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Xbox Head Phil Spencer speaks on the future of first-party Xbox and how the studios are benefiting from each other. For the entirety of the Xbox One’s life cycle, one of the most common criticisms of Microsoft has been the lack of first-party games. Even for the ones that did exist were seen as underwhelming. In a new interview with Kotaku, Phil Spencer talks about the direction he and the ...read more
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There are many types of Twitch streamers on the popular platform. Plenty of people take to the site to play video games, create various art projects, discuss a wide number of things, among several other reasons, and they do it all to share with the viewers who flock to Twitch. One of the topics that some streamers enjoy talking about is politics, regardless of which side of the aisle people are ...read more
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Sony announced on Wednesday the free games that its PlayStation 4 users will be getting if they’re subscribed to PlayStation Plus. Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 and Horizon Chase Turbo are the two games the community will be able to download throughout the month, both of which will satisfy anyone who has a least a passing interest in sports games or has been wanting to give the two a try. The games ...read more
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The last year has not been too kind to big GaaS (Games as a Service) releases. In fact, in a relatively short time period we saw two launches that were, frankly, rather disastrous. One being EA and BioWare’s Anthem, which both parties are hoping to turn around soon, with the other being Fallout 76. While on paper the latter seemed like an easy slam dunk, the launch was marred with what seemed ...read more
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The Crowbar Collective teased an “imminent release” for the beta of Black Mesa’s Xen portion. As it turns out, it meant “almost immediately” – the technical beta is now available for those who own the game. Simply head to the game in your library, right click on it, select Properties and head to the beta menu. Select the public beta and you should be good to go. Though Xen makes up ...read more
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The hotly anticipated 2019 Steam Summer Sale appears to have crashed the Steam Store’s servers for at least 30 Minutes at launch and at other times since, giving users who attempt to visit the main store page a “502 Bad Gateway” error. Other pages on the site have been up and running for most of the time since the sale began, including store pages for individual games, though the entire ...read more
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Twitch has reinstated Dr Disrespect’s channel after banning it only for two weeks. In a move everyone predicted, the Twitch channel for Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm is once again live for all viewers. The channel went live overnight, though the streamer has yet to actually host a stream. The most recent stream archive is from 16 days, which means the infamous bathroom stream will not be ...read more
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Go forth and save on all these titles with the Steam Summer Sale—now featuring a Grand Prix. It appears that the Steam Summer Sale 2019 start and end dates that leaked last month were accurate (as they often are), as today marks the beginning of the two-week long discount extravaganza. From now until July 9, we can enjoy purchasing so many games at slashed prices that we’ll be lucky if we ...read more
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In collaboration with some pretty famous franchises, Mojang has released several mash-up packs for Minecraft in the past. Fans of the game have been treated to mash-ups for Adventure Time, Fallout 4, and more. Today, a new such pack has been announced by the company, dubbed the Toy Story Mash-Up. Arriving mere days after the release of the franchise's latest movie, Toy Story 4, the pack will ...read more
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It’s looking pretty certain now that at least one of those “multiple Diablo projects” mentioned by developer Blizzard last year is on the way. Following recent reports that devs were being moved off a Starcraft FPS to work on Diablo 4, the studio has now put up two new job adverts for a Diablo title – a lead character artist and a lead concept artist. Excitingly, it also seems that the ...read more
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