The final Aquaman trailer is here to take us on the full journey of Arthur Curry’s life, from birth to protector of the deep.

Opening with his own legend — that one day a new king will use his powerful trident to rebuild Atlantis — the preview takes us through an idyllic montage that shows the training Arthur (Jason Momoa) underwent in preparation for his destiny. It recalls his deep-sea swim class, sparring lessons, and learning about the trident that holds “the power of Atlantis.” That’s when things get serious.

Continuing the prophetic trend of the trailer, Arthur is warned, “In the wrong hands, it would bring destruction, but in the hands of the true heir, it would unite above and below,” and what do you know — the trident is on the verge of ending up in the wrong hands, those of his half-brother, Orm (Patrick Wilson).

Fortunately, Mera (Amber Heard) is on hand to inspire Arthur to be the hero the world needs, prompting him to don his most form-fitting golden chestplate and get to work.

Can he put a stop to the war between land and water that Orm so desperately wants? Check out the trailer above and find out when Aquaman hits theaters December 21.

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It’s official: Skybound Entertainment will release the final episodes in Season 4 of Telltale’s The Walking Dead.

Skybound, for those who don’t know, is the publishing label co-founded by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman. The company’s been a longtime partner on Telltale’s series, and even formally announced an intention to finish the series after Telltale closed down in September.

The early October announcement noted that Skybound would endeavor to “work with members of the original Telltale team to finish the story in a way the fans deserve.” But the company shared no further details at the time, and all’s been quiet ever since.

Until now. Skybound confirmed its plans in a Monday post on the company’s website. There are still lots of questions to be answered — notably including which former members of Telltale are signed on for the gig — but it locks in what fans have wanted to hear: The final two episodes will see the light of day.

Here’s the full announcement:

Thank you for your patience while we worked with Telltale to take control of TELLTALE’S THE WALKING DEAD. It’s been a ton of work logistically and legally to get us to a place where we’re able to roll up our sleeves and get to the actual work. After Telltale shut its doors, the game was, unfortunately, unable to be worked on and hence the release dates of Episodes 3 and 4 have been delayed. But, we’re excited to let you know that many of the talented, passionate team members who originally worked on the game are resuming development efforts today!

Soon, we will be announcing release dates for the two remaining episodes. It’s likely that previous seasons of the game may be unavailable to purchase for a few days as we transition—but don’t panic!—we’ll have everything back online ASAP. If you already purchased Season Four, you will NOT have to pay again; future episodes will be available to download as soon as they are released via your original point of purchase.

Please continue to check back here on our Skybound site for future updates on the game!

A few things to note here.

That first line, about Skybound working with Telltale to “take control” of the series, is important. The now-shuttered company is in the process of liquidating its assets, as GameDaily.biz discovered on Nov. 14. So it’s probably more apt to call this series “Skybound’s The Walking Dead” now.

Less clear is who’s actually building these final episodes. Skybound’s announcement notes that “many of the talented, passionate team members who originally worked on the game are resuming development efforts.”

That’s great. Telltale’s closure was very sudden and the layoffs left this large group of people out of work and with no safety net. Of course there’s creative value in having that same team — or as much of them as possible, since some have since moved on to other jobs — finish what they started. But it’s also just the right thing to do.

Who is it though? Stories of poor working conditions at industry mainstays like Rockstar Games and Riot Games (Telltale too) blew up in 2018. Fans of video games are more interested than they’ve been before in the wellbeing of the people who make the games we play. So having more specifics on that would be great.

That’s not a knock on Skybound, to be clear. It’s clear the publisher is just getting started on this journey, and there’s a good chance that many of the specifics are still being ironed out. But across two announcements now, Skybound has emphasized its interest in working with the former Telltale team. Hopefully the next one goes further.

Saudi Arabia’s oil giant Aramco has shelved plans to embark on a massive corporate-bond sale to fund a $70bn stake in the kingdom’s national petrochemical firm, a news report said.

Looking instead at options requiring less public disclosure, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal on Monday that Aramaco executives have soured on the initiative.

