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EA is finally improving Career Mode for 'FIFA 20'

August 7, 2019
Even though ‘Street’ soccer will be the biggest addition to FIFA 20, hardcore fans of the franchise know the importance of Career Mode. And this year, with the new game launching on September 27th, developer EA Sports is promising to make the feature more authentic and customizable than ever before. Not only will you be able to change the body type, skin tone, clothing, hairstyle of…
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A shooting threat sends police to Twitch headquarters

August 7, 2019
Police responded to a possible threat at Twitch’s San Francisco headquarters on Wednesday morning. As Business Insider reported this morning, multiple employees said the threat was a possible shooter. “We were made aware of a threat against our San Francisco HQ on…
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Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo agree to disclose loot box odds

August 7, 2019
Loot boxes have been a source of controversy in recent years. They offer gamers a way to snag virtual items, but because the rewards are typically randomized and players can buy them with real money, they’ve been called as a form of gambling. Some jurisdictions have…
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Minecraft’s recent surge on YouTube proves that the ‘PewDiePie Effect’ is still real

August 7, 2019
Almost two months ago, Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg did something his fans have wanted for years: he made a Minecraft video, and he’s continued to make them ever since. The result was Kjellberg’s most successful month in years, pulling in more than 570 million views in July and kickstarting a new trend among some of the biggest YouTube creators. For the first time since January 2017…
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Nintendo may have many, many more Switch consoles planned

August 7, 2019
Nintendo is definitely releasing the $200 Switch Lite handheld console on September 20th, and may release a higher-end console soon too, if rumors are to be believed. Its plans might even go beyond all that, however. The company is reportedly working on further updates…
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Ninja hits 1 million subscribers on Mixer five days after leaving Twitch

August 7, 2019
After just five days of streaming, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins is boasting 1 million active subscribers on Mixer, the Microsoft-owned platform that made him jump ship from Twitch. “Thank you for all the incredible support,” Blevins tweeted when announcing the milestone. “I haven’t felt this good in a long time.” Whether Blevins’ fans would follow him from Twitch to Mixer, a much smaller…
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Xbox Live outage locks players out of their games for hours

August 7, 2019
Since just before 5 PM ET, an Xbox outage has caused gamers error messages when trying to launch their digital titles. Whenever a player tried to open a game, it quickly close and flash a message to sit tight as outages happen “once in a while”. Within the last…
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Bumble and Gen. G form first pro all-women 'Fortnite' team

August 7, 2019
Women make up roughly 35 percent of Fortnite‘s players, but none of them were represented at this year’s World Cup. Bumble, the women-first dating app, has teamed up with esports organization Gen. G in order to change that. The two companies have formed…
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Twitch is now the official international streaming partner for USA Basketball

August 6, 2019
Twitch has partnered with the National Basketball Association to stream USA Basketball games globally through 2020, according to Reuters. USA Basketball is a nonprofit organization that’s the governing body for basketball in America; it’s the outfit that organizes the men’s and women’s teams that compete internationally. (This year, it will send teams to the FIBA World Cup in China —…
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