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Why subscription gaming service Utomik is adding launch day releases

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 28, 2017
3 min

The PC game streaming service Utomik is making a push to add new titles on their launch day. Its first release day game was...

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Albert Penello: Microsoft’s best pitch for the Xbox One X

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 28, 2017
7 min

If the Xbox One X turns out to be a popular holiday purchase this fall, you might credit a lady bug. The console costs...

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Amy Jo Kim: Designers should listen to super fans, not super haters

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 28, 2017
24 min

Kim: Oh, yes. But it’s an interesting question as far as, what is the job of a game journalist? You look at it in...

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Magic Leap hints at a big reveal

Posted byby Jason Wilson
October 28, 2017
2 min

It’s increasingly looking like mysterious augmented reality technology Magic Leap could finally be unveiled in the coming months. A recent Bloomberg report stated that the company...

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The colorful Hacktag is a co-op stealth game with all-ages appeal

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 28, 2017
3 min

Hacktag is an asymmetrical co-op game about infiltration and industrial sabotage in an alternate universe where all the people are animals. Both online and...

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Stephen Toulouse obituary: Game industry remembers Xbox Live’s crusader against abuse

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 28, 2017
2 min

Stephen Toulouse, a popular member of the gaming community, passed away on Thursday. He was fondly remembered as “Stepto” and sometimes as “Banhammer” for...

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Nazis aren’t Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus’s worst villains

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 27, 2017
2 min

In video games, you kill Nazis. That’s what we do. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (read my review) doesn’t try to disrupt or examine this. The...

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Super Mario Odyssey’s Amiibo support is perfect

Posted byby Mike Minotti
October 27, 2017
2 min

I like collecting Amiibo more than actually using them. Unlike Skylanders, Nintendo’s toys-to-life line isn’t built around a specific series. The figures work differently...