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Coronavirus Leads EA, CD Projekt Red, Square Enix, Capcom To Abandon GDC, PAX East
The coronavirus hits just keep on coming. After leading to the withdrawal of Sony and Facebook from GDC, concerns over the outbreak has resulted in four more high profile withdrawals, with EA telling their staff not to attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next month, and three major publishers abandoning PAX East.
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How Warcraft Got Its Name
I lost hours of my youth playing online StarCraft matches, nearly lost entire friendships to the scourge of World of Warcraft. In all that time, it never occurred to me why Blizzard uses that -craft suffix on those games, or what it could possibly mean. At last, I have the answer.
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Sony Can’t Compete With Xbox Game Pass
The first console I owned was a PlayStation. Since then I’ve owned nearly every console Sony’s released — even the unfortunate PSP Go. But with age comes wisdom, and it’s time to accept that in the current console generation, Xbox just has a lot more to offer.
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Japan’s Most Delicious Bread Is Melon Pan
Japan has brought the world some truly delicious treats, but one of the best of all has to be meron pan (melon bread). We know it tastes good, but how was it invented? And why is it called that?