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On September 23rd, 2013, Valve announced SteamOS: A Linux-based operating system just for PC gaming.

Two days later, it hit us with another surprise: Steam Machines, a line of pre-built PCs from multiple manufacturers that would sit under our TVs like consoles and run this new OS.

Forget PlayStations and Xboxes and especially Windows 8, which Valve boss Gabe Newell called "a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space."

Valve was going to invade the living room with an open-source island that Microsoft couldn't control.

The announcement was received well, but just under four years later, Steam Machines have hardly taken off.

Alienware still has one starting at $450, Syber is selling them with GTX 1060s, and 3XS offers custom SteamOS builds.

But Materiel.net's Steam Machine is no longer for sale.

The Maingear Drift now defaults to Windows, with SteamOS as a secondary option.

The Zotac NEN is out of stock on Newegg, with a few available on Amazon for nearly a grand a piece.

The Digital Storm Eclipse is listed as 'coming soon' on Steam, but has already come and gone.

"Nobody was buying it with SteamOS," Digital Storm marketing manager Rajeev Kuruppu tells me over the phone.

The manufacturer had already been building the Eclipse—which is still available with Windows—when Valve pitched SteamOS, and added a Steam Machine build mid-project.

That version has since been axed, and Digital Storm no longer has an active relationship with Valve.

"I think over time as the demand from customers wasn't there we basically had no reason to speak with Valve," says Kuruppu.

Digital Storm is still open to working with Valve, so long as its customers want what Valve is putting out.

Its most recent update came just last month, and a few newer games such as XCOM 2, Stardew Valley, and Hollow Knight support it.

But the Steam Machine revolution never came to pass.

After speaking to three PC builders and collecting news stories from the past four years, I've put together a brief timeline to illuminate what happened to the project that was going to put Steam at the center of PC gaming.

September 2013: SteamOS, Steam Machines, and the Steam Controller are announced.

December 2013: SteamOS 1.0 'alchemist' releases.

It's buggy and missing features, essentially offering a hard-to-install Steam Big Picture Mode over a generic Debian desktop, with some third-party drivers.

It also doesn't support AMD graphics cards.

An update to SteamOS alchemist adds AMD graphics support.

The Steam Controller is delayed to 2015.

The Alienware Steam Machine is ready to go, but SteamOS and the controller still aren't.

Dell decides to ship it as the Alienware Alpha with Windows.

Valve announces the HTC Vive and Steam Link.

A preview of SteamOS 'brewmaster' is released.

The first Steam Machines from Alienware, Zotac, and Cyberpower are shipped.

Ars Technica reports that games suffer a framerate loss on SteamOS vs Windows 10.

Tom's Guide writes: "Steam Machines were an interesting idea... three years ago."

Fewer than 500,000 Steam Machines have been sold.

SteamOS didn't have a performance increase on any or many games.

SteamOS didn't have a growing library of games.

The first fumble is clear: SteamOS wasn't nearly ready when it was announced, and installing early preview builds inspired little confidence.

Then, after lukewarm reception of the first Steam Controller—billed as a major part of the 'Steam Universe' that would make mouse and keyboard-optimized games easy to play from the couch—Valve pushed the release to 2015.

Alienware went ahead with a Windows 10 build of what would later be its Steam Machine, and by the time SteamOS shipped in late 2015, the hype had subsided.

More than one partner abandoned the project before ever releasing a Steam Machine.

"We didn't want to offer customers an experience of only the SteamOS and therefore only a small percentage of games that they can play," Origin CEO Kevin Wasielewski tells me in an email.

The company had previously announced a system that dual-booted Windows 10 and SteamOS.

"I don't recall when it happened, but at some point we decided to offer a living room PC with Windows only.

SteamOS didn't have the hardware support to be a fully customizable high end PC.

SteamOS didn't have a growing library of games."

It also didn't help that tension around Windows 8 was somewhat alleviated by free upgrades to Windows 10, despite criticism of the Universal Windows Platform and the state of the Windows Store.

In November of 2016, Alienware co-founder Frank Azer told PC Gamer: "We still offer SteamOS and the Steam Machine platform with the new version of the Alpha—the new Steam Machine R2—and we still sell hundreds of units, thousands of units every month.

But it's not a major initiative for us like it was two years ago because it's not necessary right now.

Valve's own Steam Link may have also worked against the Steam Machines initiative, according to PC builder iBuyPower.

"While everyone's ramping up in the middle [of the development of Steam Machines], Valve announces that they're going to have their Steam Link, which is essentially what we're building but now at this very low cost, very small unit that just connects to your PC," says iBuyPower marketing manager Michael Hoang.

"And then you can just play your games through your television instead of buying a whole new unit, which is what they originally pitched for SteamOS and for all the OEMs.

So, in a way, it was almost kind of like Valve pitched us this new great idea, that 'Hey, you guys can do all this,' but then at the same time they were working on their own technology to say, 'Hey, maybe buying a whole separate machine wasn't a good idea, let's just buy a small little stream unit that you can stream directly from your PC to your TV and buy our controller.'"

The Steam Link allows users to stream games from their PC to their TV.

Hoang's timeline of events, while the dates are fuzzy, charts a burst of excitement followed by slow development, lack of communication from Valve, and an overall failure that iBuyPower doesn't intend to repeat.

"We even sent Gabe [Newell] a Revolt 1, just out of the blue," says Hoang about the beginning of the project.

"We sent him a system, did custom packaging and everything, and he was really happy and very impressed with what we were doing.

And it looked like we were kind of the forerunners for the Steam Machine, and we were, because we launched it first, and they also helped announce it with us.

We got that press, we got that recognition from Valve, and their promise that they were going to continue making SteamOS, making sure that all the games were getting ported over to Linux.

So everyone had high hopes, the whole community had high hopes."

But Valve grew quieter throughout the project, according to Hoang, though he was unable to find email records from the time.

"We were heavily reliant on [Valve's] updates to make sure the SBX was successful," he said.

"But, yeah, they would say, 'OK, we're still working on the updates,' and that's it.

Or [they would] just be unresponsive ...

And we knew at that point, 'OK, they're not doing anything, they don't plan on updating SteamOS ever.'"

You have your console, you have your PC gamers, we're right in between.

We're right in the middle where no one can really claim which one this is.

Valve did update SteamOS, and continues to, but over two years passed between the announcement and the release, and even then it wasn't ready.

Ars Technica's November 2015 report that games suffered performance losses on SteamOS compared to Windows 10 was especially damaging—why would savvy PC gamers switch?

And why would console gamers choose a Steam Machine rather than buying a desktop gaming PC, or even a Windows laptop?

Origin's Wasielewski points out that nearly any PC is just an HDMI cable short of being a living room PC.

"Laptops are so powerful now that I use my laptop all the time to hook up to my TV and play some local co-op games," he says.

