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• Cyberpunk 2077 Is 'More Ambitious' Than Witcher 3, CD Projekt Red Says

  26-02-2018 23:59
  CD Projekt Red says its upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 RPG to be more ambitious than The Witcher 3.
  PC Gamer reports CD Projekt Red briefly discussed Cyberpunk 2077, comparing it to the company's critically acclaimed RPG from 2015 The Witcher 3, in a video during Pareto Securities Gaming Seminar.
  "Cyberpunk is our new Witcher 3, but even more ambitious," CD Projekt CEO Adam Kicinski said. "Our goal is to establish a new blockbuster franchise from the beginning. We work Continue reading…
  
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• Now-deleted NYCFC Instagram post confirms first FIFA 19 player face scans

  26-02-2018 23:35 via gamesradar.com
  New York City FC's Instagram account has revealed the very first piece of concrete info for FIFA 19: last week the MLS club's roster went through EA's comprehensive facial scanning process for inclusion in the game
  
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• Georgia Lt. Governor Threatens to Block Tax Cut for Delta Over NRA Split

  26-02-2018 23:33 via yahoo.com
  "Corporations cannot attack conservatives and expect us not to fight back," tweeted Casey Cagle.
  
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• Former EA devs reflect on work culture 14 years after EA Spouse

  26-02-2018 23:28
  In a piece published by Glixel earlier today, former Electronic Arts developers reflect on their employment 14 years after the Live Journal post EA Spouse shed light on the company's labor practices. ...
  
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• Prison guard dies of injuries in alleged attack over towel

  26-02-2018 23:22 via yahoo.com
  A Pennsylvania prison guard who confiscated a towel blocking a view of an inmate's bunk and was attacked died of his injuries Monday, the first state correctional officer to be killed by a prisoner in nearly 40 years, corrections officials said.
  
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• Alicia Vikander reveals which Tomb Raider game is her favorite

  26-02-2018 23:12 via gamesradar.com
  Lara Croft has seen many iterations over the years, from the pointy polygonal archaeologist of the original games to the hardened survivor of the recent Tomb Raider reboots
  
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• Alt.Ctrl.GDC Showcase: Vaccination

  26-02-2018 23:04
  Vaccination is a cooperative game where one player scans a body for bacteria, relaying that information to the player with the injector who must use the right vaccine to cure it. ...
  
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• After Unsuspecting Mom Is Crushed in Central Park, How to Spot a Troublesome Tree

  26-02-2018 23:02 via yahoo.com
  Anne Monoky is still in a neck brace after the incident six months ago.
  
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• Bill Cosby's 'beloved and beautiful' daughter Ensa has died, aged 44

  26-02-2018 22:55 via yahoo.com
  Bill Cosby's daughter has died at the age of 44, just a month before he's due to face a retrial on rape charges.According to TMZ, Ensa Cosby passed away on Friday in Massachusetts where the family has a home.Cosby's spokesperson, Andrew Wyatt, said that Ensa's death was the result of kidney disease.
  
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• Why School Shooting Survivor David Hogg Wants Tourists to Boycott Florida for Spring Break

  26-02-2018 22:47 via yahoo.com
  Instead, Hogg said, tourists should look to Puerto Rico
  
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• Former Florida School Resource Officer Defends Response To Parkland Shooting

  26-02-2018 22:45 via yahoo.com
  The former school resource officer who resigned after failing to confront a gunman earlier this month at the Florida high school where he was assigned is defending his response to the deadly mass shooting.Scot Peterson said he was following training he had received as a Broward County sheriff’s deputy when he decided to remain outside, despite being armed, during the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, according to a statement released Monday by h
  
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• Get a job: Disruptor Beam is hiring a VFX Artist

  26-02-2018 22:39
  Disruptor Beam is looking for an Artist with at least three years of experience to create VFX in Unity for both gameplay and UI events. ...
  
