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Classes in Watch Dogs Legion were shown off a little bit when the game was first unveiled last year, but since then characters seem to have adopted a much more fluid system. There are still some subliminal archetypes like “drone expert” or trained assassins that utilize operator-specific abilities, but it seems the character-specific classes have been given more flexibility. RELATED: Watch Dogs Legion is a Technological Playground with Fun Gadgets...

The recent handover of U.S. military positions in Syria’s northern city of Manbij to Russian forces, first reported by Newsweek, was a symbolic moment in this trend, a move that accompanied Syrian and Russian troops moving into a number of outposts once occupied by the Pentagon. The event occurred as Russian President Vladimir Putin made high-profile visits to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, two close U.S. partners increasingly convinced of Russia’s weight in the region....

Much like the original PS5 DualSense controller, the new DualSense Edge features a sleek design with adaptive triggers and haptic feedback. So it’s meant to feel good in your hand while also providing responsive button presses and more precise control. That’s all to be expected, but what the Edge does differently is give you more control over the controller itself. Unlike a regular DualSense, you can adjust both the trigger and control stick sensitivity, as well as the “dead zones” to fit your preferences....

After Craig leaves the role, the producers could shake things up by going the other way with a lighter, zanier tone. Craig’s movies have evoked the grounded action of the early Sean Connery movies; the next incarnation of the franchise could take influence from Connery’s successor, Roger Moore. RELATED: Roger Moore Redeemed Moonraker With One Of The Darkest Bond Movies Moore’s movies distanced themselves from Connery’s movies with a goofier, wackier sensibility....

While Jak and Daxter got a few supplementary works and Ratchet and Clank is still going strong, Sly Cooper was left alone once the trilogy concluded in 2005. Aside from crossovers, 2013’s Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time was the only major release the franchise has gotten since Honor Among Thieves, While Sly did not go through a downfall as infamous as Crash, Spyro, or even Sonic, Thieves in Time was controversial enough among the fanbase for everyone responsible for the series’ future to ignore it even today....

This is just another step in the league’s absurd stance on social media. We get the thought process behind it: they want to be in control of the social media highlights. But that’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works. MORE: Seven NFL issues they need to just accept People want to easily share highlights, and share as many highlights as they can. The way the NFL conducts social media makes it nearly impossible to do without stealing the content....

Pei’s new venture, Nothing, is launching its brand new first product to market, the Nothing ear (1), true wireless earbuds with a unique transparent design, active noise cancellation technology, and best of all, a very competitive price. Nothing ear (1) Earbuds Finally Revealed The long wait is over for the Nothing ear (1) true wireless earbuds, which become Nothing’s first product. You’re immediately struck by the design of the new ear (1) earbuds, the transparent case revealing the similarly transparent earbud design....

Below is our MLB closer depth chart, updated throughout the season for injuries, demotions, trades, etc. BOOKMARK: SN Fantasy homepage MLB Closer Depth Chart Injured | ^ - Trade bait | Hot seat Arizona D-backs Closer: Brad Ziegler | Handcuff: Daniel Hudson Atlanta Braves Closer: Arodys Vizcaino | Handcuff: Peter Moylan Baltimore Orioles Closer: Zach Britton | Handcuff: Darren O’Day Boston Red Sox Closer: Robbie Ross Jr. | Handcuff: Jean Machi...

One of the welcome examples of Obsidian’s trademark humor in The Outer Worlds is the introduction of science weapons that, although lacking in damage output, are extremely fun to use and produce quirky effects on their victims. There are five science weapons scattered throughout the Halcyon Cluster, but this guide is on how to find the Mandibular Rearranger. RELATED: The Outer Worlds: How to Get the Gloop Gun Step One: Weapons From the Void After completing the main story quest A Stranger in a Strange Land, the protagonist will have access to the console in the Captain’s Quarters of the Unreliable....

Five feature areas were the focus of Obsidian’s efforts for this The Outer Worlds Switch patch. First, Obisidian implemented half-resolution SSAO, which should add more lighting/shadow effects for assets in the world. Second, clouds have been added to The Outer Worlds’ skybox. SSR, surface-based reflections, has been replaced with SphereReflectionCapture, which is assumedly an improvement. Finally, Obisidan’s disabled subsurface profile shading and added Depth of Field to The Outer Worlds’ Conversation Camera....

