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Will Stardock's The Political Machine 2024 predict the presidential race correctly?

How The Political Machine lets you roll the dice on Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump | Brad Wardell

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 4, 2024
14 min

The Political Machine 2024 is the latest political strategy game out from Stardock Entertainment for anyone who wants to see how the U.S. presidential...

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U.S. Senate passes two kids safety bills for tech and games platforms

Posted byby Jordan Fragen
July 30, 2024
2 min

The United States Senate has passed two bills that could have major impacts on how large tech platforms, including games, treat minors under 16....

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The Political Machine 2024 simulates the race for the White House | review

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 8, 2024
5 min

The Political Machine 2024 is the latest political strategy game out from Stardock Entertainment for anyone who wants to see how the U.S. presidential...

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5 min

VersusGame lets you wager on micro events.

VersusGame raises $25M for mobile gaming platform

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
June 15, 2022
1 min

VersusGame announced it has raised $25 million in a new fundraising round. It plans to use the funding to develop its platform and staff...

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President Biden should care that no one can find the new PS5 or Xbox

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
March 1, 2021
3 min

I don’t know what you think of when you read the word “microchip” or “semiconductor,” but I think of the Cold War. In particular,...

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Invoke the 25th Amendment

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 7, 2021
5 min

Buildings can be powerful symbols when they house the seat of government power. We realized that when the mob seized the U.S. Capitol building...

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Trump bans U.S. transactions with TikTok and WeChat starting September 20

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 7, 2020
3 min

(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled sweeping bans on U.S. transactions with China’s ByteDance, owner of video-sharing app TikTok, and Tencent,...

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Twitch suspends President Trump’s account for ‘hateful conduct’

Posted byby Mike Minotti
June 29, 2020
2 min

Twitch has suspended President Donald Trump’s account from its platform, saying that he violated the streaming service’s policies by engaging in hateful conduct. The...

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The Political Machine 2020 costs $15 on Steam.

The DeanBeat: The Political Machine 2020 shows how hard it is to beat Trump

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 6, 2020
4 min

Hey, all of you folks who have been wanting a game about politics: it’s here. The Political Machine 2020, from Stardock Entertainment, arrived this...

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2020 Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) addresses the crowd at the Royal family Life Center on March 14, 2019 in North Charleston, South Carolina. Sanders received 26 percent of the South Carolina Democratic vote in the 2020 race, eventually losing the nomination to Hillary Clinton. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders supports video game workers unions

Posted byby Mike Minotti
June 18, 2019
1 min

U.S. Senator and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has taken to Twitter to throw in his support for video game workers unions. In his message,...

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