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Tribe Gaming raises $1.04 million from celebrity athletes to expand its mobile esports business

Tribe Gaming has raised $1.04 million to expand its mobile esports teams and media business. The Austin, Texas-based company has courted celebrities, and investors in the deal include Gordon Hayward of the NBA’s Boston Celtics, Kristian Segerstrale (CEO of Super Evil Megacorp), Claudio Castagnoli (Cesaro) of the WWE, and angel investor Victor Krahn. Patrick “Chief Pat” Carney and…
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Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition comes to Switch in May

Nintendo hasn’t announced a lot of first-party releases for 2020, but one game that we’ve known is coming for a while is Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition. Now, that open-world action-RPG has a release date. Nintendo and developer Monolith Soft are launching the…
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Catherine: Full Body is coming to Switch on July 7

Nintendo revealed during its Direct Mini presentation today that Catherine: Full Body is coming to Switch on July 7. Full Body is a definitive edition release of the Atlus puzzle game, which debuted in 2011. The original version sold over 1 million copies, which is good for…
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Nintendo brings back Club House Games for Switch

Nintendo is bringing back one of its better and more obscure handheld properties. The publisher announced Club House Games: 51 Worldwide Classics is coming to Nintendo Switch on June 5. This is a followup to the excellent Clubhouse Games for Nintendo DS from 2006. 51 tabletop classics are coming together on #NintendoSwitch in #ClubhouseGames: 51 Worldwide Classics! Play games like Mancala…
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The ending of Doom Eternal

I’ll give it to the developers at id Software. They really know how to stretch out an ending. I’ve played through Doom Eternal on the easy setting, and I’ve included two videos of the actual ending in this post. And it feels like he ending goes on for a long time, especially if you die a lot. Now it’s not so bad as Death Stranding’s ending, which involves hours of cinematics. Or at least…
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Doom Eternal has the best launch weekend in franchise history

Bethesda announced today that Doom Eternal has had the best launch weekend of any game in the franchise’s history. The publisher did not specify how many copies it sold, but Bethesda did note that the launch weekend doubled the launch weekend revenue for the last entry in…
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Roblox’s in-game Bloxy Awards draw 600,000 spectators

Roblox announced that its seventh annual Bloxy Awards drew more than 4 million concurrent players during the peak of the show and 600,000 spectators for the show itself. The event ceremony, staged inside Roblox’s game world, raised $100,000 for nonprofits. San Mateo, California-based Roblox enables young programmers to make a living creating games within the blocky world of Roblox. And its…
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