The death toll from severe flooding in eastern Kentucky has risen to 28 people, including several children, and the governor said more fatalities are expected as search-and-rescue teams go door-to-door in the Appalachian foothills to assess the damage.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) announced the latest death toll in a news release Sunday evening.
“We are still focused on meeting the immediate needs of providing food, water and shelter for thousands of our fellow Kentuckians who have been displaced by this catastrophic flood,” he said in the release. “At the same time, we have started on the long road to eventual recovery.”
Earlier Sunday, Beshear said that rescue crews were continuing to search for survivors as the rain resumed and that authorities had unconfirmed reports of additional deaths.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said July 31 that more fatalities are expected as rescue efforts continue in the flood-hit areas of eastern Kentucky. (Video: Reuters)
Because of hazardous conditions such as downed power lines, as well as spotty cellphone service, he said some affected areas are inaccessible and the state doesn’t have a “firm grasp” on the number of missing.
“With the level of water, we’re going to be finding bodies for weeks, many of them swept hundreds of yards, maybe a quarter-mile-plus from where they were lost,” Beshear told NBC News’s “Meet the Press.”
The Lexington Herald-Leader put the death toll at 33 on Sunday night, based on reports of additional deaths from two county coroners’ offices.
In some families, everyone in their household perished, the governor said. The state was doubling the National Guard to search for victims, he said.
Among the most tragic stories has been the death of four siblings who had clambered onto their roof to escape rising floodwaters. After the roof collapsed, the family clung to tree branches, according to an account in the Herald-Leader. A swell of water swept the children away.
The disaster has led to flash flooding, landslides and mudslides. The storms displaced hundreds of residents and caused “hundreds of millions of dollars” in damage, the governor said in a YouTube video posted Sunday.He has said it could take years to rebuild in the region. Kentucky Power reported on Twitter that as of midday Sunday, power had been restored to about 50 percent of customers who had lost it.
According to the news release Sunday evening, 359 survivors are being temporarily sheltered at 15 shelters and at two state parks and campgrounds.
The Kentucky floods were caused by 1-in-1,000-year rainstorms that scientists say are emblematic of the type of extreme weather that will become more common as the Earth warms.
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On “Meet the Press,” Beshear addressed the extreme weather — including an unusual spate of tornadoes in December that devastated parts of Kentucky and other states — and said officials must ensure that the state’s “roads, our bridges, our culverts, our flood walls can withstand greater intensity.”
Rural water and wastewater systems are easily overwhelmed, he said, and upgrading their infrastructure is “so expensive.” He said the American Rescue Plan and the bipartisan infrastructure legislation passed last year were a “good start” and allowed the state to afford improvements “that we haven’t been able to do before.”
“But if we truly want to be more resilient, it is going to take a major federal investment as well as here in the state,” Beshear said.
The National Weather Service is predictingseveral rounds of showers and storms for the area from Sunday through Tuesday, with possible flash flooding. A “brief dry period” is expected Wednesday, but Thursday could bring more rain.
Beshear urged residents to take precautions.
“Next couple days are going to be hard,” he saidin the YouTube video. “We’ve got rain and maybe even a lot of rain that’s going to hit the same areas. Please pray for the people in these areas, and if you are in the areas that are going to get hit by rain, make sure you stay safe. Make sure you have a place that is higher ground. Go to a shelter.”
Even though Super Smash Bros. Ultimate “ended” with the release of the last Fighters Pass character — Kingdom Hearts’ Sora — it still hasn’t felt “over” for us. That’s because Masahiro Sakurai, Mr. Smash Bros. himself, has continued a long-standing tradition of posting a new screenshot from the game every single day.
We’re envious of pretty much all of them, as Sakurai managed to capture characters, locations, and moments in such a perfect way that really understands the characters. In fact, seeing these screenshots every day has brought us a little bit of happiness — and envy. But it looks like this tradition might soon be over, as Sakurai has admitted on Twitter that he’s almost run out of screens!
Calling it a “workday ritual”, the Smash Bros. series director admits he even took an extra 200 “as we were wrapping up development”, which means he’s had some of these stored for a while now!
