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Last weekend’s NBA All-Star game saw the Eastern Conference, despite how bad they have been this year, pull out a 163-155 over the Western Conference in a thoroughly entertaining game. People always whine about the lack of defense, but they need to realize that exhibition games like this are to see dunks, deep threes, dunks, random 1-0n-1 battles (Kyrie vs Dwight), and more dunks. Throw in an 18-point comeback by the East and a fourth quarter that was close throughout, and you get an All-Star game that lives up to the billing....

Why bring up a random starting pitcher from an exhibition game nearly three decades ago? Because we’re getting close to the time All-Star rosters are announced, and you’re about to hear the same grumbling we hear every year about the composition of those rosters. “It’s the All-Star team, not the All-Three-Month-Sample-Size team!” Or this classic: “The fans didn’t pay good money to see guys they’ve never heard of!” Sorry. I don’t buy it....

RELATED: Potential Super Smash Bros Fighters From Series With No Representation Oftentimes, these videos are shown in conjunction with one another at events like E3 or in Nintendo Directs. Other times, characters share videos entirely. These clusters of character reveals have become significant memories for diehard Smash Bros fans. Which of these moments in Smash’s history holds the best memories? 15 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Fighters Pass Vol. 2 The character reveals for the second batch of DLC Fighters in Super Smash Bros....

This coming-of-age comedy drama is set in the late ’90s and is filled with classic rock music dating back to the 1970s. Julie Bowen stars in Mixtape alongside a talented young cast who discover music from the generations that came before them. Eight songs from the movie’s eponymous mixtape are highlighted and explored but the soundtrack as a whole is filled with recognizable songs. All the songs on the tape in Mixtape Mixtape’s story follows Beverly Moody who wants to get to know her late parents better when she finds a mixtape they made called “Love Riot....

Josh Gad reprises his role as the snowman who’s come to life as we see Olaf recreate five favorites films for Disney+ viewers. Since he’s made of snow, Olaf can change reshape his body to match the character he’s playing, and he can also creative with the forest props around him. All five frantic episodes, each lasting less than two minutes in length are available to watch now. Alternatively you can watch a compilation of all episodes in one, which also opens with a clip from Frozen 2 where Olaf recaps the events of the first Frozen movie....

One way that the next Season of Deep Rock Galactic will differ from Rival Incursion is through the addition of new weapons. Dubbed Rival Escalation, the Season will expand the arsenals of the miners with some new secondary weaponry. Each class of dwarf will get another sidearm to wield when fighting on Hoxxes, and fans of the Coffee Stain Studios game should give these new guns a look ahead of their arrival....

While on the pitch Lionel Messi ended his long wait for a World Cup, off it the tournament was embroiled in any number of controversies, from the reported deaths of thousands of migrant workers in the run-up to the tournament to the country’s anti-LGBTQ stance. From an American standpoint, plenty of positives can be drawn from this World Cup with Team U.S. emerging from the group stage unbeaten, having held one of the pre-tournament favorites England to a credible 0-0....

The XCOM 2 deals are available from the standard edition to the Digital Deluxe edition, bundling the reasonably priced Season Pass (most likely because we’ll be seeing an expansion of some sort in a year’s time). Currently we’re seeing at least three XCOM 2 deals where you won’t need to fork over the full $59.99 list price just to get the Steam copy of the game (or $74.99 in the case of the Digital Deluxe Edition)....

World No. 1 Simona Halep heads up the women’s field and Novak Djokovic, seeking his record seventh Australian Open title, is the No. 1-ranked male player. The tournament begins Jan. 14 at Melbourne Park with Roger Federer and Caroline Wozniacki as singles defending champions. Serena Williams, ranked No. 16, plans to make her return to Melbourne Park for the first time since winning in 2017 while eight weeks’ pregnant with baby Alexis Olympia....

With a little over two months until the launch of Watch Dogs: Legion (and likely not much longer till it releases on PS5 and Xbox Series X), it’s time to start looking at which version of the game is the right one to pick up. Here’s a complete guide to every Watch Dogs: Legion pre-order bonus, as well as each of the four special editions that are on offer....

