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Watch Microsoft’s PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Xbox stream from Paris here

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 31, 2017
1 min

The Paris Games Week event is underway now, and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is preparing to grab the spotlight. Microsoft is broadcasting live from the fan...

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DICE changes how Star Wars: Battlefront II’s loot boxes work

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 31, 2017
2 min

Electronic Arts and DICE are making some changes to how loot boxes and progression work in Star Wars: Battlefront II. This comes after a...

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Shadow of the Colossus — finally, getting some hands-on with a classic

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 31, 2017
3 min

Here’s one of the secrets from my video game pile of shame. I never played Shadow of the Colossus, the hit game that came...

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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds was the most streamed game in Q3 2017

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 31, 2017
2 min

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds was the No. 1 game for livestreams in the third quarter, with more than 3.8 million hours streamed on Twitch alone. That’s...

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World of Final Fantasy is coming to PC via Steam

Posted byby Mike Minotti
October 31, 2017
1 min

Square Enix announced today that its role-playing game World of Final Fantasy is coming to PC via the Steam digital store on November 21....

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Nintendo’s Super Mario Odyssey sells 2 million in first 3 days; Super Mario Run hits 200 million

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 31, 2017
1 min

Nintendo’s big move into mobile games is paying off. Super Mario Run has hit 200 million downloads, according to a presentation by Nintendo president...

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China isn’t locking out PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds yet

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 30, 2017
2 min

The Chinese government wants to see fewer violent games, and it is using the popular last-person standing shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds as an example that...

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Indie game site Itch.io rolls out Patreon integration

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 30, 2017
2 min

The indie game storefront Itch.io announced today a new integration with Patreon, a platform that enables people to become “patrons” of content creators and...