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Magic: The Gathering at NYCC Live Blog – Get Ready for Darkhold Destiny Wizards of the Coast har annonceret Darkhold Destiny, et nyt Marvel-sæt til Magic: The Gathering under Universes Beyond-brandet. Afsløringen fandt sted i forbindelse med New York Comic Con, men kortene og sættets konkrete mekanikker er endnu ikke offentliggjort. IGN beskriver sættet som en mere original fortolkning af Marvel-universet, der passer bedre til Magic-verdenen end tidligere crossover-sæt.

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Gears of War: E-Day Sales Start Soft as Analyst Warns Game Pass Is 'Cannibalizing' Premium Revenue on Xbox En analyse fra Alinea Analytics anslår, at Gears of War: E-Day solgte omkring 230.000 eksemplarer på PC og Xbox i den første uge. Tallet er ikke bekræftet af Microsoft og omfatter 168.000 Steam-salg samt 62.000 salg i Xbox-økosystemet. Samtidig skulle cirka 1,7 millioner have spillet via Game Pass, hvilket ifølge analysen har flyttet interessen fra køb til abonnementer.

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'Scrib Doon!' — LucasFilm Games Producer Responds after Galactic Racer Character Biddy Blas Goes Viral Figuren Biddy Blas fra Star Wars: Galactic Racer er blevet viral på sociale medier på grund af sin overdrevne stemmeskuespil og komiske dialog. Lucasfilm Games-producent Craig Derrick har reageret på den store opmærksomhed og takket fans for interessen. Figuren kan blandt andet narre spillere med en eksplosiv gave, mens spillets multiplayer-grænse snart bliver udvidet.

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'We Are Not Against Creativity' — Skate Developer Addresses Community Mods After ReSkate Goes Viral Skate-udvikleren Full Circle anerkender fan-modifikationer efter den store interesse for ReSkate, en uofficiel platform med offline-spil, private servere og brugerskabte baner. Studiet vil dog slå ned på mods, der omgår betalt indhold eller udnytter uudgivne funktioner. Samtidig arbejder Full Circle på officielle værktøjer, der skal give spillerne større frihed til at skabe indhold.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Launch Rollout Adds DMZ Early Access Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 giver forudbestillere tidlig adgang til både kampagnen og den genarbejdede DMZ-spiltilstand. Kampagnen åbner 16. oktober, DMZ følger 20. oktober, mens den fulde lancering finder sted 23. oktober på pc og konsoller. Infinity Ward beskriver DMZ som en mere omfattende extraction shooter med vedvarende progression i det åbne område Hajin Exclusion Zone.

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October’s Humble Choice Lineup Is Officially Live, Featuring Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Psychonauts 2, and 6 More Games Humble Choice’ens oktoberudvalg 2026 er lanceret med otte pc-spil til 14,99 dollar om måneden. Pakken inkluderer blandt andet Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Psychonauts 2 og Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor. Medlemskabet giver også en gratis måned med IGN Plus, rabatter i Humble-butikken og et bidrag til velgørenhedsorganisationen Hilarity for Charity.

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'It's Not an Industry Secret' — Wardogs Dev Holding Back Certain Features Because of Xbox Series S, but Working to 'Very Low-End Hardware' Has Its Benefits Udvikleren Bulkhead siger, at Xbox Series S begrænser, hvilke funktioner der kan tilføjes til Wardogs, blandt andet dynamisk vejr, fordi konsollens ydeevne sætter en nedre grænse. Samtidig har arbejdet med den svagere hardware gjort det lettere at optimere spillet til mindre kraftige pc’er. Wardogs kommer først til konsoller i 2028, mens sæson 2 lanceres 15. oktober.

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Wardogs Season 2 Adds a New Gambling Mechanic That Lets You Bet on Yourself — Here's How It Works Wardogs Season 2 lanceres 15. oktober med blandt andet et nyt vejrsystem og regn i kampene. En ny Wager Vendor-mekanik lader spillere satse på egne præstationer, eksempelvis et bestemt antal drab eller genoplivninger, med mulighed for store gevinster eller tab. Funktionen bliver dog først tilgængelig, når spillerne har opbygget nok penge i spillet.

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'It Should Just Be More Performance' — Wardogs Dev Says PS6 and Xbox Project Helix Ports Should Be Relatively Straightforward Udvikleren Bulkhead forventer, at Wardogs relativt enkelt kan bringes til Sonys kommende PlayStation 6 og Microsofts Project Helix. Studiet planlægger en konsoludgave af spillet til 2028 og er allerede i dialog med platformsejerne. Wardogs er i øjeblikket tilgængeligt på PC i early access, mens sæson 2 lanceres i næste uge med blandt andet regn som ny gameplayfunktion.

