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Quote of the day:
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt
Jokes of the day:
How do you get two whales in a car? Start in England and drive West.
I was reading a great book about an immortal dog the other day. It was impossible to put down.
Top 10 news of the day:
Banish blur and achieve razor sharp shots with your Canon camera
Rod Lawton finds ways to get the sharpest possible shots from your own camera gear with a focus on depth of field
Watch video: Learn how to achieve razor sharp shots Everyone wants sharper photos but buying a new camera or lens is not necessarily the answer. You likely already have everything you need for pin-sharp shots. Getting sharper shots often just means t… [4747 chars]
Monster Energy goes after Capcom and Pokémon Co. over use of the word ‘Monster’
Tough to swallow
In a legal battle ended as quickly as it began, Monster Energy went after Pokémon Co. and Capcom over their use of the word ‘Monster’ in their trademarks. As you might expect, these trademark complaints were shot down almost instantly. Monster Energy… [689 chars]
Retro-inspired RTS Tempest Rising debuts 20 minutes of multiplayer battling
The retro-inspired RTS Tempest Rising has debuted 20 minutes of footage from a multiplayer match.
Last August, THQ Nordic and Slipgate Ironworks — the devs behind Ghostrunner and Graven — announced their new retro-inspired real-time strategy game Tempest Rising. It’s an alternate history story about three factions who duke it out over a rare mine… [1938 chars]
Disney Plus may soon have enough Star Wars to make you love it again
Perhaps a full slate of Star Wars content can help turn Disney Plus around
Disney Plus is about to get some fresh Star Wars content and it could not come soon enough. Since its launch almost three years ago, Disney Plus has enjoyed a meteoric rise in subscribers (topping out at roughly 164.2M (opens in new tab)) numbers rig… [4009 chars]
Google killing off support for the Nest Secure, Dropcam, and Works with Nest program
By taking the burden off of itself to build and maintain the hardware, it can just focus on what it’s good at — bolstering its partners and providing a great software experience.
Google has recently announced that it’s ending support for its aging Nest Secure. Actually, I called this just the other day when the new ADT system was announced, so it’s funny timing to receive an email from Google today about some pretty significa… [3277 chars]
Steam Game Libraries Are In Serious Danger
Steam game libraries are in serious danger with a scary new update about to affect more than a million gamers.
Steam Users Are At Risk Of Losing Their Entire Game Library The Steam game library will soon stop working on PCs using legacy Windows OS. By Jason Collins | Steam, the world’s favorite PC gaming marketplace, will stop working on PCs, putting Steam us… [3011 chars]
Quiz: Can You Guess The Game From These Poor Descriptions?
Bad blurbs — Have you ever found yourself in a situation where somebody asks you what your favourite game is about, and be…
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where somebody asks you what your favourite game is about, and before you know it you find yourself spending the next 30 minutes explaining the lore intricacies of a fictional world to a person whose face n… [626 chars]
Random: Monster Energy Thinks You Might Confuse Its Drinks with Monster Hunter
The difference is that Monster Hunter is good — Here’s something we didn’t realise was going on: Monster Energy has been g…
Here’s something we didn’t realise was going on: Monster Energy has been going after other brands that have the word “monster” in them. As it turns out, this has been going on for quite a while, with the beverage company threatening legal action agai… [1038 chars]
EA Sports PGA Tour Review (PS5)
Fairway to heaven
It’s been almost eight years since EA Sports politely bowed out of the virtual golf arena with its half-hearted Rory McIlroy PGA Tour on the PS4, ending decades of dominance from the publisher — and inviting 2K Sports to take its place. But after a c… [5660 chars]
I’m one of 100,000 people who got CANCER from J&J baby powder
Lora Stahl, from Nebraska, was diagnosed with stage 2 ovarian cancer at age 35 and doctors had to remove her uterus, ovaries, and part of her cervix to halt the disease’s spread to other parts of her body.
A Nebraska woman claims she had to have a hysterectomy and was robbed of the chance to grow her family after baby powder caused cancerous tumors to form in her ovaries. Lora Stahl, 56, is one of tens of thousands of patients suing Johnson & Johnson o… [8661 chars]
