February 2023 will be the first time a composer will walk away with a Grammy for scoring a video game. And many in the creative community are saying “it’s about time.” Game scores have, over the past two decades, become a huge part of the media music landscape. Yet, despite being eligible for music’s highest honor since 1999 (in the …
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Discovery and Eurosport will shun traditional TV ratings and use a broader metric to gauge the success of its coverage of next year’s PyeongChang Winter Olympics and possibly of programming beyond that, the company said as it unveiled plans for coverage of the event. Discovery, which owns Eurosport, scooped up European rights to the Summer and Winter Olympics in a $1.4 …
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Two of ESL’s biggest esports competitions — CS:GO Pro League and ESL One — will be broadcast exclusively on Facebook. Both of the series were formerly streamed on YouTube exclusively. The World Esports Association (WESA) and ESL will launch Facebook live-streaming of CS:GO Pro League, one of the top “Counter-Strike: Global Offensive” competitions, starting with the upcoming season seven on Feb. …
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Ventana Sur 2021 will host its first ever dedicated video game sidebar this year when Las Maquinitas – Let’s Play kicks off later this month. Las Maquinitas was established to “bring together representatives of the Ibero-American video game industry in the same place, in order to promote production and build bridges to showcase talents from the region,” according to its …
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Just when players and investors had begun to believe that China was finished with major new regulations to the games industry, regulators have announced proposals for more curbs. The draft regulations, proposed by the National Press and Publication Administration appear to focus on in-game spending. The proposals revealed on Friday hit the shares of Chinese gaming giants Tencent and NetEase …
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“The Legend of Zelda” is out today and Nintendo is marking the occasion with a special Nintendo Switch OLED release. The Nintendo Switch “Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Edition” celebrates one of the most-anticipated gaming releases of the year, and features a white dock with the familiar Hylian crest from the “Legend of Zelda” series, along with Joy-Con …
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Khaby Lame may be best known for wordless videos featuring his hyper-expressive face, but make no mistakes: he’s a gamer, too. The social media juggernaut, who’s the most popular person on TikTok with over 160 million followers, just wrapped one of his most ambitious projects yet: becoming a video game character. Lame is featured in the newest season of Epic …
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Rovio, the Finnish games studio behind “Angry Birds” said on Monday that it had accepted a takeover offer from Sega Sammy, part of the Japanese consoles and games giant Sega. The deal values Rovio at EUR706 million ($776 million). “The board of directors of Rovio, represented by a quorum comprising all members of the board of directors, has unanimously agreed …
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Tencent, which operates China’s largest social media network and is the world’s largest games company by revenue, generated $5.5 billion (RMB51.6 billion) of profit in the third quarter of its financial year. That was earned from gross revenues of $19.7 billion (RMB140 billion). The July to September numbers represented a 2% year-on-year decrease in revenue and a 3% year-on-year decrease …
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“Commander Lilith & The Fight for Sanctuary’ is the next DLC coming to “Borderlands 2,” it was announced Sunday during the Xbox E3 conference. “Commander Lilith & The Fight For Sanctuary,” available now, features new heads and skins, an increased level cap, and new effervescent loot tier. The new Gearbox Software release follows Lilith, a former Siren who is now …
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