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Between its anime art style, free-to-play business model, and action RPG gameplay, Blue Protocol has long invited comparisons with HoYoverse’s hit gacha game Genshin Impact. But that’s as far as the similarities between the two seem to go, since Blue Protocol was actually envisioned as a full-fledged MMO that’s way too complex to be played on a touchscreen and hence won’t be releasing on mobile devices. Based on the promotional materials that Bandai Namco shared to date, Blue Protocol seems to be much closer to Sega’s popular 2012 MMORPG Phantasy Star Online 2 than Genshin Impact....

The trademark for Pac-Man Maker was filed on April 18th with the European Union Intellectual Property Office. Further details on what the project will entail are unavailable at this time, but its name does seem to suggest that it will allow fans to create their own Pac-Man mazes. That’s just speculation, and we will have to wait for further comment from Bandai Namco before we can say definitively what Pac-Man Maker is one way or another....

In case you didn’t know… Neil McKenzie started off as an opener for South Africa but soon converted into a middle-order reliable. After some good performances since his debuting year of 2000 to late 2003s, he found his way out of the Proteas team after lack of form started plaguing him. He came back to the team in early 2008 as a replacement to Herschelle Gibbs and forged a potent opening combination with Graeme Smith....

After registering their first ever series win in West Indies, they started the T20I series on a high. They lost the first game but bounced back superbly in the later matches. The experienced duo of Shakib Al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal helped their team post a decent total in the second match which was defended nicely by their bowlers. In the series decider, it was Liton Das’s magnificent knock of 61 which set it up for them and later bowlers did their job....

Both teams have played 14 Test matches against each other with scoreline slightly favouring the visitors at 6-5. While these two last faced each other in a Test match in November 2014 at Chittagong where Bangladesh registered a comprehensive 186-run win. Zimbabwe will begin this series as underdogs and are unlikely to trouble Tigers. Bangladesh Bangladesh have not been able to replicate their 50 over success in Tests, As a result, they have won just 10 out of 108 Tests they’ve played till date....

And as websites supporting the indiscriminate sharing of content grows, and new generations of privacy-conscious citizens opt for websites promoting anonymity, authoritarian governments across the globe are calling for tighter controls. Here, we run through some of the biggest tech bans from across the globe. Read next: The biggest data breaches 2018. Twitch in China Twitch – a streaming service used by millions daily – has been banned by the Chinese government....

At a rally in Michigan, Obama was interrupted by a heckler as he was speaking about the recent attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi. As Obama called for elected officials to “explicitly reject” dangerous rhetoric from their supporters, a man yelled out at him. What the man said to Obama was not immediately clear. “This is what I mean,” Obama said in response. Addressing the man, he continued: “Sir, we’ve got a… there is a process that we set up in our democracy....

Barca thrash Real Sociedad to reach Copa semis Having broken their Anoeta curse with a 1-0 win in the first leg, Luis Enrique’s side were in a strong position ahead of this second match and even without Andres Iniesta and Sergio Busquets, they rarely looked troubled by the Basque visitors. Denis Suarez, who netted his first senior Barca goal at Eibar on Sunday, added another two here, while Lionel Messi converted from the spot after a foul on the impressive Neymar, Luis Suarez scored his 20th of the season and substitute Arda Turan tapped in from close range late on....

Liverpool started the game off brightly as they pressed the home side relentlessly and almost forced an error from their defense. But after the first stutter, the Blaugrana grew into the game and ended the first half as the dominant side. After the break though, Liverpool had the upper hand and they looked destined to equalize until a certain Argentinian stepped up to the plate and delivered for everyone watching....

The attacking trio have been called up by head coach Zinedine Zidane for the opening match of Madrid’s LaLiga season. However, Eden Hazard is not in the 22, having sustained a muscle injury this week. Bale’s future at the club has been in doubt for some months and he appeared set to join Jiangsu Suning in the Chinese Super League only for the deal to fall through. James has also been tipped to leave the Santiago Bernabeu, although reported interest from Napoli and Atletico Madrid has not materialised into a transfer....

Bale threw his future at the club into doubt after last month’s Champions League final win over Liverpool, expressing his unhappiness over a lack of game-time under Zinedine Zidane. The Frenchman has since left the club, with former Spain head coach Julen Lopetegui in the hot seat for the 2018-19 season. Bale’s agent, Jonathan Barnett, has suggested Lopetegui will need to find a regular place for the attacker or he could seek to leave the Santiago Bernabeu....

“One is Neymar, and the other is Gareth Bale. For marketing I think Neymar is No?1. But playing football for me, it’s Bale. He is maybe not as well known, but he’s an incredible player. He’s made to play for Real Madrid. He can do anything and like Ronaldo he can play anywhere, so he has all the qualities to play for a club like Madrid.” – The Telegraph...

The Frenchman was rewarded for a magical 2021/22 season in which his team won both Spain’s La Liga and the UEFA Champions League and he finished as the top scorer in both competitions. He also won the UEFA Nations League with France. It had been a foregone conclusion for months that Benzema would win the award as best player in the world given there was realistically no other player who came close to his achievements and trophy haul....

Man Utd must make Griezmann their next Pogba-esque signing Balotelli played the full 90 minutes at Stade Armand-Cesari and on Saturday took to Instagram to express his anger at alleged abuse he received from the home fans during the match. The former AC Milan, Liverpool and Manchester City striker claims “monkey” noises were directed towards him, and brandished the situation “horrible”. Along with a solid black image, he posted: “Yesterday the result against Bastia was right....

In an op-ed published by The Washington Post, Marilyn Mosby, the state’s attorney for Baltimore City and Larry Krasner, the district attorney for Philadelphia, accused President Donald Trump of seeking to draw attention away from his handling of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. with his federal crackdown on unrest in Portland and now, in other cities. “Desperate times produce desperate measures. President Trump, sliding in the polls, flailing as COVID-19 cases surge, has sought a distraction by sending federal law enforcement officers into Portland,” the attorneys wrote....

Temba Bavuma was the top scorer with his patient 54 runs innings. It was all about Bangladesh after the tea. The visitors lost their last 9 wickets for just 112 runs. The debutant and star of the recently concluded one-day international series, Mustazifur Rahman troubled the Proteas most as he cleared their middle order single-handedly in the afternoon session by scalping 4 wickets. Spinner Jubair Hossain picked 3 wickets in the end to finish the South Africa’s innings....

The weather has been the same since Day 2, with play being called off for the past few days due to a reported cyclone in the city. Bangladesh will resume play on Day 5 on 246 with two wickets still left in the innings. 0 votes

Overcast conditions, green patches on the surface, a pace attack brimming with condifence and then an unrelenting bowling performance. All summed up perfectly, all perhaps just the way it was meant to be. The West Indian bowling attack, led by the pace and precision of Kemar Roach, sliced through the Bangladesh batting line-up at Sir Viv Richards Stadium in Antigua in the first game of the two-match Test series....