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The Wiretap: A Nintendo Switch Helped Rescue A Missing Teenager 500 Miles From Home
Last August, Jane, a 14-year-old from Norfolk, Virginia, went missing for two weeks. Her worried family, who put out urgent pleas to local media, were baffled by the girl’s disappearance. An introvert and a homebody, Jane (whose real name Forbes is choosing not to reveal as she is still a minor) had showed no sign she was considering something drastic, her parents told investigators.
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Microsoft admits Xbox "lost the console wars"
A rare candid look at console share stats
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Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset, which will cost $499.99
Meta will share more about it at Connect in September.
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Is Mac on the verge of a gaming revolution?
Like Valve's Proton compatibility layer for Steam Deck, Apple has made the Game Porting Toolkit to let Windows games run on macOS - so we tested it.
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Nintendo Switch has just surpassed the Wii's total sales in the United States
Nintendo Switch hybrid handheld-console combo has pulled off a stunt that's making even Mario do a double jump. Nintendo Switch achieved an incredible
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Microsoft turned down Alan Wake 2 pitch with TV-style episodes for Quantum Break instead
Alan Wake 2 arrives this October more than than 13 years after Remedy's original game, and after a number of false starts at getting the sequel made. Much of developer Remedy's original pitch for the sequel eventually worked its way into Alan Wake's American Nightmare, the action-heavy 2012 standalone spinoff which, while not unanimously loved by critics, went on to be one of the cult hits of the old Xbox Live Arcade days.
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Can Apple Take the Metaverse Mainstream?
The iPhone maker is making a bold bet that it can redefine the niche category of virtual reality with its $3,500 goggles.
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Doyle Brunson: 'The Godfather of Poker' has died aged 89
Doyle Brunson, dubbed 'The Godfather of Poker,' has died at the age of 89, according to a family statement shared by his agent Brian Balsbaugh on Twitter.
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The era of 100GB games is upon us, and the average PC gamer is underprepared
On the list of life's many stressors—money, health, social injustice, wanting to buy eggs at the grocery store but being unsure if there are still some in the fridge—the free space in my SSD ranks surprisingly high. A new massive game install hits like a jab to the gut. Every week is another dozen gigabytes closer to having to make some deep cuts.
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How a Mechanical Chess-Playing Turk gave Birth to the AI Debate 250 Years Ago
The Mechanical Turk quickly became a symbol of technological innovation and sparked the same heated debates we’re having right now about the nature of artificial intelligence, the limits of human ingenuity, and the possibility of constructing a machine capable of replicating human thought.
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Xbox Series S Suffers from VRAM Limitations, Just Like 8GB GPUS
It looks like the Xbox Series S is facing serious memory allocation issues in Borderlands 3, at least according to Reddit user u/jokekiller94 — who posted a screenshot of the game crashing on their Series S console with an "out of memory" error on the screen.
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Top Nintendo Switch piracy subreddit banned after 3 years
The r/NewYuzuPiracy subreddit was home to hundreds of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom modding discussions before it was banned on Tuesday.
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Apple Vision Pro 'Visual Search' Feature Can Identify Items, Copy Printed Text, Translate and More
The Apple Vision Pro headset's visionOS operating system includes a feature called "Visual Search," which sounds like it is similar to the Visual Lookup feature on the iPhone and the iPad.
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Vision Pro Features 'Left Out' For Now Include Fitness Apps, Full-Body Tracking, and More
The Information's Wayne Ma today reiterated several features that Apple apparently developed but did not announce for the Vision Pro at WWDC earlier this month, including various fitness and wellness apps, full-body tracking, and more.
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Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second console war to Sony
Most of the changes on the Sega Retro wiki every day are tiny things, like single-line tweaks to game details or image swaps. Early Monday morning, the site got something else: A 47MB, 272-page PDF full of confidential emails, notes, and other documents from inside a company with a rich history, a strong new competitor, and deep questions about what to do next.
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Meta conducts yet another round of layoffs
Meta is waging its latest round of layoffs on Wednesday, estimated to impact about 6,000 people. These cuts are part of the company’s so-called “Year of Efficiency,” in which Meta is being massively restructured to save money and flatten the organization structure.
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Microsoft / Activision deal prevented to protect innovation and choice in cloud gaming
The CMA has prevented Microsoft’s proposed purchase of Activision over concerns the deal would alter the future of the fast-growing cloud gaming market, leading to reduced innovation and less choice for UK gamers over the years to come.
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Why Xbox customers are right to be angry about Microsoft putting more 'exclusive' games on Nintendo or PlayStation
Rumors are swirling that Microsoft wants to expand its publishing business beyond games that were already historically multiplatform. Here's why Xbox fans are right to push back.
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Sources: Nintendo targets 2024 with next-gen console
Key partners have development kits ahead of a planned launch…
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Microsoft acquired Bethesda after hearing Starfield would be exclusive to PlayStation
Microsoft says Sony paid third parties to keep games off Xbox