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• Starfield space travel is "like flight in the '40s, it's dangerous" says Todd Howard

  13-06-2019 23:53 via gamesradar.com
  We got some Starfield details at E3 after all
  
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• You Can't Play Marvel's Avengers Campaign Multiplayer

  13-06-2019 23:43
  During the Square Enix presentation for Marvel's Avengers at E3 2019, it was said there will be gameplay with one to four players, but they left it at that. IGN followed up with the Crystal Dynamics developers and learned that the entire story campaign is single player only and has no multiplayer option.
  After seeing the private Marvel’s Avengers gameplay demo at Square Enix’s E3 2019 booth, it was very clear the campaign was intended to be a single player experience. The demo was es
  
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• Hickenlooper denounces Sanders' democratic socialism vision

  13-06-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper on Thursday attacked rival Bernie Sanders' vision of an America remade under democratic socialism and chastised others in the 2020 race for not repudiating that political philosophy.The former Colorado governor said Sanders was "wrong" to call for policies such as "Medicare for All" that would dramatically increase public spending and government involvement in Americans' daily lives."The Democratic field has not only failed to oppose Sen. Sande
  
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• Judiciary Committee lawmakers begin reviewing Mueller report evidence

  13-06-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The groups will include Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
  
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• Sarah Sanders to Resign as White House Press Secretary, Trump Says

  13-06-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  “Our wonderful Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of the month and going home to the Great State of Arkansas,” President Donald Trump said Thursday in a tweet.Speaking at a White House event later Thursday, Sanders said it was the “honor of a lifetime” to serve in the Trump administration.
  
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• Dota 2 Announces Auto Chess Game, Dota Underlords

  13-06-2019 23:23
  A new game from Dota 2 called Dota Underlords has been announced, which is a standalone game of Auto Chess, inspired by the Dota 2 custom mod by Drodo Studio.
  Dota announced last month that they were working on their own version of Auto Chess, saying more information would be released in the future.
  Dota Underlords lets eights players battle against one another for dominance of the city, White Spire.
  All Dota 2 Battle Pass owners are able to join in the beta starting Thursday, and an open b
  
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• The Yellow Part of Jupiter's Watery Moon? That's Table Salt, NASA Says

  13-06-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Europa is absolutely covered with the stuff.
  
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• Why Strategy Is A Natural Fit

  13-06-2019 23:15
  Publisher: LionsgateDeveloper: Good Shepherd Entertainment, Mike Bithell GamesRelease: 2019 Platform: PC
  When people think of John Wick, careful and deliberate planning probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. The action hero is defined by kinetic battles, stylish gunplay, and a sense of inertia that propels him from one conflict to the next. So, naturally, the best genre fit for a video game adaptation is… strategy? That approach to the license was a surprise when John Wi
  
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• Marvel’s Avengers Will Have Microtransactions

  13-06-2019 23:14
  During the Square Enix presentation for Marvel's Avengers at E3 2019, it was said the game won’t have loot boxes or ways to pay to win, but you’ll notice they didn’t say there wouldn’t be microtransactions. IGN talked to the game developers about it and they confirmed that Marvel’s Avengers will indeed have microtransactions.
  As for what those microtransactions will entail, they only shared a few things, while hinting there may be more.
  Crystal Dynamics lead creativ
  
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• Tensions surge as US accuses Iran of attacking tankers

  13-06-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States accused Iran of carrying out attacks that left two tankers ablaze in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, escalating tensions across the region and sending world oil prices soaring.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned that Washington will defend its forces and allies in the region, and the United States was to press its case as the UN Security Council met to address the incident -- the second in a month in the strategic sea lane.With tensions spiralling between Iran and the United St
  
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• Square Enix is "exploring" a subscription service for its games

  13-06-2019 23:06 via gamesradar.com
  Many Square games are already available digitally, but the studio wants to do more
  
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• Can You Eat Gooigi? Where Is Wayoshi? And Other Stupid Questions For Luigi's Mansion 3's Producer

  13-06-2019 23:00
  Release: 2019 Platform: Switch
  Luigi’s Mansion 3 is shaping up to be a really solid entry in the franchise. If you want to know more about that game, you can read Brian Shea’s hands-on impressions from the show. However, we also got the chance to speak with producer Kensuke Tanabe who shared his thoughts on the wild world of Nintendo.What is Gooigi’s deal? Where did that idea come from?When I first saw the Nintendo Switch system, the fact that you can split the two JoyCons and
  
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• Are the PS4 servers down? PlayStation Network is having issues worldwide

