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• Call of Duty Action Figure Line Announced

  15-02-2018 23:56
  
  McFarlane Toys has teamed up with Activision to make action figures of popular Call of Duty characters.
  The first wave will include John "Soap" MacTavish and Simon "Ghost" Riley from the Modern Warfare series, with "more characters spanning the franchise to be revealed at a later date."Simon "Ghost" RileyTodd McFarlane, CEO of McFarlane Toys, said, "This franchise has delivered incredible experiences full of iconic and memorable characters, and we're delighted to bring these characters to life a
  
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• Gun restraining order might have thwarted Florida shooting: experts

  15-02-2018 23:55 via yahoo.com
  Some gun control proponents and legal experts said Wednesday's school shooting might have been thwarted if it had.Suspected shooter Nikolas Cruz's history of violence in school and disturbing social media posts would have allowed authorities to prevent him from legally obtaining a firearm in California and Connecticut, which have gun violence restraining order (GVRO) statutes, the experts said.The killing of 17 students and staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Flori
  
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• Pokemon Go Year of the Dog Event Announced

  15-02-2018 23:52
  The Pokemon Go Year of the Dog Lunar New Year event has been announced.
  Revealed on the Pokemon website, the Year of the Dog event, which features dog-like Pokemon, starts now and runs until February 17.
  During the event, Poochyena, Growlithe, Eevee, Snubble, and Electrike spawn rates will see a boost and catching any of the canine-shaped monsters will give players triple the usual stardust.
  Unrelated to the Lunar New Year festivities, purchasable Team Rocket outfits have also just been added to
  
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• Colombia says increasing number of Venezuelans involved in ELN attacks

  15-02-2018 23:34 via yahoo.com
  Colombia on Thursday said an increasing number of Venezuelans were taking part in attacks by Marxist ELN rebels and in criminal activity, as hundreds of thousands of migrants flee over the border to escape a humanitarian crisis at home.Colombian Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas said he had expressed concern to his Venezuelan counterpart General Vladimir Padrino in a telephone conversation, and that they had agreed to meet to coordinate security plans at the border.Villegas said Venezuelans
  
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• Rocket League Tournaments Coming in Spring

  15-02-2018 23:32
  Psyonix has announced tournaments will be coming to Rocket League this spring with a beta to begin this month.
  The details were revealed on the Rocket League website which states the beta, designed to test the new UI and general functionality, will run from February 21 to 23 on Steam.
  The beta will allow players to create their own tournaments as well as join in on competitions created by other users.
  Players wanting to get involved in the beta will need to own a copy of Rocket League on Steam.
  
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• Florida high school student claims Nikolas Cruz warned him before attack: 'You'd better get out of here'

  15-02-2018 23:29 via yahoo.com
  A freshman student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School claims that gunman Nikolas Cruz gave him a chilling warning before launching one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history on Wednesday.
  
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• Twitter Users Accuse Trump Of Victim Blaming After Florida Shooting

  15-02-2018 23:24 via yahoo.com
  Twitter users accused President Donald Trump of victim blaming after the president’s Thursday tweet suggested that people who knew suspected gunman Nikolas Cruz may not have done enough to prevent the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida.
  
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• Watch the Overwatch Bootcamp live from PC Gamer Weekender

  15-02-2018 23:23 via gamesradar.com
  Tune in at 10:00 GMT on Saturday 17 to catch all the action
  
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• Why woman says she pleaded guilty in fiance's kayak death

  15-02-2018 23:11 via yahoo.com
  "They said, 'Chance to go away for life, take a plea and get out in December. What do you want to do?'" Angelika Graswald told ABC News' "20/20."
  
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• Tillerson meets Turkey's Erdogan for 'open' talks after weeks of strain

  15-02-2018 23:05 via yahoo.com
  By Yara Bayoumy and Tulay KaradenizANKARA (Reuters) - Top U.S. diplomat Rex Tillerson and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan had a "productive and open" talk on Thursday about improving ties strained recently over their policies on Syria, in a meeting following weeks of escalating anti-American rhetoric from Ankara.Tillerson arrived in Turkey on Thursday for two days of what officials have said would likely be uncomfortable discussions between the allies, whose relations have frayed over a number of issues
  
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• Florida shooting: Alleged gunman Nikolas Cruz placed on suicide watch after first court appearance

  15-02-2018 22:53 via yahoo.com
  The alleged Florida shooter has been placed on suicide watch after making his first court appearance, a day after the mass shooting over which he has been charged with 17 counts of murder.As the community of Fort Lauderdale struggled to rebound from the attack on a high school, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz appeared briefly before magistrate court judge Kim Theresa Mollica.Cruz was wearing an orange jump suit, with his hands in front of him, and did not look at the judge when she addressed him.
  
