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The new Xbox Wireless Headset officially releases tomorrow, March 16, but was revealed back in February, with pre-orders quickly selling out. The Xbox Wireless Headset is still available for pre-order and stock of the item has been quickly filling and selling out in the Microsoft Store. Fans who can secure an order for the Xbox Wireless Headset will also be given an extra bonus, as long as the headset is purchased before September 30....

The world’s most expensive gaming accessory might just be this custom-made solid gold Xbox Series X controller. First conceived of by YouTuber Linus Sebastian, who runs the channel Linus Tech Tips, the project ultimately cost $87,500 to produce and contains nearly four pounds of 18-karat gold. Linus Tech Tips worked with Expert Casings, a Vancouver-based company which creates gold props and accessories such as jewelry for the film industry. The professionals at Expert Casings encouraged Sebastian to work with gold-plated bronze instead, but the YouTuber was insistent that only solid gold would work....

Zack Snyder is certainly a director of monochromatic sensibilities and he has always had a particular fondness for black and white as an aesthetic, often showcasing his work without color in various teaser images. During the hype cycle for Zack Snyder’s Justice League, the director often remarked that he was a big fan of a black and white cut of the film, teasing a second release of the film which has been trending under the name Justice is Gray....

Lady Urbosa is a powerful woman in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild who boasts an impressive resume with things like former Gerudo Chieftain and Champion of Hyrule. She acted as a mother to Zelda before her spirit was trapped within the Divine Beast. Fans have come to love her power and skill, as well as her unique features. Many have gone on to recreate this character in various pieces of fan art....

What Does Clickbait Mean? Clickbait consists of attention-grabbing headlines used for Web content to lure readers into clicking on normally uninteresting content. Many websites use clickbait as a mechanism to gain popularity via higher click-through rates. Clickbait is characterized by a highly enticing headline with a hyperlink that, when clicked, reveals a website that has content that is not nearly as interesting as the headline. Clickbait is therefore considered to be a strategy to increase the number of views to a particular Web page....

What Does ICBM Address Mean? The phrase “ICBM address” in IT refers to a specific type of address or signature used in the USENET newsgroups forums of the 1980s and 1990s. Because of a project called the USENET mapping project, USENET addresses included areas for geopositioning information (longitude and latitude) in order to pioneer some early digital geolocation systems predating modern GIS. Techopedia Explains ICBM Address Because the 1980s and 1990s were also part of the Cold War era, the geolocation of the USENET addresses used for the USENET mapping project were sometimes referred to as “ICBM addresses” in reference to Soviet long-range missiles....

What Does NumPy Mean? NumPy is a library for the Python programming language that allows for more data storage with less memory. With a multidimensional array and other resources, NumPy allows Python programmers to store numbers efficiently. Techopedia Explains NumPy Since Python is arguably the most widely used language in machine learning, NumPy represents a critical core feature of an engineer’s toolkit for neural networks and associated machine learning programs. By utilizing the library resource, programmers are able to order all of this higher-level analysis in a way that promotes efficiency....

Iconic since the franchise’s introduction, the Call of Duty games have become a mainstay in the video game industry since 2005. While the initial three WWII entries in the franchise quickly became very popular, it wasn’t until Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare where the series was propelled into video game stardom. From there, following the video game mantra of every sequel being better than the last, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 came out to even more success in 2009....

The Xbox Games Showcase revealed tons of new games from various developers, one of which is the confirmation that a new Fable game is in development. Interestingly enough, it appears that the game is not called Fable 4, which seems to suggest that the upcoming title will see the return of the franchise to its fantasy roots, after heading the Industrial Albion direction in Fable 3. Of course, the upcoming game’s return to its fantasy roots is also supported by the debut trailer, which showed villages and forests, clear signs that the game will be a medieval-style RPG....

While anime has definitely developed a strong presence outside of Asia, there are some very popular multifaceted series that have not fully migrated over yet. However, many of these have developed niche fanbases in the Western hemisphere. They have become so prominent that they birthed a niche games market. This includes Fate, the anime franchise owned by game company Type-Moon. It is a series of many different games and anime taking place in various continuitiest....

