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• Police seek person who last saw missing Utah college student

  25-06-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Police on Tuesday issued a public appeal for a person last seen with a University of Utah student before she disappeared more than a week ago. Mackenzie Lueck was last seen being dropped off at a Salt Lake City park at about 3 a.m. on June 17 by a Lyft driver who took her there from the airport after she returned from visiting family in California, authorities said. Salt Lake City assistant Police Chief Tim Doubt also released new photos of Lueck from immediately before her disappearance showing
  
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• F-word wins in Supreme Court free speech case on trademark protection for 'immoral, scandalous' material

  25-06-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Faced with a clothing line called FUCT, the justices struck down federal bans against granting trademark protection for immoral or scandalous material
  
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• Stephanie Grisham, new White House press secretary, had controversial Arizona career

  25-06-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  During her time in Arizona, Stephanie Grisham weathered controversial stints with then-Attorney General Tom Horne and House Speaker David Gowan.
  
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• Jeep Cherokee remains the most American car of the year, according to Cars.com

  25-06-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  As tariff threats on imported goods loom, Cars.com took a look at which automobiles are predominantly manufactured in the US. The Jeep Cherokee wins.
  
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• Get a job: Electronic Arts is hiring a UI Software Engineer

  25-06-2019 23:40
  EA Sports Madrid is looking for a UI Software Engineer to focus on UI and feature programming for multiple game modes for the NBA Live/Madden franchises....
  
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• The PS4 Exclusive PlayStation Fans Are Most Excited for Is...

  25-06-2019 23:29
  
  There are currently four massive-budget AAA games slated to be released exclusively for PlayStation owners: The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima, Death Stranding, and Final Fantasy VII Remake.
  Since excitement for all four are incredibly high and that hype only continues to climb with each passing day, we decided to run a poll to find out which of these PS4 exclusive games IGN readers are the most eager to get their hands on.
  After gathering over 20K votes from all of you, here are the resu
  
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• Marvel's Loki TV show is a "new departure," but star Tom Hiddleston can't say why

  25-06-2019 23:27 via gamesradar.com
  The Loki TV show is being created for the Disney+ streaming service
  
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• Latest Red Dead Online update brings PS4-exclusive content to all players and buffs Ability Card XP

  25-06-2019 23:24 via gamesradar.com
  Finally, everyone can ride the new pony and chuck really nice tomahawks
  
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• Valve launches VR Portal spinoff Aperture Hand Lab

  25-06-2019 23:22
  Valve has launched Aperture Hand Lab, a VR-based spinoff of the Portal series intended to teach VR newbies the ins-and-outs of the Index†™s offerings. ...
  
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• Cyberpunk 2077 characters introduce you to your new Night City frenemies

  25-06-2019 23:12 via gamesradar.com
  Check out Cyberpunk 2077's ever growing cast of characters with these official portraits
  
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• US border chief quits amid outcry over child detainees

  25-06-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The acting head of the US Customs and Border Protection agency announced his resignation on Tuesday amid a public outcry over alarming detention conditions of migrant children in Texas.John Sanders, appointed to the post just two months ago, said in a letter obtained by several US media outlets that he planned to step down as acting CBP commissioner on July 5.Sanders' departure coincides with the revelation of unsanitary detention conditions for children at an overcrowded Border Patrol facility
  
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• Best Kamado Grills From Consumer Reports' Tests

  25-06-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  For more than 30 years, the Big Green Egg was the only widely available kamado-style charcoal grill. In that time, this grill developed a cultlike following, and it’s easy to see why.  Its thick ...
  
