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• Telltale's Minecraft: Story Mode was originally T-rated and "not appropriate" for kids

  18-10-2018 23:51 via gamesradar.com
  The first draft of the Minecraft narrative game was geared toward an older audience
  
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• Dear Abby, Here's What It’s Really Like To Have A 'Foreign' Name In America

  18-10-2018 23:25 via yahoo.com
  It's tradition for Sikh parents to turn to the Guru Granth Sahib, our holy
  
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• Cory Booker says the U.S. needs to ‘reexamine’ its ‘entire relationship’ with Saudi Arabia

  18-10-2018 23:13 via yahoo.com
  The Democratic New Jersey senator said the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi is just one of many concerns he has about Saudi Arabia and America's close ties to the Gulf country.
  
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• Falling Ford Pickup Tailgates Draw Federal Safety Probe

  18-10-2018 22:56 via yahoo.com
  Government regulators opened an investigation this week into why some Ford heavy-duty pickup truck power tailgates are falling open. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is ...
  
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• Skybound CEO aims to finish out The Walking Dead with '100%' former Telltalers

  18-10-2018 22:39
  In an AMA held on Reddit, CEO of Skybound Games Ian Howe and former creative director at Telltale Kent Mudle answer questions from players to try and shed light on the Telltale deal. ...
  
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• President Donald Trump Wants to Stop the Caravan. Here's What Experts Think Would Help

  18-10-2018 22:38 via yahoo.com
  For the second year in a row, President Donald Trump is upset about a caravan of Central American migrants headed to the United States.
  
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• Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 - Blackout Review

  18-10-2018 22:34
  Hello Call of Duty fans! This year we're trying something new: because Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's modes are so different, we're reviewing them separately, followed by our overall review and score. You can read more about the review plan here. This part covers the entirety of Black Ops 4 – be sure to check out the individual reviews next. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 - Zombies ReviewCall of Duty: Black Ops 4 - Multiplayer Review
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• Returning home — Panhandle residents rebuild lives after Hurricane Michael

  18-10-2018 22:30 via yahoo.com
  Daily life is a series of fears and frustrations for thousands of people living in the hurricane zone of the Florida Panhandle.
  
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• Facebook `Delighted’ by War Room Response to Brazil Election

  18-10-2018 22:27 via yahoo.com
  As they monitored trends on the company’s sites -- like articles that were going viral and spikes in political-ad spending -- they noticed a suspicious surge in user reports of hate speech.The data scientists in the room told the policy experts that the malicious posts were targeting people in a certain area of Brazil, the poorer Northeast -- the only region carried by the leftist presidential candidate.The policy folks determined that what the posts were saying was against Facebook’
  
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• Jason Chaffetz Mocks Elizabeth Warren With Native American Statue Photo, Twitter Flips

  18-10-2018 22:23 via yahoo.com
  Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) might have set himself up for selfie-
  
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• Rockstar Games clocks the average employee's workweek at 42-45 hours

  18-10-2018 22:12
  Rockstar Games shared employees†™ self-reported hours spanning from January to September of this year in the wake of outcry over crunch....
  
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• Markets Right Now: Dow falls again as industrial stocks sink

  18-10-2018 22:07 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
  
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• Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Opening Weekend Had More Players Than WW2 or Black Ops 3

  18-10-2018 21:59
  Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 reportedly had more active players in its first three days than Call of Duty: WW2 or Black Ops 3, with sales reportedly surpassing $500 million worldwide.
  According to a press release from Activision, the combined number of Black Ops 4 players across its three modes (competitive multiplayer, Zombies and Blackout) has surpassed that of Call of Duty: WWII and Call of Duty: Black Ops 3’s single player, multiplayer and Zombies modes.
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• Jimmy Carter Says Brett Kavanaugh 'Unfit' To Serve As Supreme Court Justice

  18-10-2018 21:49 via yahoo.com
  Former President Jimmy Carter didn't mince words while discussing Supreme
  
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• Sixth annual Day of the Devs line-up features over 70 games

  18-10-2018 21:34
  Double Fine and iam8bit announce the 70 games which will be present at the sixth annual Day of The Devs....
  
