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Sony reveals most downloaded PlayStation games in 2021 wp.me/p8wLEc-bxmD by

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Sony reveals most downloaded PlayStation games in 2021

Letting us in on the business side of things, Sony has published it's top selling games on Playstation for 2021.

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Yahaha Studios raises $50M for a no-code game creation metaverse wp.me/p8wLEc-bxh3 by

Yahaha Studios raises $50M for a no-code game creation metaverse

Yahaha raised $50 million for its metaverse game development tools, which it plans to launch in early 2022.

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Sony is pulling PS Now retail cards from U.K. retailers wp.me/p8wLEc-bxlK by

Sony is pulling PS Now retail cards from U.K. retailers

PS Now is coming to an end ... at least at retailers in the United Kingdom. The company will not let you subscribe with gift cards.

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Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl delayed to December 2022 wp.me/p8wLEc-bxkl by

Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl delayed to December 2022

GSC Game World has announced that it's delaying Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl from April to December 2022.

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Kirby and the Forgotten Land hits the Switch on March 25th wp.me/p8wLEc-bxkK by

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Kirby and the Forgotten Land hits the Switch on March 25th

Nintendo announced today that Kirby and the Forgotten Land will launch for Switch on March 25.

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You didn't yell at me for giving NFTs ahh award!

Gaming’s best existential threat of the year: NFTs

NFTs are threat to games because they replace the key verb of "play" with the incompatible key verb of "invest."

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GamesBeat and Subspace team up on metaverse forum wp.me/p8wLEc-bw39 by

GamesBeat and Subspace team up on metaverse forum

In 2022, GamesBeat and Subspace will launch a metaverse forum that will host conversations about how to build the metaverse.

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Top 10 best games of 2021 wp.me/p8wLEc-bxby by

Top 10 best games of 2021

The GamesBeat Decides crew has settled on the top 10 best games of 2021, and it's a strong list that should make everyone happy ... right?

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Fan Controlled Football raises $40M for specator-controlled football games wp.me/p8wLEc-bxdJ by

Fan Controlled Football raises $40M for specator-controlled football games

Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more...

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App Annie: Smartphone users spent 3.8 trillion hours on mobile in 2021 wp.me/p8wLEc-bxe7 by

App Annie: Smartphone users spent 3.8 trillion hours on mobile in 2021

Smartphone users spent 3.8 trillion hours on mobile in 2021, according to mobile data and analytics firm App Annie.

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How Nintendo has failed us | Last of the Nintendogs 028 wp.me/p8wLEc-bxiS by

How Nintendo has failed us | Last of the Nintendogs 028

On this episode of Last of the Nintendogs, the crew and community discuss the many ways Nintendo has failed us.

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Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection coming to Switch in February wp.me/p8wLEc-bxd9 by

Assassin’s Creed: The Ezio Collection coming to Switch in February

Ubisoft is launching Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection on Switch, bringing three of the series' most well-beloved games to handheld.

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GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2's awesome agenda wp.me/p8wLEc-bx0H by

GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2’s awesome agenda

We have packed inspiring speakers and sessions into our GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 event coming on January 26-27.

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Lootex raises $9M for its blockchain metaverse marketplace wp.me/p8wLEc-bxb9 by

Lootex raises $9M for its blockchain metaverse marketplace

Lootex has closed a round of fundraising for its metaverse marketplace, which would allow gamers to trade NFTs on multiple blockchains.

Drake Star Partners: Game deals topped $85B across 1,149 transactions in 2021 wp.me/p8wLEc-bxe9 by

Drake Star Partners: Game deals topped $85B across 1,149 transactions in 2021

Game industries deals surpassed an unparalleled $85 billion across 1,149 transactions in 2021, according to a report by Drake Star Partners.

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New York Game Awards 2022 goes virtual, releases list of nominees wp.me/p8wLEc-bxd4 by

New York Game Awards 2022 goes virtual, releases list of nominees

The New York Video Game Critics Circle has decided that the New York Game Awards will be virtual again this year.

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How many times is E3 gonna die? | GB Decides 230 wp.me/p8wLEc-bxbz by

How many times is E3 gonna die? | GB Decides 230

GamesBeat Decides gets the whole crew together, eventually, to disucss the week in news and to answer your questions.

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Dying Light 2 will take somewhere between 20, 80, or 500 hours to finish wp.me/p8wLEc-bxdV by

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Dying Light 2 will take somewhere between 20, 80, or 500 hours to finish

Dying Light 2 will take somewhere between 20, 80, or 500 hours to finish depending on just how much a perfectionist any specific player is.

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How to run an international conference during a pandemic wp.me/p8wLEc-bvXR by

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How to run an international conference during a pandemic

GTR's Pontus Mähler talks to GamesBeat about the challenges of organizing an international gaming conference.

