"Fortnite" video game maker Epic Games on Monday asked a three-judge federal appeals panel to overturn portions of a lower court antitrust ruling that largely favored Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and its multibillion dollar App Store payment business.

Attorneys involved expect up to nine months before a ruling from the panel, which signaled some doubts about Epic's appeal but noted they would have to wade through contradictions within the lower court's reasoning.

In The Oregon Trail, players are put at the center of all the trials and tribulations of the journey westward. They must stock their wagon, choose their traveling party, and make sure they all arrive safely to Oregon by making tough choices in dangerous and unexpected situations. Players will also learn the real history behind the trail, including the Native American experience, which is a first in the franchise.

The release of The Oregon Trail on PC and Nintendo Switch is a faithful adaptation of the Apple Arcade version and has been created with the support of Gameloft Lviv. It includes all five previous content updates, and the latest new features include more accessibility options, events, and visual filters to see the game in a whole new way!

Get ready to re-learn how to fight. This game features a physics based combat system with directional attacks. It'll take time to master! Don't worry, gladiators exist to be sacrificed. You control your character fully, at all times, based on complex inputs - you will never sit there while an animation plays.

This game's combat will take practice: at first you will find it hard to even hit anything properly. To win and master combat you will have to slow down and pay attention, pressing random buttons in a panic will only send your gladiator to an even earlier grave. You will learn how to move, how to use momentum to hit HARD, how to hit targeted weak spots and eventually, you will make up your own moves and fight in your own style.

Call of Duty®: Warzone™ 2.0 will redefine the franchise’s free-to-play experience with an all-new way to play: DMZ, which Infinity Ward gave an overview of here. Its Battle Royale mode will also get some incredible new features in addition to fan-favorite returning concepts based on community feedback. And across all game modes, expect new strategies to attain victory through retooled vehicle mechanics, aquatic combat, and more.

All of this is set to take place in Al Mazrah, a battleground from the Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II universe. Need a full and annotated tour of the entire map? We cover that in-depth here.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's falling too fast to be either of those. It's McPixel! A wanna-be hero who keeps getting mixed up in the most unbelievable situations you can imagine.

Levels
One moment you're stuck in a speeding train headed towards the cliff; the other, you're in a falling plane. Sometimes you need to win an impossible-to-win soccer match, and the other, you're a dinosaur trying to hide from a meteorite. Stuck in a flaming house? Sandwiched between two battling armies? Certainly not a problem for McPixel! 100 levels of fast-paced action are waiting for you!

Minigames
Sometimes, the usual adventure style will get interrupted by genre-bending minigames. Ranging from racing, shooting, fighting, and sports to even platforming or FPS! The game offers over 20 minigames scattered around the world of McPixel!

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• Pentiment – Official Launch Trailer.

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• Sauron VS Lich King (Lord of the Rings VS World of Warcraft) - DEATH BATTLE. Thanks Ant.

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• Tune into the God of War Ragnarök Soundtrack Listening Party stream November 17.
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• Report: Apple’s mixed reality headset is just a few months away.
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• Twitter lays off 5K contractors in surprise 2nd wave of cuts, more mods lost.
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• AMD and SiPearl Team Up for Arm-Based Exascale Supercomputers.
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• NVIDIA SC22: H100 Quantum-2 Networks, HPC, Omniverse, and Digital Twins With Lockheed Martin.

• Windows Kerberos authentication breaks after November updates.
• Mozilla enables Total Cookie Protection Firefox feature for Android by default.
• Flaws in public GitHub repos can now be reported privately.

• Google settles location-tracking case for $392 million. Thanks Matthew.
• Musk trolls senator demanding answers on Twitter fake-account scandal.

• Popular free Superman Unreal Engine 5 demo 'stolen' and sold as $11 game on Steam…

The world of 〈LLL〉 is a vast open world in which more than 30km of land area is seamlessly connected to a single environment. The core elements that make up the open world are uninterrupted loading and movement. To convey a seamless environment, we implemented content streaming and utilized the most cutting-edge rendering technology. Content production methods are also being reorganized.

We also introduced a procedural creation method to provide content that reacts appropriately to the player’s situation instead of playing preset content on repeat within the open world environment. We are also thinking about a tool that can reflect this procedural creation method in content production while also researching processes that allow for content to be produced automatically.

The new DLC will add international competitions such as the European and World Championships to the game, along with many other features around these events. Before starting a new game, you can choose to become the coach of one more than 90 national teams - both women's and men's squads, of course.

Flat Eye is a perfectly balanced blend of management simulation and narrative-driven gameplay. As the manager of the world’s premier gas and technological hub, it’s your job to keep your station running smoothly, complete daily objectives tasked by the world’s first true AI, and develop new technology to improve (or curse) the future of humanity.

**Flat Eye deals with technology and its impact on our lives. Therefore, it might contain heavy topics not suitable for everyone.**

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• Pentiment review: a wonderful tapestry of historical intrigue, and a welcome treat for Game Pass users - VG247.
• Pentiment Review – Medieval Justice Done Justice - Wccftech.
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To put it bluntly - we simply didn't expect so much positive attention and feedback from our demo and we’re immensely thankful for this. On the surface everything seemed great. 83% of respondents rated the demo as 8/10 or above. But when we looked deeper, we started seeing things that a lot of players said they missed.