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• The Latest: Obama not planning to attend Graham memorial

  26-02-2018 22:33 via yahoo.com
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on those paying respects to the Rev. Billy Graham in Charlotte (all times local):
  
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• Russia orders daily truce for evacuations from Syria's eastern Ghouta

  26-02-2018 22:30 via yahoo.com
  By Angus McDowalland Jack StubbsBEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Monday it would establish an evacuation corridor and implement a five-hour daily truce to allow people to leave Syria's eastern Ghouta, after a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding a 30-day ceasefire across the entire country.It appeared to make no mention, however, of allowing relief supplies to enter the territory, where 400,000 people are living under siege and bombardment.Over the past week, Syria's army and its a
  
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• The Latest: US calls for 'immediate end' to Syria offensive

  26-02-2018 22:28 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the war in Syria (all times local):
  
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• Khronos Group brings Vulkan support to MacOS and iOS

  26-02-2018 22:28
  Previously, iOS and MacOS were noticeably absent from Vulkan's lists of supported platforms but the release of the free and open-source MoltenVK driver and the LunarG Vulkan SDK changes that....
  
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• Oakland mayor warns residents of ICE immigration raids

  26-02-2018 22:20 via yahoo.com
  Escalating California’s resistance to federal immigration enforcement, Oakland’s mayor has warned residents that she believes an operation was imminent.“I am sharing this information publicly not to panic our residents but to protect them,” Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said in a press release, citing her “moral obligation” and directing people to immigration law resources.“I know that Oakland is a city of law-abiding immigrants and families who deserve to
  
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• Martin Shkreli responsible for $10.5m in securities scheme losses, judge rules

  26-02-2018 22:03 via yahoo.com
  Shkreli is perhaps best known for boosting the price of a life-saving drug Daraprim by 5,000%.In a significant blow to the fortunes of disgraced “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli a judge ruled Monday that he was responsible for nearly $10.5m in losses in a securities fraud scheme.The decision could result in a harsher sentence for the eccentric former pharmaceutical company CEO who faces up to 20 years in prison.
  
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• Pokemon Day 2018 Celebrations Revealed

  26-02-2018 22:02
  
  The Pokemon Company International has revealed its celebration plans for Pokemon Day 2018.
  As part of the celebration, Pokemon Go players have the chance to catch a special Pikachu wearing a striped purple hat until February 28 at 1pm PT/4pm ET/1pm UK (March 1 at 8am AET). The Pikachu will know the move Present and provide triple the normal amount of Stardust when captured.
  Pokemon Day commemorates the launch of the wildly successful franchise. Pokemon Red and Pokemon Green were releas
  
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• Democratic Governor Confronts Trump: 'Less Tweeting ... More Listening'

  26-02-2018 21:48 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee (D) on Monday urged President Donald Trump to lay off Twitter and instead listen to Americans and back away from one of his suggestions for dealing with mass shootings.Trump has suggested that arming 20 percent of the nation’s teachers could help prevent school shootings like the one that occurred earlier this month in Parkland, Florida, that claimed 17 lives. The president also has said that those teachers trained to use firearms co
  
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• Come see the Warframe team share community management tips at GDC 2018

  26-02-2018 21:48
  The Digital Extremes team will deliver a talk at GDC 2018 that breaks down everything they've learned about community management in 5 years of operating F2P cross-platform success Warframe!...
  
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• President Trump Claims He'd Run Into the Scene of a Shooting in New Rebuke of Sheriff's Deputies

  26-02-2018 21:47 via yahoo.com
  The president said that even if he was unarmed, he would run into the building where a mass shooting was occurring.
  
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• Washington Governor confronted Trump over his idea to arm teachers

  26-02-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  During President Trump's meeting with governors from across the U.S., Washington Gov. Jay Inslee told Trump what he thought about his suggestion to arm teachers.
  
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• What Hideo Kojima's celebrity grand tour could mean for Death Stranding

  26-02-2018 21:34 via gamesradar.com
  Death Stranding may have some high-profile collaborations in store
  
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• Don't Miss: How games like Mario Galaxy and Demon's Souls handle subjective difficulty

  26-02-2018 21:27
  Game theorist Josh Bycer takes a look at how Nintendo designs the Super Mario Galaxy games to allow for players of all levels to be challenged and contrasts that with the punishing Demon's Souls....
  
