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June 2021 NPD: Ratchet & Clank and Mario Golf set franchise records

Join live for the final day of Transform 2021, including the AI Innovation & Women in AI Awards. Watch now. Video games have maintained their sales momentum even as summer began in earnest in the United States, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. As more people turned to games during the pandemic, many of them are sticking with that hobby, even as they return to other…
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June 2021 NPD: Xbox and Switch outsell the competition

Join live for the final day of Transform 2021, including the AI Innovation & Women in AI Awards. Watch now. Hardware sales had a huge month in the United States in June. Consumers snapped up $401 million in new consoles, which is up 112% compared to the same period in…
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Ubisoft delays Rainbow Six: Extraction and Riders Republic

Join live for the final day of Transform 2021, including the AI Innovation & Women in AI Awards. Watch now. Ubisoft announced today in separate blog posts that Riders Republic is delayed from September 2 to October 28, and Rainbow Six: Extraction is moving from…
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I cannot get over Valve’s aggressive pricing for the Steam Deck

Did you miss today’s livestream? Watch the AI at the Edge & IoT Summit on demand now. Valve has a new handheld, and I’m shocked by its price more than anything else. The Steam Deck is launching this December starting at $400. And that price gets you the 64GB model and a Nintendo Switch-like handheld running modern AMD hardware. This includes the following list of specs for the Steam…
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Pokémon Unite launches its MOBA action to Switch on July 21

Join executive leaders at the AI at the Edge & IoT Summit. Watch now! The Pokémon Company announced today that Pokémon Unite will launch for Switch on July 21. A mobile version should release in September. Pokémon Unite is a free-to-play MOBA, the same type of game…
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Valve’s Steam Deck merges Switch convenience with PC gaming

Join executive leaders at the AI at the Edge & IoT Summit. Watch now! Valve today has unveiled the Steam Deck, its portable PC gaming machine. Like the Nintendo Switch, it has support for a dock that will connect the device to a TV. You have to buy the dock separately.
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Is Atlus finally releasing Persona games on Switch? | Last of the Nintendogs 002

Join executive leaders at the Conversational AI & Intelligent AI Assistants Summit, presented by Five9. Watch now! On the second episode of Last of the Nintendogs, host Mike Minotti wants to know your favorite NES games. The crew also discusses that $1.5 million auction price for a perfect-condition Super Mario 64. Then co-host Jeff Grubb has been spending a lot of time with a new handheld…
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Netflix hires Oculus and EA veteran Mike Verdu to lead games

Join executive leaders at the Conversational AI & Intelligent AI Assistants Summit, presented by Five9. Watch now! Netflix has hired former Oculus and EA game development leader Mike Verdu to head its fledgling game efforts. The company has been hiring game people for…
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Mario Golf: Super Rush review — What now?

Join executive leaders at the Data, Analytics, & Intelligent Automation Summit, presented by Accenture. Register here. Sometimes a game isn’t for me. But with Mario Golf: Super Rush, it feels like I am not meant for this game. What I mean by that is the game is…
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Your experience with Super Mario 64 is worth more than $1.56 million

Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Watch now! A sealed copy of Super Mario 64 sold for $1.56 million over the weekend, and I’m here to tell you that is worth less than your experiences with the game. That’s one of the key strengths of games — that they are so experiential. They are something you as a player participate in, and that…
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