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• Enter for a Chance to Win Judgment

  25-06-2019 22:52
  
  Welcome to Daily Win, our way of giving back to the IGN community. To thank our awesome audience, we're giving away a new game each day to one lucky winner. Be sure to check IGN.com every day to enter in each new giveaway.
  Today we're giving away Judgment for PS4 with some extra goodies!. To enter into this sweepstake, fill out the form below. You must be at least 18 years old and a legal U.S. resident to enter.Today's sweepstake will end at 11:59 p.m. PDT. Entries entered after this time will n
  
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• Baby rescued from plastic bag in Georgia

  25-06-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Georgia sheriff's office realeased dramatic body-cam video showing the rescue of a newborn girl who was found alive inside a plastic bag in the woods. (June 25)
  
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• Trump awards the Medal of Honor to David Bellavia, the first living Iraq War recipient

  25-06-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Bellavia received the Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry" during the Second Battle of Fallujah, the bloodiest battle of the Iraq War.
  
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• Sheriff: Mom abused her children, boiled puppies to death

  25-06-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman beat and tortured at least some of her 15 children and forced them to watch as she brutally killed their pets, authorities said in New Mexico, the latest place where the woman and her husband have been the subject of complaints.Martha Crouch and her husband Timothy of Aztec, New Mexico, were arrested Monday following interviews with a number of their adult and young children living in different states, according to court records.It was not immediately clear if all the allegations made by
  
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• Tel Aviv is now home to Nintendo's second official store

  25-06-2019 22:21
  Nintendo has opened up its second official Nintendo Store, this time in a shopping mall in Tel Aviv, Israel. ...
  
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• Apple reportedly canceled quantum dot camera technology for the iPhone 11

  25-06-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The iPhones arriving this September will feature more cameras than ever, according to various leaks from the past few months. Apple is said to be bringing triple-lens cameras to the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Max, while the iPhone XR successor will get a dual-lens shooter. Apple will likely bake a bunch of extra camera features into iOS 13 to take advantage of the additional lens, but these have yet to leak.A new story from the UK, meanwhile, does mention a camera feature that Apple has abandoned b
  
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• Man slashes own throat in court during trial for murder of Tinder date

  25-06-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A man accused of killing his roommate’s Tinder date slashed his own neck during the murder trial on Monday while screaming in the courtroom. Aubrey Trail, a 52-year-old from Nebraska, yelled “Bailey is innocent, and I curse you all” before swiping something across his neck.Deputies rushed to help Mr Trail as he lay bleeding on the floor. Mr Trail was referring to his 25-year-old former roommate Bailey Boswell when he cut himself. The two have been charged with first-degree murd
  
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• Taj Ma Garaj Collection Being Sold Without Reserve

  25-06-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The single day sale through RM Sotheby’s is set for September 28th in Ohio. Well-know late car collector, John Dixon’s, collection of more than 30 highly sought after Porsches and Volkswagens is soon going under the hammer with no reserve set in the Taj Ma Garaj Collection. The auction is happening in Dayton, OH, and will feature over 350 lots of automobila and collectibles. John Dixon’s obsession with the Porsche models started when he was passed by a 911 in his muscle ca
  
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• Driver in horrific motorcycle crash pleads not guilty as details emerge

  25-06-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  A pickup driver accused of slamming into a group of motorcycles entered a not guilty plea Tuesday in New Hampshire on 7 counts of negligent homicide.
  
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• Final Fantasy 7 Remake Needs to Better Communicate The Big Plan

  25-06-2019 21:54
  While the excitement may be at peak levels for Final Fantasy 7 Remake, there’s also a lot of worries and even disdain among the community for its development roadmap. Square Enix plans to release Final Fantasy 7 over multiple installments, and plenty of people - including us - have concerns about this approach.
  These concerns have been formed thanks to the incredibly limited amount of information that Square Enix has provided. So far we know that Final Fantasy 7 Remake has a release date o
  
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• Is Trump Really Headed to War With Iran? Here is What Two Experts Think

  25-06-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  America’s policy of maximum pressure on Iran continues, with the U.S. Department of the Treasury announcing new sanctions on eight Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Commanders. That directive was tweeted during a luncheon event on Iran at the Center for the National Interest, which was moderated by Geoffrey Kemp, the Senior Director of Regional Security Programs at CFTNI who also served in the White House during the first Reagan administration as Special Assistant to the President
  
