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Electronic Arts has acquired Golf Clash creator Playdemic from WarnerMedia for $1.4 billion in cash as EA shores up its sports game portfolio.
That’s a lot of money for a development studio with just one game, but a free-to-play Golf Clash has been a big moneymaker, with 80 million downloads over the…
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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…
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Vindex‘s Belong Gaming Arenas is opening its first U.S. location in Houston, Texas, as part of a plan to expand its chain of local esports gaming centers as the pandemic eases.
Many retailers have…
Sonic dashes into Minecraft
June 22, 2021
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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 looks like an actual Sonic game. Just, you know, with the trademark Minecraft blocks. Sonic is also bringing his friends, like…
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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…
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Microsoft is bringing back its custom-controller webstore after taking some time off to retool it. Xbox Design Lab is available now, and it uses the updated Xbox Series X/S gamepad. This newer…
PUBG maker Krafton will raise $5B in public offering
June 16, 2021
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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 Krafton plans to sell more than 10 million shares at a price between $409.78 per share to $498.36 a share, and that could help the…
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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…
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Chip Moore and Dylan Takeyama and came up with a concept for a turn-based strategy-RPG while in college. But Moore was an economics major; he wasn’t in programming or anything like that. So they…
Metroid: Dread brings the franchise to Switch
June 15, 2021
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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 clear that this is a successor to Metroid: Fusion.
We last saw Metroid on the 3DS in 2017 with Metroid: Samus Returns…
