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Starcraft: The Original, And Brood War Free
Blizzard is working on a remastered version of their sci-fi RTS progenitor, Starcraft and the expansion beloved for competitive multiplayer, Brood War, but first they’ve gone and made the original versions of the games free as their patch notes for version 1.18 of the almost 20 year old game spell out. Those patch notes also contain…
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Classic Nintendo
What happens when Nintendo launches a very successful and cheap console a few months before releasing the Switch hybrid console/handheld? Jose Otero: Nintendo will discontinue the Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition and the last shipments will go out to retailers throughout this month. I bet that Nintendo looked at the Classic as a mistake. It was too cheap and…
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“I’m upset that you changed the password to the PSN account I stole from you”
Seriously crazy stuff going on with PSN account resellers in this article from Patrick Klepek: A few weeks ago, Mic Fok got a weird email. The person writing it claimed they’d been playing Overwatch on a PlayStation Network account for more than six months, but the password had changed recently. But why would Fok know…
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Apple Releases Clips App
It’s the Ken Burns effect but for millennials. Joanna Stern has a guide to Clips on the WSJ: Hang-gliding over the Swiss Alps, or just cleaning your dryer’s lint tray? Either way, the titans of tech want you to record a snippet of it. Then they want you to slap on some emojis and text. Then they…
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Xbox Scorpio Tech Details
Eurogamer’s Richard Leadbetter has technical details of Microsoft’s goofy Project Scorpio. Unless Microsoft adds or changes something significant about the functionality of the console before it is launched, it just means a more expensive and more technically powerful Xbox console: Combining smart design with sheer horsepower, Project Scorpio hits the six-teraflop target set for it as E3 last year,…