The mantra of the new Anthem trailer is, “Our World, My Story,” which refers to the fact that players will interact with a shared world that belongs to everyone. Presumably, this refers to the missions of Anthem, which appear to be scripted in nature. Everyone experiences these missions in a similar fashion, either solo or with co-op partners. The “My Story” part comes in when players return to Fort Tarsis....
Players found the Cortex item “What Does It All Mean?” on the northern edge of the map, and while its text may have been at first overlooked and accepted as just another piece of in-game lore before the news of Anthem’s development problems, it is now hard to read it without connecting it to the issues that BioWare’s developers experienced on the project. One of those reported issues was that Anthem spent years of its development in limbo without any clear direction on the game with new ideas cropping up and then those ideas changing again and again, including meetings where no decisions were made, leaving developers confused about what exactly to be making....
Davis tied his career-high of 43 points but it wasn’t enough to keep the Pelicans from losing to the Hawks 121-115, dropping their fifth straight game to start the season. MORE: Biggest disappointments of the NBA season so far The All-Star forward came in to the game shooting below 40 percent on the season but hit 14 of 23 field goal attempts and 14 of 16 free throw attempts in the loss....
Scientists in the U.K. say early evidence suggests the new strain—dubbed the “B.1.1.7 lineage” or “VUI–202012/01—is better at infecting people, but does not appear to be more deadly. Fauci, a White House coronavirus task force adviser and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, addressed the new strain on PBS NewsHour Monday. “We have to make that assumption [that it has arrived in the U.S.]” said Fauci....
Joshua is aiming to reclaim the IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight titles after suffering a shock loss — the first of his professional career — at the hands of replacement opponent Ruiz last June. Join DAZN to watch Ruiz vs. Joshua 2 and 100-plus fight nights a year Having dropped his rival earlier in the round, the Briton was sensationally floored in the third. He was also knocked down twice in the seventh, leading to the contest being stopped....
Joshua expected to have his long-awaited showdown with WBC champion Tyson Fury to determine an undisputed champion. However, an arbitrator ruled in favor of Deontay Wilder to get his third fight with Fury before Joshua could. Instead of waiting to see the outcome, Joshua decided to step into the ring with a dangerous opponent in the form of WBO No. 1 contender Usyk. The undefeated Usyk (18-0, 13 KOs) is a highly decorated champion that captured Olympic gold in 2012, turned pro a year later and became the fourth male boxer in history to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC, WBO and IBF titles....
Ali Nazari, the spokesperson for the National Resistance Front forces now besieged by the Taliban in Panjshir valley, said his group is the last hope for the West to take on transnational militant groups looking to once again use the Taliban-held country to attack targets abroad. “Afghanistan is going to become a hotbed for international terrorism,” Nazary told Newsweek. “The last allies that the United States and the Western world have on the ground that are willing to fight international terrorism — and we are fighting international terrorism right now, all alone, for which we feel abandoned — is the National Resistance....
Britney Taylor, Brown’s former trainer, last week filed a civil lawsuit against him in Florida, claiming he sexually assaulted her three times over two years, allegedly raping her in 2018. Brown denied the allegations, while the NFL opened its own investigation. On Monday, Sports Illustrated ran a story from a second woman, who came forward on the condition of anonymity. She claimed to have worked on a mural for Brown at his house in 2017 after he had been impressed by a portrait of the then Pittsburgh Steelers star....
The mercurial wide receiver is seeking to recover approximately $30 million in guaranteed money he says he’s owed by the Raiders, but that effort took a hit during the grievance’s discovery process, ESPN reported Sunday. The Raiders submitted multiple text messages from Brown to team owner Mark Davis, asking for his release, according to ESPN, which cited unidentified sources. The Raiders, who acquired Brown in trade from the Steelers in March, obliged him on Sept....
According to a statement, which the group posted on Pastebin earlier this week, it plans to attack 13 DNS servers that ensure URLs such as google.co.uk are translated into the IP addresses that host these websites. “To protest SOPA, Wallstreet, our irresponsible leaders and the beloved bankers who are starving the world for their own selfish needs out of sheer sadistic fun, On March 31, anonymous will shut the internet down,” the group said in the statement....
