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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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Twitch viewers can subscribe to streamers on iOS

October 18, 2019
Twitch users on iOS can now subscribe to their favorite streamers directly from the app. It’ll offer the same benefits of subscribing on desktop, including ad-free viewing, sub badges, channel emotes and sub-only chat, as well as supporting the partner or affiliate…
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IKEA begins selling its FYRTUR smart blinds in some US stores

October 18, 2019
The downright confusing saga that is IKEA’s rollout of its FYRTUR blackout smart blinds in the US continues. The company had initially planned to release them stateside on April 1st, before delaying the launch to October 1st. The appointed date then came and went and the blinds were nowhere to be found. After The Verge asked IKEA to comment on the situation, the company gave a…
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