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Wreckfest and Goat Simulator join THQ Nordic through acquisitions
Battlefield V’s War Stories opening cinematics hook the player
Microsoft previews PlayFab multiplayer game services
Battlefield V is getting ray tracing after Nvidia RTX driver update
Overwatch’s latest hero Ashe is live for those who love to shoot
The Game Awards: Red Dead Redemption 2 and God of War show power of long development cycles
PlayStation 4 gets PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in December
Echo Combat brings 4v4 zero-gravity combat to virtual reality
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Crucial P1 and BX500 SSDs push down the cost of storage
Beat Saber’s exclusive PSVR content will come to PC
Hunt: Showdown’s lead designer on sneaking through the new map
How Samsung and Skydance view the evolving world of VR
PlayStation rides roughshod over other gaming brands for October TV ad spend
Vive Focus 6DoF controllers hands-on: an impressive start
Microsoft acquires Obsidian Entertainment, a premier role-playing game studio
Microsoft acquires InXile to make role-playing games for Xbox, PC
Crackdown 3 launches February 15
Xbox Game Pass gets 16 new games, including PUBG
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You Are Jeff Bezos postmortem
Google files patent for eye-tracking system that reads expressions for VR
Watch a master play Tetris Effect live
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Tetris Effect review — Video games get their Kuleshov effect
The DeanBeat: A dust-up over Diablo: Immortal has far-reaching implications
Battlefield V has a moving prologue for its War Stories
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The RetroBeat: Why Blizzard is remastering Warcraft III — and what it’s changing
Activision Blizzard hits Q3 earnings but spooks investors with weak Q4 forecast
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is selling 3-times faster than Black Ops III on PC
Destiny 2 player count up over this time last year
PUBG fixed? New patch addresses the desync problem
Microsoft teases Project xCloud for Samsung game developers
Pagan Online is Wargaming’s first foray into Diablo’s turf
Humm’s headset turns your brain into overdrive for better gaming
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