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Stylish PC roguelike 'Hades' heads to Switch this fall

August 24, 2020
The Prince of Hell is heading to Switch. Hades, the stylish action-RPG from Supergiant Games, will hit Nintendo Switch in the fall, at the same time that it exits Early Access on PC. Hades has been in Early Access since December 2018, first as an exclusive on the Epic Games Store. It hit Steam a year later. The Switch version of Hades will feature cross-save capabilities with the PC edition…
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Twitch Drops expansion rewards viewers when streamers play well

August 24, 2020
Thanks to streaming services, watching people play video games can often be as fun as taking part. Game studios have paid close attention, often enlisting big name streamers to generate buzz for their upcoming titles via reward systems like Twitch’s Drops platform. Riot…
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Nintendo's 'Ring Fit Adventure' is $10 off at Amazon

August 24, 2020
Update 4:24pm ET: New Ring Fit Adventure units have sold out. The deal price is no longer available, and only used models of Ring Fit Adventure are currently for sale. We’ll update this post accordingly if the deal returns later today. Anything related to the Nintendo…
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PlayStation led game industry TV ad impressions again, but Nintendo nips at its heels

August 22, 2020
Spending on game ads are flat despite the U.S. consumers continuing to face stay-at-home orders during the pandemic and the return of baseball, basketball, and hockey broadcasts, though these numbers should increase as soon as Microsoft and Sony start pitching their next-generation consoles (the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5) on TV. From mid-July to mid-August, the game industry showed a small…
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GamesBeat Decides 160: When’s the next Nintendo Direct?

August 22, 2020
GamesBeat Decides hosts Jeff Grubb and Mike Minotti are flying the friendly skies on this week’s episode. The pair are getting a surprising amount of enjoyment out of Microsoft Flight Simulator. They both also really like the Xbox beat-’em-up Battletoads from developers…
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Read the emails between Epic and Apple that led to Fortnite’s App Store ban

August 22, 2020
It’s been just over a week since Fortnite developer Epic Games initiated an unprecedented antitrust legal fight with Apple over its App Store rules, and the lawsuit is shedding new light on how the companies came into conflict. Today, Apple entered into evidence a series of emails from Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, in which he asked top Apple executives to exempt Fortnite from its standard 30 percent…
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The DeanBeat: Gaming mental health conference encourages men to seek help

August 21, 2020
Brett Schnepf was a veteran of the game industry, with decades of experience. Earlier this month, he killed himself. In a GoFundMe campaign for funeral expenses, his son Duke recounted with pride how his father was part of so many amazing teams in the video game business. The elder Schnepf had worked on the original Xbox, Flight Simulator, Sidewinder, and many other projects. The original Duke…
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