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Today is May 24, 2020
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'The CEO's kid played Assassin's Creed.'
Just 5 days before the game was set to launch, Ubisoft developers sprinted to cram-pack the first Assassin's Creed game with a variety of side missions. The son of the CEO of Ubisoft played the game and was bored by the main gameplay, forcing the studio to drop everything and spin up all sorts of new content before release. Because of this, the franchise starter is filled with flag collecting and assassination missions with no bearing on the plot, some of which were buggy due to the rush job.
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Animal Crossing hacker gives out free Raymond villagers to fight black market
Ok, this one is WILD. We're going to try and break it down for you.

In a dystopian twist, Animal Crossing players are caging up their villagers and selling them to the highest bidders. (And you all thought ) To undermine this virtual villager trafficking, a man by the name of is running a hacked version of the game to create multiple copies of villagers and distributing them for free.

In essence, he is illegally cloning villagers and flooding the black market, driving down their value in the hopes of shutting down the shameful service. Talk about gaming the economy.
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