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If you are planning on clicking your heels together and setting off to the cinema to watch Wicked: For Good, the next film in the musical adaptation of Oz's witches Glinda and Elphaba, you may also get a first proper peep at another famous duo. Read more
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In the 1970s, psychologist Diana Deutsch was experimenting with a synthesizer, when she heard something strange. āIt seemed to me that Iād entered another universe or Iād gone crazy or somethingā¦the world had just turned upside down!ā Deutsch recalls. Deutsch had stumbled across an illusion in audio form ā she called it the āOctave Illusionā [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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The world is focused on Americaās lead but Beijing has the means, motive and opportunity to pull ahead Read more āŗ
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For a year, on and off, I've been thinking about Dragon Age: The Veilguard. More specifically, I've been thinking about my Dragon Age: The Veilguard review - the five-star review I wrote for Eurogamer. It plagues me. Because to be blunt, I'm not happy with how it sits. I don't think The Veilguard is a five-star game and definitely don't think it's BioWare's best game. To have suggested such a... Read more āŗ
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The backlash to the Trump administration's use of AI Halo imagery to promote political causes - notably the use of force by ICE to detain purportedly illegal immigrants - has spread to include strongly worded responses from the original designers of the Halo game. Read more Read more āŗ
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The US government's use of AI-generated Halo imagery on social media has absolutely been a power-play to appeal to like-minded American gamers. Read more Read more āŗ
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Don McGowan is an attorney who knows what he's talking about when it comes to understanding what Microsoft might do following the Trump administration's provocative use of the Halo IP on social media this week. He was a senior attorney at Xbox Game Studios for three years. He was also chief legal officer at The PokĆ©mon Company for a decade - another brand recently abused by the Trump administration. McGowan,... Read more āŗ
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Battlefield 6 has introduced a new "relaxed way" to play "while still earning progression and completing challenges" - Casual Breakthrough. Read more Read more āŗ
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Amid reports Amazon has 'gutted' its video games division as part of 14,000 company wide job cuts earlier this week, one former developer has suggested its Lord of the Rings MMO has also been cancelled. Read more Read more āŗ
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Iād argue that there was probably no greater poisoned chalice in games than taking on the job of remaking Final Fantasy 7. Hyped for years before it was announced, its reveal part of the so-called āE3 of dreamsā, and it is of course a reimagining of one of the most important and beloved role-playing games of all time. Even if it was brilliant, there would inevitably be grousing from some... Read more āŗ
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Following Amazon's decision to cuts 14,000 jobs, a new report has claimed the company is "gutting" its video games division as part of the move. Read more Read more āŗ
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The Witcher author Andrzej Sapkowski says he has an "excellent" deal with developer CD Projekt Red, but admits it's "rare" that the studio gets in touch to ask for additional details these days. Read more Read more āŗ
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I imagine the biggest question people who've put hundreds or thousands of hours into Amazon's MMO New World have right now is: are all my efforts about to be wiped? Is the game about to go offline, and close? Read more Read more āŗ
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