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Electronic Arts lays off 350 people — the most under CEO Andrew Wilson

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
March 26, 2019
3 min

Electronic Arts is cutting 350 non-development jobs across its business. These layoffs are hitting marketing and analysis departments, according to a source familiar with...

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Telltale’s The Walking Dead: The Final Season brings an end to an era

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 26, 2019
2 min

Talk about morbid. The fourth and final episode of Telltale’s The Walking Dead: The Final Season is now available on the PC in the...

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Apple’s Show Time event proved ‘coming soon’ is getting old

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 26, 2019
3 min

Yesterday’s It’s Show Time event was supposed to be a big deal for Apple — an opportunity for the company to spotlight new subscription...

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Rick and Morty co-creator’s Trover Saves the Universe launches May 31 for PSVR

Posted byby Mike Minotti
March 26, 2019
2 min

Squanch Games announced today that Trover Saves the Universe is coming out for PlayStation 4 and PSVR on May 31. The PC version will...

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Steven Ma interview — How Tencent is more than just a big game investor

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 26, 2019
16 min

Steven Ma joined Tencent in 2007, when most people in the world probably had not heard about the Shenzhen, China-based company. Now Tencent is...

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Ubisoft’s Blue Byte unveils VR escape room Beyond Medusa’s Gate

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 26, 2019
3 min

You may have heard about escape rooms, where a group of people is locked in a room for fun and they figure out puzzles...

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1939 Games raises $3.6 million for WWII digital card game Kards

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 26, 2019
2 min

1939 Games, an indie game studio in Iceland, announced it has raised $3.6 million to deliver it’s cross-platform digital collectible card title Kards to...

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HTC teams up with Qualcomm for Vive XR mobile devices

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 26, 2019
3 min

HTC announced that its Vive division will use Qualcomm’s technologies for XR standalone and 5G smartphone in its Vive Wave mobile virtual reality platform....