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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 Valve’s digital storefront, so this will be happy news for Steam fans. Borderlands 3 has been a big hit for publisher 2K…
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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…
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Google Stadia gets one year exclusive on Modus Games’ Lost Words: Beyond the Page

February 27, 2020
Google Stadia is getting a boost today as indie publisher Modus Games announced it will bring several titles to Google’s cloud gaming service this year, beginning with role-playing game Lost Words: Beyond the Page. Modus describes as the touching tale of a young girl’s personal growth through grief. Lost Words will release first on Stadia on March 27, 2020 for one year before also launching on…
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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…
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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, “We are saddened to hear about the passing of Kazuhisa Hashimoto, a deeply talented producer who first introduced the…
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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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Microsoft confirms Xbox Series X will have a 12 teraflop GPU

February 26, 2020
We already know the Xbox Series X is going to be significantly faster than Microsoft’s current consoles, but in a blog post by Xbox head Phil Spencer, the company revealed a few more details about how big of a leap it’s going to be. Most notably, Microsoft confirmed that the Series X will feature up to 12 teraflops of GPU performance. Previously, the company only vaguely said it was…
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