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Guard Caitlin Clark #22 of the Iowa Hawkeyes listens as the crowd cheers after breaking the NCAA women's all-time scoring record during the game against the Michigan Wolverines at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on February 15, 2024 in Iowa City, Iowa. Matthew Holst | Getty ImagesWomen's sports reached an inflection point in 2023, propelled by major new broadcast deals, once-in-a-lifetime players and record-breaking audiences that dramatically changed the sports landscape.From Caitlin Clark fever in Iowa to a packed house of 92,000…

If you’re looking for a more constructive way to deal with a ruined wasteland, Terra Nil now has a date for Nintendo Switch. Devolver Digital is bringing the eco-strategy game from developer Free Lives (BroForce) to Nintendo’s platform on December 18. Terra Nil previously made the rounds on PC, iOS, and Android (via Netflix) back in March. Devolver Digital shared a quick trailer to go along with the Switch news. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twvl1akxYsg In Terra Nil, players are tasked with doing the opposite of…

Going green Everything on the earth is a wasteland. All is left to dust and ash, and by the time the player enters the frame in Terra Nil, all that’s green is gone. There is nothing left to do but rebuild. And it’s in restoring nature, in unpacking the very idea of a city-builder, that Terra Nil finds a smart twist on a traditional foundation. It’s fun to think that the same team behind Broforce and Genital Jousting made Terra Nil. It’s not that I don’t think a studio that’s made games about bros and dicks can’t also…

Netflix is still making a hard push into the gaming market despite its round of layoffs last year. There are still Netflix-exclusive games coming to the mobile market, and the latest one is called Terra Nil, according to Android Police.In case you don’t know, Netflix has a library of games on the Google Play Store and the iOS App Store. These are developed by several companies and they’re typically high-quality. If you want to play these games, you need an active Netflix subscription on the device.Terra Nil is like…

Most city-building games play out the same way. You start with an empty stretch of land and slowly start filling it up with roads and houses. In no time, that blank canvas becomes a thriving metropolis filled with shops, skyscrapers, and power plants that are most assuredly doing a number on the atmosphere. It’s rare that we ever get to take a different approach, using that plot of land to create spaces that aren’t explicitly for humans. That’s where Terra Nil swoops in. Terra Nil - Reveal Trailer Developed by Free…

Build it up and tear it all down Most city-builders are about expanding and growing. The goal is to take a natural, untamed world and bend it to your benefit, turning the realm into a humming machine for resources and production. Terra Nil, however, does the inverse. Rather than creating a monument to your designs, Terra Nil is a reverse city-builder from BroForce studio Free Lives. It asks you to take the barren, scorched earth and fill it with life. You restore the grasslands, let water flow down canals, and crack the…

Ray Winstone, plays RayI’d briefly met Gary Oldman at film-maker Alan Clarke’s funeral in 1990 and later received a message saying he wanted to see me. We met on the steps of the Royal Court theatre in London, where I was working. With a coffee in hand, he told me all about this incredible piece of work he’d written, and how much he’d like me to do it. What a compliment that was, coming from someone like Gary Oldman.Nil By Mouth is a harrowing story about a dysfunctional family. I play Ray, the abusive husband of Val,…

The virus that causes COVID-19 probably shared an ancestor with bat coronaviruses more recently than scientists had thought. But finding the direct ancestor of SARS-CoV-2 is very unlikely, say researchers. The full genomes of SARS-CoV-2 and several closely related bat coronaviruses suggest they shared a common ancestor several decades ago. But the viruses are known to swap chunks of RNA with each other, a process called recombination, so each section has its own evolutionary history. In the latest analysis, presented at…

Twenty-five years ago, Gary Oldman opened an artery of anguish with his brilliant, wrenchingly emotional debut as writer-director inspired by his own father and his childhood in south London, positioned between Terence Davies and Martin Scorsese. The title conveys with horrible force both violence and the cost of violence. “Nil by mouth” is what you see over an intravenously fed patient’s hospital bed – and yet the phrase is also a metaphor for the dad’s dysfunction, the walled-off emotional aridity; nil by mouth, no…

LeBron James’ eldest son Bronny, a senior at California high school basketball powerhouse Sierra Canyon, has inked a deal with Beats By Dre.Beats announced the partnership on Monday with an ad titled “The Legacy Continues,” which features LeBron and Bronny playing basketball and wearing two of the company’s signature wireless headphones, Beats Fit Pro and Beats Studio Buds.The Los Angeles Times reports the deal, which has been in the works for some time, “will make James a brand ambassador,” who will be “featured in…