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Star Citizen was rebuilt in Amazon’s Lumberyard, and it only took a few days

Gaming Features
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What if Mario’s ‘Cappy’ hat landed on a Dark Souls character?

Mario's sentient hat, Cappy, makes its way into Dark Souls 3 in a new mod video which shows just how capable Mario could be in that world.
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‘DotA 2’ International 2017 breaks prize pool records as it nears $21 million

Valve's International 2017 Battle Pass has already brought in $20.8 million, breaking all previous esport prize pool records.
Gaming News
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You’ll need to sell a kidney to afford Intel’s new 28-core Xeon CPU

Intel's new range of Platinum Xeon processors have enormous price tags that almost double those of the previous generation.
Computing News
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Vinpok’s Bolt wants to be your one magnetic charge cable for everything

Vinpok's new $30 magnetic charge cable is compatible with MacBook Pros and all manner of USB Type-C smart devices.
Mobile News
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‘Mario Kart VR’ puts you closer to Luigi’s death stare than ever before

Mario Kart VR will be one of as many as 12 launch titles for Bandai Namco's VR Zone virtual reality arcade in Tokyo, Japan.
Computing News
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Catch ’em all this summer with Pokémon Go’s Safari Zone events

Pokémon Go Fest and Safari Zone events will give players exciting bonuses and team activities over the Summer months.
Gaming News
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Microsoft to bridge digital divide with Airband: broadband access on white spaces

With the Airband Initiative, Microsoft looks to expand its rural internet white-space project to as many as two million people by 2022.
Computing News
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Experience the bizarre reality of ‘Legion’ at Comic-Con’s Hololens demo

Legion fans can get up close and personal with David Haller with a Hololens experience at this year's San Diego Comic Con.
Computing News
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Valve fixes ‘Half-Life’ bugs nearly 19 years after its release

Valve has patched the original Half-Life and its alternate viewpoint expansions with an update that fixes a number of crash bugs.
Gaming News
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Quantum computing moves one step closer with spintronics material creation

A newly developed material known as bismuthene could make spintronics viable at room temperature and beyond.
Emerging Tech News
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‘The Wanderer’ songwriter sues Zenimax over ‘Fallout 4’ trailers

The singer behind Fallout 4's live action trailer song, The Wanderer, is suing Zenimax over its juxtaposition with violence.
Gaming News
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'Warframe' expansion will build 50-person hub worlds for MMO-lite gameplay

Warframe's Plains of Eidolon expansion will introduce open world MMO-lite elements, as well as new weapons and races.
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Microsoft exec says game gifting on Xbox Live ‘not far’ off

Game gifting is "not far" off from being introduced on Xbox Live, according to VP of Xbox, Mike Ybarra, in a response to a fan's question.
Gaming News

All Nintendo Switch consoles have a secret NES emulator

The Nintendo Switch won't have NES games until sometime in 2018, but it already has a built-in emulator for those classic games.
Gaming News
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Settle the gift in ‘Game of Thrones Catan: Brotherhood of the Watch’

Fantasy Flight Games has merged Settlers of Catan with Game of Thrones, to create a new rendition called Brotherhood of the Watch.
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Inklings unite for one last ‘Splatoon 2’-themed Nintendo Direct on July 6

Nintendo is hosting another Direct show on July 6 that will be all about Splatoon 2, which will hit the Switch console July 21.
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‘Go north’ and navigate Wikipedia as a text-only adventure game

Wikipedia: The Text Adventure lets you explore Wikipedia articles as if they were part of an adventure right out of the '80s.
Gaming News
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NES-themed Joy-Cons cost half as much as the Switch itself

Make your Nintendo Switch look much more like its 1980s predecessor with a pair of Colorware NES-style Joy-Con controllers.
Computing News
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Rabbids and toy soldiers could become Ubisoft’s first augmented reality games

Ubisoft has debuted a number of augmented reality game prototypes at Unite Europe 2017 all making use of 'spatial mapping' technology.
Computing News
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Trial of the Sword DLC has been completed.

Zelda's 'Trial of the Sword' DLC took one YouTuber just four hours to complete

A YouTuber has already completed the 45 dungeons of the new Trial of the Sword DLC for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
Gaming News
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Windows 10 Insider Build 16232 augments and improves Windows Defender

Microsoft's latest preview build for Windows Insiders on the Fast ring updates many features of Windows Defender to improve security.
Computing News
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Congress is considering a new bill that would outlaw doxxing and swatting

Revenge porn, swatting, and doxxing may soon be illegal, as a new proposed bill would outlaw the practices at the federal level.
Web News
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Qualcomm’s VR headset to act as a reference for HTC and Lenovo’s Daydreams

HTC and Lenovo will use the Qualcomm reference design for their stand-alone Daydream virtual reality headsets.
Gaming News
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The SNES mouse lives again, with a few modern improvements

Hyperkin has announced the impending release of a remade SNES mouse, complete with a brand new optical sensor.
Computing News
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Western Digital’s 96 layer 3D NAND will lead to terabit memory chips

Western Digital's next-generation 3D NAND storage comprises 96 layers and could lead to as much as a terabit of storage in a single chip.
Computing News
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Mario wins big at the Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 2017

Mario received several wins at this year's Game Critics Awards, beating out games from Bethesda, Electronic Arts, and more.
Gaming Guides
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Doom II floppy discs just sold for $3,150 – the catch? They’re John Romero’s

Doom II discs belonging to John Romero has been sold on Ebay for more than $3,000, following the sale of other Doom related items.
Gaming News
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AMD has the world’s fastest graphics card with the Vega Frontier Edition

AMD's newly available Vega Frontier Edition is the highest specced graphics card in the world, even beating out the Nvidia Titan Xp.
Computing News
Intel Core i7-7700K review

Intel's Coffeelake chip has six-cores, 12-threads, relatively low clock-speed

One chip from Intel's Coffeelake generation may have been revealed in a new GeekBench listing, detailing its cores and clock speed.
Computing News
Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ignis

Death abounds in ‘Final Fantasy XV Episode Ignis,’ launching in December

Final Fantasy XV has another episode coming just around the corner, called Ignis. It's set to launch in December this year.
Gaming News
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Mining-oriented graphics cards are here to save us from stupid prices

The first crypto-mining graphics cards are going up for pre-order, amid rampant GPU price rises for traditional gaming cards.
Computing News
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Augmented reality firm CastAR shuts down, will liquidate everything

Augmented reality firm CastAR has shut its doors and let go of most of its employees after failing to acquire additional funding.
Computing News
Intel Core i7-7700K review

Disabling hyperthreading may be the best way to avoid newly discovered Intel bug

A bug has been discovered in most processors from the sixth and seventh generations of Intel CPUs that manifests with hyperthreading enabled.
Computing News
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