Was Assassin's Creed Origins' Egypt the best open world in the series?
Getting lost in history in Assassin's Creed Origins.
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The Washington Post selects Doom as one of the 25 'most influential works of American culture'
id Software's seminal 1993 shooter takes its place alongside The Federalist Papers, Moby Dick, Robert Johnson's deal with the devil, and Lemonade.
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Smoke From Canada's Wildfires Turns Skies Sickly Orange Across the Eastern US
Roughly 100 fires are raging out of control in Ontario, sending smoke streaming 1,000 miles to the south and east.
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If The Odyssey film is anything like The Odyssey adventure game from 2012, Matt Damon will spend the entire first hour trying to solve a single loom puzzle
I played it for two hours and 53 minutes, same as the running time of Christopher Nolan's new film. Here's how it went.
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DOOM runs (slowly) in a IBM PC-Compatible CSS Sheet
Just when you thought we’d run out of things to port DOOM to, here comes [Ahmed Amer] with his CSS-DOS, a massive 300 MB CSS style...
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HP’s OLED-equipped 2-in-1 laptop is a solid back-to-school deal
With storage and memory prices still at an all-time high, we’re happy to tell you about a solid deal on a good laptop when we find...
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Apple’s reportedly raising the price for AppleCare Plus on Macs and iPads
An AppleCare Plus subscription for a Mac or iPad will cost more soon, with prices going up by $0.50 per month or $5 per year for...
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Hundreds rally at Bethesda HQ to protest Xbox layoffs, and Ars was there
Union wants to halt a "perpetual cycle" of layoffs, get back to contract bargaining.
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Valve says iFixit will keep selling Steam Deck batteries after all
Valve has been incredibly friendly to customers who need repairs - which is why it was so surprising to hear that Valve was already discontinuing the...
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Buzz Aldrin sells famous felt-tip pen that helped launch Apollo from the Moon
While an impressive sale, the pen and switch did not break records.
Read moreNASA Uses Subscale Aircraft to Accelerate Flight Innovation
Testing new aerospace concepts in flight remains one of NASA’s most effective ways to advance knowledge and reduce risk. The Dale Reed Subscale Flight Research Laboratory...
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A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. In its term that ended last October, the Supreme Court passed an important milestone that went unnoticed:...
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