Get ‘SimCity 4’ for $5 and ‘Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare’ on sale for less than $10

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Whoever said that reality is better than fiction hasn’t taken the 2018 news cycle into account. It’s really no wonder more and more people are becoming increasingly reliant on escapist entertainment.

If you, too, are looking for a way to escape reality for a little while, we suggest immersing yourself in these classic games. Don’t worry about digging into your wallet — they’re both on sale for less than $10.

SimCity 4: Deluxe Edition

In Sims, you get to live your best life vicariously through your gibberish-spewing made up virtual person. In SimCity, the stakes are higher, and you get the chance to play God. Spawn a living and breathing megalopolis complete with farming towns, bedroom communities, stadiums, airports, and universities. Design different cities and take charge of transportation through a competent integrated transit network (looking at you, MTA). You can even summon disasters like erupting volcanoes, tornadoes, and meteors — just because you can. Read more…

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Get the Acer Predator Helios 300 gaming laptop on sale for $300 off, plus a free code for ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’

If you’ve ever been around a gamer in action or have accidentally interrupted a Twitch stream, you probably noticed that they’re pretty invested in this shit. They did not come to play (well, they actually did, but you get the point) and need a lapto…

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‘Call of Duty’s Blackout mode is the first battle royale game I actually like

I thought battle royale games weren’t for me. Until I played Blackout in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. 
Blackout is a brand new mode for the storied Call of Duty series, which is inspired by the wildly popular shooter subgenre of battle royale game…

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‘Black Ops 4’ is the first truly new Call of Duty game since 2007. It’s refreshing.

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For 11 years, Call of Duty has been a safe bet for Activision. 

It’s popular, it sells by the boatload, and it changes very little year after year. It prints money, basically. But Black Ops 4, released on Oct. 12, upends that common thinking. It’s still safe — there’s a freaking battle royale mode! — but it’s not the Call of Duty many of us know.

Think back to 2007. That’s the year Call of Duty went from cinematic first-person shooter set during World War II — like so many other popular shooters at that time — to game-changer.

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‘Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII’ is leaving some fans behind. That’s the whole idea.

Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII might not be for you anymore.
When Treyarch, the studio behind this year’s entry in the series, revealed Black Ops IIII back in May, that reveal was accompanied by a revelation: No more campaign. For the first time, one o…

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