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Niantic Cresselia is back in Pokemon Go for a limited time. The legendary lunar Pokemon is appearing in five-star raid battles until Wednesday, Dec. 1. Not only does this mark another opportunity to catch the legendary Pokemon if you've previously missed it, but there's also a chance you'll encounter a Shiny Cresselia while it's in raids. Here are some tips to help you beat and catch Cresselia before it leaves Pokemon Go next month.

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PlayStation may soon release an updated game subscription service to rival Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass. According to new documents, Sony plans to overhaul its two existing PlayStation subscriptions—PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now—and create one major service that can match its competitor’s.

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As expected, Nvidia is going ahead with the launch of a 12GB version of its vaunted RTX 3080 graphics card, which is 2GB more than the previous version.

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Microsoft didn’t start out as a gaming company, but it’s been 20 years since it launched the first Xbox and it’s only becoming a bigger part of the industry. With its recent acquisition of ZeniMax complete, Microsoft is scooping up another gaming heavyweight: Activision Blizzard. Microsoft says the $68.7 billion deal will make it the third-largest gaming company in the world after Sony and Tencent.

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The smartphone wars were won by apps. That’s why we’re all using Android and iOS phones rather than Palm and BlackBerry. The number of apps on those platforms doesn’t matter as much these days — it’s more than enough. Now, some of Android’s enormous app catalog is destined for Windows. Microsoft has its Android framework in Windows 11, but Google is not going to be outdone. It’s launching an early beta of Google Play Games, which will bring mobile games to Windows PCs… eventually. So far, only a few regions have access to the beta.

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Nintendo / The Pokemon Company On top of the early purchase bonus you get if you buy the game before May 9, Pokemon Legends: Arceus is offering a few freebies for dedicated Pokemon fans. Players who have save data for other Nintendo Switch Pokemon games like Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl will receive a few extra rewards in Pokemon Legends, including the chance to catch some mythical Pokemon. Here are all the bonuses and how to claim them.

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Over the last two years, Sony AI trained a computer system to play Polyphony Digital's Gran Turismo Sport, a popular and realistic car racing game, and beat some of the world's best human competitors, Sony said on Wednesday.

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Back at CES 2021 Alienware caused a lot of gamers’ jaws to drop when it pulled the wraps off the industry’s first OLED gaming monitor. OLED panels are known for their perfect blacks and high contrast, but cost and burn-in have mostly kept them out of the PC gaming space, until now. Given these panels’ high cost compared to the LCDs we currently use, we speculated back in January that the Alienware monitor would easily eclipse $2,000, but Alienware has put those fears to rest by announcing a surprisingly low $1,300 MSRP. Although that’s not chump change, it’s the first high-end gaming OLED that doesn’t have an outrageous price tag.

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Game consoles don’t last forever, and the same goes for the online services to which they connect. If you’ve got an aging Nintendo 3DS or Wii U that you’re nursing along, this might be your last chance to grab digital content for them. Nintendo has announced it will sunset the eShops for both these devices in March 2023. The shutdown is phased and will start long before that when Nintendo stops accepting new funds for eShop accounts later this year. When the Wii U store goes down, that will also mean the end for Nintendo’s beloved Virtual Console.

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Sea scorpions don't exist anymore, a fact you might be grateful to learn since land scorpions don't have a friendly reputation. Researchers investigated a fossil that had been kicking around for years at the Queensland Museum in Australia and found it belongs to an intimidating group of predators that are long extinct.

In a statement on Friday, the museum described the sea scorpion as a "massive monster" that likely topped 3 feet (1 meter) in length. It lived in lakes or rivers around what is now the Australian town of Theodore. It's the first sea scorpion fossil to be identified in Queensland.

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