Gaming: 7 of 10
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How video games came out of the basement – and ate up Hollywood
At the end of Todd Field’s multi-Oscar-nominated film Tár, Cate Blanchett’s “cancelled” conductor is consigned to a fate worse than unemployment: leading the orchestra at a fancy-dress concert for fans of Monster Hunter, the popular fantasy video game. Blanchett herself, on the other hand, had arrived on the set of Tár fresh from the Hungary set of Borderlands, a forthcoming video-game-inspired film.
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Gaming Addiction: How Companies Have Manipulated Us
There have been many great players throughout history in basketball, football, or even chess. Brilliant, disciplined, intelligent — these are a few words one might first think of when describing the famous chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, but “addict” would be quite far down the list.
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At Apple, Rare Dissent Over a New Product: Interactive Goggles
The company is expected to unveil an augmented reality headset in a few months. Some employees wonder if the device makes sense for Apple.
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After almost a year with the Steam Deck I've finally been converted
I never thought I'd become a Deck head, but here I am.
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Gamers say goodbye to Google's Stadia
Google will shut down its Stadia cloud-gaming service in the UK on Thursday, as it issues refunds to gamers. Stadia was touted as a "Netflix for games" when it launched, in November 2019, allowing players to stream games online without a PC or console. The service will be inaccessible after 08:00 on 19 January in the UK, with gamers telling BBC News they are "heartbroken" to see it go.
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Microsoft says its new developer tools can reduce Xbox’s climate impact
Xbox maker says power-saving changes "can be entirely imperceptible to the gamer."
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Cyberpunk 2077 ends up in New York's Museum Of Failure
Nearly two years after its disastrous release, Cyberpunk 2077 has been admitted into the New York Museum of Failures, a harsh sentence, but not one that’s undeserved. Even if you weren’t interested in CD Projekt Red’s monumental release, you’d have seen it advertised and talked about online prior to its release. Even more so when it eventually did come out, along with an avalanche of bugs and performance issues that deeply angered fans who’d waited years for the dystopian FPS role-playing game.
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Why does the Steam Deck run Linux? Blame Windows
The Steam Deck and its Linux-based software are the culmination of a decade-long "hedging strategy" by Valve after the Windows 8 disaster.
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‘Angry Birds’ company is reportedly about to be sold for $1 billion... to Sega
The company behind Sonic may be buying Angry Birds.
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AMD Responds To RX 7900 XTX 110C Hotspot Issues
AMD has released an official statement regarding the user reports of Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics cards. In a nutshell, the chipmaker urges affected consumers to contact support. Although the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is one of the best graphics cards, MBA (Made By AMD) models appear to suffer from overheating. The reference design exhibited hotspots peaking up to 110 degrees Celsius; user feedback claims that the RDNA 3 graphics card shows this behavior even with the cooling fans at full throttle.
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Report: Estimates Say Sony’s PSVR 2 Isn’t Selling Well, May Need Price Cut
I previously said that PSVR 2 was the wrong device, releasing at the wrong time, at the wrong price. Now, a month after launch, early indicators appear to be reinforcing those notions.
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Miyamoto doesn't like being called the Spielberg of video games: "Nintendo is Nintendo"
Nintendo game director and creator of Super Mario Bros. Shigeru Miyamoto would kindly request you stop calling him the Spielberg of video games
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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is the best Star Wars game since Knights of the Old Republic
From Respawn Entertainment and Electronic Arts comes Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, one of the best games of 2023 and a must-have for action-adventure gamers. Read our hands-on impressions of the one of the best Star Wars games of all time now.
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Game over: Steam won’t run on Windows 7 or 8 after January 1, 2024
Windows 7 still runs on more Steam PCs than every version of Linux combined.
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Xbox Game Pass’ $1 deals come to an end
‘We are evaluating different marketing promotions’
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The life and death of midnight game releases
It’s 2009, and I go to my first-ever midnight launch for a game. Infamous was the next big exclusive game for the PS3, and I was incredibly excited. I was in my final weeks of high school, in the middle of exam season in the UK. I took the game home, unwrapped it, and played all night until around 7 am. I had an exam the following day, but I didn’t care. I just had to play that game.
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Massive Apple headset leak reveals new details and confirms earlier rumors
The Information claims to have once again received insider information from sources close to Apple who are familiar with the development of Apple’s XR headset. The report contains numerous technical details about the headset, including new information.
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Beyond Programming: D&D, Open Source and Gaming | Open Source Watch
What's what with open-source news.
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The Witcher 3 new-gen update added 'realistic vaginas' and oh my god
For the most part, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s recent new-gen patch is everything fans could’ve wanted. The detail I don’t remember anyone asking for though was the inclusion of realistic vaginas but that’s seemingly what we’ve got because we live in a truly cursed world.
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15 NES Game Secrets You Never Knew Existed
It turns out that some beloved NES games have been hiding incredible secrets.