Mike Minotti, Author at GamesBeat

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Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 gets February 26 release date

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 5, 2015
1 min

Publisher Electronic Arts revealed today that its upcoming team-based shooter Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 will come out on February 26 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. This is a bit earlier than the spring launch originally announced by the company.

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Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate’s 1st week sales lower than Unity’s — but 2nd week sales were higher

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 4, 2015
1 min

Gamers were definitely wary of this year’s Assassin’s Creed. Speaking during an investment call today, Ubisoft president and chief executive officer Yves Guillemot revealed...

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Ubisoft’s first half of 2015 sales down 57 percent due to no major releases

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 4, 2015
1 min

Ubisoft’s numbers have fallen, but it’s not really surprising. The gaming publisher announced today that sales for the first half of fiscal year 2015-2016...

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WWE lets fans enjoy SummerSlam in virtual reality

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November 4, 2015
1 min

You don’t need to spend big bucks to get ringside thrills anymore. WWE revealed today released a virtual reality experience for the Samsung Milk...

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After King deal, Activision now makes more revenue from games than Microsoft, Sony, or EA

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 3, 2015
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The numbers now say that Activision Blizzard is bigger than Microsoft and Sony. The gaming giant bought mobile developer King yesterday for $5.9 billion in...

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Tera gets new Brawler class in December update

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 3, 2015
2 min

The free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game is getting a new class in an upcoming update, titled Knockout, which comes out for North American servers this December.

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World of Warcraft monthly subscribers fall slightly to 5.5M — and Blizzard will no longer report player numbers

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 3, 2015
1 min

I don’t think Blizzard wants us to watch World of Warcraft’s subscription numbers continue to shrink. Activision Blizzard revealed today that its popular MMO...

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Tencent, Sony, Microsoft, and EA show that the multiplatform strategy — console, PC, and mobile — is golden in 2015

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 2, 2015
2 min

The industry is making plenty of money these days. Games market research group Newzoo today released its list of the top 25 public game...

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Microsoft tells us how Xbox One will win the holiday and why consoles aren’t dying

Posted byby Mike Minotti
October 31, 2015
14 min

Gaming’s biggest battle of year is here: holiday season. This is when Sony and Microsoft bring out the big guns and try to tell...

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Forget cultural barriers — Halloween invades Asain mobile games

Posted byby Mike Minotti
October 30, 2015
2 min

The worldwide market of mobile gaming is presenting some interesting challenges. The popularity of Halloween as we know it varies among Asian countries. However,...

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