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Overwatch is trying to keep its meta fresh with more frequent changes

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 30, 2020
2 min

Blizzard Entertainment detailed some changes coming to Overwatch today, and they’ll all designed to help the game feel fresh. Overwatch launched in May 2016,...

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Wizards of the Coast’s new Archetype Entertainment studio is making a sci-fi RPG

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 30, 2020
1 min

Wizards of the Coast announced today that its new Archetype Entertainment studio in Austin, Texas is working on a multiplatform sci-fi role-playing game. James...

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Pokémon Sword and Shield are bigger hits than their predecessors despite all the drama

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 30, 2020
2 min

If you were tuned into Pokémon discourse on places like Twitter or Reddit, you may have thought that Sword and Shield were going to...

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Facebook Gaming launches tools for streamers to deal with trolls

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 30, 2020
5 min

Facebook is launching a dashboard and toolkit for streamers and video makers so they can more easily manage their communities, including viewers who don’t...

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Steam is down, so you’ll need to work through your backlog another time

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 30, 2020
1 min

Dang. The PC gaming software portal Steam is down. And that’s a bummer because today was the day I was going to start playing...

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GamesBeat Decides 137: Google Stadia is already failing

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 30, 2020
1 min

On this week’s episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast, PC gaming editor Jeffrey Grubb and review editor Mike Minotti are skeptical that Google Stadia...

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Scopely teams up with Hasbro to make Scrabble Go mobile game

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 30, 2020
2 min

Scopely has unveiled that it has teamed up with Hasbro and Mattel to make a new Scrabble mobile game dubbed Scrabble Go. Aiming to...

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GameRefinery acquires app insight platform Reflection.io

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 30, 2020
2 min

Mobile game insight and analytics specialist GameRefinery has acquired United Kingdom-based market insight platform Reflection.io. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Based...