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Amazon has announced next month's batch of free games for Amazon Prime members. Prime Gaming's October lineup features seven games, and there are some big names present. Subscribers can claim seven games in all, including a few AAA titles: Fallout 76, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, and Total War: Warhammer II. The lineup is rounded out by Glass Masquerade, Loom, Hero's Hour, and Horace. As usual, Prime members will also be able to grab in-game content for a bunch of popular games. Next month's loot drops include content for Destiny 2, Grand Theft Auto Online, Madden NFL 23, PUBG, and more. If you're not an Amazon Prime member, you can sign up for a free 30-day trial to snag the freebies. Once the games are in your library, they are yours to keep forever. It's a great time to take advantage of the free trial, as Amazon is hosting a second Prime Day 2022 sale on October 11-12. Bethesda's Fallout 76 hasn't exactly been the hit that the studio probably imagined, but if you've … [Read more...] about Amazon Prime 7 Free Games For October Revealed

A former QA tester for Nintendo is alleging that their firing from that position was the result of an inquiry about unionization during a company meeting in January. In an interview with Axios Gaming , Mackenzie Clifton--who is coming forward after filing a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board earlier this year--is claiming that a question asked to Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser during a meeting in January ultimately led to their termination one month later. According to the interview, Clifton asked Bowser "what does NoA think about the unionization trend in QA in the games industry as of late?" Their inquiry was not answered in the meeting, however according to Clifton a supervisor from contracting firm Aston Carter told them it was a "downer question" and told them to ask questions of that nature to the firm, not to Nintendo directly. Clifton was later fired for publicly disclosing sensitive information according to Nintendo, though when Clifton … [Read more...] about Nintendo Game Tester Alleges They Were Fired For Asking About Unions

Sega's first blockchain game has been announced, though it's being developed by Japanese blockchain company Double Jump Tokyo. Double Jump Tokyo announced the news earlier this week, where it shared in a Medium post that the game would be based on the Sangokushi Taisen series, a real-time strategy game predominantly played on arcades in Japan that uses real, physical cards to play with. The Sangokushi Taisen series is based on the classic 14th century Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, where players face off against their opponents, attempting to attack the enemy's castle, with the player who has the most health winning the battle. In a statement, Double Jump Tokyo CEO and founder Hironobu Ueno spoke of the Oasys chain the game will use, saying, it "aims to solve obstacles for gamers, offering fast transactions and zero gas fees and providing users with a more comfortable gameplay experience." No details on what the game is actually going to be like were provided in … [Read more...] about Sega’s First Blockchain Game Is On The Way

The recent "buy a game on Epic Games Store, receive a free Fortnite skin" trend is continuing with Goat Simulator 3 , which will offer "A Goat" skin in the battle royale for all pre-orders and purchases of the goat mayhem game. A trailer for the collaboration shows Pligor, one of the main goatagonists of Goat Simulator 3, preparing for her turn in Fortnite with a '80s-style workout montage. She is seen lifting a tractor with her teeth (with the farmer holding on for dear life), running with tires strapped to her back, and building a chair that transfers her consciousness directly into the game. Anyone who pre-orders or purchases the game between now and September 29, 2023 on the Epic Games Store--including those who already have--will have the A Goat skin added to the same Fortnite account used to purchase the game starting today at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET. Non-PC players or those who don't wish to play via Epic Games Store can purchase the A Goat skin in the Fortnite item shop on … [Read more...] about Earn A Goat Fortnite Skin For Free With Goat Simulator 3 Purchase On Epic Games Store

Xbox has announced the next lineup of free games for Xbox Live Gold and Game Pass Ultimate subscribers. Windbound and Bomber Crew Deluxe Edition will be free to claim in October. It marks the first month where the Games With Gold lineup doesn't include original Xbox or Xbox 360 games. Sadly, this means the lineup for October, and seemingly future months, only features two games. Though Microsoft announced this change months ago, it's still a bit of a bummer to see Games with Gold freebies halved from four to two each month, especially since the backward-compatible titles were often more exciting than the Xbox One games. All month long subscribers will be able to grab Windbound , an adventure game set on the Forbidden Islands. In order for Kara to survive and thrive on this mysterious chain of islands, she needs to scour the lands for resources, craft weapons, and even build a makeshift boat to travel the seas. With harsh elements and an assortment of fantasy creatures roaming … [Read more...] about Xbox Games With Gold Free Games For October 2022 Revealed

The Epic Games Store continues to give away free games each week, more than three years after the digital storefront launched its awesome weekly freebies program. Epic has confirmed that the free games program will continue through at least the end of 2022. Every Thursday at the same time 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET--Epic gives up between one and three free games. You merely need to create a free Epic account and enable two-factor authentication to start snagging freebies. At this point, Epic has given away well over 100 free games, and there's no sign that the program will stop any time soon. We keep this article up to date weekly to highlight both the current free games and next week's offerings. This week's free game at Epic From now until October 6 at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET, you can grab The Drone Racing League Simulator , commonly referred to as DRL Simulator, and Runbow . DRL provides authentic drone aerodynamics and a staggering number of customization options, allowing you to … [Read more...] about 2 Free Games Available Now At Epic Games Store

Saudi Arabia is planning to invest another $37.8 billion in the gaming market through its government-funded gaming conglomerate, The Savvy Gaming Group. According to a new Axios report , more than $13 billion will be set aside for the "acquisition and development of a leading game publisher to become a strategic development partner" and a further $18 billion will be used to secure minority investments in other companies and studios. As for which gaming company could be acquired, Ubisoft is an unlikely target as a reported deal with Chinese conglomerate Tencent is being put together as a way to keep potential competition away. Savvy has been on a buying spree as of late, investing serious amounts of cash into global organizations while working to build esports organizations and game development studios in the Middle East. In a press release , Saudi and Savvy officials added that these investments are aimed at diversifying the country's economy as part of the Vision 2030 … [Read more...] about Saudi Arabia Looking To Invest Almost $38 Billion In Games Industry, Could Acquire A Publisher

Audio player loading… At Mobile World Congress, Verizon announced a partnership with Qualcomm and Razer. Now Razer plans on releasing a new handheld console specifically designed for cloud gaming and streaming. The Razer Edge 5G is being built on the Snapdragon G3 Gen 1, which is meant to take advantage of Verizon's 5G Ultrawideband. Though no specific hardware details were revealed at the show, we did get a brief first look at the handheld courtesy of Twitter user GLKCreative (opens in new tab) . The press release from Verizon says it's an Android device that will "give you access to games you love, whether they are downloaded to play locally, streamed from your console or accessed directly from the cloud." If that's true, that's something even the versatile Steam Deck (opens in new tab) can't do. Last week, Logitech launched its G Cloud gaming console (opens in new tab) specially targeted for cloud gaming through streaming apps such as GeForce Now, … [Read more...] about Razer’s cloud gaming handheld is coming with 5G

Audio player loading… Intel is only weeks away from the launch of its Arc A770 graphics card (opens in new tab) , which promises to be its first graphics card with an eye to deliver decent performance in games. Specifically, the Arc A770 is said to compete with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 (opens in new tab) in both frames per second and on price. However, it's not been an easy road to release for Intel's first generation Alchemist GPUs: the company has faced delays, difficulty with drivers, and even questions of its continued interest in graphics. But nobody said it would be easy. Intel has largely batted away any concerns over a waning interest in graphics, and from those I've spoken to at the company, it sounds like Intel is in it for the long haul. That includes the opinion of Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, who I recently had a moment to ask about Intel's discrete graphics venture. "Obviously we came out of the chute weaker than we would've hoped for early in … [Read more...] about Intel has fixed ‘the majority of the software stack issues’ for its gaming GPUs says CEO Gelsinger

Audio player loading… Brendan Greene, better known (somewhat ironically) as PlayerUnknown, walked away from PUBG last year to form a new studio (opens in new tab) , PlayerUnknown Productions, and take on an incredibly ambitious new open world project called Artemis (opens in new tab) . The goal of Artemis is to generate realistic, dense, world-sized open worlds: To "lend weight to the idea of, 'You see that mountain? You can climb it.'" (That, by the way, is an old quote attributed to Todd Howard in early presentations discussing the scale of Bethesda's open-world RPG Skyrim.) pic.twitter.com/dipZpUSeNY September 3, 2021 See more A sprawling open world in which players can wander around and do whatever they want is essentially a metaverse by another name—at least insofar as we understand them (opens in new tab) —which naturally leads to thoughts of blockchains and NFTs, neither of which are terribly popular with most gamers. In a recent interview … [Read more...] about PUBG creator Brendan Greene says he’s ‘considering’ the blockchain for his next game