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How Roblox is moving ahead with its digital civility initiative

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 2, 2019
3 min

Roblox has more than 80 million monthly players on its Lego-like virtual world platform for teens, and it only takes a few bad apples to...

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Nvidia and AMD are shipping fewer GPUs as retailers sit on inventory

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
March 2, 2019
1 min

Nvidia and AMD are still dealing with the fallout of the cryptocurrency fad of 2017. The video-card companies rushed to fulfill demand in early...

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Angela Roseboro is the new chief diversity officer at Riot Games.

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Riot Games hires chief diversity officer in wake of sexism scandal

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 1, 2019
2 min

Angela Roseboro is taking on a big task as the chief diversity officer at Riot Games. She joins Riot from Dropbox and comes in...

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2 min

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Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links hits 90 million downloads

Posted byby Mike Minotti
March 1, 2019
1 min

Konami announced today that Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links has reached 90 million downloads on PC and mobile. Yu-Gi-Oh Duel is a free-to-play digital card game....

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Gary Stern of Stern Pinball at CES 2019.

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Stern Pinball will host esports for retro fans with pinball tournament

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 1, 2019
2 min

Gary Stern has been making pinball machines at Stern Pinball for decades, as he had been taught the trade of making these machines by...

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Ape Out is the video game palate cleanser you’re looking for

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
March 1, 2019
2 min

I was listening to The Exploding Barrel Podcast this week, which GamesBeat reviews editor Mike Minotti hosts, when they started talking about how the...