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Reddit Is Forcibly Removing Some Big Mods Over NSFW Protests

Image: Reddit In the wake of sitewide protests, ostensibly over some API changes but really about an increasingly corporate squeeze of a historically community-run site, some Reddit moderators have decided to hit CEO Steve Huffman in the only place it seems to hurt: the site’s wallet. The Week In Games: Wild At Heart Following a

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Guy Dislocates Shoulder Celebrating On The Price Is Right

Last week on The Price is Right, two of TV’s favourite things happened: somebody won a big prize in a game show, and a dude got hurt. Handily, both of them took place within the same 30 seconds. The Week In Games: Protecting The Precious And Time-Twisting Platformers Here’s footage of contestant Henry successfully guessing the

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The Best Strategy Games You Can Buy On PC, Turn-Based & RTS

The PC is home to just about every type of video game under the sun, but few are as quintessentially PC as strategy games. Because it’s such a popular (and important) type of game for the platform, and because I’ve spent way too much time playing them over the past few years, I thought I’d

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Fortnite’s New Nike Characters Are Made Out Of…Hmm

Fortnite, Epic’s free-to-play online battle royale, is one of the biggest games in the world and contains some of the most famous characters in pop culture, including Spider-Man, Batman, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Goku, and Darth Vader. But now, it’s time to say hello to the two greatest fictional characters to hop into Fortnite: a sentient pile

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Popular Former Fortnite Pro Tfue Retires From Twitch At 25

Turner “Tfue” Tenney, a former Fortnite pro and ex-Faze Clan member who courted controversy after controversy during his time creating content online, announced his decision to retire from livestreaming at the age of 25. Dead By Daylight Devs’ New Game Is Fortnite Meets Doom Read More: Popular Twitch Streamer Tfue’s Contract With Faze Leaks As

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Should You Play Now Or Wait For Phantom Liberty

If you’ve been on the internet between December of 2020 to right now, you’ve probably heard something about the supposed Cyberpunk 2077 renaissance. That redemption arc seems to be finally coming to fruition with the upcoming Phantom Liberty expansion, which promises a complete overhaul of the RPG’s systems, to the point where some people, perhaps

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Halo Infinite Stops Making Cinematics To Focus On Other Stuff

Halo Infinite is a good game that’s only become better over the last year or so thanks to smart updates and new content being added each season. Yet the Xbox and PC shooter’s latest season is missing something: cutscenes. But fans don’t seem to mind, because 343 says their omission is so the team can

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Immortals of Aveum Just Got Delayed To The Worst Possible Time

Immortals of Aveum is a Doom-like shooter where you wield magic spells instead of guns. There’s something about it that feels unmistakably like an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 throwback, but it’s actually a new, big budget indie game from the same EA Originals label that brought us It Takes Two and, more recently, Wild

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Reddit Hackers Demand $4.5 Million Ransom For Stolen Data

The messy aftermath of Reddit’s controversial API price increase might get messier. The ransomware hacker group BlackCat, which claimed responsibility for snatching 80GB of company data in February, is now demanding the news aggregator and community platform fork over $4.5 million and rescind its latest policy decisions or see all of this information get leaked

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Valve Ditching Battle Passes Since Most Players ‘Never Buy’ One

Valve—the company behind Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and digital game store juggernaut Steam—has revealed its future plans for its popular free-to-play MOBA, Dota 2. And those plans, surprisingly, don’t involve players buying annual paid battle passes that require grinding to unlock cosmetics and other new content. Apparently, and this is maybe even more surprising, Valve says most

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