Good news, terrible news: You don’t have to launch Modern Warfare 2 to launch Modern Warfare 3 anymore, but now you can’t launch Warzone without first launching Modern Warfare 3

Activision’s rollout of the new “Call of Duty HQ” launcher has been anything but elegant. The HQ, which is really just a rebranded frontend for a single CoD game, is the only way to launch the new Modern Warfare 3, and until yesterday, that process was a real slog. To play MW3, you had to…

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The Steam Deck’s new clear plastic limited edition is giving me overpowering OLED envy, but I can’t keep blowing money on these things

Like many in my millennial age cohort, I’ve got a sickening nostalgic obsession with clear plastic electronics: Game Boys, OG MacBooks, Discmen. It’s god’s own design language, I tell you, not just rosy memories of the late ’90s and early aughts! No doubt taking note of the many aftermarket solutions for giving the Steam Deck…

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Omegle, the site that paired up strangers for 1-on-1 chats and, uh, other stuff, has closed: ‘Frankly, I don’t want to have a heart attack in my 30s,’ founder says

Do you remember Omegle? It launched in 2009 as a chat service with a twist: Instead of picking a server to join or people to talk to, users were randomly paired up for one-on-one chats with anonymous strangers from around the world. That sure sounds like a terrible idea, doesn’t it? And sure enough, racism…

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Warframe developer axes publishing division, will ‘transition full control’ of online action RPG Wayfinder to its developer

At last year’s Game Awards, Warframe maker Digital Extremes revealed that it was publishing Wayfinder, an online action game from Airship Syndicate which released in early access this August. Today, PC Gamer has learned that Digital Extremes is now closing its publishing wing and handing control of Wayfinder over to Airship Syndicate. “We can confirm…

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Why Paradroid For the C64 Was So Awesome!

The Commodore C64 was a great little machine for its day, and its games were worthy successors to the Atari games which came before it. One game will always stand out for me as particularly enjoyable, due to its innovative concept, progression, style, and overall replayability: Paradroid. Paradroid stood out due to its innovative concept,…

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Xbox Insider Release Notes – Omega (2311.231106-1030)

Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Omega ring. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes to the…

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