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Black Friday 2019 gift guide: For PC gaming

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 22, 2019
3 min

It’s time for a PC gaming gift guide to help you get through Black Friday 2019 and beyond. And this is easier than ever...

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Facebook trains AI to generate worlds in a fantasy text adventure

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 22, 2019
3 min

Procedurally generating an interesting video game environment isn’t just challenging — it’s incredibly time-consuming. Tools like Promethean AI, which tap machine learning to generate...

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Razer Junglecat turns my phone into a Nintendo Switch for cloud gaming

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 22, 2019
2 min

The way we play games is about to change. Or, at least, that’s the claim from companies with cloud-gaming services. Using Project xCloud or...

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Arby’s will have Sonic kids meal toys

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 22, 2019
1 min

Gotta go fast … to Arby’s. The fast food chain has announced that will give away Sonic the Hedgehog toys with its kids meals...

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The DeanBeat: Helsinki is still a hotbed for mobile games and tech

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 22, 2019
5 min

This week, I found myself at a party at Löyly, a sauna and bar at the edge of the Baltic Sea in Helsinki, Finland....

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Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB excerpt — “Doom to the Power of Ten”

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 22, 2019
12 min

GamesBeat is publishing this exclusive excerpt of Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB. To help commemorate its 25th anniversary, the Entertainment...

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Coherence raises $2.5 million for open source platform to democratize connected game development

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 22, 2019
2 min

Swedish startup Coherence has raised $2.5 million in seed funding to create an open source platform to democratize connected game development. Dino Patti, one...