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Total War: Three Kingdoms is a triumph of beauty and slaughter
Creative Assembly’s Total War: Three Kingdoms is a triumph. There’s no other way to put it. It’s a gorgeous fantasy epic wrapped inside a fine-tuned battle simulator that’s been updated to make it more delightfully frenetic and jaw-dropping than ever. äàëüøå »
2019-5-16 22:57
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Nintendo reveals surprise new Pokemon mobile game
With no great fanfare, a new mobile game called Pokemon Rumble Rush was announced this week. Rumble Rush is the latest in the Rumble series (called Pokemon Scramble in Japan), a lesser spin-off of the main Pokemon games that’s basically a beat-em-up involving chibi versions of your favorite pocket monsters. äàëüøå »
2019-5-16 23:31
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Netflix to invade E3 (and it might be bringing new games with it)
Netflix revealed today that it was going to host a panel at E3, of all things. It’s not-so-subtly hinting at an interest in games, which it’s been developing for several months despite outwardly expressing the opposite. äàëüøå »
2019-5-15 03:32
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Saddle up: Red Dead Online finally exits beta with massive new update
Rockstar today revealed itself. I remember a time when we were all kind of apprehensive about Red Dead Online. Back around the time RDR2 was teased, the online multiplayer component was revealed before just about anything else, and, if the reaction of my peers was typical, no one was quite sure what to… This story continues at The Next Web äàëüøå »
2019-5-15 22:07
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Watch: Sony made a God of War documentary as good as the game
Sony today debuted “God of War: Raising Kratos,” a full-length documentary chronicling the trials and triumphs of the development team behind the 2018 PlayStation 4 smash hit. It’s a wonderful peek behind the curtain at the wizardry that goes into making a seminal video game. äàëüøå »
2019-5-11 02:56
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Tencent’s Chinese PUBG dupe has enemies who wave after you shoot them
Tencent revealed this week it would be pulling its test version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds from the Chinese market. Instead, it’s going to publish a similar but more, um, approachable app called “Game for Peace. äàëüøå »
2019-5-10 03:41
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EA seeks fresh blood for Apex Legends in mobile market
Executives from Electronic Arts have implied they’d like to bring their battle royale Apex Legends to mobile devices, mimicking the success of its competitors, Fortnite and PUBG. It might be a path to success, but mobile is no longer the untapped market it used to be, given the aforementioned battles royale got there first. äàëüøå »
2019-5-8 22:43
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Sony offers EA Access to PS4 owners, 5 years after the Xbox One
Electronic Arts today revealed it’d be offering EA Access, its game subscription service, for PS4 owners. For Sony’s fans, this means the console gets the service five years after its competitor, the Xbox One. äàëüøå »
2019-5-7 22:27
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Microsoft files patent for controller with Braille readout
Microsoft has apparently applied for a patent for a new Xbox controller with the ability to show visually-impaired gamers what’s on screen via a haptic Braille readout. If we ever see this controller, it could open up gaming for a whole new group of people, just like Microsoft’s previous efforts in the space — and it could also help games comply with new laws demanding accessibility. äàëüøå »
2019-5-7 03:30
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Apple quietly released its own iPhone game, starring Warren Buffett
Apple has apparently made its first game in years, in partnership with, of all people, Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. The game, called Warren Buffett‘s Paper Wizard, allows you to recreate the early career of the titular character, tossing newspapers at houses. äàëüøå »
2019-5-7 00:58
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Here are the Star Wars games on sale for May the 4th
May the 4th is almost upon us, and if you’re anything like me, you’re going to indulge in some Star Wars video games, which let you live out your space-faring action hero fantasies. Luckily for us, most gaming platforms are eager to cater to this love, as several of them are offering sales on the best Star Wars games ever made. äàëüøå »
2019-5-4 23:10
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Xbox enshrines wholesome ‘trash talk’ in its community standards
Microsoft changed the wording of its standards, explicitly banning offensive trash talk on its services and offering less crass alternatives. It sounds hokey at first — the examples of player banter sound so calculatedly good-natured they’ll make your teeth ache at first glance — but considering how often players can’t seem to tell the difference between trash talk and harassment, it’s an instruction some will need. äàëüøå »
2019-5-3 00:49
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This bus driving simulator game plays like Snake, and looks like a blast
If you ever owned a Nokia dumb phone from the 90s, you probably played the hell out of Snake, which came pre-loaded on most models back then. Now, Seattle-based indie studio Stovetop has a wacky take on the original that replaces the pixel-width snake with a bus, and scales the environment up to an entire city. äàëüøå »
2019-5-2 08:39
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Earthworm Jim 3 releases exclusively on retro console Intellivision Amico
There’s a new Earthworm Jim game on the horizon — but you have to be willing to buy a whole new console to play it. The console in question is the upcoming Intellivision Amico, a retro plug-n-play that’s suddenly looking like a much hotter commodity now that it has a new game to show for itself. äàëüøå »
2019-5-2 03:14
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Hitting the gym makes esports athletes more successful
When you think of the daily life of an esports player, you might imagine something sedate. Professional gamers, by definition, sit at computers and work to hone their talents by staring at a screen and clicking buttons. äàëüøå »
2019-5-1 20:02
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Did Game of Thrones sneak a video game reference into “The Long Night?”
