Day: 9 November 2023

9 bizarre things I learned about Cities: Skylines 2 by following this one citizen around for his entire life

It's easy when playing a city builder to focus on the grander scale: electrical grids, traffic patterns, resource management, the…

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Good news, terrible news: You don’t have to launch Modern Warfare 2 to launch Modern Warfare 3 anymore, but now you can’t launch Warzone without first launching Modern Warfare 3

Activision's rollout of the new “Call of Duty HQ” launcher has been anything but elegant. The HQ, which is really…

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The Steam Deck’s new clear plastic limited edition is giving me overpowering OLED envy, but I can’t keep blowing money on these things

Like many in my millennial age cohort, I've got a sickening nostalgic obsession with clear plastic electronics: Game Boys, OG…

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Omegle, the site that paired up strangers for 1-on-1 chats and, uh, other stuff, has closed: ‘Frankly, I don’t want to have a heart attack in my 30s,’ founder says

Do you remember Omegle? It launched in 2009 as a chat service with a twist: Instead of picking a server…

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Valve knows people will jam the shiny new OLED panel into old Steam Decks ‘but it’s probably not going to go well’

If you have anything like my tinkering soul, the first thing to occur to you the instant you heard Valve…

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Braid: Anniversary Edition is finally coming in 2024 with 15 hours of developer commentary, and no I am not kidding

It's been more than three years since the announcement of Braid: Anniversary Edition, a “hand-painted” remake of the famed indie…

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Steam Deck OLED vs Steam Deck LCD: what’s inside

The new Steam Deck OLED is here, but while the sparkling screen is the eponymous feature, there's a whole lot…

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Valve just unveiled ‘the definitive first generation Steam Deck’ with an OLED screen and new Sephiroth APU

And just like that, a new Steam Deck is here. We've been expecting a refresh of Valve's handheld gaming PC…

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