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While most expected that Bungie would announce a release date for the Prestige Raid today, few thought that date would be so soon. Many players are still learning the ins and outs of the Leviathan, and there are other Destiny 2 activities to look forward to as well. In addition to announcing a release date for the Prestige Raid, Bungie also offered a few details about the endgame encounter. We now know that the recommended power level for the raid will be 300, which is the same as the Prestige Nightfall....

Bungie’s community manager, Brian Jarrard spoke to CVG and had some exciting thoughts about developing for new platforms: Bungie’s support for Halo will not stop, considering Reach is going to be one of the biggest games of the year, Jarrard has confirmed that Bungie resources will still be supporting the title and ensuring the quality of the game remains consistent. With a large number of employees in the mix, the support of a major video game publisher, and a pedigree that is hard to match, Bungie should have no problems creating whatever game they feel like making....

MORE: Sports recognizing tragedy | School prematurely celebrates state title No deaths were reported by The Indianapolis Star, though Griffith High School will have to postpone its 3A semi-state matchup at Marion High School after its bus overturned on Interstate-65. No players escaped without injury, however. Griffith coach Gary Hayes was among those injured by the bus crash; he suffered a cut on his head. He confirmed all players on the bus received at least some sort of injury, saying, “Everyone has something....

Oct. 15: “We’re dealing with Hitler revisited.” Oct. 20: “When Hitler’s war ended. there were the Nuremberg trials.” Oct. 23: Bush compares the alleged murders of Kuwaiti youngsters to actions by Hitler’s Death’s Head battalions. Nov. 1: “[Saddam is engaged in] brutality that I don’t believe Adolf Hitler ever participated in.” A noted German-born historian at Columbia University, Fritz Stern, called the last remark “an insult. . . to the [Holocaust] dead....

“We just keep going forward. We game-plan the way we normally do,” Panthers coach Ron Rivera said Thursday. “Everything that we put in is put into the game plan and he can run everything. “It makes game planning simple for the coaches, not having to set up two difference game plans.” MORE: Week 5 picks, straight up Anderson made two starts for an injured Newton in 2014 and both came against the Buccaneers....

Inconsistency and injuries have impeded winger Dembele from developing at the pace anticipated when he joined Barca from Borussia Dortmund for €105million in 2017. The France international made strides in his second season, scoring eight LaLiga goals, yet speculation surrounds his potential involvement in a reported proposal to sign Neymar from Paris Saint-Germain. Dembele, 22, is said to view his future at Barcelona and midfielder Busquets thinks the LaLiga champions are about to benefit....

For small forward Caron Butler, himself dealing with a shoulder injury, despite all that, there is a little extra reason to give thanks this time of year. Throughout his career, Butler has maintained a special bond with his hometown of Racine, Wisc., from afar, including giving Thanksgiving meals to hundreds of families, a tradition he continued this holiday season. But for the first time since he was a teenager, Butler is playing home games just a stone’s throw from his hometown, a short drive north in Milwaukee....

The Indian shuttler’s run was ended by the World Superseries Finals champion Akane Yamaguchi in straight games in the second round. PV Sindhu, who reached the semi-finals at the same tournament, remained unchanged at the third position. Rising star Vaishnavi Reddy Jakka rose a couple of places to 53rd while Sri Krishna Priya Kudaravalli slid six rungs to 78th. South Asian Games gold medallist Ruthvika Shivani Gadde jumped three spots to 90th....

Sure, we all like to fly. But the economics of VLJs may be less than blue-sky. Current forecasts of global demand range wildly. The Federal Aviation Administration sees 5,000 in the United States alone by 2010. Britain’s Inflight Management Development Centre, however, predicts global sales of 850 by 2013. And skeptics like airline analyst Vaughn Cordle, based in Washington, D.C., doubt the market can support a dozen players. The key reason: two thirds of VLJ orders are expected to come from “air taxi” companies, which provide short flights on demand....

