But not everything that is old is new again. The gameplay on display in Final Fantasy 16 seems to closely resemble Final Fantasy 15 and Final Fantasy 7 Remakes’ action-oriented combat systems. At time of writing, there is no evidence as to whether the game will make use of menu-based combat or ATB bars at all. This begs a simple but potent question: What hallmarks from past Final Fantasy titles should make a comeback?...
But even though smartphone gaming is putting a dent in the Big N’s console sales, last year Nintendo said that “the spread of smart devices does not spell the end of game consoles. It’s not that simple… It doesn’t mean that we should put Mario on smartphones." In 2012 CEO Satoru Iwata said “Nintendo would cease to be Nintendo” if the company started developing games for smartphones. After hinting at it last month, Nintendo has now announced a partnership with mobile games maker DeNA....
Some of these new features have been discussed before. For example, some classic PS1 games will have save states and rewind features. And now it’s been confirmed that some of these retro games will have trophy support as well. So far only one of the classic PS1 games coming to PS Plus Premium has been confirmed to have trophy support, but it could be a sign that more of them will incorporate trophies....
So why are Heymann and his peers singing such a different tune? Because classical retailers have been the best at exploiting the potential of online revenue. The biggest companies of the classical genre are now earning about 20 percent of sales from digital music, double or triple the average for other categories. This is a tremendous advantage for them, as selling music in the digital format can be twice as profitable as it is offline....
Quick switch to British choreographer Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, currently playing to sold-out crowds and standing ovations at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. No trembling here; in fact, there’s no Odette, and no undulating lines of swan maidens. This lakeside scene is full of men–massive, fierce male swans, with bare chests and legs wrapped in feathers, prowling and lunging, flexing their backs, ripping the air with their arms as ff wings were weapons....
In front of 12,472 fans who came out to Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, the Dodgers ace gave up two runs and four hits in 4 1/3 innings Thursday during his rehab start for Triple-A Oklahoma City. He threw 61 pitches against the San Antonio Missions, the Brewers’ top farm club, and also walked two and struck out six as he settled into a groove. MORE: Watch ‘ChangeUp,’ a new MLB live whiparound show on DAZN...
The biggest contentious incident from Pakistan fans’ point of view on Day 3 was the dismissal of Yasir Shah, who was run out by a combination of Chris Woakes’ arm and Jonny Bairstow’s elbow. With the lead at 70 runs, Sarfraz Ahmed called Yasir Shah for a second run but the No. 8 was always going to struggle to make his ground. He put in a leap at the end of the run, the third umpire was called into play, and he was given out – despite the ball never having actually touched the stumps....
The Clemson coach got the Drake treatment after the Tigers’ 58-0 destruction of Miami on Saturday. MORE: Best of Week 8 | Scoreboard | What we learned from Clemson’s blowout win This isn’t the first time Swinney has busted out the moves in the locker room. He did a dad version of the “Whip/Nae Nae” after Clemson beat Louisville earlier this season. Dabo seems like a fun guy — just don’t bring up “Clemsoning....
Defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence chose Clemson on Monday afternoon over North Carolina and N.C. State, among others. MORE: Reason to watch every bowl | Clemson’s road to playoffs The 6-5, 330-pound lineman out of Wake Forest High School (Wake Forest, N.C.) is a five-star prospect, according to 247Sports.com. Lawrence is the second five-star player to commit to Clemson, joining RB Tavien Feaster out of Spartanburg, S.C.
But Clemson isn’t most schools, and the competition Kelly Bryant will face this offseason is more than talented enough to challenge for the starting position in 2018. MORE: Alabama, Ohio State lead QB battles in 2018 Clemson coach Dabo Swinney has a tough decision in choosing his starting quarterback for 2018: The incumbent Bryant, sophomore Hunter Johnson — the No. 2 pro-style quarterback in the Class of 2017 — and early enrollee Trevor Lawrence, the No....