Saudi Arabian Oil Co, as the company is officially known, was considering issuing up to $40bn in bonds to help buy 70 percent of Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC), the Journal reported.

Aramco has been in talks with banks to acquire a controlling stake in the Saudi petrochemical maker, a deal that could require up to $70bn in financing.

Controlled by the state, SABIC is also the country’s largest publicly listed company with a market cap of about $100bn.

Corporate secrets?

A corporate bond sale on international markets typically requires public disclosure of three years of audited financial statements as well as any potential obstacles. Aramco is known not to offer analysts such detailed company information.

Aramco executives are also concerned that market conditions aren’t ideal for bond sales, the newspaper reported, and they are now looking at a combination of other potential financing options.

Over the past month oil prices have fallen more than 20 percent. Saudi Arabia plans to boost prices with a production cut – but uncertainty remains.

Saudi-led OPEC and its allies including Russia decided in June to relax output curbs in place since 2017, after pressure from US President Donald Trump to reduce oil prices and make up for supply losses from Iran.

Forecasts of a 2019 supply surplus and slowing demand have also dented the market.

IPO no show

Aramco, the world’s largest crude producer, plans to boost investment in refining and petrochemicals in a bid to cut reliance on crude as demand for oil slows.

The move to quit the corporate-bond sale was the latest setback for Aramco after the Saudi government’s plan to place up to five percent of the company on the stock market also stalled.

The planned listing was to be the cornerstone of the kingdom’s promised economic overhaul and, at a targeted $100bn, the biggest IPO ever.

It was the brainchild of 32-year-old Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also known as MBS, the heir apparent of the world’s largest oil exporter.

Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih has said the government was committed to conducting the IPO at an unspecified date in the future.

Stylish Tumblr page aside, Frank Ocean‘s social media presence has always been a thing of mystery. But in a shocking turn of events, the typically reclusive artist pulled back the curtain last week by making his private Instagram account public, letting fans explore hundreds of posts he’s made since mid-2017.

As it turns out, Ocean’s IG is the gift that keeps on giving — on Monday (November 19), he teased what sounds like a snippet of a new song on his Story. In the selfie-style vid, he head-bangs to an upbeat trap beat as the phrase “I’ve got visions for my life” repeats a few times. He kept the caption simple and ambiguous, opting only for a few tornado emojis.

Ocean unveiled his previously private Instagram (@blonded) last week, after months of speculation that the unverified account belonged to him. He saluted new followers with a mirror selfie accompanied by the cheeky and straightforward caption, “welcome.”

There’s no indication if Ocean’s new teaser is for a song off an upcoming project, or if he’s just fooling around in the studio. But it’s a promising sign that he’s at least creating — and, apparently, having a blast doing it.

The Blonde singer cryptically hinted at new music all the way back in January, posting a photo on Tumblr of a person with a hat that reads, “IF YOU LIKED 2017, YOU’LL LOVE 2018.” Considering 2018 is almost over, let’s hope he delivers on that very vague promise soon!

England Test match victories overseas are like London buses: you wait two years for one and then, just as you are contemplating abandoning the bus stop and returning home to see if your family is still there, two arrive in the space of 10 days.

Pallekele’s constantly turning but non-deteriorating pitch provided a fascinating Test match, in which momentum shifted throughout four-and-a-tiny-bit days.

Ball challenged bat, bat challenged ball, the pitch challenged everyone (commentators, pundits, captains, wicketkeepers, and umpires included), and the fielding positions often challenged logic.

Fast bowlers were seen wandering forlornly around the outfield, desperately trying to remember what they do for a living. Spinners took more wickets than in any other Test match ever played (38), yet could probably have bowled significantly better.

The sweep shot, and its continually sprouting extended family of variants (reverse, lap, slog etc), gave batsmen a continual source of runs, and bowlers a continual source of wickets.

It could be argued that England played brilliant but relatively low-risk attacking cricket with the bat, and high-risk defensive cricket in the field.

All in all, it was the kind of Test that makes lovers of the five-day game want to go from house to house, ringing doorbells, asking non-believers whether they have contemplated letting Test cricket into their lives, before shouting: “It’s the best thing ever invented, you nincompoop, nothing else creates such sinuously evolving, soul-enveloping narratives over five tension-ratcheting days.”

When the door slams in your face, you pop a copy of Wisden through the letterbox and promise to come back next week.

Notable individual triumphs supported by useful contributions

We will let history – that confused, confusing, opinionated old crackpot – have the final say on where this series stands in the limited pantheon of Great England Series Wins In Asia.

I, though, think it will stand the test of retrospective scrutiny, especially given that, in recent years, Sri Lanka have a decent home record against everyone other than India.

England, with the glittering exception of their Indian triumph late in 2012, have generally tried to crack the code of subcontinental Test cricket with the confidence and dexterity of a hippopotamus on a trampoline attempting to solve a Rubik’s cube.

As in the first Test in Galle, England gave an excellent team performance in Pallekele, some notable individual triumphs supported by useful contributions by everyone else in the team.

Even James Anderson – wicketless for only the second time in his 66 Test victories (the Ashes-clinching win at the Oval in 2009 was the other occasion) – hung around with the bat in both innings while 101 vital runs were added.

The margin of victory was 57 runs; England’s 10th wicket outscored Sri Lanka’s by 70 runs. This was only the 11th time a team has added 40 or more for the 10th wicket in both innings of a Test, and the fifth of those to contribute to a victory.

There is now the prospect of England’s first ever 3-0 series victory in Asia (they won the first three Tests of a five-match series in India in 1976-77, the final score being 3-1).

Joe Root has now led England to seven victories in eight Tests, after losing six and drawing two of his previous eight, and a new, exciting, interesting team is emerging, with balance, depth and players capable of match-turning brilliance in all three disciplines.

Here are four talking points ahead of the third Test:

Has England’s cricket been bold, cautious or both?

Root said after the latest victory: “We said we’d come out here and play bold cricket, and be courageous.”

With the bat, the boldness was clear, in the purposeful sweeping, the relentless accumulation, and the high number of sixes.

In the field, it has been considerably less obvious and, as a result, this is turning into one of the all-time classic Test series for fans of The Single.

No series since records for such matters begin (in 2001) has seen singles scored more often – one every 4.16 balls by both teams combined.

What a time to be alive!

At the same time, they have hit sixes with more regularity than in any other series – 24 in just two Tests, at an average of one every 87 balls (their previous best was one every 130 deliveries). By contrast, they have hit a four only once per 20 balls – their 10th lowest figure since 2001.

The Pallekele Test was notable not only for the high number of wickets taken by spinners, but also for the low number of maiden overs and dot balls they bowled.

Both captains set, for the most part, deep fields, preferring to allow the batsmen to accumulate a steady flow of singles, rather than risk occasional boundaries, and wait for the pronounced turn offered by the pitch to provoke a wicket.

Batsmen did not have to push the field back – it was often set back as soon as they arrived at the crease.

The relative ease with which batsmen played themselves in, and the constant difficulty of surviving on a turning pitch, is illustrated by the fact that there were no century partnerships in the match, but 18 stands of 30 runs or more.

The 1,215 match runs was the second highest aggregate in a Test without a hundred partnership (1,225 were scored in the Ashes Test at the Oval in 1993).

Root himself, in his 124, scored off more than half the balls he faced, and reached the second quickest of his 15 hundreds (in 120 balls) with his fourth fewest boundary count (10: two sixes and eight fours).

England’s much-trumpeted positive approach, therefore, has not been an all-guns-blazing, boundary-blitzing, leather-larruping onslaught (their first-day troubles in Galle highlighted the risks of such an approach).

Rather, it has been a process of positive strike-rotation, regular accumulation, blended with intermittent, well-selected thwacks over the rope.

And it has been facilitated, even encouraged, by the curiously sedate, acquiescent, minimal-intensity tactics of a Sri Lankan team which has been content to wait and hope.

