A personal take on a potential full-length Overwatch movie and TV-series

I don´t know if it´s because I´ve been lacking of sleep for the last couple of days, or if it´s because I´ve been reading, watching and hearing a lot of stuff about “Overwatch” as of la…
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Facebook Messenger launches Instant Games

Bored while you wait for someone to text back? Now you can challenge friends for high scores on Facebook Messenger’s new Instant Games, like Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Words With Friends Frenzy. Available right from your message threads, they load in seconds since they’re built on the HTML5 mobile web standard, rather than having to be downloaded like clunky native apps.
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Easter eggs evolved: Why gamers spent 3-years-plus studying GTAV’s Mount Chiliad

This unsolved mystery is a perfect artifact of communal sleuthing in the Reddit age. Just below the peak of Mount Chiliad, a huge mountain in the far north of San Andreas, a mysterious mural sits high atop a cliff face. It looks like a map of the mountain's interior—a network of tunnels that connect five small chambers and three large ones with what appear to be a UFO, an egg, and a jetpack within them. Whether it's actually a map isn't clear. Nearby, painted on the bottom edge of a lookout platform, are the words "come back when your journey is complete." And beneath that, painted on the ground, there's a red eye.
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The true story of Nintendo's most wanted game

None of this would've happened had Jennifer Thompson not gone thriftin'. This was in April 2013, and she was browsing clothes and $1 DVDs at the Steele Creek Goodwill in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, when she noticed it behind the glass counter. The video game title sparked a memory, a Yahoo article about the rarest games in the world. Jennifer carefully drove her '99 Honda Accord across the street to McDonald's, just to use the restaurant's Wi-Fi to make sure she hadn't been wrong.
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5 Ways Gamers are holding back the games they love – Cracked Vs Gamers and violent games

Ah ha, I see…It´s time for yet another “Let´s attack Gamers and violent video games” piece. Well, sadly enough, that´s the case (yet again). As Cracked and Josh Sargent (Senior ed…
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Best Gaming Mouse: Buyer's Guide (Nov. 2016)

Choosing a mouse is a very personal decision. What may suit one person won’t necessarily suit another. There are a range of factors to consider from the various features to comfort and style. This isn’t made any easier thanks to the huge market that currently exists for gaming mice. While gaming mice can be subjective topic, one thing is generally understood to be true among gamers: prediction and acceleration are bad news for competitive play, and DPI numbers are far more emphasized by the big name manufacturers than they need to be.
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No Man’s Sky devs end months of silence, announce Foundation Update

Two months of silence from the makers of No Man's Sky ended on Friday with news that the game would finally receive a substantial update "this week." "We’re calling it The Foundation Update, because we have added the foundations of base building, and also because this is putting in place a foundation for things to come," an unnamed author posted at Hello Games' official development blog.
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Are Computers Draining The Beauty Out Of Chess?

The sixth game of the World Chess Championship was over before the sun set. This was new. The intricately fought contests had thus far lasted until night fell, and sometimes well beyond. The darkne…
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Why free-to-play could save EVE Online

EVE's player-driven ecosystem runs on one thing: new blood. By Steven Messner.
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Steampunk Makeup Guide

From historically accurate Victorian makeup to Special FX (and everything in between). Includes options for men, too. Presented by SteampunkFashionGuide.com.
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Nintendowned: Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in (null) seconds

We knew the NES Classic Edition, with its retro aesthetic and solid game selection, would be hard to get at first, but this is some next level, Tickle Me Elmo..
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Facebook officially announces Gameroom, its PC Steam competitor

After losing mobile gaming to iOS and Android, Facebook is making a big push into playing on PC with today’s developer launch of its Gameroom Windows desktop gaming platform. After months of name changes, beta tests and dev solicitation, Facebook opened up the beta build for all developers and officially named it Gameroom. The app is openly available for users to download on Windows 7 and up.
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Sony Issues Response to Xbox One and PS4 Cross-Platform Play

Yesterday, Microsoft announced plans to open up Xbox One for PS4 cross-platform play, and publicly invited many other companies and developers to consider connecting its networks with Xbox Live as well. Now, Sony has given a somewhat open-minded response to the press outlet GameSpot that neither confirms nor denies the possibility of such a deal going down with Microsoft. Nevertheless, Sony‘s reply to the invitation of uniting its PlayStation Network with Xbox Live is moderately encouraging...
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Three Psychedelic Visions of the Future of V.R. Gaming

Virtual reality can be at its best when it’s at its least real. By Simon Parkin.
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2017 Steampunk Event Calendar (events worldwide)

SteampunkFashionGuide.com: A guide to Steampunk fashion: costume tutorials, Steampunk clothing guide, cosplay photo gallery, updated calendar of Steampunk events, and more.
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The Ouija board’s mysterious origins: war, spirits, and a strange death

Historian Robert Murch has spent years studying the Ouija board. He explains how the civil war and the Sears catalogue fueled a phenomenon. By Baynard Woods.
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How a forgotten ’80s gem created the formula for video game horror

Conventional wisdom tends to ascribe the birth of survival-horror to Alone In The Dark. Infogrames’ 1992 Lovecraftian adventure bore practically every hallmark of the genre and proved a major influence on its two most prominent series, Resident Evil and Silent Hill. What’s often omitted from history books is how Dynamix’s Project Firestart, a much less conspicuous title, had been released for the aging Commodore 64 three years earlier and provided the genre’s formula.
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