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Zynga’s Small Giant Games studio has launched Puzzle Combat, a new mobile match-3 action-role-playing game from the maker of Empires & Puzzles.
Small Giant Games’ success with Empires & Puzzles has been huge, and it’s one reason that Zynga bought the Helsinki-based studio for $560 million (and more…
Publisher Dotemu along with developers Lizardcube and Guard Crush Games announced that new content is coming to Streets of Rage 4 via paid DLC and a free update. Neither have a release date, although we know that both will release at the same time “later this…
Super Mario Bros. 35 is gone, but Nintendo Switch Online members are getting a new battle royale experience with Pac-Man.
Bandai Namco revealed Pac-Man 99 this evening. It’ll be available on April 7 starting at 6 p.m. Pacific. And unlike Super Mario 35, it does not appear…
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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…
