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Blizzard games see huge boosts of players during pandemic

Posted byby Mike Minotti
May 5, 2020
2 min

Activision Blizzard released its Q1 2020 financial results today, revealing that Blizzard Entertainment’s games have seen gains in player activity while many people are...

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Activision Blizzard posts $1.79 billion Q1 revenues as pandemic creates gaming surge

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 5, 2020
5 min

Activision Blizzard reported earnings today that beat expectations as the company saw a surge for its games because people are staying inside due to...

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Just how close are we to achieving the Metaverse?

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 5, 2020
4 min

Presented by Galaxy Interactive Pioneers in virtual worlds Philip Rosedale of High Fidelity; Matthew Ball of Epyllion Industries; Raph Koster of Playable Worlds; Frederic...

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MicroProse returns with 3 new games coming to Steam

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
May 5, 2020
2 min

One of standout developers from the early days of PC gaming is back. MicroProse announced its return today along with three new games that...

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4 game charities band together to fight pandemic-related fundraising shortfalls

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 5, 2020
4 min

Four video game charities — the IGDA Foundation (IGDA-F), Take This, the Global Game Jam, and the Games and Online Harassment Hotline — have banded...

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War Remains depicts World War I’s Battle of Passchendaele in VR

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 5, 2020
1 min

War Remains is a virtual reality experience that takes audiences back to World War I’s horrific Battle of Passchendaele in 1917. The VR experience...

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Unreal Engine 4.25 launches with next-gen console support

Posted byby Mike Minotti
May 5, 2020
1 min

Epic Games has released Unreal Engine 4.25, which introduces support for the next generation of consoles (PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X). “Unreal Engine...