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EA Sports Sacks FIFA Manager After 13-Year Run
EA Sports will cancel FIFA Manager, its football management sim for the PC, ending a 13-year run for the series that lately saw it finishing a distant second to Sega’s better regarded Football Manager In an open letter to fans, Gerald Köhler, the founder of the game (known as Fussball Manager and then Total Club…
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Your Adobe Passwords Make For An Incredibly Easy Crossword Puzzle
When life gave him 153 million leaked Adobe accounts, complete with emails, encrypted passwords and password hints, engineer Ben Falconer made a crossword puzzle. A pathetically easy crossword puzzle. As the nice folks at Rock, Paper, Shotgun point out, the first thing you should do before playing Adobe Crossword is tocheck to see if your…
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Battlefield 4 Jet Swap Shows Everyone How Teamwork is Done
Now, that is one impressive Battlefield 4 moment right there. One guy comes in low with his jet and jumps out while his teammate jumps into the abandoned plane and moves on (the GIF shows both players’ view). Switching jets like this really requires superb skills and teamwork. It’s even better to watch the full…
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So, Which Pokémon Would You Say Is The Sexiest? Just Asking.
I love Pokémon. YouTuber Chris Sanders loves them too. Maybe a little too much. The creator of Pokémon First-World Problems returns with an all-new, all-different set of problems, and while I have to concede his points on at least number 10 and 1, the rest of his picks I find a little Farfetch’d. Awwww, yeah.
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Chinese Store Clerk Gives Zero F**ks About Being Robbed
Anyone who’s ever worked in a convenience store or watched Clerks knows that the job is hard, not very rewarding, and there’s always a chance of running into a robbery scenario. One Chinese convenience store has gotten robbed so much that the store clerk who works there is no longer fazed when she gets robbed.…
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Build Your Own Combat Car and Watch it Fail Hilariously
After all, that’s at least half the fun. This is Scraps, a multiplayer vehicular combat game currently in development for PC. Basically, you build your own cars in it then blast each other (or yourself) apart. It looks quite fun, judging by the gameplay trailer: It’s one of those pre-alpha proof of concept kind of…
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You Might Think This Is a Star Wars VII Trailer. It’s Not.
This is exactly how I’d imagine the first trailer for J. J. Abrams’ Star Wars flick to look like. Except with more lens flare. And music from Two Steps From Hell. And some extra scenes with space battles in them. On second thought, it wouldn’t look like this at all. Director Todd Sandler calls his…
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Modder Solders His Own Xbox One Headset Adapter
Third party headsets are unusable on the Xbox One until Microsoft releases an adapter, which won’t be until next year. Your Trittons, your Turtle Beaches, your Astros and Afterglows, forget it. Except one audiophile, a guy with a soldering gun and a purpose, wouldn’t let it go. Reader alsybub says he made his Xbox One…
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Twitch Taking a Harder Look at PS4’s Playroom After Livestream Mayhem
In light of the recent livestream antics on Playroom, the PlayStation 4 augmented-reality game set in players’ living rooms, Twitch.tv has felt compelled to restate its terms of use, which in effect forbids “non-gaming content.” For those who use Playroom (shown above), it sounds like a crackdown. To recap, the PlayStation 4 allows livestreaming to…
By Owen Good