And while iBuyPower initially thought a Steam Machine could expand its customer base to include console gamers, Huong discovered they were actually inventing an entirely new demographic target.

"We started thinking, 'Hey, you know, we're actually creating a middle-tier niche for this at this point,'" says Hoang.

"You have your console, you have your PC gamers, we're right in between.

So now we're creating a new demographic that has never been created, so we have to do everything from the ground up at this point.

And it was very, very hard to convince people, well, do I want to be a PC gamer?

Do I want to stick with just being console?

What's the best thing to come of iBuyPower's SBX?

The LED strip, says Hoang, which looked really nice.

Otherwise, it was "learning what not to do," because even when iBuyPower pivoted from SteamOS to Windows 8 in 2014, it still wasn't satisfied with the SBX: they'd built something counter to their ethos, a box with a custom motherboard that was hard for customers to upgrade.

The SBX was a misstep in Hoang's eyes, who's now more excited about tempered glass LED side panels.

And he feels Valve benefited from that misstep.

"They pretty much took all the things they learned from us, all the things they learned from all system integrators and OEMs, and just kind of cherry picked what they wanted to do," says Hoang after noting that, aside from the Steam Link, adding Big Picture Mode to Steam on Windows also cut into the appeal of SteamOS.

iBuyPower has no plans to build another PC that its customers can't easily upgrade, and if it were to build an SBX2, Hoang says they'd do it on their own terms.

Unless PC gamers start demanding SteamOS, it's clear they'll stick with Windows.

That also goes for Wasielewski and Kuruppu.

If Valve wants its revolution, it'll have to create demand for SteamOS on its own.

"The fundamental reasons that Valve cares about SteamOS haven't gone away, and we continue our work to expand it," Valve said in a statement to PC Gamer.

I had asked if SteamOS was still a priority, how many people were working on it, and if Windows 10 changed Valve's approach.

"The launch of Steam Machines taught us a lot about what Steam customers value in hardware.

Right now we're continuing to work on SteamOS as a product, with over 96 updates and 3,525 games released.

We have many incentives for those making SteamOS titles and we see a bright future for SteamOS, especially in VR."

The comment about VR is interesting, as the new tech is clearly Valve's present focus.

If SteamOS can provide a better VR experience than Windows, and VR technology proves itself more popular in the future, perhaps the OS has a shot of resurging with a new round of 'SteamVR Machines.'

But the success of SteamVR isn't a sure thing, either.

It's going in a way that's consistent with our expectations," said Newell in a February roundtable interview, as reported by Polygon.

"We're also pretty comfortable with the idea that it will turn out to be a complete failure."

Is HTC, maker of the Vive headset which works with SteamVR, comfortable with that idea, even after setting up a $1.5 billion investment fund for VR development with the Shenzhen Municipal Government?

But in the case of VR, at least, Valve seems more passionate about the project, and is developing its own VR games—something it hasn't done in support of SteamOS, except to bring Dota 2 and CS:GO to Linux.

(Though presumably all future Valve games will come to Linux.)

For now, SteamOS hasn't broken out of the small—though growing—niche of Linux gaming to become an actual competitor to Windows.

It may get updates, and may have 3,525 games, but PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds isn't one of them, and neither are Nier: Automata, Black Desert Online, Prey, nor The Witcher 3—these are all current Steam top sellers.

With any new platform comes the same contradiction: why go through the trouble of supporting SteamOS if few use it, and why use it if few games support it?

Breaking Microsoft's grip on both console and PC gaming seems more and more like a fantasy.

Microsoft and Sony know how to solve that contradiction—with money—but SteamOS is supposed to be the antithesis of platform exclusivity: it's open-source, it doesn't run on hardware made by Valve or sold at a loss, and as of now it has no major exclusives.

Without using console sales techniques, it has to rely on organic adoption.

While I was excited at the prospect of SteamOS back in 2013, breaking Microsoft's grip on both console and PC gaming (especially now with its whole Xbox One lineup coming to Windows 10) seems more and more like a fantasy.

And doing so by hacking away at Ubuntu while hardware partners take on the burden of selling Linux PCs to average consumers seems, in hindsight, doomed to fail.

Yet if public opinion again turns against Microsoft—more than usual, that is—perhaps Valve will get a second window of opportunity.

If it does, I wonder if it will have to take on more of the risk to convince PC builders and game developers to come along for a second ride, and if it's equipped to do that.

Valve is seen as a small giant, but we're talking a private company probably worth a few billion dollars compared to Microsoft, which earned $85.32 billion in revenue in 2016 alone.

When it comes to the future of PC gaming, it's still clear who the Goliath is.

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By June 2016, seven months after the official release, fewer than half a million units had been sold. In response to the sales figures, Ars Technica described the unit as dead on arrival. Valve has yet to release an actual sales figure. While some vendors still offer Steam Machine options, or configurations that can be installed with SteamOS, other vendors have discontinued their products by the end of 2016. In an article published in July 2017, "PC Gamer" lists several factors why Steam Machines did not take off as Valve had anticipated. SteamOS itself was not seen as ready for everyday and gaming use in its initial builds and Valve has been unresponsive at times towards Steam Machine makers to release updates, while concurrently, Microsoft had announced its free rollout of Windows 10, making that an incentive over Valve's software. Valve also had delayed the Steam Controller release to 2015, which also subsequently delayed the Steam Machine release. Further, the Steam Machine makers felt that the Steam Link, produced by Valve, competed with concept of Steam Machines and was a much more cost-attractive product.


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He did not play the last two matches of the series but England managed to win those matches and the series 4–0.

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27/09Result4th ODI (D/N), West Indies tour of England at The Oval, Sep 27 2017

EnglandEnglandENG258/5 (35.1/35.1 ov, target

Evin LewisWest IndiesSummarySummaryScorecardScorecardReportReportCommentaryCommentaryCoverageCoverageStatisticsStatisticsHawk-EyeHawk-Eye27/09Result4th ODI (D/N), West Indies tour of England at The Oval, Sep 27 2017

BATSMENRB4s6sSRCH Gaylec Root b Woakes240050.00 0.4 taken at first slip!

Excellent delivery, in the channel outside off, across the left hander, takes the outside edge and it's a neat catch to his left by Joe Root 2/1 E Lewisretired hurt176130177135.38SD

b Woakes111120100.00 2.5 given caught behind

Nice delivery, just outside off on a good length forcing him to play.

Well, there's a big spike on UltraEdge so this will stay out!

Not sure what Hope thought, bat was well away from pad on this occasion 19/2 MN Samuelslbw b Woakes170014.28 6.1 this time he's given!

Once again he goes right across his crease, misses as he aims to work to the leg side.

Clipping the bails 33/3 JN Mohammedc †Buttler b Rashid46714064.78 28.2 dragged down, Mohammed drops back to cut but nicks to the keeper!

Possibly off the toe, an audible edge, though, and Buttler's immediate celebration was followed by Rod Tucker's finger going up.

