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They say that happiness equals reality minus expectations, and, unfortunately for these eight Switch games, reality landed nowhere near what was expected. It’s hard to blame the critical and community reception for some of them, but not all of them are bad. Some just aren’t what people were hoping they would be. So we’ve ranked them by the size of the gap between promise and result, from the mild letdowns to the ones that stung most or didn’t justify for the cost. Consider this your reminder to check your expectations at the door. Expected: A showstopper. Got: A chill, easy stage show Here, Peach takes the lead in a theater full of costume-themed stage plays, including a detective, a mermaid, and a swordfighter. If you love Princess Peach and enjoy dressing up dolls — which, same — this may sound like a good conceit. Critics largely enjoyed the charm of the outfits granting Peach various abilities, but found that as a gaming experience it was “pretty, if shallow.” Others found that the game was short, without offering much of a challenge to justify its $60 price tag. Princess Peach: Showtime!

European Medical Journal news storyPeople living with HIV may experience subtle changes in heart muscle function even when conventional measures of cardiac performance remain normal, according to findings from a systematic review and meta-analysis. Researchers identified significantly impaired global longitudinal strain (GLS) among people with HIV compared with HIV-uninfected individuals, despite preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) in both groups. The findings suggest that speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) could provide additional information about early myocardial dysfunction in this population. Read the full news story here.

MMA Fighting has Daniel Dubois vs. Fabio Wardley 2 live round-by-round updates for one of the most anticipated boxing fights of the year at O2 Arena in London, England, on Saturday afternoon. The main event is expected to begin around 5:30 p.m. on DAZN. Check out our Dubois vs. Wardley 2 results page to find out what happened on the undercard. Daniel Dubois (23-3, 22 knockouts) won the WBO heavyweight title in their first meeting this year with a 11th-round knockout of Wardley this past May. Fabio Wardley (20-1-1, 19 knockouts) suffered his first career loss against Dubois. He had won three straight heading into their first fight together. Check out the Dubois vs. Wardley 2 round-by-round live blog below. Daniel Dubois vs. Fabio Wardley 2 Live BlogThe rematch of one of the best fights of the year is just around the corner. Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois make the walk now. Round 1:Referee Steve Gray oversees this championship bout. The crowd is buzzing. Somebody gonna get hurt. Dubois strikes first with a jab, and seconds later connects with a right that wobbles Wardley! Wow! He touches canvas and we have our first 10-count, Wardley answers.

Picture this. You're me, and you boot up the demo for Rain98, an incredibly blue-looking, rainy visual novel set in Tokyo, 1998, about a woman who refers to herself as the Angolmois, a world-ending reference to the predictions of good ole Nostradamus. At one point you have to light this woman's cigarette in a lightly stylish sequence. You get to a bit where you're asked to put your name in, and you put it in because like its predecessors, this is surely a self-insert kind of situation. Only you get a Steam achievement for getting a game over for putting your name in. Rude! But curious, so you, and of course I mean I, pressed on. In Rain98, you play as a nameless Generic Man who is deeply troubled, if not outright suicidal (of which this game has strong themes of) by the state of the world as it is in our present day. It's a fair stance to take! I would not exactly say things are good right now. But they weren't great in 1998 Japan, the year that Generic Man is somehow transported back to, finding this young woman, Reina Amehara, the Angolmois, in what he thinks is his apartment.

Wildfires strip American forests bare every year, and the real question is always whether the trees grow back. Mount St. Helens is the clearest case anyone has studied. Its blast scorched square miles of Washington forest down to bare rock and ash. Decades later the trees are back, and much of that happened with no planting at all. A few firs buried under snow and a single caged gopher helped drive the comeback. This is the best look we have at how trees grow back after a forest is wiped out. Snow still covered the slopes of Mount St. Helens during a 1982 eruption.