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World of Tanks Blitz plays at 30 frames per second and 720p on the Switch handheld and 1080p on the TV.

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Nintendo Switch sets new August hardware sales record in the U.S.

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 14, 2020
2 min

Nintendo’s bank account is still growing in 2020. The company’s Switch console sales saw a huge year-over-year increase, and that led the system to...

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Sonic the Hedgehog marks 30th birthday with an encyclo-speed-ia and other merch

Posted byby Mike Minotti
September 14, 2020
2 min

Sonic the Hedgehog is celebrating his 30th birthday next year, with 2021 marking the milestone anniversary of his 1991 debut for the Sega Genesis....

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2 min

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The promise of voice AI in game development

Posted byby Jason Wilson
September 14, 2020
6 min

AI voices are sounding more realistic today than ever before in the history of synthetic voice technology. What started as simple text-to-speech (TTS), combined...

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GamesBeat Decides 163: When will PlayStation 5 preorders begin?

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 12, 2020
1 min

On this week’s episode of GamesBeat Decides, Imran Khan and Blessing Adeyoe, Jr. from Kinda Funny Games join the show to fill in for...

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1 min

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The RetroBeat: Watch the first trailer for the Console Wars documentary

Posted byby Mike Minotti
September 11, 2020
2 min

Console Wars remains the best book I’ve ever read about the gaming industry. It’s the exciting story of Sega of America taking on Nintendo’s...

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Apple allows game streaming on iOS, but demands approval and a 30% cut

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 11, 2020
3 min

Apple today loosened its iOS App Store Review Guidelines for streaming games from services such as Microsoft xCloud, Google Stadia, and Nvidia GeForce Now....