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• Get a job: Amnesia dev Frictional Games is hiring a Tools Programmer

  18-10-2018 21:31
  Frictional Games is expanding its tech team and looking for a tools programmer who will help make its HPL engine better, prettier, and more intuitive. ...
  
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• Skybound promises 'our absolute intention to complete Telltale's The Walking Dead with the people who have brought it this far'

  18-10-2018 21:27 via gamesradar.com
  Life after death for the zombie story
  
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• SteamVR now supports motion smoothing in beta

  18-10-2018 21:19
  The feature aims to help devs compensate for dropped frames in Steam-hosted VR games by anticipating frame jitter and masking those dropped frames. ...
  
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• Afghan 'torturer in chief' killed in Taliban attack

  18-10-2018 21:19 via yahoo.com
  General Abdul Raziq once boasted he had survived "countless" Taliban attempts to kill him.The controversial Kandahar police chief, described by Human Rights Watch last year as the southern province's "torturer in chief", had risen through the ranks to become one of the most powerful security heads in Afghanistan.Widely seen as a bulwark against the Taliban insurgency, Raziq's death has left a dangerous security vacuum that one observer said could lead to a "meltdown" in the south, the Taliban mo
  
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• Independent Games Stores Reportedly Won't Get Red Dead 2 Until November

  18-10-2018 21:14
  A number of independently owned video game stores aren’t expecting to receive copies of Red Dead Redemption 2 until November.
  As reported by Kotaku, various independent game retailers, as well as the gaming rental service GameFly, don’t believe they will get copies of the game on its release date of October 26 like major retailers including GameStop, Best Buy and more are expected to receive. Instead, many are expecting copies to arrive a week or so later.
  These retailers aren’
  
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• The Republican who shocked the world 4 years ago could lose because of redistricting

  18-10-2018 21:11 via yahoo.com
  Virginia Rep. Dave Brat, a member of the conservative Republican House Freedom Caucus, smiles before the vote on the House farm bill, which failed to pass, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, May 18, 2018.When Dave Brat shocked the political world in 2014, beating the man who was set to become the next speaker of the House in a Republican primary, his congressional district was more favorable to Republicans than it is now.The outcome of Brat’s contest against Democrat Abigail Spanberger
  
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• 2020 Porsche Taycan Sport Turismo Spied: The Electric Wagon Is Real

  18-10-2018 21:08 via yahoo.com
  Just like its Panamera big sibling, Porsche's new EV is getting a wagon variant.
  
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• Putin says Islamic State has seized 700 hostages in Syria

  18-10-2018 20:59 via yahoo.com
  President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Islamic State militants had seized nearly 700 hostages in part of Syria controlled by U.S.-backed forces and had executed some of them and promised to kill more.Speaking in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, Putin said the hostages included several U.S. and European nationals, adding that Islamic State was expanding its control in territory on the left bank of the River Euphrates controlled by U.S. and U.S.-backed forces.Putin did not specify what
  
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• Dear Elle Magazine, Media Companies: Don't Create Fake News To Get People To Vote

  18-10-2018 20:51 via yahoo.com
  A viral headline about Kim Kardashian and Kanye West breaking up is the latest
  
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• Mexico deploys hundreds of riot police as migrants near

  18-10-2018 20:43 via yahoo.com
  Mexico deployed hundreds of riot police Thursday to its border with Guatemala as a caravan of Central American migrants prepared to cross on their way to the United States, defying President Donald Trump's threats.Hundreds of federal police in riot gear fanned out on the international bridge in Suchiate, on the Mexican-Guatemalan border, as the caravan of several thousand Honduran migrants trekked toward the crossing.
  
