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September 20, 2019
Amazon today is introducing a new perk for Prime members: free mobile game content. The company, which already offers Twitch Prime benefits through its subsidiary, will now give…
Read articleSeptember 19, 2019
Let me preface this by saying: I realize that I’m not necessarily the target user for the original Nintendo Switch. First: I don’t own a TV, and haven’t…
Read articleSeptember 18, 2019
PlayVS, the platform that allows high school students to compete on varsity esports teams through their school, has today announced the close of a $50 million Series C…
Read articleSeptember 17, 2019
Amazon-owned Twitch has made a small but strategic acquisition designed to improve its search capabilities and better direct viewers to exactly the right content. The company is acquiring…
Read articleSeptember 17, 2019
Maybe a network will be the thing that replaces the single streaming media star. VENN, a new company launching with $17 million in funding from some of the…
Read articleSeptember 16, 2019
Apple Arcade seems purpose-built to make room in the market for beautiful, sad, weird, moving, slow, clever and heartfelt. All things that the action, shooter and MOBA-driven major…
Read articleSeptember 16, 2019
If you’re running a beta version of iOS 13 or 13.1, chances are you can now open the App Store and subscribe to Apple Arcade. The company has…
Read articleSeptember 13, 2019
The best medicine against online disinformation is an informed society that’s thinking critically. The problem is there are no shortcuts to universal education. Enter Finnish Public Broadcasting Company,…
Read articleSeptember 12, 2019
Nintendo has been at the crossroads of video games and fitness since the famous Power Pad for the NES, and the Switch is the latest to receive a…
Read articleSeptember 12, 2019
UK MPs have called for the government to regulate the games industry’s use of loot boxes under current gambling legislation — urging a blanket ban on the sale…
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