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‘The Elder Scrolls: Legends’ digital card game enters beta testing
Bethesda Softworks LLC’ upcoming digital card game, The Elder Scrolls: Legends, has entered closed beta, and developer Dire Wolf Digital has unveiled a first glimpse of how the game will actually play (hint: a lot like Hearthstone). Set in the Elder Scrolls universe (Morrowind, Skyrim), The Elder Scrolls: Legends is a 1v1 collectible card game that shares a lot in ...
Microsoft finally halts production on Xbox 360
It looks like the Xbox 360 will be going to that great red ring of death in the sky, as Microsoft has announced that it is officially discontinuing the console after more than 10 years of production. “The Xbox 360 helped redefine an entire generation of gaming at Microsoft,” Xbox head Phil Spencer wrote in a blog ...
Dark Souls board game Kickstarter hits $1M in less than a day
Yesterday, Steamforged Games launched a Kickstarter campaign for its board game adaptation of the popular Dark Souls game franchise, and in less than a day, the campaign has already blown past all its original stretch goals, reaching over $1 million in funding so far. The campaign met its initial funding goal in just three minutes, and the ...
Hearthstone’s “Whispers of the Old Gods” expansion arrives next week
Blizzard Entertainment has finally revealed the official release date for Whispers of the Old Gods, the next expansion for Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, and it turns out that the new update is now only one week away and will be arriving on April 26. Whispers of the Old Gods will add 134 new cards to the game, which includes several ...
YouTube courts VR with 360-degree live streaming and spatial audio
YouTube announced today that it will be introducing 360-degree live streaming and spatial audio to its video sharing platform, bringing us one step closer to getting to experience obnoxious YouTube celebrities just like they were really there. Of course, the real target of the new streaming capabilities are live events such as sporting events and ...
Overwatch closed beta to shut down April 25 in preparation for launch
Blizzard Entertainment has announced that the closed beta for Overwatch will be coming to an end on April 25 in preparation for the open beta, which starts May 4 at 4:00pm PDT (May 2 at 4:00pm PDT if you pre-ordered), as well as full release, which arrives on May 24. “I just wanted to express ...
Insomniac’s ‘The Unspoken’ brings wizard battles to life in VR
Ratchet & Clank creator Insomniac Games unveiled a new virtual reality title today called The Unspoken, which the studio describes as “an Oculus Touch‐enabled VR action game that pulls players into a hidden world of spellcasting and magician’s duels.” Here is Insomniac’s synopsis of the game’s plot: “Magic is real. Its practitioners lurk in backrooms across ...
GameStop launches indie game publishing arm called GameTrust
Video game retailer GameStop Corp has been looking for new ways to stay relevant in a time when digital game downloads are becoming increasingly more popular than physical discs, and now the company has announced that it will be forming its own game publishing label, GameTrust. “The idea of GameTrust has been cooking for quite ...
GameStop’s PlayStation VR demos prove brick-and-mortars may still be relevant
GameStop Corp seems to have finally discovered a way to entice people to actually come into their stores in an age when digital downloads are increasingly more popular than physical game copies. The company announced this week that it it will be holding in-store demonstrations of Sony’s upcoming virtual reality device, PlayStation VR. During its ...
Fable Legends beta closes as the game is officially declared dead
Microsoft announced earlier this year that it would be shuttering Lionhead Studios, the game developer behind titles like Fable and Black & White. The effects of that closure are now finally being felt by fans, as the beta for Fable Legends, which Lionhead has been developing for nearly four years, has been officially shut down, and production on the ...
