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Palworld creator Pocket Pair has teamed up with Tencent Cloud.

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Palworld maker Pocketpair teams up with Tencent Cloud so you don’t have to wait for multiplayer servers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 28, 2024
2 min

Palworld creator Pocketpair just teamed up with Tencent, the world’s biggest game company on cloud technology. I’m not sure precisely what that means, but...

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Take-Two to acquire Gearbox from Embracer

Posted byby Mike Minotti
March 28, 2024
1 min

Take-Two announced today that it will acquire Borderlands developer Gearbox. The publisher is paying $460 million for the acquisition. That is notably less than...

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GDC 2024 draws nearly 30,000 attendees, up about 7%

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 27, 2024
6 min

The Game Developers Conference drew nearly 30,000 attendees to San Francisco’s Moscone Center last week, with the numbers up 7% from 28,000 a year...

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Scopely made Monopoly Go under license from Hasbro.

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The meaning of the massive success of Scopely’s Monopoly Go | Walter Driver interview

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 27, 2024
14 min

When Savvy Games Group bought Scopely a year ago for $4.9 billion, some people wondered if it wasn’t such a smart deal. Then Scopely...

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Marvel Rivals is coming from NetEase and Marvel Games.

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NetEase Games and Marvel Games unveil PvP superhero shooter Marvel Rivals

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 27, 2024
2 min

Assemble your dream team of Marvel superheroes and villains and dive into 6v6 multiplayer battles in Marvel Rivals, the latest collaboration between NetEase Games...

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Lunacy Games is a new studio started by Bill Roper.

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Bill Roper unveils Lunacy Games studio with survival game demo and a new Hellgate license

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 27, 2024
8 min

Game veteran Bill Roper has unveiled Lunacy Games as a new studio working on an open world survival RPG set in the post-apocalyptic American...

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Dfinity Foundation reports strong growth for the Internet Computer blockchain.

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Internet Computer blockchain has raised $80M | Dfinity Foundation

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 27, 2024
8 min

The Internet Computer Protocol is an ambitious blockchain project aimed at creating a world computer, and according to a new report from the shepherding...

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Neopets unveils NeoPass as a cross-platform gateway to Neopia virtual world

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 27, 2024
2 min

Neopets has unveiled NeoPass, a cross-platform gateway to the virtual world of Neopia. NeoPass is a one-login, multi-access system designed to streamline user convenience...