England have the breakthrough 150/4 JO Holder (c)c Billings b Plunkett776244124.19 49.6 full toss taken at deep midwicket, doesn't quite have the legs to finish the innings with a six...

Billings safely under it 356/5 R Powellnot out281522186.66Extras15 (lb 3, w 12)TOTAL356/5 (50 Overs, RR: 7.12)Did not bat: AR Nurse, JE Taylor, AS Joseph, ML CumminsFall of wickets: 1-2 (Chris Gayle, 0.4 ov), 2-19 (Shai Hope, 2.5 ov), 3-33 (Marlon Samuels, 6.1 ov), 4-150 (Jason Mohammed, 28.2 ov), 4-318* (Evin Lewis, retired not out ), 5-356 (Jason Holder, 49.6 ov)BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNBCR Woakes1007137.10339300JT Ball1006806.80204210LE Plunkett1006716.70264340MM Ali917007.77234420JE Root1010010.0022000AU Rashid1006716.70266140

BATSMENRB4s6sSRJJ Royc †SD Hope b Joseph8466112127.27 17.4 edged behind!

Back of a length outside off, Roy trying to run it to third man and he's gifted his wicket.

A comeback century goes begging, but a very fine innings nonetheless 126/1 JM Bairstowc †SD Hope b Joseph39512076.47 21.2 guided to the keeper!

Almost a carbon copy of Roy's wicket, Bairstow just trying to guide a short-of-a-length delivery to third man and finds the gloves of Hope 144/2 JE Rootc †SD Hope b Joseph14152093.33 23.2 he's been given caught behind!

Joseph has three...dropped in short, that's normally meant runs today, but this time he gets a thin bottom edge...

EJG Morgan (c)c sub (KA Hope) b Joseph191730111.76 25.6 what a catch!

Short on leg stump, Morgan picks it up with a pull, doesn't even try to keep it down.

Kyle Hope, the sub, leaps at long leg and plucks it out of the sky 177/4

JC Buttler †not out433550122.85SW Billingsc Gayle b Joseph240050.00 27.1

Gayle has grabbed a blinder at slip and it's five for Joseph!

Billings again moving across his crease, aims to work a short-of-a-length delivery to the leg side, gets an outside edge which is going to Gayle's right.

He dives low and grabs it inches off the turf.

Brilliant stuff 181/5 MM Alinot out482562192.00Extras9 (lb 4, nb 2, w 3)TOTAL258/5 (35.1 Overs, RR: 7.33)Did not bat: CR Woakes, AU Rashid, LE Plunkett, JT BallFall of wickets: 1-126 (Jason Roy, 17.4 ov),

27 September 2017 - day/night match (50-over match)

Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 10.0 (Mandatory - 55 runs, 3 wickets)Over 2.5: Review by West Indies (Batting), Umpire - RJ Bailey, Batsman - SD Hope (Struck

Indies: 50 runs in 9.1 overs (55 balls), Extras 1Powerplay 2: Overs 10.1 - 40.0 (Mandatory - 170 runs, 1 wicket)Drinks: West Indies - 82/3 in 16.0 overs (E Lewis 46, JN Mohammed

18)4th Wicket: 50 runs in 59 balls (E Lewis 28, JN Mohammed 18, Ex 4)E Lewis: 50 off 52 balls (7 x

Indies: 100 runs in 20.4 overs (124 balls), Extras 64th Wicket: 100 runs in 114 balls (E Lewis 56, JN Mohammed 39, Ex

Indies: 150 runs in 28.1 overs (169 balls), Extras 10E Lewis: 100 off 94 balls (13 x 4)Drinks: West Indies - 196/4 in 35.0 overs (E Lewis 104, JO Holder

Indies: 200 runs in 36.2 overs (218 balls), Extras 125th Wicket: 50 runs in 48 balls (E Lewis 25, JO Holder 23, Ex 2)Powerplay 3: Overs 40.1 - 50.0 (Mandatory - 131 runs, 1 wicket)West Indies: 250 runs in 41.5 overs (251 balls), Extras 135th Wicket: 100 runs in 81 balls (E Lewis 55, JO Holder 47, Ex

3)JO Holder: 50 off 47 balls (3 x 4, 3 x 6)E Lewis: 150 off 120 balls (16 x 4, 5 x

6)West Indies: 300 runs in 44.1 overs (265 balls), Extras 155th Wicket: 150 runs in 95 balls (E Lewis 85, JO Holder 61, Ex 5)E Lewis retired hurt at 318/4 (176, 46.2 overs)West Indies: 350 runs in 49.4 overs (298 balls), Extras 15Innings Break: West Indies - 356/5 in 50.0 overs (R Powell 28)

Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 10.0 (Mandatory - 57 runs, 0 wicket)England: 50 runs in 8.2 overs (50 balls), Extras 11st Wicket: 50 runs in 50 balls (JJ Roy 37, JM Bairstow 13, Ex

1)JJ Roy: 50 off 46 balls (8 x 4)England: 100 runs in 14.6 overs (90 balls), Extras 51st Wicket: 100 runs in 90 balls (JJ Roy 70, JM Bairstow 28, Ex 5)Drinks: England - 108/0 in 16.0 overs (JJ Roy 72, JM Bairstow 31)England: 150 runs in 22.2 overs (136 balls), Extras 8England: 200 runs in 29.5 overs (181 balls), Extras

9Drinks: England - 201/5 in 30.0 overs (JC Buttler 24, MM Ali

10)6th Wicket: 50 runs in 36 balls (JC Buttler 20, MM Ali 30, Ex 0)England: 250 runs in 34.2 overs (208 balls), Extras

9Rain: England - 258/5 in 35.1 overs (JC Buttler 43, MM Ali 48)When the match was called off the par-score was 252 with England on 258 for 5

## Lewis' spectacular century, and high totals after early wickets

Stats highlights from Evin Lewis' 130-ball 176, and West Indies' superb recovery after being 33 for 3 at The Oval

## Lewis helps West Indies find their groove

Evin Lewis' masterful innings could signal the way for a West Indies revival in the 50-over format

Stuart Law has called on West Indies' batsmen to focus on getting their tempo right as he looks for improvements in the 50-over format

## West Indies' chance to exploit rocked England

The fourth ODI is unlikely to be the major talking point at The Oval, but West Indies must win to give themselves something to play for at the end of the tour

## Lewis, Joseph denied by England's late DLS dash

A late ram-raid of a sixth-wicket partnership between Jos Buttler and Moeen Ali enabled England to overcome a sensational innings from Evin Lewis and a maiden five-wicket all by Alzarri Joseph to claim the one-day series

No. of sixes hit by Evin Lewis, all coming after the completion of century, in just 36 balls

He had hit no sixes till his century in 94 balls.

Previous biggest 5th wicket partnership for West Indies in ODIs, between Darren Bravo and Pollard v SA last year.

