Birmingham 2026: European Athletics Championships day one – live
Women’s 100m and men’s 5,000m top opening billing
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What’s happening this week? We’ve got a handy day-by-day schedule to show you what and who to look out for in Birmingham from now until Sunday. hiddenlangkawi.club
Monday 10 August
7.03pm – shot put (women) final
7.10pm – hammer throw (women) qualifying
7.35pm – 100m hurdles (women) heats
7.55pm – triple jump (women) qualifying
8.10pm – 100m (women) semi-finals
8.33pm – shot put (men) final
8.40pm – 5,000m (men) final
9pm – 3,000m steeplechase (women) heats
9.40pm – 4x400m relay (mixed) final
9.50pm – 100m (women) final
Continue reading...Star Fox Herausforderer Wild Blue Skies kommt ebenfalls zu Switch
Es fällt schwer, kein wenig Mitgefühl für Balor Games zu empfinden (ein Studio, gegründet vom Star-Fox-Veteranen Giles Goddard), das vor etwas mehr als einem Jahr ankündigte, dass es für Star-Fox-Fans etwas Aufregendes in Form der spirituellen Fortsetzung Wild Blue Skies geplant hat.
Aber... dann bekam Nintendo plötzlich den Drang, und nach einem Jahrzehnt, in dem sie die Wünsche der Fans nach einem neuen Star Fox ignorierten, kündigten sie vor etwa einem Monat ein Remake von Star Fox 64 an, kurz gesagt Star Fox genannt. Das hat viel vom Hype von Wild Blue Skies genommen, da die Fans wieder das echte Werk genießen können.
Glücklicherweise sieht das Spiel aber wirklich gut aus, und Balor Games glaubt eindeutig, dass selbst Nintendo-Fans Lust auf mehr Star-Fox-inspirierte Action haben könnten. Deshalb kündigen sie jetzt an, dass Wild Blue Skies auch auf der Switch erscheinen wird.
Das Spiel soll bereits am 13. August für PC, PlayStation 5 und Xbox Series S/X erscheinen, während eine "vollständig optimierte" Version "im Herbst" auf der Switch erscheinen soll.
1666: Amsterdam lanseres i Early Access 25. august
For Panache Games markerer august lanseringen av det overnaturlige action-eventyr- og etterforskningsspillet « 1666: Amsterdam, som nettopp er bekreftet å lanseres i Early Access via Steam og Epic Games Store 25. august, til en pris på 29,99 dollar/29,99 euro.
For å feire anledningen har dessuten Jean-Francois Boivin, medstifter og utøvende produsent hos Panache Digital Games, sluppet en ny video som gir et innblikk i denne verdenen av hekseri og mørk magi, der innbyggernes livssyklus styres av fullmånen, og disse periodene kalles Esbats. Spillets hovedperson, Noa, påtar seg rollen som «Collector» om dagen for å identifisere «Originals» – mørke vesener som lever blant byens innbyggere – som Noa må observere i deres daglige rutiner for å være sikker på deres sanne natur. Deretter, i nattens skjul, begynner jakten.
I spillets prolog (tilgjengelig på Epic Games Store og Steam) ser vi hvordan Noa, etter innvielsen, velger sin følgesvenn, Aaron, som skal følge henne på reisen, og historien hennes tar sin begynnelse. Aaron er en katt, og har som sådan visse spesielle evner for å bevege seg ubemerket, samt en spesiell kraft til å underkaste seg andres sinn.
Du kan også se hvordan kampsystemet i tredjepersonsperspektiv fungerer, basert på angrep og unnvike-manøvrer, men bare når «Originalen» avslører sin sanne form. Dette kombinerer kamp med fortryllede våpen og potions. Hver «Original» vil ha en egen kampstil, og ved å beseire dem vil du kunne forsegle kraften deres… inntil neste månesyklus.
Det er mye å utforske i * 1666: Amsterdam*, men vi vet i det minste at det vi får fra og med 25. august bare er starten på en prosess med finpussing og forbedring, takket være tilbakemeldinger fra spillerfellesskapet.
Skal du spille * 1666: Amsterdam*?
Payday has come to Fortnite, because today's cool gamers are 'discovering legendary IPs in entirely new ways'
The ongoing effort to come up with a new Payday game that people actually want to play continued today with the announcement of Heist Escape Roguelike: Payday Experience, a UEFN game that's available exclusively in (you guessed it) Fortnite.
Heist Escape Roguelike: Payday Experience "reimagines elements of Payday as a progressive roguelike shooter," with three separate heists—the Jewelry Store, the Bank, and the Harbor—each of them made up of multiple unique rooms "ensuring endless replayability."
"We recognize that today's audiences are discovering legendary IPs in entirely new ways," Starbreeze chief growth officer Matt Dixon said. "Integrating Payday into the Fortnite ecosystem through UEFN is a cornerstone of our strategy to engage new players and welcome them into the broader Payday platform."
That's the sort of utterance that you're only going to hear from an entertainment industry executive, but it does nonetheless get to the heart of Starbreeze's big problem. Payday 2, which launched in 2013, is still chugging along on Steam, with concurrent player counts that keep it consistently within the platform's 100 most-played games.
But Payday 3 continues to flounder, and while updates are still rolling out it's hard to shake the feeling that Starbreeze is looking elsewhere for the future of the franchise. The studio announced a Roblox spinoff game in April—actually the second, following Notoriety: A Payday Experience, which came out in 2024—as prior to that, a VR game called Payday: Aces High.
Heist Escape Roguelike: Payday Experience is live now in Fortnite. If you want to check it out for yourself, use Island Code 8105-9005-4478.

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