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'There Is a Genuine PR Issue With Lonestar' — Wardogs Dev Explains Why Blue Team Loses More, Confirms Plan to Address the Balance in Season 2 Udvikleren Bulkhead erkender, at det blå hold Lonestar i Wardogs taber markant oftere end de øvrige hold. Holdets sejrsrate er dog steget fra cirka 10 procent i alfaen til omkring 20 procent efter lanceringen. I sæson 2 flyttes alle holds spawnområder på Bakurani, mens Lonestar også får blandt andet erfarings- og pengebonusser. Sæsonen lanceres 15. oktober.

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'It Completely Changes the Game' — Wardogs' New Rain System Will Have a Major Effect on Gameplay in Season 2 Wardogs’ anden sæson lanceres 15. oktober og introducerer regnvejr som en fast del af udvalgte kampe. Regnen reducerer sigtbarheden, gør kortet mørkere, dugger vinduer til og kan med torden maskere skud og andre lyde. Udvikleren Bulkhead forventer, at ændringerne vil påvirke spillestile markant, mens yderligere vejrtyper som sne og nattemørke fortsat overvejes.

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Wizards of the Coast Announces Dungeons & Dragons: Star Wars Tyro Squadron With First Look at Official Art Wizards of the Coast har annonceret Dungeons & Dragons-eventyret Star Wars: Tyro Squadron samt en større regeludvidelse baseret på Star Wars-universet. Kampagnen foregår under den originale trilogi og lader spillerne slutte sig til en hemmelig oprørscelle, udføre missioner og udforske nye dele af galaksen. Flere detaljer ventes afsløret ved Star Wars Celebration i april 2027.

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'A Celebration of Everything Dead Space' — New Battlefield 6 Event Has Players Storming Area 51 Battlefield 6 får et ikke-kanonisk Halloween-event med Dead Space-tema, hvor spillerne skal kæmpe mod Necromorphs omkring Area 51. Eventet begynder 20. oktober og giver adgang til særlige kosmetiske genstande frem til 7. november. Samtidig lanceres spillets femte sæson med nye Las Vegas-baner, en Area 51-bane og den hurtigere battle royale-tilstand Rapid Royale.

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'It's Every Motherf***er for Himself!' — The San Andreas Mission You Need to Play to Understand What's Great About GTA 6 IGN fremhæver missionen “Reuniting the Families” fra GTA: San Andreas som et vigtigt eksempel på Rockstar Games’ filmiske spildesign. Missionen fører spilleren gennem et motel fyldt med skudvekslinger, scripted events og intense biljagter, hvor det åbne bymiljø afløses af en mere lineær oplevelse. Artiklen sætter missionens dramatiske stil i relation til forventningerne til GTA 6.

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GTA 6 on Switch 2? 'That's a Conversation for Take-Two and Rockstar,' Nintendo Says Nintendo of Americas direktør, Devon Pritchard, siger, at en mulig Switch 2-version af GTA 6 må drøftes mellem Take-Two og Rockstar Games. Der er derfor endnu ingen annoncering om spillet til Nintendos nye konsol. Switch 2 er kraftigere end forgængeren og kan allerede køre krævende spil som Cyberpunk 2077 og The Witcher 3.

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Militsioner Is a Roguelike Where You Need to Escape from (or Befriend) a Giant Cop IGN har prøvespillet Militsioner, et usædvanligt indiespil hvor spilleren forsøger at undslippe en by, mens en gigantisk politimand overvåger området. Spillet giver stor frihed til at udforske, løse problemer og påvirke politimandens humør, blandt andet ved at skaffe ham en doughnut. Previewet afslører også roguelike-elementer, oversvømmelser og en række ubesvarede mysterier.

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'I'm Losing 10 Years of Hard Work' — YouTuber's Channel Permanently Banned Over Censored Hellraiser: Revival Gameplay Video Den franske YouTuber J0nathan har fået sin kanal permanent lukket efter en gameplayvideo fra Hellraiser: Revival, selv om nøgenheden i spillets åbningsscene var dækket med sorte bokse. YouTube henviser til reglerne om seksuelt indhold, mens skaberen siger, at andre videoer med den samme scene stadig er tilgængelige. Kanalen havde omkring 190.000 abonnenter og over 3.000 videoer.

