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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 releases this week, and with gaming consoles and capable PC rigs now more expensive than ever, you might be wondering if there is another way to play. Thankfully, there is, but there are a few things you need to know before jumping in. How to play MW4 without a console or PC With Game Pass: Modern Warfare 4 is not included with Xbox Game Pass this year, but if you're a subscriber you can leverage the "stream your own game" program to play it that way, after purchasing it outright. This isn't locked away to any specific tier of Game Pass, either. You can subscribe to Game Pass Essential, Premium, or Ultimate to stream MW4. MW4 launches on October 23. With GeForce Now: Nvidia's streaming service, GeForce Now, will be another way to play Modern Warfare 4 without any expensive hardware like a new console or high-end PC. Or at least we think so. Nvidia hasn't outright confirmed this, but people are playing the campaign early access via GeForce Now , so it stands to reason that it will be officially supported at launch for everyone. After buying the game outright, you'll be able to stream MW4 on GeForce Now by subscribing to one of the platform's membership

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Updated: Oct 19, 2026 6:51pm UTCHundreds of PSA-graded trading cards worth more than $100,000 were reportedly stolen from a FedEx truck over the weekend, leaving collectors distraught — and the damage is still being calculated. On October 17, a collector named SKY-B posted on Twitter/X claiming that PSA had notified him via email that a FedEx truck carrying his 104-card collection had been burglarized after leaving its Southern California location. According to SKY-B, more than $100,000 worth of cards had been taken. In its email, which SKY-B shared in a reply, PSA outlined steps it had taken to rectify the situation as best as possible, saying it had deactivated certificates for the affected items, notified its commerce partners of the stolen cards, and is actively working with both FedEx and law enforcement to investigate the theft. "We will compensate you for the items from your order that were involved, which is based on fair market value up to the Maximum Insured Value ("MIV") you selected for each item. "@natsturner, I pray you handle this and take care of everyone affected in the most professional manner possible.

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I make it a habit to watch the credits of a game I finish, both out of respect for the people who made it and to see if the developers hid any little stingers at the end, a result of our culture’s many years of conditioning by the MCU movies. And for Penguin Colony, the game that’s essentially At the Mountains of Madness by way of March of the Penguins, there was a stinger, just not the kind I was expecting. © Fellow Traveler You almost have to fan your face or take a lap outside to mitigate the heat wafting off this statement. While there have been many attempts to take the industry to task for its silence regarding the genocide—members of Geoff Keighley’s now-shuttered Future Class attempted to have the industry’s biggest hype man address the issue the way he did for the war in Ukraine, sending an open letter to the Game Awards that went ignored, and the devs of Big Walk recently explained that the BDS movement is the reason their game isn’t for sale on Xbox—this is most direct statement I’ve seen on the topic within a game. And the devs have paired these words with action by making the game unavailable for purchase in Israel.