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Last week Ubisoft revealed a new entry in the Ghost Recons series which is Ghost Recons: Breakpoint. Ubisoft further went on to reveal a lengthy gameplay demo of the same as well as a story trailer alongside the game’s release date which is October 4, 2019, on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. Now what’s interesting is to note here is that the E3 2019 is just around the corner and if Ubisoft has already shown so much of one of their big upcoming title this year and then this clearly indicates that the other three unannounced titles are going to be their major focus during their this year’s E3 conference....

Prince of Persia has been gone for years, but a remake of its best title, The Sands of Time, has been in development for a while. There were murmurs that the project had been canceled, but Ubisoft insists the game will release some time in the near future, as a swathe of remakes from other companies come to Xbox Series X and PS5. It’s officially listed as “coming soon” with no release date confirmed, but the current and future slate of Assassin’s Creed games may show that now is the best time to see the Prince return, as he could offer something truly different to the developer’s other projects....

NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token, and, in theory, it acts as a digital license for items across games, but, in practice, it functions effectively identically to previously existing in-game marketplaces. Minting NFTs also has a significant environmental impact and many players question their value. Despite this, companies like Ubisoft have been pushing them in triple-A gaming. RELATED: Private Equity Firms Reportedly Interested in Buying Out Ubisoft Thanks to the previous backlash surrounding the Ubisoft Quartz program, Ubisoft’s new Project Q is confirmed to be NFT-free....

With the highest incidence of virus cases compared to all other affected nations, the U.S. was first to reach this troubling milestone. Cases confirmed in India and Brazil, with 8.5 million and 5.6 million COVID-19 infections respectively reported, trailed behind. Health officials across the U.S. have reported surging COVID-19 cases for weeks, while experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, warned of steeper consequences ahead if additional steps were not taken to level the curve....

CBS Philly reported that the American was Joe Ritchie-Bennett from Philadelphia, who had lived in the U.K. for 15 years. Woody Johnson, U.S. ambassador to the U.K., confirmed the news in a statement. “I offer my deepest condolences to the families of those killed in the attack on June 20,” Johnson wrote on Twitter. “To our great sorrow, this includes an American citizen. Our thoughts are with all those affected....

While the price hikes are expected to be less than 10 percent across the board, the entire list of drugs that will cost more in 2020 has yet to be released. The breast cancer medication Ibrance and arthritis medication Xeljanz, both manufactured by Pfizer, are expected to be around five percent more expensive. According to Reuters, Pfizer spokeswoman Amy Rose said that 43 percent of the drugs with increased pricing are sterile injectables....

NEWSWEEK: You’ve been back in Iraq for almost a month. What’s changed? Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno: A lot has changed since the last time I left. The biggest change is the influx and participation of Iraqi security forces. The development of the Iraqi army, the development of their ability to lead operations in Iraq, all of those things are really significant. The other thing that’s changed is we now have an elected government for the first time, a sovereign government, who are working as hard as they can to try to answer to a populace....

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded aerospace and defense company Northrop Grumman a $13 million contract Tuesday for work on its Glide Breaker program. The program is described by DARPA as having begun in 2018 “to develop and demonstrate technologies to enable defense against hypersonic systems” and the Pentagon said the new contract would provide investment to acquire such capabilities. “This contract provides for the research, development and demonstration of a technology that is critical for enabling an advanced interceptor capable of engaging maneuvering hypersonic threats in the upper atmosphere,” the Defense Department said in a statement....

The suit is designed to accommodate pregnant aircrew during pregnancies by adding expandable panels to standard flight suits. That way, expectant mothers will need only the one suit throughout their pregnancy. “Prior to the maternity flight suit, pregnant aircrew have generally collected larger-sized flight suits and gone up through additional sizes throughout their pregnancy, potentially needing three to five additional flight suits,” said Lieutenant Commander Jacqueline Nordan, who received the first maternity suit earlier this year, in a press release....

