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Ubisoft launches Rainbow Six Smol, a roguelite exclusive to Netflix

February 21, 2024
Ubisoft announced it’s making a new version of Rainbow Six: Siege, exclusively for Netflix. The new title isn’t a first-person shooter like its parent game. Instead, Rainbow Six Smol is a top-down isometric roguelite with a cartoonish art style very different from Siege. It launches today via Netflix on iOS and Android. Read More: Rainbow Six Siege: Next-Gen Ready In Smol, the player controls…
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Epic Games Store hits 270M PC users, up 17% from 2022

February 20, 2024
Epic Games said the Epic Games Store has hit 270 million PC players in 2023, up 40 million, or 17% from 2022. This community now has a total of 804 million Epic cross-platform accounts. In 2023 Daily Active Users peaked at 36.1 million, and Monthly Active Users reached 75…
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Xbox’s Phil Spencer confirms four games are going multiplatform

February 16, 2024
Xbox today released an episode of its podcast in which it revealed more details about the future of the business. Tina Amini spoke with Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond and Matt Booty about the company’s plans. In addition to other details about its consoles and Xbox Game Pass, the three executives revealed that four Xbox-exclusive games are coming to other consoles. Spencer didn’t name the four…
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Could PlayStation benefit from Xbox games going multiplatform?

February 15, 2024
In less than one day, we’ll all know the future of Xbox — Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond and Matt Booty plan to make an appearance on the official Xbox podcast to discuss the topic. This comes after days of chatter following the supposed leak of Xbox multiplatform news.
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Twitch viewership tops 1.9B in January thanks to esports, Palword | StreamElements

February 14, 2024
Twitch viewers watched 1.902 billion hours of content in January, according to StreamElements’ latest State of the Stream Report. Per Rainmaker.gg’s data, January’s viewership is up 6% which gives Twitch the highest monthly total since Q2 2023. January’s daily viewership averaged 61.4 million hours watched. This means viewers watched 3.7 million more hours per day in January compared to…
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Minecraft is reviving lost Universal Studios rides

February 14, 2024
Universal and Minecraft are teaming up for an in-game theme park experience. The Minecraft DLC, dubbed Universal Studios Experience, is out now. It lets you visit classic Universal rides, including some that have long left the real world. This is especially exciting for a…
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Midnight plans to aggregate games inside Web3 Evergreen MMORPG

February 13, 2024
In a white paper, Midnight announced that it plans to aggregate a bunch of games inside its Evergreen massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Evergreen is a game as well as a first publishing platform that operates as a deconstructed, composable MMORPG, delivering an…
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Why Gaming for Good is a cause to get behind | interview

February 13, 2024
I’ve caught up with Mathias Gredal Nørvig, CEO of Sybo, and Jude Ower, CEO of Playmob, to hear them talk about their book Gaming for Good in the past year. Their book is finally out today. We talked about it during the Game Developers Conference in 2023, the Games for Change 2023 event at the UN in New York, at the Web Summit in Portugal in November 2023. That’s because I can’t think of a…
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