I never got into Apex Legends as much as some other people. The reasons for that came down to how I play battle royale games. With Apex Legends, developer Respawn Entertainment emphasized team-based combat and cooperation on three-player squads. I primarily play battle royales on my own, and then I dabble with the team modes once I’m more comfortable with a game. But now, as Apex Legends…
What a new Nintendo Switch actually needs
March 5, 2021
Bloomberg reported yesterday that a new version of the Nintendo Switch is on its way later this year. It will come with a 7-inch, 720p-resolution OLED display. When docked, it can run games at 4K.
Nintendo has not confirmed any of this, but there’s little reason to doubt…
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Roblox will host a launch party for Why Don’t We, which is releasing its second album The Good Times and the Bad Ones. The party will take place at 4 p.m. Pacific on March 5 inside…
5th Cell has launched its latest game, Castlehold, on Steam Early Access.
Castelhold is a free-to-play strategy game. While many strategy titles feature long matches on huge maps, Castlehold has faster-paced battles. It has you playing characters with cards that you can then send out on a hexagon map to take over castles and fight the enemy.
It’s a bit like Hearthstone meets Advance Wars.
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Zynga has acquired Echtra Games, the game studio that Diablo and Torchlight co-creator Max Schaefer started, as part of its expansion into cross-platform games that include PC and…
Ctrl, a startup that makes healthy shakes and other nutritious food for gamers, is now available in 750 Vitamin Shoppe stores around the U.S.
As I mentioned in my last story, I normally don’t write about this kind of company, as meal-replacement shakes aren’t innovative.
One of the most popular live-service multiplayer hits of 2020 is joining forces with Fortnite developer Epic Games. Epic announced today that it has acquired Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout studio Mediatonic.
Epic and Mediatonic did not confirm the details of their deal. But the two companies did say that the game won’t change for existing players on PC or PlayStation or soon on Xbox and Nintendo…
The team at PopCap ported its latest game, Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, to the Nintendo Switch. And producer Melvin Teo talked with the How Games Make Money podcast to explain what that process is like. Challenges include getting the Frostbite Engine that…
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Ubisoft and the Belgian Pro League have partnered to develop One Shot League, a new blockchain-driven fantasy soccer game.
Ubisoft’s Strategic Innovation Lab and its existing Pro…
I don’t know what you think of when you read the word “microchip” or “semiconductor,” but I think of the Cold War. In particular, I think of the microchips inside of the early guided missiles. Like author Stephen D. Bryen explains in his book Technology Security and National Power: Winners and Losers, the United States pulled ahead during the Cold War in part because that is the…