For the first time since the 2013 Champions League final between Bayern Munch and Borussia Dortmund, the Bundesliga was at the centre of the football world on Saturday. Tentative steps taken elsewhere, most notably in Korea, meant the global audience tuning in knew much of what to expect in terms of oddities - from players and staff arriving in masks, to their voices echoing around cavernous stadia. But how would the football look in this setting?...

After Destiny players purged SIVA-infested Cosmodrome back in 2016, the game’s striking red-and-black nanomachine technology became a hotly contested topic on the community forums. Some believed that it was just a matter of time until SIVA sprung back up, while others felt that the story of SIVA was done and dusted already. RELATED: Bungie Outlines Vanguard Rewards, Focusing Changes Coming to Destiny 2 Inside Lightfall Up until now, however, Bungie kept mostly mum on the topic of SIVA....

The issue was not solved after today’s Destiny 2 update, which fixed a number of bugs that players were using to exploit certain parts of the game. The bug was noticed by players starting to complete their Challenges after this week’s reset, and many of them started noticing the drops were at or below their current level. It’s unclear which Powerful Rewards are affected, as there have been a number of different reports from rewards not dropping correctly from Iron Banner bounties to the Daily Heroic Story weekly challenge....

Due to the game’s current balance between gunplay and ability usage in PvE, it could very well be a good time to reintroduce the concept of horde modes in seasonal content, which Destiny 2 did tackle to an extent in the past. For example, Season of the Drifter had an activity called The Reckoning where players were supposed to traverse long and narrow bridges while fighting numerous enemies. The Warmind expansion also employed this concept, albeit to a much more successful degree, in the form of Escalation Protocol....

Leading the pack in changes for the next patch is a complete design pass by Bungie on Destiny 2’s collection of exotic weapons. In its weekly blog, Bungie previewed the changes coming to the exotic hand cannon Sturm along with its synergistic Legendary sidearm companion Drang. When Update 1.2.0 launches in May, both Sturm and Drang will have boosted base stats to make them easier to use. Drang has now been given the Rampage perk (Kills with this weapon temporarily grant increased damage....

Before it attempts to do so, however, Bungie wants to make sure that the game is palatable for all skill levels. Speaking in an interview with Shack News, Bungie co-founder Jason Jones stressed that fully enjoying the Destiny experience boils down to one thing: basic shooter skills. Even in a game that considers itself part-RPG (players can choose between several distinct, upgradeable and customizable character classes) and part-MMO (Destiny revolves around a connected, always-online and always-evolving game world), anyone with a few hours of Call of Duty under their belt can thrive amongst the general populace:...

Margao, Oct 12 (PTI) Their confidence sky-high after hammering Germany, Iran would look to end their league engagements unbeaten when they take on Costa Rica in a Group C clash of the FIFA Under-17 World Cup here tomorrow. Iran – top of the points table in Group C – have qualified for the knockout stage along with USA, Paraguay, Brazil, France and England, who are leading their respective groups with six points each....

Mauricio Pochettino’s team head to the Emirates Stadium on a six-match winning streak which has carried them to third in the Premier League table. Tottenham are also on a high after salvaging their hopes of qualifying for the Champions League last 16 with a 1-0 win over Inter Milan on Wednesday. Revitalised by new boss Unai Emery, Arsenal’s own form has been just as impressive over the last three months and they sit only three points behind Tottenham....

Busch rocketed ahead of Tyler Reddick on the final restart with six laps remaining and won the NASCAR Xfinity race Saturday, setting up the possibility of a tripleheader weekend sweep in Texas. While Busch will be going for his third career NASCAR tripleheader sweep — he did it at Bristol in 2010 and 2017 — he missed out on the chance for one at his home track in Las Vegas four weeks ago with a third-place Cup finish after winning the Xfinity and Truck Series races....

Not that Will Rogers had anything against economists. He figured their guess was as good as anybody else’s. This year’s consensus guess: moderate slowing sometime this winter–not enough to hurt the economy but sufficient to hold down inflation and interest rates; faster growth later, and nifty profits, thanks to stronger demand and lower costs of doing business. Some industries are still struggling–among them airlines and defense. California remains in a hole....