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Microsoft Tried to Buy Nintendo, But Got Laughed Out of the Room
Somehow, it’s already been two decades since Microsoft first announced the Xbox, its foray into console gaming. Specifically, the Xbox was unveiled at CES in 2001. To commemorate that launch, Bloomberg has published an in-depth oral history of how the console came to be. It’s a fascinating read, but one particular passage stands out: details on Microsoft’s efforts to secure games for the brand-new console.
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Open World Star Wars Game in Development at Ubisoft
Ubisoft is working on an open world Star Wars game with Lucasfilm Games. The Division developer, Ubisoft Massive will develop the new game.
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PS5 CES 2021 sizzle trailer reveals release windows for Project Athia, Ghostwire: Tokyo, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, and more - Gematsu
The end card of the PlayStation 5 sizzle trailer shown during Sony Corporation's Consumer Electronics Show 2021 Digital Press Event mentions previously unannounced release windows
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Ars Technica’s 2021 Deathwatch—2020 was just the beginning
These companies might have survived COVID and a recession, but will they survive 2021?
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Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo, but got laughed out of the room
Specifically, the Xbox was unveiled at CES in 2001 — to commemorate that launch, Bloomberg has published an in-depth oral history of how the console came to be. It’s a fascinating read, but one particular passage stands out: details on Microsoft’s efforts to secure games for the brand-new console. While the company implored third-party developers to work on the Xbox, Microsoft also considered using its considerable financial might to buy developers.
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8 great Apple Arcade games for your new 2020 iPhone or iPad
This time last year, Apple Arcade was still a fledgling service, but one with a lot of potential. For $5 a month, you could get unlimited access to a big library of interesting games, the kind that no one really sells in the App Store anymore. It’s still not a place to find the latest blockbusters, but Arcade has steadily evolved into one of the best deals in gaming.
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It’s Time for Assassin’s Creed to Abandon Its Stupid Backstory
Just cut out the middleman! Let me play in a historical fantasy world!
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How EVE Online's Players Started a War That's Cost $700k
EVE Online is once again at war with itself, in a conflict that's likely to destroy almost a million dollars worth of in-game assets.
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Top 10 Worst Best Games Of 2020
This year gave us a truly mediocre barrage of games, and these are the worst of the so-called best.
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500,000 graphics cards found in an abandoned container
The RTX 3070, 3080 and 3090 are still hard to find. A shortage favored by strong demand, excessively long production cycles and the global pandemic, which does not make things easier. Good news however, since a South Korean port operator has just got hold of a lost shipment of 500,000 GeForce RTX 3000 cards!
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Amazon Releases Best Sellers of 2020, Top 10 Dominated by Nintendo
One surefire sign of how well a game sold is online retailer Amazon's Best Sellers of the year. This year Nintendo dominated the top 10.
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AR & VR Training: The Future of Corporate Learning
Remember the simple, ingenious app – Pokémon GO? If you wanted to train or catch Pokémon in the real world – and by that, we mean in the world of Augmented Reality – you’d have to use the Pokémon GO application. Fans, and sometimes even non-fans, went all out in their hunt to catch Pokémon.
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CD Projekt Red investors sue company over Cyberpunk 2077 debacle
Players aren't the only ones angry about how the game's console versions launched.
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Both Sides Claim Victory In Massive EVE Online Battle
Ragnarök, the death of the Norse gods, played out in EVE Online in the wee hours of New Year’s eve. Hundreds of the game’s mightiest vessels gathered together in the M2-XFE system, and Titans from the game’s two largest factions spent over 12 hours exchanging fire and unleashing their incredibly devastating doomsday weapon systems. In the end, around 250 of these god-like war machines were nothing more than smoldering wreckage, including my own.
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Videogames are a bigger industry than sports and movies combined, thanks to the pandemic
Not only have videogames grown to resemble competition-based, interactive movies, but COVID-19-related lockdowns have propelled the industry
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Outer Wilds: 10-Minute Gameplay Walkthrough
Mystery SF game.
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CD Projekt not in talks with Microsoft about Cyberpunk 2077 withdrawal
Poland's CD Projekt is not in talks with Xbox producer Microsoft about a possible withdrawal from sale of a console version of Cyberpunk 2077, the company's chief executive said on Friday.
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Best Of 2020: Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 10 Years Of Nintendo's Straightest, Greatest Sequel
Nintendo doesn’t make straight sequels. That’s the received wisdom, anyway. Kyoto's premier game designers need a really good reason—a jump in technology, or a novel new control input, for example—to warrant revisiting a franchise. They're apparently not interested in churning out more of the same for mere profit. The company line is to "provide products and services that surprise and delight consumers", and if they can't think of a way to do that with a sequel, they don't make one.
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Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo unite on new set of safety principles for online gaming
Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, who among them effectively control the entirety of the console gaming market, have announced a shared set of safety guidelines for how they’ll moderate and police their online platforms.
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HBO's 'The Last of Us' TV adaptation ordered to series, from Chernobyl's Craig Mazin
Craig Mazin's small screen take on The Last of Us video game franchise is officially coming to the Home Box Office. First announced in May of this year, the post-apocalyptic series has officially been green-lit, the premium cable network announced today. Mazin (scribe of The Hangover II - III and HBO's critically acclaimed Chernobyl miniseries) will write and executive produce the series alongside Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann.