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An Agar.io-like shooter is coming from the Grow Home team

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 11, 2017
1 min

Agar.io is secretly one of the world’s biggest games. It is a free web experience where players pilot a tiny dot around a two-dimensional...

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Knack 2 ending stretches out with multiple boss battles

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 11, 2017
3 min

We all make mistakes. What matters is what you do next. That’s a quote from Knack 2, the new action platformer from Sony for the...

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Canceled Witcher game details emerge in Polish documentary

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 11, 2017
2 min

CD Projekt Red is best known for making The Witcher fantasy role-playing adventures, but it was not the first studio to attempt to conjure...

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Genvid raises $2.5 million and launches interactive livestreaming platform

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 11, 2017
2 min

Genvid Technologies has raised $2.5 million in additional funding, and it has broadly released its technology for interactive streaming of esports broadcasts. The technology is...

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Next Nintendo Direct is focusing on Mario Odyssey, upcoming Switch and 3DS games

Posted byby Mike Minotti
September 11, 2017
1 min

Nintendo announced today that it’s going to broadcast another one of its Direct video streams on September 13 at 3 p.m. Pacific. It will...

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Mobile ad tech firm Glispa acquires playable ads startup JustAd

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 11, 2017
2 min

Mobile ad tech firm Glispa has acquired JustAd, a maker of playable ads, for an undisclosed price. Glispa also revealed that it has a...

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Firewatch dev plans DMCA takedowns of PewDiePie’s videos over use of N-word

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 10, 2017
2 min

Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg used the N-word on a recent YouTube livestream, and that has some people upset with him — including Firewatch co-creator Sean...