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Unless I get a lot more complaints, the answer is No

Come up with something better for "Entertainment & Consumer Technology" then.

In a cosmic first, scientists detect ‘ghost particles’ from a distant galaxy When the sun was young and faint and the Earth was barely formed, a gigantic black hole in a distant, brilliant galaxy spat out a powerful jet of radiation. That jet contained neutrinos — subatomic particles so tiny and difficult to detect they are nicknamed “ghost particles.” Four billion years later, at Earth’s South Pole, 5,160 sensors buried more than a mile beneath the ice detected a single ghostly neutrino as it interacted with an atom. Scientists then traced the particle back to the galaxy that created it.

These Prefixes haven been added as per @RedSoxFan9 and @Spork3245 suggestions. Video Games - Crowdfunding, Sales & Deals Tabletop Games - Crowdfunding PC/Mac Technical and Community - PC Tech, Mac Tech, and PCCB

They'll get over it What color should the Mac tag be?

OK - if we go with an Apple prefix, should it go in Entertainment or PC Tech? Or should there be a "Mac" prefix for the PC Tech board (to be renamed PC/Mac Tech) and then all other Apple products (iPads, iPods) will still be part of Consumer Technology?

The update launched last week for the Steam and GOG versions of Desperados, bringing support for Windows 7, 8, and 10, plus Mac and Linux. For years, playing this game on modern systems involved downloading rando files off the Internet, installing a tool, and poking around with all sorts of settings.

@Jason - every time you create a Prefix on this board, it adds it to the cloud on the main page! STOP THAT!

The Justice Department will appeal the AT&T-Time Warner merger approval, according to a court document filed Thursday.

Stegmaier is the designer of Scythe, a novel strategy board game released in 2016, one that is beloved by fans and critics alike. He’s set to release the third and final expansion for that game, called Scythe: The Rise of Fenris, at this year’s Gen Con in Indianapolis. After spending a few nights playing it, both with friends and as a solo experience, I’m absolutely blown away. Fenris is an incredible value, and represents board gaming’s new state of the art.

Epic announced "a sweeping change" to the marketplace yesterday that will boost creators' take on their sales to 88 percent, a significantly above-standard rate increase that applies to all transactions going forward—and (this is the really good bit) to all previous transactions as well, all the way back to the launch of the UE Marketplace in 2014.

Players in the Netherlands and Belgium “will be restricted from opening containers” following this week’s patch. This will prevent players in those countries from directly engaging with loot boxes, presumably in observance of Dutch and Belgian gambling law. Trading and Marketplace features have been re-enabled in the Netherlands, as well.

I REALLY liked the couple of episodes of Barry that I did see!

I ABSOLUTELY DESPISE Game of Thrones I quit after the Red Wedding because I realized that not all of the characters were killed off Westworld is fine, but it's not nearly as "intelligent" a show as it thinks it is.

Apart from a few areas, Africa is probably at its most peaceful since before European colonialists showed up. In fact, Ethiopia and Eritrea just ended 20 years of war.

Please disregard the codes I sent earlier. Apparently @Amazon gave the wrong ones and will be sending the right ones later tonight.

Now that it owns the IP, Kalypso says it will develop new Commandos games "for all platforms", as well as release "an extensive adaptation of the existing titles for contemporary technologies and platform

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient tablet engraved with 13 verses of the Odyssey in the ancient city of Olympia, southern Greece, in what could be the earliest record of the epic poem, the Greek culture ministry said. The clay slab is believed to date back to the 3rd century AD, during the Roman era.

Now that everyone has had some time to get used to the new system, I'm open to suggestions for additional prefix tags. I know that we've had suggestions for: - Sales and Deals - Crowdfunding (I guess this could be split between Video Game Crowdfunding and Tabletop Game Crowdfunding) Don't suggest a new prefix just for the sake of doing so - think about whether it can fit into one of our already existing categories.

