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How does Epic feel this will advance their company in the foreign market, considering Japan’s console gaming market is becoming larger? Does this open up possibilities for Epic to start developing games more geared toward a Japanese audience? Will Epic have an opportunity to work with Japan-based companies like Grasshopper or Konami Japan? Usage of Unreal Engine 3 in Japanese games will certainly improve the manufacturing speed at which developers can release a title, and I’m certainly excited to think of the possibilities behind some of the games that developers like Grasshopper or Konami can churn out with it....

Responding to a Twitter user, Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney confirmed that the team is “working on a review system” for the Epic Games Store. It will be based on the review system on the Unreal Engine marketplace, explained Sweeney, who added that the review system would be “opt-in” by developers. This means that it will be up to game developers whether they display user reviews on their game pages or not....

While the Epic Games Store is a straightforward client that’s easy to use, it also has drawn criticism for its lack of features when compared to platforms like Steam. Over the past few years, Epic Games has laid out a roadmap for updates in future development but many of the planned features remain unimplemented. As a result, the storefront feels lacking compared to many of its competitors. RELATED: Epic Games Store Adds Nioh As Surprise Bonus Free Game, Confirms Next Week’s Titles...

After the current games leave the store on August 5, both A Plague Tale: Innocence and Speed Brawl will release for free on the Epic Games Store. These games are two radically different experiences, but both make for very compelling free offerings for the store. While A Plague Tale: Innocence released to widespread critical success in 2019, Speed Brawl is a more recent 2D combat-racer that launched in April 2021....

Cook’s side entered the final day needing eight wickets to win and had the home side reduced to 189/6 with more than 50 overs still left to bowl – only for Denesh Ramdin (57) and Jason Holder (103 not out) to hang on for the draw on Friday. Despite the result and Cook’s own meagre returns with the bat – 24 runs across both innings, Moores threw his support behind the embattled skipper....

Stokes is standing trial at Bristol Crown Court accused of knocking out two other men outside a nightclub in the southwest English city in September last year. Prosecutors say Stokes was the “main aggressor” in a fight that broke out after an England match. But in a statement provided to police and heard in court Wednesday, Stokes said he only stepped in after hearing two men being homophobic toward two other men....

A tumultuous week for opener Bairstow (111) in which he found himself at the centre of a spat with ex-captain Michael Vaughan ended with a maiden World Cup hundred as England posted 337-7. Bairstow whacked six maximums and 10 fours in a fine 109-ball knock before slashing the excellent Mohammed Shami to deep point. The fit-again Jason Roy was aggressive at the top of the order with his 66 – ended only by a stunning catch on the run from sub fielder Ravindra Jadeja – helping England open with a 160-run stand, the highest made against India at a World Cup....

The Windies captain returned career-best figures of 6-42 while Shannon Gabriel weighed in with 4-62 as the tourists’ quicks dismissed England for 204 under gloomy skies before tea on the second day. Ben Stokes, captaining England for the first time in Joe Root’s absence, top-scored with 43 but was one of half a dozen Holder victims as the giant seamer continued his fine form in Tests. England could only remove John Campbell (28) before bad light stopped play, with West Indies 57-1, 147 runs behind....

While it was to his favoured side – he being a left-hander – and the ball was low and dipping sharply towards the turf, Ballance stuck his hand out, timed his dive and positioned the palm perfectly. Barring Matt Prior’s drops in the early part of the series, England have rarely floored the opportunities that came their way. Their catching in the slips has been particularly sound. In contrast, Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s wicket-keeping has been atrocious....

English men had their last test outing against the Pakistan team and managed to finish the series 1-1. India’s previous test bou was against the new Afghanistan side. The team was led by the vice-captain, Ajinkya Rahane. The match witnessed a total dominance of the Indian team. Men in Blue played their last test series under Kohli’s captaincy against the Proteas. Although India managed to win the ODI and T20I series but was defeated in the test series....