With today’s announcement, Sakurai shared his next shot — one of Wii Fit Trainer in Flat Zone X bouncing off of the Fire lifenet.
Sakurai hasn’t specified how many screens he has left, but it’s got to be less than 30 if we’re running out this month.
Fans have flocked to Twitter to mourn the end of this tradition, and also thank Sakurai for continuing to share screenshots from the game. The shots regularly rack up thousands of likes and retweets on the platform, so it’ll be weird not seeing them on our timeline every day. But Sakurai deserves a break, for sure.
A few months ago, we rounded up some of our favorite screenshots from Sakurai’s Twitter, so have a little peruse before going on over to his account (where you can also fawn over his adorable kitty) to find some more recent ones.
Have you enjoyed seeing these Smash Ultimate screens every day? Will you miss them once Sakurai have finished uploading them? Let us know!
If juggling six children while working as a doctor – during the pandemic mind you – wasn’t difficult enough, Pittmann wants to add another spinning plate.
“My goal is to join the Army Reserve,” Pittman told The Sunday Telegraph.
“I am halfway through that application, but I had the twins, so it has been delayed.”
The 39-year-old and her husband, Paul Gatward, announced the arrival of Willow and Quinlan in March last year, just months after her impressive stint on Seven’s SAS Australia.
After putting her mind and body on the line during the second season of the hit military-style show, it seems the real-life Wonder Woman has what it takes to join the military.
She said her decision was influenced by her brother, grandfather, brother-in-law and father-in-law are all veterans.
“We have a lot of family involved in the military,” she said.
“My brother was an ex-Afghan veteran, my grandfather was in the Army and my husband’s brother is in the Army, as is his father. Also my grandparents were Dutch and went through (Nazi occupation in) World War II.
“So we have seen first hand how the war can impact them when they come home. I have grown up with a lot of respect for veterans.”
Pittman’s brother Ryan was involved in the military for “several years” and did tours in Afghanistan.
The champion hurdler revealed it was her brother who inspired her to become involved with the Legacy Centenary Torch Relay, a six-month campaign that acknowledges veterans and families of veterans.
“This is my opportunity to thank the men and women who have represented our country,” she said.
“I think it is so wonderful they are getting 2000 people to hold the torch in various places around Australia.”
Pittman has already built a very impressive career.
She’s best known for her sporting prowess, having competed at three Olympics, been a two-time world champion in the 400m hurdles, and for her Gold medals at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games.
In 2019 she completed her medical degree and is now specializing in women’s health.
Dr Pittman. Credit: News Corp Australia, by Damian Shaw
“I feel incredibly lucky to have a career after sport,” she admitted on SAS Australia.
“I know a lot of my friends have really struggled with it.
“Sport, for me, was almost an accident. I wanted to be a doctor from the age I could remember. I remember carrying a little doctor’s bag around that my granddad gave me, and it was full of all sorts of pretend instruments and stethoscopes and things. And so that was my goal.”
The ICAC was originally investigating the Stronger Communities Fund but, following several government inquiries and a review of grants administration announced by Premier Dominic Perrottet, pivoted to a broader probe of whether pork barreling could be considered corrupt.
The grants review, prepared by Perrottet’s department and the Productivity Commission and made public in April, recommended a new set of guidelines that would apply to ministers, staff and public servants, and included some mandatory rules about transparency and accountability.
But the ICAC called this an “unacceptable” half-measure, “the legal effect of which is uncertain”. It would also limit the ICAC’s capacity to make findings of corrupt conduct about any breaches.
Instead, the commission recommended that all rules about grant programs should be statutory regulations. The ministerial code of conduct should also be amended to include a clause that explicitly forbids the minister from approving expenditure unless they are satisfied it is “efficient, effective, economical and ethical” – similar to a clause present in Commonwealth laws.
The report said the nature and seriousness of any alleged pork barreling would depend on the purpose of the program or statute under which the money was spent, and this would need to be determined on a case-by-case basis. The more specific and technical the assessment criteria of a grant program, the less room there is to play politics.