Yesterday was a big day for Ratchet & Clank fans (and a certain type of artist, but let’s not talk about them), as we finally learned the name of the female lombax who has stolen the show ever since the first trailer dropped almost a year ago. It’s Rivet, which is a nice piece of symmetry with Ratchet, both in terms of its sound and its meaning. The character seems like she’ll be getting a lot of screen time in Rift Apart, as well as bringing some new abilities and weaponry with her....

Recent figures suggest that New World is currently peaking at around 300,000 to 400,000 concurrent players, which represents a significant percentage drop from the game’s all-time concurrent player count peak of over 900,000 players. On top of that, a recent report reveals that only 8% of New World‘s players have reached the game’s level cap. While these figures do not mean that New World is in any kind of serious trouble (it’s actually doing quite well, but we’ll talk about that more in a bit), it is clear at this point that New World is starting to lose players and has seemingly lost quite a few active players so far....

Microsoft is making some big plays with Xbox Series X this year, though not just necessarily with the console itself. While the technical specs of the Series X shows the console has some very capable hardware, the changes to the Xbox ecosystem are what’s most important. Game Pass is the most prominent change in recent years, with Microsoft fundamentally shifting the way gaming fans play games. Now with the new console, Xbox Game Pass is becoming a focal point of the Xbox ecosystem....

Wolfenstein: Youngblood officially launches tomorrow and the spin-off installment in the Nazi-slaying franchise is set to deliver an over-the-top co-op adventure to fans of the franchise. With a pretty affordable $30 price tag at most outlets, may consumers are starting to wonder just how much content the game actually provides. At just $30, the spin-off game aims to deliver a thrilling adventure featuring the daughters of BJ and, although there may not be as much narrative as the prior installment, there is an emphasis on some ‘games as service’ features like Daily and Weekly quests and a progression system....

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is two weeks away, and many players are feeling the clock ticking down on them. The new expansion will offer plenty of new content, including new dungeons and raids. Players who run healing and damage classes have more leeway when it comes to learning new mechanics and fights, but tanks aren’t quite as lucky. World of Warcraft: Shadowlands will require tanks to be at the top of their game, so players are looking carefully at how their classes stand up to the new expansion....

Illidan Stormrage and the Burning Legion are up to their old tricks once again in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Classic. WoW Classic players will have the choice to venture to Outland or to move their character to a Vanilla Classic server when the expansion launches later this year. Those who choose to go through the Dark Portal will find some of the most memorable raid events in WoW’s history....

WWE’s announcer shuffle continued on this week’s RAW, with Michael Cole once again filling in for Tom Phillips on last night’s episode; Cole only noted that Phillips “had the week off.” It’s the same thing Cole said last week. This has been a recurring shift for WWE. Cole has been the one constant, but in the last year RAW belonged to Phillips, then it went to Vic Joseph when Paul Heyman had creative control over the red brand, and after Heyman was removed, WWE went back to Phillips....

Microsoft is reportedly working on a new Xbox controller designed with accessibility needs in mind according to a recent leak and follow-up reporting. An image was released on Twitter by perennial leaker h0x0d showing off a unique rectangular controller with Xbox branding on it. Windows Central is now reporting that the controller is real, and will potentially be officially revealed between now and E3. No details are available regarding the controller beyond what’s self-evident within the image....

Japan has already been enjoying the latest entry in the Yakuza series, Yakuza: Like a Dragon (known as Yakuza 7 over there), since January. Western fans don’t have much longer to wait, though, as the series’ first foray into the RPG genre will be releasing in only a few months. Originally only scheduled for the PS4, the game will now be releasing on PC and Xbox One as well and was even recently confirmed to be a launch title for the Xbox Series X, which left many wondering if it would also come to the PS5....

Once something of an unofficial mascot for Sony’s PlayStation, the Yakuza series was finally published elsewhere when the Yakuza Remastered Collection came to Xbox and PC earlier this year. Of course, different platforms can result in different problems, and while Yakuza Remastered Collection always ran well on the PC, a new patch is making it run even better. The collection bundles together Yakuza 3, 4, and 5 and updates the original PlayStation 3 graphics to fall more in line with modern games....