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Posted in: Comics, IDW, Preview | Tagged: my little ponyDive into the mane event as My Little Pony: Kentucky Roller Derby #2 races into stores - it's not horsing around!Published Tue, 27 Feb 2024 19:26:07 -0600 by Jude Terror | Article Summary My Little Pony: Kentucky Roller Derby #2 races into stores with derby drama on Feb 28, 2024. Issue #2 skates into action with high stakes and hard-hitting roller derby fun. Casey Gilly & Natalie Haines deliver another heart-pounding pony adventure. …

Bob Baffert and his owners have elected not to transfer any of their promising 3-year-olds to other trainers in order to make them eligible for this year’s Kentucky Derby. So, it’s not just Baffert who will be missing from the most well-known horse race in the world, there also won’t be any Baffert horses.“Nobody is going to transfer their horses,” Baffert told The Times. “I just remain focused on training my horses and competing in the big races.”Baffert is in the midst of a two-year ban, that was inexplicably extended…

Posted in: Comics, IDW, Preview | Tagged: my little ponyGet ready for tail whips and horseplay in My Little Pony: Kenbucky Roller Derby #1. Will the ponies survive the derby drama?Published Tue, 16 Jan 2024 11:27:07 -0600 by Jude Terror | Article Summary My Little Pony hits the roller derby circuit in issue #1, releasing January 17th. The story gallops along with Sunny forming her own roller derby team. Expect high jinks and friendship-fueled action, true to My Little Pony form. LOLtron's botched…

Besides the Big Bang itself, gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic events in the universe. Astronomers knew of a few mechanisms that can produce them, but now an oddball GRB hints at a brand new origin – a stellar “demolition derby.”As the name suggests, gamma ray bursts are intense pulses of gamma radiation that fire off in beams like a lighthouse. The most common cause is when a massive star collapses into a black hole, but they also occur from collisions between binary stellar remnants – like neutron stars or…

An international team of astrophysicists led by Radboud University in the Netherlands discovered a novel mechanism that destroys stars and generates a gamma-ray burst (GRB). (Artistic illustration of a gamma-ray burst.) Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick/M. ZamaniAstrophysicists have discovered a new mechanism for star destruction and gamma-ray burst generation, originating from stellar collisions in the dense environments near supermassive black holes in ancient galaxies. This finding,…

Yay or neigh? Cygames revealed Umamusume Pretty Derby: Nekketsu Hachamecha Dai Kasha-sai as part of Japan’s Nintendo Direct yesterday, but there was little indication of its release plans. The publisher has now confirmed that the game will be coming to North America as Umamusume: Pretty Derby – Party Dash. The pixel art visuals are cute, but what grabbed my attention is the obvious nods to the Nekketsu/Kunio-Kun series. There are four events in this party Grand Prix: Hurtling Hurdles, Blazing Baskets, Dodgeball…

South Korean gaming company RisingWings, an independent studio of BGMI-maker Krafton has opened pre-registration worldwide for Defense Derby. This mobile title is its upcoming real-time strategy defence mobile game. The pre-registration for this game is available on Google Play, Apple’s App Store and Samsung’s Galaxy Store.Defense Derby: Pre-registration details Pre-registration for Defense Derby will remain open until its official launch. The mobile title is set to arrive later this year. Those who pre-register will…

RisingWings, an independent studio of BGMI-maker Krafton has announced the early access test records for its real-time strategy defence mobile game “Defense Derby”.The early access test lasted from April 27 to May 11 in India along with Korea, Thailand and Taiwan and saw the participation of 19,600 users with a playtime of over 81,500 hours.The game features a new system and modes such as “Guardian's Journey”, “Guardian Level” and “Derby Free Fight – Mirror Match”, which were not available in last year’s global…

The death count at Churchill Downs grew to six in a week and a half when Chloe’s Dream, a 3-year-old gelding, was injured in a maiden race, vanned off the track and then euthanized.There were no details of the exact cause of the injury. It was yet another black cloud over a sport that has been wrestling with safety and perception issues. In addition to the six deaths, a trainer was suspended because of two of the deaths and five horses were scratched from the Kentucky Derby.The incident occurred in the second race, a…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. —  Everybody loves to be in a Kentucky Derby pool, especially if you have 19 friends, or 19 people you think are your friends. You’ve gone to a neighbor’s house, usually one who was raised in Kentucky but for whatever reason thought living elsewhere was a better idea.Honestly, your chances are 1 in 20. Imagine being the person who got stuck with Rich Strike last year, a horse that got into the Derby only when another horse scratched out. Oh, yeah, he won 80-1.But whatever your reason, whatever your…