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U.S. prosecutors are dropping felony fraud charges they brought against a former chief executive of ice cream maker Blue Bell Creameries LP in the wake of a 2015 listeria outbreak that led to three deaths.   As part of a settlement reached Wednesday, Paul Kruse, Blue Bell’s CEO from 2004 until 2017, will plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge over food safety violations. He will pay a $100,000 fine and avoid jail time, according to a plea agreement filed in…

What a month! Microsoft has announced their Xbox Game Pass schedule for March, 2023, and it’s a doozy! In addition to Guilty Gear Strive‘s debut on the platform, we also have Dead Space 2 and 3 coming on March 9. Although Dead Space 3 has its own set of problems (and microtransactions), the second core entry in the series is fantastic, and often heralded as the best in the franchise (like, uh, right here!). It’s also perfect to head straight into after playing through the Dead Space remake. Shifting gears a bit, …

Kept you waitin’ huh? One of the most chaotic and dynamic fighters of the current age, Guilty Gear Strive, is now ready to rock on Xbox and PC (Windows) platforms, following on from its initial 2021 release on PlayStation and Steam. Arc System Works’ dazzling anime fighter can be purchased in standard digital form for around $40 USD from the Microsoft Store or downloaded via paid subscription service Xbox Game Pass. For those who wish to get fully up to speed, then an “Ultimate Edition”, complete with Season Pass 1…

Hey Yo, (yo) Guilty Gear Strive superstar Bridget is the latest beloved gaming character to join Good Smile Co’s “Pop Up Parade” range of affordable figurines. The yo-yo swinging scrapper is available to pre-order now at Good Smile Co. and other anime-lovin’ toy stores. Produced by legendary merch-makers Max Factory, Pop Up Parade Bridget stands a little under seven inches in height and is rocking her modernized Guilty Gear Strive look — standing in a cute ‘n’ coy pose with her “Tricky Spinner” in hand. Like her…

Yuji Naka has pleaded guilty to insider trading charges filed last fall. The Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator has admitted to violating Japanese financial law by buying shares in the game studio Aiming before its team-up with Square Enix on Dragon Quest Tact became public. Naka admitted to making a profit over 20 million yen (about $150,000) after selling his investment. He hasn't yet received a penalty for the illegal trade. The veteran developer signed on with Square Enix in 2018, but abruptly left soon after his one…

Lil Mosey has been found not guilty of rape.Mosey and an associate named Joshua Darrow, who goes by Band Kid Jay, were facing second-degree rape charges stemming from an alleged incident during a party in Randle, Washington in 2021.The accuser alleges she went with an unidentified friend to meet the now-21-year-old Seattle rapper at a cabin where the two engaged in consensual sex. She claims to have blacked out at one point, and woken up with Mosey pulling her legs apart to have sex with her again.Mosey was ordered ahead…

Last Updated: March 02, 2023, 13:08 ISTImage used for Representation. (Photo: Reuters)The Air Canada crew found one litre bottle of Bacardi and a water bottle containing a liquid smelling strongly of alcoholAn Australian-Indian man pleaded guilty to one count of behaving in an offensive and disorderly manner in an aircraft, and was fined AUS$750 by a local court this week.Hardik Patel, 46, from Rooty Hill in western Sydney, became aggressive and abusive onboard a 15-hour Air Canada flight from Vancouver due to heavy…

Court cases involving former FTX executives, like disgraced CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, continue.Image: Michael M. Santiago (Getty Images)While FTX collapsed just a few months ago, the fallout of the defunct crypto exchange is still developing. Today, FTX’s former director of engineering Nishad Singh pleaded guilty to six counts of fraud and conspiracy as court cases into FTX higher-ups continue.As detailed by Reuters, the counts include one count of wire fraud, three counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one count of…

A third member of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle pleaded guilty to fraud charges and agreed to assist federal prosecutors, expanding the pool of cooperating witnesses against the former head of the failed crypto exchange. Nishad Singh, the company’s former director of engineering, pleaded guilty to six criminal counts, including conspiring to commit securities and commodities fraud, during a hearing Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan.  “I’m…

Nishad Singh, a co-founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange , has pleaded guilty to US federal fraud and conspiracy charges. Singh, who was FTX's director of engineering, is the third member of Sam Bankman-Fried's inner circle to agree to cooperate with prosecutors in the case against him. Former executives Caroline Ellison and Zixiao "Gary" Wang previously pleaded guilty to fraud charges. Singh pleaded guilty to six criminal counts, including wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the US by violating campaign finance…