Live Ammo, Solid Gold, Zzap! 64 – game collections were a staple of every gamers’ diet and are as nourishing today as they were when they were released on cassette in the 1980s It’s been a busy month for nostalgic video game compilations. Sonic Origins collects the first four Sonic the Hedgehog titles, the Capcom …
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The global market grew to almost $200bn in recent years, but such massive growth isn’t sustainable. But the industry has a few things on the horizon to console themselves Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here During the pandemic, video games have had an unprecedented boom while pretty much every other …
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Firm faces ongoing battles over workers’ rights and unpaid waiting times after drawing in drivers with huge subsidies In the middle of the national rail strike last month when demand for cabs was sky-high, a group of Uber drivers decided they, too, would strike for 24 hours. A few hundred of them marched in protest …
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Workers in North Carolina, Maryland and Kentucky bid to become unionized as criticism of retail monolith grows In the wake of a historic union election victory at the Amazon JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York, more Amazon workers in the US are trying to replicate that success with their own organizing campaigns in other …
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Elon Musk says he no longer wants to buy Twitter – but the social media platform has changed the world, made us laugh, and made us furious. We look at some of its landmark moments In April, when Elon Musk announced plans to buy Twitter, the platform’s users instantly divided into two clear camps: those …
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Scammers impersonate Europol officers, going for quantity over quality, exploiting a design flaw in telecoms infrastructure One recent summer afternoon, Christof Bock, a 38-year-old Berlin-based data engineer, picked up an incoming call from an unfamiliar number. Over a crackly line, he was informed in English that his ID and bank details had been found in …
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Fuelled by hype and hysteria, the market in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies went from an obscure niche to a $3tn industry. Then the house of cards collapsed In the gloom of an 18th-century drawing room at the private rehab clinic Castle Craig, near Peebles in the Scottish Borders, Roy, a 29-year-old victim of the global …
World’s richest man posts series of memes after legal team confirmed plans to pull plug on Twitter takeover Elon Musk’s silence over his attempt to bail out on purchasing Twitter for $44bn is no more. Early on Monday, the world’s richest man went on the social media platform he claims he is no longer trying …
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Billionaire finds platform he no longer wants to buy useful after termination of $44bn takeover Elon Musk just couldn’t help himself on Monday morning. Having announced the termination of his $44bn takeover of Twitter, he took to the platform he no longer wants to buy and mocked its likely legal response. Musk’s tweet to his …
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Exclusive: Mark MacGann says he has decided to speak out about firm to ‘right some fundamental wrongs’ Mark MacGann, a career lobbyist who led Uber’s efforts to win over governments across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, has come forward to identify himself as the source who leaked more than 124,000 company files to the …
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