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Knockout City is the best team-deathmatch game we’ve played in years

You can practically hear the sound of a giant rubber ball smacking against a poor shlub in this capture from this week’s thrilling new online multiplayer game Knockout City. [credit: EA / Velan ] Knockout City is the best team-deathmatch game I’ve played in years. It celebrates and elevates the genre’s roots in ways that […]

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Blizzard absorbs acclaimed Activision studio as a dedicated “support” team

Enlarge (credit: Blizzard Entertainment) The corporate-behemoth organism that is Blizzard Entertainment, which exists in a symbiotic state next to megaton game publisher Activision, became blurrier on Friday with a surprise announcement: It has absorbed a game studio within the Activision family, effective immediately. Vicarious Visions, a longtime game studio that was acquired by Activision in […]