But doesn’t this all sound like a fairy tale which is too good to be true, right? Well, yes wait for it! There’s got to be some loophole to this story as well. Yes, Google Chrome now blocks ads—but not all of them. Period. Google Chrome Doesn’t Block “All” Ads Google’s major goal is to offer users an amazing, ad-free, smooth browsing experience. So basically, Google Chrome’s ad filter gets rid of all those advertisements that don’t follow the “Better Ads Standards”....

In a scathing Glassdoor review dating back to July 27, 2016, an alleged former employee from the BioWare Montreal studio revealed that the working conditions were harsh and uncompromising before deeming the company as a place to avoid for employment. The former employee states that conflicts were common between the Montreal and Edmonton studios, and this leadership clash has resulted the alleged departure of over 16 lead developers of various disciplines across both studios....

When the allegations started, the Olympic committee defended designer Kenjiro Sano’s work saying just a few days ago, “We are confident that the Games’ logo design is original.” MORE: Olympics held in the U.S. | Tokyo 2020 logo is a controversial throwback The plagiarism claim comes from Belgian designer Olivier Debie, who says the logo looks similar to his design for the Liege Theatre. He went as far as to file a lawsuit to prevent the logo from being used....

The 51-year-old gave no indication that the curtain might be about to fall on his glittering tenure in his pre-match news conference ahead of the Bianconeri’s trip to the Stadio Olimpico to face Roma on Sunday. Allegri revealed he met with Agnelli before Juve’s Champions League quarter-final defeat to Ajax on April 16 and told him he would remain with the club, but since then there have been rumours the president has lost patience with the failure to end his side’s 23-year wait to win the competition....

Instead, Allen ended up where he was needed much more. The Bears, 8-8 last year, needed a defensive overhaul, especially up front, after sinking to the bottom of the NFL rankings in most major defensive categories. When the Bears signed the former Viking to a four-year, $32 million deal — which reportedly is more like two years at $15.5 million once the voidable years and real guarantees are factored in — they got a least a moderate upgrade from the pass-rush specialist they let go: Julius Peppers....

Smith had been pulled out of her training midsession in March 2002 to be told that her job had disappeared as part of the heavy-equipment manufacturing company’s reduction in forces. “I literally started shaking,” says Smith, a 40-year-old mother of two teenage sons. Within hours, she’d cleaned out her desk and bid goodbye to the workers on the assembly line she’d supervised for more than four years. At first, Smith tried to remain optimistic; she had years of production-line experience (she’d also worked at the nearby Chrysler plant) and had risen though the ranks to management....

“We’re building into all of our games the ability to pay for things along the way, either to get to a higher level to buy a new character, to buy a truck, a gun, whatever it might be," Jorgensen announced last week. And naturally – perhaps due partly to the weapons crafting system in Dead Space 3 – many construed “ability” as the gamer’s ability to pay for additional content “along the way,” which of course would require an active microtransaction system to already be in place....

Fortnite Season 6 is now in its seventh week and a new set of Epic Quests were recently added in-game. One of these challenges requires players to find and mark all mythic weapons in Fortnite Season 6. While finding weapons of uncommon, rare, and epic rarity is easy, finding mythic weapons in Fortnite Season 6 is quite difficult. This is because most of the mythic weapons are entrusted with the Spire Assassin NPC in Season 6....

After the release of Minecraft 1.6.1 and the subsequent inclusion of name tags, the developers saw an opportunity to create lasting Easter eggs in the form of using name tags on certain mobs. Naming certain mobs, such as sheep and rabbits, specific names can affect the mob’s in-game appearance and behavior. These little extras add a bit of fun to the player’s world as they discover each name tag Easter egg in Minecraft....

RELATED: Forgotten PS2 Simulation Games Obey Me! is a romance simulation and card game in which the player plays as an exchange student at Devildom’s underworld academy. Untangle the complicated web of ties that exists between seven devil brothers, participate in vibrant card-based battles, and ultimately become the master who rules them all. Whether the player is solely interested in the beautiful firstborn Lucifer or wants to be the target of Mammon’s hunger, the game offers it all....