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While ministers had broader scope to involve political factors when they exercised ministerial discretion, “such power cannot be exercised to achieve an objective that is extraneous to, or inconsistent with, the public purpose for which the executive power exists”, the ICAC said.
Shadow special minister of state John Graham welcomed the report and called on the Perrottet government to support Labor’s legislation on grants reform. “Ministers do not have unfettered power to give grants, but at times in NSW they behave as if they do,” he said.
A spokesman for the Premier said the would consider the ICAC’s report and had already accepted all the recommendations from the aforementioned government review of grants administration received in April.
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HINDMAN, Ky. (AP) — Damage to critical infrastructure and the arrival of more heavy rains hampered efforts Sunday to help Kentucky residents hit by recent massive flooding, Gov. Andy Beshear said.
As residents in Appalachia tried to slowly piece their lives back together, flash flood warnings were issued for at least eight eastern Kentucky counties. The National Weather Service said radar indicated up to 4 inches (10.2 centimeters) of rain fell Sunday in some areas, with more rain possible.
Beshear said the death toll climbed to 28 on Sunday from last week’s storms, a number he expected to rise significantly and that it could take weeks to find all the victims.
Thirty-seven people were unaccounted for as search and rescue operations continued early Sunday, according to a daily briefing from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. A dozen shelters were opened for flood victims in Kentucky with 388 occupants.
Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief of the US National Guard Bureau, told The Associated Press about 400 people have been rescued by National Guard helicopter. I have estimated that the guard had rescued close to 20 by boat from hard-to-access areas.
At a news conference in Knott County, Beshear praised the fast arrival of FEMA trailers but noted the numerous challenges.
“We have dozens of bridges that are out — making it hard to get to people, making it hard to supply people with water,” he said. “We have entire water systems down that we are working hard to get up.”
Beshear said it will remain difficult, even a week from now, to “have a solid number on those accounted for. It’s communications issues — it’s also not necessarily, in some of these areas, having a firm number of how many people were living there in the first place.”
The governor also talked about the selflessness he’s seen among Kentucky residents suffering from the floods.
“Many people who have lost everything but they’re not even getting goods for themselves, they’re getting them for other people in their neighborhoods, making sure that their neighbors are OK,” Beshear said.
Among the stories of survival that continue to emerge, a 17-year-old girl whose home in Whitesburg was flooded Thursday put her dog in a plastic container and swam 70 yards to safety on a neighbor’s roof. Chloe Adams waited hours until daylight before a relative in a kayak arrived and moved them to safety, first taking her dog from her, Sandy, and then the teenager.
“My daughter is safe and whole tonight,” her father, Terry Adams, said in a Facebook post. “We lost everything today… everything except what matters most.”
On an overcast morning in downtown Hindman, about 200 miles (322 kilometers) southeast of Louisville, a crew cleared debris piled along storefronts. Nearby, a vehicle was perched upside down in Troublesome Creek, now back within its debris-littered banks.
Workers cleaned nonstop through mud-caked sidewalks and roads.
“We’re going to be here unless there’s a deluge,” said Tom Jackson, who is among the workers.
Jackson was with a crew from Corbin, Kentucky, where he’s the city’s recycling director, about a two-hour drive from Hindman.
His crew worked all day Saturday, and the mud and debris were so thick that they managed to clear one-eighth of a mile of roadway. The water rushing off the hillsides had so much force that it bent road signs.
“I’ve never seen water like this,” Jackson said.
Attendance was down for the Sunday morning service at Hindman’s First Baptist Church. Parishioners who rarely miss a service were instead back home tending to cleanup duties caused by floodwaters and mud.
The Rev. Mike Caudill said his church has pitched in to help the reeling community, serving meals and setting up tents for people to pick up cleaning and personal hygiene supplies.
Totes filled with clothes and photos were stacked on retired teacher Teresa Perry Reynolds’ front porch, along with furniture too badly damaged to salvage.
“There are memories there,” she said of the family photos she and her husband were able to gather.
Her husband’s wallet, lost as they escaped the fast-rising water Thursday to go to a neighbor’s house, was later found.