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• 'Wake up' and stop Rohingya abuses: Nobel laureates to Suu Kyi

  26-02-2018 21:24 via yahoo.com
  Three Nobel Peace Prize winners Monday urged fellow laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to speak out about violence against the Rohingya minority, warning she otherwise risks prosecution for "genocide".The trio -- Tawakkol Karman, Shirin Ebadi and Mairead Maguire -- implored the embattled Myanmar leader to "wake up" to the atrocities after visiting squalid camps in Bangladesh home to nearly one million Rohingya refugees."This is clearly, clearly, clearly genocide that is going on by the Burmese government
  
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• Kingdom Come: Deliverance Would Make a Great TV Series

  26-02-2018 21:20
  Kingdom Come: Deliverance is currently available on Xbox One, PS4, and PC. Be sure to check out our full review right here.
  I’m 36 hours into my first playthrough of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and while I was trotting along the lush Bohemian countryside with my trusty steed (Pebbles), it occurred to me that the game’s story would be perfect for television. Sword and shield epics like Vikings, Game of Thrones, and Knightfall are very popular nowadays, so why not adapt developer Warhor
  
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• Pricing and platforms: Why Alto's Adventure went F2P on Android only

  26-02-2018 21:13
  Creative director Ryan Cash explains why Alto's Adventure launched at $5 for iOS but opted for free-to-play on Android one year later....
  
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• Still no cease-fire in Syrian enclave; Russia orders a pause

  26-02-2018 20:58 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — As a U.N. cease-fire failed to take hold in Syria, Russia on Monday ordered a daily "humanitarian pause" to allow civilians to evacuate an embattled rebel-held enclave near Damascus, while airstrikes continued and Syrian ground forces fought to push into the besieged area from the west.
  
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• Russia tests new stealth fighter jet in Syria

  26-02-2018 20:58 via yahoo.com
  Russia has deployed its new Sukhoi Su-57 stealth fighter jet to Syria to test it in real-life conditions and show off the country's air power, according to on-the-ground footage and media reports. Intended as the Russian answer to the US military's Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, this fifth-generation stealth fighter is designed to overwhelm both air and ground targets while eluding radar.    It has been in development since 2001 and in flight tests since 2010, but has yet to enter produc
  
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• US should lower 'threshold for talks' with N. Korea: Seoul

  26-02-2018 20:56 via yahoo.com
  South Korean President Moon Jae-in urged the United States to "lower the threshold for talks" with North Korea on Monday as his aides held rare talks with a Pyongyang general on ways to defuse tensions.Moon has sought to use the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics that ended on Sunday to open dialogue between Washington and Pyongyang in the hopes of easing a nuclear standoff that has sparked global security fears.Pyongyang mounted a charm offensive during the Games, sending athletes, cheerleaders and pe
  
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• Parents talk about 'miracle' of daughter they thought had died in Florida shooting

  26-02-2018 20:54 via yahoo.com
  Doctors and first responders who treated a student initially thought to have died in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school massacre have spoken of their battle to save the teenager’s life, and her incredible recovery from multiple gunshot wounds.Madeleine Wilford, 17, and her parents also spoke at a Monday press conference at Broward North hospital to praise the ambulance crew, surgeons and medical staff who resuscitated and operated on her, and talked of the “miracle” that
  
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• Church officials: Holy Sepulchre to remain closed

  26-02-2018 20:50 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Leaders of the two largest Christian denominations in Jerusalem on Monday said the Church of the Holy Sepulchre will remain closed indefinitely to protest an Israeli attempt to tax their properties in the holy city, shuttering one of Jerusalem's most venerable and popular holy sites.
  
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• WWE Items Coming to Rocket League

  26-02-2018 20:33
  Rocket League is getting WWE items later this year, Psyonix announced.
  The developer revealed the news in a recent blog post, however more details about the WWE-themed customization items will be revealed in April. Additionally, Rocket League is now an official partner of Wrestlemania 34 and will be playable at the event, which is being held in New Orleans during the weekend of April 8.
  Rocket League will continue to appear all over the WWE universe throughout 2018, including making re
  
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• Supreme Court rejects Trump administration appeal over immigration

  26-02-2018 20:32 via yahoo.com
  The Supreme Court is rejecting the Trump administration's bid to get the justices to intervene in the controversy over protections for young immigrants.
  
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• Double Fine's indie publishing biz aims to grow and help devs 'rise above the noise'

  26-02-2018 20:26
  Double Fine's Greg Rice chats about how the studio's indie publishing venture, Double Fine Presents, has grown from an experiment to a significant, profitable business -- and how devs can get involved....
  
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• BLM's Alicia Garza Launches Census Project To Mobilize Black Political Power

  26-02-2018 20:24 via yahoo.com
  Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza has created a new initiative aimed at helping black communities achieve greater political power.
  
