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Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony warn Trump administration of tariffs on gaming industry
Last Monday, representatives from Sony Entertainment, Microsoft Corporation and Nintendo of America Inc. sent a letter to Joseph Barloon, General Counselman of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), regarding the impact an upcoming Chinese tariff can have on the gaming industry. According to the proposed tariffs, consumer products imported from China will be subjected to a heavy tax that will, not only impact the companies' bottom lines but the industry as a whole.
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Hearthstone community reacts to recent Developer Insights
Monday afternoon, members of the Hearthstone's development team released a blog post that outlined what's to come in an upcoming patch. The three main talking points where: two cards being Hall of Famed, the development team wanting to create class identities and 10 new cards being added to the game in the near future.
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Warcraft 3: Reforged unveils Nightelf art direction and models.
And this week, Blizzard released the first look at the Reforged's handling of the mysterious Night Elves. At BlizzCon 2018, we had already seen how the Humans, Orcs, and Undead races look but the new image uploaded to Playwarcraft3.com shows the most refined (debatable) race in Azeroth in full HD glory.
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PokeFusion took over Twitter this past weekend
On any given day, the most obscure hashtags can trend on Twitter across the United States and the world. This past weekend, #PokeFusion was the newest (or oldest, depending on your familiarity with the term) phrase to take over the internet stemming from the gaming industry. While it's difficult to trace exactly where and how it caught fire on Twitter, fans of the Pokemon franchise began messing around with the site and posting their best mashups on social media. The site, Pokemon Fusion, was created by Alex Onsager back in the early 2010s and the concept is quite simple. Onsager took sprites of the original 151 pokemon and found a way of fusing two of them together into a new abomination that can haunt your memories or provide you with a few giggles. How he did all of this was outlined in a blog post he made back in 2013.
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NYXL Jjonak is getting his own Zenyatta skin to commemorate his 2018 Overwatch League MVP season
NYXL Flex Support Bang "Jjonak" Sung-hyeon dazzled the competition on Zenyatta in the inaugural season of the Overwatch League. For winning the 2018 OWL MVP award, Overwatch is immortalizing his achievement in the form of his own skin.
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Biggest takeaways from the Heroes of the Storm AMA
On Thursday afternoon, members of the Heroes of the Storm development team sat down on the game's official subReddit (r/HeroesoftheStorm) to conversate with members of the community. They answered fan questions, provided insight as to what's the come and continued their mission to remain as available to the public as possible. With hundreds upon hundreds of questions asked, it can be difficult to keep track of everything that was said. Luckily, InvenGlobal has highlighted a few of the moment noteworthy responses below to save readers from having to scroll through hundreds of replies for the juicy ones.
