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Share your memories of the first Xbox console!

November 14, 2019
Tomorrow marks the eighteenth anniversary of the original Xbox, the first console from Microsoft that kicked off a rivalry with PlayStation that still burns today. Stockier and arguably more stylish than the first PlayStation, the first generation Xbox featured a 733MHz Intel Pentium III processor and a built-in hard disk. The initial sales of the Xbox broke records, with 1.5 million units sold…
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Epic Games’ Battle Breakers launches for PC and mobile

November 13, 2019
Epic Games has officially launched Battle Breakers today for PC and mobile. Battle Breakers is a tactical role-playing game. The title had a soft launch in select countries back in 2017. Now the free-to-play game is available for everyone. This is the first game Epic has…
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Twitch makes it easier for first-time streamers to get started

November 12, 2019
Twitch wants to make streamer easier for newbies. Launching today, the Twitch Studio is a new streaming app designed to help gamers go live for the first time with minimal fuss or to up their game if they’re still new to the scene. Features include a guided setup…
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Twitch Studio’s streamlined streaming suite

November 12, 2019
Twitch Studio is going into open beta today with the goal of enabling anyone to become a livestreamer. The aim from Amazon’s Twitch division is to get new streamers to learn how to stream quickly. Twitch Studio has livestream production features such as a guided stream setup, which simplifies the detection of your PC’s microphone, webcam, monitor resolution, bitrate, and more to help your…
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'Minecraft Earth' early access arrives in the US

November 12, 2019
It took ages, but Minecraft Earth is finally available on Microsoft’s home soil. The early access version of the augmented reality game has launched in the US for Android and iOS. While it’s still not the full-fledged version Microsoft and Mojang have been…
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'Sonic the Hedgehog' movie tries again with a new trailer

November 12, 2019
Paramount’s original trailer for the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog movie was… really something, wasn’t it? The under-stylized body, the odd soundtrack choice, the teeth. Such was the Sonic fandom’s collective horror that director Jeff Fowler…
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Epic Games acquires photogrammetry startup Quixel to make games more realistic

November 12, 2019
Epic Games announced it has acquired Quixel, a startup that created a huge “photogrammetry” asset library of real world imagery that can be used in animated films or video games. Back in March during the Epic Games event at the Game Developers Conference, Quixel demoed a cinematic short film Rebirth that looked like it was someone taking a video of a landscape with a video camera. Only it was…
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Tencent reportedly wants to develop its own games with Nintendo characters

November 11, 2019
Tencent has eyes on building Nintendo-style games with Nintendo characters, at least according to the Wall Street Journal. It quotes an unnamed Tencent official saying the company wants to “expand from China” by building console games for the US and Europe. Rather than push its own ideas an IP, however, Tencent will try and become a household name here by piggybacking on…
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