Lewis and Holder have went past that stand.

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29/09Result5th ODI (D/N), West Indies tour of England at Southampton, Sep 29 2017

EnglandEnglandENG294/1 (38/50 ov)Player of the MatchJonny BairstowEnglandSummarySummaryScorecardScorecardReportReportCommentaryCommentaryCoverageCoverageStatisticsStatisticsHawk-EyeHawk-Eye29/09Result5th ODI (D/N), West Indies tour of England at Southampton, Sep 29 2017

BATSMENRB4s6sSRCH Gaylec Plunkett b Curran402915137.93 7.2

Gayle shimmies in the crease, full and straight, a slower ball from Curran, chipped down the ground - and Plunkett holds a blinder!

First ODI wicket for Curran and it's the Big One, really canny bowling, Gayle losing control as he looked to clear the ropes again, back-of-the-hand delivery and Plunkett sprinted back from mid-off to hold it diving full length 52/1 KA Hopec & b Plunkett33383086.84 14.4

, KHope drives, pops off the face... and Plunkett takes another fabulous grab, one-handed and low to his left!

A breakthrough out of nowhere and West Indies have lost Hope for the penultimate time on this tour!

Mistimed drive but it still went quickly, only for the big man to stoop and conquer 86/2 SD Hope †c Billings b Ball72954175.78 43.5 length outside off, Hope carves over the off side...

but this one sails straight to the man on the boundary!

Billings steadies himself and holds on above his head and Ball finally gets some reward for his flogging.

Fine innings from Hope but he goes tying to lift the scoring 221/5 MN Samuelsst †Buttler b Ali32601053.33 31.3 down the pitch and gone!

The pressure tells, Samuels knew he had to get cracking, he advances down the pitch, the ball slides on rather than spins, beats the outside edge and a regulation stumping 143/3 JN Mohammed (c)c Root b Rashid25301183.33 39.5 steps out, tries to hit down the ground... but it's not got the elevation and Root takes a running catch wide of long-off!

Mohammed punches his bat in frustration, maybe got done in the flight and the shot skewed short of the rope

195/4 SW Ambrisnot out382740140.74R Powell b Plunkett11901122.22 47.3 bowled him with a full toss, off stump smashed on its back!

Plunkett roars, the ultimate comeback...

big ole swing from Powell but he fails to connect and hears the crack of doom behind him

AR Nursenot out311232258.33Extras6 (w 6)TOTAL288/6 (50 Overs, RR: 5.76)Did not bat: AS Joseph, JE Taylor, ML CumminsFall of wickets: 1-52 (Chris Gayle, 7.2 ov),

BATSMENRB4s6sSRJJ Roylbw b Cummins9670111137.14 21.2 full and straight, hit on the pads - given!

No hundred for Roy, he doesn't review but takes the applause for an impressive innings...

Just played around it really, Cummins got it on target and, finally, gets the breakthrough.

He was driving with a slightly angled bat, would have taken middle and leg 156/1 JM Bairstownot out141114170123.68JE

, RR: 7.73)Did not bat: EJG Morgan (c), JC Buttler †, SW Billings, MM Ali, TK Curran, AU Rashid, LE Plunkett, JT BallFall of wickets: 1-156 (Jason Roy, 21.2

29 September 2017 - day/night match (50-over match)

Rain: West Indies - 0/0Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 10.0 (Mandatory - 65 runs, 1 wicket)West Indies: 50 runs in 6.4 overs (40 balls), Extras 11st Wicket: 50 runs in 40 balls (CH Gayle 40, KA Hope 9, Ex 1)Powerplay 2: Overs 10.1 - 40.0 (Mandatory - 130 runs, 3 wickets)Drinks: West Indies - 94/2 in 18.0 overs (SD Hope 15, MN Samuels

Indies: 100 runs in 21.1 overs (127 balls), Extras 33rd Wicket: 50 runs in 93 balls (SD Hope 21, MN Samuels 27, Ex

Indies: 150 runs in 33.6 overs (204 balls), Extras

4Drinks: West Indies - 174/3 in 38.0 overs (SD Hope 43, JN Mohammed

Wicket: 50 runs in 48 balls (SD Hope 26, JN Mohammed 25, Ex 0)Powerplay 3: Overs 40.1 - 50.0 (Mandatory - 93 runs, 2 wickets)West Indies: 200 runs in 41.2 overs (248 balls), Extras

5West Indies: 250 runs in 47.2 overs (284 balls), Extras 6Innings Break: West Indies - 288/6 in 50.0 overs (SW Ambris 38, AR Nurse 31)

Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 10.0 (Mandatory - 71 runs, 0 wicket)Over 7.2: Review by West Indies (Bowling), Umpire - MA Gough, Batsman - JJ Roy (Struck down)England: 50 runs in 7.5 overs (47 balls), Extras 11st Wicket: 50 runs in 47 balls (JJ Roy 36, JM Bairstow 16, Ex 1)Powerplay 2: Overs 10.1 - 40.0 (Mandatory - 223 runs, 1 wicket)JJ Roy: 50 off 43 balls (7 x 4)England: 100 runs in 14.2 overs (86 balls), Extras 11st Wicket: 100 runs in 86 balls (JJ Roy 62, JM Bairstow 37, Ex

1)Drinks: England - 111/0 in 16.0 overs (JJ Roy 70, JM Bairstow

40)JM Bairstow: 50 off 48 balls (5 x 4)England: 150 runs in 20.2 overs (122 balls), Extras 11st Wicket: 150 runs in 122 balls (JJ Roy 91, JM Bairstow 59, Ex 1)England: 200 runs in 28.2 overs (170 balls), Extras 92nd Wicket: 50 runs in 47 balls (JM Bairstow 17, JE Root 25, Ex

8)Drinks: England - 228/1 in 32.0 overs (JM Bairstow 91, JE Root

Bairstow: 100 off 90 balls (10 x 4)England: 250 runs in 34.1 overs (205 balls), Extras 92nd Wicket: 100 runs in 83 balls (JM Bairstow 54, JE Root 37, Ex 9)

## Bairstow hundred sets up stroll to 4-0

Jonny Bairstow made his second century of the Royal London series to help England to a resounding victory over West Indies

## Pride prime motivator in overshadowed finale

West Indies will be without Jason Holder and Evin Lewis as they seek to end their tour of England with a victory

England INNINGSRBJJ Roylbw9670JM Bairstownot out141114JE Rootnot out4644EJG MorganJC ButtlerSW BillingsMM AliTK CurranAU

RashidLE PlunkettJT BallEXTRAS(lb 2, w 9)TOTAL294 (1 wkt; 38 ovs)West Indies

International career.:2017 India, West Indies.

