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Baldur’s Gate III is coming to Steam Early Access in 2020 as it quests for the high ground

February 27, 2020
Baldur’s Gate III is following the lead of the Divinity: Original Sin series, debuting on Steam Early Access sometime this year, and it’s also showing off its first chunk of gameplay. Larian Studios revealed this info (it said in a few months, but nothing’s confirming this yet) during a special press event last week. In it, Larian boss Swen Vinke first showed off an impressive trailer with a…
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Borderlands 3 comes to Steam on March 13

February 27, 2020
Gearbox announced today during a presentation at PAX East in Boston that Borderlands 3 will be coming to Steam on March 13. The multiplayer looter shooter has been on PC since it launched on September 13, but only through the Epic Games Store. Some PC players prefer…
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Minecraft Festival is coming to Orlando in September

February 27, 2020
Minecraft‘s annual event started out as a convention, but flipped to a streaming-only format in 2017 in a bid to maintain the tight-knit atmosphere for an increasingly large audience. It’s moving back to that in-person experience, however, and it now has details…
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IKEA’s new vegetarian meatballs will taste more like meat

February 27, 2020
A trip to IKEA isn’t complete without a plate of Swedish meatballs. While the company offers a vegetarian version of its iconic meal, the veggie meatballs don’t taste much like meat. Joining the trend set by fast food chains like Burger King and KFC, the furniture giant plans to offer an updated vegetarian option of its meatballs that taste closer to traditional meat. According to the…
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Roblox raises $150 million round led by Andreessen Horowitz

February 27, 2020
Online gaming platform Roblox has raised $150 million in funding in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s late stage venture fund. It seems the folks at Andreessen Horowitz have been playing a lot of user-generated games on Roblox, like Work at a Pizza Place or Meep City, each of which have gotten billions of plays on the platform. In the funding round, Roblox is also offering employees and…
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The creator of the Konami Code has died

February 26, 2020
Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a and start. It’s the most famous cheat code in all of gaming, and now its creator, former Konami employee Kazuhisa Hashimoto, has died. He was 61-years-old. Konami confirmed the death on Wednesday, saying on Twitter…
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Xbox One gets another simplified dashboard redesign

February 26, 2020
Microsoft revealed last month it’s been working on a whole host of changes for the February 2020 Xbox One Update, and now they’re finally rolling out. The biggest change is yet another new Home interface — so if you’ve got downloads set to install…
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'Cyberpunk 2077' studio commits to a free Xbox Series X upgrade

February 26, 2020
Microsoft promised that its current generation in-house games would use Smart Delivery to take advantage of the Xbox Series X’s performance, but what about the hinted-at third-party games? There appears to be one already lined up. CD Projekt Red has confirmed that Cyberpunk 2077 will get an Xbox Series X upgrade for free when it’s ready. You should “never be forced to…
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