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Apex Legends Season 17: Arsenal is nearly here, with less than 24 hours to go before the new season–and all of its wild new features–become available to the playerbase. But with all the focus on the seasonal update’s meta-altering changes and Apex’s stylish new legend, it can be easy to miss the limited-yet-fascinating information we have on Season 17’s upcoming plot developments.
Players have, of course, gotten to know Season 17’s new legend, Ballistic, quite well. From the suggestion that he may be taking an anti-aging medication created by Silva Pharmaceuticals to the revelation that Pathfinder was once his housekeeper, players already know Ballistic is full of surprises. But Respawn says even more impactful lore is on the way this season.
During a Season 17 preview event attended by GameSpot, Respawn’s team of developers walked attendees through everything there is to know about Ballistic, including details about his design (animating his jacket was surprisingly difficult) and his personality (“James Bond meets John Wick”). But during the post-preview Q & A session, Respawn answered one of our questions with an intriguing surprise: A “lore bomb” is about to drop in Apex Legends.
After a slight delay, the cel-shaded platformer Bomb Rush Cyberfunk finally has a release date: August 18th. It’s been a long wait for Cyberfunk after it was first announced in 2020, and to make the wait even more excruciating, the game is a spiritual successor to the dormant Jet Set Radio series. As such, you’ll be skating, dancing, and graffitiing across a colourful 3D city with a style to die for.
SHOCKING footage shows a woman who allegedly killed a Kremlin blogger with a booby-trapped statue smiling hours before she was arrested.
Vladlen Tatarsky, 40, was killed by a bust of himself that detonated in a Russian cafe on Sunday during an appearance in St Petersburg.
Daria Trepova can be seen smiling in the footage[/caption]
She was allegedly seen on the run hours after the blast[/caption]
Vladlen Tatarsky, 40, unknowingly enabled his own assassination[/caption]
He was reportedly handed the deadly gold-coloured figurine by alleged anti-Putin bomber Darya Tryopova, 26, who was arrested today.
Russia released a supposed confession video showing the blonde, with cropped hair, admitting her role in the bomb plot.
Now, footage released by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation shows the moment Tryopova entered an apartment building with a large suitcase and shoulder bag.
She can be seen smiling as a man opens a door for her, before the video cuts to show her arrest by Russian police.
Cops said she travelled around the city by taxi for four hours before arriving at the apartment block, Russian media reports.
Local newspaper Izvestia claims that Tryopova bought a ticket from Pulkovo airport – but never arrived for her flight.
On Monday, Russia released a supposed confession video.
When asked to explain why she is being detained, Tryopova says: “I’d put it this way, for being at the assassination side of Vladlen Tatarsky.
“I brought there the statuette that exploded.”
She was then pressed to reveal who supplied her with the devastating explosive, to which she replied: “Can I tell you later?”
Tryopova is alleged to have posed as an admirer while attending the creative event, while carrying the explosive in a cardboard box.
CCTV footage captured a suspect strolling past the café clutching the package, before entering the venue owned by mercenary warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the brutal Wagner Group.
In a cruel twist of fate, eyewitnesses claim Tatarsky effectively signed his own death warrant by welcoming Tryopova and her lethal gift.
Security at the café had questioned the blonde upon her arrival and told her to leave the box at the door after they asked: “What if it’s a bomb?”
Tryopova is alleged to have described herself as an “artist” and explained she “wanted to show the heroes of Putin’s special military operation”.
It is claimed that she struck up a conversation with the popular blogger before retrieving the package from a coat cupboard.
One attendee claimed the suspect had used the fake name Nastya to get close to Tatarsky before handing him the TNT-laced statue.
Video captured the moment she handed the box to Tatarsky, who held it approvingly before placing it down.
Alisa Smotrova said the pro-Kremlin pundit had insisted on seeing the bust, despite concerns from security.
Discussing the encounter she claims to have witnessed, she told KP.ru that Tatarsky had asked his alleged killer’s name during the seminar.
Alisa explained: “She said: ‘Nastya. I want to give you a sculpture because I study at the sculpture department at the Academy of Art.
“He said: ‘Well, fetch it.’ She said: ‘They told me at the entrance, ‘What if it’s a bomb? So I left it there’.
“Well, everyone here laughed. She said: ‘Well, shall I bring it?’ He said: ‘Yes, bring it’.
“She came, brought this box and went to the stage. She gave it to him.”
The bystander claimed that Tryopova then became reluctant to engage with him and sit closer after he invited her to.
Alisa continued: “She says: ‘Oh, I’m so shy’. He said: ‘Sit closer’.
