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EA unveils FIFA’s new look and warns of marketing blitz for the ages
Social media ad blitz launched to urge tenants to complain about poor social housing
Putin’s allies call for London to be ‘turned to dust’ after Ukraine said it would use Brit missiles to blitz Crimea
KREMLIN propagandists have called for London to be “turned to dust” after Ukraine said it would use Brit missiles.
The deranged ranting was part of a nightly show dedicated to pro-war discussion on state TV that’s hosted by a notorious Putin acolyte.
Tonight’s show featured discussion of a report in The Sun saying Kyiv said it would use the Storm Shadow missile if the UK was willing to provide it.
At one point host Vladimir Solovyov point bizarrely raised his hand as if to cast a spell, then stared manically at the screen and said: “London will turn to dust! To dust.”
Mad Vlad’s mouthpiece, his face twisted with rage, then switches to English and begins shouting: “Burn in hell!” and “Flames!”.
Solovyov was responding to one of the panellists who moaned: “The British press is saying ‘We’ll give them hell! I’m quoting verbatim frim their most popular paper The Sun.
“They all regard this as completely fine – ‘Russians can and need to be killed’. They’re saying that constantly.
“There’s one problem with Russians. They won’t give up as easily as that.”
The clip and its translation was tweeted by BBC Monitoring, which regularly posts on pro-Kremlin propaganda shows.
Volodymyr Zelensky asked for the 600mph missiles when he visited the UK recently with a shopping list of weapons.
Ukrainian defence sources Kyiv would be prepared to use the missiles to strike Crimea
It followed a warning from Zelensky that longer-range weapons from western allies would allow Ukraine to take the battle to areas occupied by Russian.
“It will allow us to make the evil completely retreat from our country by destroying its airbases deep in the occupied territories,” he said during his visit.
In response, Rishi Sunak said “nothing is off the table” when it comes to military support for Ukraine.
The government is still is still weighing up whether to send deadly Harpoon anti-ship missiles or surface-to-air Storm Shadows to arm Ukrainian defenders.
After Germany finally agree to send tanks, Solovyov, and other Kremlin propagandists threatened nuclear strikes on the West.
In a similar rant he claimed it meant Germany had joined the war.
“It’s time to send a clear, resolute message that we now consider Germany a direct party to the conflict, rekindling memories of World War Two.
“German tanks appearing [in Ukraine] will definitely mean we consider German territory, military bases and other sites as legitimate targets.”
Raging Moscow TV pundit Yevgeny Satanovsky said warheads should be launched on the German capital Berlin and the country’s parliament, the Bundestag.
“Flat, slightly radioactive, melted-down ground [will remain in its place].”
Ukrainian defenders are bracing for an assault that could include 1,800 tanks, 3,950 armoured vehicles, 400 fighter jets and 300 helicopters incoming from Russia.
However, NATO’s Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg, has said that Russia has already launched its new offensive and was “sending more troops, more weapons, more capabilities”.
Ukraine has been monitoring the military build-up as they continue to plea for Western support.
The UK could send Harpoon missiles to Ukraine[/caption]
Storm Shadow missiles are usually deployed from fighter jets[/caption]
World Chess Champ Magnus Carlsen Also Wins World Blitz and Rapid Chess Titles
Now CNN reports that five-time world chess champion Magnus Carlsen “won both the World Rapid and World Blitz chess titles in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in the latest landmark of his glittering career.”
The 32-year-old Norwegian is now the holder of all three world chess championship titles — in Classical, Rapid and Blitz — for the third time in his career, while no other player has ever won both the Rapid and Blitz titles in the same year.
“Gonna need more hands soon,” Carlsen joked on Twitter, posting a video of himself counting his now 15 world titles on his fingers.
It caps a triumphant end to Carlsen’s remarkable decade-long reign as the classical world champion, as he has already announced that he will not defend his title next year.
Chess24 reports that for his first three-minute match, Magnus Carlsen showed up two and a half minutes late — and starting with just 30 seconds left on his clock, still beat his opponent.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
NFL Blitz comes back, without the late hits, in arcade form
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NFL Blitz returns in a thrilling new package via Arcade1Up – but the league really needs to get over itself
NFL Blitz, one of the best sporting video games ever created, is finally making a comeback in a remastered form thanks to the home arcade company Arcade1Up – marking the first new entry in the wider Blitz franchise since 2012, and the first re-release of the 90s classics since 2001.
Blitz really is something special. I suspect some of the readers of VG247 may not have even been alive when these games first released, but they’re basically the ultimate in arcade sports, alongside NBA Jam (which happens to have been headed up by some of the same development staff).
In short, Blitz takes the sport of American Football and dials everything up to 11 – making it faster, sillier, and more full-on. It was designed to provoke intense competition between friends in the arcade. And also, of course, drain you of your coins. There were a few iterations in arcades and on console between 1997 and 2001, but later entries lost much of what made the originals special.