In the first ODI, Willey made an unbeaten ten runs before taking figures of 2–47 as England lost by three wickets. He took 0–32 in the second ODI as India won by 15 runs. In the final ODI he took figures of 1–8 but was injured, although England won by five runs.
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# Beyond: Two Souls and Heavy Rain Are PS4 Bound

Update: Beyond: Two Souls and Heavy Rain are both coming to PlayStation 4 in North America as well, according to Quantic Dream's Twitter account.

No other concrete details have been released, but the developer said more information is on its way sometime in the future.

Quantic Dream's Beyond: Two Souls and Heavy Rain are coming to PlayStation 4 in Europe and PAL territories.

The news comes via the European PlayStation blog.

At this point, there's no details about a release window or whether both games will see a release outside of the aforementioned PAL regions.

Needless to say, we've reached out to Sony and will update should we back.

Upon release, both games will be available digitally or as a discounted double pack.

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In our review of Beyond: Two Souls we said it's "compelling enough, principally thanks to a remarkable performance from Ellen Page," before saying that "Playing Beyond is a memorable experience, yes, but a good video game it is not; and while the credits were rolling I admit to thinking I would have been happier to sit back and watch a movie version that was eight-and-a-half hours shorter."

Conversely, in our review of Heavy Rain we said: "Overall, it's a fairly traditional murder-mystery yarn but individual sequences twist and turn with such recklessly inventive bravado - effortlessly shifting from downbeat stoicism to dazzling action - that it's thoroughly captivating."

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# Beyond: Two Souls Coming to PS4 on Nov. 24th, Heavy Rain Out Next Year

I'm pleased to announce that Beyond: Two Souls is coming to PS4 next week, complete with graphical improvements and new fan-requested features.

You'll be able to download it from PlayStation Store starting November 24th for $29.99.

Players will have another chance to experience the story of Jodie Holmes (played, excellently, by Ellen Page), a young woman who possesses supernatural powers through her psychic link to an invisible entity.

Holmes' journey is intertwined with the complex Dr. Dawkins (brought to life by the inimitable Willem Dafoe), on PS4.

The PS4 edition of the game features a number of improvements:

Enhanced 1080p graphics including motion blur, bloom and depth of field effects, as well as improved lighting and shadows.

The game also makes use of the DualShock 4 speaker to improve immersion when playing as the Entity.

Decisions are highlighted at the end of each scene and compared with those made by other players.

You can now play the game in chronological order right from the start – a much requested feature in the PS3 version!

Increased difficulty in certain fight scene, combined with improved controls for action sequences.

Includes the "Enhanced Experiments" DLC.

An earlier version of this post stated that players would have to complete the game before being able to play it in chronological order.

This feature is unlocked from the start of the game.

We can also now confirm that Heavy Rain will be coming to PS4 digitally next year on March 1st.

For those attending PlayStation Experience this year, you'll be able to get hands-on time with both Beyond: Two Souls and Heavy Rain.

What's more, those who purchase Beyond: Two Souls digitally will be entitled to download Heavy Rain on PS4 when it releases at a discount.

We really hope you enjoy revisiting these games or experiencing them for the first time!

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Any chance of a physical package with the two games bundled together?

Yes, confirmed on the .FR PlayStation Blog https://blog.fr.playstation.com/2015/11/19/beyond-two-souls-en-sortie-numrique-sur-ps4-le-26-novembre/

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"We are also able to confirm that The Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls Collection, announced in June this year, will be available at all dealers from March 2, 2016 (and March 4 in the UK)"

A phsical package containing both games is planned,however,it is looking like a late march 2016 release..

Theses titles were already in development for ps4,guessing the heavy rain title brought a few problems to the table,hence the late release of it.

I think both titles were planned for a christmas release…

I'd gladly pay $59.99 for a physical 2 pack of these games.

I technically still have plenty of HDD space on my PS4, I just prefer physical media.

I was hoping that beyond:two souls would be release on disc for PlayStation 4

I didn't get the chance to play them on my PS3, so this is good to hear.

I too would like it to be in physical media but since I just got the 1TB PS4, I say, bring it on!!!!

Both titles will be available as individual digital releases, with a two-game bundle also available both digitally and physically.

Can we please play chronologically from the get go? :)

I would like the same update to this announced feature

I think this would be best for new players and more enjoyable for those of us that want to re-play

@NX_Nytrux both physical an digital games take the EXACT same install size on console.

i also prefer physical games as well due to hard drive constraints.

I know they take up the same amount of space but its easier to delete a game and reinstall it later from a disc for those of us that have slow internet.

I live in an area where the fastest tier offerred (which i have) just isnt fast enough to download massive games from PSN quickly.

Yeah, but the disc is my backup for future reinstall.

I wish you guys would release a retail disc with both of them on it for like $39.99.

I really like that you brought them to PS4 but having them at retail would have been a good idea as well.

I was hoping for a cross-buy copy if already owned digitally on the PS3, but barring that, I'm surprised there's no discount for people who already own the PS3 version digitally.

Steam has discounts for re-releases of games if previously owned (Sleeping Dogs and Van Helsing come to mind immediately), I was hoping PSN would do something similar.

Never had the chance to try it on PS3, so its very welcomed.

i really want to buy these games but only on a disc.

my internet is to slow for these big game file.

and i see I'm not the only person hoping for a double pack disc release.

I would buy a physical copy, but I'm not buying a digital one.

I only buy classics or games that are on sale at a price that's too good to turn down.

Yeey was realy looking forward to this one on the PS4.

@Guillaume, is there a hard copy comming for this one?

With the Euro at almost 1:1 in exchange with USD, I'll just import if I still feel like buying it next year.

In the original press release (found here: https://blog.eu.playstation.com/2015/06/16/heavy-rain-and-beyond-two-souls-are-coming-to-ps4/) It was stated that a physical edition would be available in the EU.

Will this physical edition come out here as well?

note: this press release stated that the ENTIRE release would be limited to EU originally but later it was specified that it would get a NA release as well.

as we're seeing with today's announcement.

i won't be home on November 24 to buy it and download it.

i am going visit to my sister in another state.

I just wanted to chime in to say that I would also greatly prefer a physical version of these games.

Whether it is a double pack or individual releases doesn't matter.

I'm in agreement with most of the people here: I'd be interested in a physical purchase but a digital one (for the same price because it costs the same to release digitally?) is out of the question unless it's the ~only~ way we can experience it and, well, both of these games came out already.

Still unhappy about the Yakuza 5 digital release but, you know, Sega.

I can't wait for Quantic Dream to announce the game they make after "Detroit"- "PSILoveYouXOXO: A Journey"

You know who is REALLY excited about this news?

That guy on Playstation Live who constantly streams the dinner date scene from this game off-screen!

I second the notion of a physical bundle of the 2 games.

Actually, I'd prefer SEPARATE physical copies of the two games.

It would be annoying to have one or the other out of place on my game shelf.

I like to keep that thing organized, yo.