MORE: The greatest American Olympic athletes On Saturday afternoon, the U.S. Olympic Committee announced its official roster for the 2016 Summer Games. The U.S. will send 555 athletes to Rio next month. That figure includes 292 women athletes, marking the most women to have compete for any nation at a single Olympic games (China set the record of 289 in 2008). Also, for only the second time in history, the U....

He went bogey free while posting six birdies to shoot a 6-under 65 and take sole possession of the lead at 9 under through two rounds. Woodland’s lone true scare of the day came at the 8th hole (his 17th) where he put himself in bad position with his second shot off the right front of the green. But he got on with his third and made an extremely slippery putt down the hill to avoid dropping a shot....

World No. 1 Djokovic pushed past the pain to outlast Londero 6-4, 7-6 (7-3), 6-1 at Flushing Meadows on Wednesday. Djokovic survived a huge test against Londero, while the 16-time grand slam champion required treatment on his left shoulder during the clash on Arthur Ashe Stadium. The 32-year-old needed work on his shoulder in the first set, with the issue clearly bothering the Serbian star in New York, where countryman Dusan Lajovic or Denis Kudla await in the next round....

Halep advanced to the semifinals at Flushing Meadows for the first time in her career thanks to a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 win over former world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka Wednesday. MORE: 2015 U.S. Open in pictures | Serena downs Venus in quarterfinal matchup The Romanian 23-year-old — a finalist in last year’s French Open — has spoken at length about how setting no expectations for herself has aided her play....

“We believe that there are chemical agents stored in the vehicle,” says Gen. Aziz Urakhmon Mail, an official in the security service of Afghanistan’s interim government. “We have not searched it yet. We are waiting for specialists to come and examine it.” The bus, seized by Kabul police last Thursday, may or may not turn out to be an unconventional weapon. But Afghan security forces say the incident was only one in a cluster of potential attacks foiled by them around Jan....

Rapinoe, a U.S. women’s soccer team midfielder, tore the ACL in her right leg while training in Hawaii on Friday, according to USA Today and U.S. Soccer. She was expected to have surgery this week in Seattle. MORE: Women’s World Cup final | U.S. victory celebration | Goalie Hope Solo’s career The women’s national team was preparing for Sunday’s exhibition against Trinidad & Tobago in Honolulu. Rapinoe was instrumental in helping the U....

A spokesperson for the U.S. embassy in Berlin said that President Donald Trump’s administration has “formally asked Germany to join France and the U.K. to help secure the Straits of Hormuz and combat Iranian aggression” in remarks first carried Tuesday by Germany’s Deutsche Presse-Agentur and confirmed by Reuters. They continued: “Members of the German government have been clear that freedom of navigation should be protected… Our question is, protected by whom?...

The Taliban has asked to address world leaders at the conference, and a UN committee will rule on the request. The United States is one of the nine committee members who will discuss and determine whether the Taliban will be allowed to speak at the event. China, Sweden, the Bahamas, Bhutan, Chile, Namibia, Sierra Leone and Russia are also on the committee, each member with differing views of the Taliban....

North Korea released an official statement Wednesday saying it felt “betrayed” by a planned U.S. and South Korea joint military exercise, which is set to go ahead despite Pyongyang’s repeated complaints. The statement—from the State Affairs Commission, which is headed by Kim Jong Un—said the drill was an “undisguised breach” of the agreement signed by President Donald Trump and Kim at their summit in Singapore last year. Relations between Pyongyang and Washington have cooled due to a lack of progress on denuclearization and sanctions relief negotiations....

O’Reilly, the eighth-most capped player in U.S. women’s national team history, joins the London-based club on an 18-month deal. She played last season with FC Kansas City of the NWSL. Howard criticizes Klinsmann over selection of foreign-born players “Having come over to Arsenal last year to train, I was very impressed with the club,” O’Reilly told the club’s official website. “The facilities are world class and they have a tradition of excellence at the club that I wanted to be a part of....