind on Thursday and said he was also an option at fullback. “I’ve watched him closely and he’s looking good,” Jones said. “He deserves his opportunity. He’s done a few things I’ve asked him to do.” New Zealand-born Shields, captain of the Hurricanes in Super Rugby, was one of seven uncapped players in the 34-man squad....

The Three Lions’ sole major championship came back in 1966, when Alf Ramsey, Bobby Charlton and Bobby Moore led their country to a first - and so far only - World Cup. The tournament on home soil was a landmark moment for the sport in Britain added further fuel to rivalries with Argentina and Germany that have lasted to this day. More than half a century on, and with England still looking to replicate their greatest day after securing a semi-final spot in this summer’s World Cup tournament, Goal looks back on how the national team’s greatest glory was achieved....

England, who conceded the lead in the 17th minute, staged a superb come back to make their third successive semi-final appearance in the history of the tournament. England scored three field goals through Barry Middleton (27th minute), Will Calnan (45th) and Harry Martin (49th), while Gonzalo Peillat (17th, 48th) struck both the goals for the losers at the Kalinga Stadium. Argentina, the bronze medallist in 2014, had themselves to blame for the defeat as they missed chances galore and got into panic mode after conceding the third goal....

The Young Lions were held to a shock draw by Slovenia on either side of wins over Kosovo and Andorra. It kept them behind Albania and the Czechs in the table in Group G, albeit with a game in hand. The Little Lions are flying high at the top with four wins from four, having kept a clean sheet in all of them. Contrary to earlier perceptions that they could end runners-up to England, the Czechs have shown their potential to even edge out their more illustrious rivals....

Led by Kohli’s superb century, the Indians set England an improbable target of 521. Cook and Jennings yet again fell cheaply and England were facing a historic defeat. But Butler and Stokes showed a lot of character and patience and provided some respite to the English supporters. But once Butler fell to Bumrah, it was all about a matter of time when India went through the lower order. However, the grit shown by Rashid and Anderson even after India opted for an extended half an hour, the duo managed to take the game on Day 5 to keep India at bay....

England are currently the No.1 ODI side and whitewashed Australia 5-0 in their last one-day series. This England team are good at making comebacks and will be determined to do well in the ODIs after a disappointing T20I series. Both the teams have a similar looking squad for the ODIs. For India, youngsters Chahar and Krunal make way for Shardul and Axar whereas Shreyas Iyer replaces Manish Pandey from the T20I squad....

Cricket has evolved so much in various aspects of player dynamisms, rules and formats but even today the fundamentals remain same. This is the fab four era in modern cricket, consisting of Steve Smith, Joe Root, Virat Kohli and Kane Williamson. In the last few years, there has been plenty of talk about the best among the four. If there was one thing that was stopping to settle the debate it was Kohli’s record in England....

BCCI are expected to announce the squad for the first three Tests against England on Wednesday and Bumrah is expected to not make the cut. According to Cricinfo, Rishabh Pant is also likely to get his maiden Test call-up after the uncertainty about the fitness of Wriddhiman Saha. Bumrah fractured his finger during the T20I series against Ireland and was ruled out of the T20I and ODI series against England....

England secure their place in the knockout stage of the World Cup with an emphatic win over Panama this afternoon. The result sends Panama out of the competition and draws the Three Lions level on points with Belgium at the top of Group G. Harry Kane became the third Englishman to score a hat-trick at the World Cup, scoring two penalties and a deflected goal. John Stones notched his first two international goals, heading home twice from set-pieces....

England’s previous T20I series was away from home against India earlier this year. The Englishmen won the first and third T20Is by 8 wickets each while the remaining three games went in the hosts’ favour. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka’s last T20I assignment was a three-match series against the West Indies in March away from home. The Windies won the first and third T20Is by four and three wickets, respectively. The Lankans won the second match by 43 runs....

The England football team that’s riding on the back of their stellar showing at the World Cup surely let their fans down after the first half. However, they improved in the second and snatched the win thanks to a Marcus Rashford strike. It now looks like it wasn’t just us spectators that were disgruntled after that dire first-half performance. After the match, left-back Danny Rose said, Centre-back Harry Maguire had similar things to say,...

West Indies beat host India to find a spot in the finals after a mixed tournament and now are in a good shape to challenge the Three Lions. The big Caribbean guns are firing with confidence as they stunned 1.3 billion people last Thursday. They are playing more like a team and not like that they are banking on some individuals. The likes of Chris Gayle, Dwayne Bravo, Andre Russell, Darren Sammy along with the other players are eyeing for the glory in Kolkata....