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Super Nintendo World theme park teased with a music video

January 14, 2020
As promised, Universal Studios Japan is on track to open its Super Nintendo World park this summer ahead of the Olympic Games. Now it’s teasing the new area with a mostly-CG music video and song made by Galantis with Charlie XCX. If you were hoping for a glimpse inside the new area or some idea of what rides are in store, you won’t see them. Instead there’s a dance sequence and some dreamy…
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YouTube lures three more top streamers away from Twitch

January 13, 2020
Twitch is once again losing some big-name streamers to YouTube. Lannan “LazarBeam” Eacott, Elliott “Muselk” Watkins and Rachell “Valkyrae” Hofstetter (above) have announced that they’ll livestream exclusively on Google’s video service. It’s not a…
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Might & Magic: Chess Royale is an auto battle royale from Ubisoft

January 13, 2020
Ubisoft’s scientists have done the unthinkable and combined the two biggest new gaming genres of the last few years. The publisher revealed today that it plans to release Might & Magic: Chess Royale for mobile and PC on January 30. As the name suggests, it mixes together elements of auto battlers (think Auto Chess) and battle royale games (PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite). In Might…
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Nintendo is exploring ways to use AR

January 13, 2020
We might see new Nintendo AR experiences in the near future, perhaps either on the company’s Switch handheld (maybe something like its VR Labo kit) or on mobile. Speaking in a recent interview with Nikkei (as reported by TweakTown), Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said that AR is “one of the many aspects we are interested in.” “Our hardware development teams evaluate all kinds…
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19 Valve Index and SteamVR games to watch in 2020

January 13, 2020
It’s a new year and there are a heap of upcoming Valve Index games to look forward to. Valve’s premium VR headset emerged as arguably the best device on the market in 2019. Its launch was propped up with hundreds of existing SteamVR games to experience all over again…
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX is coming to Switch

January 13, 2020
Nintendo announced today during its latest Direct broadcast that a remake of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team is coming to Switch on March 6. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX also has a demo releasing for Switch today. Yup, today, so you can try it for…
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Ubisoft launches lab for blockchain and social entertainment startups

January 9, 2020
Ubisoft announced the fifth season of its Entrepreneurs Lab, an incubator program in Paris and Singapore. The call for projects related to blockchain and social entertainment is now open until March 1. Ubisoft is a big French video game company with about 16,000 employees, but it has been more open to experimenting with technology and startups than many big entertainment companies throughout its…
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