2-Remove Online play Paywall from behind PSMinus OR chill out on the shovelware and add some AAA Titles to PSminus

3-Improve controller durability and battery life

Keeping in mind both the XB1 AND PS4 are already outdated with inferior hardware, I have to say Microsoft has done circles around sony these past 2 years from everything i've seen, read and heard….

I own PS3 and 4 along with a gaming PC; I Never use the PS4, sometimes i play Ps3, 90% of my gaming and gaming purchases are on PC/Steam.

Cyas when you announce the yearly Outdated Triple A for xmas and to hook in the day one adopter subs for another year of junk mail.

If they make it backwards compatible will you actually be playing any of your old games on it?

Also if you play/purchase 90% of your games on the PC then why you are wanting them to remove the paywall on the PS4 since it clearly doesn't impact you in anyway since you don't even game on it.

Sure it's terrible they decided to lock it behind a paywall, but you have to remember we have to blame Microsoft who you clearly praised in your post for making such a feature a reality when they did it with Xbox Live.

None of those are issues that need to be "fixed."

-Allow changing of our freaking PSN IDs.

PS4 will never get PS3 backward compatibility.

There simply isn't the horsepower in the PS4 to emulate the Cell.

Any hopes of that happening just need to be put away.

Online play will likely never be free again, either.

I'd imagine that some AAA games will start making their way to Plus in the not too distant future, however.

It's just kind of crazy to expect big games on the service this soon into its life.

The Vita didn't get much in the way of AAA games until it had been out a while, either.

Controller durability isn't an issue in my experience.

Beyond Two Souls is one of my favorite PS3 games and possibly my favorite game of all time.

But I'll hold off on this purchase because the Bloodborne DLC comes out on the same day.

Hoping for that physical package with Heavy Rain.

Come on guys, we got Sony to make a physical copy for Gravity Rush Remastered, let's do the same for this!!

many of my friends are done with the HDD capacity and many of then can't afford to buy a Nyko Data Bank or a total HDD replacement, understand us please.

A physical edition doesn't make a difference in hard drive space, since all PS4 games install on your hard drive whether it's physical or digital.

@Hiroshima711: Please stop repeating yourself on this issue.

Most folks are well aware of the fact that all games install to the HDD, not just digitally licensed copies.

However, installation and reinstallation are vastly different between a digital license and a physical game–both with regard to HDD space management AND download time.

All of that also ignores the relevant consumer ownership rights issues inherent to the digital/physical debate.

You literally own nothing when you pay for a digital license.

We're really excited to finally reveal that two classic Quantic Dream games are coming to PlayStation 4 only for Europe and the PAL region – we're bringing both Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls to a PS4 near you soon.

Never had a chance to play these before, and have always wanted to.

Beyond was so good, but I felt it was overlooked because it was released very close to the PS4's release.

We need physical copies of both of those games .

Have always wanted to give that title a go.

I'm gonna complain about the lack of a physical release that includes both games like the one being released in Europe.

Hopefully Sony will listen to fans like they did with Gravity Rush Remastered.

I've already played (and loved) Heavy Rain, and I'm looking forward to playing the Beyond remaster.

As someone who feels that Heavy Rain is one of the greatest games in the history of PlayStation, I found Beyond to be a massive disappointment.

Although they are story-driven games, Heavy Rain really lays it on with some stressful moments and challenging button presses.

In Beyond, you basically just press circle for the entire game.

I'm looking forward to this one, and at such an outstanding price!

I'm enjoying a bit of PSNow at the moment, but hopefully I'll be able to get to this soon!

Otherwise I will be waiting until these games are super cheap.

Will owners of the digital version of Beyond: Two Souls for PS3 get a discount for the PS4 version?

Physical retail disc release for both Beyond Two Souls & Heavy Rain or I am simply not buying.

1. I can replay these games when I am 80 years old & not worry when these titles are no longer on servers.

And I don't want to stream my games via a PS Now or whatever it's called in the future.

2. I am a collector & love to have my disc cases displayed.

3. I can delete & reinstall at my convenience.

I was interested in this but if there's no physical release I'm not getting it.

Same with Bloodborne the Old Hunters and Yakuza 5(which you guys are the reason it's over in the US in the first place.)

I'm a huge Yakuza fan, finished the first two and platinumed Yakuza 3 and 4, but unless I buy it for $10 or less, I'm not touching a game I won't be able to play after PSN eventually shuts down on the PS3.

"Our Focus is on the new Games" – SCEE President Jim Ryan and this isn't a new game

Give us at least PS1 and PS2 backward compatibility DIGITAL and RETAIL

i would appreciate if you guys stop defending these corporations thanks

I wasn't defending anyone, just showing you that your comment was wrong in every way it could be wrong.

my comment wasn't wrong, i think your comment is wrong since you said QD is not Sony

so Sony can do whatever they want with their IPs.

EDIT. Yes QD is not owned by Sony, But the Ips are owned by Sony

Why do you think that remastering games and focusing on new games at the same time isn't possible?

Most of the time, the remasters are done by different studios, not the original makers of the game.

Like the Uncharted Nathan Drake Collection was done by Bluepoint, not Naughty Dog.

This remaster was probably done by another studio because Quantic Dream is working on Detroit.

There's not reasonable argument you can make against remasters because they take little to no effort to release, and they don't affect other game projects.

Besides, no one is forcing you to buy it.

Nobody is forcing you to buy, the same thing was said about microtransaction and dlc and look what we have today

i quoted what the president of SCEE said when people asked him why we don't have BC on PS4

now, i know PS3 games can't be emulated, but why they didn't included the PS1 and PS2 BC?

You do realize that the release of Beyond and Heavy Rain on PS4 is basically setting the table for the release of Quantic Dreams' NEW game, don't you?

I loved playing Heavy Rain with the PS Move, but with Beyond lacking this option I never played it

How is the discount for Heavy Rain going to work?

After you complete Beyond you will recieve instructions to walk around a public place screaming Jason, Cage will find you himself and give you some change.

More than likely it will be similar to how PS+ works.

With the digital license for Beyond attached to your account, you'll see the discounted price on Heavy Rain when it releases.

I doubt you'll have to do anything extra.

Glad to see more PS3 games are coming to PS4, any chance the Jak and Daxter Collection will come to PS4?

Don't care for another graphical improvement, I just want it playable on PS4.

It would be great if the "play in chronological order" was unlocked from the start

I just put my Jodie avatar back about a week ago and then this news shows up.

But beyond in chronical order will make the illusion of decision even more apparent that it really had none.

Platted the game and got really bored that my decision always cause the exact same thing to happen next.

Anyways excited for heavy rain that's probably one of top favorite games from the PS3.

Kind of glad the physical is coming in March cause that's an easy wait for me since I wouldn't by Beyond ever again unless it was in a bundle.

I JUST BOUGHT IT ON PS3 YESTERDAY!!!! WHY WOULD YOU GUYS ANNOUNCE THIS 5 DAYS BEFORE IT COMES OUT!?!?!?!

