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Napster names ex-Roblox music exec as CEO

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 26, 2022
5 min

Music streaming service Napster has hired Jon Vlassopulos as its next CEO. The company also announced a new funding round. The funding amount wasn’t...

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Netflix launches Oxenfree on mobile for its subscribers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 24, 2022
2 min

Netflix has launched Oxenfree, the critically acclaimed narrative-driven adventure game created by Night School Studio, and it is now available for Netflix members to...

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Minecraft Legends will test how resilient fans can be

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 24, 2022
10 min

The appetite for Minecraft seems pretty endless. Microsoft has to keep feeding fans with new content, and the latest thing coming in the portfolio...

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Kaser Focus: Who stole Grand Theft Auto VI?

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
September 23, 2022
2 min

Another bizarre week of 2022 is in the bag. I’m not saying this has been a bad year, but oof, it’s been the most....

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Rec Room announces new Studio creator tool at Rec Con

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
September 23, 2022
2 min

Today was the first day of Rec Room‘s annual conference, Rec Con. The company revealed its latest features for Rec Room users and future...

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Adrian Hon’s You’ve Been Played shows how we maybe played ourselves

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 23, 2022
3 min

Adrian Hon’s You’ve Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All does something I like books doing. It makes...

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Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 drops white paper on building the open metaverse

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 23, 2022
5 min

Neal Stephenson‘s Lamina1 blockchain technology startup dropped a white paper today on building the open metaverse. It’s quite the manifesto. In the document, the...

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GTA VI leak under investigation, with alleged arrest of hacker

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
September 23, 2022
1 min

Following this week’s infamous Grand Theft Auto VI leak, multiple law enforcement agencies have been searching for the perpetrator. Now they allegedly have found...