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Final Fantasy XIV’s Make it Rain Gold Saucer event starts June 3

June 3 through June 20 Final Fantasy XIV‘s Make it Rain Gold Saucer event kicks off very soon, and will last the better part of June 2022 when it does. As another seasonal event, this one will let players unlock the “show left” and “show right” emotes, which will come in handy during a raid post-win photo session. The gist is that during the runtime, you’ll get 50% extra MGP rewards from the Gold Saucer, and some prizes are available for cheaper: “The Crystal Tower striker, Monster Toss machine, Cuff-a-Cur machine,…

Constant rain and a “control panel” are being used on ‘Cricket 22’ pirates

Anyone trying to pirate Cricket 22 is being caught out after reporting their errors to the game’s forums, with more fake problems in store for the pirates. This comes from developer Big Ant Studios’ founder and CEO Ross Symons, who took to Twitter recently and talked to Kotaku about how the team has fun when combatting players who pirate their games. When asked about the game’s piracy protection measures after reporting a 300 per cent jump in Steam sales, Symons said: “It turns the screen white. We also have other things…

Weather-weary Manitoba braces for more rain as it cleans up flash-flood damage

Article content WINNIPEG — Manitoba is preparing for more rain as it cleans up from flash floods and other destruction caused by an extremely wet spring. Article content Infrastructure Minister Doyle Piwniuk says heavy rain in the western part of the province over the weekend caused fast-moving floods that seriously damaged five bridges. He says the cost of repairs will be substantial. Fisaha Unduche, the executive director of hydrologic forecasting for the province, says water levels in most of the rivers and…

Singin’ in the Rain at 70: Hollywood’s show-stopping musical remains a winner | Singin’ in the Rain

Singin’ in the Rain was not exactly conceived as a masterpiece. Arthur Freed, head of the musicals unit at MGM, had a back catalogue of songs – not all of them classics – that he’d co-written for various films at the studio between 1929 and 1939, and had the idea of stringing them together as a song score for a single new musical. Screenwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green were hired to cobble a story around the disparate tunes; Howard Keel, a stolid bass-baritone in the MGM stable who had acquitted himself respectably…