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Atari buys ‘Totally Reliable Delivery Service’ from Seattle-area publisher tinyBuild

GeekWire

The original Infogrames, founded in 1983, was famous in the early days of PC gaming as the publisher behind several cult-classic games, such as the original Alone in the Dark, 1999’s Outcast , and 2003’s Master of Orion III. in May 2003. Following a series of financial setbacks, Infogrames officially rebranded itself to Atari, Inc.,

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How Matrix: Resurrections Could Be Shaped By Video Game Lore

Gizmodo

When the third Matrix film, Revolutions , released in 2003, the series’ time flourishing at the box office was ostensibly done. As you well know, nothing’s ever really gone in the age of blockbuster franchise cinema, and now, we’re a month away from a fourth Matrix movie. But the latest sequel was never actually the… Read more.

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A TikTok Video Is New Evidence in a Nearly Two-Decade-Old Kidnapping Case

Gizmodo

A viral TikTok video has revived the search for Sofia Juárez, a woman who was kidnapped in 2003, just before turning five. According to a police page about the case, Juárez was taken near her home in Kennewick, Washington, where she lived with her mother, grandmother, and aunts and uncles. CNN has reported that … Read more.

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‘Tomb Raider’ escape-room-style immersive attraction coming to downtown Seattle

GeekWire

“The Tomb Raider Experience” and video game icon Lara Croft are coming to Seattle this fall in a space near the waterfront. The first “Tomb Raider” video game was released in 1996, and since then, the franchise has sold more than 95 million copies. called Crystal Northwest.

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Fraunhofer’s new H.266 codec promises to cut the cost of streaming 4K video in half

The Verge

The Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, the electrical engineering and computer science division of the esteemed German research organization, on Tuesday announced VVC , a new video codec standard that promises to bring around 50 percent efficiency gains in streaming video compression. 264/Advanced Video Coding (AVC) and H.265/High

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Amazon reveals title and trailer for new ‘Lord of the Rings’ series coming to Prime Video

GeekWire

” The series will debut on Prime Video on Sept. Director Peter Jackson’s theatrical adaptations included “The Fellowship of the Ring” (2001); “The Two Towers” (2002); and “The Return of the King” (2003). “The Rings of Power” is set in the Second Age of Middle Earth, thousands of years before the events of J.R.R.

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The Game Awards returns on December 8 from the Microsoft Theater in LA

TechSpot

The annual video game awards ceremony debuted in 2014 after gaming journalist Geoff Keighley parted ways with Spike. The network had hosted a video game awards show annually from 2003 to 2013 that Keighley had been a part of, but the company planned to scale back operations for 2014 by.