COMPUTING & GAMES from The Verge - Gaming Posts for 10/30/2018

Excerpts: Google's 2018 Halloween Doodle is also its first multiplayer game The world's biggest search engine is getting into the Halloween spirit today with a special playable Google Doodle. While Google has busted out game Doodles in the past (including for Halloween 2016), this is the first time the information giant has made a multiplayer game that players can jump into with other people online. Think of it as the opposite of Slither.io. The rules of Trick-or-Treat: The Great Ghoul Duel are simple. You play a cute apparition picking up "spirits" and bringing them back to your base for points. All non-deposited spirits will trail behind you, like a tail. The trick is that anybody who touches your tail can steal your unbanked spirits — but you can steal other people's spirits, too. As you score points, spirits... Continue reading… Read on » No Man's Sky travel journal: into the terrible abyss A terrifying trip into No Man's Sky's latest expansion Continue reading… Read on » Twitch doesn't need to be YouTube In March, streamer Ninja, pop superstar Drake, and breakout hit Fortnite coalesced into a perfect, record-breaking storm for the streaming platform Twitch. Ninja was already the most notable player of the popular game, but the combination propelled his name into general media consciousness and further solidified him as the most famous figure on Twitch. Ninja's breakout success is a big win for the site, and he's a human face it can tie to the often difficult-to-navigate platform to propel it forward. At a panel during TwitchCon 2018, Twitch co-founder and CEO Emmett Shear said that this is only the beginning for the company. "I think we're still at very early days on Twitch," he said. "It still feels like the start of the streaming... Continue reading… Read on » PS4 and Xbox One users can now stream college football through ESPN+ Today, Playstation 4 and Xbox One owners will be able to keep up with some of their favorite college football games without a cable package through the ESPN+ streaming service. Through the ESPN app, console owners can subscribe to the additional ESPN+ service to watch "thousands" more live sports events, including hundreds of games from MLB, NHL, and even college sports from over 15 different conferences. The service is integrated into the ESPN app that console owners had access to before today. The ESPN+ service was already available on Amazon Fire and Roku streaming devices, and the app has been available for download on Android and iOS devices for some time. The full library of ESPN's films and documentaries are available on the... Continue reading… Read on »

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