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Microsoft alum Larry 'Major Nelson' Hryb joins Unity as community directorMicrosoft alum Larry 'Major Nelson' Hryb joins Unity as community director

As Unity's new community director, Hryb will be working directly with game developers once more on their projects.

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Watch Nintendo's first-ever TV promo aired in the United States
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Astro Bot makes the tech demo mascot into leading bot material
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byGeorge Yang
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byJustin Carter
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byJustin Carter
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Resident Evil Village tops 10 million copies sold
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byJustin Carter
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Sports Interactive strikes deal for Premier League to feature in Football Manager games
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byJustin Carter
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byJustin Carter
Phil Spencer at a recent livestream for multiplatform Xbox games.
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Phil Spencer deems Xbox layoffs 'very hard,' but needed for 'sustainable business'
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Jun 10, 2024
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byJustin Carter
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Xbox Game Showcase 2024 promises a first-party deluge (at some point)
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byChris Kerr
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Microsoft and Playground working with Eidos-Montreal on Fable reboot
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Jun 10, 2024
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byChris Kerr
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Keighley declares devs have more ways than ever to be 'sustainable' at Summer Game Fest
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byBryant Francis
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Mark Cerny thinks consoles can guide the industry's tech future
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Jun 7, 2024
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byJustin Carter
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Report: Summer Game Fest trailers can cost devs up to $550K
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Jun 6, 2024
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byJustin Carter
Key art for Octopath Traveler II, showing the main characters at camp.
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Octopath Traveler series hits 4 million sales amid current-gen resurgence
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Jun 6, 2024
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byJustin Carter
The Suicide Squad meet a foe
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Live-service dissonance and 'toxic positivity' thwarted Suicide Squad
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Jun 6, 2024
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byChris Kerr
Character posters for the main cast of the Fallout TV series.
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Do video game adaptations need games to come along for the ride?
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Jun 5, 2024
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byJustin Carter
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Hypercharge: Unboxed sells 50,000 Xbox copies in under a week
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byJustin Carter
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A Like a Dragon TV series is fighting its way to Prime Video in October
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Jun 4, 2024
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byJustin Carter
Key art for Dead by Daylight.
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Behaviour Interactive cuts 95 jobs in 'strategic corporate change'
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Jun 4, 2024
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byJustin Carter
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'Expectations for us are high': New PlayStation CEOs outline their vision of the future
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Jun 4, 2024
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byChris Kerr
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Ubisoft Toronto will co-develop Prince of Persia: Sands of Time's remake
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Jun 3, 2024
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byJustin Carter
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Sony adds PC support to PSVR2 in August with $60 adapter
Sony adds PC support to PSVR2 in August with $60 adapter
Jun 3, 2024
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byJustin Carter
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Bloober Team's publishing deal with Private Division reportedly gutted
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May 31, 2024
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