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• Rockstar employees take to social media to combat crunch claims

  18-10-2018 20:42 via gamesradar.com
  "R* has granted permission for us to speak frankly about this issue on social media"
  
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• Putin says former Soviet Republics regret end of USSR

  18-10-2018 20:34 via yahoo.com
  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said the citizens of many former Soviet Republics regretted the collapse of the USSR, which he described as a "great state".People in the former republics "interpret it in their own way, but all the same they believe that life in the Soviet Union was more secure, calmer, they felt surer of themselves," he told a forum in the Russian city of Sochi.A conflict in eastern Ukraine in which more than 10,000 people have lost their lives has been ongoing for
  
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• Prince Harry Delivers Powerful Speech On Seeking Mental Health Help

  18-10-2018 20:32 via yahoo.com
  All hail this perfect attitude around mental health: Prince Harry discussed
  
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• Top Afghan police chief killed in shooting, U.S. general unhurt

  18-10-2018 20:28 via yahoo.com
  General Scott Miller, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan who had been at a meeting with Razeq and the governor of the southern province of Kandahar only moments earlier, was not injured in the attack.Kandahar Governor Zalmay Wesa was severely wounded and contradictory reports about whether he had survived could not immediately be resolved.Taliban militants claimed responsibility for the assault, which decapitated the security command in one of the country's most strategically important and co
  
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• Don't Miss: Looking back at Left 4 Dead's dynamic AI

  18-10-2018 20:28
  With both L4D games hitting Xbox One via backward compatibility, take a look back at this 2013 blog about the unique way the series†™ AI system fueled the procedural narrative of the classic zombie game....
  
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• 'Active shooter' in Virginia puts major defence company building on lockdown

  18-10-2018 20:28 via yahoo.com
  Police are investigating reports of reports of an "active shooter" at a defence company General Dynamics in Portsmouth, Virginia.The call was received earlier in the day fro a security guard on site and Portsmouth police have called for people to stay clear of the area.Police are investigating a report of an active shooter at 2 Harper Ave. Dispatch received the 911 call at 1146am.
  
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• Ford Is Increasing GT Production by 350 Units and Reopening Applications

  18-10-2018 20:20 via yahoo.com
  Total production will now be 1350 cars through 2022.
  
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• Top Gifts Under $100

  18-10-2018 20:13 via yahoo.com
  Do you have a price in mind but aren't quite sure what to buy that special someone this holiday season? Consumer Reports put together a series of gift guides that are grouped by price. Here, we f...
  
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• Putin blames fatal college attack in Crimea on localization

  18-10-2018 20:12 via yahoo.com
  An armed 18-year-old student in the Black Sea port city of Kerch killed 20 people, most of them fellow pupils, and wounded dozens at his college on Wednesday, law enforcement officials said.The suspected attacker was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after an attack that also saw a bomb set off in the college canteen.A second explosive device was found among the suspect's personal possessions.
  
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• Texas Mom Chases Son, Beats Him With Belt After He Takes Family's BMW and Goes on Joyride

  18-10-2018 20:00 via yahoo.com
  Aaron Martinez, 14, was able to sneak out after disabling the home Wi-Fi.
  
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• Bethesda explains the perceived Brotherhood of Steel retcon in Fallout 76

  18-10-2018 19:55 via gamesradar.com
  Bethesda says there's a good reason the Brotherhood is in Appalachia
  
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• An Upcoming Book Is All About Video Game Butts

  18-10-2018 19:54
  Things I Learned From Mario’s Butt: A Series of Gaming Butt Critiques is an upcoming 160-page illustrated coffee table book that’s currently being funded on Unbound.
  The bulbous book is written by Kotaku’s Laura Kate Dale and includes full-color illustrations from Zack Flavin. The hardbound homage to digital derrieres is set to include insights into the rear ends of Luigi, Solid Snake, Cortana, Skull Kid from Majora’s Mask, Miranda from Mass Effect and much
  
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• Dota 2 now dynamically discloses loot box odds in-game

  18-10-2018 19:50
  Dota 2 players can now click on an arrow right next to one of the game†™s purchasable †œtreasure† loot boxes to see the odds for rare, very rare, and extremely rare drops. ...
  
