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Back in 1993, a little-known game called Doom came out. It wasn't the first game to offer shooting in first-person, but it did popularise the genre. The games that followed became known as Doom-clones (often because they used the same engine), and it wasn't until the likes of GoldenEye, Half-Life, Halo, and more developed the genre further in the late 90s that the more neutral term first-person shooter was more widely used. Read more
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Around 1750 BCE in Ur, a customer named Nanni complained in clay about the bad copper sold to him by the merchant Ea-nasir. It is the oldest known written customer complaint, and several others were found in Ea-nasir's house. The behaviour behind a one-star review, nearly four millennia early. Read more ›
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Finding an affordable music streaming service is getting harder, but one old-school platform keeps costs down with a different approach to listening. Read more ›
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A new study found Claude Opus 4.6 outperformed professional fundraisers and elite debaters in persuasion tasks, raising fresh concerns about AI influence. Read more ›
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Samsung recently released the third One UI 9 beta for the Galaxy S26 series smartphones, which are currently the only smartphones eligible for the One UI 9 beta program. However, the Korean brand is already working on One UI 9 for the Galaxy S25 series, Galaxy A16 5G, Galaxy A17 5G, Galaxy A34, Galaxy A57, and the unannounced Galaxy S26 FE, and it has now begun testing One UI 9... Read more ›
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Researchers warn AI capabilities are advancing faster than human understanding, creating growing concerns about oversight, transparency, and control. Read more ›
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The paper leaks, the cancellation and the rescheduling of the NEET-UG examination has thrown the lives of over 2.2 Mn… Read more ›
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A quick note before this goes any further. I’m a writer, not a therapist or psychologist, and what follows is a personal reflection rather than advice. A chatbot is not a replacement for a friend or a mental health professional. I use it for entertainment and curiosity rather than as something to rely on for ... Read more Read more ›
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We return to the wondrous world of Star Fox Zero on the Wii U ahead of the launch of the next Star Fox 64 remake. Read more ›
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While raising two young children and expecting a third, I'm also helping care for my father as Alzheimer's slowly takes him away. Read more ›
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macOS 27 ends the Hackintosh era, but Apple's affordable Apple Silicon Macs may have made the DIY movement irrelevant long before Intel support disappeared. Read more ›
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Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, but still represent a significant amount of training data at over […] Read more ›
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There's more than a few different types of cordless hedge trimmers on the market today, but Consumer Reports says only two are at the top the list. Read more ›
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I risked it all on a career change that I wasn't sure would work in the travel industry. I'm glad I took a chance on myself. Read more ›
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We stopped spending thousands on family vacations and started exploring close to home to save money. Read more ›
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Для того чтобы нарисовать то, что понравилось бы и тебе самому, и другим, нужно воображение и вдохновение. Но влиять на оба эти процесса напрямую сложно: они, как правило, дают о себе знать самостоятельно. А вот когда это происходит — главное не упустить момент. От пикселя к пикселю Read more ›
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CNBC reports: Waymo is recalling almost 3,900 robotaxis in the U.S. to fix software issues after some cars drove into freeway construction zones, according to notices filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The voluntary recall, the Alphabet-owned company's second in just over a month, followed 13 known incidents where Waymo robotaxis drove into construction zones on freeways in Phoenix, or entered freeway lanes with active construction in the... Read more ›
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Crimson Desert, the open-world action RPG from Pearl Abyss, has a new challenge for Greymanes – a community challenge event that invites you all to commemorate your time in Pywel by sharing a video. Read more Read more ›
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A new report claims Microsoft is considering "spinning out" Xbox into its own company. Read more Read more ›
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Playground Games is investigating an issue where "game save progress may be lost or reset" in Forza Horizon 6. Read more Read more ›
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2's final post-launch update is here, bringing a number of fixes and "community-requested" features, including photo mode, sniper sights, and dual-wield pistols. Read more Read more ›
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Capcom is discontinuing the deluxe edition of Dragon's Dogma 2 on 24th June, as well as pulling many of its more controversial time-saving microtransactions. Read more Read more ›
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It looks like that superb Final Fantasy 7 Revelation trailer at Summer Game Fest was just the ticket for Square Enix: between a blowout trailer showcasing a massive open world, some significant story beats, and refined combat, and a massive media tour following the reveal, interest in the Final Fantasy 7 Remake series appears to have gone through the roof. Read more Read more ›
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Mortal Shell is an action game with the usual smattering of RPG elements; set in a grim medieval/gothic-esque world where everything is terrible and everyone is sad. The dialogue has a lot of Proper Nouns, and is cryptic enough for you to fill in the gaps. Read more Read more ›
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Activision has announced that Modern Warfare 4 will make its single-player campaign available to play up to one week prior to the full game's launch date. This makes the Korean Peninsula-set campaign accessible as early as 16th October for some players - that's a full week before the official release on 23rd October. Read more Read more ›
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One of 2025's most shocking reveals was Halo: Campaign Evolved coming to PS5. Xbox's iconic "mascot" is limited to Microsoft consoles and PC no more. It almost signalled a larger strategic shift, yet Gears of War: E-Day is skipping Sony's console despite last year's second Gears of War remaster making that jump. Now, Halo's pre-orders on PS5 are glowing, raising more questions. Read more Read more ›
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Capcom is currently in full 'unexpected update' mode, it seems. After returning to the two-year-old Dragon's Dogma 2 last week to clean things up ahead of its Dark Arisen expansion, the PC port of 2011's Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 has also just received its first new patch in years. Sadly, it appears to have broken more than it has fixed. Read more Read more ›
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