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Catch'em all: Pokémon Go game becomes an online hit in China

Gamers in Chinese mainland are increasingly upset over their lack of access to Pokémon Go, the latest Nintendo smash-hit game sending countless smartphone addicts worldwide outdoor to hunt down fictional creatures.

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Game review: Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens is very good, as far as it goes

​The Force Awakens video game is a huge amount of fun, replete with in-jokes that point out plot holes and obvious retreads – but why is it the only tie-in to the most recent Star Wars movie?

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A soldier played Pokémon Go while fighting IS in Iraq

​Ex-US marine challenges Islamic State to Pokémon battle through a Facebook post

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Join the hunt: with Hong Kong release looming, here’s your beginner’s guide to Pokemon Go

​Depending on whom you ask, Pokemon Go is either a revolutionary smartphone experience or potentially lethal fad. Either way, the app has soared to the top of download charts, is poised to pass Twitter in daily usage and has added US$7 billion in market value to Nintendo Co.

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Monster hit: Pokemon Go phenomenon astonishes gaming industry, boosting Nintendo by US$7bn

​Game developers around the world have watched in astonishment since the weekend as Pokemon Go, a mobile version of the beloved 1990s game from Nintendo Co, became an instant hit - rocketing to the most downloaded app on both Apple and Android phones.

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Nintendo shares surge 20 pct on hopes for Pokemon GO smartphone game

Shares of Japan's Nintendo Co soared more than 20 percent after Friday's surge, adding $7.5 billion to its market value in just two days, on hopes that strong sales of its new Pokemon GO videogame for smartphones will boost earnings.

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Germany remain trendsetters despite defeat

Despite the 2-0 semifinal defeat against France, Germany were the team setting trends in world football at Euro 2016.

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Warcraft wows Chinese fans

In sharp contrast to North America, where the film Warcraft got a bad rap, and Europe, where it was branded a box office failure, the film turned out to be a blockbuster in China.

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Chinese football making the headlines it craves – for all the wrong reasons after violent FA Cup brawl

Mindless episodes like that which unfolded at the end of the FA Cup match between Jiangsu Suning and Wuhan Hongxing continue to ensure Chinese football isn’t taken seriously beyond its own borders

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Thirty years on, Chernobyl disaster spawns unlikely gaming culture

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the world's worst, brought death, misery and radioactive contamination. Thirty years later, it has become the unlikely inspiration for Russian weekend gaming enthusiasts.

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A game "escapes" China to land in NYC

Locked in a cramped, dim cell, Brett Soznik, along with Annette Brown and several other team members, was trying to bypass the green laser grid that separated them from an iron gate, a potential exit.

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To beat Go champion, Google's program needed a human army

Nearly 20 years ago, after a chess-playing computer called Deep Blue beat the world grandmaster Garry Kasparov, I wrote an article about why humans would long remain the champions in the game of Go.

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5 things to know about the ancient game of Go

On March 15, 2016, supercomputer AlphaGo beat South Korean Go grandmaster Lee Sedol, in a fifth and final matchup.

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AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol 4-1 in historic Go match

​Google's Go-playing computer program AlphaGo on Tuesday ended a historic match of the ancient Chinese board game with Go grandmaster Lee Sedol of South Korea by taking a 4-1 lead with its fourth victory in the final match of the best-of-five series.

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Historic "Man vs. Machine" showdown revitalizes old board game

With trillions of possible moves, Go has been described as one of the "most complex games ever devised by man." The contest of strategy and intuition has bedeviled artificial intelligence (AI) experts for decades.

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Is Lee Se-dol the right Go champion to stop Google?

South Korean grandmaster beaten in the first game of a tournament against artificial intelligence project AlphaGo