Mike Minotti, Author at GamesBeat

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Star Trek Online’s next expansion takes players back to the original series

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May 5, 2016
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Publisher Perfect World revealed Agents of Yesterday today, the third expansion for Star Trek: Online. It allows players to create a captain and command a ship in the same timeline as the original Star Trek series (you know, the one with Spock and Kirk from the ’60s). It launches this summer for PC.

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Star Wars: Commander gets a new competitive multiplayer mode

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May 5, 2016
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It may not be May the 4th anymore, but we’re not done getting new Star Wars content. The mobile Star Wars game Commander is getting a new...

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Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is the conclusion that Naughty Dog’s landmark series deserves

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May 5, 2016
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Forget the pirate’s life. Yo ho, yo ho, it’s a Nathan Drake life me. Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End brings the digital adventurer to...

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Zynga grows on mobile as Apple, not Facebook, becomes its biggest platform partner

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May 4, 2016
2 min

The social game maker revealed its financial results for Q1 2016 today, with bookings at $182 million. That is above the consensus estimate of $162 million from analysts. It was also higher than Zynga’s own expectations of $150 million to $165 million.

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Titanfall developer Respawn is working on a Star Wars game

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May 4, 2016
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I’ll take an AT-AT over a robotic titan any day. Respawn Entertainment, known for the multiplayer shooter Titanfall (and its recently announced sequel), is working...

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Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ May 4 trailer shows off new adventures outside the film

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May 4, 2016
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Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens will have players doing more than reliving the plot of the movie. A new trailer for the game...

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4 Star Wars games that cost less than $4 for May the 4th

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May 4, 2016
2 min

You don’t have to break your R2-D2 bank to celebrate Star Wars Day with some great games. Star Wars is a multimedia giant that...

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Twitter users reveal Star Wars’ most popular characters on May the 4th

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May 4, 2016
2 min

It’s Star Wars Day (May the Fourth be with you), so let’s celebrate by looking at social media data! I promise it’s more exciting...

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Nielsen is now tracking mobile games in an effort to expand in a streaming TV world

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May 4, 2016
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Nielsen (you know, that group that’s always going on about TV show ratings) is entering a new entertainment market. The company revealed today that it...

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Online gaming in China will be worth $20.4 billion by 2020

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May 3, 2016
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If Nixon went to China today, he’d be playing League of Legends. Online gaming was worth $15.3 billion in China in 2015, but Asian games...

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