Video games have been simulating football since the 1970s, but they have rarely ever thought about simulating fandom. You can play a whole international tournament in the Fifa titles, but what they never show is the way the competition seeps into the everyday lives of supporters, how whole towns are overtaken, how a World Cup can become a national obsession. The way most of us experience the really big matches is through stolen moments of vicarious glory on televisions and giant pub screens, surrounded by friends and family and the sounds and images of real life. This is the territory of Despelote, a beautiful, utterly transportive game about childhood and memory, set during Ecuador's historic 2002 World Cup qualifying campaign. Football-mad eight-year-old Julián – a semi-autobiographical version of the game's co-designer Julián Cordero – has just watched the team beat Peru, but now four more matches stand between Ecuador and the World Cup finals in Japan and Korea.

Drone video of a deadly standoff that took the life of a Riverside County sheriff's deputy on Friday appears to capture the suspect being shot by another deputy on the street before the wounded officer is rushed into the back of a sheriff's SUV. The video was posted to YouTube late Friday by a brand new account created the same day. Its owner could not immediately be reached for comment by The Times on Saturday. The video provided the clearest picture yet of the encounter, which took the life of Deputy Darnell Calhoun, 30. The sheriff's department said Calhoun was fatally shot after responding to an "unknown trouble" call about 4:20 p.m. in the 18500 block of Hilldale Lane, a residential area in Lakeland Village.

A Florida man recently had a brain-eating parasitic pork tapeworm removed from his eyeball that threatened to turn him blind. Sam Cordero initially thought he was seeing a black dot moving from left to right, until he realized the dot was actually a pork tapeworm that had made its home in his left eye. According to Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, "Taenia solium infection (taeniasis) is an intestinal infection with adult tapeworms that follows ingestion of contaminated pork." While a tapeworm might find its way into a human's body when one consumes raw pork or comes in contact with contaminated human feces, it seldom travels through a person's intestines, into one's bloodstream and embed itself in one's brain or eye ball. However, in Cordero's case -- which is one of the 20 recorded cases of tapeworms reaching human eyes in the world -- the insect settled down in his eye's vitreous chamber, which is a fluid filled area behind Cordero's lens and cornea.