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The Sun Daily
April 27, 2018
SHAH ALAM: Police have identified the man who rented a car to the suspects in the killing of Palestinian lecturer Fadi M. R. Albatsh. The suspects had left their motorcycle at Taman Tasik Danau Kota and gotten away in a rented Proton Saga. The car was found yesterday at around 2am in the Taman TasikÃâà...
KTLA
April 27, 2018
Tom Brokaw Calls Sexual Harassment Accuser 'Character Assassin' With Grudge Against Network. Posted 1:25 PM, April 27, 2018, by CNN Wire, ... And he believes he is the real victim. In the letter, which was sent to several colleagues, Brokaw said Vester is a "character assassin" with a "grudge against NBC News.".
The Sun Chronicle
April 27, 2018
NORTH ATTLEBORO — Local school officials are condemning a student-led activity known as “senior assassin” saying the game, which pairs students with a target to “assassinate” via water gun or silly string, can be dangerous and mocks violence in an age where school shootings are already soÃâà...
Kotaku
April 27, 2018
From there, we'll embark on a journey through our unusually exciting first six months with Assassin's Creed Origins. ... numbers-based RPG leveling system and dropped many of the interesting gameplay experiments (support assassins, grappling hooks, city takeover, pirate ships) of past games. There wasÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
April 26, 2018
Comedies about depressed actors are hardly new. Remember Ricky Gervais in Extras, slouched at the edges of sets populated by an endless parade of preening narcissists. More recently, in Netflix's Master of None, we have watched Aziz Ansari become disillusioned by the prejudice and hypocrisy heÃâà...
PC Gamer
April 26, 2018
The Animus control panel for Assassin's Creed Origins arrived this month, and it lets players cheat their butts off. Turn on godmode, do more damage, enjoy unlimited adrenaline, level up to max, make yourself stealthier, bring back the days of one-hit assassinations no matter your enemy's level—all byÃâà...
Haaretz
April 25, 2018
Twelve bullets hit Dr. Fadi al-Batsh, an electrical engineer from Gaza's Jebaliya refugee camp, on a street in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The two assassins rode a motorbike; first it was said to be a BMW. Yesterday it was updated to a Kawasaki. Al-Batsh lectured at the university and dealt, according to reports,Ãâà...
Irish Times
April 19, 2018
Just look at the special relationship each assassin has with their firearm as Nicholas Pound's Proprietor – presented as a cross between a scary clown and a moving target – invites them into this purgatorial shooting gallery of American history on Everybody's Got the Right. To quote another musical, theyÃâà...
Digital Trends
March 25, 2018
A television adaptation of the popular video game franchise is in development, and it's likely to meet the expectations of a generation of Street Fighter fans. The team behind the live-action web series Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist will produce the new TV series with enthusiastic support from Capcom.
British Theatre
March 25, 2018
Stephen Sondheim's Assassins at the Pleasance Theatre It also seems especially pertinent in the wake of the recent mass shootings across the Atlantic. The show does not seek to glamorise the perpetrators (as some claimed before it first opened in 1990), but shows them as damaged and tragic figuresÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
March 24, 2018
The Gaza Strip's Hamas-run Interior Ministry says it has “clear evidence” implicating the perpetrators of a failed assassination attempt on Palestinian Prime Minister Rami al-Hamdallah. “We have documented evidence -- including video and audio -- that will soon be produced in this regard,” leading HamasÃâà...
Push Square
March 23, 2018
This is a genuinely interesting twist for the series, as every other instalment has celebrated the spillage of Templar blood rather than pitching the Assassins as the problem. It feels like a deconstruction of all our expectations, as the game asks tough questions about the Assassin order and its notions ofÃâà...
RollingStone.com
March 23, 2018
Last year marked the tenth anniversary of Assassin's Creed, the popular Ubisoft franchise that spans multiple games and console generations. But as with the historical events they depict, the path to reaching that milestone had some twists and turns - as well as a few failures.
Free Malaysia Today
March 21, 2018
US: As Greek god Kratos swaps his homeland for a mythic Scandinavia in April's “God of War,” it appears that the “Assassin's Creed” franchise has set its sights on an Ancient Greek stop-off. The follow-up to Ancient Egyptian action adventure “Assassin's Creed Origins” will step into an Ancient Greek setting,Ãâà...
Gameranx (blog)
March 21, 2018
The 'Curse of the Pharaohs' expansion includes one curious new enemy type — giant scorpions. Assassin's Creed: Origins, despite the ancient setting, isn't too mystical. Mostly, you'll fight human opponents and worldly threats. Not so much in 'Curse of the Pharaohs', where Bayek traverses the after-life,Ãâà...
BNN
March 21, 2018
Ontario Teachers' has agreed to acquire 3.8 million shares in the company, which produces games including Assassin's Creed and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, while Chinese internet giant Tencent is to buy 5.6 million shares. The rest are to be bought by Ubisoft and cancelled, or sold to existingÃâà...
Twinfinite
March 21, 2018
The story of Assassin's Creed: Rogue takes place between 1752 – 1760. As is typical of the series, the main narrative focus pertains to the war between the Templars and the Assassins, which takes place across locations: New York, the Hudson River Valley, and the North Atlantic Ocean. Much of the storyÃâà...
NDTV
March 21, 2018
It would be coming to the PS4, Xbox One, and PC, leaving the Nintendo Switch out of the mix. According to a report from Comicbook.com citing multiple sources "linked to Ubisoft", Greece was slated to be a part of 2017's superlative Assassin's Creed Origins but during development, Ubisoft decided to useÃâà...
CBR
March 21, 2018
Cullen Bunn has written a number of Deadpool titles prior to Assassin, including Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe, Deadpool: Killustrated and Deadpool Kills Deadpool. Best known for his work on Ultimate Spider-Man, Mark Bagley has provided artwork for books like Fantastic Four, Hulk, All-New X-MenÃâà...
The Guardian
March 20, 2018
'I began to feel I had only scratched the surface of this story' … Sean Penn. Photograph: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images. Actor Sean Penn's debut novel, Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff – an expanded version of a 2016 audiobook he wrote under the pen name of “sociopath” Pappy Pariah and narratedÃâà...
The Australian
March 19, 2018
Governments are finding new ways to justify killing enemies on foreign soil. Share on Facebook Ãâ÷ Share on Twitter Ãâ÷ Share on email; Share more... Share on Google+ Ãâ÷ Share on Reddit Ãâ÷ Share on Whatsapp; Print this article. X. By The Economist; March 19th, 2018; 8 min read. Assassins were involved in 298 attacks onÃâà...
Kotaku
December 31, 1999
It also flips many of the series' gameplay systems over. In previous AC games, for example, you're an assassin who might hide in a hay cart and then jump a Templar who passes by. In this one, you're the Templar walking down the street, wary of assassins in hay carts or dropping down from rooftops.
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