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    WB Games announces nightmarish restructure

    Basically, all of WB Games is being restructured into two specific studios and each studio will concentrate solely on two franchise from here on out. One studio will only crank out DC Comics games or Mortal Kombat games (NeatherRealm) One studio will only crank out Harry Potter or Game of...
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    Atari 50 new DLC is out

    A new paid expansion for Atari 50 is out. This one includes 19 games, and in November another 25 game pack will be released. At that point in November a new physical version with all the DLC and updates will hit stores. Also comes with new timelines, videos, printed materials, etc for the...
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    James Earl Jones dead at 93

    https://deadline.com/2024/09/james-earl-jones-dead-1236082801/ Awful news
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    New Doom/Doom II update launches, including 16 new official maps

    Id software has released a new version of classic Doom. If you already own Doom on Steam, GOG, Epic Games Store, Playstation, Xbox, or Switch you can download the new listing for free, otherwise it's 10 dollars. Also on GamePass. Features: -The Ultimate Doom, Doom II: Hell on Earth, The Master...
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    Willie Mays, the greatest baseball player of all time, dead at 93

    https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/40382540/legendary-center-fielder-willie-mays-dies-93 One of the biggest icons in American pop culture history.
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    Atari buys Intellivision

    ... 45 years after anyone would've cared. But they did it. They continue their recent rampage of purchases. They recently bought or already owned: Atari's catalogue (minus the 1984 and later arcade stuff that WB has now) Atariage.com Mobygames.com Night Dive Studios (including the System Shock...
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    John Romero's Sigil II out now, free

    https://romero.com/sigil Romero's second megawad expansion to the Ultimate Doom just dropped. You can download the .wad for free or pay increasingly more for whatever extras you might want.
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    Burt Young (Paulie Pennino in Rocky I-IV) dead at 83

    He will always be best remembered as Paulie, and he earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the first movie. A truncated list of his other work via Wikipedia: Chinatown (1974), The Gambler (1974), The Killer Elite (1975), Convoy (1978), Uncle Joe...
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    Arleen Sorkin dead at 67

    Best known as the original voice of Harley Quinn, wife of Christopher Lloyd, daytime soap opera actress. Voiced Harley over 50 times between animated films, TV episodes, and video games.
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    Fiction-within-fiction you'd watch for real

    I was just watching an episode of King of the Hill, and it was one of the ones where they watch Monsignor Martinez on television. If you haven't seen it: I would watch the shit out of this if it were a real show. Another one I always liked was Sick, Sad World on Daria:
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    Jason David Frank dead at 49

    Best known as Tommy from Power Rangers, the first green ranger and then white ranger. He ended up appearing over 230 times across the Power Rangers TV shows, web shorts, theatrical films, and video games. In addition to his acting career he was a world class martial artist: 1-0-0-0 in pro MMA...
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    Aww, here it goes. Coolio dead at 59.

    No joke, I think Gangsta's Paradise is still one of the best music videos of all time
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    Hank Aaron dead at 86

    Truly as great as they come. A legendary player and an even better man.
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    NBA/NHL 2021 seasons

    First Nuggets game last night and they choked it away it in overtime. Jokic picked up right where he left off in the playoffs, though: 29 points, 15 rebounds, 14 assists, 3 blocks Brutal game for Jamal Murray though: 9 points on 1/9 shooting, fouled out
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    HBO Max hits Roku tomorrow, PS5 today

    They finally got a deal done so tomorrow, Thursday 12/17 they will finally release the HBO Max app on Roku. It has also been released on PS5, Amazon Fire devices, and they fixed the Linux and Chromebook support that they had earlier bricked in an update. So I think pretty much all major...
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    New Star Wars stuff announced

    Bunch of TV shows and other stuff. -Hayden Christiansen will appear as Darth Vader in the Obi-Wan TV series which is set to start filming soon. -Cassian Andor from Rogue One is getting a live action series series which is already filming and will debut in 2022. Set five years before the film...
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    Alex Trebek dead at 80

    https://www.tmz.com/2020/11/08/alex-trebek-jeopardy-host-dead-dies-stage-4-pancreatic-cancer/ Terrible news EDIT: Actually 80 years old, not 79
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    Karate Combat

    First episode of the second season of Karate Combat is up. The aim of Karate Combat is to reverse the gentrification of karate that has happened over the last few decades due to the soft Olympic style rules and parents essentially using dojos as daycares instead of fighting schools. It's full...
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    Dune trailer

    I can't wait for this. Directed by Denis Villeneuve, who has directed 5 other English language films: Prisoners (2013) Enemy (2013) Sicario (2015) Arrival (2016) Blade Runner 2049 (2017) I think all five of them are great movies, especially the latter two. And those two being science fiction...
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    Denny O'Neal dead at 81

    The legendary DC Comics writer Dennis O'Neal has died of natural causes. He is best known for returning Batman to his roots as a darker character after the huge influence of the campy Adam West version of the character. He started writing Batman comics in 1970 and was the main editor on the...
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