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Games recruitment specialist One Player Mission (OPM) will close down after 26 years.

There are many reasons to factory reset your PS5, from wanting to resell it to trying to fix issues that have arisen over time. Luckily, this process is somewhat simpler than learning how to reset a PS4, but still has some issues. Plus, you will want to make sure you have all of your current data secured. Here, we take a look at all of the steps and options so you know how to factory reset a PS5 to your satisfaction.

We've had almost a year now to assess whether Microsoft Corp.'s plan to add ChatGPT to its Bing search engine made any difference in the great battle against Google. It will come as no surprise to learn that it didn't — Bing's market share in online search has barely moved.

I have heard of games wanting to defy conventions, but what about the Geneva Conventions? Yes, we are all going to burn for all eternity for this. But is that a worse fate than being trapped inside a Pal Sphere in Palworld and having your mind wiped and programmed to unilaterally obey orders? I’ll leave that to you.

Membership to the Game Workers branch of the IWGB union went up by 'almost half' between December 2022 and December 2023.

Counter-Strike makes Valve a lot of money. There are a whole variety of cases (which are essentially loot boxes) that you can earn in-game and trade on the market to make some cash, but you can't open them without buying keys directly from Valve.

During the most recent Developer Update Livestream, the team took some questions from the community. One of these questions, «What are the developers' plans for snapshotting in the future?» was answered — fixes are coming in Season 3! World Boss Caches Can Drop Uniques Gold Trading Much Easier on Console

Blizzard continues to announce additional bug fixes in Diablo 4 Season of the Construct. Have you ever Upgraded an item at the Blacksmith, just to have it break immediately? This was due to a bug that will be fixed as a part of Season 3! World Boss Caches Can Drop Uniques Gold Trading Much Easier on Console

There is currently a bug in Diablo 4 that allows Echo of Lilith to continue to deal damage after being defeated in her second phase. In Season of the Construct, players will be fighting against mechanical scorpions, and Blizzard will be squashing some bugs of their own. World Boss Caches Can Drop Uniques Gold Trading Much Easier on Console

In Season of the Construct, the hardcore-mode item will be receiving some enhancements. These upgrades will increase the quantity that can be held by players and will make these items much more visible. World Boss Caches Can Drop Uniques Gold Trading Much Easier on Console

Masimo CEO Joe Kiani, waging a legal fight with Apple Inc. over a blood oxygen feature on Apple Watch, said that consumers are better off without the iPhone maker's version of the technology. The remarks followed Apple's decision to cease sales of smartwatches Thursday that had the tool — a gauge of blood oxygen saturation known as a pulse oximeter — which had been a heavily marketed health feature on the devices. The move stemmed from a ruling by the US International Trade Commission that found the technology violated Masimo patents.

If you've ever tried to trade gold in Diablo 4 on a console, you've probably had a pretty bad experience. Luckily, the developers have updated the UI to make gold trading in Diablo 4 easier than ever in Season of the Construct! Diablo 4 Season 3 Patch Notes Always-On Helltides in Season 3

Ubisoft is gearing up for its first AAA release of 2024 with Skull and Bones. The pirate-themed co-op open-world action RPG is coming to consoles and PC over a decade after it was originally conceived as an expansion for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.

73% of UK games studios surveyed by trade body TIGA are looking to grow in 2024 with only 6% expecting job cuts.

The major draw of No Return, the new roguelike game mode added to , is being able to use character players have heretofore been unable to control. Abby, Ellie, and Joel are all unsurprisingly among the No Return roster, joined by Dina, Jesse, Tommy, Lev, Yara, Mel, and Manny. While randomized gauntlets of encounters are sure to keep the game mode dynamic, it's made all the more varied by each character also having their own playstyle, complete with different starting equipment and traits.

With Diablo 4 Season 3, Season of the Construct right around the corner, Blizzard hosted a Developer Update livestream showcasing the mechanics and new features coming to Diablo 4. The team highlighted the Season of the Construct’s new mechanics as well as some quality of life and other long-term features being added to the ARPG.

