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nytimes.com - Chris Vannini - Latest NBA 2K video game to feature active college players for first time in 16 years
Latest NBA 2K video game to feature active college players for first time in 16 years
The New York Times

For the first time in more than 16 years, active college basketball players are returning to a major video game. On Wednesday, 2K Sports revealed 16 college additions for MyTeam and MyCareer mode in NBA 2K26, the first part of what is expected to…

nytimes.com - Michael Russo - Sidney Crosby injured in Canada's Olympic hockey quarterfinal game, won't return
Sidney Crosby injured in Canada's Olympic hockey quarterfinal game, won't return
The New York Times

Crosby left Canada's Olympic hockey quarterfinal game during the second period with an apparent injury and has not returned. Bruce Bennett / Getty Images MILAN — Sidney Crosby, the future Hall of Famer and hero for Canada in the 2010 Olympic…

bbc.co.uk - BBC Sport - Celtic boss Martin O'Neill on 1000 games, Stuttgart test & his future
Celtic boss Martin O'Neill on 1000 games, Stuttgart test & his future
BBC

Celtic boss Martin O'Neill has been speaking to the media as his side prepare for Thursday night's Europa League play-off first leg against Stuttgart. Here are the main points from his news conference:…

gizmodo.com - Cheryl Eddy - The 'Game of Thrones' Prequel Play Is Officially Happening
The 'Game of Thrones' Prequel Play Is Officially Happening
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

As the Stranger Things play has shown, audiences will eagerly go to the theater to get a new perspective on the stories they've seen on TV—or in the case of Game of Thrones: The Mad King, seen on TV and read about in George R.R. Martin's…

nytimes.com - Austin Green - Winter Olympics 2026 live updates: The latest from Day 12 of the Games including snowboarding and Mikaela Shiffrin in alpine skiing
Winter Olympics 2026 live updates: The latest from Day 12 of the Games including snowboarding and Mikaela Shiffrin in alpine skiing
The New York Times

The 2026 Milan Cortina Games continue today with nine more gold medals up for grabs. We have medal events in women's freestyle and alpine skiing, women's and men's cross country skiing and men's slopestyle snowboarding. And in men's hockey, the…

bbc.co.uk - BBC Sport - Wolves vs Arsenal predictions: Chris Sutton on Premier League game
Wolves vs Arsenal predictions: Chris Sutton on Premier League game
BBC

Wolves ran Arsenal close at the Emirates in December, when Mikel Arteta's side needed a 94th-minute own goal to get the win. Whenever the Gunners drop points now, they will have people questioning their bottle, but I don't think last week's draw at…

pcgamer.com - Lincoln Carpenter - Videogames are 'losing in the War for Attention': Analyst says many of the industry's biggest markets are spending less time on gaming
Videogames are 'losing in the War for Attention': Analyst says many of the industry's biggest markets are spending less time on gaming
PC Gamer

Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your…

theguardian.com - Keith Stuart - ​T​he ​Winter Olympics ​feel like a 90s ​snowboarding ​game​, and I'm here for it
​T​he ​Winter Olympics ​feel like a 90s ​snowboarding ​game​, and I'm here for it
The Guardian

As someone whose childhood holidays consisted of narrowboating along the Grand Union canal or wandering the harbour-side at Whitby looking for vampires, I have never been on a skiing break. The idea of plummeting down a hill on anything but a…

dailymail.co.uk - Oliver Salt - 49ers to break NFL mileage records as Mexico game is added to schedule
49ers to break NFL mileage records as Mexico game is added to schedule
Mail Online

READ MORE: San Francisco 49ers star shot in the ankle after Super Bowl event The San Francisco 49ers are set to become only the second team in NFL history to play two different international games in a single season after being chosen to play in…

zdnet.com - Kyle Kucharski - Cloud gaming on a Chromebook? Absolutely - here's a budget option I recommend
Cloud gaming on a Chromebook? Absolutely - here's a budget option I recommend
ZDNET

The Acer Chromebook Plus 516 GE is available now for $549. Its bright, 120Hz display plays nicely with a solid processor, making it fast, responsive, and optimized for cloud gaming. Despite being a gaming Chromebook, the keyboard isn't great.

sfgate.com - Gabe Fernandez - The grim future of all-star games happened in San Francisco, twice
The grim future of all-star games happened in San Francisco, twice
SFGATE

In back-to-back years, San Francisco was the host for two underwhelming exhibition games featuring the greatest athletes in the world. While one was a shrugged-off sideshow of a much larger competitive spectacle, the other was the latest example of…

newsweek.com - Justin Grasso - 76ers have concerning Joel Embiid update before Hawks game
76ers have concerning Joel Embiid update before Hawks game
Newsweek

The Philadelphia 76ers don't have a positive update for Joel Embiid coming out of the NBA All-Star break. According to a team official, the veteran center will miss Thursday's game against the Atlanta Hawks. His status beyond that remains in…

gamesindustry.biz - Nate Head - Remote working down, mid-level contraction, and Eastern migration: the signals we're seeing in games job data
Remote working down, mid-level contraction, and Eastern migration: the signals we're seeing in games job data
GamesIndustry.biz

Nate Head is chief sorcerer at the gaming jobs platform Sorcery.gg. Sorcery.gg has been collecting a deep pool of hiring data across the games industry over the past year, tracking the availability of roles at over 620 studios. The overall story…

nytimes.com - Hailey Salvian - As U.S. women's hockey enters gold medal game, Hilary Knight prepares for Olympic farewell
As U.S. women's hockey enters gold medal game, Hilary Knight prepares for Olympic farewell
The New York Times

MILAN — After the U.S. women's hockey team punched its ticket to the Olympic gold medal game, American forward Hayley Scamurra got emotional. It wasn't because of the result — a dominant 5-0 win over Sweden in the semifinals —…

gizmodo.com - Kyle Barr - PC Gaming on Macs Is About to Become Very Real, but Not Thanks to Apple
PC Gaming on Macs Is About to Become Very Real, but Not Thanks to Apple
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

The age where players can ignore gaming on Mac may be coming to an end. Third-party devs using open-source software are providing what Apple can't— or won't —offer gamers: access to all their games from their regular PC launcher. With…

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