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Ubisoft plans to improve ‘Ghost Recon Breakpoint’ with a month of bug fixes

By most accounts, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, the latest game from Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft, is a broken mess. Thanks to its unfinished state, the game performed so poorly in its first week of availability that Ubisoft recently delayed most of its major 2020 releases. However, in a blog post published on Monday, the publisher detailed how it plans to fix the game. To start, Ubisoft…
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Xbox-to-Android game streaming is available in preview

You can finally stream your Xbox One games to your phone, provided you meet some rather specific criteria. Microsoft has launched an Xbox Console Streaming preview that enables playing your installed Xbox One games (this isn’t the Project xCloud service, to be clear)…
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Electronic Arts: ‘We are doubling-down on live services’

You may think that the world already has too many live-service games, but that is still where Electronic Arts is putting its investment. The publisher confirmed that today as part of the executive remarks in its quarterly earnings statement. EA reported strong results for Q2 of its fiscal 2020. Total net revenues were $1.348 billion, up from $1.286 billion last year, thanks to strong performance…
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The first season of Call of Duty League begins January 24th

Activision Blizzard’s bid at an Overwatch-style, city-based Call of Duty esports competition is relatively close to getting underway. The publisher has announced that the first season of the Call of Duty League will get started on the weekend of January 24th, 2020…
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EA puts Battlefield on ice until at least April 2021

Don’t expect a new Battlefield game for a couple years, as Electronic Arts noted in a conference call for its fiscal earnings today that the series is going to be taking a break. EA said that there won’t be a new Battlefield until fiscal year 2022, which starts on March…
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EA stuffs NBA Live 20 to focus on next-gen consoles

Last quarter, Electronic Arts released FIFA 20, Madden NFL 20, and NHL 20. But once again, the company’s basketball sim NBA Live was a no-show. Now, EA is confirming that it is canceling that game — even though it never officially announced it. “We’re not launching a new NBA Live HD product this season,” EA chief executive officer Andrew Wilson said during a conference call with…
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EA's 'NBA Live' franchise is out for the season, again

One again, EA’s NBA franchise is skipping a season, as the company announced during today’s earnings call that NBA Live 20 has been cancelled. Three months ago the project was simply delayed with plans for a “different approach,” but that won’t…
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Fortnite’s black hole teases the future of entertainment

As audiences have embraced on-demand video services, algorithmic feeds, and an ever-growing number of digital “things to do,” our collective attentions have become hyper-fragmented. Yet we know that audiences actually love shared live experiences. Jeopardy is more fun watched with others. Movies are funnier in a packed theater. It’s hard to enjoy sporting events that happened hours…
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