For years, Neopets has had a black-market pet problem. Neopets themselves aren’t just digital pets — they’re also currency. When the website, popularized in the 2000s, got a revamp in 2007, its creators unintentionally created a new market for rare goods. At that time, most of Neopets’ pet art was updated to a new style that let players decorate their pets with clothes, props, and background art. But certain pets weren’t converted automatically, and some users opted to keep those pets unchanged. Unconverted pets only got rarer from there, creating an economy driven by scarcity.

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A federal appeals court on Wednesday ordered Apple to halt the US sale of its latest smartwatch models in a feud over patents with health company Masimo.

Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles will launch on 26th March, Wired Productions and solo developer Tomas Sala have announced, with a new demo coming out at the end of January. Bulwark is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, Xbox One and PC.

No Return is The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered‘s intriguing new roguelike mode, which tasks you with enduring various challenging encounters on a path to a final boss — all while having only a single life. Once you die, your run is over, and you’ll be forced to start over with a brand-new run without anything you collected previously. And with so much at stake, it’s important to know which weapons and upgrades to prioritize throughout each of your runs to improve your chances of survival. Here are our picks for the best weapons and upgrades in No Return.

In their quest to complete just one tab of Old School RuneScape's herculean item collection log, one MMO player has robbed the members of a notorious cult of racists 500,000 times and looted an impressive collection of chickens, shrimp, daggers, axes, and much, much more. 

Update 17/01 – It has now been confirmed that UK retail chain Game will be phasing out trade ins and pre-owned game sales through the next few months as the company is tied more deeply with the rest of the Frasers Group.

GAME, one of the last big game-selling chains that is still operating brick and mortar stores in the UK, has confirmed that it will stop accepting trade-ins and selling pre-owned games.

Large language models, such as ChatGPT, are threatening to disrupt most areas of life and work. Financial trading is no exception. The potential for LLMs to understand markets rather than just recognize patterns sets them apart from earlier versions of machine learning and artificial intelligence that have failed to achieve much notable trading success.

Sanctuary needs you to answer its call for aid in Season 30: The Lords of Hell. Starting on January 12 at 5 p.m. PST/CET/KST, Nephalem can harness the power of The Lords of Hell Season Theme, which first debuted with Season 25. For an in-depth look at the now-permanent Rites of Sanctuary and Visions of Enmity themes, Class Balance, and more, take a gander below.

The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered has a new No Return mode that brings the roguelike genre into Naughty Dog’s postapocalyptic franchise for the first time, and with it comes a bevy of unlockable characters, skins, and more that dedicated players are certain to want to unlock for use in-game.

It’s been confirmed that UK store Game will stop offering trade-ins as it looks to phase out its pre-owned stock. 

Long-time UK games retailer GAME won’t be accepting trade-ins when February 16 rolls around, according to Eurogamer. GAME’s parent company Frasers Group has officially confirmed its plans to remove the trade-in program to BBC News on Tuesday.

Diablo IV’s third seasonal event, Season of the Construct, has been revealed and kicks off next week. This time, players will journey beneath Kehjistan to battle demonically corrupted machines.

The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered‘s campaign mostly just features visual upgrades over the PlayStation 4 original, but its new No Return mode provides players with a roguelike experience within the same world. This tense and challenging experience requires equal parts patience, strategy, and quick reflexes if you want to survive till the very end. In this guide, we’ll share some things you’ll want to keep in mind while tackling No Return.

Eurogamer are reporting that UK high street retailer GAME is to end it’s video game trade in program next month on 16th February. All remaining pre-owned games will continued to be sold until they are gone.

Eurogamer are reporting that UK high street retailer GAME is to end it’s video game trade in program next month on 16th February. All remaining pre-owned games will continued to be sold until they are gone.

GAME, the UK's biggest high street video game retailer, will no longer allow customers to trade in physical video games from next month, staff have told Eurogamer.

You didn't read that title wrong, two new cosmetic bows have been discovered on the Dragonflight Patch 10.2.5 PTR, which look oddly reminiscent of a certain legendary weapon! The Titan Thunderbow and Blessed Bow of the Windseeker both feature many similar design elements of the iconic Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker, from the two-toned metal blades and spiked jutting teeth, to crackling electricity powered by an elemental core. Though not legendary themselves, it's not yet clear exactly how these items will be obtained, but they are marked as cosmetic — suggesting either the Trading Post or some kind of reward rather than a traditionally equipped weapon.

