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Hothead’s Kill Shot series hits 65 million downloads

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 17, 2016
2 min

Hothead Games is announcing that its Kill Shot franchise has been downloaded more than 65 million times since 2014. The series started with Kill Shot,...

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Warner Bros. debuts Fantastic Beasts hidden-object game targeted at females

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 17, 2016
1 min

Warner Bros. is about to cash in on J.K. Rowling’s creations again. The film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (based on Rowling’s...

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Backward compatible Xbox 360 games now come in Xbox One cases

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 17, 2016
2 min

Backward compatibility with a huge chunk of the Xbox 360 library is one of the Xbox One’s best features, and now Microsoft wants to...

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Nintendo has begun promoting Battlefy’s Splatoon esports tournaments

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 16, 2016
2 min

Nintendo is partnering with one of the largest community-driven tournament platforms to turn Splatoon into an esport. Battlefy kicked off the Splatoon Showdown Series last...

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EA’s new rule for Twitch and YouTube streamers: You must disclose sponsorships

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 16, 2016
2 min

If you are a content creator on YouTube or Twitch, publisher Electronic Arts has some rules it wants you to follow. EA posted an...

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Persona 5 delayed to April 4, 2017

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 16, 2016
1 min

April showers bring Japanese role-playing games. Atlus announced today during a stream on its Twitch channel that Person 5 will no longer come out in the U.S. on February 14. The PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 role-playing game is now releasing on April 4.

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You’re probably going to have a bad time with Hearthstone’s Heroic Tavern Brawl

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 16, 2016
2 min

A special mode for Hearthstone has launched today. You shouldn’t play it. I mean … I did. But you shouldn’t. The Heroic Tavern Brawl...

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Nvidia: Porting PS4, Xbox One, and PC games to Nintendo Switch is simple

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 16, 2016
2 min

Nintendo’s new Switch hybrid handheld-and-home console will launch in March, and we’ve already seen the publisher suggest that it’ll have games like Skyrim and...