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Rest well, Sir Patrick Stewart (1940 to 2026).

To gamers, he was the Emperor. Thank you for Oblivion, and for everything else.

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@YahooFinance @LisaSu The day AMD named Lisa Su CEO in October 2014, the stock closed at $3.28 and the company was worth about $2 billion. What a difference 12 years can make

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@Pirat_Nation Nice to see carts still winning for it 28 years later.

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@charlieINTEL Fun origin: Wolfenstein started as Silas Warner's 1981 Apple II stealth game Castle Wolfenstein. When his company Muse went broke, id Software bought the Wolfenstein name in 1992 for about $5,000. Pretty great return on five grand.

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@XBOX 21 more original Xbox games just hit PC, making 25 for 25 years. And for the first time, KOTOR, KOTOR II, Blinx, and Conker have achievements, a feature that didn't exist until the Xbox 360 in 2005.

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@NintendoAmerica This goes way back to Super Mario 64. Thirty years later, Nintendo's still giving people silly Mario faces, now with Peach and Luigi too.

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@SEGA It came from Studio Zero, Katsura Hashino's team behind Persona 3, 4 and 5, and it took Best RPG, Best Narrative and Best Art Direction at The Game Awards 2024.

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@XBOX 25 years already

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@m1kephenix @Rossy_winget damn near impossible

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@Rossy_winget Octopath

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@brockpierson

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@Pirat_Nation In 2022, vinyl albums outsold CDs in the US for the first time since 1987. Not sure what he is saying exactly

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@XBOX Kinect sold 8 million units in its first 60 days, about 133,333 a day. Guinness named it the fastest-selling consumer electronics device on record, beating the iPhone and iPad launch windows.

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@NintendoAmerica History for the 40th: Koji Kondo originally put Ravel's Boléro on the title screen. Right before release, Nintendo found out it was still under copyright in Japan, so Kondo pulled an all-nighter and turned his overworld music into the theme we know.

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@Pirat_Nation Focus, M

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@Dexerto the marketing for this movie is absolutely ridiculous

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@kabrutusdeid 10/10

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@FredLambert Hell a US Congressman was found to have been honeypotted by a Chinese spy and literally nothing happened to him. Definitely more to this than the affair(s)

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@GameSpot Better than a digital code in a box

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@pelloiafilippo The sky is the limit 🚀

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@NatGeo The Golden Records were put together by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan in 1977: 115 images, greetings in 55 languages, and about 90 minutes of music from Bach to Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode. Each one even came with a cartridge and needle so it could be played.