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Xbox maker Microsoft surpassed Apple this week to become the world’s most valuable company in terms of market value.

As the financial industry grapples with the shift to shorter settlement times, banks and broker-dealers will soon have a new artificial-intelligence tool to fix and prevent trades that go awry during the settlement process.

In the Dragonflight Patch 10.2.5 release notes, Blizzard has noted that players who already completed the Trading Post Enthusiast achievement will have static Gleaming and Moonlight versions of the Ensemble: Burden of Unrelenting Justice awarded upon login next week!

Hack-and-slash action RPG Last Epoch is finally close to launching out of Steam Early Access. Ahead of the 1.0 debut, scheduled for February 21, independent developer Eleventh Hour Games has detailed its unique Trade System that will be added to the full game.

Starfield's space travel is pretty simple. You open a map, select a dot, and zoom off. There's no fuel and you won't stumble into any obstacles, aside from the odd raider, but originally it was much more gruelling.

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved Bitcoin exchange-traded products (ETPs) following years of opposition—though not without stern warnings about the «myriad risks» of investing in cryptocurrency. The news was greeted with enthusiasm by crypto-lovers and has led to a minor spike in Bitcoin's value, with one Bitcoin being worth around $44,000 on 8 January and at the time of writing just over $47,000.

In 2021, the International Trade Commission put out a recommendation, asking for an Apple Watch sales ban in the U.S. as the company had allegedly infringed Masimo’s patents. Now, the same agency has formally opposed lifting the ban, which was a decision made previously by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Even though Apple Watch sales have yet to be halted in the region, the Cupertino firm only has a little breathing room before a final verdict is passed.

If you’re looking to fly around the game’s massive map quickly and want to do so more entertainingly than in a simple aeroplane – the flying bike in GTA 5 Online is what you need.

When Old School RuneScape player IcarusLives made a new character on the MMO, they had just one plan in mind: farming. Their new Ultimate Ironman account, locked out of trading with other players or even banking their own items, would be a Farming-only skiller account – already a catastrophic commitment in and of itself. Their new name? Is Farmer. Beautiful.

The Indian government stepped up its crackdown on offshore crypto exchanges operating without local registrations, asking Apple Inc. to take the apps of platforms including Binance off its App Store in the country. Bitfinex, HTX and Kucoin are among eight exchanges whose apps are no longer available on the App Store in India. They were removed on directions from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, according to people with knowledge of the matter who asked not to be identified because the request isn't public. 

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Actor's union SAG-AFTRA has introduced a «groundbreaking» AI voice agreement to allow voice artists to «safely explore» opportunities for their digital voice replicas, sparking concern among a number of actors.

After a busy roster of events to kick off the new year, Niantic has announced our February 2024 Pokémon Go Community Day event, which will feature the egg Pokémon Chansey.

Last month at The Game Awards we finally got our first look at Sean Murray's followup to No Man's Sky—and it's a huge one. In its next game, Light No Fire, Hello Games is trading infinite procedural planets for a single world, but that one open world is going to be the size of an actual planet.

Just a few weeks after its most recent round of layoffs, Unity is once again reducing its workforce. This time, around 1,800 employees will lose their job in the coming weeks as the company is trying to improve its financial performance after a difficult year.

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Following the massive success of Disney Lorcana, Disney and publisher Ravensburger are setting their eyes on another genre, as it makes the jump from trading card games to tabletop RPGs with Chronicles of Light: Darkness Falls.

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Nvidia Corp., whose chip technology dominates in data centers used to create artificial intelligence software, announced new products to help the personal computer industry lure consumers with “AI PCs.” Nvidia unveiled three new desktop graphics chips with extra components that will let gamers, designers and other computer users make better use of AI on their personal machines without having to rely on remote services accessed over the internet. The chips, updated versions of existing offerings, will be offered at a “great new price,” the company said Monday in a presentation at the CES trade show.

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January is a special time for horror fans. The holidays are over, the new year is just beginning, and the horror options at the box office are as much of a mixed bag as they’ll be all year. Some years, we get great conversation-starters like M3GAN, Missing,or Saint Maud. Other years, we suffer through another Grudge remake. But most of the time, January is a great spot for weird little curiosities like Gretel & Hansel, Underwater, or Infinity Pool — movies with tremendous bright spots that are a little too uneven to be great.

