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For those who started playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons after its release in March, the Nintendo Switch blockbuster was more than just a game. For many, it was a “mental health lifesaver” as it helped them pass time and connect with friends while isolating during the pandemic. Nintendo Jul 14, 2020 Bricks up, power up. Lego has teamed up with Nintendo to bring Super Mario Bros. fans a 2,646-piece replica of the NES console, along with an ’80s-style television set tha...

July 12, 2021 Sony Pictures In the last 18 months, audiences around the world have had the pleasure, luxury, and at times, painful experience of watching theatrical movies in the comfort of their own homes. Due to the vast differences between a cinema hall and a living room hall, from the ambient lights, background noise to speaker system, it can be challenging to find the same appreciation for a movie watching it at home for the first time, than if it was first viewed in the cinemas. But anima...

Storm chances clearing in Dallas-Fort Worth as weekend approaches Highs over the next few days are expected to be in the upper 80s and low 90s. The sun sets behind electricity towers along Mountain Creek Parkway in Dallas on Wednesday, June 30, 2021.(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer) 4:13 PM on Jul 8, 2021 CDT After a week with the threat of rain hanging over Dallas-Fort Worth, the weather should be reliably dry at least through Saturday. It will be partly cloudy most of the weekend, wit...

Can North Texas expect a heat wave like the one that broiled the Pacific Northwest? Can North Texas expect a heat wave like the one that broiled the Pacific Northwest? Our region is no stranger to extremely high temperatures, but the patterns that drive weather here tend to differ from the one that parked itself out West. An Aug. 24, 2011, file photo of the downtown Dallas skyline.(Joel Prince / Staff Photographer) 7:06 PM on Jul 2, 2021 CDT In recent days, the Pacific Northwest has been beset ...

Normal text size Very large text size Stewart McSweyn is striking when he runs. And that makes sense, for greatness is striking, so it tends to look that way, too. Running itself is universal, of course – elemental even – yet the gait, rhythm and stride of champions is often as unique as the furrows and ridges of a fingerprint. The legendary Australian miler John Landy, for instance, ran like an ostrich, powerful thigh muscles doing most of the work. His contemporary Ron Clarke strode with ...

While we wait for the upcoming Tokyo Olympic Games (OG) to see if Australia can win another running medal, unquestionably an immense challenge given that Australia has won few medals per decade since the golden years of the 1950s and 1960s, this article looks back at past OG to rate Australia’s top ten running performances […]

Experts are predicting an above-average hurricane season. How will that impact Dallas-Fort Worth? It’s not possible to predict very far in advance where any of the storms will hit, so potential regional impacts are not known until storms form. A band of showers passed over the Dickies Arena in Fort Worth on March 22, 2021.(Tom Fox) Experts predict above-average hurricane activity this year after a record-breaking season in 2020. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced ...

New episodes of NBC 5’s “Inside the Storm” premiered on the NBCDFW app and website in May, with four episodes viewable by Friday, May 28. Each episode ranges between 7-15 minutes and will be accessible for on-demand viewing. Catch up on available episodes today. To watch via over-the-top (OTT) platforms, viewers must search “NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth or NBC 5 DFW” in the app store of their phone, tablet, Peacock, Roku or Apple TV; download the app, and they’ll be able to access past a...

Fans of animation were excited to hear about the announcement of The Mitchells vs. the Machines this past March. Directed by Gravity Falls creator Michael Rianda and produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, known for their work on The Lego Movie and Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse, the Netflix original set some high expectations for itself solely through these associated names. While it may not quite live up to the hype, a near-impossible feat, it does impress with a beautifully unique ani...

Published 2 hours ago • Updated 2 hours ago NBC 5 News Remember the movie Twister? The one starring Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton and NBC 5 Chief Meteorologist Rick Mitchell? OK, so maybe he wasnt starring in the movie but he was in several scenes of the 1996 blockbuster. Download our NBC DFW mobile app for Apple or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. Weather Connection