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Board game publisher Fantasy Flight Games is starting a video game development studio called Fantasy Flight Interactive.

The news came in a post on Fantasy Flight Games’ website, where details were revealed about the new studio. Fantasy Flight Games has developed a number of licenced board games, includes ones based on XCOM, Star Wars, Fallout, and more.

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In what might be the most inevitable news story of the week, the newly launched PC version of Destiny 2 has already been datamined. As a result, we’ve gotten some hints of what might be to come in future updates or DLC expansions for the game, though there’s no guarantee any of it will ever happen. [Possible Destiny 2 DLC spoilers ahead.]

As uncovered by Reddit user TheEcumene, thousands of files have been uncovered that relate to things not yet in the live version of Destiny 2. This primarily consists of voicelines, which reference a wide variety of things. For instance, there is talk about the Patrol zones from the original Destiny, as well as Black Garden and Vault of Glass, which has players speculating about their possible return in Destiny 2. Phobos and Mercury are also discussed, with the former sounding like it could become a Patrol zone, according to TheEcumene. Remember that a previous report suggested Mercury would serve as the key new location in the game’s first DLC, Curse of Osiris.

Elsewhere in the files, new worlds Ganymede and the Myriad are mentioned, and Osiris will apparently be coming to the Tower (and Shiro will head to Mercury). Bungie has already suggested we’ll see the return of some limited-time events from the original Destiny–The Dawning is coming up–and these files point to returns for others, such as Crimson Days, Festival of the Lost, and Sparrow Racing League. Players may also have the chance to head to the Reef again and take part in the Prison of Elders activity, with the names of Petra and Variks coming up.

You can check out everything for yourself in this Reddit post, provided you don’t mind having future content potentially spoiled. Just be aware that none of this may actually end up in the game–plans change and are scrapped, so the existence of any of these files doesn’t mean anything on its own.

Concussed? Tore a quad? These wrestlers kept going.

For an athletic endeavor that critics deride as fake, professional wrestling exacts quite a toll on performers’ bodies. A body slam onto an unforgiving, hard mat will hurt, no matter how well the victim lands or rolls, and no matter how “ready” he or she is to get slammed in the first place.

Injuries happen—real injuries that require time off, surgery, or a series of concussion tests. Usually, those injuries occur during a match, in front of a live audience and television cameras. And rather than stop the match, most wrestlers would rather finish what they started and work through the pain.

Here are 10 WWE wrestlers who were injured, sometimes severely, and still managed to finish their matches. “Tough” is an understatement in these cases.

John Cena’s torn right pectoral tendon

Monday Night Raw, Oct. 1 2007

Sometimes, the moves that injure wrestlers are the ones that are least expected. Cena tore his right pectoral tendon not from lifting the Big Show or from falling off a ladder. He tore it while doing a basic arm drag on Mr. Kennedy. For the rest of the match, Cena fought with one arm, as he cradled and dangled the injured limb by his side.

It was an unfortunate situation, but it was arguably worse for Mr. Kennedy, who was quickly becoming an unpopular presence backstage. Randy Orton would later accuse Kennedy of botching a back body drop, and WWE fired him.

Cesaro’s impacted teeth

No Mercy, Sept. 24 2017

Here’s an injury that happened quite recently. A month ago at No Mercy, Cesaro started bleeding from the mouth after being flung, face-first, into the ring post. When the camera zoomed in, there saw a gap where his front teeth should have been. Everyone assumed that he had his teeth knocked out. No big deal, in the big scheme of things. Jeff Hardy’s lost a tooth. Natalya’s lost a tooth. But Cesaro’s injury was actually worse.

You see, the teeth didn’t come out; the teeth went in, into Cesaro’s gum line, which sounds even more painful than the former. This type of injury would later require dental surgery. But after a consultation with the ring doctor and a brief respite in his corner, Cesaro was back in the match, which actually stole the show that evening. And on a fight card that included Cena vs. Roman Reigns and Lesnar vs. Braun Strowman, that’s no easy thing to do.

Sting’s cervical spinal stenosis

Night of Champions, Sept. 20 2015

Have you noticed that Seth Rollins doesn’t do his buckle/barricade bomb nearly as often as he used to? Well, you wouldn’t do as much either if it severely injured and retired the legendary Sting.

Sting took the buckle bomb twice in the same match at Night of Champions. His body went numb, and he collapsed in the ring; he had trouble standing back up. After a brief rest in the corner, Sting gathered enough energy to continue. He and Rollins wrestled for a couple of minutes, and Rollins got the improvised roll-up victory to end things early.

Sting would later say that despite his injury, his main focus was to get Rollins over. It’s an old school tradition; when a wrestler gets close to retirement, he or she should lose important matches to the younger talent, and pass the torch. He would be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame the following year, and he announced his retirement from competition during his acceptance speech.

‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin’s nerve damage and bruised spinal cord

SummerSlam, August 3 1997

This one is a little tough to watch. Owen Hart performs a real piledriver on Steve Austin by accident, driving his head and neck into the mat. The move damaged Austin’s nerves and bruised his spinal cord; for a few seconds, Austin was paralyzed. It took all of his remaining strength to crawl towards Hart and roll him up for the improvised win.

