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Competitive shooter Splitgate heads to console after years of Steam success

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. The free-to-play shooter space is getting crowded, and it includes some of the biggest companies in video games. But Call of Duty: Warzone, Fortnite, and Valorant are not scaring an upstart like Splitgate: Arena Warfare out of the market. Developer 1047 Games is preparing to expand its successful competitive arena shooter…
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Sonic dashes into Minecraft

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Minecraft has added Sonic the Hedgehog DLC today, just in time for the Sega mascot’s 30th birthday tomorrow (June 23). This isn’t just a pack of Sonic cosmetics. The DLC gives you access to what…
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Xbox hires Portal dev Kim Swift to make cloud games (like Kojima’s)

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Microsoft is getting serious again about cloud-native games. To that end, the company’s Xbox division announced today it has hired former Stadia game design director Kim Swift to oversee cloud gaming collaborations with independent studios. Those studios will include Hideo Kojima’s Kojima Productions if and when…
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PUBG maker Krafton will raise $5B in public offering

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Krafton, the maker of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, or the battle royale shooter game known as PUBG, plans to raise $5 billion in a public offering. Bloomberg reported that South Korea-based…
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Wario, Advance Wars, and Metroid fill out Switch’s 2021 release calendar

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Nintendo sped off toward the second half of 2021 today with its E3 2021 Direct presentation. During that media briefing, the company revealed a new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate character, a Zelda-dedicated handheld, and more. But most important, the publisher also filled in a lot of release dates for major Switch games coming…
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Metroid: Dread brings the franchise to Switch

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Nintendo announced a new 2D Metroid game today during its E3 Direct presentation. It’s called Metroid: Dread, and it’s coming out October 8. The trailers also called the title Metroid 5, making it…
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Mario Party Superstars collects the best elements from the series

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Nintendo is making a sequel to one of best-selling Switch games. Mario Party Superstars follows up Super Mario Party, and this time the franchise is pulling from its history for a best-of collection. The publisher describes this new Mario Party as a “superstar collection of … boards and minigames.” Mario Party…
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