“All I know is I’m homeless and I’ve got people taking care of me,” she said.
Parts of eastern Kentucky received between 8 and 10 1/2 inches (20-27 centimeters) over 48 hours. About 13,000 utility customers in Kentucky remained without power Sunday, poweroutage.us reported.
President Joe Biden declared a federal disaster to direct relief money to more than a dozen Kentucky counties.
Last week’s flooding extended to West Virginia, where Gov. Jim Justice declared a state of emergency for six southern counties, and to Virginia, where Gov. Glenn Youngkin also made an emergency declaration that enabled officials to mobilize resources across the flooded southwest portion of the state.
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Raby reported from Charleston, West Virginia. Associated Press writer Kevin McGill in New Orleans contributed to this report.
Cronulla has been dealt a crushing blow to its premiership run with news fullback Will Kennedy likely won’t play again before finals.
The Sharks announced on Monday Kennedy will undergo surgery on after injuring his ankle in round 20.
Incredibly, the No.1 was able to remain on the field after the injury, and played a role in his side’s thrilling extra-time victory over South Sydney.
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The club expects Kennedy to miss “five or six games”, and with five games remaining in the regular season he almost certainly won’t be back before the playoffs.
The Sharks are destined to finish inside the top eight and feature in the post-season, where Kennedy will be vital to their title charge.
Will Kennedy of the Sharks. (Getty)
In the meantime, Cronulla has a number of options available to fill the Kennedy void.
Both halves – Matt Moylan and Nicho Hynes – can play fullback, with Braydon Trindall ready to jump into a playmaker role to cover a potential spine switch.
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When Kennedy missed two games earlier in the season, Hynes played fullback one week, and the next Lachlan Miller made his NRL debut in the jumper.
The Sharks’ round 21 team will be announced at 4pm on Tuesday.
They sit third on the NRL ladder.
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Their reluctance to speak to authorities or even open their front door concerned workers and managers in their building enough to call police officers to perform a welfare check in March. They said, “no we’re alright,” and that they did not need help, one witness said.
However, they “looked pretty timid and upset, scared for whatever reason,” the witness said.
The sisters’ decomposing bodies were found in separate bedrooms in their small flat when the sheriff attended to query their failure to pay rent in early June. Their bodies lay undiscovered for a month in a block of 200 apartments beside one of the busiest roads in south-west Sydney.
Reports in Middle Eastern news outlets, which were widely re-reported in Australia at the weekend, said that the sisters were known as Reem and Rawan and fled to Hong Kong while on a family holiday with $5000.
However, the reports appear to have confirmed the Alsehlis’ escape with a separate case.
Another set of sisters who used the names Reem and Rawan were famously detained in Hong Kong in 2018 at the request of Saudi authorities after renouncing Islam and fleeing their family while on holiday with $5000 they had secretly saved.
Contacts of those sisters confirmed to the herald that they were alive and well in an undisclosed country.
Like many women who leave Saudi Arabia, Reem and Rawan fled because of abuse by their male relatives. Police said they were in contact with the Alsehli sisters’ family, and there was “nothing to suggest” the women’s relatives were suspects.
A police source did confirm that the women’s family did not want to publicly issue photographs, but the coroner ordered their release to encourage members of the community to come forward with information that might help the investigation.
Another person with knowledge of the case, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the sisters had traveled to Australia through Jordan and Dubai. Police have been tight-lipped about their movements and visa status.
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The case has echoes of one in New York, in which the bodies of two Saudi sisters – who were seeking asylum – were found next to the Hudson River, bound together with duct tape by the wrists and ankles. There were no signs of trauma.
Their deaths were ruled a suicide, New York Times reported.
The coroner will decide whether to hold an inquiry once they have reviewed the police evidence and the autopsy results.
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The Republican primary features a onetime state superintendent-turned-attorney general, a real estate business owner who now ranks at the top of the GOP primary’s latest poll, and a Maricopa County state representative who married into the Udall family political dynasty.
