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Minecraft finally gets in-game character creator

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 20, 2019
1 min

Minecraft is finally going to make it easy to make the blocky version of yourself. Microsoft is adding the Minecraft Character Creator to the...

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NZXT H510i PC case review — Beloved for a good reason

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 20, 2019
3 min

The worst thing about the NZXT H-series of PC enclosures is that they are so popular. It stings a little to have a rig...

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Niko Partners: Asia cloud gaming to reach $3 billion and 60 million gamers by 2023

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 20, 2019
2 min

Cloud gaming platform and service revenue in Asia will grow from $270 million and three million consumers in 2019 to $3 billion and 60...

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Verizon and NFL give 2 game devs $400,000 each to launch 5G games Super Bowl

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 20, 2019
3 min

Verizon and the NFL have named two winners in the Verizon 5G NFL Mobile Gaming Challenge. The winning teams will get $400,000 each to...

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The RetroBeat: Demon’s Crest is the best SNES game on Switch that you haven’t played

Posted byby Mike Minotti
September 19, 2019
3 min

Super Nintendo games are on the Switch, hooray! The timing is a bit bad for me, since I have so many new games to...

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Steam Labs gets even more experiments and updates to aid discovery

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 19, 2019
2 min

Valve is continuing to build on its Steam Labs experiments with rapid iteration and prototyping. Today, the company is launching a number of new...

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Twitch acquires IGDB to better index the games broadcasters are playing

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 19, 2019
2 min

Twitch now owns and operates the Internet Games Database. Amazon’s livestreaming company acquired the IGDB to improve how people can search for games on...

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Facebook will bring AR ads to the News Feed fall 2019

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 19, 2019
2 min

Would you interact with a digital ad featuring polls, games, augmented reality (AR), or some Frankensteinian combination of the three? Facebook seems to think...