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Epic teases Fortnite season 10 during World Cup finals

Fans who tuned in to watch the Fortnite World Cup finals on Sunday received an added bonus: a tease of the game’s upcoming 10th season. We still don’t know much about season 10, but the teaser image suggests the return of Dusty Depot, which was destroyed in season 4. Developer Epic made the reveal during the solo tournament of the World Cup finals in New York, which pit the 100 best players in…
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Android is (unofficially) available for the Nintendo Switch

You no longer have to wonder when you can throw caution to the wind and install Android on your Switch. Homebrew developers at XDA have released the first publicly available Android firmware for Nintendo’s system, a take on the Android 8.1-based LineageOS 15.1 for…
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I’m bad at Fortnite, and I’m okay with that

Fortnite is two years old this weekend, and has been the most popular game in the world for at least the last year of its existence. My friends and I began playing it last summer as it exploded in popularity; we saw the game go from its roots as a goofy add on to Epic’s player-versus-environment shooter to its current status as a cross-cultural social space that just so happens to have a battle…
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Bethesda will remove online login requirement from Doom re-releases

Bethesda says it’ll get rid of the strange requirement that players must log into an online account before they play the newly re-released versions of Doom, Doom II, and Doom 3, which went live yesterday. Players quickly criticized Bethesda for the seemingly ridiculous limitation — the first of these games was released more than 25 years ago, at a time when there was obviously no internet…
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Original 'Doom' games hit PS4, Xbox One, Switch and mobile

Quakecon 2019 is underway and one of the first big announcements from the event is that the first three Doom games are now available on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. You’ll also be able to carry around the first two entries in the classic FPS series on your iOS or Android device too. News of the Switch ports leaked a little early, as they popped up on Nintendo’s eShop in the UK…
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