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CultureYou (Or Someone, At Least) Can Win $5,000 For Being Really Good At Microsoft Excel
Been practicing your Excel macros? What’s your APM in Microsoft Office? If you’re the best of the best, you might just have what it takes to dominate in the world of competitive financial modeling. In fact, another international exhibition match is about to start. Microsoft just announced a “financial modeling battle” which will go down…
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EsportsCounter-Terrorists Win: Valve Just Nuked Most Of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s F2P Features
Since 2018, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players could enjoy the entire game, more or less, without paying a cent. That’s now come to an end as Valve just announced the end of many CS:GO free-to-play (F2P) features in a blog post on the official CS:GO website. Since its original release in 2012 CS:GO has gone through…
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CultureCosplayIncredible Dead Space Cosplay Even Animates Isaac’s Iconic Health Bar
A cosplayer on Reddit is being praised for their meticulously faithful Dead Space costume—right down to the glowing spine. Redditor SunlightofAstora, who goes by Johnny Goodwill in meatspace, posted a video of himself on the r/gaming subreddit clad in space hero Isaac Clarke’s iconic Engineer RIG hazardious environment suit. The video shows off the suit’s…
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CultureEA Hires Call Of Duty Boss To Lead Battlefield Team
Electronic Arts has appointed Byron Beede as the new SVP and general manager of the Battlefield series. Beede previously spent nearly 20 years at Activision Blizzard, where he most recently worked as the executive vice president and general manager of the Call of Duty series. Beede will be reporting to Vince Zampella, one of the…
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CultureFortnite Players Are Getting Abducted By UFOs
As the latest Fortnite season nears its end, players are being zapped by mysterious beams of light that seem reminiscent of UFO abductions. Fortnite players have been posting clips of their abductions on Reddit and Twitter. Most of them seem to occur at the game’s drive-in movie theater Risky Reels. A green flash in the…
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CulturePSA: Tell Me Why Is Free During Pride Month [Corrected]
In celebration of Pride Month, Dontnod Entertainment is offering Tell Me Why for free through the month of June on Windows 10, Steam, and Xbox consoles. And anyone who picks up the game in that time will own the game permanently. Tell Me Why is an episodic adventure game about twins Tyler and Alyson Ronan,…
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EsportsCounter-Strike: Global Offensive Update Will Track Coaches To Prevent More Cheating Scandals
Valve released a new update for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive that addresses a coaching scandal that rocked the game’s professional scene last year. Mariusz “Loord” Cybulski, a coach for Wisła Kraków’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team and a former competitor, publicly revealed an exploit in the game on August 26 that allowed a spectator to watch matches…
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OpinionImpressionsBackbone Is A Noir Adventure About Racism In Anthropomorphic Vancouver
Backbone, a noir adventure game set in an anthropomorphic version of Vancouver, is coming out on June 8. I have already played the free Steam demo, Backbone: Prologue, six times. Now, the Steam algorithm knows I’m a sucker for noir detective stories and that is, indeed, what Backbone is. It’s got all the usual clichés,…
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CultureI Guess A Warhammer Streaming Service Was Inevitable
Games Workshop is launching a new streaming service called Warhammer Plus (also stylized as Warhammer+). The service was revealed by Games Workshop staffers Adam Troke and Eddie Eccles on May 22 during a Twitch stream on the company’s official channel. The company also announced that 11 shows are currently in development and based in the…
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CultureApex Legends Adds Penalty For Leaving Arena Games Early
Apex Legends introduced a new 3v3 Arena mode with Season 9 in early May, and I’ve been enjoying it for the handful of times when I’ve been able to play out a full match. Most of the time, a player will bail after a few bad rounds, leaving me at a severe disadvantage or giving…
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CultureReddit Asked The Apex Legends Team Why Skins Cost 20 Bucks
The official Apex Legends subreddit hosted an AMA last week with the game’s development team. Fans had questions about everything from weapon balance to character tweaking, and most controversial of all, how the Apex Legends team monetizes its offerings. One Redditor user, x5hadau, asked why some cosmetic skins seem so expensive. “I get that you…
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CultureWith Overwatch 2 Reducing Team Sizes, Pros Worry About Being Cut
Yesterday, Overwatch game director Aaron Keller announced that Overwatch 2’s PvP mode will field teams of five players, down from six players in the game’s current PvP mode. Now players, staffers, and fans of the Overwatch League are wondering if professional teams will be cutting down their rosters in response. Currently, Overwatch League games are…
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CultureValheim Was Made By 5 People And Sold Nearly 7 Million Copies
It’s a good year to be a Viking. Embracer Group, the Swedish video game holding company formerly known as THQ Nordic, released a financial report today showing that early access game Valheim has sold 6.8 million copies so far, with Embracer expecting it to sell up to 8 million copies in total by the summer.…
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CultureOdds and EndsValheim Sculptures Prove That The Game Is Mostly Viking Minecraft Now
Valheim was originally a survival game where you, a dead Viking, must prove yourself to Odin by conquering the eponymous realm of Valheim. But after you summon and slay all the bosses, there’s not much to do. Nowadays, the game has pretty much become Viking Minecraft, where players show all their elaborate, frame-chugging creations on…
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