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The ports were released in late October and their reception has been good, but the process was not all roses. While some parts of the game landed perfectly on specific new platforms, there were also challenges. Game Rant spoke to Frosty Pop founder Faisal Sethi about The Pinball Wizard’s fit on Nintendo Switch, experiences between Apple and other platforms, changing controls, and more. Interview has been edited for brevity and clarity....

The two sides have been running on different tracks for several months. As the Brits outlined their plans for withdrawal, in November and December of last year, the details of Bush’s surge were far from settled. At the same time, the Baker-Hamilton group was releasing an alternative strategy for Iraq. British officials were far more supportive of the study group’s proposals than their counterparts inside the White House were. But the Brits also admitted that their challenges in southern Iraq are much simpler than the sectarian war facing American troops in and around Baghdad....

Suddenly, however, the quest for long-lasting portable power is on everyone’s mind, from blue-chip Silicon Valley venture capital firms to Japanese giants like Sony and Toshiba. And it looks like there are only two options: continued improvements in existing technology, or a major breakthrough, most likely miniature fuel cells that produce electricity using methanol as fuel. Batteries are a very old technology–2,000 years ago, jewelers in Baghdad apparently used simple batteries to electroplate their creations with thin layers of gold or silver....

One aspect of Call of Duty: Vanguard that will undoubtedly prove controversial is its engine. In the eyes of many fans, Sledgehammer making use of the IW8 engine is a positive, as the 2019 reboot of Modern Warfare boasted some solid visuals. However, some of the features tied to the engine were more divisive, and that same controversy will be felt throughout Call of Duty: Vanguard during its life cycle....

Unsurprisingly, it seems like the much-discussed size of the PS5 has translated to the console’s heaviness as well. With the PlayStation 5 confirmed to be so large due to the system’s cooling fan, players were given a better understanding as to why the newest Sony console is so big. Even with that in mind, though, the PS5’s weight could still shock some unsuspecting gamers. RELATED: PS5 Missing Major Streaming Apps at Launch...

Looking at it from a distance the PSL is something Pakistani fans are proud of but that is only because they do not see the larger picture. Pakistanis are passionate about cricket and although hockey is their national sport, cricket has taken its place non-officially. Timing of PSL incorrect? They are ecstatic about seeing their own stars in a league full of glamour and glory. They are also happy about the fact that the younger generation will get the chance to share dressing rooms with cricket stars and which will be helpful in making them more accustomed to the international....

Originally released on March 24, 2005, today is the 16th anniversary of the PSP, the Sony console that helped pave the way for other handheld systems. It was the first in the line of Sony’s handheld consoles, which would go on to include several other systems, like the PSP GO. It also helped make a foothold for the ill-fated PlayStation Vita, Sony’s last handheld console. RELATED: 10 Best RPGs That Can Only Be Played On The PSP...

CONANT: There is a possibility that the United States and NATO may send ground troops into Afghanistan. How dangerous could that prove to be? PESTEREV: The U.S. would be fighting a different enemy than we fought, but the terrain has not changed, nor has the style of warfare. First of all, you must learn to fight like the Afghans do. They use ambushes or military diversions to attack. There is no “front....

But the child is studious, noble and pious. It brushes the mayhem that is home, under the carpet and self-propels itself towards success. Though it struggles to exploit its full potential, it does enough to wheedle itself to live up to expectations. And hence, nobody endeavours to look beyond the achievements of the child, at the family. The child becomes the veil behind which the parents hide their nakedness- that is their hideous delinquency....

“We like to say we are not a slap in the face,” one of the Razzies’ co-founders, John Wilson, told Newsweek recently. “We’re a banana peel on the floor.” Wilson and Mo Murphy started the Razzies 40 years ago in 1981. (They first met while they were both working at a movie trailer company.) The first-ever Razzies show was actually held at an Oscar-viewing party among a small group of friends....

However, the main event on November 25 would not be the same without an impressive array of sides to accompany the big bird. Food and drink stylist Alyssa LeAnne told Newsweek: “With the ability to have bigger gatherings this year, people are embracing the festive season with indulgent and creative sides like yams and Brussels Sprouts that have been candied or prepared with a sweet glaze of maple and orange zest!...

The Lord of the Rings world can be confusing, as characters who are known to be the greatest and most powerful are sometimes defeated by those who are considered lesser than they are. This was so when Isildur of the race of Man took up his father’s sword and defeated the great and powerful Dark Lord, Sauron. Or when Merry and Éowyn (a Hobbit and human) defeated the Witch-King of Angmar who was the leader of the Ringwraiths as well as Sauron’s second-in-command....

FOR GENERATIONS, black women have been the societal embodiment of Cinderella. Like Cinderella, black women (and poor white women, too) have often been relegatedto the cooking and the cleaning, watching enviously as the women they worked for lived a more privileged life. Think about ““Gone With the Wind.’’ Wouldn’t Scarlett O’Hara have laughed, as the evil stepsisters laughed at Cinderella, if Butterfly McQueen had said that she wanted to go to the ball, that she wanted to dance with Rhett Butler?...

Take this moment from the Neighborhood Excellence 400, run in June at the Monster Mile in Dover, Dela. Lap 273. A mild collision forces ace driver Jimmie Johnson into the pit. Watching the action from Fox’s pre race-show studio on the speedway infield, Jeff Hammond, a NASCAR crew chief turned TV analyst, notices a member of Johnson’s pit crew scrambling around the car with a rubber ring clenched in his teeth....

The Rice Commission comprised people with limited exposure to how college basketball has operated this century, and a near complete lack of interest in learning about it. So it should be no surprise its recommendations related to the game are failing. One of the areas of college basketball the Rice group chose to address was agency representation of current and prospective college players. The ideas presented, however, were flawed from the jump....

Are school nurses prepared for the reality of their new role fighting a global pandemic? School safety has been precarious at best prior to this pandemic, and now it does feel that we are playing Russian roulette with our students and staff. In a few short weeks, we will ask school nurses to go alone into completely unpredictable environments and make medical decisions without adequate policies, procedures, testing infrastructure and personal protective equipment....

The New Day opened “Raw” by retaining in a three-way match over the teams of Gallows and Anderson and Sheamus and Cesaro, and then were put into another title defense to end the night, this time retaining over the teams of Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho and Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins. The show ended with The New Day celebrating the new longevity record as tag team champions. MORE: John Cena brings the laughs as Alabama football player in “SNL” sketch...

In the next pages, NEWSWEEK details the horrors of a late-summer day that showed how small our world has become. But what of America’s place in it? The experts predicted that September 11, like Pearl Harbor, would be a watershed, forcing the United States to rethink its role on the world stage. Peres envisioned a red-white-and-blue globocop. Other internationalists said the attacks would end America’s post-cold-war insularity, increasing sensitivity to far-off places and events....

America is busy writing new chapters every day. We are now in an Age of Color in which the nuances of brown and yellow and red are as important, if not more so, than the ancient divisions of black and white. With their precise distinctions about their own Peruvian bloodlines, the Aguilars are on the cutting edge of the nation’s redefinition of race–a quiet, daily revolution that is raising urgent questions about who we are, what we call ourselves and how we deal with one another....

With economic turbulence expected, the strategy would be to build on the strengths that served Brown so well when he was chancellor of the Exchequer: seriousness, competence, a return to “prudence,” the watchword of those days when he ruled over the big Whitehall bureaucracies as the “Iron Chancellor.” It would also be back to basics in the sense that Brown would return to the task of improving public services like health and education....