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• Amy Schumer Says No Wedding Gifts, Please Give To Gun Safety Group

  15-02-2018 22:49 via yahoo.com
  Comedian Amy Schumer had a request on Thursday for any friends and followers who might be thinking about sending her wedding gifts: Consider donating to the anti-gun violence organization Everytown for Gun Safety instead.
  
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• Florida shooter a troubled loner with white supremacist ties

  15-02-2018 22:33 via yahoo.com
  Parkland (Etats-Unis) (AFP) - Nikolas Cruz was expelled from school, threatened fellow students and posted "very disturbing" messages on social media, along with pictures of his favorite guns.A mugshot of Cruz, released after his arrest, depicts a young man seemingly little different from any other 19-year-old -- cleanly-cut chestnut hair, hazel eyes, his face speckled with freckles.Cruz had also joined the white supremacist group Republic of Florida, participating in their paramilitary training
  
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• Gus Kenworthy Has 'No Patience' For Trump, Pence And Other Anti-LGBTQ Lawmakers

  15-02-2018 22:26 via yahoo.com
  For Gus Kenworthy, being one of the first openly gay men to compete for the U.S. in the Winter Olympics is “a bit of a trade-off.”
  
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• 2019 BMW Z4: Der Supraganger

  15-02-2018 22:25 via yahoo.com
  Will the next Z4 be taken more seriously?
  
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• Senate Votes Down Multiple Bills To Help Dreamers After Veto Threat On Bipartisan Proposal

  15-02-2018 22:24 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― The Senate was supposed to spend the week discovering what it could pass to help undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.
  
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• Stardew Valley Might Get Multiplayer Beta This Spring

  15-02-2018 22:18
  
  Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone (aka ConcernedApe) is planning to launch the game's multiplayer beta this spring.
  Barone revealed progress on the game's multiplayer update is coming along nicely. This is thanks to Tom Coxon, who's helped Barone with completing all the network coding to turn Stardew Valley into a multiplayer game.
  As such, work on the new features is finished with the new text currently being translated into different languages. Once Barone receives the new text
  
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• Russian mother grieves for son killed by US strike in Syria

  15-02-2018 22:18 via yahoo.com
  KEDROVOYE, Russia (AP) — For Russian mother Farkhanur Gavrilova, the blow came a week ago when an acquaintance called her to say that her son was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Syria that pitted Russian and U.S. combatants against each other for the first time in the Syrian war.
  
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• New Game Scoop! Podcast: Sea of Thieves, AC Origins, Lootboxes, and More

  15-02-2018 22:12
  Welcome back to Game Scoop!, IGN's weekly video game talk show. This week we're discussing games-as-a-service, lootbox prohibition, Sea of Thieves, and more. Watch the video above or download the podcast below.
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• PSVR Gets Big Price Drop for a Limited Time

  15-02-2018 22:05
  PlayStation VR is getting a limited time price drop in a few days.
  As detailed on PlayStation Blog, the standalone headset will cost $200 USD from February 18 to March 3. It's originally priced at $300 USD. Additionally, two PSVR bundles are getting substantial price cuts during the same time period.
  The PlayStation VR Doom VFR Bundle will cost $300 USD (originally $400 USD). The bundle comes with a PSVR headset, a PlayStation Camera, the PSVR Demo Disc 2.0, and a copy of Doom VFR. In IGN's
  
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• Venezuela's Maduro to attend Americas summit, defying host Peru

  15-02-2018 21:55 via yahoo.com
  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Thursday he will attend a summit of Western Hemisphere nations in April despite host Peru saying he is unwelcome.Peru's Prime Minister Mercedes Araoz hit back at Maduro's comments.Peru had said on Tuesday that Maduro's "presence will no longer be welcome" after a decision to hold early presidential elections in his crisis-torn country without reaching an agreement with the opposition.
  
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• Parkland School Shooting Suspect: Portrait of an Angry Young Man With an AR-15

  15-02-2018 21:50 via yahoo.com
  Who is Nikolas Cruz, the accused school shooter in Florida?
  
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• Students say football coach died a hero during shooting

  15-02-2018 21:49 via yahoo.com
  Phil Keating reports on what is known about the victims of school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
  
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• This game where love is literally Hell helped its creator get over a breakup, and he hopes it'll help others

  15-02-2018 21:42 via gamesradar.com
  We all handle breakups a bit differently. Some of us move on quickly, and are right back on our feet ...
  
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• Student arrested after posting Snapchat threatening 'Round 2' of Florida shooting 'tomorrow'

  15-02-2018 21:42 via yahoo.com
  A South Carolina student was arrested on Thursday after posting a Snapchat threatening a repeat of Wednesday's deadly mass shooting, which took place at a Florida high school.
  
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• ICE arrests dozens in Los Angeles area immigration crackdown

  15-02-2018 21:36 via yahoo.com
  At least 100 people are believed to have been arrested since Sunday as part of a federal immigration crackdown in the Los Angeles area.
  
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• 'Do you fear me?': Venezuela's Maduro vows to gatecrash regional summit

  15-02-2018 21:34 via yahoo.com
  By Alexandra Ulmer and Vivian SequeraCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's unpopular socialist president Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday his right-wing Latin American counterparts showed intolerance by trying to exclude him from an upcoming summit in Lima - and he vowed to go anyway.Because come rain or shine, by air, land, or sea, I will attend the Summit of the Americas," Maduro told foreign journalists at the Miraflores presidential palace.Peru's center-right government this week said Maduro would
  
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• Israeli attorney general lauds police probe into Netanyahu

  15-02-2018 21:21 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's attorney general on Thursday praised a police investigation into the prime minister over corruption allegations, saying it was conducted "thoroughly" and "by the book" even as the Israeli leader has shrugged off its conclusions.
  
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• 'Queen for a day' likely means another witness flip for Mueller

  15-02-2018 21:19 via yahoo.com
  Barbara McQuade, former U.S. attorney, helps Rachel Maddow understand what it means that former Trump campaign staffer Rick Gates had a "Queen for a day" interview with Robert Mueller's team, and why Donald Trump should be worried.
  
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• Pentagon looks to counter rivals' hypersonic missiles

  15-02-2018 21:12 via yahoo.com
  Even as the Pentagon hustles to ensure that its defenses keep pace with North Korea's fast-growing rocket program, US officials increasingly are turning attention to a new generation of missile threat.The hypersonic missiles could change the face of future warfare, as they can switch direction in flight and do not follow a predictable arc like conventional missiles, making them much harder to track and intercept."China's hypersonic weapons development outpaces ours... we're falling behind," Admi
  
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• 11 Things We Learned About KH3 at D23 Expo Japan

  15-02-2018 21:11
  Even after a presentation at D23 Expo Japan, we still don’t know exactly when in 2018 Kingdom Hearts III is coming, but during the presentation a lot of new information about the game has come to light. Many of this got lost in translation since the presentation was not streamed and only in Japanese, but IGN Japan was in the room, so let us tell you all the cool new things we learned about the game.
  Let’s start with the obvious stuff. In the newly revealed trailer, Monsters, Inc. was
  
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• Path of Exile's Bestiary Expansion Is Targeted at the Hardest of the Hardcore

  15-02-2018 21:00
  As far as free to play games go it’s hard to keep and maintain an audience. Getting something for free means no risk on the consumer’s part; they can come in and get out relatively quickly if they don’t like it. It says a lot about a free game that’s managed to not only regularly increase its player base, and also crank out enough regular content to keep the most hardcore players occupied, but that’s exactly what Grinding Gear Games has been able to do with Path of
  
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• Steam's Lunar New Year Sale Now Live

  15-02-2018 20:41
  Steam's Lunar New Year sale has officially begun, and it features discounts for a variety of games.
  As detailed on the Steam Store, the sale will run from now until February 19. Some of the discounted titles include NBA 2K18, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Cuphead, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Okami HD, Tekken 7, Nioh, Pyre, and many more.
  Below are some specific deals and you can visit the Steam Store to see the full list of currently discounted titles.
  NBA 2K18
  
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• Get a PS4 Pro with Star Wars Battlefront 2 for $359 (that's $40 under the standard console price)

  15-02-2018 20:37 via gamesradar.com
  Pay even less for both the PS4 Pro console and Star Wars Battlefront 2 bundled together
  
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• Amy Schumer Just Got Married. But She Wants to Talk About Gun Control Instead

  15-02-2018 20:35 via yahoo.com
  Schumer addressed the Parkland school shooting on Instagram
  
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• How Congress and Trump stymied Obama's mental-health gun-control rule

  15-02-2018 20:29 via yahoo.com
  After the school shooting in Florida, President Trump emphasized the importance of mental health. But one of his first actions in the White House was to reverse Barack Obama's recommendation for a new regulation that would prevent people with severe mental health illnesses from purchasing guns.
  
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• Florida Shooting Survivor Hid In Closet Almost 70 Years After Grandpa Hid From Shooter

  15-02-2018 20:28 via yahoo.com
  Carly Novell is a 17-year-old senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and was one of the fortunate ones on Wednesday afternoon: She survived the Parkland, Florida, shooting that devastated her school and took the lives of 17 classmates and bystanders.
  
