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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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World of Tanks: Blitz arrives as crossplay free-to-play game on the Switch

August 27, 2020
Wargaming has launched World of Tanks: Blitz, its free-to-play multiplayer mobile game, today on the Nintendo Switch. The announcement represents a first for collaboration between Nintendo and Wargaming, as well as Blitz’s first console appearance. World of Tanks: Blitz has seen 137 million downloads over the past six years on iOS, Android, and the PC. And the Switch version will have cross-play…
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Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War will have Zombies and Warzone’s Chapter 2

August 27, 2020
Call of Duty fans need not panic. Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War will have the popular Zombies mode and content that will kick off Chapter 2 in Call of Duty: Warzone, the franchise’s popular free-to-play battle royale game. Treyarch co-head Dan Bunting said in a press briefing that they will detail the Zombies mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War at a later date. Meanwhile, he said…
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Apple’s iOS 13.7 will enable app-free COVID-19 exposure notifications

August 27, 2020
When Apple and Google debuted their jointly developed COVID-19 exposure notification system, some of the underlying infrastructure was integrated into their iOS and Android operating systems, but key pieces — including receipt of actual exposure notifications — depended on geographically specific apps to be released by countries or individual states. That’s about to change somewhat when…
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