Monthly Archives: October 2014
eSports Weekend Calendar: October 3 – 6, 2014
As the eSports seasons start to wind down to a close, there’s a lot of big matches this weekend. The quarterfinals of the League of Legends World Championships are this weekend as we’ve reached the final eight. StarCraft II”s WCS Europe is also down to its final eight and will crown the Season Three champion this weekend and likely confirm a few more trips to the WCS Global Finals. The GSL is well past the final eight. This Saturday is their Season Three final that pits soO who has finished 2nd in the last three GSLs and Innovation who needs to win to have a shot at BlizzCon.
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Kickstarter Investments Projected to be Down as Much as 50% in Gaming for 2014
The last couple of years have been great for independent gaming. With the consoles opening themselves up to be more open to indie devs publishing on the platforms and the growth of Steam and Humble Bundle, there are more indie games now than ever before. Also helping that was the rise of crowdfunding of games through Kickstarter.
However, really only a couple of years into the crowdfunding revolution in indie games, it might already be dying. A study suggests that 20% fewer Kickstarter projects in gaming are getting funded this year compared to 2013 and the dollars invested year-on-year could drop as much as 50%.
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Hollywood is Working on a Tetris Movie for Some Reason
Turning video games into movies is pretty common place nowadays. There was a Need For Speed movie earlier this year. Resident Evil has a rather lengthy and successful enough film franchise. Ubisoft is trying to make movies out of all of its big franchises starting with 2012’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. There are movies for World of Warcraft, Uncharted and Gran Turismo in the works.
However, the latest video game adaptation is likely to leave you scratching your head. Threshold Entertainment has plans to turn Tetris into the next video game to hit the silver screen.
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eBay Spinning Off PayPal as Its Own Company
You may have forgotten since the purchase was twelve years ago but online auction site eBay actually owns the biggest online purchase service PayPal. Or at least as of next year, they will have owned PayPal. That’s because eBay announced plans to spin-off PayPal as its own company complete with a share flotation to make it public.
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Microsoft Unveils Windows 10, Skips the Number 9
The much-anticipated (and needed) next step for Microsoft’s popular Windows operating system was unveiled yesterday. After two years of the miserable failure that is Windows 8 (and the slightly less terrible Windows 8.1), Microsoft has given up on Windows 8 and is moving on to the next iteration of Windows to be called Windows 10.
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