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Bubba Chandler’s MLB debut Friday night at PNC Park was the latest chapter in the sociological experiment that is Pittsburgh Pirates baseball. The Pirates are last in the National League Central because they unequivocally belong there. Despite leading MLB with 15 shutouts. The Pirates have scored fewer runs than any team in MLB. Their team OPS ranks last. Their offense …

Ubisoft has confirmed new DLC is on the way later this year for 2023’s Assassin’s Creed Mirage. The free new content will feature a new story chapter and an unspecified number of missions set in 9th century AlUla, an ancient Arabian city. Ian goes hands-on with Assassin’s Creed Mirage.Watch on YouTube Ubisoft also confirmed the update will bring gameplay improvements …

A cow’s tooth buried alongside Stonehenge has thrown light on how the ancient stone circle in Wiltshire, UK was formed. According to new research published earlier this month, the animal may have been born in Wales, supporting the theory that cows or oxen could have moved the enormous stones across the country to the Stonehenge site at Salisbury Plain. Scientists …

Raphael Bob-Waksberg has left behind the shield of talking animals in “Bojack Horseman” and “Tuca & Bertie” to deliver a deeply personal family animated sitcom called “Long Story Short,” a 10-episode Netflix comedy that plays more like a powerful short story anthology than a traditional season of laugh-inducing television. With his writing team, Bob-Waksberg jumps around chronologically in the lives …

Announced yesterday, Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield in the asymmetric stealth horror game Halloween: The Game from Illfonic and Gun Interactive, which is dedicated to immersing players in the chilling and iconic world of John Carpenter’s original Halloween. What sets this horror franchise-based game apart from recent games including The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Killer Klowns from Outer Space? …

A big reason that BoJack Horseman worked so well was contrast. It took place in a silly world of talking animals, and used that to explore deep human drama in relatable ways. It’s part of what made its oddball jokes work so well, as they helped balance out the darker moments that explored topics like mental health and addiction. The …

I thought Ron Howard couldn’t get any darker than his 2003 Western The Missing, but with his latest Eden he comes pretty close. This is a true story and Howard’s film, a 15-year passion project of his to bring to the screen, follows the real details fairly closely, something easy to check since filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine made …

While other characters and conflicts are glimpsed in the new trailer for Fallout: Season 2 – factions like the Brotherhood of Steel, Caesar’s Legion, the embattled denizens of Vault 33, and, oh look, a Deathclaw! – it’s the literal journey of Walton Goggins’ Cooper Howard, aka The Ghoul, that serves as the teaser’s narrative throughline. In the trailer, The Ghoul’s …

Amanda Knox in a hotel in West Hollywood. Mandalit del Barco/NPR hide caption toggle caption Mandalit del Barco/NPR Amanda Knox was just 20 years old in 2007 when she made headlines as the American exchange student in Perugia, Italy, whose British roommate Meredith Kercher was found dead in their apartment. Knox spent four years behind bars, convicted and reconvicted of …

Khamzat Chimaev took the UFC middleweight title from Dricus du Plessis at UFC 319 on Saturday night with a performance so effortlessly dominant that simply calling it a victory via unanimous decision doesn’t quite say it. Even looking at the judges’ scorecards fails to capture how lopsided the fight was. All three judges had it 50-44 in favor of the …