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GamesBeat Decides 141: A Nintendo Direct approaches

March 11, 2020
We gotta go fast on this week’s episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast. Reviews editor Mike Minotti has to run to get to his World of Warcraft raid because he is very cool, so that leaves PC gaming editor Jeff Grubb with a tight timeline to fit in all the news. And this week that includes our story about the upcoming Nintendo Direct. The publisher’s semi-regular video event is coming before…
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Israel’s Toya creates social games for girls on Roblox

March 11, 2020
Toya is a game studio that makes social games on top of Roblox, but it is different because it is making games with girls and women in mind. Roblox has 115 million monthly active players, and people engage with it more than 1.5 billion hours a month. The top games are…
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Zynga cofounder builds Gala network for decentralized gaming

March 11, 2020
Blockchain Game Partners is building a blockchain-based infrastructure dubbed Gala to enable games where players own their own content and platforms don’t fleece developers for the games that they create. It’s the brainchild of Eric Schiermeyer, the founder and CEO of Blockchain Game Partners in Park City, Utah. His team is building the Gala network to enable games to take advantage of…
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March Nintendo Direct in the works with focus on 2020 lineup

March 11, 2020
The next Nintendo Direct is in the works. The publisher hasn’t confirmed the event yet, but it’s in the final stages of putting the video presentation together. That’s based on what we’re hearing as well as some other indicators. Expect a Nintendo Direct soon. The…
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Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous — Adapting a tabletop RPG campaign for a PC game

March 6, 2020
Whenever I think of adapting tabletop role-playing campaigns to a PC game, my mind goes to Temple of Elemental Evil. It’s one of the seminal modules of Dungeons & Dragons, and in 2003, Troika Games released a near 1-to-1 conversion of it as a PC game. And boy, did it have problems beyond bugs despite having all the bones of a fantastic RPG and being one of the best adaptations of the…
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Google Stadia is rolling out 4K streaming on the web

March 5, 2020
Google is finally fulfilling a key promise for Stadia by rolling out 4K gaming on the web, according to 9to5Google and several Reddit users. You’ll need a Stadia Pro subscription and fast internet connection to use the feature, with Google specifying a minimum…
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Ghosts of Tsushima unsheathes its PS4 sword on June 26

March 5, 2020
Sony announced today that Ghosts of Tsushima will come out for PlayStation 4 on June 26. Ghosts of Tsushima is a samurai action-adventure game from Sucker Punch Studios, the developer behind other notable PlayStation exclusives like the Sly Cooper and Infamous series. It’s set in Japan in the 1270s, during the first Mongol invasion of that country. Tsushima is one of the last big exclusives…
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