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Apple readying a handheld console to compete with Nintendo Switch

Remember when Apple launched a gaming console? Well, according to a new report, the company will try to do it again but this time, it will aim to go mass market and dethrone the Nintendo Switch. The report says Apple’s console will be a hybrid device, a combination of Switch and Sony’s PS5. That’s probably because it’s supposed to work with Apple’s rumored AR/VR…
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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, sharper screen in handheld mode. But the device also feels more premium thanks to minor refinements to the manufacturing…
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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…
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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 to invest tens (sometimes hundreds) of millions of dollars just to have a shot at success. Despite that risk and expense…
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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…
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Call of Duty developer Infinity Ward expands with new Austin studio

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Infinity Ward, the development studio behind several Call of Duty games, today announced that it is opening a new studio in Austin, Texas. The Austin location joins the original Infinity Ward in California, as well as its other offices in Poland and Mexico. The studio added in its…
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