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The Conflict in Ukraine: Impact on the Gaming Industry

Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.  “Games are a cultural force,” says Kate Edwards in her closing remarks on this panel on the geopolitical dynamics of games. In the last few years, gamers have been negative on the way developers model geopolitics in games. Always convinced that someone is trying to message them with…
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Ubisoft Montreal takes over work on ‘Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake’

Work on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake evidently hasn’t gone as smoothly as Ubisoft hoped. The company has now put its Montreal studio in charge of the project. Ubisoft Pune and Ubisoft Mumbai had been working on the game. An update on the development of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake pic.twitter.com/8xQpqyPSwQ — Prince of Persia (@princeofpersia) May 3…
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Apprenti and Epic Games announce apprenticeship program

Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.  Apprenti and Epic Games have joined forces to start a first-of-its-kind Unreal Engine focused apprenticeship program. Epic Games will be starting by matching a…
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Xbox Game Pass adds Trek to Yomi to keep May interesting

Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.  May is an interesting month this year. We don’t have a whole lot of massive triple-A games. Several that might have kept us busy during that time have been delayed to fall or even to next year. But we’ve still got a few fun titles coming, and it appears Xbox Game Pass is going to dish…
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Spotify enters the metaverse with Spotify Island on Roblox

A lot of companies have already entered the metaverse in some way, and today another big name is doing so. Spotify has announced that its venture into virtual worlds is coming via a Roblox interactive space called Spotify Island. The setting is a place where users can create…
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Call of Duty Endowment hits 100K veterans placed in jobs

Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.  The Call of Duty Endowment has reached a big milestone as it announced it has placed 100,000 veterans into meaningful jobs. In doing so, the Call of Duty Endowment reached its placement goal two years ahead of schedule. In total, the endowment says it has hit an estimated $5.6 billion in…
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