“She sat closer to the window, and said: ‘Well, I’m here on the chair’.
“They took out the sculpture, it’s a golden head in a helmet. Well, I don’t even know if it looks like Tatarsky.
“He put it down there without a second thought and then continued asking questions [to his seminar audience].
“And suddenly an explosion and smoke… We were sitting in the second part of the hall. Everyone ran.
“Those nearby, of course, were already covered in blood and ran away. The windows exploded too. We ran to the exit.”
Just three minutes after the exchange, Tatarsky was dead after the statue that contained up to 450 grams of TNT erupted.
Police told RBC media that “the explosion was at a height of 60 centimetres from the floor.”
Its capacity was 300 to 450 grams of TNT and it went off “to the right of Tatarsky.”
Tryopova is said to have fled the scene and was reportedly booked on a flight from Pulkovo Airport to Turkey hours later – but never showed up for it.
A fireball explosion tore through the café, injuring 30 and sending shards of glass blasting into the street.
Footage of the aftermath shows people attending to bleeding victims outside the façade of the collapsed café.
State media said 19 of the 30 caught in the St Petersburg blast were taken to hospital. Eight people remain in a serious condition.
Tryopova was busted at a rented flat close to the scene on Monday by the FSB and Investigative Committee, according to local media.
As she was led away in handcuffs from the residential complex, she reportedly said: “I was set up. I was just being used.”
The first picture of Tryopova after her arrest showed her with cropped blond hair, suggesting she had cut it to disguise herself.
Cops are still hunting her alleged Ukraine-born accomplice Maria Yarun, 40, although some reports say she is in hospital after the blast.
Officials are now said to be scouring through Tryopova’s conversations in a private web chat, according to Telegram channel VCK-OGPU.
The messages reportedly suggested she had come to St Petersburg from Moscow late last week and intended to fly abroad – to Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, via Istanbul.
The former shop worker had breakfast with her friend on Sunday and sent her a message following the explosion.
Tryopova wrote: “I could have died there, I’d rather have died there, I was set up.”
Darya Tryopova, 26, admitted she brought him the statue in a confession vid released by Russian authorities[/caption]
The pro-Putin blogger is said to have asked the blonde to sit closer to him at the event[/caption]
The cafe was destroyed and 30 were injured in the horror explosion on Sunday[/caption]
She is then alleged to have changed the settings on her messenger account for the first time in seven years.
Tryopova’s boyfriend Dmitry Rylov – also in his 20s and a member of the so-called Russian Liberation Army – insists she has been “set up.”
He is also wanted by the secret services and has previously been detained at anti-war protests with his girlfriend.
Rylov insisted Tryopova must have “completely misunderstood the purpose” of the statue given to Tatarsky.
He said: “I believe that my wife was set up.
“I am in full confidence that she would never be able to do something like that on her own volition.
“Yes, with Daria we really do not support the war in Ukraine, but we believe that such actions are unacceptable.
“I am 100 percent sure that she would never have agreed to such a thing if she had known.”
Tatarsky, whose real name is Maxim Fomin, is one of Russia’s foremost military bloggers and has over 560,000 followers on Telegram.
He provided a critical running commentary on Russia’s war in Ukraine and had once been a fighter in the battles in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
Along with other Putin pundits, he criticised the Russian army for failing to fight even more brutally and ruthlessly against Ukraine.
Tryopova was arrested on Monday in wake of the deadly blast[/caption]
Security at the event had raised concerns about the suspicious package[/caption]
Lush collaborated with Nintendo on a line of Mario-themed bathing products, and that could’ve been the end of the story. But unfortunately, intrepid consumers who purchased and tried some of the products have made an important discovery about the question block bath bomb: It’s very yellow. So yellow that it looks like pee.
i found out why no influencers are posting about the lush mario yellow question mark promotion pic.twitter.com/dvoh9O4xhb
— 🌦 (@zemnmez) March 26, 2023
So that’s it! That’s the news! If you elect to buy the question block bath bomb just know that it will leave your bath water a very peculiar color. Otherwise, it is a pretty cool product. You’ll randomly get one of six Mario-themed soap bars in each bath bomb, ranging from mini mushroom soaps to a golden coin soap bar.
There’s other non-yellow bathing and shower products part of the collaboration, like a Mario-themed cola-smelling shower gel and a Princess Peach body spray.
ONE year ago Anastasia Hlazenko was giving birth to her daughter in a bombed-out maternity hospital as Russian troops blitzed her home city in Ukraine.