Okay, before we get started, I’m going to warn you that there are *SPOILERS* in this post for episode 3 of season 8 of Game of Thrones. No, really: *SPOILERS* Last warning: *SPOILERS* For those of you still here, I assume you’ve watched last Sunday’s episode, “The Long Night. äàëüøå »
2019-5-1 20:53
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Blockchain Startups To Build Public Health Protocols In Africa
The blockchain movement in Africa is supported by multiple international crypto projects, as well as domestic initiatives. Two African blockchain teams, Kamari and Kinect, are now bringing decentralized technology to the medical industry. äàëüøå »
2019-4-30 01:45
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Mobile VR game gathers ‘1,700 years’ worth of Alzheimer’s research data
A virtual reality game and its app predecessor, intended to help detect early signs of Alzheimer’s, have accrued over 1,700 years’ worth of data in the two years it’s been on the market, according to its developers, thanks to its millions of players. äàëüøå »
2019-4-30 00:35
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Here’s Why Fortnite Doesn’t Need a Lame Avengers Crossover
By CCN. com: Fortnite is a phenomenon. A money-chugging, time-sucking behemoth of a game that has upset the apple cart, closed down gaming studios that couldn’t compete, and reset the clock. äàëüøå »
2019-4-28 14:07
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Mario Kart Tour could be Nintendo’s biggest smartphone win
Nintendo is preparing to offer up its next mobile game, and rumor has it the company is hoping this one will be a gold mine. Given the franchise it’s from — and what Nintendo has done adapting its less well-known series — it probably will be. äàëüøå »
2019-4-25 20:11
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Mortal Kombat 11 sneaks in some jabs at President Trump
Of all the things I expected to see and hear when playing the newest entry in the Mortal Kombat series — and, given this series’ reputation, I was expecting the most — sly digs at American president #45 were pretty low on the list. äàëüøå »
2019-4-24 01:38
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China’s new regulations outlaw blood and poker… in video games
China’s uneasy relationship with the video game industry became even more thorny last week. New regulations from the government — who must approve all new games within the country — won’t be approving any games that feature blood, card games, or palace intrigue. äàëüøå »
2019-4-24 23:07
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Mortal Kombat 11 might add Joker, Spawn and the Terminator to its roster
Netherrealm’s Mortal Kombat 11 is finally here — a bit sooner than anyone expected. Thanks to dataminers and a premature retail release, we have some idea of what kinds of fighters will be added to the roster of the game in the future — and whoo boy, if this isn’t a 90s fanservice parade, I don’t know what is. äàëüøå »
2019-4-23 01:00
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Henry Cavill’s prettied-up Witcher coming to Netflix in fall
Netflix‘s chief content officer revealed this week that the Witcher show, an adaptation of the Polish fantasy epic-cum-video game dynasty, is going to arrive on the streaming service later this year — just in time to fill the void left by a certain other fantasy show’s conclusion. äàëüøå »
2019-4-18 02:53
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Ubisoft offers Assassin’s Creed Unity for free so you can visit Notre-Dame
Ubisoft today announced it’d be giving away Assassin’s Creed Unity away for free, as a tribute to the damaged Notre-Dame and to give gamers “the chance to experience the majesty and beauty of the cathedral” in the wake of the fire. äàëüøå »
2019-4-17 22:12
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Gifto Is Challenging Content Monetization With Its Blockchain Gifting Platform
Live streaming services, where content creators can broadcast their talents to a worldwide live audience, have taken social media by storm in recent years. By 2022, it’s expected that up to 82% of all internet traffic will be video-based, most of which will be live-streamed content. äàëüøå »
2019-4-17 15:19
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Assassin’s Creed Unity’s replica of Notre-Dame could help recreate the real thing
Notre-Dame de Paris may have been damaged by yesterday’s fire, but the French government is determined to rebuild her. It may have a resource from an unexpected source: none other than the quasi-historical stab-athon, Assassin’s Creed Unity. äàëüøå »
2019-4-17 02:27
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My family’s happier since we traded movie night for video games