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• Melania Trump: Adults Should 'Take The Lead' In Encouraging Positive Social Media Habits

  26-02-2018 20:20 via yahoo.com
  First lady Melania Trump, whose husband routinely attacks and insults people online, said Monday that adults should “take the lead” in helping children develop positive social media habits.″It is important that as adults we take the lead and the responsibility in helping our children manage the many issues they are facing today,” Trump said.First lady Melania Trump: “I have been heartened to see children across this country using their voices to speak out and try to
  
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• Rome Gets Rare Snowfall, And It's An Ancient Winter Wonderland

  26-02-2018 20:15 via yahoo.com
  Rome was greeted on Monday morning by its first snowfall in six years.
  
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• Man held without bail in 'unprovoked' fatal library stabbing

  26-02-2018 20:15 via yahoo.com
  WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man charged with fatally stabbing a woman studying to become a doctor in a public library has a severe mental illness, his lawyer said Monday.
  
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• Save $200 on a Razer Blade gaming laptop with this deal, and get a high-spec PC gaming performer in an ultra slim package

  26-02-2018 20:08 via gamesradar.com
  Looks so sharp you'll need to pack band-aids
  
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• Shopkeeper describes miracle escape from 'massive explosion' in Leicester that killed five people

  26-02-2018 19:57 via yahoo.com
  The owner of a shop has described how he escaped from an explosion that killed five people. The explosion caused a convenience store and the flats above it to collapse.  Aram Kurd, 33, was in the shop at the time. He said had gone to the storeroom at the back of the shop to get some beers for him and an employee, Victoria when he heard a "loud bang". He shouted out for Victoria, who had only be working at the store for two days, but has not heard anything from her since. Speaking
  
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• Hitler Built a World War II Submarine That Was Revolutionary. It Ended Up a Total Failure.

  26-02-2018 19:53 via yahoo.com
  Hitler Built a World War II Submarine That Was Revolutionary.Some were used for target practice.The only surviving vessel of its class today is the Wilhelm Bauer, which the modern Germany navy converted into a research vessel.
  
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• Former White House photographer Pete Souza drags Trump over Florida high school shooting comment

  26-02-2018 19:52 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said on Monday he would have personally run into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to help during the mass shooting earlier this month, even if he was unarmed.
  
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• Blog: Analyzing the AI behind Total War - Part 4

  26-02-2018 19:44
  In the latest of my Total War series, I look at the innovations in campaign and diplomacy AI in Total War: Attila....
  
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• Road to the IGF: Studio MDHR's Cuphead

  26-02-2018 19:43
  Players will battle colossal bosses, their styles drawn from 1930s animation, as hot jazz blares in their ears in ever-escalating run and gun game Cuphead. ...
  
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• Florida shooting: Rhode Island to become first state to implement ‘red flag’ policy after massacre

  26-02-2018 19:35 via yahoo.com
  Rhode Island is set to become the first state since the Florida school shooting to establish a “red flag” policy allowing judges to take firearms from people who show warning signs of violence.Governor Gina Raimondo will sign an executive order to establish the policy, making Rhode Island the sixth state in the country to do so.President Donald Trump is also considering a similar order, sources told Bloomberg News.
  
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• Students too scared to return to Nigeria school after attack

  26-02-2018 19:28 via yahoo.com
  LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Frightened students on Monday stayed away from the school in northern Nigeria where Boko Haram extremists seized 110 girls in a raid a week ago, while the military said it had handed over the town's security to police ahead of the attack because it was "relatively calm."
  
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• Kirby Dev's First Mobile Game Part Time UFO Out Now

  26-02-2018 19:28
  Kirby developer HAL Laboratory's mobile title Part Time UFO is now out in the west for iOS and Android.
  As detailed on the game's website, Part Time UFO is a physics game where players control a claw/UFO to move and stack objects on a designated platform. Stacking enough of these objects completes the level. The game costs $4 USD and is available on the App Store and Google Play, and there are no in-game purchases or ads.
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• Bollywood star Sridevi Kapoor 'accidentally drowned in hotel bath' 

  26-02-2018 19:26 via yahoo.com
  Bollywood superstar Sridevi Kapoor died of accidental drowning in her hotel bathtub in Dubai on Saturday, her postmortem report said on Monday. The Dubai government's media office tweeted that the postmortem analysis of the 54-year old actress, who used only her first name, revealed that she had died due to ‘drowning in her hotel apartment's bathtub following loss of consciousness’. The case has been handed over to the Dubai Public Prosecutor for further investigation, to try and det
  
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