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Now you’ve made it to the age of 60. The kids are gone, the mortgage is almost paid off and it’s time for the retirement accounts to start paying out. Gas up the yacht, honey, we’re headed for the Caribbean! Hang on, Ahab. The temptation is to switch from saving to spending immediately. But retirement is a beginning, not an end. We are living longer now than ever before. This means that if you want to stop working at 60, you’d better be ready to make it last a good 25 years or longer....

“We got crushed,” said Jeff Stoneback, MGM Resorts sports book hub manager. “Things started out great in the morning where we won a couple big games with the Jets and 49ers, but then it was all downhill from there as favorite to OVER occurred in all three afternoon games and then things got even worse when the Packers covered along with the total going OVER.” No sports book was safe from the public assault....

Despite the decadeslong hype between the Chicago and St. Louis faithful, the truth is that, for supposed bitter rivals, the Cubs and the Cardinals don’t actually fight each other in the playoff race all that often. In 2017, however, the rivalry (finally) has life. MORE: Every MLB team’s worst regular-season memory, revisited While the Cubs and Cardinals have won 13 of the past 17 NL Central division crowns, only three times have the two teams finished within five games of each other in the standings....

RELATED: Valorant: 10 Tips For Playing As Agent Omen Sova is an Initiator, and he specializes in gathering intel on the enemy team and their locations, then capitalizing on that intel with a couple of different abilities. Let’s take a look at Sova, and how to get the most out of playing as him: 10 Shock Bolt One of Sova’s abilities is the Shock Bolt. This is an arrow that, when it lands, detonates an electric charge that deals damage to enemies depending on their proximity to the explosion....

Omen is best known for his smoke and teleportation ability, which allows him to control a site and lurk. The Controller agent has been a part of the game since the beta. However, with a major shift in the meta, Omen doesn’t seem to be an effective Controller anymore. Viper and Astra are the two Controller agents that are favorites in competitive plays and tournaments. Whereas, Omen had only a 2% pick rate in Valorant Champions and a 4....

The patch will set forth Episode 2, Act 3, and will bring the Battlepass and the Forsaken skin lineup. With Breeze, the latest map, being a part of the patch as well, it seems that Valorant players will have a huge treat when the patch is deployed, which is just a few hours from now. The amount of content that Riot is going to deliver with the patch is huge, and resultantly, the Valorant community is waiting with sheer excitement....

Riot Games has kept their 5v5 tactical shooter game engaging with in-game events, cosmetics and different rewards. From providing ranks in competitive game modes to rewarding their progression through the Account Leveling System, they have brought in several features to motivate the players and keep the game engaging. Recently, popular Valorant dataminer Mike (@ValorLeaks on Twitter) discovered a new system which might hit the game in the future. He posted a picture portraying how the system might function, with some more details....

One such optimization initiative is “Deck Verified”, which Valve hopes will make Steam Deck-compatible games easier to find. Here’s the details. Valve Launches Deck Verified Program According to the Verified page at SteamDeck.com, Valve is currently “reviewing the entire Steam catalog” to ascertain exactly which titles will and which titles won’t work with the Steam Deck. This work is currently underway, and will be a massive undertaking for Valve, considering the sheer volume of titles available through its online marketplace....

And while the Steam Machine and SteamOS have been making strides towards a public unveiling, the Steam controller has been kept closely under wraps. That’s apparently for good reason, as the controller has gone under a significant change. As part of the Steam Dev Days convention, Valve revealed a new design for the Steam controller, the recommended input device for all Steam Machines. The controller itself still brandishes the two touchpad inputs on the left and right, but the device’s central touch screen has been replaced with a traditional set of 8 buttons....

Ice was one of the most-talked-about types in the buildup to Pokemon Scarlet & Violet. The introduction of Terastallizing Pokemon allows ice types to retain or amplify their offensive potential while shedding the defensive liability of the ice typing. RELATED: Pokemon Scarlet & Violet: The Best Areas To Explore If You Want Ice-Types That offers some interesting possibilities for a Pokemon like Beartic. Here’s how Pokemon Scarlet & Violet players can find Cubchoo and how to evolve it into Beartic....

