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Dreamcast Is Still Offering Up "Wild" Tech Secrets, 25 Years On
The Dreamcast may have been Sega's final stab in the world of gaming hardware, but the company really threw everything at making the console a success – including features like online connectivity, memory cards you could play games on and the ability to hook the system up via VGA for a sharper picture. If you were lucky enough to have experienced a Dreamcast running via VGA back in the day, ...read more
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Tom Hardy’s Splinter Cell movie is reportedly cancelled
A planned Splinter Cell movie starring actor Tom Hardy has been cancelled, its producer has suggested. News around the live-action movie, first announced in 2012 with Hardy as protagonist Sam Fisher, has been fairly silent for the more than a decade since. However, speaking to The Direct, producer Basil Iwanyk, who signed on for the Splinter Cell project in 2013, has suggested that it’s ...read more
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Call of Duty: Mobile Crosses 1 Billion Downloads
Established gaming franchises don’t always enjoy success with their attempts to capture a slice of the mobile gaming market, but one series that unequivocally has seen massive success on that front is Call of Duty, with Call of Duty: Mobile in particular continuing to attract players in sizeable numbers. Taking to Twitter, Activision announced that since its launch a little over five years ...read more
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Tencent confirms layoffs at Sharkmob London
Tencent has confirmed that Sharkmob London has suffered layoffs. As reported by PocketGamer, the studio has undergone a “reduction in headcount”. “In line with many studios, Sharkmob has been impacted by the difficult conditions across the video gaming market,” Tencent said in a statement. “As a result, regrettably, Sharkmob has had to make a reduction in headcount in its ...read more
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Call of Duty: Mobile Crosses 1 Billion Downloads
Established gaming franchises don’t always enjoy success with their attempts to capture a slice of the mobile gaming market, but one series that unequivocally has seen massive success on that front is Call of Duty, with Call of Duty: Mobile in particular continuing to attract players in sizeable numbers. Taking to Twitter, Activision announced that since its launch a little over five years ...read more
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Destiny: Rising Closed Alpha is Live Until December 5th
The closed alpha for Destiny: Rising, NetEase’s mobile adaptation of Bungie’s looter shooter franchise set in an alternate timeline, has begun. It’s available for those in the United States and Canada until December 5th, 11:59 PM PDT. The current slate of content includes a prologue for the campaign, 11 Lightbearers (which serve as separate characters with unique abilities), Haven (the ...read more
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Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu Reportedly Receives Major Update
Amid the uncertainty surrounding Star Wars feature films, fans have reason to get excited with an unexpected update on the highly-anticipated movie starring The Mandalorian and Grogu. The fate of feature-length Star Wars films has been up in the air, but there's no doubt Disney+ has kept the Force strong with its Star Wars lineup. The groundbreaking series The Mandalorian led the charge, where ...read more
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Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket Surpasses 10 Million Downloads
The Pokemon Company and Nintendo have enjoyed a fair bit of success with Pokemon’s many mobile outings so far, with the likes of Pokemon GO, Pokemon Sleep, Pokemon Unite, and others having attracted sizeable audiences to varying degrees. Now, unsurprisingly, the IP’s latest mobile effort also seems to have got off to a quick start. Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket launched for iOS and ...read more
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Dr Disrespect Gives Update on YouTube Monetization Effort
Herschel "Dr Disrespect" Beahm IV has not been accepted back into the YouTube Partner Program, according to the streamer himself. However, YouTube will allow him to reapply soon. In late June 2024, Dr Disrespect admitted to sending "inappropriate" messages to a minor via Whispers, a now-defunct private messaging feature of Twitch. The incident—or series thereof—occurred in 2017, the ...read more
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Netflix's AAA Game Studio Shuts Down After Making Zero Games
As of late, Netflix has been trying to dip its toes into the gaming scene. They even founded their own AAA game studio, to work on a secretive piece of original IP. And... it's gone. The studio, once known only as "Blue," has officially shut down. This studio had hired some big-name industry talent that, in theory, would turn out a fantastic product and make people view Netflix as a viable ...read more
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