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With Tell Me Why on Xbox Game Pass, episodic gaming has found its moment

September 11, 2020
Episodic gaming has always felt like an idea that was ahead of its time. For many players, it’s a compelling concept: story-driven games broken up into digestible chunks that you can play over the course of weeks or months. But the realities of game development and release schedules proved problematic. Telltale Games, the studio behind episodic hits like The Walking Dead and Batman, infamously…
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CEO Yves Guillemot apologizes for toxic employees ahead of Ubisoft Forward

September 11, 2020
Just a few hours before the start of another Ubisoft Forward livestream today, the publisher posted a video on Twitter featuring CEO Yves Guillemot apologizing for Ubisoft’s history of toxic employees and workplace problems that have come to light this year. “This summer, we learned that certain Ubisoft employees did not uphold our company’s values, and that our systems failed to protect the…
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Ninja returns to Twitch

September 10, 2020
Ninja’s back on Twitch, exclusively, in a multiyear deal with the site. It’s another big move for Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, who’s had quite a year even aside from the ongoing pandemic. Last August, he left Twitch for an exclusive deal with Mixer — which shut down at the end of June, scrapped for parts over at Facebook Gaming. He walked away from the wreckage in much better shape than the…
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MobileNews

Android 11 Go is available today, and it will launch apps 20 percent faster

September 10, 2020
Android 11 just launched this week for Pixel devices and phones from OnePlus, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Realme, and now Google has detailed its counterpart designed for low-powered devices: Android 11 (Go edition). One of the biggest new features is that Android 11 (Go edition) is supposed to work on devices with 2GB of RAM or less — a bump up from Android 10 (Go edition), which was made for devices…
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