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Nintendo is finally creating officially-licensed esports tournaments for ‘Super Smash Bros.’

GeekWire

tournament scene, Nintendo of America has announced a new partnership that will see the debut of the first officially-licensed Smash tournament series. Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch and its 2001 GameCube predecessor Super Smash Bros. We've partnered with @PandaGlobal to launch the first officially licensed Super Smash Bros.

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Researchers find 87% of U.S. classic video games are out of print and ‘critically endangered’

GeekWire

This included going through every game released for any version of the Game Boy hardware, many of which went off the market when Nintendo shut down its digital storefronts for the 3DS and Wii-U in March of this year.

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This could be the next big game for Microsoft’s Xbox platform

GeekWire

Bethesda Game Studios has primarily worked on games in the Elder Scrolls and Fallout series since it was spun off into its own division in 2001; its first project as Bethesda Game Studios was 2003’s Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. Before then, Bethesda was all in on Elder Scrolls and the occasional licensed game. Broader implications.

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Xbox Series X and S: everything you need to know about the next-gen of Xbox

The Verge

And that’s before we get into Microsoft’s game streaming service, xCloud, which could mean you won’t need any Xbox hardware at all to play many of the latest games. It’s not unusual for console manufacturers to offer a couple of different hardware options at launch, but normally, the differences are minor.

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Strategic positioning in the flow economy: 3 action steps

Trends in the Living Networks

In addition, Lonely Planet licenses its brand for a television travel series that is screened worldwide, and now it even publishes world music CDs. Despite being historically a software firm rather than hardware vendor, it was easy for it to outsource manufacturing of the console. You can: • Build. Form Alliances. Virtualize.