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The Switch OLED is better than a Switch Pro (for Nintendo)

October 12, 2021
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  The Nintendo Switch OLED Edition is a solid upgrade to one of the most popular and successful consoles of all time. The obvious benefits are the larger, sharper screen in handheld mode. But the device also feels more premium thanks to minor refinements to the manufacturing…
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Playtika’s Wooga launches Switchcraft story-based mobile game

October 11, 2021
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Playtika’s game studio Wooga is launching Switchcraft, a narrative-based match-3 game that has been in the works for a few years. The title is the first…
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Apple appeals outcome of its legal battle with Epic Games

October 10, 2021
In response to one of the outcomes of the Apple vs. Epic Games ruling from back in September, Apple has filed to appeal the Court’s ruling. While Apple won 9 of the 10 claims made by Epic Games, it did lose on one. That one claim was that Apple was illegally stifling…
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Video games are risky, expensive, and a really good business

October 8, 2021
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Making video games is an exercise in cognitive dissonance. It is a hit-driven business where you can never know how consumers will respond. And yet you have to invest tens (sometimes hundreds) of millions of dollars just to have a shot at success. Despite that risk and expense…
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The DeanBeat: Twitch hack exposes more industry secrets

October 8, 2021
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Perhaps the lesson of the leak of a trove Twitch‘s data, source code, and internal tools is that we can expect this to happen to just about everybody in…
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Call of Duty developer Infinity Ward expands with new Austin studio

October 7, 2021
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Infinity Ward, the development studio behind several Call of Duty games, today announced that it is opening a new studio in Austin, Texas. The Austin location joins the original Infinity Ward in California, as well as its other offices in Poland and Mexico. The studio added in its…
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Valve posts disassembly video of its handheld Steam Deck PC

October 7, 2021
Valve has just posted a video to its YouTube channel of its upcoming Steam Deck being partially disassembled. Valve is the company behind Steam, a popular online PC game store. The Steam Deck is a handheld PC designed to mimic the form factor of the Nintendo Switch so that…
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Battlefield 2042 beta hands-on — Flying into the tornado

October 6, 2021
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  During one goofy moment in my demo of Battlefield 2042, I really felt I was enjoying myself. A tornado had appeared on the map, leaving destruction in its path. I jumped off a building and opened my parachute. But instead of avoiding the spinning tornado, I flew into it just to…
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