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Microsoft ponders ‘bigger, more bolder changes’ to Xbox Achievements

Posted byby Mike Minotti
August 10, 2017
2 min

Microsoft invented the modern Achievements concept when the feature launched with the Xbox 360, and we’ve seen those little pop-up badges show up everywhere...

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Watch Hearthstone’s Lich King respond to fan comments and GamesBeat disciples

Posted byby Mike Minotti
August 10, 2017
1 min

Maybe that Lich King isn’t such a bad fellow after all. Sure, he want to enslave the world with an undead army and all...

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Hearthstone: Knights of the Frozen Throne — Blizzard shares insights on The Lower Citadel

Posted byby Mike Minotti
August 10, 2017
2 min

Hearthstone: Knights of the Frozen Throne has a lot of exciting new cards, but it also gives us our first single-player campaign since August...

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Hearthstone’s Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion is live

Posted byby Mike Minotti
August 10, 2017
1 min

Move over, dinosaurs. Death Knights have come to Hearthstone. The digital card game giant’s Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion is now live on...

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Unity adds Max Levchin and Robynne Sisco to board as it readies for IPO

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 10, 2017
2 min

Unity Technologies has named tech veterans Max Levchin and Robynne Sisco as the company’s first independent directors. Unity CEO John Riccitiello said the move...

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Discord starts testing video chat and screen sharing with 5% of its gamers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 10, 2017
2 min

Discord has begun testing video chat and screen sharing — two of the most-requested features from its audience of free voice and text chat...

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Ristar doesn’t have Sonic’s legacy, but it does have Sega Forever’s blessing

Posted byby Mike Minotti
August 10, 2017
1 min

Sega Forever is the gaming icon’s initiative to bring its back catalog to iOS and Android devices, and now Sega has revealed that Ristar...

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AMD launches 16-core Threadripper, ‘the world’s fastest PC desktop processor’

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 10, 2017
3 min

Advanced Micro Devices is shipping a 16-core Ryzen Threadripper central processing unit (CPU) that the company says takes the speed crown away from Intel...