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Mattel partners with Zynga’s Rollic to make Barbie mobile game

February 29, 2024
Mattel has teamed up with Zynga’s Rollic casual game studio to make a new Barbie mobile game. So yes, there is finally a new Barbie game coming, and, no, it’s not called Barbenheimer. El Segundo, California-based Mattel is teaming up with Take-Two’s Zynga/Rollic to launch the game on digital shelves later this year. The partnership represents a significant stride in Mattel’s mission to…
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GamerSafer acquires Minecraft-focused Minehut server community

February 29, 2024
GamerSafer has acquired the Minehut server from Super Minehut community League, taking over a popular Minecraft server community. Minehut has been around since 2015 and it has had millions of players. It still has about 500,000 monthly active users, said Rodrigo Tamellini…
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Nintendo Direct features Endless Ocean, Shin Megami Tensei and others

February 22, 2024
Nintendo today held its Partner Showcase Direct, in which it revealed games coming to Switch from its third-party partners in 2024. While most eyes were keen for the former Xbox exclusives that were coming to Switch — Pentiment and Grounded being confirmed during the show — those weren’t the only games shown. The company revealed several other titles coming to Switch, including a new Endless…
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Xbox confirms all four new multiplatform games

February 22, 2024
Xbox has announced the titles of the four games it’s bringing to other consoles: Pentiment, Hi-Fi Rush, Grounded and Sea of Thieves. Pentiment and Grounded are coming to Nintendo Switch — as previously announced in today’s Nintendo Direct — as well as PlayStations 5…
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Gadget-Bot takes Kaidro anime RPG to Ronin blockchain

February 22, 2024
Gadget-Bot Productions, the creator of blockbusters such as Alita: Battle Angel and Jurassic World, will debut its anime-style RPG Kaidro on the Ronin blockchain. Headed by Peggy Chung and Robert Simons, Gadget-Bot is building Kaidro, which was inspired by a beloved webcomic…
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Ubisoft launches Rainbow Six Smol, a roguelite exclusive to Netflix

February 21, 2024
Ubisoft announced it’s making a new version of Rainbow Six: Siege, exclusively for Netflix. The new title isn’t a first-person shooter like its parent game. Instead, Rainbow Six Smol is a top-down isometric roguelite with a cartoonish art style very different from Siege. It launches today via Netflix on iOS and Android. Read More: Rainbow Six Siege: Next-Gen Ready In Smol, the player controls…
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Epic Games Store hits 270M PC users, up 17% from 2022

February 20, 2024
Epic Games said the Epic Games Store has hit 270 million PC players in 2023, up 40 million, or 17% from 2022. This community now has a total of 804 million Epic cross-platform accounts. In 2023 Daily Active Users peaked at 36.1 million, and Monthly Active Users reached 75…
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Xbox’s Phil Spencer confirms four games are going multiplatform

February 16, 2024
Xbox today released an episode of its podcast in which it revealed more details about the future of the business. Tina Amini spoke with Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond and Matt Booty about the company’s plans. In addition to other details about its consoles and Xbox Game Pass, the three executives revealed that four Xbox-exclusive games are coming to other consoles. Spencer didn’t name the four…
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