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Sledgehammer Games drops new Call of Duty: Vanguard campaign details

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  As it builds to a November 5 global launch, Sledgehammer Games is revealing more about the single-player campaign for Call of Duty: Vanguard and the backstories of the playable characters. Call of Duty: Vanguard’s campaign is about how the international special forces came…
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The Switch OLED is better than a Switch Pro (for Nintendo)

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  The Nintendo Switch OLED Edition is a solid upgrade to one of the most popular and successful consoles of all time. The obvious benefits are the larger…
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Playtika’s Wooga launches Switchcraft story-based mobile game

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Playtika’s game studio Wooga is launching Switchcraft, a narrative-based match-3 game that has been in the works for a few years. The title is the first new game launched since Playtika went public at an $11 billion valuation in January. As such, it’s an important game for…
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Apple appeals outcome of its legal battle with Epic Games

In response to one of the outcomes of the Apple vs. Epic Games ruling from back in September, Apple has filed to appeal the Court’s ruling. While Apple won 9 of the 10 claims made by Epic Games, it did lose on one. That one claim was that Apple was illegally stifling…
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Video games are risky, expensive, and a really good business

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Making video games is an exercise in cognitive dissonance. It is a hit-driven business where you can never know how consumers will respond. And yet you have…
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The DeanBeat: Twitch hack exposes more industry secrets

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Perhaps the lesson of the leak of a trove Twitch‘s data, source code, and internal tools is that we can expect this to happen to just about everybody in the industry. And one of these days, perhaps we won’t have any secrets left. This week, hackers disclosed that they had…
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Valve posts disassembly video of its handheld Steam Deck PC

Valve has just posted a video to its YouTube channel of its upcoming Steam Deck being partially disassembled. Valve is the company behind Steam, a popular online PC game store. The Steam Deck is a handheld PC designed to mimic the form factor of the Nintendo Switch so that PC games from Steam can be played portably. The Steam Deck that appears in the video is still a prototype and the host notes…
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