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Rockstar Games will donate 5% of GTA Online and Red Dead Online revenue to fight coronavirus

April 1, 2020
The next time you spend money in GTA Online’s Diamond casino, you can feel good about it. Rockstar Games said it will donate 5% of revenue for GTA Online and Red Dead Online for the next month to fight the coronavirus. Rockstar said that “community is at the center of everything we do.” It added, “As our teams navigate these difficult times, we see our local communities across North…
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Twitch launches Mod View to make community moderating easier

March 31, 2020
Twitch has launched a new channel mode, dubbed Mod View, for moderators of livestream sessions. Mod View is for the community moderators who wear a lot of different hats, whether they’re welcoming new community members, hyping up the chat, or swinging the ban hammer on…
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Minecraft Dungeons builds a May 26 release date

March 31, 2020
Microsoft announced today that Minecraft Dungeons will release on May 26 for PC, PlayStation 4, Switch, and Xbox One. Minecraft Dungeons is an action role-playing game take on the franchise. Four players can explore randomly generated dungeons together with up to four total…
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 remaster launches on PS4

March 31, 2020
Activision confirmed one of its worst-kept secrets: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered is now out on the PlayStation 4. The move surprised no one, as the trailer leaked via a PlayStation Store listing, and other details of the remaster were exposed by a data miner over the weekend. The remaster includes the single-player campaign for Modern Warfare 2, which originally debuted in…
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DeepMind’s Agent57 beats humans at 57 classic Atari games

March 31, 2020
In a preprint paper published this week by DeepMind, Google parent company Alphabet’s U.K.-based research division, a team of scientists describe Agent57, which they say is the first system that outperforms humans on all 57 Atari games in the Arcade Learning Environment…
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Atari’s Pong Quest turns the classic paddle game into an RPG

March 31, 2020
Atari is taking a break from building hotels because … well, the world is taking a break from hotels. In the interim, the publisher is bringing back one of the original gaming franchises. Pong Quest is a new entry in the ball-and-paddle series that remixes the action with…
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GameRefinery: Revenues and competition are heating up in mobile RPGs

March 31, 2020
GameRefinery has released a snapshot report of the mobile role-playing game (RPG) genre for the first quarter of 2020. And the evaluation of 200 features in 2,000 games shows how the competition is increasing and revenues growing in the genre. The report from the mobile game insight and analytics firm said that RPGs generate about 12% of all revenue among iOS games. Traditionally, licensed brands…
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Nintendo is making 3D Mario remasters for his 35th anniversary

March 30, 2020
The Super Mario series is turning 35 this year, and Nintendo has big plans for the plumber’s birthday. That includes updating and bringing back most of his games for Nintendo Switch, according to a report from Video Games Chronicle. Eurogamer is backing up that report, and…
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Gamedev.World starts GDC Relief fundraiser for indie game developers on Twitch

March 30, 2020
Gamedev.World has started its GDC Relief fundraiser for indie game developers on Twitch. The live fundraiser starts today, March 30, and continues through April 1. The aim is to provide financial relief for developers who lost money when the Game Developers Conference abruptly canceled last month as the coronavirus gathered steam. The GDC was supposed to take place in San Francisco the week of…
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