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Microsoft Acquires Interactive Streaming Service Beam,… Yay?

Dylan from The Game Bolt: "Microsoft recently announced it acquired the streaming service Beam, and this could either be awesome or just okay. Beam is an already established streaming service that allows its users to create interfaces for streamers to directly influence the live stream."

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Co-founder claims Activision put "pressure" on Infinity Ward to make game about Iran invading Israel

Chance Glasco, one of the co-founders of Infinity Ward and creators of the Call of Duty franchise, has claimed that Activision once pressured the studio to include an invasion of Israel by Iran.

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Videogame Museum has acquired the "mythical" Nintendo PlayStation which led to the PS1

The United States' National Videogame Museum has acquired one of the earliest prototypes of the Nintendo PlayStation system that never came out.

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fr0sty27m ago

Nintendo's biggest mistake was turning Sony down... the two of them together would have been a completely unstoppable force in the industry. Now they compete.

Neonridr16m ago

it would have been a very different landscape I think if those two had partnered. Who knows what the gaming world would look like. One of those "if I had a crystal ball" scenario to see what could have been.

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MindsEye developer announces more layoffs while alleging 'corporate sabotage'

MindsEye developer Build A Rocket Boy (BARB), the studio established by former Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies, has announced its second round of job cuts in eight months.

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Christopher22h ago

Listen all y'all, it's because of sabotage that we have to let you go.

Relientk7722h ago

I don't think The Beastie Boys are responsible for this.

The_Blue13m ago

Imagine thinking players want to build a Mind Eye world for some lazy, entitled devs.