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NBA 2K20 and Borderlands 3 top the charts

October 17, 2019
Consumer spending on video games continued to decline in the United States in September, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. But fans still showed up for some of the big releases, including the double-header of NBA 2K20 and Borderlands 3 from publisher Take-Two Interactive. Here are the full results: September 2019 Dollar Sales Sep’18 Sep’19 Change Total Video…
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NBA 2K20 is already the best-selling game of 2019 in the U.S.

October 17, 2019
NBA 2K20 came out on September 6 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC, but the sports game is already the U.S.’s best-selling title of 2019. This is according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group’s report on U.S. gaming sales for September 2019. Yes, NBA…
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The Switch turns Overwatch into a great second-screen game

October 17, 2019
Overwatch has finally made its way to the Nintendo Switch, fulfilling the endless requests from me that Blizzard port its popular team shooter to Nintendo’s portable console. It’s not the first mainstream shooter to make the jump to the Switch: Bethesda has ported Doom…
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare ditches loot boxes for a battle pass

October 17, 2019
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is just days away from its October 25th release date, and Activision has finally announced how it’ll be running the in-game economy for the upcoming shooter. Specifically, Modern Warfare will be the first Call of Duty game to use a battle pass system, instead of the much maligned random loot boxes, to dispense content and cosmetics to players. Popularized by…
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Save $24 on the new Nintendo Switch with improved battery life

October 17, 2019
Nintendo’s new, slightly improved Switch console has vastly improved battery life over the original model. If you’ve been thinking about upgrading to this version, or are purchasing your first Switch, Amazon’s deal might appeal to you. For a limited time, you can save…
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Watch the first trailer of ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’ for PC

October 17, 2019
Red Dead Redemption 2 developer Rockstar Games has shared the first trailer for the upcoming PC release of the game, which showcases the open-world western running at 4K and 60 frames per second. It also offers a glimpse of some of the other graphical enhancements that the studio has built into the game. We detailed all those enhancements, as well as the game’s minimum system requirements…
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Ring Fit Adventure review — Exercise: The RPG

October 17, 2019
Nintendo has a history of combining exercise and video games. And Ring Fit Adventure is the most recent entry in that lineage. Like Wii Fit before it, Ring Fit Adventure comes with a specialized peripheral. The RingCon is a circular resistant band that you might have…
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Red Dead Redemption 2 sure looks pretty at 4K60 on PC

October 17, 2019
Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming to PC, and now we can know just how good it will look. Developer Rockstar Games released the first 4K trailer of the game running at 60 frames per second today. And yeah, it turns out that the game looks stunning on modern hardware. Rockstar is releasing Red Dead Redemption 2 for PC on November 5. You can preorder it now on the Rockstar Games Launcher, which is a…
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