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Disney accuses Trump officials of ‘blatant violations’ of constitution amid FCC battle

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Lawyers tell judge ABC being unfairly targeted as US regulator seeks review of network’s local TV station licenses Lawyers for Disney accused the Trump administration of “blatant violations of the US constitution” and censorship on Tuesday in the first court hearing over the Federal Communications Commission’s early review of the media giant’s eight local television station licenses. District judge Loren AliKhan seemed unswayed by government arguments that the order to force Disney’s ABC to apply years early to renew local television station licenses…

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Braid-creator Jonathan Blow on making the 'biggest puzzle game ever'

For ten years, Jonathan Blow has been working with a small team on what he believes is "the biggest puzzle game ever made". The American developer is renowned as one of the fathers of the modern indie game movement, creating the genre-defining puzzle-platformer Braid in 2008. Now, a decade on from his last project, The Witness, The Order of the Sinking Star is due to be released on Thursday - a game with roughly 1,500 puzzles that he estimates could take around 500 hours to complete.

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UK risks being 'uninvestable' if new oil and gas fields not approved, warns Equinor

Oil giant Equinor has warned it may shun further investments in the UK if new oil and gas fields at Rosebank and Jackdaw are not approved. "The question will be: is the UK investable in the future? I hope it will not come to that," said Anders Opedal, boss of the Norwegian state oil company which is part owner of the sites. He told the BBC the company would "have to take a hard view about it" if a decision was made to reject new drilling.