They have courted endorsements from far-right figures including former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Rep. Paul Gossar. And each of the aspiring school chiefs have portrayed classrooms as being overrun with hypersexualized lessons and critical race theory that harm children still regrouping after months of mask mandates and school closures.
“Before, you couldn’t pay someone enough to go to an education board meeting — now all of a sudden, they’re taking the battle to the school districts,” Mike Noble of OH Predictive Insights, a nonpartisan Arizona pollster that has tracked Republican voters’ favored candidates throughout the campaign, said in an interview.
“Critical race theory has really caught on, especially with folks on the right, so that’s kind of their battlefront for superintendent of public instruction,” Noble said. “That’s one that really resonates with the Republican base.”
Critical race theory is an analytical practice of examining how race and racism permeates American law and society. Most public school officials across the country say they do not teach the theory, even in districts where lawmakers are seeking to ban it.
Hoffman, a speech pathologist who first took office as a political novice in a surprise 2018 victory, believes she can win with a message that appeals to independent voters — who made up roughly one-third of the Arizona electorate last year — and moderate Republicans willing to cross party lines. She’s trying to build the kind of message being urged by national liberal education groups scrambling to help Democrats gain ground on education policy.
“It can be disheartening for me to see the divisive language that really puts a wedge between our schools and families,” Hoffman said about her Republican opponents in an interview. She is running unopposed in her party primary.
“They want to be leading our school system. Yet they’re attacking it, and have this very negative rhetoric of distrust around our public schools in a time when our schools need our support more than ever,” she said.
While the Republicans hoping to challenge Hoffman in November have groused about classroom lessons, conservatives control Arizona education policy. Ducey and the state’s GOP-controlled legislature have enacted a rush of education laws during the pandemic despite Hoffman’s opposition, including a universal school voucher program, and bans on sports participation and gender-affirming surgical procedures for LGBTQ youth.
The state superintendent technically carries an administrative role to distribute school funding and carry out laws and policies, though they also hold influential posts on the state board of education and state university board of regents.
Democrats nationally are also struggling to recover their grip on school-based politics after Youngkin won office last year with help from frustrated and swing-voting parents angered by the consequences of Covid-19’s school lockdowns.
Liberal advocacy group research shows the party has lost the trust of voters and parents in dozens of congressional battlegrounds, including Arizona, to handle education. And polls point to frustration that both major parties — but especially Democrats — are more focused on race and gender instead of helping students get back on track in class.
“The political high ground in education debates will be held by whichever side is seen as focused on advancing education fundamentals,” Hart Research Associates pollsters wrote in a June 21 memo for the American Federation of Teachers labor group, following interviews with 1,758 likely voters in Arizona and six other battleground states. “The side seen as politicizing education will be at a distinct disadvantage.”
The trio of Republicans listed on Tuesday’s primary ballot agree they want to remove politics from education and get schools back to basics, even as they appeal to party-line voters with culture-based appeals.
“This a terrible, terrible direction that the country has gone in,” said Tom Horne, a leading Hoffman opponent who seeks a political comeback following tenures as the state’s attorney general and school superintendent.
The leading fundraiser in the race, largely thanks to $550,000 in personal loans to his own campaign, Horne has promoted his past efforts to ban local Mexican-American studies programs — later deemed unconstitutional by a federal judge — as a pillar of his campaign despite a past record of alleged campaign finance violations and a reported FBI investigation.
“I want to get the focus back on academics,” Horne said in an interview. “I want to get rid of the distractions, which in addition to being distractions from academics, are inherently evil and immoral and backwards in emphasizing race and sexuality rather than teaching kids to treat each other as individuals.”
Real estate broker Shiry Sapir said she pulled her children out of their public school and enrolled them in a private institution when Covid-19 pushed classes into remote learning, and she has emerged in local polls this summer.
“I’ve literally been all over the state talking to different Republican groups. The message from them is absolutely what I’ve been talking about: the sexualization, the grooming, the critical race theory, the lack of academic excellence, and of course the issues with masks,” Sapir said in an interview.
“It’s not just conservative mothers, and it’s not their anger. It’s their worry. We’re worried about our children,” Sapir said. “I am the extent of that. I’m the voice that we don’t have. I’m the voice that we must have.”