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• Cyberpunk 2077 PS4 theme makes your PS4 go beep-boop and it's exactly what you need

  25-06-2019 21:42 via gamesradar.com
  This free Cyberpunk 2077 PS4 theme turns your dashboard into a lofi cyberlounge
  
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• Iran vows to ditch more nuclear curbs in war of words with US

  25-06-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran said Tuesday it will further free itself from the 2015 nuclear deal in defiance of new American sanctions as US President Donald Trump warned the Islamic republic of "overwhelming" retaliation for any attacks.Tensions between Iran and the US have spiralled since last year when Trump withdrew the United States from the deal under which Tehran was to curb its nuclear programme in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.The two arch-rivals have been locked in an escalating war of words sin
  
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• A Florida woman turned in her husband's guns after his domestic violence arrest. Police arrested her for theft

  25-06-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Courtney Irby was charged with grand theft and armed burglary for turning in her husband's guns while he was in jail for domestic violence.
  
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• US border chief resigns amid outcry over treatment of migrant children

  25-06-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The acting commissioner of the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, John Sanders, is resigning and will leave his post on July 5, amid an outcry over the treatment of detained migrant children. His departure comes amid mounting public backlash over alarmingly unsanitary conditions at an overcrowded migrant facility in Clint, Texas where the discovery of poor care and lack of access to showers or clean clothing prompted the relocation of 250 detained children. The situation ha
  
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• Rothmans Replica: 1983 Porsche 911 SC Safari

  25-06-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  While it may be a replica of the real deal, this 911 SC is ready for rallying.One of the coolest things about the 1980s was production-based racecars, which were born in order to satisfy motorsport homologation requirements. Nowadays, these vehicles are extremely valuable, due to the fact that many of them were purposefully used and driven hard.Porsche’s iconic 911 is one of these vehicles where ownership is expensive, with many examples being restoration items that are usually reserved fo
  
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• Knock Knock, Who’s There? A 1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS

  25-06-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Orange you glad it’s for sale?This 1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS in Hugger Orange is no joke, though. It’s for sale right now through Sports Car Digest (SCD) Garage in Charlotte, North Carolina with just 40,000 original miles on the odometer. The Hugger Orange paint code is GMs version of the classic racing orange found on the Z28s, Corvettes and several other ‘60s and ‘70s classic muscle cars. The “Hugger” nickname was used when marketing the vehicle in magazine a
  
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• Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro's ex-spy chief reveals new details of plot topple him

  25-06-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The former spy chief to embattled Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has revealed new details of the plot to oust him including code names, secret meetings and a back channel to the Americans.  Gen. Manuel Ricardo Cristopher Figuera, who fled the country after the plot collapsed in May, laid bare the full scale of the plan during an interview with The Washington Post.  Mr Figuera was head of the Venezuelan intelligence police force SEBIN but became disillusioned with Mr Maduro’s
  
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• Here’s what Samsung’s Galaxy Fold 2 could look like

  25-06-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  If you rewind the clock back a bit to before Samsung's disastrous aborted launch of its Galaxy Fold smartphone that was supposed to have been in April, you may recall the company's lofty ambitious that looked beyond the first iteration of this new device. We were hearing estimates last year that Samsung wanted to start the Galaxy Fold's initial production run at a minimum of 1 million units and that the Fold also wouldn't be a one-off. That the company, in other words, was hoping to release a ne
  
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• Prosecutors outline details of congressman's alleged affairs in campaign finance case

  25-06-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Prosecutors alleged in a Monday court filing that Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., used campaign funds to carry out multiple affairs over at least seven years with congressional staffers and lobbyists.
  
