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A Nintendo Direct and Elden Ring DLC trailer drop on the same day

February 21, 2024
February 21 is going to be a full day for gamers, as both Nintendo and Bandai Namco are dropping new details about their much-anticipated upcoming projects. Nintendo is holding its Partner Showcase at 6 am PT, while Bandai Namco is finally revealing details about Elden Ring’s big DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree at 7 am PT. It’s going to be a very interesting morning. The Nintendo Direct is…
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Epic Games Store hits 270M PC users, up 17% from 2022

February 20, 2024
Epic Games said the Epic Games Store has hit 270 million PC players in 2023, up 40 million, or 17% from 2022. This community now has a total of 804 million Epic cross-platform accounts. In 2023 Daily Active Users peaked at 36.1 million, and Monthly Active Users reached 75…
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Overworld raises $10M to create anime-inspired free-to-play ARPG

February 15, 2024
Overworld, the developer partnered with blockchain games publisher Xterio, announced today that it has raised $10 million in a seed funding round. The studio is working on its first game, also temporarily named Overworld, a web3 free-to-play action-RPG with anime-inspired artwork that runs on the Xterio token. Jeremy Horn, Xterio’s COO, spoke to GamesBeat in an interview about what kind of game…
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Could PlayStation benefit from Xbox games going multiplatform?

February 15, 2024
In less than one day, we’ll all know the future of Xbox — Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond and Matt Booty plan to make an appearance on the official Xbox podcast to discuss the topic. This comes after days of chatter following the supposed leak of Xbox multiplatform news.
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Minecraft is reviving lost Universal Studios rides

February 14, 2024
Universal and Minecraft are teaming up for an in-game theme park experience. The Minecraft DLC, dubbed Universal Studios Experience, is out now. It lets you visit classic Universal rides, including some that have long left the real world. This is especially exciting for a theme park fan like me who has deeply missed Back to the Future: The Ride and Jaws. It will also include some rides…
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Midnight plans to aggregate games inside Web3 Evergreen MMORPG

February 13, 2024
In a white paper, Midnight announced that it plans to aggregate a bunch of games inside its Evergreen massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Evergreen is a game as well as a first publishing platform that operates as a deconstructed, composable MMORPG, delivering an…
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Why Gaming for Good is a cause to get behind | interview

February 13, 2024
I’ve caught up with Mathias Gredal Nørvig, CEO of Sybo, and Jude Ower, CEO of Playmob, to hear them talk about their book Gaming for Good in the past year. Their book is finally out today. We talked about it during the Game Developers Conference in 2023, the Games for…
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Knuckles Super Bowl trailer spins off Sonic movies into streaming

February 12, 2024
The trailer for the upcoming Knuckles series aired during the Super Bowl. The upcoming Paramount+ show — debuting April 26, 2024 — marks the first spin off of the Sonic the Hedgehog movies starring James Marsden, Jim Carrey and Ben Schwartz. The titular echidna debuted in 2022’s Sonic the Hedgehog voiced by Idris Elba, who will reprise his role in the series. The trailer itself debuted…
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