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All EB Games outlets in New Zealand will close by the end of the month following ‘multi-million dollar’ losses

EB Games will close all 38 of its New Zealand outlets by the end of January following a “multimillion-dollar loss during the 2024 fiscal year”. In an internal memo seen by RNZ, the retailer’s New Zealand managing director, Shane Stockwell, told employees the decision was made after “significant and repeated efforts to turn the business…

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Real-life Team Rocket robs 35,000 Pokémon cards from a store despite using a blocked entrance, crawling around on their hands and knees, and missing a major release by 2 whole days

Card games are serious business—with a massive heist gone wrong at Gencon and an entire art gallery event ruined by hungry scalpers forming just part of the hobby’s high-stakes controversies last year. These things are worth a lot of money—and where there’s money, there’s theft. As reported by ABC7 news, A store by the name…

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Ask the Doctor: SSD Migration, Water Cooling, GPU Drivers

The doctor answers your questions about bloated systems, transferring SSDs, water cooling, maximizing performance, and fixing graphics cards Feeling Bloated Doc, I’m looking to upgrade my rig. Currently, the hardware is liquid-cooled. I’m running an Asus P9X79 motherboard, an Intel 256GB SSD, three WD My Book External hard drives and one 250GB WD hard drive,…

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Helldivers 2 rolls back a patch intended to fix servers and progression after it causes ‘significant degradation’ in performance

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios has quickly rolled back a small patch— intended to smooth out server issues—after it was causing a noticeable performance drop on PC. Patch 01.000.005 was pushed out on February 12, aiming to fix issues which were “mostly caused by having so many players in the game and server capacity…

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Celebrate Toaplan’s 40th With This Cool Merch From Kumagumi

Complete with new illustrations by Genzoman. Kumagumi has already released merchandise ranges for properties such as Famitsu, Batsugun and Double Dragon, and now it’s the turn of Toaplan, which celebrated the 40th anniversary of its game division being established last year. “To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Toaplan arcade games, Kumagumi has partnered with Tatsujin…

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Drive a truck filled with explosives across horrible terrain in this gnarly mix of Snowrunner and Baby Steps—inspired by one of Hollywood’s most misunderstood films

Film sickos will instantly recognise the inspiration behind Nitroglyerine! which sees you drive a truck filled with volatile explosives across terrain more rugged than Glen Powell’s chin. Its rough and ready demo oozes with the same the lo-fi tension of William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, a nihilistic thriller that was critically panned and buried at the box…

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