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You could also request a translator or a photographer, but who wants that when you can have a ninja?!
There are many practical uses for the Apple ARKit, and scaring the living daylights out of your children is most certainly one of them.
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In this newly-released mobile romance app from Capcom, players must find clues to a crime by spying on an incarcerated mega-hottie with amnesia…
With a tagline of “So kimoi (strange), so kawaii (cute)”, we knew we had to check this out.
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