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Steam’s new experiment is improving search results in the game store

Valve revealed today that its latest Steam Labs experiment is optimizing its digital gaming store’s search engine. Steam is the world’s largest digital PC store. It’s important that its users can easily discover new games, both for Valve and the publishers that use Steam. Right now, Steam can be a bit front-loaded. The games that are hits are big hits, while many more titles go unnoticed.
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Minecraft with RTX is out, and it’s worth seeing for yourself

Ray tracing is now available in the Windows 10 version of Minecraft. This enables you to get the next-gen lighting technology in the block-building game. Since it’s out now, I can talk a bit about my experience with it, why you should try it, and how it performs. Let’s…
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Riot Games acquires Hypixel Studios, maker of upcoming Minecraft-like game

Riot Games has acquired Hypixel Studios, a maker of an upcoming game that resembles the popular titles Minecraft and Roblox. Hypixel’s Hytale is going to be a user-generated content (UGC) game — a  community-powered sandbox world with a blocky 8-bit art style. The game originated from the creators of Hypixel, the world’s largest mod server. Riot Games has known the company for a while…
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Valve brings back Steam Game Festival in June to fill the E3 gap

Valve Software is once again planning to use its massive Steam platform to help developers and publishers show off their games. The company announced The Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition today. This event is returning June 9, which is the original start date for E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo). But E3 organizers cancelled this year’s gathering in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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Capcom shipped 2 million copies of Resident Evil 3 in 5 days

The Resident Evil franchise continues to deliver strong results for publisher Capcom. In a press release today, the company confirmed it shipped 2 million copies of Resident Evil 3 Remake in its first five days. That includes sales of the survival-horror adventure on…
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Call of Duty dominates PlayStation Store’s March downloads

Sony released charts showing the top downloads on the PlayStation 4’s digital store for March, and Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty franchise dominated the month. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, the latest main installment in the shooter franchise that hit in September, was the most downloaded PS4 game in March. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Remastered, which only includes the single-player…
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