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1. Crowdfunded Nanoloop synth doesn't need a Game Boy to make beats
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Nanoloop has been a cornerstone of chiptune music for years, but using one has meant either owning a Game Boy or making do with a mobile app. You won't have to make those compromises for much longer. ...

2. The FDA thinks an Xbox game can stop kids smoking
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The FDA is behind a horror video game designed to teach teens about the dangers of smoking. Inspired by the statistic that three out of every four high school students who start smoking continue on to ...

3. 'Red Dead Online' will soon offer fight or explore modes
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Rockstar Games announced today its plans for ongoing improvements to Red Dead Online, the multiplayer component of Red Dead Redemption 2. In an update set for later this spring, the developer plans to ...

4. Google's Stadia is the moonshot game streaming needs
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There's a good chance we'll remember Google's Stadia announcement as a landmark moment in gaming. In one fell swoop, Google laid out its plans for an ambitious game-streaming service that ...

5. 'Speaking Simulator' uses your gift of gab for world domination
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Everybody wants to rule the world, even AI-controlled alien robots. And in Speaking Simulator from Affable Games, you absolutely can -- you'll just first have to convince the rest of humanity to let ...

6. Easy-to-install bidet is a game changer
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... warm water jet like a Japanese toilet, but you'll get used to it. Read the rest “Easy-to-install bidet is a game changer” Read all  ...

7. 'Nuclear Throne' and other Vlambeer games come to the Switch
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Vlambeer hasn't really had a presence on the Switch, but it's rectifying that in very short order. The indie studio is bringing three titles to Nintendo's current console, starting immediately ...

8. Disney revives Lucasfilm Games as EA flounders with 'Star Wars'
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There hasn't been a Lucasfilm Games-badged release since before 1991's Monkey Island 2, but that isn't stopping Disney from resurrecting the classic label. The company recently posted several ...

9. 'Detroit', 'Heavy Rain' and 'Beyond' will hit the Epic Games Store
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Detroit: Become Human, Beyond: Two Souls and Heavy Rain are all making their way to PC for the first time in 2019 through the Epic Games Store. To date, the games have only been available on PlayStation ...

10. Epic Games has 250 million 'Fortnite' players and a lot of plans
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When Tim Sweeney built ZZT in 1991, he didn't know how to program graphics. Instead of coding actual characters and objects into his game, he used text symbols, and the main character was simply a ...

11. 'Stranger Things 3: The Game' arrives alongside the show on July 4th
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When the Duffer Brothers said Stranger Things 3: The Game would tie in with the third season of the Netflix series, they weren't kidding. Bonus XP's suitably retro beat-em-up is due to launch ...

12. Double Fine's radioactive adventure 'Rad' arrives this summer
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Tim Schafer and Lee Petty of Double Fine Productions made a short appearance on Nintendo's Nindies Showcase today to help introduce a new rock-flavored action game. And no, it's not Brutal Legend ...

13. 'Cuphead' hits Nintendo Switch on April 18th
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The delightfully difficult game Cuphead is making its way to the Switch this Spring, Nintendo announced at GDC 2019 on Wednesday. The game will be ported with the same hand-drawn cell animation and jazzy ...

14. AIs are better gamers than us, but that’s OK
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We're only just beginning to scratch the surface of what artificial intelligence is capable of, from medical advancements to movie recommendations. Despite AI being a potential goldmine of help to ...

15. Leaked memo promises major Xbox streaming news at E3
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Google had some major news on the gaming front Tuesday when it announced Stadia, its game-streaming service. Microsoft's Xbox chief Phil Spencer was among those who paid attention to Google's ...

16. Konami is bringing 'Castlevania' and 'Contra' to modern consoles
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Konami is celebrating its 50th birthday with three new compilations based on Castlevania, Contra and its early arcade games, each available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows PC (via ...

17. Grado Labs GW100 review: A blessing and a curse
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Grado Labs was late to the wireless game. The company knows it, and it has good reasons for not jumping in sooner. "Wireless technology has never been very good, so just like closed-back, we could ...

18. Battle medic Baptiste officially joins 'Overwatch'
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Overwatch has a new entrant: support medic Baptiste. After a couple of months of battle-testing on the game's public server, the newbie is now live with the latest patch. Not only does the Haitian ...

19. 'Anthem' was the top-selling game in the US this February
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... game in the US in February, and the second strongest... Read all  ...

20. Apex Legends Season 1 starts today
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Apex Legends engages in the Seasonal format for managing major and minor game updates. With Season 1 comes a battlepass, a paid-for ticket to cool but not game influencing bling. I enjoy Apex but gravitate ...

21. Watch Google's GDC 2019 event in 14 minutes
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Earlier today at GDC 2019, Google officially revealed Stadia, a game-streaming service that will be available later this year in US, Canada, the UK and Europe. There's a lot Google didn't ...

22. The worst toy: Flushin' Frenzy
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Flushin' Frenzy [Amazon] is a toy wherein you push a plunger until a poop pops up. All the fun of clearing out a blocked toilet! The game's tagline is "Poop there it is!" Game night just got gross - ...

23. Shadows: Amsterdam - a game where you guess what the other people are guessing about ambiguous pictures
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... games. The ambiguous pictures, in the case of Shadows, are a multitude of charming, somewhat dark paintings of what is best described as a furry-noir Amsterdam-by-way-of-Zootopia. Anthropomorphic animals ...

24. Google Stadia sounds like a bad idea
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I will take 6 GPU teraflops hardwired to my 1ms refresh rate monitor over 10 GPU teraflops and a BGP-4 routed TCP-IP backbone for gaming. While presented as a wonderful way to buy a videogame and instantly ...

25. Google Stadia can use AI to change a game's art in real-time
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Google's Stadia game streaming service isn't just using the cloud to make games playable anywhere -- it's also using the technology for some clever artistic tricks. A Style Transfer feature ...