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Repeat Launches Industry’s First All-in-One Tournament Platform for…

Repeat brand platform - mobile experience for gamers "The results from our initial campaign were so successful, we have already started our second campaign,” said Derick Sizemore, virtual recruiting team manager at U.S. Army. “The U.S. Army is looking forward to running even more extensive campaigns in the future with Repeat.“ SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) March 02, 2021 Repeat, the leading esports tournament platform enabling players from around the globe to compete for cash and other prizes, has launched an all-in-one tournament platform to make it easy for brands to launch

Valorant’s Game Changers tournaments will highlight women and marginalized people

GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. April 28-29, 2021 Register Now Riot Games announced the Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) Game Changers program today. It’s an esports tournament initiative to supplement the competitive season by highlighting women and people of marginalized genders. The year-long effort will help build a tour that is more representative of the diversity of the Valorant community, Riot Games said. “Game Changers will provide tournaments and development programs for women who want to take their game beyond

Persona 5 Strikers Review – The Phantom Thieves Strike Back

Ever since Persona broke out with Persona 3, and we started getting a glut of spin off titles to accompany each numbered, mainline release, there has always been a very strong and clear distinction in the quality and aesthetic of a mainline Persona game, and a spin-off. Even when said spin-offs play well, their quality of writing and gameplay is a dramatic step down (and apart) from what the mainline games are like. No one, for example, would confuse the plot of Persona 4 Arena or any of the Persona

L.A. Thieves’ Kenny Williams on living the dream life as a pro Call of Duty esports player

GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. April 28-29, 2021 Register Now The Call of Duty League started its opening matches Thursday, and they run through this weekend so that you can watch a lot of havoc on Valentine’s Day. The new league will run its full season through the summer as an online-only esports league. The league features 12 teams in city-based territories, including the brand new L.A. Thieves team taking over the berth from The Immortals. I spoke with

Monster Hunter Rise Wasn’t Originally Going to Have Seamless Open World Maps

The Switch exclusive was originally going to have areas separated by loading screens. Monster Hunter World was a major step forward for its series in many ways, and many of those leaps forward were focused on the tech behind the game. For instance, where the series had previously always had areas within its maps separated by loading screens, in World, every single map was completely seamless. While that’s going to continue in the upcoming Monster Hunter Rise, that wasn’t originally the plan. Speaking in a recent interview with IGN, the game’s director Yasunori Ichinose said

Microsoft Flight Simulator Gets WIP Screenshots of London Update & Orbx Partnership Video

Today Microsoft and Asobo Studio published their regular development update for Microsoft Flight Simulator, and it has a couple of treats. First of all, we hear about the upcoming World Update which will improve scenery in the UK and Ireland. More specifically, we learn that its release is now planned between Feb. 9 and Feb. 11. We also get two work-in-progress images of London’s photogrammetry. We know that this wasn’t finished, which is part of the reason behind the delay of the update, and that’s certainly visible in the images,

How pandemic socialization trends have accelerated the move into virtual spaces

GamesBeat x Oculus Venues Join Dean Takahashi, Ramez Naam, and Tim Chang online for "Science Fiction, Tech, and Games." Hosted in VR and 2D February 17th, 10:00am PT Learn More What will the social graph look like this year? What is it going to look like two years from now, and how is it going to be built? To answer that question, Elena Arponen, CEO and co-founder of Quicksave Interactive, Bruce Grove, CEO and co-founder of Polystream, and Si Lumb, metamedia futurist, joined Wanda Meloni, CEO & Principal Analyst at