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Post Malone breaks into his $2 million The One Ring, stressing out a whole room of Magic: The Gathering players: ‘our insurance doesn’t cover that card’

My biggest financial blunder occurred at the ripe old age of six. It wasn’t failing to buy up property in 2008, nor was it failing to swipe a popular domain name, although those probably would have come in handy. No, the mistake that haunts my nightmares was six year old Elie bringing an immaculate Umbreon

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Battlefield 6 is hosting a free trial, just in time for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’s beta

News by Sherif Saed Senior Contributor Published on Aug. 18, 2026, 11:54 a.m. Follow Battlefield 6 Battlefield 6’s latest free trial kicks off today alongside Season 4’s mid-season update, and while that mightn’t be especially notable in itself, the timing is moreso: it coincides with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’s highly anticipated, and stuffed,

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Star Citizen has a disastrously laggy stream with horrendous vibes, which isn’t a great look when you’re past $1 billion in funding

Keeping track of Star Citizen’s development is a little like watching the same, tired old guy in the back of a very expensive car, turning the key while the engine stalls, whispering, quietly, like a prayer: “This car will start soon. We promise.” Originally having a planned release date for 2014, the game’s been stuck

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Resident Evil Requiem’s Grace Ashcroft actor reportedly replacing Jennifer English as lead of lavish Chinese action game Tides of Annihilation

This isn’t 100 percent confirmed, but a recent gameplay demo shown in China in Shanghai displayed a different look for protagonist Gwendolyn – and a different voice. Comments underneath the video suspected Sant’Albano as the voice, and this suspicion was given credulity by Gwendolyn motion-capture performer Jennifer Prime. Prime shared the Tides of Annihilation gameplay

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Be warned: Fallout 4’s next update may break your mods – and there’s a similar one for Skyrim in the works, too

Bethesda announced that a new update for Fallout 4 Creations (mods) will arrive today, 18th August to deliver “general improvements”. In the patch’s announcement on X, the developer advised players to log in and back up their save files, or manually save the load order of their mods before installing the patch as a precaution.

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Battlefield 6’s Top Gun collaboration is more involved than I expected, and it convinced me that Carrier Strike should be a permanent mode

The second half of Season 4 arrives with said cross-over as part of a limited-time event that introduces a lot of exciting new stuff to the game, to the point it wouldn’t make sense to vault all that content in a few weeks’ time. Yes, there are character and vehicle skins to spend money on,

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“I’m pretty sure I mean it” – Legendary game developer Warren Spector announces retirement

Posting a lengthy statement on LinkedIn, Spector established that he’s “pretty sure” this would mark the end of his career. The full statement can be read below: “I’ve had a great career. Wouldn’t change a thing even if I could. But the reasons to retire are simple: I’m a month away from my 44th year

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This new Xbox 360 emulator for Android runs much better than I expected

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. We’ve already seen the first Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 emulators running on Android, but we’ve seen a couple of huge developments in the last few months. However, a new Xbox 360 emulator is making waves in recent weeks. XenDroid was first released

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Call of Duty now has a guide on how to enable its convoluted security features so you can play the Modern Warfare 4 beta on PC

If you played any multiplayer game on PC in the last five years – shooters especially – you’ll no doubt be familiar with the TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot requirements on Windows. Those have existed in Call of Duty for a couple of years now, but it appears the restrictions are being tightened for Modern

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Marvel Rivals players are messing with their config files ‘to cancel games with no consequence’ before they get a loss

The devil works hard but cheaters in Marvel Rivals work harder, as always. Some have chosen to go to extreme lengths to avoid getting an icky loss tacked to their precious match history, using their config files to help them do so. “People are intentionally abusing the cheating detection system to cancel games with no

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