Sports
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Amazon Buys Australian ICC Cricket Rights, Despite Status As A Protected Sport
Amazon’s making big waves in the streaming sports space, snaffling up the rights to ICC tournaments in Australia for the next four years. Here’s why if you’re keen to watch, you’re going to have to pay for the privilege.
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Magic: The Gathering Is Changing the Way It Sells Boosters Again
In 2018, Wizards of the Coast made a major change to the way Magic: The Gathering was sold when it split the then-standard booster pack of cards into two different varieties: Draft Boosters, focused on the game’s build-and-play formats, and Set Boosters, aimed at people looking to fill out collecting a set. Now, it’s going…
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I Want to Understand the 368 People Who Finished Baldur’s Gate 3 in a Single Weekend
Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian Studio’s epic new Dungeons & Dragons game, has consumed a not-insignificant amount of my free time since it launched earlier this month. An amount that even I, who had been waiting half a decade to play it, thought was a little extreme. So shout out to the absolutely unhinged folks who…
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10 Horror Movies That Will Make You Rethink Attempting Any Winter Sports
Cold-weather horror is a much-loved genre, with sub-categories that include holiday horror, “trapped in this weather with killers and/or ghosts” horror (think The Shining), and even — as this list explores — horror movies that work winter sports into their plots. Exercise can be deadly, so proceed with caution!