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The best cameo on 'The Book of Boba Fett' is real-life video game Spacewar! wp.me/p8wLEc-bxcI by

The best cameo on ‘The Book of Boba Fett’ is a real video game

Boba Fett may not have played it, but you can. Spacewar is available to play online even without a PDP-1 mainframe computer.

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Twitter reports gaming delivered 2.4B tweets in 2021 wp.me/p8wLEc-bx2a by

Twitter reports gaming delivered 2.4B tweets in 2021

Twitter has announced its stats for gaming engagement in 2021, and it was a massive year for the medium on the platform.

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StageZero raises $1.8M to combine mobile game rewards and AI training data wp.me/p8wLEc-bx9h by

StageZero raises $1.8M to combine mobile game rewards and AI training data

StageZero has raised $1.8 million in funding to give gamers rewards for participating in in-app tasks that generate AI training data.

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Take-Two buys Zynga for $12.7B enterprise value wp.me/p8wLEc-bxaw by

Take-Two buys Zynga for $12.7B enterprise value

Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more...

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Niko Partners: Big Middle East countries will hit 85.8M players/$3.1B in revenues by 2025 wp.me/p8wLEc-bx7R by

Niko Partners: Big Middle East countries will hit 85.8M players/$3.1B in revenues by 2025

Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Egypt together will have 85.8 million gamers generating $3.1 billion in games revenue by 2025.

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Streamers are making millions for charity -- and they're just getting started wp.me/p8wLEc-bwbF by

Streamers are making millions for charity — and they’re just getting started

Streamers raised a lot of money for charities in 2021. They're apparently continuing to set their sights even higher.

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Rainbow Six Extraction preview: It ain't Siege, but it's all right wp.me/p8wLEc-bwXf by

Rainbow Six Extraction preview: It ain’t Siege, but it’s all right

Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more...

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AMD CEO Lisa Su talks cheaper GPUs, Intel competition, 3D chiplets, and Zen 4 wp.me/p8wLEc-bx0p by

AMD CEO Lisa Su talks cheaper GPUs, Intel competition, 3D chiplets, and Zen 4

AMD CEO Lisa Su sat down virtually with Dean Takahashi and some more tech-minded journalists to talk about processors and graphics for PCs.

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The DeanBeat: The best of CES 2022 as seen from afar wp.me/p8wLEc-bx0E by

The DeanBeat: The best of CES 2022 as seen from afar

Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more...

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Atari CEO Wade Rosen interview -- Returning to classic video game roots wp.me/p8wLEc-bwvb by

Atari CEO Wade Rosen interview — Returning to classic video game roots

Atari CEO Wade Rosen is taking the fabled company back to its roots with classic games and premium gaming titles.

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Overwolf invests in Syn City, explores UGC in mafia metaverse wp.me/p8wLEc-bx1B by

Overwolf invests in Syn City, explores UGC in mafia metaverse

Overwolf announced an investment in Syn City, the mafia metaverse game, and will explore monetization of user-generated content.

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E3 shifts to online-only event because of Omicron concerns wp.me/p8wLEc-bx2u by

E3 shifts to online-only event because of Omicron concerns

The Entertainment Software Association is shifting the Electronic Entertainment Expo to an online-only event out of concerns around the pandemic.

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Oasis Consortium unveils user-safety standards for an 'ethical internet' wp.me/p8wLEc-bx1W by

Oasis Consortium unveils user-safety standards for an ‘ethical internet’

The Oasis Consortium, a nonprofit devoted to making the internet safer, launched its principles for online user safety today.

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Samsung takes a stab at its own immersive metaverse store wp.me/p8wLEc-bwW0 by

Samsung takes a stab at its own immersive metaverse store

Samsung has unveiled Samsung 837X, an immersive metaverse experience that takes you to a flagship store.

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2 big CES trends: PCs closing Apple's silicon advantage and mutant laptops wp.me/p8wLEc-bwUc by

2 big CES trends: PCs closing Apple’s silicon advantage and mutant laptops

CES 2022 is giving consumers a lot to get excited about. AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and more are making desirable products.

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Nexon invests $400M in Russo brothers' film company at $1.1B valuation wp.me/p8wLEc-bwYr by

Nexon invests $400M in Russo brothers’ film company at $1.1B valuation

Nexon has invested $400 million in AGBO, a film and entertainment company created by Avengers directors Anthony and Joe Russo.

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Picoo is a handheld console designed for kids to use in outdoor games wp.me/p8wLEc-bwUt by

Picoo is a handheld console designed for kids to use in outdoor games

Picoo is a screenless, handheld device designed to get kids playing outside in groups. It's made its debut to US audiences at CES.

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Sandbox technology could revolutionize the gaming market

Sandbox technology could revolutionize the gaming market

A solid and robust simulation engine allows gaming companies to make better decisions about game development.

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Home arcade maker iiRcade shows new cabinet design at CES wp.me/p8wLEc-bwPC by

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