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Ubisoft is delaying almost every game it has announced

October 24, 2019
Ubisoft is delaying several major games on its upcoming slate. Watch Dogs: Legion had been set for March 6th and Gods & Monsters had a release date of February 25th, while Rainbow Six Quarantine had also been earmarked for the first quarter of 2020. Those games will now arrive in the second half of next year. The publisher made the call to push back them back in the wake of…
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Former Xbox executive Mike Ybarra is Blizzard's new GM

October 24, 2019
Former Xbox executive Mike Ybarra has revealed his next role: he’s joining Blizzard as executive vice-president and general manager. He’ll step into the job just after Blizzcon, which takes place next weekend. I’m very happy to announce I’m…
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare multiplayer impressions — A romp through a battlefield playground

October 24, 2019
While the single-player campaign of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is intense, ponderous, and serious, the tone of multiplayer combat the opposite. It’s a romp through a battlefield playground, where players shriek for joy whenever they get a kill. I’ve played the full single-player campaign and a number of matches in multiplayer, both with the beta test for multiplayer and with the final code…
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Google Stadia’s first game-dev studio opens in Montreal

October 24, 2019
Google is launching its cloud-gaming service Stadia on November 19. The company is positioning this as the first giant leap into a console-less future. But one thing that will help Stadia succeed is marquee, exclusive content. So hopefully Google is starting to make some of…
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GameStop may begin selling Call of Duty: Modern Warfare early

October 24, 2019
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare launches tonight for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 when the clock strikes midnight. But you probably don’t have to wait until October 25 to start playing the military shooter. If you purchase it digitally, Activision plans to unlock the game…
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare — The single-player campaign begins with a couple of blasts

October 24, 2019
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare starts out with a notice that says it has mature content. You have to click on it where it says, “I understand.” That is your last chance to turn around before you get sucked into the enthralling but brutal story of modern war. Then it begins by grabbing your attention. A suicide bomber steps out of a truck into Piccadilly Circus in London. He holds a detonator in…
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Mike Ybarra joins Blizzard after years as Xbox services boss

October 24, 2019
Blizzard Entertainment is getting a new executive from Microsoft. Mike Ybarra is taking on the role of executive vice president and general manager at the Overwatch and World of Warcraft publisher. This comes two weeks after Ybarra left his long-time position on…
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Xbox One hardware falters, but software and services are bright spots

October 23, 2019
Xbox One hardware sales are continuing to fall, and that put a drag on Microsoft’s gaming division. Xbox revenues for Q1 of fiscal 2020 were down from $2.738 billion to $2.542 billion. The end of the generation is here, and people are less willing to go out and buy new hardware that originally debuted in 2013. So just like during Microsoft’s Q4 of fiscal 2018, hardware sales are…
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