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GDC Summer event announced for August 2020

Looking to deliver on their promise of a reschedule, a new GDC Summer events has been announced for August to replace the canceled event in March. In the thick of game industry and esports events postponed or outright canceled due to growing coronavirus concerns, GDC 2020 was one of the biggest to fall on the chopping block, but it wasn’t canceled outright. Rather, GDC claimed to be postponing the event to determine whether or not a summer event could be planned in place of the original March 2020 plans. Those

Final Fantasy 7 Remake may not reach buyers by release date

You may need to pick up an extra digital copy of Final Fantasy 7 Remake if you want to play it by the time it comes out on April 10. If your'e gearing up to play Final Fantasy 7 Remake when it launches on April 10, you may want to consider pre-ordering a digital copy to save yourself some potential heartbreak. Square Enix took to Twitter to post an official notice that there is an "increasingly likely" shortage for the physical version of Final Fantasy 7 Remake that may very

Evo 2020 Is Not Canceled Yet, Monitoring Coronavirus

The massive fighting game tournament Evo Championship Series (Evo) is scheduled to begin this July, and despite the ongoing threat of coronavirus, its organizers are not cancelling yet.In a post on Twitter, Evo organizers said they are monitoring the outbreak and are monitoring updates from local agencies as well as the World Health Organization and Center for Disease Control to best assess the situation. As of now, the Mandalay Bay Resort where Evo was scheduled to be held has closed, and Evo's organizers are assuming it will be open by

Amazon delaying ‘nonessential’ shipments to focus on coronavirus needs

If you have a game for pre-order with Amazon, you may want to check again, because the seriousness of the coronavirus outbreak is leading to the retailer delaying 'nonessential' shipments for the immediate future. Undeniably, the biggest story in the world continues to be the ongoing spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. It has essentially brought life as everyone knows it to a screeching halt, as nations scramble to protect themselves and others by stopping the virus from spreading any further. For many across the United States, it has led to

WWE Wrestlemania 36 Moved To Performance Center, No Longer In Tampa

It's official. For the first time since 1984, WWE’s biggest annual show will broadcast live without an audience. WWE had confirmed that Wrestlemania 36 will not take place in Tampa, Florida, as originally scheduled. Instead, WWE is moving the show to its Performance Center, as it has done with both Smackdown and Raw. This is all in response to the growing COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, which has led to multiple conference, convention, and event cancellations.In a statement to GameSpot about the situation, WWE said, "In coordination with local partners and government

Xbox Series X: What’s the Deal with Latency?

Webster’s Dictionary defines ‘latency’ as “the quality or state of being present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, or active.” And now that I’ve finally gotten to use that hackneyed writing trope in my career, let’s dive into what latency means in the world of video games and how the engineers working on Xbox Series X are working to reduce it. In its most simple terms, latency is the measurement of how long it takes for a signal or piece of data to travel from

Insert coin: Level up your player support experience

If you’re wondering if I’m a gamer, I’m not.I don’t play video games every day, I don’t crowd my mobile phone with gaming apps, belong to any gaming community, I’m not even that good at them! However, from time to time, I do play a game or two. I’ll get excited and even start screaming to the lifeless screen in front of me — and that’s when my inner gamer, dormant most of the time, comes out to play.For this reason, going to Gamescom 2018 was an entirely new experience