If there’s two things even the closest of families can have a hard time agreeing on, they’re where to eat and what to watch. I can’t help you with the first one. But my family solved the movie night problem by ditching the whole concept and replacing it with video games. äàëüøå »
2019-4-17 00:57
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Sony reveals the PS5 will come with an SSD and PS4 compatibility
So it begins: after months of rumors and speculation, the first details of the next-generation PlayStation console have finally come to light. In addition to the predictable nuts-and-bolts updates, we have new information on the most desirable upgrades, namely that the new console will be fully backwards compatible. äàëüøå »
2019-4-16 22:26
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EA swears Jedi: Fallen Order won’t have multiplayer or microtransactions, ever
After dangling little more than a title before us for months, EA and Respawn Entertainment finally revealed more about their new Star Wars game, Jedi: Fallen Order over the weekend. What they revealed almost says more about the publishers than it does about the game — namely, that the lack of typical “EA-ish” elements means Electronic Arts may have finally let years of fan complaints sink into its skin. äàëüøå »
2019-4-16 22:14
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Dota 2 players can sign up to compete against OpenAI’s champion-crushing bots this week
Over the past few years, artificial intelligence research firm OpenAI has been hard at work training its bots to play a range of games like Chess, Go, and more complex ones like Dota 2. It’s gotten awfully good at all of them, and if you’ve got MOBA chops, you can now test your skills against its AI system in a round of Dota 2. äàëüøå »
2019-4-15 10:48
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What Is Worldwide Asset eXchange? Introduction to WAX Token
What Is the WAX Ecosystem? Worldwide Asset eXchange (WAX) is an Ethereum-based marketplace for digital assets. It was created by the team behind OPSkins, an online marketplace that grew selling Counter Strike: Global Offense (CS:GO) in-game items. äàëüøå »
2019-4-13 18:13
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Voice actor lets it slip that Horizon Zero Dawn sequel is in the works
For those of you who loved 2017’s awesome post-apocalyptic role-playing robot-riding extravaganza Horizon Zero Dawn, actress Janina Gavankar just confirmed that a sequel is in the works. We don’t know any more as yet, but I know I want it now. äàëüøå »
2019-4-13 02:12
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Highly Recommended: Rockstar Games’ immersive worlds are a stoner’s delight
Highly Recommended is our new series talking about the experience of safely engaging with tech-based entertainment and gadgets while “high. ” We hope our frank, open approach to this subject matter will aid in the fight to normalize the legal use of cannabis for recreational and medicinal purposes. äàëüøå »
2019-4-13 00:03
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Sony is automatically changing offensive PlayStation usernames
Earlier this week, Sony finally rolled out the name change option for PlayStation Network users. And gamers who are rushing to change the problematic name they once thought was funny might discover that Sony’s taking the liberty of doing it for them. äàëüøå »
2019-4-13 21:42
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Activision knows when its employees are having sex
The Washington Post this week reported Activision Blizzard has been using various apps to track its employees’ health data — including their pregnancies and sexual activity — by receiving anonymized data from health apps the employees are in no way, absolutely not compelled to use. äàëüøå »
2019-4-12 21:49
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Teenagers are killing GameStop
A new survey of American teenagers reveals they’re turning more and more to digital stores for their games. Gone is the era of kids forking cash over countertops — now they’re increasingly turning to their parents’ credit cards in the Epic Games Store. äàëüøå »
2019-4-10 21:26
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Millionaire offers thousands for help planning real-life battle royale game — this should go well
Someone’s apparently planning to recreate a battle royale match in reality, if an advertisement on a swank website is any indication. The unnamed millionaire is offering to pay a princely sum for help making this endeavor work, but I’ll tell them this, right now, for free: it isn’t going to. äàëüøå »
2019-4-10 23:25
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TomoChain, an Innovative Solution Aiming to Solve the Blockchain Trilemma