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade Just Hit Its Lowest Price Ever on Nintendo Switch 2 — No Amazon Prime Membership Required Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade til Nintendo Switch 2 er sat ned til 25 dollar hos Amazon, hvilket ifølge IGN er spillets laveste pris nogensinde. Tilbuddet kræver ikke længere et Amazon Prime-abonnement. Den fysiske udgave leveres som et Game-Key Card, så hele spillet skal downloades fra internettet, og den inkluderer både hovedspillet og Yuffie-episoden INTERmission.

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Everything To Know About the PUBG MOBILE Brainrot Royale Pumpkin-themed Update - IGN PUBG Mobile har lanceret version 4.6 med en græskarpræget opdatering til spiltypen Brainrot Royale. Opdateringen tilføjer blandt andet den tidsbegrænsede Ghost Ship-begivenhed, Pirate Coins, nye genstande som en magisk kost og et system til at fusionere Brainrots til stærkere versioner. Spillere får også flere sociale funktioner, større basekapacitet og forbedringer af lagerstyringen.

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Pokemon TCG's Delta Reign Expansion Is Finally Up For Preorder On Amazon and Target — And One Box Is Already Under Market Price Forudbestillingerne til Pokémon TCG-udvidelsen Mega Evolution—Delta Reign er åbnet hos Amazon og Target via tredjepartssælgere. Booster Bundles, Elite Trainer Boxes og 36-pak displaybokse kan bestilles til priser tæt på eller under markedsniveau. Udvidelsen udkommer 6. november, mens de omtalte Amazon-leverancer foreløbig er sat til 10. november.

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NieR Creator Yoko Taro Says He Would Retire From Making Video Games but Fear of Dementia Keeps Him Working NieR-skaberen Yoko Taro siger, at han egentlig gerne ville gå på pension, men fortsætter med at arbejde af frygt for at udvikle demens efter pensioneringen. Ved en japansk spilkulturfestival fortalte han også, at flere af hans projekter er blevet aflyst, selv om han har arbejdet på dem. Taro mener samtidig, at nye teknologier som AI giver yngre spilskabere flere muligheder, men også skærper konkurrencen.

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Silver Pines Is the Silent Hill Metroidvania Mash-Up I Never Knew I Needed IGN fremhæver Silver Pines som en vellykket blanding af survival horror og metroidvania. Spillet kombinerer 2,5D-udforskning med begrænset inventar, klodset kamp, gåder og værktøjer, der åbner nye områder. Anmeldelsen roser især den trykkende stemning, de gennemtænkte mekanikker og atmosfæren, men understreger, at vurderingen stadig er foreløbig efter cirka fem timers spilletid.

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I Played 6 Hours of Phantom Blade Zero and Can’t Stop Thinking About It | IGN Preview IGN har prøvespillet Phantom Blade Zero i over seks timer og er blevet markant mere positiv over for actionspillet. Previewet fremhæver især de præcise pareringer, stilfulde kampe, mange bosskampe og forskellige våben med egne spillestile. Spillet indeholder også opgraderinger og færdighedstræer, men anmeldelsen bemærker enkelte problemer med billedhastigheden på en kraftig pc tæt på lanceringen.

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'Not Sure What I'm Allowed to Say' — Daredevil Star Charlie Cox Confirms He's in an Unannounced Sega Game Charlie Cox har bekræftet, at han medvirker i et endnu uannonceret Sega-spil. Skuespilleren fortæller, at han har indspillet omkring 40 timers replikker og spiller en figur med amerikansk accent, men han må endnu ikke afsløre spillets titel eller rolle. Cox er tidligere blevet rost for sin stemmepræstation som Gustave i Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

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Jay and Silent Bob’s Joint Venture Turns Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse Into a Foul-Mouthed Cozy Weed Farming Simulator Nitrate Games har vist den første trailer og nye detaljer om Jay and Silent Bob’s Joint Venture på New York Comic Con 2026. Spillet er en humoristisk farming-simulator, hvor spillere opbygger en cannabisfarm, møder figurer fra Kevin Smiths View Askewniverse og følger en ny historie. Det forventes udgivet til Steam og pc i slutningen af foråret 2027, mens en konsolversion også er planlagt.

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I Played 6 Hours of Phantom Blade Zero and Can’t Stop Thinking About It | IGN Preview

IGN har prøvespillet Phantom Blade Zero i over seks timer og er blevet markant mere positiv over for actionspillet. Previewet fremhæver især de præcise pareringer, stilfulde kampe, mange bosskampe og forskellige våben med egne spillestile. Spillet indeholder også opgraderinger og færdighedstræer, men anmeldelsen bemærker enkelte problemer med billedhastigheden på en kraftig pc tæt på lanceringen.