India were humiliated in Manchester, losing the fourth Test by an innings and 54 runs inside three days. The win helped England take a 2-1 lead and also save skipper Alastair Cook’s job. India’s ‘spineless’ performance was shocking, to put it mildly. It is hard to believe that the same Indian team scored more than 800 runs in the first drawn Test and won the the second Test by 95 runs at Lord’s to go one-up in the series....

274 in the first innings against a good bowling attack in conditions that assisted the seam bowlers doesn’t look that bad, also taking into consideration how well the English bowlers bowled and the fact that even the English batsmen struggled, it seems alright. But had it not been for Virat Kohli’s incredible innings and some ordinary catching from the English fielders, Dawid Malan in particular (dropping Kohli twice), the Indian team may well have bundled out under 150....

Instead of going with three seamers, India went with Kuldeep Yadav and Ravichandran Ashwin and just Mohammed Shami and Ishant Sharma as the front-line seamers. The move backfired as Kuldeep went wicketless even as England’s seamers ran riot and India’s third seam bowler, Hardik Pandya, picked up three wickets. Speaking to reporters ahead of the third Test at Trent Bridge on Saturday, Shastri admitted that a third seamer would have been a better option....

Root and Bairstow resumed on 259/3 and breezed beyond 300, sapping any remaining enthusiasm from an embattled India attack that did not even get their hands on the second new ball as England stormed home in 76.4 overs at an incredible run rate of 4.93. A 28th Test ton for Root (142 not out) was first on the agenda as he continued to play with enviable fluency, while his Yorkshire teammate Bairstow (114 not out) scampered a single to back up his century in the first innings....

It concluded a 3-0 clean sweep in the series for a side reborn under the new captain/coach combination of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum, with Bairstow’s career-best form a dazzling symbol of England’s resurgence. Despite losing Ollie Pope, bowled by Tim Southee for 82, in the first over of the day after a washed-out morning session, Bairstow (71 not out) and Joe Root (86 not out) made astonishingly light work of their country’s seventh-highest successful fourth-innings chase....

A complete unknown to everyone outside Manchester United’s setup, only an injury crisis in November 2015 saw an 18-year-old Marcus Rashford make the bench for a Europa League clash with FC Midtjylland. Even then, he wasn’t supposed to actually play. But when Anthony Martial aggravated a hamstring in the warm-up, coach Louis Van Gaal was out of options. In an age with more football on live TV than ever before, where adolescents become millionaires before even kicking a ball in the professional game, we know more about football’s youngsters than ever before....

The documents, including bank statements and canceled checks, come from the files of something called SONR #1 Limited Partnership, an entity run by Kopper and jointly owned by Kopper and his domestic partner, William Dodson. SONR was set up as a vehicle through which Kopper managed Chewco, yet another partnership, formed by Enron. The Feds allege (and Kopper admits) that Chewco generated large questionable returns to Kopper and Dodson and made dubious payments to Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow and his family....

A driver who makes the Chase for the Sprint Cup and finishes eighth in the Cup standings has something to back up the talk or the fender rubbing. So anyone who wants to try to push Logano around not only knows he'll push back (see Denny Hamlin ), Logano's competition also knows he has the car and the capability to possibly leave an opponent in the dust (he led laps in 15 races last year)....

A follow-up to the Call of Duty franchise’s first foray into the battle royale genre, Call of Duty: Warzone 2 introduced the seaside setting of Al Mazrah and numerous new gameplay features to the series. Although some new additions to the game were welcomed by players, such as the survival-based DMZ mode that throws AI-controlled bots into the mix, other gameplay changes have proven to be decidedly less popular with franchise fans....

But the folks at the Environmental Working Group make a point of not forgetting, and they think Americans had better refresh their own memories. A new EWG report says 10,000 Americans die each year from asbestos-related illnesses–a trend that may be increasing, despite efforts to rid buildings of the substance. The EWG’s Richard Wiles says the only way to stop the trend is to ban asbestos outright and offer free screenings to all....