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Rather Than Pay $400, GTA 6 Fans Are Already 3D Printing Items in the Game's Pricey Collector's Edition GTA 6’s collector’s edition til 400 dollar indeholder merchandise, men ikke selve spillet. Fans er allerede begyndt at 3D-printe kopier af blandt andet maskotten Macca the Alligator som et billigere alternativ. Det har udløst debat om pris, sjældenhed og værdien af samlerobjekter, mens den fysiske spiludgave efter planen kun vil indeholde en downloadkode.

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Try IGN's Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Checklists for Free During Nintendo's September Game Trial - IGN Nintendo Switch Online-medlemmer kan spille Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown uden ekstra betaling fra 24. til 30. september 2026. Spillet kan samtidig købes med 70 procent rabat på Nintendo eShop, mens Steam-rabatten gælder til 1. oktober. IGN tilbyder i prøveperioden gratis adgang til interaktive kort, gennemgange, markører og tjeklister til spillets samleobjekter og opgraderinger.

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'For Revelation, the Platinum Trophy Will be Easier to Get' – FF7 Revelation Game Director Naoki Hamaguchi Says Third Chapter Will be Softer on Completionists Final Fantasy VII Revelation får angiveligt et lettere platin-trofæ end forgængeren Rebirth. Spildirektør Naoki Hamaguchi forklarer, at Rebirths omfattende indhold og krævende post-game-kampe gjorde trofæet svært at opnå, og at udviklerne har lært af spillernes reaktioner. De valgfrie kampe i Revelation skal fortsat være udfordrende, men i højere grad fokusere på underholdning frem for ren sværhedsgrad.

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'This Does Not Honor His Generous Heart' — Avery the Poké Kid’s Family Speaks Out After Scalpers Use Child’s Death to Inflate Card Prices Familien til den 12-årige Pokémon-influencer Avery the Poké Kid kritiserer samlere, der forsøger at hæve prisen på et 30-års jubilæumskort med Jirachi efter hans død. Familien understreger, at de ikke har godkendt eller tjener på salg i Averys navn, og beder sælgere fjerne annoncerne. Kortets pris er ifølge samlere steget markant efter en viral video.

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As Resident Evil Requiem Passes $500m Revenue, Analysis Shows 8.6% Sales Were on Xbox, With Remaining 91% Shared Between PS5 and Steam Resident Evil Requiem har ifølge Alinea Analytics passeret 500 millioner dollar i omsætning efter omkring 8,5 millioner solgte eksemplarer. Analysen anslår, at 48,1 procent blev solgt på PS5, 43,4 procent via Steam og kun 8,6 procent på Xbox Series X/S. Tallene fremhæver den store forskel mellem platformene, men er baseret på estimater.

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The World of Warcraft Community Is Split Between Retail and Classic Fans, and a Blizzard World Builder Seems to Have Picked a Side En Blizzard-udvikler fastholder, at World of Warcraft Forever primært bliver udviklet til Classic-spillere og tidligere abonnenter, der forlod spillet efter moderne ændringer. Udmeldingen har genåbnet debatten om forskellene mellem Classic og Retail, blandt andet fordi Forever bevidst undgår visse moderne funktioner. Spillet er i øjeblikket i en begrænset beta, mens den fulde lancering er planlagt til 4. november.

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Magic: The Gathering's The Hobbit Play Booster Boxes Are Discounted Ahead of Amazon Prime Day — Here's Why It's Worth Picking Up ASAP Amazon har sat prisen ned på boosterbokse til Magic: The Gathering – The Hobbit forud for den kommende Prime Big Deal Day. En boks med 30 Play Boosters kan ifølge artiklen fås for omkring 169,99 dollar, svarende til cirka 5,66 dollar per pakke. Artiklen fremhæver også flere værdifulde kort, herunder Gleaming Splendor, hvis tidlige markedspris ligger omkring 530 dollar.

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How One Crash Bandicoot Level Helped Build Naughty Dog En tidlig sekvens i Crash Bandicoot, hvor spilleren løber mod kameraet, blev skabt for at vise hovedpersonens ansigt og følelser bedre. Artiklen beskriver, hvordan Naughty Dogs løsning i 1996 blev en skabelon for filmiske jagtscener i spil. Perspektivet fik senere tydelig indflydelse på blandt andet Uncharted, hvor studiet også hyldede det oprindelige niveau direkte.

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Hard-to-Find Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration Products Are Back in Stock at Amazon Right Now, Including the Exclusive Eevee Promo Knock Out Collection Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration Knock Out Collection kan i øjeblikket købes hos Amazon for 48,42 dollar. Samlingen indeholder et eksklusivt foliepromokort med Eevee, en Pokémon-mønt og to boosterpakker. Amazon genopfylder lageret i korte bølger, mens andre jubilæumsprodukter som Booster Bundle og Elite Trainer Box fortsat er svære at få fat i.

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Pokémon TCG’s Final First Partner Illustration Set Is Finally Back in Stock Again at Amazon — Here Is Where to Get Series 3 Before It Sells Out Again Amazon har igen Pokémon TCG First Partner Illustration Collection Series 3 på lager til 39,99 dollar. Samlingen er den sidste i serien og indeholder starter-Pokémon fra Hoenn, Kalos og Paldea samt tre af ni mulige promokort, to boosterpakker og et klistermærkeark. Udgivelsen fuldender samlingen på 27 starter-Pokémon, men prisen ligger fortsat over den oprindelige vejledende pris på 14,99 dollar.

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I Am Very Tired of Insomniac’s Approach to Marvel Supervillains, and It Makes Less Sense Than Ever in Wolverine En IGN-kommentar kritiserer Insomniac Games for gentagne gange at lade Marvel-spils hovedskurk være en nær ven af helten, som senere vender sig mod ham. Ifølge skribenten fungerer grebet særligt dårligt i Marvel’s Wolverine, hvor Mr. Sinister fremstilles som en sympatisk mutantforkæmper, før han pludselig bliver en klassisk superskurk. Artiklen mener, at figuren dermed mister sin karakteristiske identitet.

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GTA: San Andreas Legacy Review – The PS2-Era Legend Remains One of the Most Extraordinary Games Ever Made IGN genbesøger Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas som del af en retrospektiv gennemgang af seriens hovedspil frem mod Grand Theft Auto 6. Artiklen fremhæver spillets enorme verden med tre storbyer, sømløs streaming uden indlæsningsskærme og et usædvanligt stort udvalg af køretøjer, aktiviteter og systemer. Fokus er på, hvorfor San Andreas stadig står som en markant teknisk og kreativ bedrift fra 2004.

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'Be a Better Human Next Time' — Blizzard Insists Actual Humans Are Reading Through All the WoW Forever Beta Character Names It Banned Players for This Week Blizzard har fjernet spillere fra betaen til World of Warcraft: Forever og tvunget andre til at ændre karakternavne, som selskabet vurderer overtræder reglerne. Spiludvikleren understreger, at navnene er blevet gennemgået individuelt af mennesker, og at kundeservice ikke behandler klager over afgørelserne. Betaen lanceres officielt 4. november 2026.

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'One of the Things We Learned at Launch Is Our Game Is Pretty Niche' — Bungie Admits Marathon Was Too Hard for Most Players Bungie erkender, at Marathon blev lanceret med en sværhedsgrad og en hård fejlsløjfe, som afskrækkede mange spillere og gjorde spillet til et nicheprodukt for erfarne PvP-spillere. Studiet vil gøre spillet mere tilgængeligt med dedikerede PvE-indhold, en team deathmatch-tilstand og en udvidet introduktionszone. Samtidig planlægger Bungie at fortsætte støtten til Marathon ind i 2027.

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The Next Halo Game From Halo Studios Was Reportedly Still Years Away, Before Microsoft Handed the Franchise to Activision Microsoft har ifølge The Verge aflyst det næste Halo-spil fra Halo Studios, som angiveligt stadig var flere år fra lancering. Halo-franchisen er i stedet blevet overført til Activision, der vil opbygge et nyt, særskilt udviklerhold til serien. Samtidig er Rare og World’s Edge placeret under Activisions paraply, mens Halo Studios reduceres til en mindre organisation.

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Target Just Dropped a Massive Pokémon TCG Restock Featuring Rare 30th Anniversary ETBs at MSRP—Here Is How to Grab Yours Before They Sell Out Target har genopfyldt lageret af flere Pokémon TCG-produkter i USA, herunder 30-års jubilæumsudgaver, boosterpakker og samlemærkesæt. Den eftertragtede Elite Trainer Box sælges til 69,99 dollar, mens andre produkter også er sat til priser under det aktuelle videresalgsniveau. Amazon har desuden genopfyldt enkelte produkter, men lageret kommer i korte bølger og kan hurtigt blive udsolgt.

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Forza Horizon 6 Dev Responds to 'Itasha' Car Ban Backlash, Says 'Explicit Sexual Content' or 'Sexually Suggestive Content' Is Forbidden Turn 10 Studios har opdateret reglerne for brugergenereret indhold i Forza Horizon 6 efter kritik af massevis af angiveligt urimelige udelukkelser af Itasha-designs. Studiet siger, at indhold gennemgås af menneskelige moderatorer, men forbyder stadig eksplicit eller seksuelt antydende materiale. Spillere kritiserer især de uklare kriterier og frygter permanente udelukkelser, hvilket har medvirket til en blandet japansk Steam-vurdering.

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'This is Not a Risk-Free Test' — Arc Raiders Will Be Testing a PvE Mode in October Embark Studios tester en PvE-tilstand i ARC Raiders fra 13. til 20. oktober, hvor spillere kan vælge lobbyer uden skade fra andre spillere. PvE-tilstanden får mindre værdifuldt loot, mens AI-fjender stadig skaber en vis risiko. Testen skal undersøge spillernes præferencer, økonomien og matchmakingen, men det er endnu uvist, om funktionen bliver permanent.

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Ganon Was Almost the Protagonist of a Canceled Ubisoft Zelda Spin-Off Game Ubisoft Milan arbejdede angiveligt på et Zelda-spin-off med arbejdstitlen Goliath, som skulle foregå i et nyt univers. Nintendo bad ifølge kilder om, at spillets oprindelige hovedperson blev erstattet af Ganondorf, hvilket ville have gjort ham til spilbar hovedperson for første gang i serien. Nintendo afviste dog Ubisoft Milans prototypeforslag i 2023, og projektet blev ikke til noget.

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A Cozy Dressmaking Game is Taking Over Steam and Inspiring Demand for More 'Niche' Titles Indiespillet Dressmaker er få dage efter udgivelsen nået ind på Steams top 10 over bedst sælgende spil. Spillet har fået en overvældende positiv modtagelse, hvor 96 procent af mere end 2.100 anmeldelser er positive. I spillet driver man en kjolebutik, designer og syr tøj til kunder og kan påvirke byens beboere på mere uortodokse måder.

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Xbox Says Its Share of GTA 6 Preorders Matches Its Share of the Console Market, Following PS5 Dominance Claim Microsoft afviser, at forudbestillingerne til GTA 6 er markant skævt fordelt til PlayStation 5. Xbox-chefstrateg Matthew Ball siger, at selskabets interne tal viser, at Xbox’ andel af forudbestillingerne svarer til platformens andel af konsolmarkedet. Sony har samtidig haft et tæt markedsføringssamarbejde med Rockstar, og spillet udkommer til PS5 og Xbox Series X/S den 19. november 2026.

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You Can Play the Full Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Game for Free on Nintendo Switch Right Now, but There's a Catch Hele Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown kan prøves gratis på Nintendo Switch og Switch 2 frem til 30. september. Tilbuddet kræver et Nintendo Switch Online-medlemskab og giver samtidig mulighed for at optjene 100 My Nintendo Platinum Points. Gemte data kan overføres, hvis spilleren senere køber fuldversionen. Spillet fik ros, men Ubisoft har siden opløst udviklerholdet og angiveligt droppet planerne om en efterfølger.

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How Silent Hill: Townfall Brings a New Perspective to the Iconic Horror Series - IGN Silent Hill: Townfall er seriens første fuldlængdeoplevelse i førsteperson og foregår på den forladte skotske ø St. Amelia i stedet for den klassiske by. Spilleren undersøger øens historie med en håndholdt CRTV-enhed, løser narrative gåder og vælger mellem kamp, skydevåben og stealth. Spillet er udkommet til PlayStation 5 og PC.

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Bungie Releases Marathon Roadmap, Detailing New Game Modes and More Bungie planlægger flere nye spiltyper til Marathon efter en vanskelig lancering. I december kommer spillets første permanente PvE-tilstand samt Team Deathmatch, mens en opdatering i oktober fornyer Nightfall. Til spillets etårsdag i marts planlægges en større opdatering med forbedret introduktion, udvidelse af tutorialområdet og en samlet oplevelse på tværs af spiltilstandene.

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'People Were Kind of Annoyed' — Counter-Strike Co-Creator Says Gabe Newell Got So Obsessed With Mongolian Throat Singing That Valve Became a 'Closed Office' Counter-Strike-medskaberen Minh Le fortæller, at Valve-chefen Gabe Newell i en periode blev så optaget af mongolsk strubesang, at han øvede sig højlydt på kontoret hver dag. Ifølge Le begyndte medarbejdere at lukke dørene til deres kontorer, og fasen varede omkring fem måneder. Historien er også blevet nævnt i en dokumentar om Half-Life 2.

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How One Crash Bandicoot Level Helped Build Naughty Dog

En tidlig sekvens i Crash Bandicoot, hvor spilleren løber mod kameraet, blev skabt for at vise hovedpersonens ansigt og følelser bedre. Artiklen beskriver, hvordan Naughty Dogs løsning i 1996 blev en skabelon for filmiske jagtscener i spil. Perspektivet fik senere tydelig indflydelse på blandt andet Uncharted, hvor studiet også hyldede det oprindelige niveau direkte.

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As Leon Kennedy, we fled from a giant, mechanical statue. Eleven years later, we guided Nathan Drake and his brother, Sam, as they escaped from relentless pursuers on a motorbike. And recently, we helped forge a path through a literal wave of plague-infested rats for A Plague Tale’s Amicia. Three examples from literally hundreds of cinematic chase sequences in video games that can all trace their roots back to an unlikely source. The colourful cartoon platformer that started it all: Crash Bandicoot.

The running-towards-camera chase sequence is as popular now as it’s ever been, raising the cinematic tension in blockbuster games for the last 30 years. But its beginnings were humble, and its widespread use is all thanks to the Crash developers at Naughty Dog trying to solve a single problem: How do we show our character’s face more?

From a quick-fix solution to a triple-A staple, this is how an early Crash Bandicoot level inspired decades of cinematic level design.

Boulders is the fourth level in Crash Bandicoot, and takes the average player around 60 seconds to complete. Nestled amongst 31 other levels featuring lengthy side-scrolling gauntlets, tricky platforming, and painful difficulty spikes to overcome, it would be easy to assume that a quick, minute-long chase sequence wouldn’t be a particular highlight. But Boulders was the first of its kind. Any video game sequence where a character is chased towards the camera can trace its origins back to Crash Bandicoot. Perhaps the series it informed the most, though, was Naughty Dog’s own Uncharted series, which features multiple sequences of Nathan Drake running towards the camera across the entire series, as if it were a mandatory part of a Naughty Dog game’s DNA.

Uncharted makes no secret of this fact. Long after Crash’s creators had left the company, Naughty Dog still paid homage to Boulders in Uncharted 4, when Nathan Drake was able to pick up the pad himself and experience the level firsthand.

“It’s the modern Naughty Dog playing the antique Naughty Dog.” said Jason Rubin, a co-creator of Crash Bandicoot, in a 2019 interview with IGN. “What Nathan’s doesn’t understand is that this is basically the game that led to you. You exist because of this game!”

The level design for Boulders began its journey in 1994. Naughty Dog, then a small independent studio fresh off the modestly performing Way of the Warrior, was ready to take the next step. And the soon-to-launch Sony PlayStation gave it a platform to try something no one had done before: create the first great 3D platformer.

Super Mario 64 was still two years away and under lock and key, so the genre's rules were yet to be established by the king of platformers. Crash creators and Naughty Dog founders Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin saw an opportunity to stake their claim in the burgeoning genre. They immediately got to work, experimenting with how platforming could work in 3D, but they soon ran into an issue.

The camera's always behind you. All you do is see Sonic's ass, but the front of the character is where the expression is.

“We were trying to preserve all of the good elements of classic platform games,” explained Gavin in his 2016 blog post. “To maintain a solid control feel, we kept the camera relatively stable and oriented the control axis relative to the camera. This may seem obvious, but it wasn't at the time, and many 3D games used different (and usually inferior) schemes.”

“What would it be really like to do a platformer in 3D?” Gavin later said in a 2020 interview with Ars Technica. “Imagine you're going through loops like in Sonic the Hedgehog, or you're jumping platforms or collecting stuff in 3D. The camera's always behind you. All you do is see Sonic's ass, but the front of the character is where the expression is.”

Locking the camera behind the character is now a tried-and-true method, used in almost all third-person action games today. But Gavin and Rubin were concerned this perspective would limit the character’s ability to connect with players – a thought that was particularly troubling considering the technical hurdles the team had overcome to bring Crash’s expressions to life.

“When Crash pulls his flat face out of the sand, shakes it off, looks confused, leaps up, looks at the camera and does his great big goofy smile… that sold Crash as a character,” explained Rubin. “No 2D game could afford the art, and no other 3D game had the facial animation that our system brought. And thus the main character transformed from an emotionless ‘vehicle’ to an emotive friend.”

The team at Naughty Dog knew their character was something special, and his ability to emote and react like a Looney Tunes cartoon separated them not only from the current competition, but eventually even Super Mario 64, the competition they didn’t even know they had. For this advantage to work, though, they needed to find more ways to get Crash’s face front and center.

