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Espo announces official pre-launch of its eSports digital staking platform to provide a new way for esports fans, teams and sponsors to collaborate

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Espo, the platform where esports fans can stake* world-class teams and players, today announced its official pre-launch and pre-registration of its eSports digital staking platform. Espo has created an answer to limitations and problems faced by fans, teams and players in the esports community. By developing a digital staking platform, Espo is addressing the burning desire of fans to get closer to the action and the aspiration for teams to expand and generate revenue from their fanbase. The London-based Espo is the first-of-its-kind digital staking platform that will create real disruption in the esports

Weekend PC Download Deals for May 8: First DOOM Eternal discounts

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You have your mission. You must rip and tear until it is done. And if you're late to the ripping and the tearing, then perhaps a discount will give you incentive to get started. Yes, DOOM Eternal is getting its first significant discount, going down by 25 percent this weekend. So if you want it, you can pick it up on Steam and The Humble Store right now. Speaking of The Humble Store, the Humble Store Spring Sale has begun and that means dozens of games across a vast number

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the fastest selling title ever for the Nintendo Switch

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Time Stamp: May 7, 2020 5:31 PM - Modified On: May 7, 2020 - Published By:
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Nintendo released its fiscal year-end financial report, and it had a lot of good things to say about Animal Crossing: New Horizons and the game's stellar launch and sales. Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been quite the never-ending source of joy and fun for a lot of players and fans with its base run of enjoyable island content and a continuous supply of events, holiday surprises, and more, but it was also an absolute winner for Nintendo this previous fiscal year. Nintendo revealed in their Q4 financial report that Animal

PewDiePie Has Signed An Exclusive Streaming Deal With YouTube

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Time Stamp: May 5, 2020 3:40 AM - Modified On: May 5, 2020 - Published By:
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Felix Kjellberg AKA PewDiePie was one of the earliest success stories of online gaming content, having had millions of followers and pulling in millions in revenue for years.Despite being one of YouTube's breakout gaming stars, he found himself in hot water with the company after creating an anti-Semetic stunt, with YouTube cancelling his reality show and pulling him from many of its ads. But now it appears PewDiePie is back in the good books, having partnered with YouTube to stream exclusively with them, the Washington Post reports.While he pulls in

Assassin’s Creed Vahalla on PC will be exclusive to Epic Games Store & UPlay

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Time Stamp: April 30, 2020 7:23 PM - Modified On: April 30, 2020 - Published By:
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It would appear that Assassin's Creed Valhalla will be the first mainline AC game to skip Steam at launch and be exclusive to Epic Games Store and their UPlay platform. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has been revealed as Ubisoft’s next mainline AC game, and it’s coming Holiday 2020 to multiple platforms, but not Steam - at least not at launch. It would appear that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla on PC will launch as an exclusive to the Epic Games Store and Ubisoft’s UPlay platform. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla was revealed and premiered with

Google CFO confirms company ‘experienced a significant slowdown in ad revenues’ in March

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Time Stamp: April 28, 2020 11:26 PM - Modified On: April 28, 2020 - Published By:
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Google CFO Ruth Porat disclosed a slow down in the company's ad revenue as the global COVID-19 pandemic intensified in March. Google is out with their Q1 2020 earnings release, and the stock is up on a revenue beat. Sales came in at $41.2 billion for the search behemoth, but the CFO disclosed that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on advertising revenues began to be felt in March.  Alphabet's stock jumped nearly $60/share on today's earnings release. “Performance was strong during the first two months of the quarter, but

Evening Reading – April 21, 2020

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Time Stamp: April 22, 2020 9:15 AM - Modified On: April 22, 2020 - Published By:
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Hey Shacknews, it's time for Evening Reading. Let's officially close out our day of posting. Please take a look. SUPER MARIO MAKER 2 GAME OF THE YEAR 2019-2020 GOTY #SuperMarioMaker2 #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/MviFw9IduX — Productive Citizen ✌?????? (@technosucks) April 22, 2020 They added the SMB3 Slot Machine. No wonder Super Mario Maker 2 won Shacknews Game of the Year 2019. [embedded content] Animal Crossing: New Horizons fans may have something to say about the GOTY 2020 [embedded content] Nice song by Shofu. Stonks #AnimalCrossing #ACNH #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/yDG7icdeb8 — Productive Citizen ✌??????

Epic Games launches Fortnite on the Google Play Store and they’re not happy about it

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Epic Games is finally settling its feud — kind of — with Google and putting Fornite onto the Google Play Store, but the studio sounds pretty pissed about it. When Fortnite launched on mobile in 2018, Epic Games very notably sidestepped the Google Play Store and pushed users to download the title directly from their website, an effort made to avoid the substantial revenue cuts that Google takes from in-app purchases of Play Store downloads. At the time, the move was understandable for Epic, which was sitting on the hottest

What’s Going On In Underground Casinos?

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It is funny to think that, up until the 1600s, all gambling that took place anywhere in the world would have been classed as illegal. Sure, it definitely existed; however, the state was rarely involved, meaning that gambling taverns and such throughout history often weren’t the safest of places. Nowadays, of course, gambling is anything but illegal, and it actually makes up a fairly sizable portion of the tax revenue that governments depend on across the globe. Whilst pretty much all gamblers will agree that the casino conditions in the

Cyberpunk 2077 Dev Sets New Revenue Record, Thanks To Witcher 3 On Switch

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Time Stamp: April 9, 2020 12:05 AM - Modified On: April 9, 2020 - Published By:
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Even before the launch of CD Projekt Red's next big game, Cyberpunk 2077, business is booming at the Polish studio. The company has released its latest earnings report, and it shows that the studio had the strongest fourth quarter of any year since the company was founded decades ago.For 2019, CDPR posted revenue of 521 million PLN, which works out $125 million USD. That's up a whopping 44 percent compared to the year prior. CDPR said the uptick in sales was primarily driven by the release of The Witcher 3: