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Now Six Days in Fallujah is back, with Highwire Games as its new developer, Victura as its new publisher, and brand-new technology and direction to try and valorize a battle that its creators feel hasn’t gotten due attention (despite numerous books, documentaries, Fox News recreations, and even an opera that all center the perspectives of U.S. Marines). Its return has not been warmly welcomed by everyone in the video game community. IGN’s Rebekah Valentine spoke with Arab and Iraqi game developers exhausted and infuriated by the game. U.S. military veterans John Phipps and Tristan Green...

Where they stand: 5th in Premier League Possible line-ups Chelsea: Mendy; Azpilicueta, Christensen, Rüdiger; James, Jorginho, Kovačić, Alonso; Mount, Giroud, Werner Expert predictions Watch all of Porto's goals so far this season Carlos Machado, Porto reporter: Comfortable in the role of underdogs, Porto know English opposition is always tough but this Chelsea side, as West Brom demonstrated on Saturday, look uncomfortable when space at the back is attacked – it is a Porto strength. They will be without two key figures in Sérgio Oliveira and Taremi, but Porto's work ethic and never-say-...

This obituary is part of “We Will Remember,” a series about those we’ve lost to the coronavirus. “Queen,” “Grandma O” and “Cookie” were just a few names that family and friends used when referring to Orella Sliker of Mount Clemens. Sliker, who was described as a happy heart by her family, died as a result of COVID-19 complications at McLaren Hospital in Mount Clemens on Dec. 6. She was active up to age 91 and enjoyed every moment, according to her daughter Carol Sliker, who said her mother loved to travel and liked to play pennies at the casino. “We gave her a big coin ...

We’ve heard a lot of comments about Six Days in Fallujah from creator Peter Tamte, comments that have invited a lot of criticism over the direction the game is taking, but how does this whole ordeal look to a US veteran of the Iraq War? The Gamer’s Cian Maher sat down with John Phipps, a US veteran who took part in the Iraq War, and was actually fighting during the very event the game portrays. Phipps was critical of Tamte’s comments and direction, but also provided some insight into what he’d like to see a game like

By Harrison Raine PREVIEW Columnist By mid-September, there was no one left to call. The west, with its thousands of federal, state and local fire engines and crews, had been tapped out.  Wildfires across the west had consumed the labor of all available wildland firefighters and though there were fewer fires burning, those fires were larger and more difficult to contain. They consumed 13 million acres — an area almost the size of West Virginia. In the midst of the 2020 wildfire season, John Phipps, the Forest Service’s deputy chief, told Congress that this “was an extraordinary year an...