Dark Souls level design and tactical drunkenness meet in The Bard's Tale IV (PCGamesN) When designing new dungeon-based levels in games, there’s a single, inescapable shadow that looms over everything: Dark Souls. There’s no denying the impact game director Hidetaka Miyazaki has had on RPGs. Further evidence comes in the form of The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep, which, despite being from the other side of the roleplaying spectrum, owes some of its sensibilities to FromSoftware’s giant. The Bard’s Tale IV is a rough but compelling take on first-person puzzle-dungeons (RPS) I’ll be frank: The Bard’s Tale IV looks like what I’d expect to see if I found a DVD-ROM from 2005 with ‘Legend of Fantasy: Mages & Goblins’ scrawled on it. My every instinct, after the first few minutes with it, was to run screaming from its Bratz doll faces and onslaught of fol-de-rol. Books, covers and all that, though: underneath its soupy presentation, the first few hours of Wasteland 2/Torment: Wives Of Hans Gruber studio inXile’s latest act of Kickstarted ancient RPG necromancy are an enticing blend of roleplaying old and new, and of monster-bothering and puzzle-solving. The Bard’s Tale 4 is a boozy, sing-song world of fun (Polygon) The Bard’s Tale 4 feels like a work of love, celebrating the basic tenets of RPGdom, while providing a pleasing visual and auditory world appropriate to modern gaming. It demands a commitment to detail, and a taste for turn-based combat. But that’s what we all signed up for. I doubt those early access players will be disappointed. A few hours in, The Bard's Tale 4 is a captivating dungeon crawler (PC Gamer) Three hours into the beta of The Bard's Tale 4, I realized how late I'd stayed up puzzling my way through the labyrinth beneath a wizard's castle and thought: Damn, this is a really good dungeon. I was engrossed. For the first time, my surrounds were beautiful and fantastical: ethereal light from tall windows cutting through the haze, elaborate gilded statues lining the halls, secret passages rumbling open in innocuous stone walls. The puzzles were clever and quickly escalated from gimmes to satisfying headscratchers. While it takes a couple hours to get going, this feels like exactly the game I hoped The Bard's tale 4 would be: a proper dungeon crawler with a creative combat system that doesn't feel beholden to the past.

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Some of the very positive previews: Phantom Doctrine is much more than a Cold War XCOM (RPS) The closer you look, the less of XCOM there is to see. It’s the machinery beneath the surface that makes Phantom Doctrine tick and I reckon it’s complex enough that I’ll enjoy getting my hands dirty and picking it apart. XCOM-like tactical espionage thriller Phantom Doctrine was my Gamescom highlight (RPS) Three Days of the Condor and The Manchurian Candidate reimagined as components in a complex strrategy game. I didn’t realise how much I wanted to play it until I saw that it existed and now, I’ll be following its development as closely as anything else out there. Phantom Doctrine is a Cold War take on XCOM with spies instead of aliens (PCGamesN) This was the first time I’d seen anything of Phantom Doctrine and it was an impressive slice of game. It’s fascinating seeing the XCOM formula applied to something closer to home than alien invasions, and to see so many tropes of spy thrillers adapted and recreated for a game. How well all its systems work together, however, will only become clear when we can get our hands on the game for ourselves. Hands-on with turn-based Cold War spy thriller Phantom Doctrine (PC Gamer) One of the most promising things about Phantom Doctrine is that it seems happy to allow for both stealth and shootier strategies, as well as an adaptive blend of both (building on XCOM 2's groundwork in that respect). Being herded into one or the other for an entire campaign could get dull, but having the freedom to switch things up when necessary makes it stand out from the increasingly crowded genre of turn-based tactics games. Plus, I think I could happily connect lines of string between names on that corkboard for hours.

Barry Keoghan, best known for his work in Dunkirk and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, will star in the series as “Yorick Brown,” the lone survivor of an half-extinction-level event that wipes out most of mankind. Emphasis on man.

Cody Pondsmith (the son of Mike Pondsmith, the creator of the Cyberpunk 2020 RPG) and his mother/Mike's wife are the creator and writer of the game.

The tabletop wargame has fought a long battle for redemption.