xda-developers: août 2016

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British Telecom Giant Is Suing Valve Over Steam Patent Infringement

British Telecommunications, a multinational mega-conglomerate with origins dating back to the 1800s, is suing Valve, a video game company that can't count to three.

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What It's Like To Review A Console That Hasn't Even Been Announced

Yesterday, reporter Laura Kate Dale posted a review and video of the PlayStation 4 Slim. Problem: the console isn't out yet, nor has Sony announced it at all.

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Saga Is the Best Comic in the Universe Because It Shows You How Evil Robots Jack Off

The kinkiest thing an automaton can wank to is the organic lifeform he's tried to kill for five years.

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42 Minutes Of The Turing Test, The New Portal-Style Puzzle Game

Like first-person games that challenge you to solve puzzles in room after room? The Turing Test is one of those. We livestreamed it on Facebook today, and you can watch the archive here. It starts with a cleverly-built puzzle that's not too tough, but then we hit one that stumps us badly.

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Happy 9th birthday, Hatsune Miku!

Happy 9th birthday, Hatsune Miku! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

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World Of Warcraft: Legion's Order Halls Are A Good Reason To Play All The Classes

The Druids. Nobody knows who they were, or what they were doing. In World of Warcraft: Legion what they're doing is spending a lot of time in their lush and vibrant Order Hall, the latest expansion's answer to one of Warlords of Draenor's more contentious features.

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A Newcomer’s Take On The Witcher 3

As we've established, many on our staff adore The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. We've written tons of articles about the game , and several of us have played it all the way through more than once. Our EIC Stephen Totilo, however, is still only a little ways into his first playthrough.

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Nine Players Who Kicked Ass In Battlefield 1's Beta

Battlefield 1's beta is in progress on Playstation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Players are showing off some amazing snipes, clutch artillery shots, and outright unbelievable engagements. Here are nine players pulling of some of my favorite moments so far.

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Deadspin Here Is A Nice Story, I Hope You Will Enjoy It Because Most Everything Else Is Awful | Jeze

Deadspin Here Is A Nice Story, I Hope You Will Enjoy It Because Most Everything Else Is Awful | Jezebel Athleisure Is Not For You | Gizmodo Cordcutting Isn't a Bargain Anymore | The Concourse Donald Trump Is In Mexico |

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72 Hours in Model Horse Mecca

Horses are the one inescapable fact of Lexington, Kentucky—home to BreyerFest, the model horse Comic-Con, an annual convention for one of the last hobbies nearly untouched by culture at large.

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The Division Is All The Way Down to $25, Today Only

Tom Clancy's The Division is far from a perfect game , but if you've been waiting for a decent price drop to pick up a copy, Amazon's knocked it down to $25 on all platforms, today only.

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A Year Later, One Mario Maker Player Is Still Trying To Make The Hardest Level Ever

Francis Travers spent has spent over 650 hours creating, and then trying to beat, a single level in Mario Maker. Travers' ambition is to create the most challenging Mario level ever, even if it means spending 2016 trying to best a creation that may actually be impossible.

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Come On Buddy, You Can Do It

You can stand on the bridge. I believe in you!

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EpiPen Tycoon Pokes Fun At The Dark Reality of Pharmaceutical Controversies

There are only three controls in EpiPen Tycoon. You can increase the price of an EpiPen by $5, reduce it by $5, or, in the rare occasions that the public gets too mad at you, deploy a few outrage-deflating special bonuses. The goal is simple: you, Heather Bresch, are the CEO of Mylan. You want to make as much money as possible by selling EpiPens. If your customers die, they die.

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Postal 2 Update Opens Secret Area That Was Closed For 13 Years

Postal 2, a 2003 PC game known for open-ended design and "offensive" humor that ran the gamut from wannabe-South-Park to downright ugly, recently did something pretty clever.

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Furthering its commitment to working with the community to make a better game, Ubisoft announced tod

Furthering its commitment to working with the community to make a better game, Ubisoft announced today that a public test server for The Division will soon launch on PC.

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Four Sided Fantasy Cleverly Changes How Sidescrollers Work

Four Sided Fantasy as a puzzle game by Ludo Land all about redefining boundaries. It is out now on the Playsation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Mac. Giving the player the ability to lock the screen in place, they can wrap around, fall upwards, and change what it means for a screen to end.

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These Are the 10 Most Hated Reddit Posts of All Time

There are many ways to organize posts on Reddit, but none that reveal the most despised content to ever grace the site. Cornell student Horace He has sought to change that with his site notreddit.top. The site takes data from Reddit itself and finds the posts that have been downvoted to oblivion.

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These Are Your Five Favorite Desktop Computer Speakers

Nearly 200 of you sounded off in the nomination round to help us find your five favorite computer speaker systems. But there can only be one, so check out the nominees, vote at the bottom of the post, and turn up the volume in the comments to stump for your pick.

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The Highs And Lows Of VR Gaming, Five Months In

It remains frustratingly difficult to convey what is good or interesting about new VR games, especially to anyone who hasn't already played games while wearing virtual reality goggles. New VR games come out weekly, many of them not so great. Sometimes, though, we find a game with a spark of promise we need to tell you about.

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Filming for the live-action Fullmetal Alchemist adaptation has wrapped up, Crunchyroll reports.

Filming for the live-action Fullmetal Alchemist adaptation has wrapped up, Crunchyroll reports. Will the Italy-shot Warner Brothers film do justice to one of the best anime of all time? We'll find out next year.

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Over 81,000 Falling Dominoes Recreate the Greatest Super Mario Game of All Time

The greatest Super Mario game of all time (you're simply wrong if you think otherwise) finally gets the domino tribute it deserves. YouTube's TheDominoKing spent an entire month setting up 81,032 dominoes to display scenes from Super Mario World as they topple.

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R.L. Stine Would Probably Love New Text Adventure The House Abandon

Choose-your-own-adventure Goosebumps novels were so frustrating. Some fancy has me kicking open the locked door (it was locked for a reason) only for a thrashing beast to tear me down. Flip back to page 37. But the relief of finding the truest route was worth every false start. Today, I played a classically-styled horror text-adventure game like that: The House Abandon.

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