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Key Preview Takeaways:

There are a ton of boss fights, and they’re fantastic so far.
If you like style, PBZ is oozing it.
Framerate hitches on a beefy PC are a yellow flag this close to launch.

I play so many sweaty action games that pit me against insanely difficult bosses and require the most tight reaction times imaginable that it actually takes quite a lot to get me to pay attention these days. I’ll admit that when I first saw the Phantom Blade Zero gameplay trailers, I didn’t immediately get the hype. After all, this sword-wielding parry-happy action game exists in an era where we get at least a dozen of these a year. It only took about five minutes with developer S-GAME’s Phantom Blade Zero to see how it sets itself apart, though, with the most smooth and satisfying action since Sekiro, a surprising number of things to do and secrets to find while exploring each level, and a story that seems like it’ll go harder than I expected it to. After over six hours bum-rushing my way through the first leg of the adventure, I left utterly champing at the bit to play more, and have now joined the ranks of those who count this among their most anticipated games of 2026.

The thing that immediately jumped out at me about this finely honed action game is just how much it effortlessly oozes style. One cutscene has a character played by Donny Yen balancing a baby on the edge of his blade while he fights off numerous attackers, one boss encounter involved me fighting (and eventually taking on the form of) one of those awesome dancing lions you see in Chinatown on Chinese New Year – even the first few minutes have your character choosing which heart he wants to receive from a creepy ghost monster guy just to make sure you know that the game you’re playing is metal as hell. It’s honestly pretty hard to make your action game with a cool swordmaster protagonist fighting off hordes of monsters stand apart from all the others given how common this trope is at this point, and yet I don’t think there was any point in my time playing where I went more than half an hour without running into something I hadn’t seen before. It’s incredibly impressive stuff!

That’s all without getting to the combat itself, which is without question the star of the show here. I don’t think there was even one second of Phantom Blade Zero where I didn’t feel like a complete badass. Some of the many examples I encountered include: riding atop a horse-drawn wagon while fighting off armed pursuers and blocking their gunfire with your sword, killing off enemies with absolutely brutal finishers after you’ve broken their guard meter with repeated parries, and keeping two enemies at bay on either side of you by executing an absurdly cool double kick at the same time.

This game has an incredible knack for making you feel like you’re the only person in the world who could have pulled something like that off.

This game has an incredible knack for making you feel like you’re the only person in the world who could have pulled something like that off, and a lot of that is in how smooth the parry mechanics and attack combos are. I surprised myself by how often I was able to do crazy things like parry three thrown daggers in quick succession, then follow it up with a series of attacks that sent me flipping through the air and spinning gracefully as I smacked around enemies like it was nothing, even though most were no slouches themselves. I’m a bit of a snob when it comes to action games, so if the parry windows aren’t just right, or the attacks don’t feel quite satisfying in some imperceptible way, I tend to become disenchanted really quickly. But Phantom Blade Zero gets so many of those tiny details just right, making it incredibly hard to put down.

Tools of the Trade

And if the core ways in which the combat feels satisfying are what pulled me in, then the fact that I was able to experience it all over again from a new framing thanks to the bevy of melee weapons was what held my interest. I don’t know how many weapons this thing has or if all of them are as unique as what I got my hands on in this section of the adventure, but just about every weapon of destruction I tried out felt extremely bespoke. I got one massive, two-handed blade by defeating an optional secret boss that carried me to victory through a ton of encounters thanks to its ability to deal an insane amount of damage, while another boss who was a drunken fighting master awarded me with his drunken fighting style after his defeat, which allowed me to bob and weave like a champ, moving unpredictably as I guided my blade telekinetically in front of me, even able to send it flying at the enemy as a ranged weapon. The differences between these kinds of weapons were so stark that it took a ton of time to adjust to each one, learning the combos available to me alongside the pros and cons of using each one as I went, and that went an incredibly long way to help keep my attention as I sliced through the 100th minion enemy in half an hour.

There’s also a surprising amount to upgrade as you master your kung fu skills, whether it’s enhancing weapons by investing materials in them to improve their stats and capabilities, or by investing in the various paths of the skill tree, which offer everything from active abilities like one that allows you to interrupt your own attacks to execute a quick dodge out of the way, to passive perks like one that restores your Sha-Chi (used to perform certain special actions) faster than normal. For an action game that’s mostly focused on pulling off sick kills, there’s a surprising amount of RPG that’s snuck its way into the mix here, and I’m all for it. It’s nice to have breaks from combat to do some good old fashioned buildcrafting, even if it didn’t seem to go all that deep from what I saw.

