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Facebook revamps Messenger Kids with new parental controls and children’s guidelines

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 4, 2020
3 min

In December 2017, Facebook launched Messenger Kids, a child-friendly alternative to the main Messenger app that allows parents or guardians to review the people...

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Fortnite is hosting a PS4 tournament on February 15 and 16

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 3, 2020
1 min

Sony announced today that Epic Games is hosting The Fortnite Celebration Cup on February 15 and February 16 as an exclusive tournament for PlayStation...

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Wonderful 101: Remastered Kickstarter surpasses goal in 30 minutes

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 3, 2020
2 min

The Wonderful 101 is one of the few Wii U exclusives still stuck on that system, but it potentially won’t be exclusive for long....

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Microsoft’s Game Stack chief: The next generation of games and game development

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 3, 2020
24 min

James Gwertzman started PlayFab to provide cloud-based tools and services for game developers, offloading the server infrastructure grunt work so developers could focus on...

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Ubisoft acquires Idle Miner Tycoon developer Kolibri Games

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 3, 2020
2 min

Ubisoft knows that its fans love a good game where the numbers keep getting bigger. That’s why it has added role-playing-like levels to recent...

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Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB excerpt — ‘How the Sausage is Rated’

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 2, 2020
7 min

GamesBeat is publishing this exclusive excerpt of Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB. Previous chapters can be found here. To help commemorate its 25th...

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How Boneworks turns your body into its key mechanic

Posted byby Jason Wilson
February 2, 2020
5 min

When Boneworks (read UploadVR’s full review) released late last year from Stress Level Zero, it led the charge in redefining how we interact with virtual...

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Mozilla launches Hello WebXR intro app for WebVR

Posted byby Jason Wilson
February 2, 2020
1 min

Mozilla launched a new WebXR app called Hello WebXR, which is compatible with most headsets that use web browsers such as Oculus’s or Google Chrome...