It’s a sad day for fans of pocket monsters. Why? Today, The Pokemon Company announced that its Pokemon TV app, which is available on numerous platforms, including the Nintendo Switch, is shutting down. The app will be unable to be downloaded by the end of today, and by the end of March, it’ll be shut down completely. The goal of this app was to give access to hundreds of episodes of the beloved anime series while also giving fans livestreams of certain competitions, such as for their trading card game. Here is the full statement that The Pokemon Company gave on the matter:

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The community has voiced their feedback regarding Diablo 4's itemization since day one, critiquing many aspects of its current iteration. In response, Blizzard has made itemization one of their major focuses to be fixed in the coming months. While those changes aren't expected until tentatively Season 4, we're taking a look at the problems that exist with itemization in Diablo 4 and contemplating a few possible solutions. Unique Items Tier List Diablo 4 Item Database

By Tom Warren, a senior editor covering Microsoft, PC gaming, console, and tech. He founded WinRumors, a site dedicated to Microsoft news, before joining The Verge in 2012.

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Hello! Welcome to the 309th edition of the WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-up! This week we look ahead to the War Within and how to prepare for the next expansion as well as discuss how the Work Order system could be improved next iteration. Plus, we have some useful tips for using up excess Artisan's Mettle and a good recipe to look out for in Phase 2 of Season of Discovery! My name is Samadan and I'll be your guide through the World of Gold Making!

For the first time ever, the NES version of Tetris has been beaten. It’s been done by a 13-year-old teen from Oklahoma. And that is a hell of an achievement.

Skyrim is now notorious for its longevity, selling a bajillion copies every year and having been ported to practically all machines that have some computing power. Despite the game's long legs, some well-versed players are still struggling to see everything there is in Bethesda’s juggernaut RPG.

Diamonds are the strongest and rarest resource to have in , and since it is used for crafting numerous tools, it's best to have as many in hand as possible. Diamonds are also considered the standard currency in several multiplayer servers, so using them to trade for Mending books or other items can save you a lot of time. Therefore, it is crucial to know where you can mine Diamonds efficiently.

The Kirin 9006C was recently announced by Huawei for its Qingyun L540 and Qingyun L420 family of notebooks. Unfortunately, just like the Kirin 9000S and Kirin 9000SL, the single-core and multi-core performance is yet to match what the competition offers, but that is how difficult things become when you have global trade sanctions limiting your options.

Hiring in crypto isn't heating up as fast as the recent rally the space has seen on expectations of an imminent approval of a US exchange-traded fund investing directly into Bitcoin.

Huawei Technologies Co.'s newest laptop runs on a chip made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., a teardown of the device showed, quashing talk of another Chinese technological breakthrough. The Qingyun L540 notebook contains a 5-nanometer chip made by the Taiwanese company in 2020, around the time US sanctions cut off Huawei's access to the chipmaker, research firm TechInsights found after dismantling the device for Bloomberg News. That counters speculation that Huawei's domestic chipmaking partner, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., may have achieved a major leap in fabrication technique.

Sanctuary needs you to answer its call for aid in Season 30: The Lords of Hell. Starting on January 12 at 5 p.m. PST/CET/KST, Nephalem can harness the power of The Lords of Hell Season Theme, which first debuted with Season 25. For an in-depth look at the now-permanent Rites of Sanctuary and Visions of Enmity themes, Class Balance, and more, take a gander below.

One of the last things I did in 2023 was round-up the year's crypto fails, during which I checked-in on an old favourite. In late 2021 mega-influencer Logan Paul, now probably best-known for the PRIME energy drink range and his burgeoning WWE career, began promoting a blockchain project called CryptoZoo, a videogame where players would buy NFT eggs, hatch them into animals, breed them, trade them, and so on.

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Blizzard has posted a roundup of this week's blue posts and developer discussions, including the extra 500 Trader’s Tender awarded by the Trading Post Enthusiast achievement, questions about Classic Era Realm layers, and new applications for the WoW Community Council!

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