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Niantic’s Earth Day Cleanup 2019
Niantic is hosting an Earth Day cleanup for the second year running. During last year’s Earth Day, Niantic convinced thousands of people to help clean up their communities. They are hoping to grow that number this year by providing incentives to players who attend events that will be held around the world with the help...
The HCT Winter Championship 2019 Begins This Week
The Hearthstone Championship Tour returns this week with its winter event. It will take place at Blizzard Arena Los Angeles and offer a $250,000 prize pool spread amongst 16 of the world’s best Hearthstone players. Participating regions include the Americas, Asia-Pacific, China, and Europe, and each will be represented by four competitors. Everyone is guaranteed...
RuneScape Celebrates Its 18th Anniversary
Today marks RuneScape‘s 18th anniversary. The groundbreaking MMO has reached some impressive milestones, including over $1 billion in lifetime revenue, the record for highest attendance at an annual player convention (RuneFest), and over 5 million installs of Old School RuneScape on mobile devices. Jagex, the company behind the game, is enjoying the success of their landmark...
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Is Having a Kingdom Hearts Collaboration Event
Final Fantasy mobile spinoff Brave Exvius is having a Kingdom Hearts collaboration event from now until January 11th to celebrate the upcoming release of Kingdom Hearts III. Players will be able to obtain popular Kingdom Hearts characters Sora and Cloud during this special event. A short announcement trailer can be viewed here. Players can also...
New Content Revealed in November’s Maxis Monthly
It’s that time of the month again! Time for a new Maxis Monthly. In November’s Maxis Monthly, a holiday event for The Sims Freeplay was announced and the huge November update for The Sims 4 was shown off further. Release dates were also included in the livestream. The star of the show was the previously mentioned November...
New Smash Ultimate Direct and Treehouse Live Presentation Announced
Nintendo announced on Twitter today that a brand-new Smash Ultimate Direct is coming this Thursday. Tune-in at 7 A.M. PT for around 40 minutes of Smash news hosted by Masahiro Sakurai. Right after the Direct, Nintendo will hold a Treehouse Live presentation featuring gameplay of Smash Ultimate, Pokémon Let’s Go, Yoshi’s Crafted World, and Diablo III:...
A Bunch of New Spooky Content for Splatoon 2 Announced
Happy Splatoween! Splatoon 2 is getting a bunch of new Halloween content. First, a new Splatfest will kick off Friday, October 19th at 3PM PT, and during that time the plaza will be fitted with some Halloween decorations. Choose between “Team Trick” with Pearl or “Team Treat” with Marina! The Splatfest will end Sunday, October...
Dark Souls Remastered Network Test Scheduled for Switch
In March 2018’s Nintendo Direct, a network test was announced for Dark Souls Remastered, previously announced for the Switch and other platforms in January. After many months of silence and the game releasing on other platforms in May, a statement was made on Twitter that the Switch network test begins on Friday, September 21st from 5-9 PM...
Nintendo Direct Rescheduled for September 13th
Grab your popcorn-again! Nintendo has rescheduled the delayed September Nintendo Direct. Originally airing on the 6th, it was delayed because of the magnitude 6.7 earthquake in Hokkaido, Japan. At 6pm ET, you can still expect 35 minutes of 3DS and Switch news, including a bunch of details for Nintendo Switch Online. Nintendo has confirmed that...