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Call of Duty League and Overwatch League are shifting to online games
Andrew Webster//26 views/1 comments
The city-based Call of Duty League is shifting to a new format amid the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic. In a statement, the league said that upcoming matche...
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Teaching on Twitch was a ‘mild disaster’ for one games professor
Megan Farokhmanesh//35 views
Robert Yang has just said the magic number. Twitch chat suddenly has an echo, and it sounds like “nice.” Yang, a developer and New York University Game Center p...
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Discord ups Go Live streaming limit from 10 to 50 people during coronavirus
Jon Porter//31 views/1 comments
Discord is upping the amount of people who can simultaneously view a live stream from 10 to 50 as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Discord CEO Jason ...
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Cloud gaming provider Shadow lowers price to $11.99 a month
Nick Statt//32 views
Cloud gaming service Shadow, from the French startup Blade, is drastically lowering its price in a bid to compete with a new wave of platforms from Google and N...
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Mario makes the jump to Lego with new interactive sets
Chaim Gartenberg//28 views
Nintendo and Lego are teaming up to reveal Super Mario-themed sets that combine the traditional building blocks with digital technology, creating a new type of ...
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Call of Duty: Warzone is full of clever twists on battle royale
Nick Statt//34 views
But its most surprising element is not just that it’s a bold free-to-play gamble for publisher Activision, but that game developer Infinity Ward has remarkably ...
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Blizzard cancels all Overwatch League events in March and April
Andrew Webster//39 views
The Overwatch League is going on hiatus amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Today, Blizzard announced that the league was canceling all events scheduled for Ma...
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E3 and GDC cancellations are forcing the gaming industry to think like Nintendo
Megan Farokhmanesh//35 views
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced today that E3, North America’s biggest gaming conference, is canceled. As effects from the coronavirus co...
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How Ori and the Will of the Wisps improves one of the best-looking Xbox games ever
Andrew Webster//38 views/3 comments
At the time he was a cinematic artist at Blizzard, working on blockbusters like StarCraft and Diablo, and he was struck by the Xbox One game’s art style in part...
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E3 2020 has been canceled
Andrew Webster//27 views
E3 is the latest major event to be canceled in the wake of the new coronavirus. Ars Technica and Bloomberg were first to report that the Entertainment Software ...
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Black Mesa is the perfect way to get into Half-Life before Alyx
Sam Byford//27 views/1 comments
Upon its release in 1998, Half-Life instantly became my favorite game of all time. That wasn’t saying much, really, since we’d only just set up our first family...
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Start planning your Animal Crossing: New Horizons island with this fan-made browser game
Megan Farokhmanesh//39 views/1 comments
Before you can spend all of your time in Animal Crossing: New Horizons fishing and getting stung by wasps, you need to decide what your island will look like. W...
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Epic Games Store adds a wishlist so you can track games you want to buy
Taylor Lyles//33 views/1 comments
The Epic Games Store now allows you to add games to a wishlist, so you can save games you are interested in buying later and eventually get notifications when t...
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GDC will stream some canceled talks on Twitch next week
Megan Farokhmanesh//37 views/1 comments
The Game Developers Conference will stream many of the talks it would have aired at its canceled event, organizers announced today. “Thanks to submissions from ...
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The rise of impossibly cute and wholesome games
Khee Hoon Chan//23 views
As a whodunnit, The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game follows the plucky, amphibious investigator as he gets to the bottom of two cases: the source of the s...