In the field, England have adopted a similar approach themselves, and have smashed their records for singles conceded (one per 4.2 balls, previous mark was 5.2), percentage of runs conceded in singles (47%, previously 35%), lowest percentage of runs conceded in boundaries (35%, previously 44%), highest percentage of balls scored off (33%, previously 31%), and runs per scoring shot (1.56, previously 1.83).

Essentially, the teams have adopted the same, defensive strategy of compliantly accepted accumulation, on pitches turning enough to all-but-guarantee that wickets will occur with sufficient regularity.

Have England got it right, and Sri Lanka got it wrong? Have England got it wrong, but won anyway? Or have both teams backed the right tactical horse, and watched it beat itself down the home straight?

How can England get fourth-innings Moeen to bowl in all innings?

Moeen Ali has an extraordinary fourth-innings record – 52 wickets in 22 innings at an average of 21.8, a better fourth-innings average than, amongst others, Shane Warne, Graeme Swann, Derek Underwood and Anil Kumble.

His 4-72 was his seventh haul of four or more wickets in a fourth innings, six of which have come in his past nine fourth innings, since July 2017, including some massive contributions to nerve-jangling victories.

No other England bowler has more than five fourth-innings four-fors in his entire career. Anderson and Broad have six in 94 innings between them.

Moeen’s average improves pronouncedly through the course of a Test – 56 in the first innings, 46 in the second, 35 in the third, and 21 in the fourth.

Another task on the To-Do list for England’s back-room alchemists, then, is to concoct a magic psychotropic elixir that convinces Moeen that it is always the fourth innings.

Apart from when he is batting, mind – his innings averages are 46 in the first, then 20, 27 and 20. If Moeen could bowl at himself in the fourth innings of a Test, he would have himself in knots on toast. And if he could bat against himself in the opening innings of a Test, he would dislocate both shoulders smiting himself for six.

To get the best out of Joe Root, should England’s other batsmen deliberately avoid scoring centuries?

This Joe Root’s 15th Test hundred, and the sixth time he has been the only centurion in a Test match.

Only six players have been the sole century-maker more often in Tests – Australia’s Greatest-Batsman-Of-All-Time Don Bradman, Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara, and Indians Mohammad Azharuddin and Sunil Gavaskar (they did so seven times each). TMS’ own Geoffrey Boycott made the only hundred in eight Tests, but in none of which he batted with a stick of rhubarb; and the all-time leader is England’s Colin Cowdrey, who was the only hundredista 9 times in his long career. Eight other players have also made a Test’s solitary three-figure score on six occasions, including Sachin Tendulkar and Jacques Kallis.

Why Jack Leach is doomed

In his first Test, in New Zealand in April, Jack Leach took two wickets. In his second, in Galle, he took five, and then eight in Pallekele.

Assuming he continues to improve at his now-established rate of three wickets per match, in the third Test of next year’s series in the West Indies, he will take all 20 wickets, whereupon he will be forcibly retired from international cricket on mathematical grounds.

A further Leachy curiosity – by opening the batting as nightwatchman in England’s second innings, Leach, in his third Test, alongside Rory Burns, in his second, became half of England’s least experienced opening partnership in Test cricket since the Mumbai Test of February 1973, when Graham Roope and Jack Birkenshaw, both in their second Tests, strode to the crease.

Got a question for Andy?

Got a burning statistical question you’d like to have answered. Submit your questions to Andy via email on tms@bbc.co.uk using the subject line ‘Ask Andy Zaltzman’.

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If you were a kid of the early ’00s, you would’ve listened to Blink-182’s hits just about everywhere. But importantly, have you been saying their name right?

We specifically mean the “182” bit in the band’s name, which, as per a conversation over Twitter, could be “one-eighty-two” or “one-eight-two.” 

The observation was brought up by The Late Late Show writer Ian Karmel, who said the British pronounce it, weirdly enough, “one-eight-two.”

In America, it’s “one-eighty-two.”

 The Late Late Show host James Corden weighed in with, heaven forbid, “one hundred and eighty two.”

The debate got heated.

