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Champions of Fire Invitational is a New Esports Tournament Hosted by Amazon

By |November 22nd, 2016|Categories: Amazon, Entertainment, Featured, Film News, Gaming, Las Vegas, National News, Pop Culture, Tech News, World News|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Champions of Fire Invitational and Amazon has announced the date for their inaugural Esports event. The one-day event will be held December 2 from 2 - 9 p.m. PT at Paris Las Vegas. Amazon is partnering with CBS and Twitch to produce a live broadcast featuring sixteen of the worlds top gamers and celebrities converging in Las Vegas to compete for $100,000 in prizes. Amazon and Business Wire shared insight on the competition: "Competitive video gaming has seen huge growth, and we see tremendous customer value in expanding the tournament experience to include the casual mobile games played by millions of

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Amazon Lumberyard Provides a Free, Cross-Platform, 3D Game Engine Integrated with AWS and Twitch

By |February 9th, 2016|Categories: Amazon, Entertainment, Film News, Gaming, National News, Pop Culture, Seattle, Tech News|Tags: , , , , , , |

[av_heading heading='A Free AAA Game Engine Inconnected with AWS and Twitch' tag='h2' style='blockquote modern-quote' size='' subheading_active='subheading_below' subheading_size='15' padding='10' color='' custom_font=''] Written by: Matthew McGuire [/av_heading] Amazon announced today a new service called Amazon Lumberyard. The new game engine provides the necessary tools to create the highest-quality games, build cloud-connected gameplay features, and build communities of fans on Twitch; beta available for free download today. Amazon is also releasing Amazon GameLift, a feature with AWS to provide developers a way to scale their session-based multiplayer games to support millions of players with AWS's highly available cloud infrastructure. Amazon GameLift is a way

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SXSW panel discussion with Wiz Khalifa, Trevor Andrew and Paul Rosenberg

By |September 9th, 2015|Categories: Austin, Festivals, Film News, Gaming, Global, Music News, National News, Pop Culture, Sports, SXSW, Texas, United States, Wiz Khalifa, YouTube|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

[av_heading heading='Crossover between sports and music with SXSW' tag='h3' style='blockquote modern-quote' size='' subheading_active='subheading_below' subheading_size='15' padding='10' color='' custom_font=''] Written by: Matthew McGuire [/av_heading] SXSW hosted a panel discussion with Paul Rosenberg, music manager, Wiz Khalifa, artist and Trevor Andrew, artist/athlete to go over the parallels between music and sports. The audience brought up a lot of good points on foresight behind the decision making process. This discussion did an excellent job of connecting two major fields of creative energy. During the Q & A with the audience a music producer made a proposition to Wiz about how to connect with an

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Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5 goes online September 29

By |September 1st, 2015|Categories: Film News, Gaming, National News, Pop Culture, Tech News, United States, YouTube|Tags: , , , , , , |

[av_heading heading='#THPS5 rolls out September 29' tag='h3' style='blockquote modern-quote' size='' subheading_active='subheading_below' subheading_size='15' padding='10' color='' custom_font=''] Written by: Matthew McGuire [/av_heading] Tony Hawk's® Pro Skater™ 5 combines classic combo-driven skateboarding with objective-based single player action and seamless online multiplayer allowing you to take on challengers from around the world. Users can compete head-to-head with friends on new and signature Pro Skater levels, or build and share your own skateparks for endless shredding. Reserve a pre-order a copy, or grab the game on its release date Tuesday, September 29. [av_image src='https://crescentvale.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Screen-shot-2015-09-01-at-9.57.06-PM.png' attachment='11160' attachment_size='full' align='center' animation='no-animation' styling='' hover='av-hover-grow' link='lightbox' target='' caption='' font_size='' appearance=''

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SXSW Interactive | 22nd Annual SXSW Interactive Conference

By |February 4th, 2015|Categories: Austin, Festivals, Music News, National News, Previews, SXSW, Tech News, Texas, World News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

[av_heading heading='SXSW Interactive Featuring: Gaming, Comedy, Innovation and Startups' tag='h3' style='blockquote modern-quote' size='' subheading_active='subheading_below' subheading_size='15' padding='10' color='' custom_font=''] Written by: Matthew McGuire [/av_heading] SXSW is known for being the music mecca for breakthrough artists to showcase their art each year in Austin, Texas. The term art has been redefined over the past few generations. Currently, we look at how interactive art plays into the South by South West festival this March 13-17. Review past videos from SXSW on their interactive portion of the festival below, as well as browse bands performing this year. Next, we browse over the events that make

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