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• The Latest: Ex-FBI agent gets 4 years in document-leak case

  18-10-2018 19:42 via yahoo.com
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing of a former FBI agent in Minnesota who pleaded guilty to leaking classified documents to a reporter (all times local):
  
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• 6 Dark Souls Tips For First-Time Players

  18-10-2018 19:42
  
  If you’re one of the many jumping into Dark Souls for the first time on the Nintendo Switch, you’re in for a treat! As we covered in our Dark Souls Remastered on Switch review, the remastered version is the ideal way to play.
  But as you know, this series has earned a reputation for being hard for a reason. This is where we come in!
  Here are some of the best tips to help new Dark Souls players ease into the dangerous and exciting world of Lordran.
  Don’t Worry About Classes
  Conti
  
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• Bizarre Details Revealed in Case of Boy Abandoned on Texas Doorstep

  18-10-2018 19:40 via yahoo.com
  The mystery that initially baffled authorities has been solved.
  
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• Taliban attack on top US commander, Afghan security officials kills three

  18-10-2018 19:39 via yahoo.com
  A Taliban-claimed attack on the top US commander in Afghanistan and senior Afghan security officials Thursday killed at least three people and sent the government scrambling to secure the country's restive south.There are fears the attack in the southern province of Kandahar could derail US efforts to engage the group in peace talks and parliamentary elections scheduled for October 20.US and NATO commander General Scott Miller was not hurt in the attack inside a heavily fortified government comp
  
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• What Defines Normal? Millions Search Google Every Day For Answers

  18-10-2018 19:36 via yahoo.com
  Days before India's Supreme Court overturned a colonial-era law that made gay
  
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• Facebook sponsors cutting-edge XRDC talks on VR art and AR design

  18-10-2018 19:36
  From designing effects in Facebook's Spark AR platform to rendering work created with the VR art tool Quill on Oculus' standalone Quest headset, these are XRDC talks you won't want to miss!...
  
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• CEO of French group Thales pulls out of Saudi investment conference

  18-10-2018 19:16 via yahoo.com
  Patrice Caine, the chairman and chief executive of French defense electronics group Thales, has decided not to attend a Saudi investment conference next week, amid global concerns over the fate of a missing Saudi journalist.A spokesman for Thales added that the French company would nevertheless be represented at the event, due to be held in Riyadh from Oct 23-Oct 25, by Jean-Loic Galle, who is an executive at Thales' space division.
  
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• Blog: Designing the boss battles in Shovel Knight - Part II

  18-10-2018 19:10
  Here's how developer Yacht Club Games designed Shovel Knight's Specter Knight, Plague Knight, and Propeller Knight boss battles....
  
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• UN envoy warns Gaza is imploding

  18-10-2018 19:09 via yahoo.com
  With its economy in a freefall and tensions rising with Israel, the Hamas-ruled enclave of Gaza is imploding, the UN envoy for the Middle East warned Thursday.Nickolay Mladenov delivered the warning to the Security Council a day after Israeli warplanes struck the Gaza Strip in retaliation at rocket firings from the Palestinian territory."Gaza is imploding.
  
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• Six Foot lays off nearly one third of dev team following Dreadnought Steam launch

  18-10-2018 19:02
  UPDATE: 45 developers, a third of the game dev team, have been offered the choice of either being laid off or taking unpaid leave until Dreadnaught becomes profitable....
  
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• Four Classic Valve Games Now Xbox One X-Enhanced

  18-10-2018 18:59
  Four Xbox 360 era Valve games are now enhanced on Xbox One X.
  Microsoft announced Half-Life 2: The Orange Box, Portal: Still Alive, Left 4 Dead, and Left 4 Dead 2 have all received Xbox One X enhancements, including higher resolution.
  Technically, it's more than four games, since The Orange Box includes Half-Life 2, both expansion episodes for HL2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal. Portal: Still Alive released after The Orange Box and contained additional content.
  The new additions bring the tot
  
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• You Think The GOP Is Extreme Now? It'll Be Worse If They Win In November.

  18-10-2018 18:54 via yahoo.com
  The Republicans' last-ditch campaign message before the midterms has gone
  
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