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Tencent Now Owns Majority Of Spec Ops: The Line Studio
Tencent has acquired a majority stake in Yager, a German-based game studio best known for the third-person shooter Spec Ops: The Line. Yager announced the news in a press release this morning.
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Every Australian Should Be Proud Of Pentanet
When Riot Games shut down their Australian office and effectively gave away the rights to run professional League in Australia, expectations were low. Australia’s best players fled to North America. Sponsors left the scene. Australia still had players and teams, but when your talent flees and much of the league’s operational structure had been slowly gutted,…
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Blizzard, Twitch And Riot Co-Founders Just Invested In A New Atari-Backed Gaming & TV App
Hybrid gaming startup PortalOne has raised $US15 million ($19,293,000) ahead of the launch of its new app – The Arcade – that combines video games and streamed video content, and the investors sound pretty familiar. The Arcade allows users to both play games on-demand, and watch live TV game shows in which they can play…
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Roblox Goes Public, Wall Street Decides It’s Worth Six Bethesdas
The Roblox Corporation, maker of the online game creation platform Roblox, went public yesterday, selling shares in the company on the New York Stock Exchange for the first time since it was founded back in 2004. It ended the day trading at just under $US70 ($91), giving it a valuation of $US45 ($58) billion, or…