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When photographer Chase Jarvis coined the famous saying, “the best camera is the one you have with you,” he was revealing an unspoken truth: Even professionals carried point-and-shoot cameras despite owning DSLRs and dedicated video cameras. His message was that great photographers create compelling images with whatever they have on hand, but the sentiment wound up setting the stage for a […]
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Now that the dust has settled from Apple’s third and final fall media event, we’ve made it through all of the company’s annual iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, and Mac refreshes, toplined this year by the debut of four 5G-equipped iPhone 12 models and the first Macs powered by an Apple-developed M1 processor. Yet despite all the potential excitement that might […]
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A new patch for Among Us was released on Monday, adding some highly anticipated features, like colorblind support for the wire-fixing tasks. Now each side of the wires will have symbols, so you’ll know which ends to line up, even if you have a hard time parsing the colors. In addition to this, accessories, like sticky notes that say “DUM” […]
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Yostar and Hypergryph’s mobile tower-defense game, Arknights, remains the only gacha game I can confidently recommend to people — and trust me, I play a lot of them. Arknights is mostly a single-player puzzle game, each level of the game has at least one set solution to beat it. The characters that you can roll for in the gacha system […]
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Pokémon Go will host two Community Days in November for Electabuzz and Magmar. Electabuzz’s Community Day will be on Nov. 15, and Magmar’s will be around a week later on Nov. 21. Both events will take place from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. in your local time. Both of these Pokémon already have their Shiny forms in the game now, […]
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It feels good to be an impostor in Among Us. Ripping off your friends’ heads and gaslighting the survivors may sound grotesque in theory, but it’s actually great. And the more you play the impostor role, the more joy you can find in these terrible moments. Not even public servant Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is immune; during her giant Among Us voting […]
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When it launched in September, Genshin Impact surprised players with a beautiful open world and a game style not often seen in free-to-play games. Now, developer MiHoYo is looking to change some things that players say have become tedious after almost a month of daily play–including the way fast travel works. The changes have been announced in a blog post […]
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Like many other games, Epic’s battle royale game Fortnite is celebrating Halloween with some spooky DLC. Available now in the game’s item store are a series of outfits and other items inspired by the iconic movie Ghostbusters. You can see a selection of these items in the image below–they include outfits for your character and special gliders and axes themed […]
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Pokemon Sword and Shield’s Crown Tundra DLC is almost here. The expansion is slated to release later today, October 22. While The Pokemon Company hasn’t yet confirmed what time the DLC will go live, it did announce that the Pokemon Home service will temporarily be down for maintenance today as it receives its own corresponding update. [Update: Maintenance has now […]
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It had been a while since we’ve seen anything out of Team Meat about the upcoming Super Meat Boy sequel, Super Meat Boy Forever, but that’s now changed. Lead developer Tommy Refenes recently streamed over 10 hours of gameplay from the game’s current build, and it involves a lot of bloody deaths. The game, which we last covered in 2018, […]
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