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Microsoft absorbs RPG developers Obsidian and inXile
Microsoft today announced the acquisition of two heavy-hitters in the RPG gaming world, namely inXile Entertainment and Obsidian Entertainment. And…
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Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds is headed to Xbox Game Pass
Microsoft today announced its subscription-based gaming service Xbox Game Pass would be adding the incredibly popular Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds to…
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Prima Games to cease publishing its strategy guides after 28 years
Reports today revealed that Prima Games, the company behind those strategy guides you see at every game store, was shutting…
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Sony’s PlayStation Classic uses an open-source emulator to play its games
The worm has turned, it seems. Emulators, which let people run old console games on their computers, were once the…
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Utah man pleads guilty to causing 2013 gaming service outages
A Utah man has pleaded guilty to computer hacking charges, after admitting to knocking several gaming services offline five years…
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Fortnite’s concurrent players now number over 8.3 million
Epic Games revealed in a recent interview that the concurrent player count of the world’s most popular game has…
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Red Dead Online public beta set to launch later this month
Take-Two Interactive revealed this week it’d be opening the public beta for Red Dead Online, the multiplayer component of its…
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PUBG goes free-to-play briefly on Xbox to combat waning interest
Microsoft today revealed PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds would be free-to-play this weekend, the first time the game has ever been free on that platform.…
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Nintendo’s Smash Bros scandal shows some things are best left in the past
Nintendo today revealed it was removing a certain move from the latest Smash Bros game, apparently not realizing it was more than…
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