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How to Survive and Thrive as a Space Empire in Stellaris: Console Edition

Source Node: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/05/29/survive-and-thrive-stellaris-console-edition/
Time Stamp: May 29, 2020 9:00 AM - Modified On: May 29, 2020 - Published By:
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Hello everybody, Daniel Moregård here from Paradox Interactive to offer some tips for navigating the latest update for Stellaris: Console Edition – 2.2 “Le Guin”. Stellaris: Console Edition is the first grand strategy game on consoles and it’s free to play this weekend! As such, you might be thinking, what’s a grand strategy game? What is Stellaris? What is the meaning of life?? Who am I?!? It’s okay – you’re reading a blog post and it’s here to help with at least some of those questions. “Grand strategy” is a

6 Things You Didn’t Know About Project Warlock, Coming to Xbox One June 12

Source Node: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/05/28/6-things-didnt-know-project-warlock-xbox-june-12/
Time Stamp: May 28, 2020 3:00 PM - Modified On: May 28, 2020 - Published By:
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Summary Project Warlock is a love letter to the golden age of classic shooters from the ’90s. Explore 60 vast levels in five settings, from frozen Antarctic base to the sands of Egypt to the medieval castles’ courts and graveyards. See how this game came to be and learn some interesting trivia before it goes live on Xbox One June 12. Hey! My name is Jakub Cisło and I’m the developer behind Project Warlock – a fast-paced, retro shooter inspired by cult-classics such as the original Doom, Hexen, Heretic, or

Minecraft Dungeons has charm and potential, but needs lot more time in the furnace

Source Node: https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/22/minecraft-dungeons-has-charm-and-potential-but-needs-lot-more-time-in-the-furnace/
Time Stamp: May 22, 2020 3:28 PM - Modified On: May 22, 2020 - Published By:
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  Minecraft is one of the most popular games on the planet, so it’s natural that Microsoft, after buying creator Mojang some years back, would attempt to apply the genre’s playful, blocky aesthetic to other genres. After modest success with the Story Mode adventure game and Pokémon GO-like Minecraft Earth, they’ve tried their hand at a light action-RPG à la Diablo — and unfortunately come up rather short. For now, that is. Minecraft Dungeons is a sort of my-first-dungeon-crawler type game, a friendly, streamlined version of the genre Diablo created

Guy Fieri Raises $20 Million For Out-Of-Work Restaurant Workers

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Time Stamp: May 11, 2020 12:21 AM - Modified On: May 11, 2020 - Published By:
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In the midst of lockdowns and restaurant closures around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Guy Fieri has stepped up to help provide aid to thousands of out-of-work restaurant staff, Variety reports.In partnership with the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation, Fieri has helped to raise over $20 million, which will be distributed to restaurant workers experiencing hardship in grants of $500. In the last two months, over 40,000 of these grants have been awarded."I started thinking about my brothers and sisters in the restaurant business, and a bunch of

Roundguard on Apple Arcade Game Designer Andrea Roberts interview

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Time Stamp: May 10, 2020 1:29 AM - Modified On: May 10, 2020 - Published By:
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When it comes to the idea of a peggle-style game, it doesn’t have to be a simple level-by-level design. It can be an adventure! That’s the idea behind Wonderbelly Games’ Roundguard - a game that asks you to clear boards of monsters, treasure, potions, and other goodies with bouncy RPG heroes, and recently launched on the Apple Arcade. Roundguard describes itself as a “bouncy dungeon crawler” in which you’ll use characters like warriors, mages, rogues, and more, each with their own unique abilities, to launch and bounce around boards populated

Shack Chat: What do you want to see from EA Play 2020?

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Time Stamp: May 9, 2020 1:01 AM - Modified On: May 9, 2020 - Published By:
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It's that time again, your favorite time of the week. This week the Shack staff gathers 'round our virtual meeting table to discuss one of many upcoming digital gaming events. EA Play 2020 was recently announced as a digital event, and we thought it high time to sit down and look deep within ourselves to figure out exactly what we want from EA Play in 2020. Question: What do you want to see from EA Play 2020? Skate 4 - Asif Khan, Better than the rest of the Shack staff

VCs see opportunities for gaming infrastructure startups and incumbents

Source Node: https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/08/startup-opportunities-in-gaming-infrastructure/
Time Stamp: May 8, 2020 1:01 PM - Modified On: May 8, 2020 - Published By:
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As the infrastructure for developing games becomes more advanced, studios have turned to buying best-in-class technology from others instead of building everything from scratch (often with inferior quality). This shift underpinned Unity’s rise as the most popular game engine. The current focus on games as ever-evolving social hubs that can remain popular for a decade requires investment in “live ops” to keep updating the game with new features and experiences, only adding to a game studio’s responsibilities. There are big movements in gaming right now to make games cross-platform (not

Undertaker: The Last Ride Review – WWE’s New Documentary Is A Revealing Look At The Wrestling Icon

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Time Stamp: May 8, 2020 9:00 AM - Modified On: May 8, 2020 - Published By:
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If you've spent any time exploring the WWE Network, you've come across a long list of documentaries about a variety of wrestlers, matches, pay per view events, and even entire wrestling companies. However, there's one thing that's been sorely lacking on the company's streaming platform: an in-depth look at its longest-tenured wrestler, the Undertaker. With the premiere of Undertaker: The Last Ride, that changes.The new eight-part documentary series follows the legendary Undertaker between 2017 and 2020 as the man behind the character, Mark Calaway, struggles with the realization that the

ShackStream: Let’s play Red Dead Redemption 2 – Part 7

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Time Stamp: May 6, 2020 11:31 PM - Modified On: May 6, 2020 - Published By:
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We're back in the saddle and looking to find more adventure for Arthur Morgan. It’s Wednesday, folks. That means we’re back for another episode of our Red Dead Redemption 2 let’s play where we tackle the entire story and many of the side quests and activities. Last stream we spent a lot of time hunting and cleaning up some odds and ends. This stream is likely to look similar. [embedded content] The action kicks off at 5 p.m. EDT on the Shacknews Twitch channel. Come say hello in chat and