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Messi, who led his country to a runners-up finish in the 2014 edition of the tournament, is expected to launch a final charge for the ultimate glory later this year. The Paris Saint-Germain star will aim to end Argentina’s 36-year World Cup drought after clinching two international trophies in the space of 12 months. Speaking to La Nacion, Batisuta claimed that the seven-time Ballon d’Or winner will shine in the upcoming FIFA World Cup due to the presence of a well-balanced La Albiceleste team....

Speculation around Messi’s future continues to swirl, with the mercurial No.10’s contract set to expire at the end of June following his public falling-out with the club’s hierarchy in the summer of 2020. That means that Saturday’s meeting with Real Madrid at Estadio Alfredo di Stefano would be his last-ever Clasico if he does choose to leave Camp Nou behind. Goal understands that the 33-year-old is completely ignoring the situation around his future until the end of the season as Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain and Inter continue to be linked with his signature....

The Germany international goalkeeper has just completed his third season at Camp Nou after a slow start. Valverde: No doubt Messi is best He spent much of the first two years playing back-up to Claudio Bravo, restricting him to domestic cup and Champions League outings. Ter Stegen is now Barca’s undisputed number one, however, with 46 appearances made alongside Messi and Co. in 2016-17. And he has now lifted the lid on his experiences with the La Liga giants, hailing two of his colleagues as “the best” and “spectacular”....

Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Edition comes right in time too, as gamers look forward to the PS4 and not one, but two new Metal Gear titles: Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes and Metal Gear Solid 5: Phantom Pain. Needless to say, if gamers wanted to get caught up on the franchise’s very complex story, here’s a pretty good opportunity. Although a few of the Metal Gear titles have made their way to other, non-Sony platforms this Legacy Collection will apparently be a PS3 exclusive....

Shared on the discussion site’s popular forum r/mildlyinteresting, the post by Justin (IGotTheDud on Reddit) from Toronto, Canada included a picture of the package instructions with the caption: “The instructions on my oatmeal say to cook it longer in the French translation.” The post now has over 34,000 upvotes and thousands of comments. Detailing both the English “instructions” and French “préparation” information, the image shows the English instructions, which read: “Bring water and salt to a boil....

Midnight Pals reimagines the classic Nickelodeon horror series Are You Afraid of the Dark. But instead of anonymous kids telling spooky stories “submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society,” it’s top writers like Stephen King, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe and Dean Koontz. Written in script form, the account has its own lore, with Koontz as a wholesome, dog-loving kid, Redwall author Brian Jacques as a tiny cartoon mouse and Harry Potter scribe J....

But while you may think Playfair is the most recognizable face in his family of five — wife Roxanne and sons Dylan, Jackson and Austyn — think again. “On TV timeouts, [referees and linesmen] just skate over, and be like: ‘Is that your kid in ‘Letterkenny?’ And I’m like ‘yeah,’” said the dad, who is equally proud of all his boys, in a phone chat with Sporting News. “They’ll blurt something out about it or they’ll skate by and blurt something out [from the show]....

PSG are scheduled to face LOSC Lille and Stade Rennes in Ligue 1 on February 6 and 12 respectively. Following this, they will welcome Real Madrid to the Parc des Princes for the first leg of their UEFA Champions League Round of 16 encounter. Pochettino clarified that the duo are yet to gain full fitness. A final call on their availability for the Real Madrid clash will be taken at a later date....

The Spain captain was responding to the 57-year-old who, earlier in the week, said the Real Madrid defender was not as good as his Atletico Madrid rival Diego Godin. Ramos, 32, was speaking after Spain’s 1-0 win over Iran at the World Cup on Wednesday and made it clear his Barcelona rival was far superior to Maradona. “In Argentina they know that Maradona is light years away from the best Argentine player in history which, for me, is Lionel Messi,” he said....

The multiplayer title is developed by Camelot Software Planning, who have become the go-to studio for Mario’s numerous sports-themed offshoots. As well as developing multiple golf spin-offs, they were also responsible for 2018’s Mario Tennis Aces and 2017’s Mario Sports Superstars, the latter of which saw challengers from across the Mushroom Kingdom competing in a variety of athletic minigames. Each of these titles puts a fun arcade twist on their given sport, much like Mario Kart does for the racing genre....

