The people of Mexico may well be uniting ahead of their country’s bid for World Cup glory in Russia over the coming weeks, but in boxing, two Mexican featherweights are about to put native harmony on ice to fight for the WBA Super World Featherweight Title. It’s Santa Cruz vs Mares 2, and you can live stream every punch, duck and weave.

Leo Santa Cruz and Abner Mares face off this weekend in a rematch of their memorable 2015 title fight which saw Santa Cruz win via a majority decision. Santa Cruz, nicknamed ‘El Terremoto’ (‘The Earthquake’), enters the fight with a career record of 34 wins (19 by knock out), one defeat and one draw. Mares isn’t far behind on 31 wins (15 by knock out), two defeats and one draw.

If the contest is anything like their first meeting three years ago, we’re in for an entertaining night. Santa Cruz and Mares went the full distance at the Staples Center in their shared home of Los Angeles, fighting 12 high-octane rounds.

The 21,000-seater venue will be packed to the rafters, with both fighters drawing on large support bases in their adopted city of LA. If you can’t be among the number, we’ll tell you how to live stream the whole thing instead. And even if there isn’t a broadcast in your country, with our advice you could try using a VPN to watch Santa Cruz and Mares go to-to-toe.

How to watch Santa Cruz vs Mares: US stream

How to watch Santa Cruz vs Mares fight in the UK

Using a VPN is the only way
Sorry UK fight fans, it doesn’t look like either Sky Sports or BT Sport have decided to pick up this all-Mexican bout. The only way we can think of watching is by grabbing a VPN and trying to get hold of that US Santa Cruz vs Mares coverage – but don’t forget that hurdle in the shape of a US credit card requirement.

How to watch Santa Cruz vs Mares: Australia stream

It’s not being shown in Australia – use a VPN
With Showtime only being available to US residents, pursuing the VPN options above and setting your location as the US will be your best bet of catching this one live from Australia. It’s a midday seconds out on Sunday in the AEST time zone.

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There was a lot of speculation around Anthem last year. EA told us it’d be a class-based shooter based on a Sci-Fi story cooked up in-house by the BioWare team, and gave us a vague 2019 release window. 

This year, EA opened the floodgates. We got gameplay videos, cinematic trailers and even a discussion panel starring the key developers answering fans’ biggest questions during the EA Play keynote. 

Now that we have more answers than questions, though, one thing has become abundantly clear: Anthem isn’t like other BioWare games. In fact, it’s not even close.

Whether that fact perturbs you or completely glances off the armor of your exosuit likely comes down to how well you know the brand and how willing you are to let a developer grow beyond its tried and true formula.

The case for old BioWare 

On one side of the planet are those that feel like Anthem is a straight Destiny clone. They both have shared worlds with class-based abilities. They borrow heavily from action RPGs in the past like Borderlands, but blend that action with the world of an MMO. 

The differences between the two include competitive multiplayer (a key component of Destiny but not Anthem) and the ability to play Anthem by yourself without the help from any friends – a fact unveiled at a theater session at the EA Play event.

Because the games appear so similar, it’s fair for some parts of the community to feel less than excited about the game’s February 22 release date. 

But, more egregious to me personally, is that Anthem just doesn’t feel like a BioWare game. 

What is a BioWare game?

BioWare games, historically, have involved complex, branching stories with tough moral decisions that push your character towards one faction or another, ultimately locking and unlocking different story content. 

Sometimes there are relationship aspects to these games that help you invest a bit of yourself into the character’s progression from the ‘unceremoniously chosen one’ to hero of the galaxy / kingdom / realm. 

Along the way you meet and befriend allies, all of whom grow with you in their worldview and personality. You’ll fight along side them – and sometimes against them – depending on the franchise. 

Each character plays a role in that story and you’ll come to enjoy their company even if there’s no flesh and blood player controlling them. 

