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Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is putting up big sales numbers in the UK, even outpacing Bandai Namco’s Elden Ring by some measurements. For its first week of physical game sales in the UK, the Skywalker Saga had the biggest launch in Lego game history, toppling the previous owner, Lego Indiana Jones (2008) by 8.4%. A specific unit sales number for The Skywalker Saga was not divulged. Come from Sports betting site VPbet
For physical sales, The Skywalker Saga is now the second fastest-selling game so far in 2022 in the UK, only behind Pokemon Legends Arceus. It sold better than Elden Ring and Horizon Forbidden West (and all other physical games in the UK) over its first week in the UK for boxed copies.
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Update: The score now reflects the Xbox One version of Thumper, and the review text has been amended to reflect our experience with the Switch version. Please scroll to the bottom to find the updated content.
Despite recent efforts to revive brands like Rock Band and Amplitude, there’s a general sense that we’ve been there and done that when it comes to rhythm games. The staleness of the genre was a concern going into Thumper. It’s a game that runs on rails, where you have to time button presses to match a beat that grows increasingly fast and complex over time, with the primary gimmick being that it’s layered with trippy visuals. But those details don’t tell the whole story. Thumper is like most rhythm games you’ve played before, but it’s also a powerful, moving experience–especially in VR–that stands out as something completely different from its forebears.
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E3 2022 isn’t taking place this year, but numerous companies have stepped up to fill June with press conference-style events promising news, reveals, trailers, and gameplay for a wide variety of upcoming games. We’ve already gotten through most of them, but a few major companies have yet to confirm events.
It’s possible more events could still be confirmed–Nintendo has yet to announce its plans for a Direct, which we typically expect to see every June. Sony recently held a State of Play, but that wasn’t focused on its non-VR first-party lineup. There’s still time for that to happen, of course. Here’s the remaining lineup:
- Overwatch 2 Event: June 16, time TBD
- Final Fantasy VII Celebration: June 16, 3 PM PT
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Direct: June 22, 7 AM PT
- Focus Entertainment Showcase: June 23, 9 AM PT
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Looking for a deal on a Switch Lite? You can buy a refurbished model on eBay for just $169 while supplies last. Considering the portable console retails for $200, and brand-new models aren’t always on shelves, this is a great way to grab the handheld-only version of Nintendo’s wildly popular system at a discount Come from Sports betting site VPbet . At the time of writing, the deal offers coral and turquoise color options (while supplies last) and all units are listed as “Excellent” condition, come in the original packaging, and include the standard Switch Lite USB-C adapter.
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In the American state of Oregon and an aboriginal student group has reportedly called for a boycott of the Dutch Bros chain of drive-through coffee shops following the emergence of a plan that could see the western jurisdiction’s Grants Pass Downs horseracing facility transformed into a miniature commercial casino.
According to a Saturday report from The Corvallis Advocate newspaper, the Native American Student Union for the University of Oregon is pushing for the embargo after billionaire businessman Travis Boersma (pictured) via his TMB Racing enterprise recently applied for official permission to site some 225 historical horserace wagering machines at the Josephine County development to essentially create a private casino.
Heightened hostility:
Boersma reportedly co-founded the New York-listed Dutch Bros enterprise in 1992 with the company now said to be running over 500 drive-through coffee shops spread across eleven western American state…
Strive Gaming, one of the fastest growing platform providers from North America, keeps expanding across multiple US states. The company’s unique point of view and modern solutions will be available to Four Winds Casinos thanks to the recently signed deal between two industry leaders.
Great opportunity for Four Winds:
Strive Gaming will be able to provide players from Michigan with its cutting-edge platform solutions through the leading online gaming services in Michigan. The owner and operator of the renowned Four Winds Casinos is the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians of Michigan and Indiana, so this expansion is a great opportunity for the tribe to expand its business even further.
Four Winds Casinos are very popular in the US, especially in the midwestern part
Simone Biles Reveals Why She's "Not Doing" Botox Ever Again
Simone Biles is not flipping over a cosmetic procedure she had done earlier this year.
The Olympian shared a negative experience she had with Botox after getting the injections done for her 27th birthday in March.
“I did not like it,” Simone confessed in a video posted to TikTok Aug. 2. “I haven’t got it again”
As for why the gold medalist wasn’t a fan? She recalled a “funny story” about one of the side effects of the procedure, which consists of injecting a prescription drug called botulinum toxin into facial muscles to temporarily prevent them from moving, according to Mayo Clinic.
“I would be standing at practice and then my eyebrow would be slowly going up like this,” she explained while noticeably arching her right eyebrow. “[My teammate] would be like ‘Simone, your eyebrow’s doing it again!’ I’m like, ‘I feel it.’ I couldn…
Olympic Gymnast Mary Lou Retton Addresses Health Battle
For Mary Lou Retton, the 1984 Olympics yielded a sisterhood that has lasted 40 years.
So the gold medalist could not help but be moved to tears when she was surprised with a special videotaped message from all five of her former teammates—Michelle Dusserre, 55, Pam Bileck, 55, Tracee Talavera, 57, Julianne McNamara, 58, and Kathy Johnson, 64—on the Kelly Clarkson Show July 25.
Dusserre said she was glad Retton, who was hospitalized last fall with a rare form of pneumonia, was feeling better, adding, "Keep getting better."
Johnson, meanwhile, told Retton, "We have your back. Always have, always will. You got this."
As for how Retton, 56, reacted to the moment? Emotional, the retired gymnast called the video "so special."
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Documentaries aside, few American filmmakers will attempt making any sort of overt political statement these days. If your money is coming from a streamer or a larger studio, forget it. Gone, long gone, are the days a Francis Ford Coppola or an Alan Pakula might venture to make a picture like The Conversation or All the President’s Men. Even Jonathan Demme’s remake of John Frankenheimer’s great 1962 political chiller The Manchurian Candidate is now 20 years old, though both films have turned out to more prescient than anyone would have believed two decades ago, or six—you could consider them quasi-documentaries.
Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice, which premiered here in Cannes on May 20, arrives at just the right time. And if it isn’t a great movie, it’s at least a fascinating and thoughtful one, an even-handed film that doesn’t need to resort to extremes to paint an accurate picture of what America and the world are up against right…