Since the premise of add-ons in gaming are usually met with scepticism by the masses, Nintendo took the liberty of confirming that Mario Golf: World Tour will launch with a very respectable number of courses (10 courses featuring an accumulative total of 126 holes to be exact), which is on par with previous entries in the Mario Golf series. That said, this new content will expand significantly on the available courses and golfers....

With a collection of comic book and gaming hall-of-famers populating the game’s cast of fighters, it might seem difficult to come up with a reason for all of them to meet in one massive game. The trailer doesn’t give an exact answer, but it’s unlikely that fans will be disappointed. The new trailer is surprisingly cinematic, looking more like an animated series than a trailer, and features Resident Evil’s Wesker as the first to be in possession of a mysterious briefcase....

Unfortunately, in the small bits and pieces that we have gathered about the DLC, not much was known in regards to the each class’s abilities and skill set. A clever Mass Effect 3 fan, however, was able to dig through the DLC files and discover not just the new abilities for each of the six new N7 characters, but a pretty detailed paragraph summing up each of their strengths on the battlefield....

Video of the reptile was posted to Facebook on Monday by the relocation service Snake Catcher Noosa, after wrangler Luke Huntley was called to remove it from a home in Sunshine Beach, a coastal town in the Shire of Noosa, Queensland. In the cell phone footage, Huntley takes a plant out of the circular pot before instantly spotting the carpet python, which was tightly coiled up inside. Huntley suggested that the snake may emerge by itself, but ultimately resorted to pulling it out by the head and placing it into a bag to be safely located in the wild....

What exactly is Rockstar Games going to do to breathe some new life into the titular character? Quite a few things. First off, fans of the Max Payne games will be pleased to know that the series’ comic book paneling style of storytelling will be making a return and will feature a motion-comic approach that will use in-game assets. James McCaffrey, otherwise known as the voice of Max Payne, will return to lend not only his voice, but his face, movements and his appearance....

The Cameroon international forward turned out with the Argentine at Camp Nou from 2004 until 2009 and saw at first hand the talents that carried him to five Ballons d’Or. He believes that Mbappe, who signed for Paris Saint-Germain on loan from Monaco last summer with a clause that will take him permanently to the French capital as of next season, is capable of picking up Messi’s mantle. “He’s the future Messi if he manages his status, if he understands what is happening around his name,” the Konyaspor forward, who scored over 100 times for the Camp Nou club, said of the 19-year-old to France Football....

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2p-q03AVi0&feature=related Medal of Honor: Warfighter has a lot to prove heading into this week’s E3. How will the game propel the modern military genre to greater heights than Call of Duty or Battlefield? What measures are being taken to ensure the sequel avoids the lukewarm reception of 2010’s Medal of Honor? And will Frostbite 2 be more than just a banal bark. We sought answers going into EA’s press conference, and Danger Close Games executive producer Greg Goodrich took the stage with a live gameplay demo to afford some answers....

Mega Man Universe was originally a game that allowed players to create and customize their own levels and characters, and the created content could then be shared with others who play the game. Even other Capcom characters, such as Street Fighter’s Ryu and Ghost and Goblins’ Arthur, were going to be joining in on the madness, but that’s obviously no longer happening. The downloadable platformer was playable at TGS and New York Comic-Con just these past few months, but initial reactions to the hands-on time spent with Mega Man Universe generally weren’t too positive....

The Blues will face the five-time Ballon d’Or winner once again when they host the Catalan side for the first leg of their last-16 clash at Stamford Bridge on February 20. Although Messi has some bad memories of trips to Chelsea, having missed a penalty against them in the 2012 semi-final that saw the Premier League side advance to the final with a 3-2 aggregate win. Messi may have been left devastated by that incident, but Morata has warned Antonio Conte’s side that containing the Argentine icon is dangerous enough to leave Chelsea in tears next week....

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance will be taking the fiction in a new direction, courtesy of the cyber-ninja Raiden leading the story told by Platinum Games. Today we have a look at Rising’s North American box art, providing what we’ve come to expect from the slash-happy marketing. For some of the most devoted and die-hard fans of the series, Revengeance has plenty of work to do before it’s believed to be a solid game, let alone a valid entry in the Metal Gear canon....