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21.04.2024 - 07:55 / gamesindustry.biz
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Turtle Beach has announced that it will be retiring the Roccat brand.
The gaming peripheral firm attributed the decision to focusing on a single label.
"While we'll be retiring the Roccat brand, many of its iconic product lines like the Vulcan, Kone, Burst, and Sense will transition under the Turtle Beach brand," the company said.
"Our commitment to PC products remains as strong as ever and we have several ground-breaking new products to introduce as well as Turtle Beach-branded versions of popular existing Roccat products sticking around."
The retirement of Roccat comes five years after it was acquired in a deal of over $17 million.
Meanwhile, last month, Turtle Beach announced the acquisition of PDP for $118 million.
Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home.
At the height of John Green’s popularity, most people knew the YA author for a very specific genre: sad teen books, usually about shy-yet-pretentious boys in love with spirited yet emotionally available girls. That was always a derogatory oversimplification of Green’s novels, which often deconstruct common YA tropes more than they give into them. But years of warped online perspectives on Green’s work, heightened by aesthetic Tumblr posts and Pinterest mood boards, meant that when the 2014 movie adaptation of Green’s tragic teen romance The Fault in Our Stars came out, the were calcified, preconceived notions of what a John Green Book™ was. (Never mind thatThe Fault in Our Stars flipped the gender roles, with a reserved girl and a vivacious boy.)
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Gear up for a retro ride back in time because World of Tanks Blitz is joining forces with none other than the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! The World of Tanks Blitz x TMNT crossover will let you chow down on some yummy pizza right before diving into the sewers with the green team. Yes, you’re up against Shredder again, and it’s going to be totally tubular!
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