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Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 Players Are Begging People To Stop Voting For The Same Three Maps: ‘Literally So Annoying And Borderline Unplayable’

It's 2012 all over again as people keep voting for Nuketown, Raid, and Hijacked match after match

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Framework 13 Pro review

The moment you touch the new Framework 13 Pro laptop you know it's different to what's come before. Despite the bubblegum pink USB Type-C ports I've jammed in either side of the machine, this is a serious laptop for serious work. But it's also still instantly recognisable as one of the company's eminently upgradeable a...

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Splatoon Raiders Compass Locations & How to Use Them

There are 24 Old Compasses in Splatoon Raiders that are used to locate Sampler Dungeons that award Skill Points upon completion. Twenty-one of those compasses are obtained by breaking blue crates hidden in stages, while the final three are earned by beating three buried ruins on Super Spicy. Compasses in Splatoon Raide...

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Blade and Magik lead as Marvel Tōkon's most popular characters during its beta

The Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls beta has been and gone, and while I'm not usually a fighting game person, oh boy did this new superhero tag fighter have the sauce. It was only marred by the fact that PlayStation Network was down for almost the entire opening day, and its PC performance was terrible at best for many—I...

1 month ago 👁 6
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The Pokémon Company is turning to facial recognition scans to help combat scalpers

Nintendo has announced the rollout of a facial recognition system and new entry and purchase rules for its Pokémon stores in Japan. It's not exactly a last-ditch effort, but it's yet another attempt at combating scalpers which have been plaguing the hobby ever since its inception. "In order to provide a safe and secure...

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One Piece Officially Reveals 2 New Characters Stronger Than Admirals

On July 26, 2026, One Piece marked the release of Chapter 1189 in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #35, and this chapter showcased the power of the revitalized Holy Knights to us. The Holy Knights received a significant boost from Nerona Imu in One Piece Chapter 1180 and were powered up to a sky-high level. In Chapt...

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Rockstar Games and GTA co-founder chimes in on the raging physical games debate: "If people want that, companies should provide it"

Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser and longtime Rockstar writer Lazlow Jones have chipped in on the physical video games debate. Read more

1 month ago 👁 6
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The Sub Versus Dub Debate Is Alive And Well With Digimon

If you were a little kid in the early 2000s like I was, there was a chance you were really into Digimon. I always found the anime to be more compelling than Pokemon because it offered more nuanced characters and storytelling with themes that went far beyond catching ‘em all. How its cast of young characters explored th...

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Nintendo Of America’s Original Pokémon Pitch From E3 1998 Is Wild To Watch Nearly 30 Years Later

The series was already a hit in Japan, but Nintendo still had to convince Americans

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Shigeru Miyamoto thinks people don't care about console specs that much anymore, believes Nintendo instead provides "gameplay that only we can create"

A new interview with Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed he thinks people don't care about graphics and performance that much anymore, compared to consumer priorities in generations gone by. Read more

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Vatican scrambles to patch 'phishing goldmine' app promoted by the Pope: 'Prayer infrastructure on the framework you learn in week 2 of a Node.js bootcamp'

On January 20, 2019, Pope Francis delivered his weekly Angelus to St Peter's Square from a window in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace. In it, he enjoined the faithful to join him on the Church's then-new Click To Pray app—helpfully modelled by a nearby priest, wielding a tablet. Hundreds of thousands of people signed up...

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's "Bigger" Open World Doesn't Have to Be a Bad Thing

While everyone has long suspected that Final Fantasy 7 Revelation would be the largest entry, scale-wise, of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy, those suspicions have now officially been confirmed by the trilogy's director, Naoki Hamaguchi. In a recent interview with Eurogamer, Hamaguchi stated that "[Final Fantasy 7 R...

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