The better news: Cleveland’s best player says the worst is truly behind this downtrodden franchise following Saturday’s 20-17 home win over San Diego. “First of all, we’ve got Hue Jackson,” Browns left tackle Joe Thomas told Sporting News in a postgame telephone interview. “He’s an outstanding head coach who has proven that he can win and develop quarterbacks and offenses in a number of different places. That’s a big reason for optimism....
The Cleveland Cavaliers are off to a good start in the campaign with five wins from nine games so far. The Cavs are at the 7th position in the Eastern Conference, tied with their game rivals, the Milwaukee Bucks. The Cavaliers will aim to build on their 94-90 win against the Grizzlies in their previous fixture. On the other end, the Milwaukee Bucks have not played at their best this season....
Francona expressed his view at the end of a week in which the MLB side announced they would consider changing their nickname, which is considered to be racially insensitive. The franchise dropped their Chief Wahoo logo from their game jerseys and caps two years ago because it was deemed offensive. “I think it’s time to move forward and not just say ‘it’s a very difficult subject’,” said Francona. “I’ve been thinking about it and been thinking about it before we put out that statement....
The Cavaliers will host the game for the third time after 1981 and 1997, with the initial plan to run for the 2021 game pushed back because of delays in the renovations of Quicken Loans Arena. Cavs owner Dan Gilbert said of the announcement: “We are proud to host NBA All-Star weekend in Cleveland in 2022. “We have been working with the NBA, the city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County to deliver this iconic event to Northeast Ohio for the last couple of years....
Bleszinski mused that “when people follow your career from a beloved series such as Gears on Xbox,” it would have made more sense to continue working with the crowd that supported him, referring to the fans of Microsoft’s Xbox One. He continued, “yes, it WAS a mistake putting LawBreakers on Playstation over Xbox.” RELATED: CliffyB Says One Reason LawBreakers Failed Was Because It Was Too Woke LawBreakers was the maiden title of development studio Boss Key Productions, formed by Bleszinski and fellow Epic Games alum, Arjan Brussee....
The personal piece has been elusive for him. As good as his campaign is, it has not been easy for Illinois’s junior senator to dig a little deeper into his psyche and share himself with voters. Maybe he figures he’s already done that with the coming-of-age memoir he published at age 33. But if he’s to survive the assault on his character from Reverend Wright and assorted others—including, of course, Hillary Clinton—he needs to be more forthcoming....
News that 76-year-old Giuliani was taking part in the popular Fox singing show broke out in February. But when the former mayor of New York and attorney to Donald Trump was unmasked in the episode of The Masked Singer aired on Wednesday night—and revealed to be the ‘Jack in the Box’—judges on the show, as well as the public in studio, looked stunned. Giuliani appeared smiling out of a bizarre-looking costume of a rainbow-feathered bird with a crested chicken head (which The Daily Beast’s journalist Marlow Stern aptly described as “the face of the Jigsaw puppet”)....
Following an offseason that included an intense fight to sign Kawhi Leonard — one that ruffled a few feathers within the Lakers organization after Leonard took his time and ultimately picked the Clippers — the LA teams continued their off-court battle by chasing similar trade and buyout targets. Both organizations know their rosters are far from perfect, and that’s what made the past two weeks so important. MORE: Biggest winners and losers from NBA All-Star weekend...
Coming off a loss to the Utah Jazz, the Clippers responded by crushing the Sacramento Kings 105-87 on Tuesday. Unsurprisingly, their star duo led the way as Leonard had 24 points and George finished with 21 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists. The Rockets’ two main stars guided Houston to a 130-104 thrashing of the Denver Nuggets on New Year’s Eve. Harden had 35 points and Westbrook finished with 28 to go with seven assists and three rebounds....
The Clippers are looking less like the Hollywood thriller they were billed to be during the offseason and more like a Greek theater tragedy. A 91-80 loss to the Raptors on Sunday was the Clips’ seventh in their last nine games after going 4-0 to start the season. MORE: Biggest disappointments early in the NBA season | Warriors tie best start in NBA history The losing appears to have already begun taking its toll....
