Mike Minotti, Author at GamesBeat

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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Evolve reviewed, Zynga woes, and Brianna Wu

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 13, 2015
3 min

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we talk about Netflix’s potential Zelda show, Sonic Boom bombs, and we take some trips to...

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Zynga closes Beijing studio that brought FarmVille to China

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 12, 2015
1 min

As part of its fourth-quarter earnings release today, Zynga announced today that it has closed its Chinese studio, terminating 71 employees in the process. The branch, located in Beijing, was making games specifically for that market along with adapting hits like FarmVille.

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Your art could end up on a future Pokémon card

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 12, 2015
1 min

Create a masterpiece in Pokémon Art Academy and you could win.

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Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry 4, and Watch Dogs push Ubisoft to record 3Q — nearly $1B

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February 12, 2015
1 min

Ubisoft is making lots of money thanks to Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Watch Dogs.

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Minecraft is by far YouTube’s most popular game

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 10, 2015
1 min

Newzoo released a list of the top 20 most popular games according to views received on YouTube videos. Newzoo got the info by continuously tracking over 4 million gaming-related YouTube channels. As you can see in the chart below, Minecraft was way ahead with 2.395 billion views in January.

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Fifty Shades of Sony: PlayStation 4 owners dig BDSM more than Xbox One folk

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 10, 2015
1 min

And Android owners are a bit kinkier than iOS fans, too.

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‘Star Wars: Rebels’ gets its own Minecraft skin pack

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 10, 2015
1 min

Microsoft bought Mojang, the company behind Minecraft, for $2.5 billion last September. Although the game is available for other platforms, including rival Sony’s PlayStation 4, exclusive content like this for Microsoft’s consoles is a benefit of the acquisition.