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Valve disables Steam Market trading for CS:GO and DOTA2 in the Netherlands to avoid fines

Friday, 22 June 2018 13:17
Written by Wesley "CataclysmZA" Fick
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In April 2018, the Dutch Gaming Commission ruled that several games contained loot box systems that could be considered gambling, and that the companies making these items available to minors and adults with addictive personalities without restrictions would be fined if they did not disable the offending items by 20 June 2018. As it happens, Valve disabled the feature as requested this week, and CS:GO and DOTA2 players in The Netherlands have discovered that they can no longer trade items from these games on the Steam Market.

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Giblets: Red Dead Redemption 2 is (probably) coming to PC

Friday, 22 June 2018 13:15
Written by Tarryn van der Byl
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That’s according to a screenshot on Reddit of a Rockstar programmer’s LinkedIn profile, anyway, sooooo. Maybe, maybe not, and even if it is, it might only be out sometime subsequent to the console launch, like the PC version of GTA 5. Or at the same time. Or before. Who knows? In the meantime, file this one under “NOT CONFIRMED BUT ALMOST DEFINITELY CONFIRMED BECAUSE WHY NOT LOL”.

Brian Krzanich resigns as Intel CEO under allegations of an improper employee relationship

Friday, 22 June 2018 12:41
Written by Wesley "CataclysmZA" Fick
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In a surprise announcement made yesterday afternoon, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has resigned from the company. Taking his place temporarily is acting CEO Bob Swan, the company’s current CFO. Krzanich leaves the company after 36 years, having joined it in 1982 as an electrical engineer working inside Intel’s foundry labs. Intel’s stock dropped by 2% following the announcement, which was preceded by an announcement by CFO Bob Swan that the company was expecting another record quarter for revenue and profit in Q3 2018. Officially, the reason for Krzanich’s resignation is that he had a relationship with an Intel employee in the past, and an investigation run by the company found him guilty of breaking policy.

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HP’s OMEN family is getting seriously big

Friday, 22 June 2018 12:31
Written by Wesley "CataclysmZA" Fick
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HP’s OMEN brand has been a strong growth generator within the company, pushing them into the limelight and giving them a rather cool edge to the gaming market that they had largely ignored for years. Since the brand’s re-organisation in 2015, HP has been pushing out aggressive designs which are priced to make their competitors sweat a bit, and the industrial design has been getting more and more robust. This year, HP is pushing out a redesign of the OMEN 15 to address some design elements in the 2017 model, and they’re releasing a slew of new peripherals, in addition to a rather good-looking mechanical keyboard with a new type of switch.

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Fallout 76 has “systems in place” to manage bad behaviour

Thursday, 21 June 2018 14:43
Written by Tarryn van der Byl
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If movies and TV shows, books, and video games have taught me one thing about surviving in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, it’s that other people are the worst. But surviving in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Fallout 76 is going to be different – not because people aren’t the worst, but because the game developers already know that, and have made some contingency plans.

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