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Video gaming history is ready for the spotlight

Posted byby Mike Minotti
April 29, 2020
3 min

Gaming has long been the new kid on the block when it comes to media. Video games have been around for much less time...

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Game companies planning for up to 1TB-per-second bandwidth on ocean cables

Posted byby Jason Wilson
April 29, 2020
4 min

It’s not news that esports is a global phenomenon. With its roots in StarCraft and PC bangs in South Korea and shooters and LAN...

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Streets of Rage 4 review — A brawl down memory lane

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
April 29, 2020
4 min

Here’s a nice thought: What if your childhood never ended? What if they just kept making games like they always did? Well, companies have...

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Dead Space ideas came from game-design team’s ‘horror competition’

Posted byby Jason Wilson
April 29, 2020
2 min

At one point during Issac Clark’s adventure on the USG Ishimura, a giant tentacle grabs him. As the player, you launch a desperate assault...

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Skydance Interactive’s Pete Akemann: We’re about to see the ‘second generation’ of VR gameplay

Posted byby Jason Wilson
April 29, 2020
2 min

The studios behind Boneworks, Half Life: Alyx, and The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners all solved the same problem: interactivity in virtual reality. They...

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For Dauntless, crossplay launch was a months-long ‘trust-building’ exercise

Posted byby Jason Wilson
April 29, 2020
2 min

When Phoenix Labs set out to develop Dauntless back in 2015, it wanted players to be able to play together no matter what platform...

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Stack Up’s Stephen Machuga fights veteran suicide in a time of invisible threats

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 28, 2020
3 min

Twenty-two a day: That’s the rate of veteran suicides that Stephen Machuga, founder of gaming charity Stack Up, is fighting against. Machuga talked about...