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The online building-block game Minecraft is a great tool that can lead to the strengthening of a player's creative and strategic abilities. For one unfortunate child, though, the game led to something else: a felony charge. An unidentified 74-year-old grandmother from Lincoln, Neb., received a call from her bank notifying her of suspicious charges on her credit card account. It turns out ...read more
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DayZ’s upcoming standalone alpha isn’t going to be a lot of fun for those who aren’t excited by an inside look at development, creative lead Dean “Rocket” Hall has warned. In an update on the DayZ forums, Hall stressed that the build to be released through Steam Early Access will be “a true-blue apha”. “Massive areas of the engine were entirely reworked, involving a large ...read more
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In late October, Valve announced that its Steam game download service had reached a new high of over 65 million accounts worldwide, 10 years after the first beta client was released. Today, the number of concurrent Steam users reached a new record as well as it surpassed the 7 million mark for the first time. The new record was reached just a few hours ago, according to Valve's own stats page, ...read more
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In the PC version of Battlefield 4, there's a bug where damage from a single bullet is applied multiple times – essentially a "one-hit kill" glitch. DICE is aware of the issue and hopes to resolve it in an upcoming patch planned for the week of December 2. The patch will also fix an issue with audio randomly dropping during multiplayer matches and a consistent crash bug that occurs when ...read more
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Nvidia’s consumer sales manager Matt Wright has stressed that PC is the gaming platform of choice, and that its functionality makes it “far superior” to consoles. He recognises that some staunch console players may need some extra convincing however. It follows the UK and European PS4 launch. Speaking with MCV, Wright said, “We are proposing small form-factor PCs to be a viable ...read more
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In the nearly 10 years since Garry's Mod first debuted as a modification for Half-Life 2, the open sandbox physics simulator has sold over 3.5 million copies, while doubling its sales each year. Garry Newman, the game's creator and namesake, cites a number of reasons for its success: the ever-increasing popularity of Steam, user-generated content, additions from other Valve games like Team ...read more
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Apple of iProduct fame has acquired PrimeSense, the Israeli firm behind the 3D sensing tech in the original Kinect for Xbox 360. No official price tag was put on the purchase, but rumors of the acquisition last week speculate a cost of $345 million. "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans," said Apple to the ...read more
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This past weekend was a rough one for Battlefield 4, with DDoS attacks hitting the PC game and myriad crashes infesting the newly-launched PS4 version. Over the past few days, it has been nigh-impossible to connect to servers in the PC iteration of Battlefield 4 thanks to an unnamed group attacking EA's Origin servers. Initially the publisher posted a statement to the main page of Battlelog ...read more
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Ouya will receive an update sometime in the next few weeks that will improve the system's user interface, Engadget reported. Upon installing the update, the Android-based micro-console's UI will more prominently feature cover art for games in sections like the "Discover" page. Additionally, double-tapping on games will pull up a new menu that offers game recommendations and allows users to ...read more
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Upcoming Call of Duty: Ghosts DLC may have been inadvertently revealed by Infinity Ward, according to reports. Reddit users and other Ghosts players suggest Infinity Ward rolled out a developer Moshpit playlist on the PC version of the game earlier this week before quickly pulling it. The playlist in question featured map names not included in the base game including Swamp, Battery, Red ...read more
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