  13-06-2019 22:52 via gamesradar.com
  Sony says it's investigating what brought the PS4 servers down with error code WS-37403-7
  
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• Are the PS4 servers down? PlayStation Network is back up after worldwide issues

  13-06-2019 22:52 via gamesradar.com
  Sony says it's investigating what brought the PS4 servers down with error code WS-37403-7
  
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• Fallout Shelter Will Be Playable in Tesla Cars

  13-06-2019 22:51
  Bethesda Game Studios director Todd Howard announced that Fallout Shelter will be added to the library of games playable in Tesla's Model S, Model 3, and Model X vehicles.
  Howard appeared in an E3 Coliseum panel with Tesla CEO Elon Musk and moderator Geoff Keighley. "We are working on Fallout Shelter for the cars," Howard said. "It'll be free." Fallout Shelter will join Cuphead, first revealed on IGN recently via my own interview with Musk, as well as Beach Buggy Racing 2: Tesla Edition, a carto
  
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• Fewer women are having abortions. Why?

  13-06-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  The US abortion rate has been declining for decades. What's driving it?
  
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• Sarah Huckabee Sanders Is Stepping Down as White House Press Secretary, Trump Says

  13-06-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  After more than three years in Donald Trump’s Administration, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is stepping down as White House Press Secretary
  
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• Venezuelans flock to Peru before new entry requirements

  13-06-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan citizens were rushing to enter Peru Thursday less than two days before it imposes new entry requirements on migrants fleeing the crisis-wracked South American nation.Long lines of people carrying blankets and suitcases had formed at a border post in northern Peru, while humanitarian groups set up activities for their children under a white tent.Gen. Raul Alfaro, the police chief for the Tumbes region, said 4,000 Venezuelans entered Peru's northern border on Wednesday, doubling the nor
  
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• Marvel's Avengers Line-Up Mirroring the MCU's a Total Coincidence

  13-06-2019 22:32
  The developers behind the upcoming Marvel’s Avengers game claim their Avengers line-up being nearly identical to the MCU’s is a total coincidence.
  In an interview conducted by IGN’s Joshua Yehl, he asked Shaun Escayg, writer and creative director of Marvel’s Avengers, why Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow, and Captain America are the group who kick off Marvel’s Avengers, specifically inquiring if it’s because that’s the core MCU Avengers line-u
  
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• Pompeo: Iran responsible for attack on oil tankers in Gulf of Oman

  13-06-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Two oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz were attacked Thursday, which left one ablaze and adrift as sailors were evacuated from both.
  
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• California Rep. Hunter's wife may have flipped on him in corruption case

  13-06-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  When Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., was indicted in August 2018 on 60 criminal counts alleging that he spent more than $250,000 in campaign donations on luxury trips, tequila shots, Costco shopping sprees and other personal items, his first reaction was to blame his wife.
  
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• Jury: Man held stepdaughter for 19 years, fathered her 9 children

  13-06-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  A 64-year-old man accused of abducting his stepdaughter and holding her captive for 19 years in Mexico and elsewhere while fathering her nine children has been found guilty of kidnapping and other charges.
  
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• Felicity Huffman is just the beginning: Who's pleaded guilty in the college admissions scandal — and who's still fighting

  13-06-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  An up-to-date breakdown who's pleaded guilty in the nation's college admissions bribery scandal.
  
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• Migrants rush to enter Mexico ahead of security crackdown demanded by Trump

  13-06-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Central American migrants eager to beat a crackdown by Mexico on its southern border with Guatemala scrambled into the country on Thursday as the government prepared to send thousands of National Guard members to plug gaps in the porous frontier.Mexico has agreed with the United States to demonstrate by late July that it can contain a surge in U.S.-bound migrants, following a threat from U.S. President Donald Trump to impose tariffs on Mexican goods if it failed to do so.
  
