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Normally it’s $14.99 When Golf Story was released in September 2017, folks expected big things from Sidebar Games’ follow-up. While Sports Story didn’t deliver, the original is still perfectly preserved on the Switch eShop, and worth checking out. Like now, during its current sale for five bucks. If you haven’t played it yet, the summary does a pretty good job of getting the point across: “Golf Story combines the sheer excitement of golf with a serious story that plays out over 8 different courses. Play the story…

The BBC has made its mind up: it’s Bucks Fizz all round for the corporation’s coverage of the Eurovision song contest as members of the band appear in various Eurovision-themed programming.Ahead of the contest next month, the BBC announced that Cheryl Baker, a member of Bucks Fizz who won Eurovision for the UK in 1981, will appear in special episodes of EastEnders and Bargain Hunt, while her bandmate Jay Aston will appear in an episode of the quizshow Pointless.The broadcaster will air a week-long cluster of programmingin…

Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who’s ready for a take on the tragic plane crash trope that doesn’t owe anything to “Lost.”As Jason Katims tells staff writer Yvonne Villarreal in this week’s Guest Spot, his new series, “Dear Edward,” may begin with a similar animating incident as Damon Lindelof’s broadcast classic and successors like “Manifest” and “Yellowjackets,” but — as will be no surprise to Jason Katims fans — goes in a very different dramatic direction. Also in Screen Gab No. 69, a tribute to the…

So far, it’s fair to say Quantumania is a condition that’s been mostly localized to hardcore MCU fans, but the signs are pointing to it truly going viral as we head ever nearer to the opening chapter of Marvel’s Phase Five. Yes, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is now just five weeks away from premiering on the big screen, and after relatively muted hype for it so far, anticipation is now ratcheting up ahead of the new trailer’s release. Especially since the threequel has just gone and bucked an age-old MCU curse that…

Starting next year the highest-grossing drug of all time, AbbVie ABBV 0.14% ‘s Humira, will finally face competition from copycat biologics in the U.S. Yet the makers of the complex generics known as biosimilars won’t necessarily be the biggest winners. The top beneficiaries could instead be the middlemen such as Cigna CI 1.27% and CVS Health, CVS…

NASHVILLE —  If things ever go sideways in her career as a country singer, Ashley McBryde has a solid backup plan in place: a reality series starring her and Martina McBride, the veteran country star so frequently mistaken as a relative that McBryde owns a website — isashleymcbryderelatedtomartinamcbride.com — whose only purpose is to serve up Merriam-Webster’s definition of “no.”The show would be called “McBridesmaids,” its premise simple yet rich with potential. “We’d just go around and crash people’s weddings,”…

Last updated: October 5th, 2022 at 15:00 UTC+02:00 Samsung has a limited-time deal on a few Odyssey gaming monitors in the United States, including the G7, the Neo G8, and the brand-new Odyssey Ark — winner of CES Innovation Awards 2022. The Odyssey G7 (G70A), released in 2021, is now available at Samsung in the USA for $579, down from $799. This $220 instant saving is available for a limited time, so you may want to hurry up if you’re in the market for a fast, 144Hz UHD 4K gaming monitor with G-Sync, FreeSync…

TOKYO—The U.S. dollar’s rise to a 24-year high against the yen is great news for Japanese savers who put a chunk of their retirement nest eggs into dollar-denominated assets.The biggest such saver is the Japanese government. Now it faces decisions about what to do with its windfall—including whether to sell some of its dollar stash. Tokyo’s piggy bank is called the Government Pension Investment Fund, the world’s largest of its kind with assets equivalent to $1.34 trillion as of June 30. That is about three times the size…

If the prospect of flying electric taxis zooming to and from major airports via an app sounds like a pie in the sky, try not to tell United Airlines.On Thursday the airliner announced a $15 million investment into electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle startup Eve Air Mobility along with a conditional purchase agreement for 200 of the firm’s so-called flying taxis. United’s betting big on these helicopter-like, supposedly zero-emission electric aircraft to revolutionize mid-length urban air travel. Whether or not…

Mumbai, Online higher education platform upGrad on Monday said it has raised $210 million (about Rs 1,670 crore) in a round that saw participation from ETS Global, Bodhi Tree, Kaizen Management Advisors and others -- at a time when the Indian edtech companies are busy sacking employees amid the ongoing funding winter.Founder Group also invested $12.5 million in the funding round to maintain their over 50% ownership in upGrad, the company announced.The edtech company said it is on track to record annual gross revenue of…