This incident led Austin to change his fighting style. He transformed from a more technical wrestler into to an all-out brawler. The incident also shortened Austin’s career; his neck and spinal cord would never fully recover.

Finn Balor’s dislocated shoulder and labrum tear

SummerSlam, August 21 2016

Almost a year after the buckle bomb sent Sting into retirement, Rollins performed the move again in his title match against Finn Balor at SummerSlam 2016. He threw the Demon King into the outside barrier, dislocating his shoulder.

Balor not only finished the match, but popped his arm back into its socket in order to do so. He became the inaugural universal champion, but during his post-match celebration, you could tell that something was wrong with him. He couldn’t lift his arm all the way to do his signature demon pose.

The following day, the worst was confirmed; Balor needed months to recover from his injury, and Raw General Manager Mick Foley stripped him of the title in the middle of the ring.

Eddie Guerrero’s massive blood loss

Judgment Day, May 16 2004

Blading is when a wrestler intentionally cuts his forehead, usually with a razor blade, so that he can bleed during a match. Done properly, blading creates a slight trickle of blood, resulting in a “crimson mask.”

But at Judgment Day in 2004, WWE champion Eddie Guerrero bladed too deeply, and the blood came pouring out of him in a massive gush. There was so much blood that pools of it collected in the ring. And after the match, Eddie went into shock and had to be rushed to the hospital, where he received IV bags to replenish his fluids.

Mick Foley’s concussion, dislocated jaw, dislocated shoulder, bruised kidney, and broken teeth

King of the Ring, June 28

Mick Foley’s Hell in a Cell match versus The Undertaker stands in a category of its own. There is no other match like it, and that’s the way it ought to be. Any average man would have died in this match, but Mick Foley is no ordinary man.

First, he fell off the roof of the cell, Then he fell through the cell, after climbing back onto the roof for more punishment. The latter fall was the worse of the two, because it was not planned. Foley went unconscious after hitting his head on the steel chair in the ring, and he aspirated a tooth into his sinus cavity. And that was before he got choke slammed onto a pile of thumbtacks. To this day, Foley says that doesn’t remember most of the match. He didn’t even remember getting slammed on the thumbtacks until he got backstage, and Undertaker pointed out that they were stuck in his arm.

Triple H’s torn quadriceps

Monday Night Raw, May 21 2001

On Raw in 2001, Triple H was involved in a tag team match that pitted him and Steve Austin against Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit. During the match, The Game tore his quadriceps muscle off the bone. He hobbled about for the rest of the match, trying to keep weight off of his leg. Despite this, he still allowed himself to be locked into the Walls of Jericho submission hold, which put even more strain on his already injured leg. Talk about a pain threshold.

Triple H needed physical rehabilitation, and he faced the idea of early retirement. But when he finally returned on Raw eight months later, the audience went crazy, and Triple H fed off that energy. He won the undisputed championship at WrestleMania X8 later that year.

John Cena’s broken nose

Monday Night Raw, July 27 2015

Cena has always been physically resilient, with an incredible threshold for pain. And when Seth Rollins’ knee broke Cena’s nose during their main event match on Raw, he showed the WWE Universe why he’s been The Guy for so long.

After holding his nose and shaking off the pain for about a minute, Cena completed the entire, lengthy match without losing a single step. And in between every major spot, the ring doctor was there, mopping up blood and trying, in vain, to stop the bleeding. The following week, Rollins, who was playing the heel, showed a photo of Cena’s broken face on the Titantron to mock him. It only served to emphasize how tough Cena truly is.

Brock Lesnar’s concussion

WrestleMania 19, March 30 2003

Brock Lesnar was, and is, a freak of nature. The man is the size of a Buick, but he moves like someone who is 150 pounds lighter. He’s mostly known for his incredible strength, but when he was still training in developmental promotion Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), he mastered the Shooting Star Press. Yes, you read that right. A 250+-pound heavyweight was able to do a mid-air backflip off the top rope and land in a face-down splash. If you haven’t seen Lesnar pull it off successfully, you should. He flies halfway across the ring. But he stopped doing the risky move once he moved up to the main roster in 2002.

Fast forward to WrestleMania XIX, where Kurt Angle was fighting Lesnar in the main event. And Angle, eager to create a “WrestleMania moment,” suggested to Lesnar that he finish the match with the shooting star press. Lesnar agreed. And on the biggest stage, in the biggest match of his career, Lesnar botched the move for the first and only time. He slipped on the rope, under-rotated, and landed on his head, giving himself a severe concussion in the process.

From there, a glassy-eyed Lesnar improvised the finish. He got to his feet, delivered an F-5, scored the pin, and collapsed in the corner. It’s a small miracle that Lesnar didn’t paralyze himself from the neck down. But Lesnar retained consciousness, so it worked out in the end. The Beast became WWE champion, and his missed shooting star press became the subject of multiple highlight reels for years to come.