Original Blink-182 vocalist Tom DeLonge had his say. And well, it gets even murkier.

If this is all confusing, maybe we should be listening to the band’s bassist Mark Hoppus, who said we should be focusing our attention on a far more important issue.

The holidays are a time for family and friends to get together and celebrate the things that really matter — like, say, Deadpool 2 returning to theaters for a limited, PG-13 run. Yes, you heard that correctly. The Merc with a Mouth — a truly filthy mouth — is cleaning up his act for a very special rerelease of the superhero sequel this December.

Titled Once Upon a Deadpool, the reimagining hits theaters for 12 days only this holiday season and for every ticket sold, $1 will go to the charity Fudge Cancer (previously known as Fuck Cancer, who, according to Fox, “have graciously changed their name to be more PG-13 friendly”).

But if you’re expecting the same cut of Deadpool 2, just without all of the F-bombs and explicit debauchery, think again. Once Upon a Deadpool also stars Fred Savage in an homage to the actor’s starring role in the 1980s classic The Princess Bride.

In the trailer above, Wade has kidnapped Fred and forced him to relive the somewhat sanitized events of Deadpool 2 against his will. Honestly, this is a shameless cash grab we can all get behind — and it’s sure to warm Wade’s cold, dead heart.

Once Upon a Deadpool opens in theaters for a limited engagement on December 12.

Virgil van Dijk’s 90th-minute equaliser against Germany sent the Netherlands through to the semi-finals of the Nations League following a dramatic late fightback at the Veltins-Arena.

The Liverpool centre-back volleyed in from close range from Tonny Vilhena’s cross in Germany.

Dutch winger Quincy Promes had scored their first five minutes earlier, drilling in from the edge of the box.

Timo Werner and Leroy Sane had given Germany a 2-0 lead at half-time.

The Netherlands finish top of Group A1 ahead of world champions France and will join England, Portugal and Switzerland in next summer’s finals.

Germany, who were already relegated to the second tier following a 2-1 defeat in France last month, will drop into the group of second seeds for Euro 2020 qualifying if Poland beat Portugal on Tuesday evening (19:45 GMT).

Joachim Low’s side have failed to win a competitive match since they beat Sweden in the group stages of the World Cup before a shock early exit.

“I am a bit disappointed by the result but overall I saw more positives than negatives,” said Low. “We played a very good first half and should have scored a third in the second half to finish the game.

“But this kind of thing seems to be the story of our entire year,”

Manchester City’s Sane, who was left out of the World Cup squad, scored his second goal in four days but it was not enough as the Netherlands fought back after the break.

Their chances were few in the first half – Daley Blind’s deflected cross which skimmed the top of the net was the closest they came before Promes eventually found the back of the net.

Germany’s Werner had two great chances to score earlier in the second half but he shot straight into keeper Jasper Cillessen’s hands from close range before striking wide from Serge Gnabry’s threaded pass.

Thomas Muller came on as a second-half substitute to make his 100th appearance for Germany and could have extended the lead to 3-0 but his cut-back was slightly behind Sane.

Netherlands captain Van Dijk has now scored two goals in his last three appearances having only scored once in 18 games prior to the start of the Nations League tournament.

Ready to upgrade from your e-scooter?

The NERA electric motorcycle is a functioning bike that was made using a 3D printer. The only catch — it’s just a “use case” example for a German 3D printing company to show off its material-making skills. 

Even if it’s not for sale, it’s an impressive print job from the NOWlab at 3D printer company BigRep. Printed in 15 pieces, the NERA bike actually runs on an electric engine embedded in the back rim. The battery is housed within the body. 

Everything but the bike’s electrical components were 3D-printed, including the tires, rims, frame, fork (the part that connects the front wheel and axle to the frame), and seat. 

Beyond the unique manufacturing process, the bicycle features airless tires, a rhomboid wheel rim, and flexible bumpers.

Sure, other electric motorcycles are available to buy and ride, but you won’t find many options out there using this many 3D-printed parts.

Print yourself a helmet and you’re ready to ride.