We’re now looking at a much larger influx of players picking up the game during Early Access than originally predicted. So we want to lay down better foundations for more of our core mechanics so everyone can get a much clearer idea of what else to expect from the future of Forever Skies.

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• US NPD PREMIUM GAMES - October 2022 Top 20 Sellers.
• Bandai Namco trademarks Ultimate Ninja Storm CONNECTIONS in Europe.
• The Netflix video game shows and movies currently in development.

• "Gran Turismo" Film Begins Shooting. Thanks Ant.

• Assassin's Creed: 15 Years of Assassin's Creed - Much118x Collaboration.
• New Weapon: Staff - NARAKA: BLADEPOINT.
• Rainbow Six Siege: Ghosteyes Squad Teaser.

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• The Terror Of Liminal Spaces In Video Games. Thanks Neutronbeam.
• Haven II Teaser (Garry's Mod Machinima).
• DARK WATER - Call of Duty MW2 Machinima short.

• One Excel spreadsheet was the backbone of God of War Ragnarok.

• THE GAME AWARDS: 2022 Nomination Announcement with Geoff Keighley. Noon EST today.
• Endless Delve Begins Soon - Path of Exile.

• Fortnite: Chapter 3 Will End Next Month, Finale Event Announced.
• SCS Software's blog: Cruising Texas Event.

• Xbox proactively suspended up to 4.78M accounts in just six months.
• This Holiday Season Just Got Better: Announcing the Xbox Series S - Gilded Hunter Bundle Coming November 29.
• Xbox Insider Release Notes - Omega (2211.221110-2020).
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• Xbox Insider Release Notes - Beta (2211.221110-2020).
• Xbox Insider Release Notes - Alpha (2211.221110-2020).

• Standard Fiber Optic Tech Achieves Record 1.53 Petabit per Second Transmissions. Thanks Neutronbeam.
• Trump’s TikTok ban might have been right after all.
• Amazon ads are everywhere. It’s only the beginning.
• SpaceX just bought a big ad campaign on Twitter for Starlink.
• 5 (actually good) reasons why Microsoft should buy Twitter from Elon Musk. It can be like the video from The Ring. Thanks Dimitris.
• Crypto.com sent $400 million to the wrong recipient, but got it back this time.
• Crypto.com CEO says will prove naysayers wrong amid FTX contagion fears.

• Faster 13th Gen Intel Core CPUs rumoured to launch next year.
• NVIDIA confirms there are two manufacturers of 12VHPWR power adapter cables.
• European Retailers Slap Premiums on Nvidia RTX 4080 Graphics Cards.
• If This Is the Future of Computing We’ll Never Be Able to Fix It - iFixit on Meta Quest 2. Thanks RedEye9.
• Asus Purportedly Prepping Eight ROG Strix RX 7900 Cards. Laser focus.
• How to Check Your PC’s Specs in Windows. Thanks Neutronbeam.
• Jeff Bezos for the first time says he will give most of his money to charity. Cool story bro. Thanks Matthew.
• Amazon reportedly plans to lay off about 10,000 employees starting this week.
• Dan O'Dowd is the rich tech CEO spending millions to stop Elon Musk (may require registration or subscription).
• How to organize your digital life: photos, emails, files, and more.
• Microsoft PowerToys version 0.64.1.
• Kingston FURY Updates Award-Winning SSD to Include Heatsink Option.

• Thales confirms hackers have released its data on the dark web. Thanks DSLReports via Ant.
• Exclusive- Russian software disguised as American finds its way into U.S. Army, CDC apps.

• Biggest crypto exchange Binance urges new industry rules. Or at least *some* industry rules.
• ‘Fix your companies. Or Congress will,’ Senator Ed Markey warns Elon Musk.

• Flat Eye review - PC Gamer.
• Flat Eye review: a petrol station management sim powered by the same dark fuel as Black Mirror - Rock Paper Shotgun.
• Floodland review: city-building with a focus on community - Rock Paper Shotgun.

• Case Fan: Cooler Master Mobius 120P ARGB and Mobius 120 Review - APH Networks.
• Flash Drive: Silicon Power Marvel M02 128GB USB 3.2 Gen 1 USB Flash Drive - Mad Shrimps.
• Laptop: HP ZBook Studio 16 G9 laptop review- Workstation with 120 Hz DreamColor display - NotebookCheck.net Reviews. Thanks Neutronbeam.
• Laptop: Origin EVO16-S (2022) gaming laptop review - PC Gamer.
• Microphone: JBL Quantum Stream - OCinside.
• Misc: MaonoCaster E2 A XLR Podcast Production Studio - Christ Centered Gamer.
• SSD: Kingston Fury Renegade HS 2TB SSD Review - Gamer's Edge - TweakTown.

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• How to cope with grief when it feels overwhelming.
• Pick An Apple - Apple Rankings by The Appleist Brian Frange. Granny Smith fans object. Maybe that's just me. Thanks Boing Boing.

Story

• Boeing's X-37B Military Space Plane Spends Record 908 Days in Orbit. Thanks brother19.

Science

• Success! NASA's tiny CAPSTONE probe arrives at the moon.
• Meat grown from cells without killing animals is coming soon.

Media

• The Chase - A Star Wars- Remnant Fan Film. Thanks fakespyder.
• The Moment You Realise You're In The Wrong Job. Thanks VideoSift.