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Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War will get new Season 3 content on April 22.
Among the big changes for Warzone is an update to its narrative. Some time ago, a cargo tanker ship ran around in Verdansk near the Zordaya Prison Complex. The ship held zombies, and the undead have spread…
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Microsoft is working with streaming-tech startup Rainway to bring Xbox Game Pass cloud gaming to iOS. Rainway enables low-latency streaming through browsers like Safari, Chrome, and Edge. This…
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Sony Interactive Entertainment will not close the digital stores for PlayStation 3 or PlayStation Vita. This is a reversal of the plans the company announced earlier this month. Sony will…
E3 Rewind: Nintendo’s boring and bizarre E3 2008
April 16, 2021
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In 2008, Nintendo was on top. The DS and Wii were giant hits. The company had developed a new strategy that targeted audiences that weren’t part of the core gaming demographic. Successes like Wii Sports and Wii Fit showed the viability of that plan.
But at E3 that year, Nintendo displayed the first signs of…
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Codemasters and its new parent company, Electronic Arts, will launch F1 2021 on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on July 16.
The title is the first joint title between Codemasters and…
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Misfits Gaming Group is leaning into female gamers with the launch of its Women of Misfits speaker series, and the esports company will turn this into a wider platform over time.
The Boca Raton…
Epic Games launches early access for MetaHuman Creator tool to make realistic animated people
April 14, 2021
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Epic Games is launching early access for its MetaHuman Creator tool, which enables people to create realistic animated human characters within minutes.
Epic Games unveiled the tool in February, and it had an overwhelming response from people who tried it and created two MetaHuman sample characters with it. Now…
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Nintendo revealed Oxenfree II: Lost Signals at the end of today’s Indie World Showcase. The sequel to the hit indie game is coming to Switch later this year. It’s from Night School…
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OK, I admit that I’m a little bummed that we didn’t see an update on Hollow Knight: Silksong during today’s Nintendo Indie World event. But we got enough other cool looking games that…
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Epic Games said today it has raised $1 billion in a new round of funding in its bid to build the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One.
The company said the money will enable it to support future growth opportunities, and…
