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The Pokémon Company Company Actually Says Gay Rights
7Pokémon Unite is blowing up right now, and with a new patch hitting servers in early August, many players have followed the associated accounts to keep up with news of the MOBA. But the game isn’t handled by The Pokémon Company or Game Freak, and is instead developed by Chinese developer TiMi Studio Group. The…
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Tencent Buys Sumo Group For $2 Billion
British company Sumo Group, whose various studios have worked on everything from Hitman to Forza to Disney Infinity, has been bought by Chinese giant Tencent for a whopping $US1.3 ($2) billion, Reuters report.
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Former COD Pro Plays With 5 Cameras To Combat Cheating Accusations
Yesterday, Charlie “MuTeX” Saouma, a Call of Duty Twitch streamer with over 600k followers, ran an unusual livestream. While he played Call of Duty Warzone, as he often does, this time he had set up five different camera angles, each one pointed at different parts of his gaming setup. All of this was done to…
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Fortnite, Worth Billions, Offering Paltry Prize Money For Design Contest
Yesterday, Fortnite announced a “Concept Royale” competition. Players can submit skin ideas, and two winners “will have their concepts turned into in-game Outfits in Fortnite, and will also each receive a $US2,500 ($3,207) cash prize.” At first glance it doesn’t look like a bad deal, but $US2.5k for a design developer Epic can then use…