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• After a family vacation in Italy, U.S. congressman's wife admits to misusing campaign funds

  13-06-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The wife of a U.S. representative pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal charges alleging misuse of $250,000 in campaign funds and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors who are also bringing charges against her husband.The move by Margaret Hunter, wife of Republican U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter, came after she and her husband entered not guilty pleas in August 2018 that they spent campaign funds on items ranging from a holiday in Italy to Minnie Mouse ear headbands at Disneyland.The plea agre
  
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• Pelosi names members of key trade working group

  13-06-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  House Democrats want to reopen negotiations on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
  
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• On Painting Air Force One

  13-06-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  And so it has come to this.Two oil tankers were just attacked in the Gulf of Oman, presumably by Iran. The United States and China are facing off in a confrontation that is about far more than trade. The southern border remains anarchic and uncontrolled.And Congress is asking: “Can I get the icon in cornflower blue?”Here is the situation: The president of these United States gets from place to place in one of two Boeing jets designated “Air Force One” when the president i
  
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• It's Not Too Late to Get the Doom Eternal Collector's Edition

  13-06-2019 21:41
  
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  UPDATE: Walmart still has the Doom Eternal Collector's Edition in stock for Xbox One and PC.
  The 2016 revival of Doom was one of the year's most delightful surprises. So when Doom Eternal launches for PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch on November 22, it'll be good news for fans of fast, ridiculously-over-the-top shooters.
  Doom Eternal will equip the Doom Slayer with new demon-killing we
  
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• Jury sentences father to death for killing his 5 children

  13-06-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A South Carolina father who killed his five children with his own hands, then drove around with their bodies for nine days was sentenced to death Thursday.Timothy Jones Jr. showed no emotion as the jury delivered the verdict after less than two hours of deliberation.The same Lexington County jury convicted Jones of five counts of murder last week in the deaths of his children, ages 1 to 8, in their Lexington home in August 2014.
  
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• Beto O'Rourke attacks 2020 Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden

  13-06-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Antjuan Seawright and Lawrence Jones say that Beto O'Rourke has fallen from double digit polling while Joe Biden is still the frontrunner.
  
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• Pompeo blames Iran for attack on tankers in Gulf

  13-06-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  As his secretary of state spoke, President Trump said it is "too soon to even think about making a deal" with Iran.
  
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• REFILE-UPDATE 1-South Carolina man who killed his five children sentenced to death

  13-06-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  A South Carolina jury sentenced a man to death on Thursday after convicting him of murdering his five young children at their mobile home in 2014 before driving their decomposing bodies through several states and dumping them in Alabama.The jurors voted unanimously to give Timothy Jones the death penalty.Jurors considered whether to give Jones the death penalty or life in prison without possibility of parole.
  
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• US blames Iran for attacks on 2 tankers near Persian Gulf

  13-06-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday that the United States government blames Iran for attacks on two oil tankers near the Persian Gulf, casting it as the latest in a series of "provocative actions" that have sharply raised tensions in the region.A U.S. assessment of Iran's responsibility for the attacks, which forced the evacuation of the crews in international waters, was based in part on intelligence as well as on the expertise needed to carry out the operation, Pompeo told reporters
  
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• Dems assail Trump on being open to foreign election help

  13-06-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's assertion that he would be open to accepting a foreign power's help in his 2020 campaign ricocheted through Washington on Thursday, with Democrats condemning it as a call for further election interference and Republicans struggling to defend his comments.Trump seemed to dismiss the threat posed by Russia's interference in the 2016 election, one that led to sweeping indictments by special counsel Robert Mueller, and his incendiary remarks come as congressional investigati
  
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• 'Fox & Friends' host Brian Kilmeade attacks Trump for saying he would take foreign intel for 2020

  13-06-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade directly criticized the president Thursday morning for saying he would welcome foreign intel on his political opponents. The rare attack followed President Trump’s candid remarks to “Good Morning America” anchor George Stephanopoulos in which he indicated that he would not immediately alert the FBI to more interference in U.S. politics.
  
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• The Latest: Death sentence for father who killed his 5 kids

  13-06-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  A jury says a South Carolina father should be executed for killing his five children.The jury unanimously agreed on the death penalty Thursday for 37-year-old Timothy Jones Jr. in the slayings of his children, ages 1 to 8, in their Lexington home in August 2014.Although Jones is heading to death row, South Carolina hasn't executed an inmate since 2011.
  
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• Opinion: The Biggest Loser of E3 2019 is… The Year 2019

  13-06-2019 21:08
  We get excited about E3 every year because we get to see what’s coming next. While developers have always called their shots well in advance, announcing games years before release, much of the action at the show revolves around showing games set to launch sometime between July and next year’s E3.
  After spending the last week weighing all the publisher press conferences and the deluge of pre-show trailer drops and leaks, I took a step back and noticed that the second half of 2019 feel
  
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• Pinterest Is Latest Tech Company Drawn Into U.S. Culture Wars

  13-06-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The anti-abortion organization, Live Action, and conservative activist James O’Keefe allege Pinterest targeted the group for its abortion stance, not for the reasons the company claims.The dust-up is the latest in a wave of conservative complaints of social media bias.
  
