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Steam officially launches Remote Play Together beta for everyone

October 21, 2019
Anyone can now play local multiplayer games online with friends on Steam. Valve Software launched Steam’s Remote Play Together into public beta today. So you can opt into the feature, which enables you to invite a friend to play a game with you over the internet as if they were sitting right next to you. Remote Play Together works with two-to-four people — although Valve says it can…
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Twitch snags chief marketing officer Doug Scott from Zynga

October 21, 2019
Twitch, the livestreaming service and entertainment community owned by Amazon, is announcing today that former Zynga chief marketing officer Doug Scott is joining Twitch as the new CMO. He will be based in Twitch’s San Francisco office. The move shows that Twitch is still…
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Xbox Live change enables you to choose any gamertag you want

October 21, 2019
Xbox Live is changing the way that gamertags work. The service now enables you to change your name to whatever you want — although, you will get a numerical identified to go along with that. Of course, you still can’t use a lot of hateful or suggestive words. And the…
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Super League Gaming and ggCircuit create global amateur Fortnite Chapter 2 tournament with $130,000 in prizes

October 21, 2019
Super League Gaming has teamed up with ggCircuit to stage a Fortnite 2 global amateur tournament with $130,000 in prizes. As part of its mission to bring esports to the masses, Super League Gaming will enable everyday gamers to compete for prizes in gaming centers that use ggCircuit‘s cloud-based software in Fortnite squad and solo tournaments with chapter 2 of the popular cartoon battle royale…
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The Google Stadia controller prototypes

October 19, 2019
An exclusive look at how Google designed its Stadia game controller Stan Horaczek, Popular Science We’ve known for months that Google built its own controller for the upcoming Stadia game streaming service. But Popular Science recently got a behind-the-scenes look at the design process, including a glimpse of the “hundreds” of prototypes for the device. “We put out rigs…
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Fortnite is finally getting better spatial audio

October 18, 2019
One of the reasons I couldn’t get into Fortnite was the sound. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has an excellent and accurate sound model, and that made it difficult to move to another game that doesn’t. In Fortnite, it was difficult to tell where attacks were coming…
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Sonic & Knuckles turned a problem into success 25 years ago

October 18, 2019
Sonic & Knuckles is what happens when you make the best out of a bad situation. The Sega Genesis 2D platformer is celebrating its 25th anniversary today. But Sonic & Knuckles only exists because of time and memory constraints. Sega had planned for everything that’s in Sonic & Knuckles to be a part of Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Sega, however, was running up against a deadline. Sonic 3 had…
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