This guy was no Eliot Ness. He wasn’t even Leslie Nielsen. He was strictly Mr. Magoo. I had not thought of him at all for years until I read the book of FBI Special Agent Gary Aldrich. I don’t know what book by Aldrich practically everyone else has been reading with all their earnest journalistic wondering about the authenticity of this story and that. Because of the sloppy, undisciplined way it’s written the whole thing is suspect to me, even some of the scandalous parts I might well believe if they weren’t being presented in this incorrigibly flawed way....
It would seem like the 49ers would want to keep the venerable veteran, given they have a mostly unproven mix behind top wideout Torrey Smith. But it’s clear Chip Kelly thinks he’s OK operating his offense without Boldin. Despite being 35 and turning 36 in October, Boldin still has a lot left to offer as the best free agent in the league left this offseason. He’s coming off catching 69 passes for 789 yards and four TDs....
On a cursory level, Anthem can be described as a shared-world shooter in the vein of Destiny or The Division, as it allows one to team up with other players to obtain loot and get better gear by blasting and bombing enemies with the use of different Freelancer character loadouts. Those who delve into it a little deeper, though, should find that BioWare’s ability to craft beautiful fantasy and sci-fi environments still exists, as does the developer’s propensity to deliver solid story elements and world-building, albeit in truncated and jumbled forms....
Very little is known regarding the planned Anthem pre-launch demo at this point, which is likely why fans are so excited about more information. Anthem’s executive producer Mark Darrah recently commented that he was hopeful the demo would feature all of the game’s four Javelin classes, for example. Concrete details on both the demo’s content and its likely release date are hopefully part of what’s “coming soon.” The last bit of information confirmed regarding the pre-launch demo is that any progression made within the demo will not carry over into Anthem’s full launch....
Key among the changes is the addition of a respawn timer for all missions. In main story missions, agent missions, and non-end game missions, players will only have to wait 10 seconds until they can respawn, whereas in all end game missions, Strongholds, and Legendary Contracts, the respawn timer is set at 30 seconds. This should alleviate those instances where players were stuck staring at a red screen while waiting for a revive, and usually left waiting for a while....
Davis, a Black man, became famous for coaxing members of the Ku Klux Klan away from their racist beliefs through patient dialogue, collecting along the way the robes of dozens of KKK members who renounced their beliefs due, in part, to his intervention. He has converted Grand Wizards and stood up to racist attacks. But in his latest Reddit Ask Me Anything—a form of Q&A, in which people can submit and vote for questions they’d most like to see answered—Davis emphasized that the problem of white supremacy extends far beyond the KKK....
But while Feucht and other Christian media outlets such as the Christian Broadcasting Network claimed that 35,000 to 40,000 people attended the event, local news reporters with WUSA9 estimated the largely maskless crowd only to be in the “hundreds.” The event, which went from 4 to 8 p.m. local time, featured Feucht and other musicians as well as on-site prayers and baptisms. Republican Missouri Senator Josh Hawley also made an appearance on stage to pray for then-Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett....
Republican Voters Against Trump released the advert titled “Country First” on YouTube on Thursday morning, and have picked up a little more than 10,000 views at the time of writing. The campaign spot is largely made up of snippets from McCain’s 2008 Republican National Convention speech contrasted with remarks from President Donald Trump both in office and on the campaign trail. “A word to Senator Obama and his supporters,” McCain says in the advert’s opening clip “Despite our differences, much more unites us than divides us....
Kathleen Toomey, the commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health, said she recently learned some health care workers helping to vaccinate members of the public against the virus have received threats and harassing emails. A mobile vaccination event held last weekend was forced to shutter after protesters aimed threats at the on-site workers, she said. “This is wrong. This is absolutely wrong,” Toomey said. “These people are giving their lives to help others and to help us in the state....
“I think it’s the visibility,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Newsweek. “[There’s] more eyeballs on the process than has ever occurred in the past. Vaccine development in the past has been very obscure. There has not been much transparency and the first time people hear about vaccines is when the CDC recommends them. “This time because of the pandemic and because there’s a lot of people for the first time saying we may be forced to take this, that a lot more people are looking at it....