Who’s the Boss?

Boss fights can make or break a game like Phantom Blade Zero, so it’s a good thing that just about every one I played was an absolute banger. While most of the early fights were pretty bog standard stuff, like a hooded man throwing chained blades at me, or a big burly monstrosity swinging an ax the size of a grown man, it wasn’t long before some more interesting and original ideas took center stage. In one fight I perfected a dance of death against a snake lady who swooped through the air in a barrage of hilariously convoluted strikes, which put my fast reaction times and ability to read enemy movements to the test. On the other hand, the duel against the lion dancers wasn’t as chaotic, since most of the attacks were slower and fairly telegraphed, but the difficulty lied in having to come up with creative ways to get around the lion mask’s nigh-impenetrable armor, which I eventually learned the trick to throwing this fiery foe off its balance that I won’t spoil here. I’d really like to give more specific examples here, except developer S-GAME has asked me to not mention some of the cool bosses I fought so as not to spoil too many of them, so you’ll just have to take my word that there’s some pretty neat stuff in there.

Speaking of boss fights, much has been made of Donnie Yen’s role in Phantom Blade Zero as the mysterious Mó Yuan, and with good reason – this guy is freaking Ip Man, after all! The dude somehow managed to be the coolest guy in a Star Wars movie for crying out loud!. While I definitely won’t go into details on the way his character weaves his way into the story or the nature of these fights, I’ll say that I was pretty surprised by how this component of the adventure takes shape. Facing this obviously formidable foe didn’t go down the way I thought it would, and running into him multiple times over the course of my playtime was definitely a highlight, and featured some of the downright coolest animations I’ve seen in an action game in a very long time.

Densely Packed

When you’re not laying the smack down with your fists of fury against beefy bosses, you’ll be fighting across levels that have a surprising amount of secrets to discover, side quests to complete, and completely missable areas to explore. In the course of my demo, I found weapons and gadgets that others at the preview event reported not encountering at all, discovered one of the coolest bosses from my session that was entirely optional, and ran into hidden regions filled with loot to claim, like a creepy underground fortress that I’d missed until I did a bunch of backtracking. Phantom Blade Zero’s interesting aesthetic, which mixes industrial design with traditional wuxia elements, makes for some pretty interesting and unique areas, like one that featured a massive factory of some kind nestled into the center of a quiet village in the mountains. The sidequests I completed were mostly short errands to travel to different parts of the map and kill things or collect items, so largely busywork that fleshed out a bit of story with a side character while exposing you to a few more combat encounters with some scrub minions. But it also gave me more reasons to stop and smell the roses, explore areas I might have otherwise missed, and generally give me additional stuff to do in a world I was enjoying being in.

One area I didn’t get enough exposure to for me to form an opinion on just yet is the story. The premise is pretty straightforward, with the protagonist only having 66 days to live who sets out on a quest to cure himself before it’s too late and get revenge against his enemies – pretty normal stuff for this genre. And while I saw the opening cutscenes and a few bits and pieces of the story in the early hours, it was mostly setup stuff that I’d describe as good enough but not especially interesting. I didn’t really get to see many of the big story beats develop beyond the first act’s setup, though, so it remains to be seen if there will be payoff. I can at least say that all the stuff I learned about Donnie Yen’s character and his relationship to the protagonist made me think that maybe the story could deliver, but it’s still anyone’s guess.

Last Hurdle

Clearly, my time with Phantom Blade Zero was overwhelmingly positive, and they certainly won me over as someone who will definitely be playing this game, but if there’s one area I’m a bit nervous about it’s technical performance. Obviously the build I played wasn’t final, and S-GAME told me that most of their focus in the remaining weeks leading up to launch is mostly around optimization, but it’s worth shouting out that I experienced infrequent but fairly severe framerate drops throughout the course of my demo. I was playing on a decently powerful PC, so am particularly curious how this one will look and run on PS5, which is the only console PBZ is debuting on at the end of this month. In any case, it’s something I’ll be keeping an eye on closer to launch, because awesome games coming out the gates with unfortunate technical hiccups is disappointingly common these days.c

After half a day playing Phantom Blade Zero, it’s gone from mostly not on my radar to to the top of my wishlist this fall, and I truly cannot wait to dive back in later this month to see if it can deliver beyond those first handful of hours. At least for now, though, just about everything I’ve seen and played has made me more convinced that this is going to be one of the coolest action games of 2026.

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