I don't think it was announced for NA then though, I remember there being a lot of is it coming here questions.

If a game like Beyond Two Souls get announced for Europe, it always (for the most part) comes to US at some point.

When this was announced for Europe in June, I presumed that it would also come here.

The chronological order needs to be available from the start for people that already played it through why can't developers just get things right?

You shouldn't have to force somebody to do something they already have done . completely lost my sale.

Ages old Sony proverb "Anything worth doing is worth doing wrong".

I never got a chance to play beyond two souls in 2013 because I was saving up for ps4 and heavy rain I will play again on ps4 and all my ps4. Or all Digital and it's the future

I really don't understand why people support these re-releases, especially for the prices they sell them at.

Oh well, I guess this is what we get this generation of gaming.

1) they might not have had a PS3 and PS4 might be their first console.

2) might have not had a chance to play this even if they did have a PS3 (me).

3) might one the remaster (or port) on the next console.

They're sheeps,most don't even realize the evil they're contributing to…

PS4 generation is proving itself the worse ever,more and more.

Recycled games like these are a cancer in the gaming community…

.PS3 generation already brought irreversible sickness into the gaming community,it took some time though.

PS4 is only in its 2nd year and we already have a thing such as recycled PS3 games…can't imagine what the future hold for us."Gaming" is walking to the abyss.

Definitely looking forward to a physical retail release.

Preferably both games in one package would be super.

I probably won't buy it again but for people who do get it, I hope you guys improve the camera controls with Jodie and instead of the camera constantly trying to force itself in the direction of where you're "supposed" to go and it feeling like you have to fight against it to freely look around, just let the player have complete control over the camera.

Also when playing as Aiden, it would be nice if the camera angle didn't affect his up and down movement since you had buttons for that and that's really how it should be.

It got very annoying navigating around with him when you're trying to move around through walls on the same vertical plane and look around but every time you move while looking up or down he also moves in that direction or the opposite if moving backwards.

You have the buttons to make him move up or down, which is perfect and exactly why he shouldn't move up and down based on the view.

I might also wait and see, if you guys do a physical release with both games, that would be cool and I would almost certainly buy that.

It would really be great if those improvements I mentioned in Beyond were present because they were my only real gripes about the gameplay.

So are you saying that requested fan feature will be available only for PS4 ver. of the game?

And QD nor Sony aren't going to update the PS3 version of the game with the features?

That's because we need to pay second time for the PS4 edition with this fan requested feature, BIG disappointment here!

I remember than updates and patches were free, now this new trend is terrifying.

Despite their minor flaws, these are the kind of games that I stick to PlayStation for.

I'm so glad 360 and Wii owners who got a PS4 will be able to experience them.

I hope that Puppeteer gets a PS4 version soon, as well.

I'm glad there will be a discount when buying them both.

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 In June 2015, Quantic Dream announced a PlayStation 4 version of "Beyond: Two Souls" for North America, Europe, and the PAL region alongside "Heavy Rain". The PlayStation 4 version of "Beyond: Two Souls" was released on 24 November, with the remaster of "Heavy Rain" following on 1 March 2016.


In 2016 the studio's second film, "Henry", won the Emmy for Outstanding Original Interactive Program.

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For a few years now, virtual reality filmmakers have fought for recognition and acceptance among traditional directors and studios.

Last night, Oculus' filmmaking arm, Story Studio, got a taste of the kind of validation they've been looking for: an Emmy for its animated VR experience Henry.

The award, for Outstanding Original Interactive Program, isn't the first Emmy to be given to a VR project—that distinction goes to the Sleepy Hollow VR experience—but it is the first original VR short to be given such an honor.

It is also, according to Story Studio creative director Saschka Unseld, "what every storyteller hopes for: to have the world validate the risks we were worried to take."

Henry, released last year and directed by Pixar vet Ramiro Lopez Dau, tells the story of a lonely hedgehog who throws himself a birthday party.

It's a fairly simple tale, but it set out to prove there could be an emotional connection fostered in VR that was different than what viewers experience looking at movies or TV.

When you look at Henry in Henry, he looks back, and it's simultaneously intense and heartbreaking.

"From the start we've wanted to show that VR is an art form—a place that welcomes storytellers and that even at this very, very early stage it can be a powerful tool for storytelling," Dau says.

We hope this represents a tipping point for the VR industry."

Oculus Story Studio's next project, Dear Angelica, is slated for release later this year.

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 Story Studio was founded in 2014 by Pixar veterans Saschka Unseld and Max Planck, as well as producer Edward Saatchi. The studio was publicly announced and premiered its first film, Lost, at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.


Crocker had served as the Australian High Commissioner to India between 1952 and 1955 and again from 1958 to 1962.

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Sir Walter Crocker, who died in Adelaide on November 14, aged 100, rendered signal service to Australia for many years as a highly respected envoy, as well as serving with distinction for more than nine years as Lieutenant-Governor of South Australia.

During an exciting and adventurous life at home and abroad, he filled many other roles as a decorated military officer in World War II, scholar, colonial administrator, farmer and author.

An independent thinker, not reticent in speaking his mind, he attracted many friends and admirers during a public career spanning well over 60 years.

However, he also had his critics who, at times, found him exasperating, abrasive and not a little waspish.

Yet he survived in public regard despite the controversy he occasionally stirred through clumsy criticism of touchy subjects, not least religion.

And in November 1991, then aged 90, he came out in support of a right-wing group protesting against Australia's first Nazi war-crimes case, even taking part in a demonstration outside Adelaide Magistrates Court.

He claimed the case was a waste of taxpayers' money and that it was driven by revenge, not justice.

Moreover the accused had committed no crimes against Australians anywhere.

Although he could be cutting when he chose, Sir Walter was fundamentally an erudite man who espoused his views intelligently and with sincerity.

With an underlying commitment to traditional values, went polished manners in an English gentleman style and a beguiling charm.

Max Harris, poet, editor and publisher, once described Crocker as 'a symbol of the compleat civilised man', while journalist and author Stewart Cockburn called him 'a radical with a sense of form'.

Cockburn added that it was 'a measure of the richness and complexity of his character that he had defied all efforts to stitch neat labels on him'.

Essentially, he was an urbane Anglo-Australian who took to English culture and style as to the manner born.

He gloried in the twenties and thirties when it still seemed that the sun would never set on the British Empire and that era's ordered lifestyle.

For all that, his background could not have been more grassroots Australian.

He was born on March 25, 1902 in Broken Hill, New South Wales, into a pioneering farming family from South Australia's mid-north.

Raised on his father's grazing property about 32 km from Terowie, he completed his primary education at Peterborough State school before being prepared for matriculation by a private tutor.

He went on to a distinguished academic career at Adelaide, Oxford and Stanford (USA) universities.

