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Half-Life: Alyx launches for PC VR on March 23

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 13, 2020
1 min

Valve announced today that Half-Life: Alyx will launch for VR devices on PC on March 23. Before this, we just knew that the game...

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Gotta fit in some Switcher time whenever you can.

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Netflix’s ‘The Witcher’ helps fuel 554% growth in The Witcher 3 sales

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 13, 2020
2 min

The Witcher was a massive television event in 2019, and its success has had a sizable ripple effect across mediums. Fans of the show...

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30XX is the sequel to Mega Man-inspired roguelike 20XX

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 13, 2020
1 min

Indie developer Batterystaple Games announced today that it is working on 30XX, a sequel to its 2017 roguelike action sidescroller 20XX. Like its predecessor,...

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Raw Fury will publish noir adventure game Backbone

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 13, 2020
1 min

Indie game publisher Raw Fury announced today that it will publish Backbone, a noir adventure game, for PC and consoles in earl 2021. Backbone...

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ESA: Nintendo is ‘committed to participating’ in E3 2020

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 12, 2020
1 min

Nintendo is going to attend the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show, according to the group that organizes the event. The Entertainment Software Association...

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Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, argued to make the game industry more open in the next decade at the Dice Summit 2020.

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Tim Sweeney: Android is a fake open system, and iOS is worse

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 12, 2020
5 min

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney opened the DICE Summit game event in Las Vegas today with a call to make the industry more open...

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Project xCloud finally comes to iOS, but with some serious limitations

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 12, 2020
2 min

Microsoft’s cloud gaming service is finally making its way to iOS. The company announced a Project xCloud beta is launching on Apple’s mobile operating...

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Game livestreaming hours watched up 17% in January

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 12, 2020
2 min

The amount of hours people spend watching video games on livestreaming sites continues to grow. In January, that number reached 1.34 billion over Twitch,...