This is a system that has worked for Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Neverwinter Nights and the Baldur’s Gate franchise. For the last two decades these design principles helped define the developer. 

And all of the above are missing from Anthem. 

If you love it, let it go

Faced with the fact that Anthem doesn’t have many of these integral BioWare components, you’re given two options: disavow the developer or accept that, over time, developers change to keep pace with the times. 

No, there won’t be any romance options in Anthem. But it is something you could play with your real sweetheart – a.k.a. the guy/girl you’re sharing your couch with.

You might also want to give up on the idea of a branching story path, or at least one follows the traditional BioWare formula of one good action equals one good response and vice versa with evil. 

There’s also no indication that you’ll be able to build a team of NPCs if you decide to play the game by yourself and, unfortunately, there’s really nothing to replace that. That means you could be more alone than ever if you don’t play with your friends.

The good news is that BioWare doesn’t want you to play by yourself, and won’t penalize you for not playing as much as your friends. To that end, a BioWare representative says that friends of any level can group up together and friends can join missions already in progress.

Will any of that make Anthem as good as the iconic BioWare games before it? Maybe, maybe not. But all of that is helping a world-class creative studio figure out its next steps in a post-Mass Effect world. 

E3 is the world’s largest exhibition for the games industry, stuffed full of the latest and greatest games, consoles, and gaming hardware. TechRadar is reporting live from Los Angeles all week to bring you the very latest from the show floor. Head to our dedicated E3 2018 hub to see all the new releases, along with TechRadar’s world-class analysis and buying advice about the next year in gaming.

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E3 2018 is now underway and that means there’s a glut of exciting trailers coming your way. This is the show where some of the biggest names in gaming gather together to show off what they’ve got planned for the next few years and there’s no better way to do that than with a seriously impressive trailer. 

If you’re tired of trawling through the words and clicking through the pictures, the trailer is your friend, so on this page we’re gathering together all the most essential trailers from each E3 conference in one place for your enjoyment and convenience.

Keep checking back, we’ll be updating this page after every show with all the must-see trailers. 

Anthem

Finally, we’re getting a better look at BioWare’s brand new upcoming game Anthem with a brand new cinematic trailer. But we’re finding it doesn’t really look like the kind of BioWare we’ve come to know – no alien flirting or tough narrative choices here. What we are getting is a humanity trying desperately to survive by using “incredible Javelin exosuits.” We’re getting definite Destiny vibes here but whether or not that’s a bad thing is completely down to you. 

FIFA 19

We knew it was going to appear but it’s always comforting to see a new FIFA trailer isn’t it? There’s game engine footage in this trailer and it’s looking impressive. But it’s the inclusion of the UEFA Champions League that has us seriously excited. It’s a big win for FIFA and its fans and the full game will be available from September 28.

Madden NFL 19

Another member of the EA Sports family, we would have been more shocked by the absence of a Madden NFL 19 trailer than the fact that it was present. The game will be released on August 10 but the truly big news is that it’s coming to PC. 

Unravel 2

When it was released in 2016, the original Unravel game was a visual delight. And we’re happy to see that it looks like its sequel will be exactly the same. The only thing better than seeing that we’re going to get more yarn-based adventures with interesting puzzles and a delightful co-op mode? That’d be that we can actually buy the game on Xbox One, PS4, and PC digital storefronts already. Oh, and there are Xbox One X enhancements which means all that cuteness is available in 4K.

NBA Live 19

You didn’t think we’d talk about FIFA and Madden and completely miss out NBA did you? Of course not! NBA Live will be released on September 7 this year and from what we can see from this trailer it’s going to be the most impressive release in the series yet. 

Battlefield V multiplayer

Battlefield’s single-player campaign may promise to be touching and emotional but its multiplayers mode looks like it could be utterly thrilling. This trailer gives us a good look at what we can expect from Battlefield V, . We think it looks pretty wild but you can judge that for yourselves. Shall we all feign surprise about that battle royale mode reveal?

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