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The ever-popular battle royale's Creative mode offers a freedom that has long outstripped the base game itself.
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View as a gridOlympic Esports Series 2023: Second time's the charm for chess grandmaster Oleksandr Bortnyk
Olympics
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The Ukrainian-born grandmaster speaks to Olympics.com about competing in the Olympic Esports Series 2023 and how it will help chess grow.
Video game development in Iran: Limited tools, front companies and a specter of war
The Washington Post
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January 3 was a regular workday in Isfahan, Iran, for indie game developer Mahdi Bahrami. Then he read the news. Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani had been killed in Baghdad by an airstrike authorized by United States President Donald Trump. That's when Bahrami's normal day dissolved into fears for his loved ones and his livelihood.
The web's creepiest fictional wiki is now a mind-bending video game
WIRED (UK)
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As you make your way down a grey corridor you come across a man sitting behind a glass panel staring at a fridge, unable to break eye contact with it. He's alone, desperate, and afraid. "Oh thank god. I've been staring at it since yesterday with no breaks," he says.
12 years later, players somehow keep Team Fortress 2 alive on the PS3
Ars Technica
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Team Fortress 2 was Lars Nilsen's favorite game. He's spent hundreds of hours running between rooftops as the scout in 2Fort and dominating points on Dustbowl as a demoman since he picked up the quirky team shooter in 2011. After playing consistently for five years, Nilsen took a break in 2016 to focus on other things.
Behind the Jackie Chan-inspired combat of Bloodroots
Gamasutra
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"In [Chan's] movies, he uses everything around him. He'll put his foot in a pot and smash it on someone's head and then grab a ladder and spin it. We wanted to capture that feeling of going from enemy to enemy."
Hunting Down 'Red Dead Redemption's' Unsolved Mysteries Ahead of Sequel
Variety
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Players spent eight years digging around the mysteries of "Red Dead Redemption," now they're preparing to do the same with its sequel.
Rental teams make competitive Pokémon more accessible than ever
ESPN
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The new rental team system in Pokémon Sword and Shield makes it simple for new and veteran players alike to approach the game's competitive scene.