After nine years of universities, Crocker made a visit to Japan.

But he was looking for a life of action in place of study, preferably a life of action connected with Empire responsibilities.

Having something of a Kiplingesque approach to duty, he joined the British colonial service and was sent to Nigeria as a political officer.

However sickness, coupled with dissatisfaction with the progress in carrying out official policy, turned him in 1934 to the League of Nations' International Labour Office in Geneva.

He stayed with the ILO, where he was assistant to the director-general, until the outbreak of World War II when he joined the British Army.

He served as an intelligence officer in the West African command, rising to Lieutenant-Colonel, and was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Belgian Ordre du Lion.

After the war, he took a brief spell back in Australia on the family farm before answering a call from R. G. Casey (later Lord Casey), then Governor of Bengal, to help with relief measures during the famine then ravaging that part of India.

This led in 1946 to him being offered the post of first head of the African section in the United Nations secretariat.

He remained with the UN in New York until 1949 when he took up an appointment as Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University in Canberra.

During his term at the ANU he acted as vice-chancellor in 1951.

From 1952, there followed 18 years with the then Department of External Affairs as a senior diplomat and at that time one of Minister Casey's inner advisory group.

His first posting was as High Commissioner to India.

Later he served as Ambassador to Indonesia (1955-56), High Commissioner to Canada (1956-58 and another stint as High Commissioner to India (1958-62).

He retired in 1970 as Australian Ambassador to Italy, having, in the intervening years, also served as Ambassador to the Netherlands and Belgium (1962-65) and Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya (1965-67).

But even as a senior diplomat his independence of mind kept breaking through.

In the early 1970s he was probably ahead of his time in advocating a rapprochement with China.

He saw advantages to Australia in such a move and was openly critical of Australia's 'undue obsequiousness' to American foreign policy, the then Government's non-recognition of China and Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War.

On the domestic front, he attacked the extent to which overseas interests had been allowed to gain control of Australia's mineral resources.

With such views, it was perhaps not surprising that during the 1972 Federal election campaign he was a signatory, along with Kenneth Myer, of the Myer department store chain, and several other leading citizens and academics, to a widely published letter calling for Labor to be given a chance in government.

It was probably these sorts of opinions which precluded him from the top job in External Affairs.

But they were no barrier to him being named by the Dunstan Government as Lieutenant-Governor of South Australia in 1973.

Sir Mark Oliphant, who was succeeded by Sir Douglas Nicholls, was Governor when Crocker took up his unexpected role.

Then during the illness and subsequent resignation of Sir Douglas, he became acting Governor for six months or so until the appointment of the Reverend Keith Seaman in 1977.

He stepped down as Lieutenant-Governor in 1982.

Sir Walter published 10 books, including two volumes of memoirs (Australian Ambassador, 1971 and Travelling Back, 1981) and a biography of veteran South Australian Premier, Sir Thomas Playford, 1982.

He admired Playford as a man and politician and believed that, during his lifetime, only one other political figure could be compared to him - Robert Menzies.

But, apart from Casey, who he regarded as the best minister he had served under, he was not so impressed with other politicians such as Barwick, McMahon and McEwen.

He was also to acknowledge that the Whitlam Government 'did not turn out as most of us would have wished'.

A royalist who believed there was no advantage in Australia becoming a republic, he liked to work out his own conclusions about life, people, politics and affairs of the day.

He had a great love of Italy and bought a house in Tuscany, where he intended to retire.

However, the tug of his native hearth was too strong and he opted to return to South Australia for which he had always had a sense of pride in belonging.

He also liked the quality of life there and felt it had pioneered some great social advances.

In 1951 Crocker married Claire Ward, daughter of a headmaster of Adelaide's Prince Alfred College, but the marriage was later dissolved.

Sir Walter Russell Crocker, born March 25 1902; died November 14 2002.

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After being heavily involved in theatre he transitioned from acting to writing/directing and went to learn filmmaking at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

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Of the many things Varanasi is known for, so-called salvation homes that cater to the terminally ill best exemplify Hinduism's holiest city.

Drawing from the belief that people who die there allow their soul to escape a cycle of death and rebirth, many who seek 'mukti' check into these accommodations to wait for death.

Shubhashish Bhutiani's "Mukti Bhawan" (titled "Hotel Salvation" in English) provides a window into the lives of these people and their loved ones.

The movie, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year and releases in Indian theatres on April 7, tells the story of a son who takes his father to die in Varanasi.

Bhutiani spoke to Reuters about the film.

How did you come up with the idea for "Mukti Bhawan"?

I had moved back to India after studying in the U.S. and working at a few jobs.

I wanted to travel around the country, so I backpacked across India and my last stop was Varanasi.

I am just going to use the word hotel even though they are not really hotels.

In the local language they call them bhawans.

They have many qualities of a hotel and the word works for translation purposes.

My entry point into this world was just from a place of fascination.

When I went there, it was not with the agenda of making a film, but just to see a place that was so unique.

I became touched by people's stories of why they come there and what this place means for them and one particular incident stayed with me, of a son who brings his father to die there.

That compelled me to write something around it.

What does the film say about the idea of 'mukti'?

A: It is certainly not something that every character in the film believes in.

Only the patriarch of the family is firm about this belief.

His son (Adil Hussain's character) is too caught up in his own life to think about these things – it is how we in the cities are.

I don't see this as a religious or a spiritual film.

It deals with modern times and where we stand with our traditions and how it impacts us.

It brings out humor too, because who knows when death will come?

It brought a smile to my face – these people who are predicting their death.

Is humor an essential element of the story?

A: It is not a conscious effort as much as a feeling I had.

If you have a hotel that is giving you 15 days to die, I think that is funny.

Someone is putting a time limit on that, when you can never know.

I have tried for most of the humour to come out of the situations itself.

Can you talk about your choice of cast, especially Lalit Bahl who we haven't seen after his brilliant performance in "Titli"?

A: He got this role because I saw him in "Titli" and I was looking for someone intimidating.

I still auditioned him and all, but he was always in my mind when I was writing the film.

Given the number of senior actors in your film, did you feel your age (he's 25) got in the way?

A: I don't know… I do have some experience.

My job is to get the best out of everybody and make the film that I set out to make.

I try to focus on that more and what I want to do.

Did you shoot at an actual mukti bhawan?

A: There are two-three mukti bhawans in Banaras and I wanted to adopt several characteristics of each of them.

They all had different elements that I loved.

One was by the river, one had a rule board of what the guests could and could not do; one was livelier, where people sat in the courtyard in the evenings.

Also, I wanted control of the space and didn't want to disturb anybody.

If I went to a real place, they are doing their thing.

You didn't want to get in the way of death?

But we found a place that fit all our requirements – it was by the river, had a courtyard and we could make our own Mukti Bhawan out of it.

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Shubhashish Bhutiani grew up in a small Himalayan town in India where he attended Woodstock School.