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EA's 'NBA Live' franchise is out for the season, again

October 30, 2019
One again, EA’s NBA franchise is skipping a season, as the company announced during today’s earnings call that NBA Live 20 has been cancelled. Three months ago the project was simply delayed with plans for a “different approach,” but that won’t be enough. In a prepared statement read at the beginning of the call, CEO Andrew Wilson said the company was working on…
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Fortnite’s black hole teases the future of entertainment

October 30, 2019
As audiences have embraced on-demand video services, algorithmic feeds, and an ever-growing number of digital “things to do,” our collective attentions have become hyper-fragmented. Yet we know that audiences actually love shared live experiences. Jeopardy is more fun…
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Sony's PS4 is the second best-selling console of all time

October 30, 2019
Sony’s PlayStation 4 has become the second best-selling console of all time, surpassing the original PlayStation, which sold 102.5 million units. Sony said that it sold 2.8 million PS4s this quarter (including the PS4 Pro), on top of the 100 million mark it hit last quarter. That’s down considerably (1.1 million units) from last year, but was enough to push it to 102.8 million, just…
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Why Electronic Arts games are coming back to Steam

October 28, 2019
Electronic Arts is probably going to announce soon that it is bringing its games back to the Steam PC gaming portal. Last week, the Madden and Battlefield publisher posted a teaser on Twitter. The video shows an EA coffee mug with steam coming off the top. And since…
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'Luigi's Mansion 3' is Mario's brother at his best

October 28, 2019
It’s been six years since Mario’s brother strapped on a modified vacuum cleaner and battled colorful ghosts in Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon (known as just Luigi’s Mansion 2 in Europe, Australia and Japan). The 3DS adventure was a brilliant but sad…
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Luigi’s Mansion 3 review — Stepping into Nintendo’s top tier

October 28, 2019
The Luigi’s Mansion series never felt like top-tier Nintendo. Sure, the original Luigi’s Mansion was fun and quirky when it launched along with the GameCube in 2001, and Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon was a great 3DS game when it released in 2013. But they couldn’t shoot the franchise to the heights of legendary Nintendo series like the core Mario games, The Legend of Zelda, or…
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'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare' devs will fix frequent Xbox One X crashes

October 28, 2019
The reborn Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is off to a rough start if you’re an Xbox One X owner. Infinity Ward has identified a problem that leads to frequent crashing for some owners of Microsoft’s higher-end console, in some cases rendering the game virtually unplayable. There’s no timeline for the fix, but the developers said they were working with Microsoft to address the…
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