A chart recently shared on social media shows that spending on third-party games on the Epic Games Store grew by just 1.6% between 2019 and 2024. The data, drawn from Epic's annual review blog posts (see below), reveals that revenue climbed steadily until 2022 before reversing course and falling back......
How Chevron played the long game in Venezuela
On Saturday, hours after U.S. forces in Caracas killed at least 80 people and kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump sounded less like a wartime commander than a developer surveying a newly acquired property. The country’s future, he told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort, belonged to “very large United...
Premier League rights may end up at Netflix despite reluctant football romance
As Netflix and Paramount Skydance clash over WBD, football rights once considered peripheral could become central to the future of UK streaming Netflix has spent years politely rebuffing Premier League and Uefa entreaties to bid for their TV rights, so it would be ironic if it picked them up by...
Bukayo Saka agrees new five-year Arsenal contract with big wage increase
Deal understood to lift pay to about £300,000 a week Arsenal keen to reward Declan Rice with new deal Bukayo Saka has agreed a new five-year contract at Arsenal that will make him one of the highest-paid players in the club’s history. The England forward’s deal that he signed in...
Ronnie O’Sullivan pulls out of snooker’s Masters on medical grounds
Eight-time champion withdraws two days before event O’Sullivan also pulled out 12 months ago Ronnie O’Sullivan has pulled out of the Masters two days before the tournament starts on medical grounds. O’Sullivan claimed a record-extending eighth win at the tournament in 2024 but opted against defending his crown 12 months...
NFL playoff predictions: who will seize a wide-open Super Bowl race?
The postseason kicks off on Saturday. Our writers pick the dark horses, players to watch and make their tips for the NFL’s championship game Melissa is right about the Lions (see below), but how about the Dallas Cowboys? Their defense was nauseating, and nobody wants a playoff weekend spoiled watching...
Morocco sail into Afcon semi-finals as DÃaz sparks fine win over Cameroon
At last, Morocco have arrived at the tournament they are hosting. For four games they had played scratchy, crabbed football. Finally, in a spiky, ill-tempered quarter-final, there was something more like the Morocco that reached the semi-finals of the World Cup two years ago. If the game wasn’t fluent, that...
‘I’ll make the decisions’: Liam Rosenior confident he will be in control at Chelsea
Manager takes charge of first game on Saturday in FA Cup ‘It’s not possible to be in this job and not be your own man’ Liam Rosenior is confident he will make the decisions at Chelsea, insisting he would not have agreed to take over as head coach if he...
Ole Gunnar Solskjær set for face-to-face talks with Manchester United this weekend
Coach is vying with Michael Carrick to be interim manager Solskjær due at Carrington training base on Saturday Ole Gunnar Solskjær will have face-to-face talks with Manchester United on Saturday regarding becoming the interim manager until the end of the season. The Norwegian is vying with Michael Carrick for the...
England ruthlessly privatised cricket – Australia embraces it with constant public displays of affection | Emma John
If there is one takeaway for England from this Ashes tour it should be how cricket thrives in a nation where it is readily and freely available as the dominant summer pastime The drive to Bowral in New South Wales takes you through some of Australia’s most English countryside. Pastoral...