On July 8, the Times published an op-ed by Peter Beinart, a far-left American Jewish writer and self-anointed spokesperson for liberal Jewish opinion on Israel. Beinart’s article, entitled, “I no longer believe in a Jewish state,” argued that Israel no longer has a right to exist. It should be destroyed and replaced by a non-Jewish state. Beinart ended his article by urging American Jews to get over their Holocaust-induced fear of genocide and join him in his rejection of Jewish national rights....

RELATED: Things Metroid Does Better Than Castlevania (& 5 That Castlevania Is Superior At) Some debate what truly makes a Metroidvania. Super Metroid and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night set the bar high by taking action platformer concepts and blending them with exploration-based gameplay and roleplaying game elements. In reality, how far the genre can be pushed is up to developers and fans to determine. 10 Astalon: Tears of the Earth Innovation need not only come in the form of photorealistic graphics and bloated features....

NEWSWEEK: Would “The Beetles Anthology” have happened if John Lennon were alive? PAUL McCARTNEY: I don’t think so. It could have really been very difficult. This is conjecture, but I think it would have been OK with me and John. And I think Ringo certainly would have been OK with it. I had managed to make my peace with John a good few months before he was killed. George hadn’t....

As EA and DICE prepare a grand return for Battlefield this fall, the publisher has also tapped Criterion Games to assist with supplemental development on Battlefield. Set to debut this fall, Battlefield 6 (or whatever the next entry is named) presumably aims to reignite the franchise after Battlefield 5’s troubled release. Criterion, being the main developer of the Need for Speed series, has had to delay this year’s entry to 2022 because of Battlefield’s development....

He did–but just barely. At the festival last month Fremaux had to cancel the morning press screening because the film hadn’t come in yet. That evening the reels arrived by plane directly from the lab in Paris just in time for the gala screening at the Palais des Festivals. It was the first time Wong actually saw his film all the way through in a theater. Even then he didn’t think it was finished....

From his own office inside the White House, the vice president has located the cultural elite. He isn’t thinking of Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma. The CE, he says, inhabits “the newsrooms, sitcom studios and faculty lounges across America.” But that excludes a whole lot of far worthier folks. For starters, it ignores the capitalists who actually own what Marx would call the cultural elite’s “means of production.” It also leaves out those cultural elitists who sit on the boards of our most prestigious private universities but don’t own a key to the faculty lounge....

But that’s what Lewis does in “The New New Thing” (Norton. $25.95), dwelling for pages on the voyages of the good ship Hyperion. This is because the computer-controlled boat was the obsession of his subject: Jim Clark, the former chairman of Silicon Graphics who went on to start Netscape and, in the mind of Michael Lewis, became singlehandedly responsible for the Internet, the New Economy and the internal-combustion engine. OK, Lewis doesn’t give Clark credit for the last....

My view is that 1) these explanations are mainly phony and 2) real, interesting news just waiting to be reported is as available and accessible as it ever was, but we are too often looking in the wrong place. The first and most familiar (and most offensive) of the phony explanations is the bread-and-circuses one. In it, we journalists become the wise teachers and magistrates and the public becomes the rabble....

This year’s Olympics are no different. This week, Iran won its first medal in Tokyo, a gold in marksmanship. The champion, Javad Foroughi, is a 41-year-old member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Foroughi deployed to Iraq at the behest of his government to subvert the country’s fragile democracy, and then to Syria, where Iran and Russia joined Assad to participate in the slaughter of half a million Syrians. And though Foroughi was reportedly a nurse, who claims to have begun his shooting career just four years ago, Foroughi gave a military salute from the podium after his win, as Iran’s national anthem played....

As we saw repeatedly in “The Last Dance,” His Airness could hold a grudge against anyone — he’d even create fictitious slights by opposing players — and use that bitterness to fuel his competitive drive. MORE: The greatest Michael Jordan game you definitely don’t remember It turns out that drive goes back to well before his days as a professional. As a senior in high school, Jordan had caught the attention of big schools all over the country, with the most interest coming from Atlantic Coast Conference programs....