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EA Sports FC likely to replace ‘FIFA’ name

March 25, 2022
GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Electronic Arts doesn’t want to pay a premium to FIFA, the organization behind soccer, for the name of its soccer game. The FIFA games are some of the most popular in the world, but EA doesn’t think maintaining the name is worth the $1 billion that FIFA wants for it. That is…
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Xbox dev kit gets support for AMD’s FSR upscaling tech

March 24, 2022
GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Next-gen upscaling tech is finally coming to consoles. While we’ve waited for Nvidia and Nintendo to announce some sort of deep-learning supersampling…
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Gamefam raises $25M to build games for Roblox

March 23, 2022
GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Gamefam has raised $25 million in venture funding to build games on Roblox in another sign of the growth of user-generated content. Joe Ferencz, CEO of…
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A Nintendo Switch for professionals | Last of the Nintendogs

March 23, 2022
GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Nintendo Switch has folders now. I don’t really know why I’m telling you this. I mean, it is a new feature for the 5-year-old system, but also — I mean, it’s just folders. Anyway, we talk about this on the podcast. We also determine which retro franchises need a…
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More can be done to curb misuse of Cobalt Strike, expert says

March 22, 2022
Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? Watch On-Demand Here. Although it’s a commercially available software product from a U.S.-based cybersecurity vendor, Cobalt Strike is one of the most popular tools used by cybercriminals, primarily because of its versatility…
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Nintendo Switch gets folders 1,844 days after release

March 22, 2022
GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Psychics feared this day would come. Nintendo has aligned its arcane arts to bring us the forbidden update: The Nintendo Switch now has folders. If your pets are acting strangely and you are currently experiencing unexplained weather patterns, now you know one possible…
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Roblox and Sony unveil 24kGoldn virtual concert

March 21, 2022
GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Roblox and Sony announced that music artist 24kGoldn will perform a virtual concert inside the platform for user-generated content. It’s just one more…
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Ubisoft Scalar is a cloud-based game production tool for massive worlds

March 18, 2022
GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! French video game publisher Ubisoft unveiled its cloud-based technology Ubisoft Scalar as part of its preview for the Game Developers Conference. The technology will use the cloud to enable better game production to widen the types of games that can be created for huge…
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