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Blizzard is kicking off the public beta for ‘Overwatch’ on October 27
A limited number of Blizzard Entertainment fans will soon finally get some hands-on experience with Overwatch, the studio’s highly anticipated team-based shooter. Blizzard has officially announced that Overwatch will enter closed beta on October 27, just in time for BlizzCon. “We’re aiming to accomplish two primary goals with our public beta test,” Blizzard explained in a blog post. “First, get ...
Facebook’s “On This Day” feature now lets you block out certain memories
Facebook’s algorithms sometimes have a tendency to sometimes bring up memories that some users would rather forget, but a new change the social network is making to its On This Day feature will allow you to block out memories (and people) that you would rather not see. Launched in March 2015, On This Day is ...
Hearthstone’s metagame gets shaken up with a major change to the Grim Patron deck
“Everyone, get in here!” This phrase sends shivers down most Hearthstone players’ spines, as it is the catchphrase of one of the most powerful and frustrating decks in the game: the Grim Patron Warrior. The deck has been very popular over the last few months, but Blizzard Entertainment has announced an upcoming change that will basically kill ...
Twitter is cutting over 300 jobs, roughly 8% of its workforce
Twitter Inc co-founder Jack Dorsey has been the CEO of the company for little more than a week, but he is already shaking up the social network by deciding to layoff over 300 employees, representing roughly 8 percent of the company’s workforce. The move is part of a plan to cut costs for Twitter as ...
Celebrities need at least 100M followers to be worth their own game, says dev of ‘Kim Kardashian: Hollywood’
Despite being the butt of many jokes, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood has become an extremely successful mobile game, with tens of millions of downloads on the Google Play Store alone. According to research firm Newzoo BV, that makes the game worth somewhere around $30 billion in this year’s mobile market. Developer Glu Mobile attributes a large portion ...
‘Allison Road’ devs ditch Kickstarter campaign in favor of publisher deal
After raising £145,959 from 4,482 backers on Kickstarter, the creators of the P.T. inspired horror game Allison Road have announced that they have cancelled their crowdfunding campaign thanks to a new deal with UK-based game studio Team17 Digital Ltd, which is best known for the Worms game series. The developers of Allison Road said that they are excited about the deal and promised fans ...
UK government launches UK Games Fund to back small game studios
Today the United Kingdom officially launched its UK Games Fund program, a public grant program aimed at growing the country’s game development industry by backing smaller studios and teams with creative ideas. The program comes from an allocation of £4 million (roughly $6.1 million USD) in funding from the UK government, and the money will be given ...
Star Citizen gets star studded cast for Squadron 42, including Gary Oldman, Andy Serkis, and more
Despite the occasional delays and a few inflammatory news reports, Star Citizen remains one of the most highly anticipated games in development, and over the weekend developer Cloud Imperium Games raised expectations again with the announcement of a star studded cast for the game’s “cinematic single-player epic adventure,” Squadron 42. The cast list is led by award winning ...
Phil Spencer on botched Xbox One launch: “I think what we fundamentally lost was the trust of our most loyal customers”
While the Xbox One has a dedicated fan base today, the console was not so well received early in its life. Some features that were announced for Xbox One, such as not supporting used games or requiring an always-on internet connection, were scrapped before the console actually launched because they were universally unpopular with Xbox fans. Recently ...
Unity makes plans to abandon the Unity Web Player plugin by March 2016
Unity Technologies Inc. has announced that as of March 2016 it will no longer support the Unity Web Player plugin, which currently allows developers to release games for web browsers using the Unity game engine. The company explained that several web browsers, including Google Chrome, are already removing support for plugins like the Web Player, ...