Tencent has become Marvelous’s biggest shareholder, reports Bloomberg. Tencent has purchased 20 percent of the Japanese game company’s stock. Besides Marvelous, Tencent has stakes in Epic and Bluehole.
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Overwatch League caster Wolf Schröder gives a big-the-scenes look at how he’s working remotely from Los Angeles during the coronavirus covid-19 pandemic. The result is a ten-minute clip at how he’s making do. [Thanks, Sang!]
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Counter-Strike expert and Youtuber 3kliksphilips uploaded a short video going over the history and background behind the famous “Door Stuck” video. For over a decade the video has been parodied by countless fans and now you can learn a bit more about how and why it was made and those involved.
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Ubisoft confirmed to Kotaku that after Area F2 was recently removed from Google and Apple’s app stores by Ejoy.com, it has now dropped a lawsuit against those three companies. The suit was filed last week over the mobile game, which Ubisoft called a “near carbon copy” of Rainbow Six Siege.
Risk of Rain 2 will officially hit ver.1.0 on PC in August. The game launched in early access last year and has steadily received new stages, characters, items, and bosses since then. Console versions will catch up to PC in the fall.
Instead of filling downtown Atlanta with anime and gaming cosplayers, this year’s installment of MomoCon is happening online. The popular convention is hosting streaming events on Twitch all weekend, with guests including Suda 51 and David Hayter, exclusive merchandise, and even its own Animal Crossing islands.
Retro first-person shooter Project Warlock is coming to PS4 on June 9 and Xbox One and Switch on June 11. Released on PC back in 2018, it’s an ode to 90s shooters like Wolfenstein and Doom with modern tweaks like weapon and character upgrades. Who couldn’t use more demon-slaying in their life?
It looks like Dota 2's summer battle pass is coming sometime next week. Fans created a summoning thread over on the game’s subreddit which attracted the attention of Bruno Carlucci and a few others who confirmed the big annual event isn’t far away, despite this year’s International being postponed.
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Ready for summer? In Japan, the popular Garigari-kun brand is getting Pikachu and Pokémon Koko themed “Garigari-kun For Adults Golden Pineapple” popsicles. It’s actually branded “For Adults” and is made with 33 percent Golden Pineapple juice.
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Grand Marshall of the Hot Girl Summer and noted anime enthusiast Megan Thee’ Stallion released the hotly anticipated music video for her viral hit “Savage”. The video is like if Vocaloid, Cyberpunk 2077, and Aeon Flux all got together and had a baby in Second Life—but, thankfully, with way more black people.
One Animal Crossing player got tired of watching some greedy players sell others their favorite characters for real money. So they edited their save and started giving popular characters like Raymond out to anyone, completely for free. Via Polygon.
An update fixing Destiny 2's Felwinter’s Lie quest is now live. The questline was previously broken for a number of players, warping them to the surface of the moon rather than into Rasputin’s bunker, and as a result making it impossible to obtain the legendary shotgun from Destiny 1.
Kerbal Space Program 2 has been delayed to fall 2021 due to the “unique challenges” of development during the covid-19 pandemic. The slapstick space flight simulator, which was originally scheduled for a 2020 release, will reportedly introduce interstellar travel.
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