The Nintendo GameCube had a handful of absolute classics. Mario Tama, Getty Images The Nintendo GameCube turned 20 years old this week. And it’s a weird one. With the benefit of hindsight, it’s easy to see it was an influential console that played host to some of Nintendo’s best ever titles. At the time? It […]
Eventually, Stadia Games and Entertainment teams got the software and people it needed to gain momentum prototyping Stadia games. The allure of a Google-sized paycheck and an exit ramp from the crunch-fueled hamster wheel was enough to draw a critical mass of developers to Stadia Games and Entertainment. Artists, producers, audio experts, programmers had been
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The Epic Games Store is hitting its stride. Epic revealed today that its PC gaming portal hit 61 million monthly active players on PC. It also had an average peak-concurrent player count of 13 million on PC. This came as Epic gave away free games as part of “The Vault” promotional event. Free games included
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Blockchain gaming has to walk before it runs. That’s why Polyient Games, a spinoff of incubator Polyient Labs, is starting to invest in early-stage infrastructure companies that will enable blockchain games. Blockchain is the technology that uses peer-to-peer decentralized networking to build a transparent and secure ledger. It is the technology behind cryptocurrencies such as
Pick up your sticks. Sarah Tew/CNET Sony’s got some good deals on its PlayStation Store right now, with a dual sale going on. First is a Remasters & Retro sale which, as the title suggests, has discounts on remastered remade editions of classic games. But there’s also a separate sale that has discounts of up
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What’s really going on in this KFConsole video announcement from KFC? Video screenshot by Bonnie Burton/CNET Not to be outdone by Sony’s PlayStation 5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X, the fast-food restaurant chain KFC (previously called Kentucky Fried Chicken) launched its own gaming console as a joke. Unfortunately, it’s not real. For more like this Subscribe
The finale of the show was the unveiling of the PlayStation 5. Like the Xbox Series X, it was shown standing upright, though like the PS4 it can also be placed on its side. No pricing or release date information was shared. What follows is a series of updates provided by Launcher’s staff from the
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Andreessen Horowitz is one of Silicon Valley’s biggest venture capital firms investing in both early-stage startups and established growth companies. Its investments span the gamut of software industries, and lately, it been investing in games. Founded in 2009 by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and entrepreneur Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz has backed companies such as Skype,
Image caption George Floyd died on 25 May A gaming firm executive has resigned over a meme he posted about George Floyd, who died while being arrested. Ron Johnson, who was head of consumer products at Riot Games, shared an image detailing Mr Floyd’s criminal record. He wrote that it was “no reason to condone
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Sony had its big video presentation today, giving us both a deluge of big PlayStation 5 games and showing off the console itself for the first time. As far as a hype event goes, it was a huge success. Now, yes, I love the actual look of the console. After so many years of black
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