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Crash Bandicoot remaster trilogy launches in June with a jorts problem

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 16, 2017
2 min

The company revealed the project on Sony Interactive Entertainment’s stage during the PlayStation company’s media presentation at the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in Los Angeles last year. Now, we finally know when we’ll get to play it.

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Hearthstone’s Year of the Mammoth: Classic cards going to Wild, and no more Adventures

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 16, 2017
4 min

Sylvanas has no time for Standard games. Blizzard detailed the next year in its Standard format, the Year of the Mammoth, in a blog post today. It will make cards from older expansions unplayable in the game’s Standard format.

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Storm8 lays off about 130 from its social mobile gaming studio

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 16, 2017
2 min

Social mobile game publisher Storm8 laid off a large number of its employees this week. By one account, the San Mateo, California-based company cut about...

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49ers, NBA’s Jeremy Lin part of $15 million Series A for Plays.tv and its game-recording service

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 16, 2017
2 min

Forget about SportsCenter highlights — a company that can let you watch the best moments from games of Overwatch and League of Legends has...

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Xsolla starts $30 million royalty investment fund for indie games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 16, 2017
2 min

E-commerce and payment platform Xsolla is launching Xsolla Capital, a $30 million fund that will invest in projects by independent game developers in exchange...

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Futurefly’s EatMessage app turns your face into a game controller

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 16, 2017
1 min

Futurefly is launching an iMessage app called EatMessage, a selfie-based game where challenge friends to eat or dodge emojis. And in this game, your face is...

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Former Wooga developers launch mobile game studio in Berlin

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 16, 2017
2 min

Former Wooga game developers have joined Sweden’s Snowprint Studios and opened a new mobile game studio in Berlin. Wilhelm Österberg, formerly the head of...

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Hands-on with Halo Wars 2’s grueling Lights Out mission

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 16, 2017
4 min

Halo Wars 2, Microsoft’s next big exclusive on the Xbox One and Windows, has some very grueling missions in its single-player campaign. I’ve been playing...

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Game trade group ESA takes a shot at Trump’s ‘reckless’ immigration policy

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 16, 2017
6 min

Mike Gallagher, president and CEO of the game lobbying group The Entertainment Software Association, took a blast at President Donald Trump today for his...

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Supercell’s Clash Royale reaps $1 billion in its first year

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 16, 2017
1 min

Supercell announced strong 2016 revenue and earnings today, but it didn’t break out the performance of specific games. Thankfully, mobile measurement firm Sensor Tower...

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