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Twitch August viewership lower than July for first time in 6 years | StreamElements State of the Stream

September 26, 2023
For the first time since 2017, Twitch’s monthly viewership totals dropped from July to August according to StreamElements’ latest State of the Stream report. According to Rainmaker.gg data, viewers watched 56 million hours on average each day, for a monthly total of 1.736 billion hours. Compared to the previous month, the average daily viewership and the monthly total dipped about 2%…
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What the Xbox secrets leak tell us about the console business | The DeanBeat

September 22, 2023
Microsoft had a monumental leak of some of its most sensitive plans this week, as reported by The Verge’s Tom Warren. It was all thanks to someone at Microsoft who didn’t properly upload redacted documents to the Federal Trade Commission. I’ve been thinking about what this means. And now last night, the United Kingdom’s antitrust regulators gave preliminary approval for Microsoft’s $68.7…
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Ubisoft is making The Division 3 with Massive Entertainment

September 22, 2023
Ubisoft revealed today that Tom Clancy’s The Division 3 is in the works. Massive Entertainment, the series’ longtime developer, is leading work on the new project while supporting The Division 2. Longtime creative head Julian Gerighty is also returning to the franchise…
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Proof of Play raises $33M for Web3 RPG, ex-Twitch CEO joins board

September 21, 2023
Proof of Play announced $33 million in seed funding to fuel the growth of its invite-only, on-chain pirate RPG, Pirate Nation. Players build ships, recruit crew members and battle enemies to compete for glory on the leaderboard. Since its beta release in December 2022, Pirate Nation has shipped weekly updates. These include card-based combat, island building and community-led world boss raids.
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Spectarium raises $5.3M to develop cross-platform ARPG, Myths

September 20, 2023
Spectarium has raised roughly $5.3 million (€5 million) in seed funding to develop its first cross-platform action RPG, Myths. Finnish developer’s debut title will leverage AI to customize the dungeon-crawling gameplay and setting to each player’s tastes. While the…
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Last Epoch is an action RPG being built by Redditors

September 20, 2023
Eleventh Hour Games is working on an ambitious action role-playing game called Last Epoch. The developers’ ambition is to create a title that can beat the best RPGs of all time. There is nothing unusual about that, except that the founding team for the company is a group…
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Xbox Game Pass gets Payday 3, Party Animals in late September

September 20, 2023
Xbox Game Pass is getting its second wave of titles in September, which features several day one launch titles. While it’s not as weighty an addition as the one earlier this month — which included Starfield and Lies of P — the new additions do include the upcoming co-op title Payday 3 and multiplayer game Party Animals. The aforementioned Party Animals, a multiplayer brawler starring animal…
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