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Microsoft has been expanding its presence in the cloud streaming space increasingly over recent years, and the unsurprisingly, the company is continuing to take steps to further its cloud goals. Microsoft has announced that Xbox gaming is coming to Amazon Fire TV.

Starting July, select Fire TV devices will be able to direct Xbox Game Pass Ultimate directly, via the cloud. The supported devices will be the Fire TV Stick 4K Max and the Fire TV Stick 4K, and this will be available in over 25 countries. Players will, of course, also need a BluetootOnline Bettingh enabled controller, as well as a subscription of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.

“For people new to console gaming, or for those looking for another way to…

Dragon Age: The Veilguard has divided opinion, as Dragon Age games tend to do, but how has it fared on the commercial side of things? Publisher EA has yet to provide any official tidbits about how the action RPG has sold so far, but as per European sales data provided by GSD, it seems to be tracking below other major releases in the genre this year so far.

That’s as per GamesIndustry’s Christopher Dring, who recently shared the aforementioned details on Twitter, stating that Dragon Age: The Veilguard was the seventh-highest selling game in Europe for the month of October. Reportedly, its first week sales in the region are 18 percent lower than what Dragon’s Dogma 2 managed upon its release earlier this year, an…

Former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has confirmed he is to launch a new career as a professional boxer.

The 38-year-old, who retired from football two years ago, is to compete in a series of fights over the next year with a view to earning a shot at a title belt.

The challenge, backed by betting company Betfair, will see Ferdinand work with a team of boxing coaches and fitness trainers as he attempts to earn his professional licence.

When Betfair approached me about the Defender to Contender challenge, the chance to prove myself in a new sport was a real draw, the former England international said in a statement.

Boxing is an amazing sport for the mind and the body. I have always had a passion for it and this challenge is the perfect opportu…

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Starting their Europa League qualifying campaign in midweek, Aberdeen will welcome Faroese outfit NSI Runavik to an empty Pittodrie Stadium on Thursday night.

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Starting with the hosts, while Aberdeen might have opened the new Premiership campaign with a close-fought 1-0 defeat against Rangers and a string of off-field issues, the Reds have managed to bounce back in much-needed fashion. Managing to hold onto their lead against Livingston last weekend and managing to leave Pittodrie with a 2-1 victory, Derek McInnes men have landed back-to-back top-flight contests and will just be desperate to carry that momentum onto Thursday s European showdown. Falling out of the Europa League qualifiers at the third round in five of the las…

Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has lauded Liverpool s decision to appoint Brendan Rodgers as their manager.

Rodgers, 39, takes over the reins at the Anfield after they sacked club legend Kenny Dalglish, and Mourinho has backed the move to be a success.

I am very happy with his appointment at Liverpool, especially because he did it as a consequence of all his amazing work at Swansea, Mourinho told reporters.

Brendan is a good man, a family guy and a friend.

Rodgers began his coaching career with Reading s youth team before being snapped up by Mourinho at Chelsea.

He has since gone on to coach Watford, Reading and Swansea since breaking into management back in 2008.

Mourinho believes forward-thinking tactics and ideas give Rodgers the r…

Mauricio Isla broke Uruguay s stubborn resistance as host nation Chile advanced to the Copa America semi-finals as 1-0 victors against the defending champions.

Uruguay were reduced to 10 men just past the hour mark, when Edinson Cavani saw red for a second yellow card in Santiago on Wednesday.

Cavani received his marching orders for slapping Gonzalo Jara in the face, capping a turbulent week for the Paris Saint-Germain star after his father was allegedly involved in a car crash that led to a fatality in Uruguay on Monday.

Uruguay s centre-back pairing of Diego Godin and Jose Gimenez were an immovable force up until the 80th minute, when Isla controlled the ball on the edge of the penalty area and fired Chile bidding to win Copa America for the first time  into t…

Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Tanguy Ndombele has told the club that he wants to leave before the summer transfer window closes this month, according to . Ndombele has wanted to leave for a while, and he made it clear to Spurs earlier this summer that he does not want to be at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium anymore.

Ndombele did not play in any of Tottenham’s five pre-season friendlies. The 24-year-old midfielder was also left out of Spurs’ opening Premier League game against Manchester City last weekend and will not play n the Europa Conference League on Thursday evening either.

The France international midfielder made 28 starts and five substitute appearances in the Premier League for Spurs , scoring three goals and providing two assists in the process. Ndombele also ga…

Premier League referees’ chief Howard Webb says the change in approach on added time is here to stay, despite early criticism from top-flight players and managers.

Referees in competitions worldwide have been instructed by the game’s lawmakers to measure time lost to stoppages more accurately, an approach first adopted at the World Cup in Qatar last year where an additional 11 minutes and six seconds were played on average in the group stage.

Webb said the change was necessary as football gets to grips with the “dark arts” of time-wasting, with a a more robust approach set to be taken to dealing with players who delay restarts in play.

Sunday’s Community Shield lasted over 105 minutes, with Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola saying the International …

Struggling Palmeiras have sacked Brazil World Cup-winning coach Luiz Felipe Scolari on Thursday.

Scolari may have helped Palmeiras pick up the Copa do Brazil earlier this year but his side have suffered a bleak run in the Brazil Serie A in recent times, winning just one of their past eight games to find themselves in 19th on the table, seven points adrift of relegation safety.

A 3-1 loss to fourth-placed Vasco Da Gama on Wednesday proved the last straw for Palmeiras football director Cesar Sampiao, who instigated a meeting on Thursday that saw 63-year-old Scolari dumped as coach.

Immediately after the loss to Vasco, Scolari, who led Brazil to the 2002 World Cup, said he had no intention of quitting from his position.

The idea of quitting has not crossed…

The alleged disloyal payment made by FIFA to Michel Platini that resulted in the UEFA president and FIFA chief Sepp Blatter being suspended was detailed in a 1998 UEFA Executive Committee report, according to reports by French newspaper Journal du Dimanche.

Platini and Blatter are due to attend personal hearings with FIFA s ethics judge from December 16 in relation to the alleged payment of two million Swiss francs, received by the former France captain in 2011 for work he claims to have carried out for world football s governing body between 1999 and 2002.

The transaction is the subject of a criminal investigation by the Swiss attorney general and the duo were handed 90-day provisional bans from all football activities on October 8 by FIFA s Ethics Committee.