“Our solution, which evolved over the next two years, was multi-fold,” shared Gavin in his blog post. “First, the character would start the game facing the screen. Second, we added 2D levels that guaranteed quality gameplay and a chance to see the character in a familiar pose, allowing comparison against old 2D games. And third, we would attempt the reverse of a Sonic ass level – the run INTO the screen.”

A desire to show more of Crash’s face led the developers to make their first breakthrough into cinematic territory and, ultimately, create the blueprint for Crash Bandicoot’s most iconic perspective. The angle switch, though, led to another issue. In the “Sonic’s ass” levels, players were always presented with the oncoming threat on the horizon. Despite the level of challenge, the linear path always gave players the intel they needed to progress – ensuring that any failure was the fault of the player’s ability, rather than the game design. When you stripped that intel away, you lost a core fundamental of the design. Players were now running into the unknown, so the obstacle path had to be light and forgiving. Much like other 3D games of the era, where open spaces became detrimental to conflict, Crash’s front-facing levels had, through necessity, been stripped of any challenge or drama.

Crash could not have succeeded without good gameplay. This was by far the hardest part of making Crash Bandicoot.

“In 3D [platforming], you can just go to the right and avoid [enemies] entirely,” Gavin told Ars Technica. “You’ve added a whole dimension to the space, so now there’s too much empty space. It diluted the ratio between choice and conflict. We had to figure out how to compensate for this to maintain the action pace.”

“With all our technical and art successes, the game could not have succeeded without good gameplay,” shares Rubin. “This was by far the hardest part of making Crash Bandicoot.”

“We had this realisation that basically we had added a dimension, so the simplest strategy was to take out a dimension in some way,” said Gavin. “An example of that was the boulder level: the dimension we're actually taking out there is time.”

The solution was to use time to dictate Crash’s running speed. To increase the tension, Crash could no longer leisurely navigate the path. Naughty Dog looked to cinema for inspiration, and settled on Indiana Jones’ iconic boulder escape as the device to help force the player into a time-pressured environment vital to maintaining the desired level of conflict

“All this became the legendary boulder levels,” said Gavin in his blog post. “Apeing that moment from Raiders of the Lost Ark when the giant stone ball starts rolling toward Indy.”

The combination of character and conflict gave birth to the Crash Bandicoot chase sequence. Its immediate success cemented the form as not only a Crash Bandicoot staple, but also the cinematic inspiration for both Naughty Dog titles and other developers’ action games for years to come.

But Boulders' influence wasn’t limited to presentation. Crash Bandicoot arrived at the tail end of an era of punishing difficulty. In a time when arcade was king, most casual players couldn't finish a game, and game design often targeted difficulty to drive revenue. A failed run led to another coin in the slot, after all. But despite making sure Crash had its fair share of difficulty, Rubin and Gavin also wanted to create an approachable game – one that challenged skilled players but accommodated beginners and, perhaps more importantly, children.

Eventually everyone succeeded at Crash.

“We realised that if a novice player died a lot of times, we could give them an Aku Aku at the start of a round and they had a better chance to progress,” explained Rubin. “We also figured out that if you died a lot while running from the boulder, we could slow it down a little each time. If you died too much, a fruit crate would suddenly become a continue point. Eventually everyone succeeded at Crash.”

It’s in this approach that you can see how, alongside scripted cinematic sequences, Crash Bandicoot also helped introduce another major video game design philosophy. Adaptive difficulty had been experimented with before, but in 1996, alongside the launch of Resident Evil, the background act of monitoring a player’s performance and adapting the game’s challenges to accommodate really began to take shape. The medium began to move away from punishing players for quarters to creating a dynamic experience that could tailor itself to your skill level.

Crash Bandicoot was an overwhelming success on the PlayStation. The small team of developers managed to birth a PlayStation icon who’s still celebrated 30 years later, and laid the foundation for Naughty Dog to become the renowned, elite developer we know today.

“I think we sold under 100,000 copies of Way of the Warrior, shared Rubin. “We sold 9 million copies of Crash.”

“Crash Bandicoot was really the crucible in which the Naughty Dog philosophy was forged,” said Gavin. “We wanted to make a truly great game that was gonna be a classic, and to do that, we came to believe everything in it had to be great.”

Naughty Dog exists today because of the risks taken on Crash Bandicoot. Their desire to show off impressive 3D facial animations led to a reinvention of platforming perspective, inspired a generation of chase sequences, and, perhaps most importantly, sparked Naughty Dog’s cinematic ambitions.

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