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Halo Studios reportedly cancels Halo multiplayer project Ekur, which had customisable Spartans and Elites and large player battles

Straight from the r/Legoleak subreddit, we’ve received a first look at a Donkey Kong arcade machine potentially set to release in August for $200 USD. At the time of writing, the build hasn’t been formally announced, but considering the release date is soon and that this subreddit has been a reliable source of Lego leaks […]

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Halo Studios reportedly cancels Halo multiplayer project Ekur, which had customisable Spartans and Elites and large player battles

"The best way to implement quality-of-life improvements? Don't impinge on the original experience, give the player more possibilities." “We are trying our best to win back trust from those players who felt [disappointed] in with the launch of Dragon’s Dogma 2,” says Oyama in an interview with Eurogamer. “We’ve already seen positive responses to the

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Halo Studios reportedly cancels Halo multiplayer project Ekur, which had customisable Spartans and Elites and large player battles

Halo reporter Rebs Gaming originated the story on YouTube, saying they’d heard from multiple employees at Halo Studios that Project Ekur was no longer in development. The claim was backed up this afternoon by well-Microsoft-connected Windows Central reporter Jez Corden, who said the information was “100 percent true”. A week earlier, however, Rebs Gaming had

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Halo Studios reportedly cancels Halo multiplayer project Ekur, which had customisable Spartans and Elites and large player battles

"GDQ is committed to supporting human rights and inclusivity." Though users on social media pointed out early that GDQ’s organisation should’ve binned plans for the stream, it still went live before it was cut short following criticism from the viewers. As our peers at Rock Paper Shotgun pointed out, 2026’s SGDQ raised $2,408,701 for Doctors

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After Apple, India’s smartphone manufacturing boom enters new phase with Vivo JV

India on Thursday approved a manufacturing joint venture between China’s Vivo and local manufacturer Dixon Technologies, a move that could mark the next phase of the country’s smartphone manufacturing boom after Apple helped turn India into a global smartphone production hub. The approval allows Vivo to proceed with a long-delayed manufacturing partnership first announced in

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“My ‘Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand’ statement isn’t aging well” – id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs

"I'm saddened, but I can't muster anger or outrage." Earlier this week, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced 1,600 employees would initially lose their jobs, with another 1,600 cuts to come over the next year. As part of the restructuring, some studios – including Double Fine, Compulsion Games, Ninja Theory, Undead Labs, and potentially Arkane

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AMD Zen 6 server CPUs are launching this month, which has me hopeful for a desktop release this year

We’ve known for some time now that AMD was planning on launching next-gen Zen 6 CPUs in 2026, but hardware has been in a weird place for a while, so it’s best not to assume something will be going into your rig / server until it’s in your hands. And yet AMD has confirmed it

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“No thanks!” – Assassin’s Creed Black Flag remake Resynced being review bombed on Steam for single-player microtransactions

But it’s not been such smooth sailing for the game since launch on 9th July. Over the past 24 hours, we’ve seen something of a back-and-forth over on the game’s Steam page. Whilst many praise the game for its updated graphics, wide open-world, and interpretation of the 2013 classic adventure that came before, others are

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“No thanks!” – Assassin’s Creed Black Flag remake Resynced being review bombed on Steam for single-player microtransactions

Representing a "commitment to price stability and maximum employment", apparently. She will join the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve -the body charged with the implementation of United States monetary policy -as part of a group formed to improve the efficiency of the Federal Reserve’s operations. One of her duties is to assess the

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After Apple, India’s smartphone manufacturing boom enters new phase with Vivo JV

India on Thursday approved a manufacturing joint venture between China’s Vivo and local manufacturer Dixon Technologies, a move that could mark the next phase of the country’s smartphone manufacturing boom after Apple helped turn India into a global smartphone production hub. The approval allows Vivo to proceed with a long-delayed manufacturing partnership first announced in

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