Although most blockchain technology companies are promising disruption across multiple industries, Vitalik Buterin, the widely accredited crypto-genius and creator of Ethereum, believes that for blockchain to reach mass adoption, it must first solve the “scalability trilemma” – the three essential factors which the perfect blockchain must provide. äàëüøå »
2019-4-8 18:19
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DOOM speedrunning is a complicated, frustrating sport
Now, here’s a blast from the past. Remember DOOM? I’m talking about the one from 1993. For a lot of people – myself included – Carmack and Romero’s first-person shooter was a formative cultural experience, a bit like how LARPing Wolfenstein was for people born in the 1920’s. äàëüøå »
2019-4-8 13:38
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The dark age of adventure games — and the gems it produced
In the early 2000s, the supply of adventure games had all but dried up after major studios like LucasArts and Sierra folded. But despite the shift in fans’ interest towards other genres, a few tenacious developers stood their ground and churned out some memorable point-and-click titles that are worth revisiting more than a decade later. äàëüøå »
2019-4-6 04:17
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Angel/Devil: Is Borderlands 3 worth a trip to the Epic Games Store?
2K Games revealed this week that Borderlands 3, the latest entry in the much-loved co-op shooter series, will be released on the Epic Games Store as a timed exclusive. Does this mean you should buy it there? Well that’s a tricky question, with both sides having some reasonable arguments in their favor. äàëüøå »
2019-4-6 23:22
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Bioware’s overworked Anthem developers aren’t alone, and that’s the problem
We recently discovered a new perpetrator of the dreaded “crunch culture” of video game development — the legendary Bioware. When Kotaku‘s Jason Schreier wrote an article about the struggles during development of Anthem, the studio lashed out, before privately admitting that maybe it does have problems. äàëüøå »
2019-4-5 04:10
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Salty Fallout 76 player sends sassiest message ever to Bethesda
If you’ve ever wished to communicate with a game developer, either to praise them or to complain about something, but chickened out because you assumed they’d never bother to read your message — you just have to get creative about it, apparently. äàëüøå »
2019-4-4 01:08
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Sony’s new PS4 refund policy is draconian, but it’s still better than Nintendo’s
Gotta be careful with April Fool’s Day announcements — most companies know just how to push gamers’ buttons and won’t hesitate to do so on the one day a year we’re all supposed to laugh it off. äàëüøå »
2019-4-3 21:56
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Redditors are pissed (and delighted) about the temporary shutdown of its r/games subreddit
Usually, being a gamer on the first of April is good fun — jokes, memes, pranks about Half-Life 3. But the moderators of Reddit’s r/Games subreddit made it very clear when they shuttered the community today that they were dead serious. äàëüøå »
2019-4-2 03:56
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SEGA’s Genesis Mini arrives late to the party — are we still entertained?
SEGA finally revealed the official release date of the Genesis Mini, its answer to the craze of fun-sized retro consoles that peaked last year. As cool as it’ll be to see the return of one of gaming‘s most golden of oldies, SEGA may have missed the boat on this fad — and now we get to see if gamers actually want to buy a retro console that doesn’t have “Nintendo” emblazoned on it. äàëüøå »
2019-4-1 21:08
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Sekiro review: Perfection perfected
I’ve been to hell and back – and I loved every minute of it. I took a full week off to play FromSoftware’s latest game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. It kicked my ass, it made me question my life choices, then I kicked its ass and I felt rejuvenated. äàëüøå »
2019-4-1 17:51
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Here are some good (and cheap) indie games to occupy your weekend
Games can be a bit of time sink — and time is a finite resource. For those of you living for the weekend (this weekend, in particular), we’ve come up with a few new indie games (and one classic) to try that won’t take up too much of your time or money. äàëüøå »
2019-3-30 05:31
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The Borderlands 3 reveal was a mess, but hey, we’re getting the game
Gearbox Software today revealed its latest game, Borderlands 3, at the PAX East Conference. Just about everything that could go wrong did go wrong, but at least the game looks cool. No, I’m not exaggerating — it was a shitshow. äàëüøå »
2019-3-29 22:46
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