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• Donald Trump says woman who claimed he raped her is 'not my type'

  25-06-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has said that a woman who claimed to have been raped by him more than 20 years ago is “not my type”.  The US president made the comment as he again denied an alleged sexual assault on the journalist E Jean Carroll.   Carroll said the incident happened in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman a luxury New York department store in the mid-1990s.  She claimed Mr Trump pulled down her tights against her will and raped her. Mr Trump has categorically denied
  
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• Jeremy Hunt rules Britain out of US-Iran war as Donald Trump and Hassan Rouhani exchange insults

  25-06-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump threatened Iran with “obliteration” after the country’s president questioned his mental health for imposing sanctions against the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader.  The exchange of insults came as Britain ruled itself out of a potential war between the two sides.  Jeremy Hunt, the foreign secretary, told the Commons on Tuesday: "The US is our closest ally, we talk to them the whole time, we consider any requests that they say carefully, but I canno
  
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• Ex-priest dies months into imprisonment for raping boys

  25-06-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A former Catholic priest who pleaded guilty last year to raping two boys decades earlier has died just several months into a 20-year prison sentence in South Carolina. Wayland Yoder Brown, 75, died at a hospital June 8 from what appear to be natural causes, South Carolina Corrections Department spokeswoman Chrysti Shain said Tuesday. The ex-priest had been imprisoned since his guilty plea last October.
  
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• 9 Oil Stocks to Buy When Oil Prices Are Low

  25-06-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Bank of America analyst Doug Leggate recently lowered his oil price forecast for the second half of 2019 from $68 per barrel to $63, but Leggate says there are still plenty of value opportunities among oil stocks today.Here are nine oil stocks Leggate recommends.Leggate says Exxon has the strongest project pipeline of any oil major, including developments in Guyana and the U.S. Permian Basin.
  
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• Taking a Closer Look at Japan's Futuristic Attack Submarine

  25-06-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The sleek underwater warship will ensure the country is defended by the best non-nuclear submarines around.
  
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• Pickup driver pleads not guilty in fatal motorcycle crash

  25-06-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  A driver for a transport company who has a history of traffic arrests pleaded not guilty Tuesday to seven counts of negligent homicide in a collision with a group of motorcyclists on a rural highway.Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, was ordered to remain in preventive detention, with a judge saying his driving record poses a potential danger to the public and himself.The plea was entered by Zhukovskyy's attorney Melissa Davis in Coos County Court in Lancaster, New Hampshire.
  
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• Houston infant dies with 90-plus fractures; parents charged

  25-06-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The parents of a Houston newborn who suffered a cracked skull and more than 90 fractures just days after being brought home from the hospital were arrested in their daughter's death, according to police and Harris County prosecutors.Jazmine Robin, who was born prematurely, was 10 weeks old when she died July 15, 12 days after leaving the hospital, prosecutors said Monday."The evidence shows that Baby Jazmine fell victim to the very people who were supposed to protect her the most in this world,"
  
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• Scavengers Wants to Totally Nail 'Coopetition'

  25-06-2019 20:30
  At first glance, Scavengers doesn’t do anything particularly new. All of its elements are relatively familiar. At first glance, it’s your run-of-the-mill third-person multiplayer shooter with scavenging and crafting elements. Actually playing it, though, reveals a highly compelling player-versus-environment-versus-player genre mashup that is well on track to being greater than the sum of its obvious parts.
  In Scavengers, the Scourge are alien parasites that came to earth after an ast
  
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• Border Patrol chief resigns as migrant children are sent back to Texas camp

  25-06-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  About 100 migrant children who were moved Monday from a detention facility where conditions had been described as “unconscionable” were moved back to the camp on Tuesday as border chief John Sanders announced he was stepping down.
  
