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A forgotten old co-op Lord of the Rings game has been unexpectedly remastered and re-released, and there's a promise of more to come
Aspyr has unexpectedly remastered and re-released an old Lord of the Rings action role-playing game, which was notable for having three-player co-op and parallel story about one of Sauron's powerful servants doing naughty things up north. Read more Read Full Article read more
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Xbox promises that the causes of the recent outage, which rendered even game discs unplayable, have been fixed
Xbox says it has fixed the issue at the heart of the major service outage suffered in July. Chief technical officer Scott Van Vliet, who initially offered an explanation as to why so many services were affected, promised to investigate further at the time, and he has now returned with an update. Read more Read… read more
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Smilegate will rescue Lost Ark's western servers, as Amazon ditches support while retreating from MMO development
Amazon Game Studios has announced it will no longer support the Western game servers for massively-multiplayer online action role-playing game Lost Ark, from 2027 onwards. Read more Read Full Article read more
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Meccha Chameleon has now sold 20 million copies in two months
Meccha Chameleon, the indie hide-and-seek game that launched on Steam two months ago, has cemented itself as one of the year's biggest hits. The game's developer posted a sales milestone update today, announcing that sales have surpassed a staggering 20 million copies. Read more Read Full Article read more
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Chinese Tourists Clash with Police in Pattaya After Near-Miss at Crosswalk, Try to Flee and Crash into Official Vehicle
Chinese Tourists Clash with Police in Pattaya After Near-Miss at Crosswalk, Try to Flee and Crash into Official Vehicle The Pattaya News -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- PATTAYA Chinese tourists riding a motorcycle without helmets nearly struck pedestrians at a crosswalk in front of the Pattaya City Police Station on Tuesday evening before arguing with officers and crashing into… read more
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Are You Aware That The Pattaya News is Available on YouTube?
Are You Aware That The Pattaya News is Available on YouTube? The Pattaya News -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Are you aware that The Pattaya News is available on YouTube? YouTube is the most popular video platform on the planet and offers advantages over some other media platforms; videos on YouTube can be viewed in high quality on both… read more
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Police Raid Drug Gathering at 3 a.m., Arrest 14 People in Chonburi
Police Raid Drug Gathering at 3 a.m., Arrest 14 People in Chonburi The Pattaya News -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- CHONBURI, Thailand In the early hours of August 12th, 2026, officers from Don Hua Lo Police Station in Chonburi Province conducted a raid on what they called a suspicious room, arresting 14 people suspected of gathering to use illegal… read more
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Banglamung District Holds Alms-Giving Ceremony for Queen Mother’s Birthday and National Mother’s Day
Banglamung District Holds Alms-Giving Ceremony for Queen Mother’s Birthday and National Mother’s Day The Pattaya News -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- BANGLAMUNG, Chonburi 12th of August 2026 Banglamung District organized a merit-making and alms-giving ceremony on the occasion of the birthday anniversary of Her Royal Majesty Queen Sirikit The Queen Mother and National Mother’s Day. The event took place… read more
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Pattaya Announces International Film Festival 2026 Under Theme “The Cinematic Wave Coming Later This Month!
Pattaya Announces International Film Festival 2026 Under Theme “The Cinematic Wave Coming Later This Month! The Pattaya News -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- PATTAYA, August 11th, 2026 – Damrongkiat Pinijkan, Deputy Mayor of Pattaya City, joined Pornchai Wong Sriudomporn, Secretary-General of the National Federation of Film Associations; filmmaker Nonzee Nimibutr and representatives from the Thai Film Directors Association; director… read more
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ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users
For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using Gemini every month, and that Gemini is Google's fastest-growing product ever. A billion users is a huge milestone, but Google isn't the first AI app to hit it. OpenAI's ChatGPT… read more
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As Xbox head Asha Sharma reportedly visits Bethesda HQ, workers put up red flags representing laid off staff and a giant inflatable rat outside
It's probably a weird day to be working at Bethesda's Rockville headquarters. In a week's time, on August 18th, the Communications Workers of America have organised numerous rallies across the US and Canada in support of Xbox workers, 1600 of which may lose their jobs over the next year, on top of the 1600 who… read more
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"I think that might be a misread": Thief designer on why making a triple-A immersive sim doesn't really work
Broadly speaking, it's fine for something to exist as a niche. Whatever form of media a thing might be, to fulfil a niche is to meet the expectations of at least a handful of people with a particular taste that many others don't, and I think that's a delightful thing to do. In video games,… read more