Yesterday on the Good Game, Nice Try podcast, late night icon Conan O’Brien joined hosts Sonja Reid and Aaron Bleyaert to give his “incredibly unfair and invalid” opinion on Innersloth’s smash-hit Among Us. His verdict: It’s not a good game. Bleyaert posed the question of how O’Brien felt about Among …
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Tencent, the Chinese internet giant that owns the developers of League of Legends, Warframe, Path of Exile, and Don’t Starve, has announced yet another investment in a game studio. Life Is Strange studio Dontnod, which is based in France, announced that Tencent has invested €30 million into the studio to …
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A former Xbox boss has revealed some of the reasons why the company never made a portable game console, despite several teams inside Microsoft pushing for it. Robbie Bach, who left Microsoft in 2010 after years of running the Xbox business from the beginning in 2001, said in a recent …
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Developer Lucid Games has released an in-depth look at its PlayStation 5-exclusive demolition derby game Destruction AllStars, going over its various characters and modes. In this new seven-minute video, the studio’s game director Colin Berry walked players through Destruction AllStars’ gameplay and mechanics, showing off two of the 16 playable …
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One of Microsoft’s strategies for the future of gaming is streaming. It’s still early days, and Microsoft’s xCloud service has only just released, but CEO Satya Nadella said recently that he sees a lot of potential for streaming to help grow gaming beyond console and PC. During Microsoft’s latest earnings …
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Remedy has broken down what players can expect from the Control: Ultimate Edition on February 2, including details on ray tracing, frame rates, and more. Thomas Puha, communications director at Remedy, shared numerous details about Control on the beefier consoles on Twitter. Control will feature two gameplay modes: Performance which …
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An Xbox Series X signed by Phil Spencer is up for auction, and all proceeds are going to a good cause. Spencer worked with the New York Game Awards to sign the console, which is now being auctioned off with proceeds supporting the New York Video Game Critics Circle non-profit. …
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It’s a big day for Halo: The Master Chief Collection, as the compilation game’s newest seasonal update has arrived–and it’s a big one. The Season 5 update is out now on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, and it delivers a new battle pass-style refresh that introduces more than …
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Like it or not, many big game studios want to crack the live service model, with industry behemoths like Fortnite proving just how successful the model can be. A line tucked away in a job listing from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE) has suggested that Warner is looking to follow …
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Microsoft’s Xbox business is booming, and this includes huge numbers for revenue, Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Live users, and console sales, the company said during an earnings call. Xbox Game Pass is one of Microsoft’s key strategies for next-gen, and the subscription service now has 18 million subscribers, which is …
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