It would be fair to say that the Titans’ raiding unit has not delivered up to expectations and it’s been their defense which has shined more. The Titans’ raiding unit led by Rahul Chaudhari managed to score just 13 points last match and Rahul has not had the best of starts to the season. He has managed a respectable but not incredible tally of points and has scored 57 points from 7 games....

Let’s rewind to the beginning of June 2013 — Jayson Tatum was 15 years old, Jaylen Brown was 16 years old and Paul Pierce had just wrapped his 15th season with the Celtics franchise. Weeks later, one draft-night trade would bring an end to an era while planting seeds for the future of two high schoolers. MORE: Why did Jayson Tatum go third in 2017 NBA Draft? In just nine short years, the Celtics are on the cusp of turning that franchise-altering trade into the 18th championship in franchise history....

Moscow - The second international test event for Sochi 2014′s Iceberg Skating Palace is still two days away, but the arena is already earning rave reviews from top figures in the short-track speedskating world. The fifth stage of the ISU short-track speedskating World Cup starts this weekend at the futuristic 12,000-seater arena, which only opened in December. “The facility is great,” said Canada’s short-track program director Yves Hamelin, who led the Canadians to two goals and five overall medals at Vancouver 2010....

The 20-year-old defender was bought by Madrid in 2015 but spent the following campaign on loan at former club Real Zaragoza. Last term he was loaned out to Eintracht Frankfurt and made 25 appearances as they finished 11th in the Bundesliga. He will finally get his chance at the Santiago Bernabeu in 2017-18, though, and steps into the shoes of Pepe - who completed a free transfer to Besiktas earlier this week....

At the launch of Valorant, there were 11 Agents, which is more than enough to successfully mix up the gameplay. The round-based FPS has impressed, thanks to a successful beta campaign and competent launch. But the Agents are what help set the game apart, providing depth and character to the competitive shooter. RELATED: Valorant Interested in Exploring Replay System ‘Soon’ Twitter user @ValorantExpress has started making a name for themselves by datamining Valorant and collecting information on unreleased and potential upcoming content....

Under the old system, developers who wanted to submit a game to Steam would pay a one-time, modest fee of $100 which allowed them to submit as many games as they wanted to Greenlight, where any and all members of the community could vote whether the game would appear in the Steam store. Under the new Steam Direct system, the voting is no more and developers will have to pay a fee that could turn out as high as $5000 per game, instead....

With so many gym leaders in the Pokemon franchise, every one of them has their own unique gym badge for players to earn and collect. Recently, an online fan made a short animation that displays the various gym badges from several Pokemon video games. The Reddit user CasualThought recently made a post that features the gym badges players earn across multiple regions in the main video games. RELATED: Pokemon Could Have Seen Players Earning Whips Instead of Gym Badges...

NODWIN Gaming is one of the leading esports organizers of South Asia. On May 29th, Riot games announced that it would bring the Valorant Conquerors Championship to the South Asian region in partnership with NODWIN Gaming. Today, NODWIN Gaming revealed the format and some other details of the tournament. Valorant Conquerors Championship format, prize pool, and details The Valorant Conquerors Championship will be the qualifying tournament for the APAC Last Chance Qualifiers, which is already a part of the 2021 Valorant Champions Tour....

To keep the game entertaining for its players, Valorant developers are always putting in some hard work every day. Moreover, to improve the gameplay experience of their players, Valorant developers have taken some strict majors in the past. Vanguard, Riot’s anti-cheat system, protects the game from hackers. Players are restricted from any kind of use of third-party software. Riot has recently started to enforce both TPM and Secure boot to play Valorant on Windows 11....

In a report from Law360, Valve’s efforts to reject the subpoena in court were detailed. Valve argued that Apple’s subpoena led to an undue burden on the company, as it has a small team and would have to redirect several full-time employees to the task. US Magistrate Judge Thomas S. Hixon dismissed the idea, telling Valve, “Don’t worry, it’s not just you,” and that Apple had “salted the earth with subpoenas....