Author: Jack Slater
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The Plagiarizer
IGN recently fired an editor that covered Nintendo platforms and software, Filip Miucin, when it was discovered that he had plagiarized a review for Dead Cells from another video review. This situation was awful enough, but IGN’s managers did a good job of resolving it quickly, and I thought it could be an opportunity for…
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Fortnite Skipping Google Play to The Detriment of User Security
Epic is skipping Google’s Android app store (the advertising publisher calls it Google Play as if that meant anything) for their upcoming Android version of the free-to-play Fortnite (which is already on iOS and almost every gaming and computing platform.) There’s a beta signup here and the compatibility situation on Android is already a nightmare, check out…
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Bethesda’s Crack Legal Team Is at It Again
Apparently Bethesda is threatening to sue people who resell their games. Polygon’s Colin Campbell has the story: Philadelphia-based Ryan Hupp recently contacted Polygon to explain how he’d been forced by Bethesda to stop selling his copy of The Evil Within 2. He bought the game but never unwrapped it, he told us. He’d been expecting…
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Microsoft’s Surface Go Sounded Interesting
Microsoft’s smaller, cheaper, version of the Surface sounded pretty interesting if you ponied up for something better than the base model. Unfortunately the performance is extremely limited for a device running Windows 10. Mashable’s Raymond Wong titled his review “…Barely better than a netbook” and had this to say about the performance: This Pentium chip…
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Dead Cells Exits Early Access
Dead Cells is out of Early Access now if you’ve been waiting to check out a more finished version of it. Here’s what I said about it a year ago: Rogue Legacy was a new style of metroidvania. It reset the castle when your character died, just like Rogue and Nethack, and randomly generated a new castle when you…