State Rep. Michelle Udall, chair of the Arizona House education committee and a licensed math teacher, backed legislation that would have allowed state regulators and civil courts to revoke educator licenses and fine schools $5,000 if “any form of blame or judgment on the basis of race, ethnicity or sex” is part of their curriculum.
“You can teach the facts, you can teach what happened, and you can help students understand the horrible things that people went through and the horrible outcomes that racism brings,” Udall said in an interview. “Students need to know that history. Those are skills and knowledge they need to be successful. Whereas critical race theory and the gender identity stuff, those are not.”
Conservatives are staring down a very tight race. An OH Predictive Insights poll of roughly 500 likely GOP primary voters since July 27 showed Horne and Sapir tied for first place with support from 21 percent of respondents. Udall was in third place with 14 percent. Forty-four percent of voters said they were undecided. The survey had an approximate margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
Still, it’s not clear Arizona’s general election voters will flock to a Republican superintendent candidate who has focused on cultivating the party’s most conservative wing.
A May survey of 500 likely state voters commissioned by the Education Forward Arizona organization concluded that fewer than half of respondents supported bans on critical race theory or restricting discussions of gender identity and sexual orientation during sex education.
That leaves Hoffman, who has endorsements from the Human Rights Campaign and Planned Parenthood, to save her campaign funds and prepare for the fall.
“We have such a high number of independent voters here and also a portion of Democrats and Republicans who will cross party lines for a candidate that they believe in,” Hoffman said.
“I hope I will be a model,” she said. “We will find out in November.”
We had the usual slowdown in June and July where we saw mostly announcements but not that many big releases. But August has just arrived and it will be full of new games to play.
There’s something for everyone with two big sports games coming up, a turn-based tactical shooter, games that let you start a cult or build a university campus, a highly anticipated crime game and a few nostalgic remasters and remakes. PC gamers are getting yet another PlayStation gem with improved graphics.
Let’s have a look at the best games releasing in August 2022.
Hard West 2
Hard West 2 is very similar to XCOM but with cowboys in a supernatural version of the American West. It features turn-based tactical combat so you’ll have to think before you make a move.
Hard West 2 releases on August 4 for PC on Steam.
Two Point Campus
A follow-up to the successful Two Point Hospital game, Two Point Campus is a business simulator that tasks you with building and managing a university campus. You’ll be appointing staff and organizing classes, but you’ll also have to take care of your students’ needs and keep them happy.
Two Point Campus is coming August 9 for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch.
Cult of the Lamb
In this one you play as lamb that is starting its own cult and recruiting other animals to join. Once you have indoctrinated some followers, you can assign them to do tasks for you while you’re busy completing dungeons and slaying bosses.
Cult of the Lamb’s is slated for August 11 coming to PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch.
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
PC gamers will be treated to yet another PlayStation-exclusive game this month. Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered brings one of the best Spidey games of all time to the most powerful gaming platform and with the best graphics.
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered is coming August 12 for PC.
Madden NFL 23
Every August we’re getting the latest American football video game and this year is no exception. Madden NFL 23 promises quite a few improvements over its predecessor and this year’s box cover will pay tribute to legendary NFL coach and commentator John Madden, who slowed his name and expertise to kickstart the video game series back in the ’80s.
Madden NFL 23 launches on August 20 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.
Saint’s Row
Saints Row is like GTA but different. Both are crime games but while GTA tries to keep it real, Saints Row brings a more lighthearted over-the-top version of the “build your own criminal empire” fantasy.
This new Saints Row game is a reboot of the series which takes you to the fictional city of Santo Ileso and promises a huge open world to explore and conquer, plus a lot of ways to customize your character, cars and guns.
Saints Row will be out August 23 for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.
Pac-Man World Re-Pac
Pac-Man World Re-Pac is a remake of a popular 1999 Pac-Man game for the original PlayStation console. Expect loads of fun and updated graphics as you jump your way through six different worlds playing as the iconic yellow ball.
Pac-Man World Re-Pac is releasing on August 26 to PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch.
