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Why Sony is acquiring Bungie | GB Decides bonus episode

February 1, 2022
 Sony announced today that it is spending $3.6 billion to acquire Destiny developer Bungie. This is the latest in a series of massive acquisitions in the gaming space this month. That started with Take-Take Interactive picking up Zynga, then continued with Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard. Now, acquisitions season has reached its culmination — at least for now. But why is this happening…
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Gran Turismo 7 gets PlayStation State of Play this week

January 31, 2022
Sony is holding one of its semi-regular online video events for one of its major upcoming releases. The company announced plans for a Gran Turismo 7-focused State of Play for Wednesday, February 2 at 2 p.m. Pacific time. This will provide over 30 minutes of new information…
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MLB The Show 22 is hitting Switch

January 31, 2022
MLB The Show 22 is coming April 5, and the baseball franchise is heading to Switch for the first time. Sony Interactive Entertainment publishes The Show, but its partnership with the MLB puts the series is a unique position. That’s how it showed up on Xbox for the first…
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The Elder Scrolls Online charts a new course with High Isle in June

January 28, 2022
The Elder Scrolls Online today announced its next expansion, High Isle, which will launch for PC, Mac, and Stadia on June 6 and on June 21 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. This starts a new chapter for the MMO, with a year-long story focusing on the fantasy world’s Bretons denizens. The Legacy of the Bretons will include four major updates, including High…
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Valve confirms Steam Deck starts shipping late February

January 27, 2022
Valve’s much-anticipated handheld console Steam Deck is finally hitting the market. The company promised it would arrive at the end of February and it looks like it’s going to deliver. Those who reserved the device will get an invitation on February 25 and have…
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Epic Games Store has 194M users, readies new features for 2022

January 27, 2022
Epic Games today published its Year in Review for 2021, in which it gathered details about how the Store has grown in the last year. Among other facts, we know the Epic Games Store now has over 194 million users on PC. It also mentioned that Epic is preparing new updates for…
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Roblox’s year-end data reveals its metaverse advantage

January 27, 2022
Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to ourFuture of Work Summit on-demand libraryto stream. Roblox had an explosive growth year in 2021, and today the company released some data that shows how it’s a leading contender in the metaverse. Dave Baszucki, CEO and cofounder of Roblox, spoke about the company’s plans at our GamesBeat Summit: Into the…
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Epic Games’ Kim Libreri on how real the metaverse can look

January 27, 2022
Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream. If there is a small circle of people to ask how realistic we can get when we try to make a world seem flawlessly realistic in the metaverse, Kim…
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Gaming will lead us to the metaverse

January 26, 2022
When CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed Facebook’s name to Meta and committed to the metaverse, he said that gaming would lead the way. That’s an interesting comment, considering that Facebook has billions of social media users, while game companies like Roblox and Microsoft…
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Crusader Kings III comes to PS5 and Xbox on March 29

January 26, 2022
Paradox Interactive announced today that Crusader Kings III is coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on March 29. Crusader Kings III is a grand strategy game that has players controlling a medieval kingdom. It released for PC in 2020. This kind of menu-heavy game isn’t the sort that you’d normally expect to get a PC port, but Paradox and the development team at Lab42 have labored to make…
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