DeanBeat News Archives

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The RetroBeat: My Arcade1Up experience

Posted byby Mike Minotti
October 29, 2021
3 min

After covering Arcade1Up for a few years, I had a chance to try out one of their arcade replicas myself. The company was kind...

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3 min

Subnautica is coming to Switch next year.

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Krafton acquires Unknown Worlds, developers of Subnautica

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
October 29, 2021
1 min

Krafton, the publisher behind PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, has acquired Unknown Worlds Entertainment, the developers behind Subnautica. Unknown Worlds becomes the sixth studio under Krafton’s umbrella...

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1 min

Skydance and Marvel have teamed up on a narrative-driven action-adventure game.

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Skydance’s Amy Hennig to collab with Marvel for new game

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 29, 2021
2 min

Skydance New Media announced that Uncharted co-creator Amy Hennig is working on a narrative action-adventure game with Marvel Entertainment. Hennig and former Electronic Arts...

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2 min

The Virtual Beings Summit has a new social token this year.

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The Culture DAO launches the $CULTUR social token at the Virtual Beings Summit

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 29, 2021
3 min

The Virtual Beings Summit online event is a place where real people talk about fake people. That is, they’re part of a society that...

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3 min

Hazard Zone is a new mode for Battlefield 2042.

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EA’s game capture team snags visceral Battlefield 2042 images

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 29, 2021
6 min

When I’ve seen video game trailers with over-the-top action, I’ve often wondered who among the game developers creates these things. It turns out that...

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6 min

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Activision acquires Digital Legends for its future Call of Duty mobile games

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
October 28, 2021
1 min

Activision Blizzard today announced it has bought mobile game studio Digital Legends. The publisher’s new team will work on an unannounced Call of Duty...

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The future of the metaverse looks a lot like the present of Roblox.

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Facebook stops just short of rebranding to ‘The Web’

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 28, 2021
2 min

Facebook changed its corporate name to Meta today. Facebook.com is still Facebook.com, though. This is a move to embrace the metaverse, which is a...

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2 min

Facebook's Project Cambria is a high-end headset.

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Facebook envisions future VR/AR hardware with Cambria and Nazaré projects

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 28, 2021
2 min

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company is working on futurist virtual reality and augmented reality projects, dubbed respectively Project Cambria and Project...