Destroy All Humans! 2 – Failed
Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reproved is another remake. The original game was released on PS2 and Xbox in 2006 and it had you play as an alien posing as the US President in the ’60s while seeking revenge on the KGB for destroying his ship from him.
Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reprobed releases on August 30 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.
F1 Manager 2022
After F1 22, which put you in the driver’s seat of a Formula One car, F1 Manager 22 will let you call the shots at one of the 10 teams in motorsport’ premier discipline. This new game, which is poised to start a series, promises unprecedented control over every minute aspect of F1 team management.
F1 Manager 2022 arrives on August 30 for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.
TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection
After Shredder’s Revenge showed everyone how to make a nostalgic ’90s game in 2022 the right way, we are now getting a compilation of 13 classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games with The Cowabunga Collection. The games are coming in their authentic 8- and 16-bit era glory and all three Tournament Fighters versions are included.
TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection will be out August 30 for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch.
The party is going strong on both sides of the world after Australia’s Commonwealth Games Rugby Sevens gold medal triumph.
Taking to the field just before 6am AEST, the Aussies were unstoppable, leading 22-0 before two late tries gave some respectability to the scoreline in the 22-12 result over Fiji.
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The Commonwealth gold is the final piece of Australia’s trophy cabinet as the side won the 2016 Olympic gold and are the current Rugby Sevens World Series champions.
And while our stars were living it up, those left back at home were also getting in on the celebrations — just ask Richelle Levi.
The mother of the Levi sisters Teagan, 18, and Maddison, 20, was ready for the win, showing up on Channel 7’s Sunriseafter enjoying the spoils of victory.
Asked if the party was going to go on all day, Richelle was clearly already enjoying herself.
“100 per cent, two bottles of champagne already done — woo!” she said.
Sunrise host Natalie Barr and David Koch were in hysterics over the cross to the Gold Coast.
At a bowls club on the Gold Coast, Richelle said: “This is their little club, they used to sit out on that balcony …”
Weatherman Sam Mac added: “…while you were drinking champagne?”
He added: “I feel like the Olympics was all about Dean Boxall (Ariarne Titmus’ coach) in terms of passionate supporter, well I see your Dean Boxall and I raise you Richelle.”
Back in the studio, Edwina Batholemew said: “Imagine winning a gold medal and waking up the next morning with messages, ‘your mum’s on TV, she’s had two bottles of champagne, and she’s a riot”.
However, it wouldn’t be too much of a surprise for the champion sisters who knew their mum was prepared for victory and was even more loose off camera.
“Mum had a bottle of champagne ready at 6 in the morning — she was ready to celebrate and I think she’ll be on it all day celebrating,” a jubilant Maddison Levi said after Australia’s historic maiden Sevens gold medal win over Fiji.
“I don’t know if I can say it on camera (what mum said) but they were definitely happy.
“There were tears of joy. It was a pretty emotional rollercoaster…. they’ve been with us through the highs and lows and to have two kids standing on that podium is pretty awesome.
“They definitely had tears. But lots of swearing, I can confirm.”
Fans may need to remember the Levi name as the duo are set for long careers in the sporting spotlight.
The Levi sisters have been pursued by rugby, AFLW and rugby league, such is their athletic prowess.
Maddison played eight games for the Gold Coast Suns in the AFLW, kicking three goals, before representing Australia at the Tokyo Olympics. Teagan was drafted No. 6 by the Suns in the 2021 Draft before joining the Rugby Sevens tour.
But before the Games, Maddi revealed she would like to try everything.
“AFLW and NRLW is still there, which later down the track we’d love to give a go, but for now our heart is set on sevens,” Maddi told the Sydney Morning Herald.
“In sevens there is so much opportunity and it’s a growing sport. With the Olympics coming up and World Series [tournaments] every year, traveling the world with your best friend … there’s no other sport that compares to that.”
Teagan adds: “Mads has been my best friend since day one. I guess we do fight a little bit, but as we’ve grown older I wouldn’t change it for the world to finally play in an Aussie sevens team together. It’s a dream come true.”
