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Xbox Game Pass and hardware sales push Microsoft gaming revenue up 11%

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
July 27, 2021
1 min

Gaming continues to return growth for Microsoft. The company reported its fourth-quarter earnings today, and game division generated $357 million more in the three-month...

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Ultimate Rivals: The Court wants to be the ‘What If?’ of sports games

Posted byby Jason Wilson
July 27, 2021
3 min

The concept behind Ultimate Rivals: The Court reminds me of playing with my action figures as a kid: The forces of the Empire would...

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Activision Blizzard employees to protest leadership with walkout

Posted byby Mike Minotti
July 27, 2021
2 min

Employees at Activision Blizzard are staging a walkout to protest the company leadership’s response to being sued by the California Department of Fair Employment...

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Discord improves conversations by finally adding threads

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 27, 2021
5 min

Discord conversations can often get into the hundreds of messages, and to simplify that chatter, the company is launching “threads.” And as simple as...

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Game Devs of Color Expo is coming in September.

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Game Devs of Color Expo remains all-virtual when it kicks off September

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 27, 2021
4 min

The Game Devs of Color Expo will take place as an online-only event from September 23 to September 27. The sixth annual event will...

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Eloelo raises $2.1M for creator-led social gaming platform in India

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 27, 2021
3 min

Eloelo, a startup that is India’s fastest growing creator-led live social gaming platform, has raised $2.1 million in funding. Founded in August 2020 by...