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Immortals of Aveum is like Call of Duty in a fantasy game | hands-on preview

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Immortals of Aveum is the new single-player “magic first-person shooter” game coming from developer Ascendant Studios and publisher Electronic Arts on July 20. I attended a preview event last week at EA’s headquarters, where I was able to play the first couple of hours of the…
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Gaming is helping Hollywood

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. For as long as I’ve been working in the games industry, and honestly for a long time before that there’s been an ever present topic of conversation. Rachel Kaser…
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Street Fighter 6 review — Indestructible

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Even for a franchise with a lot of highpoints, Street Fighter 6 is a new peak for Capcom’s fighting game series. Impressively, it comes with an incredible amount of polish and content right out of the box. That stands in stark contrast to Street Fighter V, a game that eventually evolved into…
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Bungie and PlayStation resurrect Marathon

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Sony and Bungie revealed a new Marathon game during today’s PlayStation Showcase. Marathon was Bungie’s shooter franchise before striking rich with Destiny. This is the first new entry in the series since 1996’s Marathon Infinity. This is Bungie’s first new game for PlayStation since…
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Nintendo’s Mario Day Switch bundle comes with a free game

Mar10 Day is here and to celebrate gaming’s favorite mustachioed plumber, Nintendo is offering a Switch bundled with a free Mario game for $300. The Mario Choose One bundle comes with the Switch system, the Switch dock, Joy Cons in Mario Red and a full-game download of…
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European Commission approves Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. The European Commission announced today that it had approved Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision-Blizzard. While it expressed reservations about the deal, it said Microsoft’s efforts to prove it wouldn’t monopolize the cloud gaming space swayed its decision. It also said that the deal…
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