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Epic Games’ MetaHuman Creator lets developers create realistic digital humans within minutes

February 10, 2021
Epic Games has unveiled its MetaHuman Creator, a new browser-based app that enables game developers and creators of real-time content to slash the time it takes to build digital humans from weeks to less than an hour. And as you can see from the images in this story, the tools can create highly realistic human characters. MetaHuman Creator runs in the cloud via Epic’s Unreal Engine with a…
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2 movie gets April 8, 2022 release date

February 10, 2021
Paramount Pictures announced today that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 movie will come out on April 8, 2022. The first Sonic movie came out on February 14. After redesigning its CG lead character following online backlash, the movie became a surprise hit. It was one of the last major…
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Crash Bandicoot 4 is heading to Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC

February 9, 2021
Activision Blizzard announced today that Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Switch on March 12 to celebrate the franchise’s 25th anniversary. A PC release will follow later this year. Crash Bandicoot 4 first came out for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 2. Following the success of 2017’s N. Sane Trilogy, which contained remakes of the…
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Ubisoft has its strongest quarter in company history

February 9, 2021
Ubisoft has posted its financial results for the third quarter of 2020-2021, boasting its best quarter ever. The period ended on December 31. During the three months, Ubisoft released huge games, including Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, Immortals: Fenyx Rising, and Watch…
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Electronic Arts acquires Glu Mobile for $2.4 billion

February 9, 2021
Electronic Arts is getting into the Kim Kardashian business. At least, that is the case if its deal to grab mobile gaming behemoth Glu Mobile goes through. EA announced its plans today to acquire Glu in a deal worth $2.4 billion. The companies expect the acquisition to close in second quarter of this year. This is EA’s second major acquisition in recent weeks, following its move to bring…
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ZeniMax Media CEO Robert Altman passes away at 73

February 5, 2021
ZeniMax Media chairman and CEO Robert Altman has passed away at the age of 73. The leader of the parent company of video game publisher Bethesda Softworks was in the midst of selling Bethesda to Microsoft for $7.5 billion. Microsoft’s purchase of Bethesda for so much money…
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Activision Blizzard beats expectations as Q4 revenue grows 21% to $2.41 billion

February 5, 2021
Activision Blizzard reported earnings today that beat Wall Street’s expectations with 21% revenue growth to $2.41 billion for the fourth quarter ended December 31. Activision’s Call of Duty franchise continued to outperform last year’s results as people continued to play a lot more games during the pandemic. Activision launched Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War in November on the existing…
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