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It doesn’t take a lot deductive talent to pay homage to PBS’ Sherlock (2010-17), the excellent British tribute to the enduring detective staff of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. Up to date to modern London, the collection earned Emmys for each Benedict Cumberbatch because the good eccentric title character and Martin Freeman because the Military surgeon turned loyal aide …

The assembly’s dissolution will set the stage for general elections later this year. Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s National Assembly will be dissolved on August 9, three days before the completion of the five-year parliamentary term, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said. Sharif made the announcement during a dinner hosted for the members of his ruling coalition on Thursday, a senior …

Image: Infinity Ward Call of Duty now alerts players when a cheater has been removed from their lobbies. The change comes as part of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Warzone 2.0’s season five content expansion, which released August 2, and as a new part of developer Infinity Ward’s Ricochet initiative to limit cheating. Why The Hot New Redfall …

A24 will be releasing its first movie musical later this year and it looks hilarious! Dicks: The Musical features an ensemble cast that includes rapper Megan Thee Stallion, SNL‘s Bowen Yang and Broadway legends Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally. Here’s the synopsis: Two self-obsessed businessmen (writers and stars Aaron Jackson & Josh Sharp) discover they’re long-lost identical twins and come …

Bloomberg: How Vietnam became a gaming powerhouse a decade after Flappy Bird; data.ai: Vietnam was in the global top five in mobile game production by downloads in H1 2023  —  – Flappy Bird inspired generation of hit game developers  — Privacy regulations pose risk for ad-dependent casual games

“China’s flood control network has a pecking order of protection giving priority to big important cities like Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai, with the lowest order of importance being rural areas. Under China’s system, at the bottom are the ordinary people in the city and those in the countryside whose interests are not respected,” he said.

Baldur’s Gate is estimated to clock in at around 100 hours on a first playthrough. Review copies were distributed this past Sunday morning; this first draft you’re reading was due the following Wednesday. I am, sadly, not a Time Wizard (yet), so I’m going to do my best to help you make a day one buying decision based on what …

Ben Affleck had packed almost a century-worth of “Batman” mythos into a shelved DC script, according to former storyboard artist Jay Oliva. Oliva, who left DC in 2017, teased in a recent interview with Inverse that Affleck’s take on “Batman” would have been an unprecedented interpretation of the Caped Crusader superhero. “I can’t really say too much other than it …

Team, We’ve worked toward this release date for well over a year, and soon we’ll experience a full product launch. Of all the stretches, the home stretch can be the hardest, so I want to share some learnings from past launches to help you stay motivated through the next phase. We can do this! First, and most important: I need …

A Russian court is expected to issue a verdict on Friday in a trial of Aleksei A. Navalny, the jailed opposition leader, on charges of supporting “extremism,” a ruling that could extend his time in prison by up to two decades. Mr. Navalny, whose anticorruption investigations criticizing the Kremlin drew popular support and infuriated Russia’s top leadership, is already serving …