Insight into the fall of British high street video game retailer Game going into administration has been brought to light in a new report. After years of business troubles and challenges, this write-up claims the company's liquidation was caused by changing consumer behaviour, fierce competition, and "uncertainty associated with Brexit".
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Apple developed two Mac Pro models in recent years that never made it to market, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In his latest "Power On" newsletter, Gurman revealed that Apple internally developed two unreleased Mac Pro projects codenamed J170 and J190 before ultimately discontinuing the machine altogether. As for new Mac Pro hardware, there were two additional models developed by Apple that never saw the light of day: J170 and J190. The former was a new Intel Corp. Mac Pro (yes, even whe...
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Two dedicated communities have turned Halo into competitive extreme sports and it's a delight to watch.
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It's yellow. Watch manufacturer Casio has launched a new G-Shock product in Japan to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Mother 3. Released on 20th April 2006, Mother 3 unfortunately never made it to western shores, but an unofficial fan translation led by Clyde "Tomato" Mandelin has allowed fans to experience the GBA sequel. Thankfully, those in the west can (potentially) get their hands on this new watch, with Casio offering international shipping.
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It may seem counterintuitive, but 113-degree water is still cool enough to cool NVIDA's latest hardware.
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A Realm Re-gone.
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Europe just hit AliExpress with a record $629 million fine for allowing the sale of counterfeit and harmful products.
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Security firm Group-IB has identified a new piece of macOS malware in the wild that pressures users into surrendering their passwords via a barrage of fake system prompts. Dubbed "ClickLock Stealer," the malware needs no exploits and no elevated privileges to work. Instead, the attack depends on the victim pasting a command into Terminal and running it. The command then executes a script, and everything else follows. Group-IB did not directly observe how victims are lured into pasting the comman...
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A new iPad mini coming by October will deliver a "major processor leap," according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Previous rumors have indicated that the next iPad mini will be equipped with an A19 Pro chip or an A20 Pro chip, up from the A17 Pro in the current 2024 model. Other rumored features include an OLED display, a vibration-based speaker system, and increased water resistance.This article, "New iPad Mini With OLED Display Will Also Have 'Major' Chip Upgrade" first appeared on MacRumors.comD...
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Marvel's first trailer for Avengers Doomsday finally dropped, showing the return of Robert Downey Jr to the MCU.
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The new Rick and Morty spinoff President Curtis premieires on Adult Swim on July 26. The show is hilarious, especially for history nerds
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Meta's glasses deliver the same functionality as its Ray-Ban models but don't quite feel as premium.
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Thinking 'Get good' and making it so?
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There is no end seemingly in sight for the memory crisis, or of how much higher the price of consumer electronics could go. Valve, which recently shipped its expensive Steam Machine, has learned this the hard way.
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Following sweeping layoffs across the entire Xbox division earlier this month, Bethesda shared a surprisingly transparent roadmap about the Fallout and The Elder Scrolls projects it's making. Now, Bethesda Game Studios leader Todd Howard has returned to Reddit after a six-month hiatus to thank fans for their support.
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Which ancient civilization was famous for scepticism? I can't think.
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"I surrounded myself with people who were obsessive gamers," Spider-Man: Brand New Day director Destin Daniel Cretton tells Polygon
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As Oisin reported over the weekend, Steam Machine engineers Yazan Aldehayyat and Pierre-Loup Griffais gave a big Valve thumbs-down to the practice of platform exclusives – a hot topic in the context of Xbox owners Microsoft retreating back into whatever kind of shrivelled, joyless husk Xbox is nowadays. The same interview, with Bloomberg scoopsmith Jason Schreier, also touched on the acutely PC-spoiling subject of RAMnarök and its subsequent, en-masse embiggening of hardware prices. Good news? N...
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A fresh leak reveals new specs for Samsung's Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, days before it's rumored to appear.
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With season 4 being the last season of House of the Dragon, Ryan Condal reveals there's plenty more time for other dragons to appear.
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Apple appears to be testing a hidden popover interface for Siri AI in the macOS 27 Golden Gate beta that surfaces Writing Tools and contextual actions whenever the user selects some text. Spotted by a member of Reddit's r/MacOSBeta community, the floating icon appears at the top-left of the selected text, expanding when the pointer hovers over it to a compact popover of Writing Tools and contextual actions. Currently, the popover offers the tools Rewrite, Proofread, "How does this sound?" and "E...
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Simulation run in EA Sports FC game, formerly known as FIFA, has an unbroken record of accuracy going back 16 years
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With Bethesda having begun to dip their fingers into the remaster bucket in recent years, some modders who'd decided long before that to get the ball rolling on such things themselves have had to reckon with the idea that official siblings of their passion projects could be in the works. It happened last year with Skyblivion and Oblivion Remastered, now it's happened for the crew behind The Capital Wasteland Project, an effort to recreate Fallout 3 in Fallout 4, and Fallout 4: New Vegas. Thankfu...
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It's trickier than it looks - but one good run is all you need. Pokémon Pokopia's Zorua Hide-and-Sneak event - though you'll likely refer to it as 'Hide and Seek' - is available in July 2026. This limited-time event has a simple objective: making your way past Zorua and other patrolling Pokémon to reach the Pokémon Center PC undetected. It's harder than it sounds, but there's a couple of tips that can make the mini-game easier.
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A true endgame item, you need Holy Water to harvest World Tree resources and build some of the most powerful base items in the game.
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There've been more than 100 Final Fantasy games since the series got its start on the NES back in 1987. Here are a few under-the-radar treasures.
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Sub-lime. SFB Games’ Detective Grimoire series has gone from strength to strength as it has plotted its course from flash game to iOS to consoles. This time, the sleuthing twosome, Sally and Grimoire, arrive on Switch 2 with The Mermaid Mask, putting a fresh new murder mystery straight into your hands. It’s a classic setup: a pair of detectives arrive at a small seaside town to investigate a confounding crime. One Captain Mortuga has apparently been killed on his submarine in inexplicable circum...
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Erin Davis calls it the “SuperDuperPOD.” That’s two things in one name: pharmaceutical giant Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) already runs one of the largest AI clusters in life sciences, with serious results to show for it. And they’re doubling down. BMS announced today it is deploying its second NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, this one built on...
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League of Legends streamer and former Los Ratones player Nemesis is now a tattoo artist. Well, that's what the Slovenian government says.
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Cliff Bleszkinski, the designer instrumental in the creation of Gears of War - the face of the series for three games - has opened up about a career-long struggle with alcohol which he's now reckoning with, while also teasing a potential return to creating games.
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I guess I could do with the free space...
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They're checking the stables for Tyrek Lannister.
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Hello all! This week, there are a lot of new cat-themed games for some reason. One suspects that some dire cat anniversary is underway. Maybe week of 20th July 2026 marks 30 million years since the invention of cats? Or since cats invented us? In any case, there is already far too much cat discourse round these parts, so I've only allowed one of those sinister feline diversions into the Maw. Without further ado, the list.
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A World of Warcraft Q&A revealed that Blizzard isn't committed to leaving archaeology back in BfA, but wants "more fun" gameplay.
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An incremental horror seems like quite an unusual mashup but PUROMA looks really good
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