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Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War gameplay: Stealth inevitably erupts into weapons-hot action

August 27, 2020
Activision‘s Treyarch and Raven Software studios today showed off the gameplay for their long-awaited Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War, a sequel to 2010’s Call of Duty: Black Ops. In this game, you play as CIA operative Russell Adler hunting a Soviet spy who has eluded capture for decades. You’re authorized to go after the spy, whose codename is Perseus, in a deniable covert operation…
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Highlights of the unwanted Nintendo Direct Mini

August 27, 2020
Well, the rumors were right … kind of. We got a new Nintendo Direct this week. Sadly, while I was hoping for a giant show featuring first-party games like those 3D Mario remakes that the winds (and colleague Jeff Grubb) have been whispering about for months, we instead got…
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Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War arrives with cross-generation, cross-platform play on November 13

August 27, 2020
Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War will launch November 13 on the PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. But this year’s big title from Activision will be “cross-generation,” meaning players will be able to play multiplayer with each other on both the current generation consoles and with next-generation players on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X when those consoles launch. Like last year’s…
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Everything we know about Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, launching November 13th

August 26, 2020
Activision’s next Call of Duty installment, confirmed last week to be a revival of developer Treyarch’s fan-favorite Black Ops series, will have its work cut out for it. The title is following last year’s Modern Warfare, the most successful COD game in the franchise’s history, and in doing so it has to slot into Activision’s ever-evolving free-to-play battle royale Warzone while also…
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The D20 Beat: Designing Burn Bryte as a digital-first tabletop RPG

August 26, 2020
Video games have been one of the bright spots of the coronavirus pandemic. Humans are social animals, and the shelter-in-place and quarantine orders continue to keep us at home. And in most cases, this is keeping us from playing tabletop role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons or Vampire: The Masquerade. Enter digital tabletops such as Roll20 or Fantasy Grounds. These “virtual…
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