During the early days of self-quarantine at Larian Studios, the independent video game developer founded in Ghent, Belgium, morale remained high. Designers and engineers, many of whom worked remotely (the company has 300 employees across five countries), were able to continue to do so, building levels and writing code from their homes.
"The very first week, it went really well," said Swen Vincke, the chief executive at Larian, which makes popular role-playing games like Divinity: Original Sin and the upcoming Baldur's Gate 3. "Everyone had all the information they needed to just smoothly go work from home."
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The Best Video Games for Kids | PCMag
We should never forget that kids are and always will be a crucial part of the video game community, too. It’s during our childhood when so many of us fall in love with video games. There’s an unfortunate history of bad games just looking to make a quick buck from parents who don’t know any better. That’s why it’s so important to highlight the truly great games for children: The youngest players should get to experience the best of what this medium has to offer.
If You Want to Play Classic Video Games, Buy These Consoles - InsideHook
But for a large segment of the population — those who don't have the newest consoles, have no idea what "Twitch" is, haven't picked up a physical game in years or don't care that new iterations of Animal Crossing , Call of Duty and Doom all broke sales records upon release — everything's a little hazy.
Maybe you remember PlayStation in college. Or NES. Or for the real old people (hello, me), getting your first Atari (and realizing Combat is both the first game you probably ever played and the worst game ever).
GameStop deal: Buy a console, get 5 pre-owned video games for $50
The average person's video game library is worth a small fortune, considering the fact that titles typically sell for $60 apiece. It's been that way since forever, no matter what kind of system you play on, thanks to some semi-complicated manufacturer logic that essentially boils down to consumer expectation .
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We're talking games like The Last of Us , Grand Theft Auto V, God of War, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, and Far Cry 5 — cult-favorite, critically acclaimed titles that hold up incredibly even several years post-release. So long as a pre-owned copy is listed at $19.99 or less on GameStop's website, it counts as part of the five-for-$50 bundle.
Quite a lot has been going on:
March 2020 NPD: Animal Crossing powers March to blockbuster game sales | VentureBeat
March wasn't a good month for anyone . But it was slightly less awful for people who sell video games. That's especially true if the video game is Animal Crossing: New Horizons . With people in the United States isolating themselves for much of the month, many people obviously turned to safe at-home entertainment. As a result, consumers in the U.S. spent $1.597 billion on gaming hardware, new full games, and accessories plus game cards, according to the March 2020 NPD report .
Americans are spending their stimulus checks on food, video games - Business Insider
Thanks to the recently passed $2 trillion stimulus package from the US government, many Americans are receiving an extra $1,200 of spending money amid the pandemic.
From groceries to video games, here's what Americans are buying with their stimulus money, according to data from Clearcover, Cowen and Co., and Current.
Data from Current showed 16% of the stimulus money that has been spent went toward food categories, which includes takeout and delivery.
First Quarter 2020 Sales of U.S.
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. , April 21, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- According to The NPD Group, March 2020 tracked spending across video game hardware, software, accessories and game cards totaled $1.6 billion *, gaining 35 percent when compared to the same time period last year. This is the highest reported spend for a March month since the $1.8 billion achieved in March 2008 .
The first two months of this year saw cumulative sales across video game hardware, software, accessories and game cards fall 28 percent to $1.4 billion when compared to the same time period last year, with January sales declining 26 percent, and February sales falling 29 percent. Late cycle video game hardware dynamics, as well as a lighter new release software slate, drove the variance.
Fake sports interviews with yourself after video games or activities are a real thing; and have
The times are such that not so long ago I used a random number generator to simulate the 2020 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament that never was and posted the results to Twitter .
Anyhow, in this pretend tournament, the latest episode of Duke villainy came when they defeated top seed Dayton -- those plucky topplers of assumptions -- in the Final Four. Seeing a lamentable blueblood take down a mid-major enjoying a once-in-a-century season and deprive them of a spot in the title game reduced me to a toddler in high dudgeon. So in my imagination, I replaced Dayton head coach Anthony Grant at the podium for the post-game presser.
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