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Troll Creates Convincing New Valve Prism VR Headset Website
At the moment we aren’t expecting any new products from Valve, they don’t intend on updating the Steam Deck any time soon, especially following the OLED revision, and the Valve Index VR headset, well admittedly it’s almost 5 years old so when a webpage for a new headset named the…
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Ubisoft ‘Hostage’ Situation Was a Fake Bomb Ransom Attempt
Yesterday evening, we reported on a rather alarming situation that was occurring at Ubisoft’s Montreal HQ. Although details were somewhat vague at the time, it seemed that some kind of hostage situation was happening at the office building with around (or at least) 30 staff members being held on the…
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Prince of Persia 6 Rumor Confirmed as Fake!
Earlier this month, it was rumored that with a domain name registration, a new Prince of Persia game was set to be announced by Ubisoft. Showing information such as Gandi.net as the registrant and noting Ubisoft’s DNS servers within the code, it did appear somewhat legitimate based on the prior…
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Nintendo Denies Switch ‘Exchange Deal’ as a Hoax
With the release of the updated Nintendo Switch console, we have seen significant improvements in the battery life which now offers improvements of up to 60-70%. Given the portable aspect of the system, this is clearly a pretty solid improvement. It would, however, have been more than a little annoying…
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Dubious Video Shows Red Dead Redemption 2 On PC
Red Dead Redemption 2 On PC Despite releasing for the Xbox One and PS4, there is absolutely no news on the horizon to suggest that Rockstar Games is ready to release for the PC any time soon. Well, technically we should add the caveat that Rockstar Games hasn’t even confirmed…
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GTA 6 Hacker Hoax Suggests Release Date In 2019
GTA 6 2019 Release Date Rumours Are Clearly A Hoax Grand Theft Auto 5, despite its age, still has an exceptionally strong online player base. This is in no small part due to the excellent and regularly updated content for the game. For fans of the series though, one of the…
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Green Moon Spreading Across The Internet Is A Hoax
Green Moon The internet is well known for being the source of several hoaxes in recent years. Most common of these is the announcement of a celebrities death. One of the more recent trends which have been circulating the internet, however, is the notification that we will have a green…
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Left 4 Dead 3 Rumours Turns Out To Be A Hoax
Left 4 Dead 3 It’s hard to believe but Left 4 Dead 2 is almost 10 years old now. Despite that, and no sequel, the game has still maintained a strong user base. That is partly thanks to the excellent mod community, but also simply down to the fact that…
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LAPD Arrest Suspect in ‘Swatting’ Hoax That Led to Shooting Death
The Los Angeles Police Department has now arrested 25-year old Tyler Raj Barris. This is for his involvement in a “Swatting” hoax, which eventually led to the wrongful death of a Kansas man Andrew Finch. Four officers surrounded the house, but one officer fired on Finch as he got out…
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British Man Charged for Terror Hoax Call and ‘Swatting’ US Gamer
Robert McDaid, a 21-year old from Coventry has become the first non-US citizen to be charged for “Swatting” and calling in a terror hoax to a Maryland-based terrorism tip-line. If convicted, he could face up to 20-years in prison for helping another American gamer Zachary Lee who asked him to…
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Valve Admits Deliberately Trolling over Half-Life 3
Half-Life 3. By now, you’d think we’d be sick of the sight of that title. Its release – or lack of – has been teased for over a decade. In the meantime, we’ve been treated to numerous hoaxes suggesting that the third game in this lauded FPS franchise is en…
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New Chrome Extension Does What Facebook Fails to Do
Facebook has been in the news quite a bit lately in regards to fake news stories after they fired all their employees handling that and going back to an automated model – a model that continuously fails. A new Chrome extension has been born out of that and it deals with…
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Official Persona 5 Site Hacked to Show Fake Release Date & PC Version
Recently, the official Persona 5 website began a countdown towards a time on May the 5th, which is when many fans expected that developer Atlus would announce the release date of the latest entry in their popular series of socially focused JRPGs. Shortly after this, a post appeared on the official Japanese…
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The Company Deleted by One Line of Code Was a Hoax!
Yesterday we reported that a man had mistakenly deleted his entire company using just one line of faulty code. Now it turns out that the entire thing appears to have been made up by the poster as a publicity stunt. Marco Marsala posted on the Server Fault forums asking for…
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Nintendo NX Controller Was a Fake – Here’s How It Was Done
Earlier this week, a programmer, claiming to be in possession of the Nintendo NX dev kit, revealed photos purporting to be the controller for the new console (above), the design of which certainly matched a patent Nintendo filed last year, and the object itself appeared of a high build quality.…
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