Now little Polina is celebrating her first birthday with a cuddly Paddington Bear given to her by The Sun as her mum declared: “She is a beacon of hope.”
Little Polina is celebrating her first birthday with a cuddly Paddington Bear given to her by The Sun[/caption]
Anastasia reveals how she gave birth while Russian troops targeted the hospital[/caption]
Anastasia had recently given birth to her first daughter Polina in Izyum – but had been forced to take cover in a cellar[/caption]
Anastasia added: “Polina shows that whatever Putin throws at us, Ukraine will never die.
“Polina adores her Paddington. Everyone knows about Paddington having tea with the Queen, and now Polina will also grow up loving Paddington.
“Thank you to The Sun for this present — and thank you to the UK and everyone else who continues to support Ukraine.
“With the world behind us, we will never be defeated.”
Anastasia, 25, and her husband Andriy, 30, were busy preparing their home in the eastern city of Izyum for their first child when war broke out last February.
Anastasia said: “My biggest concern was having a baby, not war, but on my way home from a routine hospital appointment I saw queues outside shops and banks.
“Then we heard that Russia had invaded.”
A short time later her contractions began and Andriy rushed her to hospital as columns of Russian troops approached the city.
Soon after they arrived, Polina’s heart rate dropped, so medics prepared for an emergency caesarean.
Polina was born fit and healthy, weighing 6lb 15oz — but within hours mum and baby were taken to the hospital basement amid a Russian bombardment.
In Anastasia’s building, windows were smashed and lights were blown out by Russian bombing raids[/caption]
Anastasia had no idea whether her partner Andriy had survived the attack as phone signal was knocked out[/caption]
Bank worker Anastasia said: “We heard a plane and saw a flash and there was an almighty bang.
“Windows were smashed and the lights went out. The staff yelled for us to go to the shelter.
“I had just had an operation so I couldn’t run and I couldn’t carry my baby.
“As we were going to the basement we heard gunfire and more explosions. It was terrifying.
“People were crying and screaming. We didn’t know where the bombs were falling or if they would hit the hospital.
“All the joy of being a new mother vanished.
“All I cared about was getting me and Polina home alive.”
With mobile phone signals down, Anastasia had no idea whether Andriy had survived the attack.
He said: “I felt useless because I should have been there to protect my wife and baby but there was nothing I could do.”
After three days he made it to the hospital where his wife and child were sheltering.
But after the hazardous journey home they had to head straight to their own basement to shelter once more from a renewed Russian assault.
Anastasia said: “Their artillery was in the city, the water and power kept going out and Polina’s bed was a cardboard box.
“We had to save fresh water for drinking, so to wash we collected ice from puddles and melted it.”
At times the fighting was so close to their home that their basement shook from explosions and a bullet slammed into one of their wooden window frames.
The living conditions became so grim they fled to her parents’ home — but reluctantly had to leave their dog Ralf behind.
The Russian bombardment intensified and 50 people died when an apartment block was destroyed.
Snipers were picking off civilians if they ventured out, and enemy jets flew overhead constantly.
The family then heard about an evacuation convoy of buses which was due to leave the city.
They stuffed clothes and important documents into a black bin bag and ventured outside to find the streets covered with huge shards of glass and piles of rubble.
They ran for a quarter of a mile to reach the convoy, fearing a sniper attack or renewed bombing from a jet every step of the way.
Anastasia said: “We ran so fast I could not breathe, and I held on to Polina so tightly.
“We did not know where the buses were going but we just hoped it would be somewhere safer.”
The family reached the convoy, and after two days of travelling by bus and train they reached the relative safety of Lviv in the west of Ukraine.
Nearly a year later they are now safe and well and living in the Polish town of Czeladz, an hour from Krakow, where Andriy has found a job at a car plant.
Their home city of Izyum — a key transport hub which made it a strategic target for Vladimir Putin — has been devastated and their own house badly damaged.
The Russians took control of the city shortly after the family fled but Ukrainian forces retook it in September.
Around 80 per cent of the infrastructure has been destroyed, 1,000 people were killed and mass graves have been discovered.
But the couple refuse to give up on their dream of one day returning.
More than anything they want to be reunited with three-year-old pet Ralf.
Incredibly he is still alive, surviving each day on food given to him by Ukrainian soldiers, and guarding the wrecked family home, waiting for his family to return.
Anastasia said: “Some people who stayed in the city checked our house for us recently and while they were there Ralf appeared.
“It was amazing to hear he is alive and well.
“We feel so guilty for leaving him but we know that Ukraine will win this war and when that happens, we hope we can go home and be with Ralf again.”