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Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE March 26, 2019, 10:51 PM GMT By Daniel Arkin Over the decades, the Sackler family — the principal owners of Purdue Pharma — earned a reputation as transatlantic patrons of …

No Code’s upcoming game Observation will be released on PC and PS4 on May 21st, but with a slight change in plans.  The game previously had a Steam store page, implying it would release on that platform (or other PC marketplaces) before Devolver confirmed earlier today that the game will be exclusive to …

Fortnite’s Season 8, Week 2 challenges are out now, and while players may find many of the challenges familiar, there are some harder objectives now available. Perhaps the most difficult of Week 2’s challenges involves dealing damage with the pirate cannon, a new weapon that was introduced during the start …

Actor Jussie Smollett leaves the court Tuesday in Chicago. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images) Prosecutors in Cook County, Ill., dropped charges against Jussie Smollett on Tuesday, an astonishing reversal that came a month after the actor was arrested, charged with lying to police about a bigoted attack and pilloried by Chicago’s top …

England batsman Jos Buttler has reacted furiously after he was dismissed by a controversial “mankad” stumping for the second time in his career. Named after Indian bowler Vinoo Mankad, the dismissal, in which the bowler runs out the non-striking batter when (s)he leaves the crease to “back up” as the …

CLOSE SportsPulse: Opening week is upon us and hope springs eternal. For The Win’s Ted Berg provides his biggest and boldest predictions for the 2019 MLB season. USA TODAY The Diamondbacks were preparing for the worst with regard to right fielder Steven Souza Jr.’s knee injury. After an MRI on …

In this 2017 GDC session, Immersyve’s Scott Rigby explains why it’s valuable for developers to have a nuanced understanding of player autonomy.  Rigby discusses how autonomy is often misunderstood to mean “giving players freedom,” which can lead to player frustration and disappointment rather than satisfaction. He outlines an accurate blueprint of what autonomy …

Image copyright AFP/Getty Images Image caption Save the Children has condemned attacks on hospitals during the war (file photo) An air strike near a hospital in north-west Yemen that killed at least seven people, four of them children, has been condemned by Save the Children. The NGO, which helps fund …

Image copyright MEN syndication Image caption Hundreds of people lined the streets to get a glimpse of the action around Dale Street and Port Street The streets of Manchester’s Northern Quarter have been transformed into New York as a Spider-Man spin-off is being filmed in the city. Morbius tells the …

The Israeli Air Force says it struck “several Hamas terror targets” in Gaza on Tuesday night, hours after Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel. Air-raid sirens began to sound across southern Israel shortly after Israel conducted its air strikes, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said. READ MORE: Fighting along …