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• Ethiopia's prime minister resigns to smooth path for political reform

  15-02-2018 20:28 via yahoo.com
  By Aaron MaashoADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn suddenly resigned on Thursday in what he described as a bid to smooth reforms, following years of violent unrest that threatened the ruling party's hold on Africa's second most populous nation.The resignation - unprecedented in Ethiopia's history - followed a wave of strikes this week in towns near the capital and demonstrations successfully demanding the release of more opposition leaders.More than 6,000 polit
  
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• Senate to vote on immigration compromise, Trump plan

  15-02-2018 20:19 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump would veto a bipartisan Senate compromise that would help young "Dreamer" immigrants and build his coveted border wall, the White House threatened on Thursday, fueling doubts that any immigration measures would survive showdown votes.
  
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• Obama calls for 'common-sense' gun laws after Florida school shooting

  15-02-2018 20:04 via yahoo.com
  Former President Barack Obama sounded off on Thursday following the deadly Florida school shooting, calling for "common-sense" gun laws.
  
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• Raisman feels empowered by posing for SI swimsuit issue

  15-02-2018 19:58 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Olympic gold-medal gymnast Aly Raisman is a survivor, and she's got the word on her body to prove it. The six-time medalist poses with nothing more than that, and some other powerful words, in the 2018 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
  
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• Opinion: Red Faction Guerrilla 2 Can and Totally Should Happen Now

  15-02-2018 19:48
  What I’m about to tell you isn’t some grand insight or revelation. I’m simply going to tell you what we’re all thinking, in the (fairly unlikely) event that the Powers That Be at Zombie THQ (aka THQ Nordic) aren’t also already thinking it:
  Red Faction Guerrilla 2 can and absolutely should happen now.
  Yesterday, THQ Nordic – which has been quietly getting the band back together recently – made their biggest THQ Reunion 2018 move yet, acquiring Deep Silver
  
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• Violence during Rio carnival 'unacceptable:' minister

  15-02-2018 19:42 via yahoo.com
  Brazilian Defense Minister Raul Jungmann has called violent crime during Rio de Janeiro's carnival "unacceptable" and promised more security."It is clear to us that the situation in Rio during the carnival was unfortunate," Jungmann said in comments after meeting President Michel Temer late Wednesday.Jungmann was referring to a rash of robberies and assaults during the biggest event of the year in Rio, which saw massive street parties before culminating earlier this week with the samba parades.
  
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• Hero geography teacher died protecting group of students from Florida high school shooter

  15-02-2018 19:42 via yahoo.com
  A heroic geography teacher was gunned down as he saved a group of students during Wednesday's mass shooting at a Florida high school.
  
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• Florida shooting: FBI received tip about 'I'm going to be a professional school shooter' YouTube comment

  15-02-2018 19:31 via yahoo.com
  The FBI was tipped off about a YouTube comment from someone using the name “nikolas cruz” who said they were going to "be a professional school shooter” in September - five months before a man with same name allegedly opened fire on pupils in Florida.The bureau had received information about the comment last year, said Robert Lasky, the special agent in charge of the Miami division.It is unclear whether it is the same Nikolas Cruz, who has been charged with 17 counts of murder
  
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• Russian toll in Syria battle was 300 killed and wounded: sources

  15-02-2018 19:26 via yahoo.com
  By Maria TsvetkovaMOSCOW (Reuters) - About 300 men working for a Kremlin-linked Russian private military firm were either killed or injured in Syria last week, according to three sources familiar with the matter.A Russian military doctor said around 100 had been killed, and a source who knows several of the fighters said the death toll was in excess of 80 men.The timing of the casualties coincided with a battle on Feb. 7 near the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor where, according to U.S. officials and
  
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• Officials Haven't Found Evidence Linking Florida Shooting Suspect To White Supremacists (UPDATE)

  15-02-2018 19:18 via yahoo.com
  The Republic of Florida, a white nationalist militia, confirmed Thursday that the man charged in Wednesday’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, was involved in some of its activities.
  
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• Florida gets failing grade for its gun laws: study

  15-02-2018 19:15 via yahoo.com
  The findings in an annual survey from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence also said U.S. states with strong gun safety laws have fewer average gun death than states with weaker laws.The study was completed before a 19-year-old man who had been expelled from his Parkland, Florida, high school was charged with 17 counts of murder, after authorities say he opened fire at the school on Wednesday.Florida, which also had one of the worst mass shootings in modern U.S. history when a gunman
  
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• Here's a taste of the games you'll see at the GDC 2018 Experimental Gameplay Workshop!

  15-02-2018 19:13
  With weeks to go until GDC 2018, organizers share a preview of the offbeat projects you'll see at the Experimental Gameplay Workshop -- including Noita Goose Game, and more! ...
  
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• Blog: The art of music in virtual reality

  15-02-2018 19:00
  Video game composer Winifred Phillips presents some of the extra research and scholarship she gathered for her GDC 2018 talk, 'Music in Virtual Reality.'...
  
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