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Xbox Series X’s ‘Quick Resume’ demo is better than magic

March 16, 2020

Microsoft is showing off many of the details of its upcoming next-gen console in the lead up to that system’s holiday release. And one of the key new features it’s demonstrating is the Xbox Series X’s Quick Resume technology. This enables you to continue playing multiple games from a suspended save point. And since the Xbox Series X has backward compatibility, the feature works with existing…

Call of Duty: Warzone hits 15 million battle royale players in 4 days

March 14, 2020

Call of Duty: Warzone debuted on Tuesday as the latest free-to-play battle royale game in Activision Blizzard’s shooter series. And it hit 15 million players in four days. The game hit 6 million players in its first 24 hours on the PC and consoles. That’s a pretty good…

The RetroBeat: Chrono Trigger is the fast-paced blockbuster of JRPGs

March 13, 2020

Chrono Trigger turned 25 on March 11, which has had me thinking about this classic Japanese role-playing game (whenever I’m not spending my time freaking out about the current worldwide pandemic, anyway). I don’t know many JRPG fans who wouldn’t put Chrono Trigger in…

Xbox Live is down as people huddle at home away from coronavirus

March 13, 2020

Xbox Live is down due to a number of technical disruptions. Microsoft’s online gaming service isn’t working for everybody, and the company has told players it is working to bring it back online. The Xbox Live outage is primarily keeping people from signing into the service across Xbox One, Xbox 360, and Windows. In turn, that is preventing players from booting up digital games or games that…

Call of Duty League shifts to online-only events due to coronavirus

March 12, 2020

Activision Blizzard announced that the Call of Duty League will shift to an online-only competition, shedding the in-person events because of the coronavirus. The fear of COVID-19 is taking its toll on esports events held in live venues, where there are risks of the virus…

Esports is tough: Super League Gaming lost $30.6 million on $1 million in revenue in 2019

March 12, 2020

Super League Gaming, an esports company that holds events for amateurs, reported that it lost $30.6 million in 2019, on revenues of $1 million. That illustrates the reality of how it isn’t easy to make money in the fledgling esports market, at least for some…

Epic Games acquires facial animation technology maker Cubic Motion

March 12, 2020

Epic Games has acquired Cubic Motion, a provider of automated performance-driven facial animation technology for video games, film, broadcast, and immersive experiences such as virtual reality. Cubic Motion has helped Epic on its quest to create graphically realistic virtual humans, which look and behave like real people. Cubic Motion’s part of that has been to capture the facial animation and…

Activision Blizzard names Google executive Daniel Alegre as president and COO

March 11, 2020

Activision Blizzard has named Google executive Daniel Alegre as president and chief operating officer, effective April 7. He will report to CEO Bobby Kotick and replace Coddy Johnson, a 12-year veteran at the big game publisher. Johnson will serve as special advisor to the…

Not even Doom Eternal will run at 4K on Google Stadia

March 11, 2020

Ultra HD 4K was one of the major promises that Google laid out for its Stadia cloud-gaming service at last year’s Game Developers Conference. Now, developer id Software is backpedaling on its claims of supporting that resolution on the platform. While Doom is going to hit…

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…