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The glasses combine “Magic Leap’s waveguides and optics with Google’s Raxium microLED light engine” according to a Magic Leap announcement, and they’re under 50 grams and have a monocular design. Magic Leap is also now positioning itself as an “AR ecosystem partner to support companies building glasses.”
Say hello to the Ante Chamber, available today. The base game is also now has online co-op, and the Ode to Castlevania expansion is getting new characters, weapons, and music.
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As part of the layoffs announced today, according to an executive memo reported on by Bloomberg, “we have made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development work – specifically around MMOs – within Amazon Game Studios.”
Monument Valley 3 is getting a new expansion, Garden of Life, on December 3rd, and alongside the release, the game will return to iOS and Android. It actually launched on mobile last year as a Netflix exclusive, but was removed from Netflix’s lineup this summer.
Prologue: Go Wayback!, the survival roguelike from PUBG creator Brendan Greene’s PlayerUnknown Productions, is launching in early access on November 20th. It’s the first of three games that are part of an ambitious plan for the studio.