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• Illinois joins 10 other U.S. states in legalizing recreational marijuana

  25-06-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Illinois on Tuesday became the 11th U.S. state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana by adults after Governor J.B. Pritzker signed into law a bill that also provides for the removal of certain previous drug convictions and will generate new revenue for the financially troubled state.The Democratic governor hailed the measure, which was passed by the legislature last month, for allowing as many as 700,000marijuana-related records and convictions to be erased."This legislation will clear t
  
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• Steam Summer Sale 2019 is live, here are the deals you can't miss

  25-06-2019 20:13 via gamesradar.com
  It's that time once again
  
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• Pompeo says US hoping for Afghan peace pact before Sept 1

  25-06-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that Washington is hopeful a peace agreement to bring an end to the 17-year war in Afghanistan can be reached before Sept. 1.Pompeo, in a brief visit to Afghanistan, spoke just days before the start of a fresh round of talks between Washington's peace envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, and the Taliban in the Middle Eastern State of Qatar, where the religious militia maintains a political office."I hope we have a peace deal before Sept. 1, that's certainly o
  
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• Kushner: Agreement on economic pathway vital for Middle East peace

  25-06-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said on Tuesday that prosperity for the Palestinians was not possible without a fair political solution - but that agreement on an economic way forward was a necessary precondition for Israeli-Palestinian peace.Kushner was addressing the opening of a workshop in Bahrain to showcase the economic portion of Washington's long-awaited Arab-Israeli peace plan, a $50 billion development blueprint unveiled this week that has been sharply criticised by Palestinia
  
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• Our Favorite Games of E3

  25-06-2019 20:02
  Before we put E3 2019 completely in the rearview in favor of getting lost in the workshops of Super Mario Maker 2, we wanted to take another look at some of our favorite games from this year's expo.
  Of course, these are only a few of all the great stuff we saw this year, so be sure to check out all our E3 coverage here.
  You can flip through the gallery above or scroll down for the full list.
  
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• Marvel Strike Force Adding Sinster Six Characters, Plus Mysterio

  25-06-2019 20:00
  Publisher: FoxNext GamesDeveloper: FoxNext Games Los AngelesRelease: March 28, 2018 Rating: 12+Platform: iOS, Android FoxNext is adding several members of Spider-Man's adversary group, the Sinister Six, to Marvel Strike Force as a part of a large update. While Green Goblin was added to the roster several months ago, he's getting some friends in the form of Rhino, Shocker, and Vulture. In addition the developer is adding Mysterio, who appears in the upcoming Spider-Man: Far From Home.You can see
  
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• Trump news: President threatens Iran with 'obliteration' as Melania announces new White House press secretary

  25-06-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has threatened Iran with “obliteration” if the country launches any attack on US forces. “Iran’s very ignorant and insulting statement, put out today, only shows that they do not understand reality”, Mr Trump tweeted Tuesday morning. His comments came after Iranian president Hassan Rouhani hit out at the “hard-hitting” sanctions ​introduced by the Donald Trump administration on Monday against the country’s supreme leader Ali Kham
  
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• Xbox Boss Phil Spencer on Giving Studios More Time for Game Quality

  25-06-2019 19:51
  Xbox head Phil Spencer has commented on giving developers within Xbox Game Studios more development time to ensure games are made at a high quality.
  In an interview with Kotaku, Spencer was asked why 2019 will be the first year in nearly a decade that Microsoft won't release a Forza game, to which he responded "One of the nice things I loved about ... was the things that we didn’t show.
  "I think about of the 14 first-party games, 12 are shipping in the next year. We were really able to foc
  
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• One Punch Man: The Hero Nobody Knows Fighter Announced

  25-06-2019 19:45
  Publisher: Bandai NamcoDeveloper: Spike ChunsoftRelease: 2019 Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC
  One Punch Man is a popular license, but no one has ever seemed to crack the code on making a good video game for it, so nothing has been released. It's sort of hard to design a game around a character whose entire definition is that he ends fights quickly and is nigh-invulnerable otherwise. However, it looks like Spike Chunsoft and Bandai Namco are looking to buck that trend with the first console
  
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