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Roblox is one of gaming’s many quiet giants. Or, if you have teenagers or children, perhaps it is not so quiet. The long-running user-generated content platform went public in March with a $41.9 billion valuation thanks in large part to its massive audience of young players. But the company’s worth…
We Are the Caretakers interview: Juggling Afrofuturism, poaching, and strategy in one RPG
April 4, 2021
We Are the Caretakers is one of those games that intrigues you after reading its description. It’s a strategy-RPG that blends mechanics from the likes of Ogre Battle and XCOM, looking at them through the lenses of Afrofuturism and conservation. It takes on issues such as…
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On this week’s episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast, reviews editor Mike Minotti shares some deeply troubling information about the nature of the game Kingdom Hearts 358/2…
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Nobody likes cheaters. I was playing Call of Duty: Warzone recently with my friend Anthony Palma, and he took down another player. That player was completely dead, not wounded. And then the player auto-rezzed, got up, and escaped. Another time, I was hiding in a building, and then I got shot through the…
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Crash Bandicoot: On the Run has garnered more than 27 million downloads, according to market analyst Sensor Tower.
The free-to-play mobile game had its official launch on March 25.
Our very serious obituary for Mario
April 1, 2021
Once it’s midnight, Nintendo is going to execute Mario. After today, Super Mario 3D All-Stars will disappear from retail and digital store shelves, and Super Mario Bros. 35 will shut down.
Mario debuted in 1981 as the hero of the smash arcade hit Donkey Kong. His star…
Epic Games has teamed up with Cesium to enable 3D geospatial technology in games that use the Unreal Engine.
Cesium will be available for free for all creators on the Unreal Engine Marketplace. It’s an open-source plugin for the engine that unlocks global 3D data and geospatial technology. This means that games that use it will be able to discover in real time the location of a player in a given…
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Atari has launched its Atari Capsule Collection of collectible nonfungible tokens (NFTs), which use blockchain technology to uniquely identify collectibles for Pong and…
Nexon, the Tokyo-based maker of Maplestory and other online games, has invested $874 million in Hasbro, Bandai Namco, Konami, and Sega Sammy.
Nexon said it has made an unrealized gain of $279 million on the long-term investments, but it has no intention of acquiring the…
RPGs in 2021 and beyond: The Nexon take
March 27, 2021
The flavor and mechanics of role-playing games are all over the industry these days. The way you build skills, statistics, gear, and even worlds borrow from the ideas we first saw in tabletop war games, Strat-O-Matic Baseball, and Dungeons & Dragons.
But I know where RPGs have been. I’m more interested in where they’re going.
So I’m going to spend the rest of 2021 talking to people…