Editor’s Note: List last updated October 25, 2017.

When we look back at the last 10 years (from October 2007 to October 2017), we see continuing proof that the PC is the most diverse gaming platform ever created. This platform has not only the most games but also the most different types of games you’ll find anywhere. Picking our top 25 best and most memorable experiences from that time was a huge challenge, but IGN’s panel of experts — including James Duggan, Chloi Rad, Miranda Sanchez, Steve Butts, Tom Marks, and Dan Stapleton — have compiled a list that represents our collective thoughts on the decade’s highlights.

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Microsoft has confirmed that it is no longer manufacturing the Xbox Kinect accessory, with Alex Kipman (creator of the Kinect) and Matthew Larsen (GM of Xbox Devices Marketing) confirming the news in an interview with Co.Design.

Microsoft will continue to support customers who bought Kinect, but it’s unclear whether developer tools will remain supported.

Originally released for the Xbox 360 back in 2010, the Kinect was designed to change the way gamers approached game, by using a depth sensor and in-built microphones to allow players to control the Xbox’s functions through their body or their voice, providing more accessibility for gamers and encouraging Xbox users to get up off their coach and have a more interactive experience.

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Microsoft’s Kinect sensor, which sold millions across its Xbox 360 and Xbox One iterations but was often criticized, is officially dead. Ahead of its next earnings report later this week, the company has revealed that it has put an end to manufacturing of the device, meaning those still sitting on store shelves will be the last ones available for purchase.

The news was shared by Kinect creator Alex Kipman and Xbox Devices Marketing GM Matthew Lapsen in an interview with Fast Company. Support for the device will continue, so there’s no need–at least in the short term–to worry if you’re someone who still enjoys playing the odd game that uses it or pausing Netflix with a voice command.

This comes as little surprise. Originally launched partway through the Xbox 360’s life cycle, Kinect sold millions and opened the platform to new types of games, like Dance Central. Microsoft then decided to make it a mandatory part of the Xbox One package, driving up the price of the system at launch to $500. It would later be made optional, allowing Microsoft to bring the price down and attempt to appeal to those with no interest in voice controls or motion sensors, though seemingly too late for the system to catch up to Sony’s competing PS4 in terms of sales.

If it had not already been clear, the future of Kinect came into focus when Microsoft released the Xbox One S, the first new iteration of Xbox One. The system revision lacked the necessary port for Kinect, necessitating the use of an adapter for those who still had one laying around. Similarly, the upcoming Xbox One X lacks an integrated Kinect port.

Kinect’s non-gaming applications have proven to arguably be more useful, even providing medical uses. And while the device itself may now effectively be dead, the technology behind it will live on, as aspects of it are used to power Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality device.

Bandai Namco has released another new trailer and batch of screenshots for Dragon Ball FighterZ. This video focuses on one of the game’s newly revealed characters, the Saiyan general Nappa.

As V-Jump magazine detailed, Nappa has a few unique tricks in his repertoire, which are shown off in the new trailer. The burly Saiyan can plant Saibamen, which will sprout and help him in battle. He can also fire a powerful beam blast from his mouth. You can take a look at Nappa in action below.

Additionally, Bandai Namco has shared a new batch of screenshots for Captain Ginyu, the other new character revealed in the most recent issue of V-Jump magazine. The images show off the flamboyant warrior’s own unique arsenal of skills, such as his signature Body Change ability. You can also see a screenshot of Ginyu Force members Jeice and Recoome fighting alongside Ginyu in battle, similar to the way Android 17 can momentarily join Android 18 for certain attacks.

Dragon Ball FighterZ releases for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on January 26, 2018. Players who pre-order the game digitally from the PlayStation or Xbox Stores will get early access to the Dragon Ball FighterZ open beta, though Bandai Namco has yet to announce timing details for the beta. Dragon Ball FighterZ producer Tomoko Hirok recently revealed some new details about the game’s story mode and its original character, Android 21.

It’s the end of the world, and Thor feels fine! Well, maybe not, at least not if the trailers for the truly exciting-looking Thor: Ragnarok are any indication, but as the apocalyptic event that signals the end of Asgard and everything else looms in the MCU, let’s find out just what “Ragnarok” means!

Over the years, this quintessential element of Asgardian legend has played a background role in the unfolding story of the Marvel hero and his fellow warriors, at times galvanizing them into action to try to preserve the status quo and stop the destruction of all they know and love. But where did it all begin? We’ll do our best to dial it all back, but it’s important to note that we’re dealing with an endless cycle here. Brace yourself for confusion, True Believers! Spoilers from the comics follow…

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Warner Bros. will publish an “updated” retail version of Rocket League when it hits stores this holiday season, Psyonix announced today.

This retail release, which will be available for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, will be an updated version of the hit game, though specific details on its content “will be confirmed at a later time.”

Psyonix Vice President Jeremy Dunham called Warner Bros. “the ideal partner to help push Rocket League to another level.” Dunham notes he was “impressed” with the publisher after previously teaming up for Rocket League’s Batman v Superman DLC.

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