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• Iran responsible for attack on two tankers: Pompeo

  13-06-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The secretary of state said the level of expertise involved implicated Iran.
  
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• Memphis riots: Chaos erupts after police shoot and kill 20-year-old black man

  13-06-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Chaos erupted in a neighbourhood in Memphis, Tennessee after US Marshals shot and killed a young black man. Brandon Webber, 20, was getting into his car when US marshals approached and attempted to take him into custody. Webber was wanted on several felony warrants. When the marshals tried to make their arrest, “he reportedly rammed his vehicle into the officers’ vehicles multiple times before exiting with a weapon,” says the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.At that point, &ld
  
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• Pompeo Claims Iran Is Responsible for Oil-Tanker Attacks

  13-06-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. intelligence community has concluded that Iran is responsible for the oil-tanker attacks that occurred in the Strait of Hormuz Thursday morning, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a press conference hours after the attack.Two oil tankers were attacked within the space of 45 minutes in the Gulf of Oman, off of the coast of Iran, where four oil tankers were similarly attacked last month by Iranian forces.Addressing reporters at the State Department, Pompeo explained that the asses
  
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• Everything We Know About Elden Ring

  13-06-2019 20:45
  
  Elden Ring is Dark Souls developer FromSoftware's latest game, officially announced at E3 2019 after rumors, hints, and a minor leak. But even with all the buzz, there isn't a ton of information about the upcoming game yet – just what we saw in its reveal trailer and a few tidbits of info here and there from game director Hidetaka Miyazaki and project collaborator George R. R. Martin.
  While fans of Miyazaki (and Martin) patiently await more details, we've rounded up the most important thin
  
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• Renault's Awesome Alpine A110 Sports Car Now Has a High-Performance Variant

  13-06-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The compelling new A110S model looks a bit meaner and has extra power and a stiffer suspension.
  
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• Cuba travel ban: Disappointed passengers return after being rerouted mid-cruise

  13-06-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands of cruise passengers originally headed to Cuba ended up in the Bahamas after a travel ban was announced earlier this week.
  
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• The Best Indie Games Of E3 2019

  13-06-2019 20:30
  Every year our list of favorite video game experiences is filled more and more with various indie titles. E3 2019 is a great showcase for some of the many indie titles coming out this year and beyond, and these are some of titles that have caught our eye during the convention.Be sure to come back to this list, as we'll be updating it throughout the convention.
  Cat LadyPlatform(s): TBDDeveloper: Rose City GamesRelease: TBDThe makers of The World Next Door have turned their eyes on something
  
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• Tales Of Arise Is A Reinvention Of The Series, But Not Open World

  13-06-2019 20:20
  Developer: Bandai NamcoRelease: 2020 Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC
  When Tales if Arise was announced at Microsoft's Xbox conference, fans of the series experienced a moment of exhilaration and then hours to days of concerned questions. Ever since the reveal, which showed a more technologically advanced Tales game than the previous titles, fans had been wondering exactly how this title is going to change up a fairly traditional series.We sat down with Yusuke Tomizawa, the new produc
  
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• Donald Trump Jr. threatens to help challenge against Rep., Justin Amash, who supports impeachment

  13-06-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Justin Amash replied to Donald Trump Jr.'s primary challenge threat by using a reference to emails from the Mueller investigation.
  
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• Rockstar teases the grand opening of the GTA Online casino in Vinewood

  13-06-2019 20:08 via gamesradar.com
  We won't have to wait long to place our bets
  
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• Boris Johnson Dominates Race to Be U.K. Leader After First Round

  13-06-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Pro-Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson took a huge lead in the race to become Britain’s next prime minister, after his Conservative colleagues in Parliament overwhelmingly backed him as their preferred candidate.In the first round of voting on Thursday, Johnson -- who has vowed to deliver Brexit with or without a deal -- won the support of 114 Tory members of Parliament out of the 313 who voted.The contest is not over and more votes among MPs are scheduled next week to narrow down the field o
  
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• Rockstar Confirms Vinewood Casino Coming to GTA Online

  13-06-2019 20:05
  
  Update 6/13: Rockstar Games has officially announced that GTA Online is, in fact, getting a luxury casino-themed update.
  Announced on Twitter, the post simply says “Opening soon: A luxury casino in the heart of Vinewood..." confirming the leaks that occurred last week.Opening soon: A luxury casino in the heart of Vinewood... pic.twitter.com/fSM9xXFk23
  — Rockstar Games (@RockstarGames) June 13, 2019
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