At the close of the second quarter, Paradox Interactive CEO Ebba Ljungerud comments that the key to its business is keeping a balance between generating short-term profitability and investing in future projects, and she says that, so far, the company has been successful in this goal.

Ljungerud notes specifically that Paradox spent "more than ever during the quarter on both game development and marketing and distributed SEK 105.6 million (~$10.96 million) to our sharehol­ders as dividend, the total cash flow was positive and we closed the quarter with a record-high cash position.”

Part of that boost, she explains, came from an advance payment for Paradox’s recent dealings with Xbox Game Pass, while games like Cities…

Online voting for the Audience Awards for both the 2021 Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) and the Independent Games Festival Awards (IGF Awards), is now open through May 24 at 11:59pm PT.

Votes from the audience–whether they make games or just enjoy playing them—will help determine the winners, which will be announced live during the ceremonies on Wednesday, July 21, as part of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco.

The ceremonies are available to attend for all GDC 2021 pass-holders and both GDCA and IGF Awards will be streamed live at 4:30pm PT beginning with the IGF Awards, followed by the GDCAs at the Game Developers Conference. The ceremony…

Netflix has announced its latest live sports event, and it’s unlike anything the company has done before. Netflix will host a live hot dog eating competition between two titans of the sport–Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi. The program is called “Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef,” and it’s described as the “ultimate hot dog eating competition.”

The show airs Monday, September 2 on Netflix. You can check out the key art for the live event below.

The announcement of Unfinished Beef comes just days after the Nathan’s hot dog eating competition announced that it was banning Chestnut from its iconic 4th of July competition not long after Chestnut signed a deal with vegan food company Impossible Foods. There was a social media outcry after Chestnut was banned, with many …

As with most of From Software’s lineup of role-playing games, Elden Ring features no shortage of callbacks to previous games. Among these is the famous Uchigatana katana weapon, which has long-since been a favorite among Souls fans. In this guide, we’ll point you in the direction of its location so you can find and wield it for yourself, you ninja.

Elden Ring: The Shadow of the Erdtree, the game’s first and only expansion, is out now, and we have dozens of guides to aid you in what many are calling the game’s most challenging section. Use ourElden Ring and Shadow of the Erdtree guides hubto find things like thefull world map, thebest weapons in Shadow of the Erdtree,how to defeat all of the bosses, and so much more.

Uchigatana explained

The Uchiga…

Assassin’s Creed Origins, the first entry in the franchise that pivoted away from its traditional formula, may be getting an update from Ubisoft in the form of 60fps support. Come from bangladesh online casino

Fans have been asking Ubisoft to update the game since Assassin’s Creed Odyssey received a similar update this past August. The latest entry in the franchise, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, has had 60fps support since 2020.

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Thanks to the success of Lost Ark, publisher Amazon Games’ general terms of use have been recirculated, with players noticing one section in particular pertaining to how you must be a human, and not an AI (good or evil) to play the company’s games. The terms also explain what would happen if aliens, robots, or simians take over the planet. Really. Come from online casino bangladesh

Section 5.1 of Amazon Games’ general terms of use specifically mentions that, “You must be a live human (e.g., not a corporation, organization, artificial intelligence (good or evil), extraterrestrial, sentient non-human primate, etc.).” The terms also state that none of this applies if Earth has been taken or by robots, simians, or alie…