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The DeanBeat: Life Is Strange: True Colors — discovering emotions, identity, and your story

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 15, 2021
7 min

I love Dontnod Entertainment’s Life Is Strange games because they’re always celebrations of diversity, with interesting characters who are fleshed out with relationships and...

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Nintendo Switch Online’s new tier costs an absurd $50 a year

Posted byby Mike Minotti
October 15, 2021
1 min

Last month, Nintendo announced that it would make Nintendo 64 and Genesis games available in a new tier of its Nintendo Switch Online Service....

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Laguna Games raises $5M to launch Crypto Unicorns with egg NFTs

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
October 15, 2021
2 min

Laguna Games announced today a $5 million seed round to make its blockchain-based game, Crypto Unicorns. The developer is planning to seed the marketplace with...

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GamesBeat Summit Next: Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, Niantic’s John Hanke, Xbox’s Sarah Bond

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 15, 2021
5 min

Sometimes you need people to inspire you to greater heights and to believe that some amazing technology is just around the corner. That’s what...

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Order of Meta raises $1.5M for mobile shooter game

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 15, 2021
2 min

Helsinki-based Order of Meta has raised $1.5 million from Play Ventures and others for a mobile shooter game. The company was started in the...

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Sledgehammer Games invades the UK with new Call of Duty studio

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 15, 2021
4 min

Sledgehammer Games has been dramatically expanding during its second decade as one of Activision Blizzard’s major Call of Duty development studios. And now it’s...

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Metaverse studio Melon announces its first original game in Roblox

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
October 14, 2021
1 min

Roblox-centric developer Melon today announced it was releasing its first original game within the metaverse. It’s called Jump Kingdoms. In Jump Kingdoms, gamers play...

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Dragon Age 4 is heading to PS5, Xbox Series X/S without cross-gen releases

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 14, 2021
2 min

Dragon Age 4 is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, but it will not get versions for PlayStation 4 or Xbox...

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Joe & Mac remake is coming from Microids

Posted byby Mike Minotti
October 14, 2021
1 min

French publisher Microids announced today that it is working on a remake of Joe & Mac with developer Mr. Nutz Studio. Joe & Mac...

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8i shows off its real-time holograms

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 14, 2021
3 min

Today 8i showed off its technology for quickly rendering volumetric video for real-time hologram images. The Venice, California-based company makes tools that capture, transform, and...

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