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Minecraft-style Dragon Quest Builders is coming to the West for PlayStation 4 and Vita

Posted byby Mike Minotti
May 27, 2016
1 min

Sony announced today that Dragon Quest Builders is coming to North America this October for PlayStation 4 and Vita. The announcement comes as part of the series 30th anniversary today, celebrating the release of the original Dragon Quest for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Why saying goodbye to the Uncharted series was so hard for Naughty Dog

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 27, 2016
2 min

If it seems like the 18 hours of gameplay for Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and some of the scenes, like the epilogue, lingered...

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Doom has us shooting demons like it’s 1993 and loving it

Posted byby Mike Minotti
May 26, 2016
5 min

At the beginning of the year, everyone at GamesBeat talked about which games in 2016 we were looking forward to the most. When our lead writer, Dean Takahashi, said Doom (which is out now for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC), I laughed at him. A simple shooter like Doom? In 2016?

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A trip down the memory lane of video games at Naughty Dog’s headquarters

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 26, 2016
5 min

I managed to get a rare peek inside Naughty Dog’s headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif., during an interview with the co-directors of Uncharted 4:...

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Veteran game analyst Michael Pachter will speak at GamesBeat 2016

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 26, 2016
6 min

Our next speaker for our GamesBeat 2016 event is Michael Pachter, the managing director of equity research at Wedbush Securities. Pachter has more than 20 years of...

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Nintendo’s underappreciated StarTropics series comes to the Wii U

Posted byby Mike Minotti
May 26, 2016
2 min

You might be a big Nintendo fan, but it’s likely you’ve never played StarTropics. You should fix that. Nintendo revealed today that StarTropics and...

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WorldViz creates ‘warehouse-scale’ motion-tracking for VR headsets

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 26, 2016
2 min

The HTC Vive virtual reality headset boasts the ability to create “room-scale” VR experiences for consumers in their living rooms. But enterprise VR company WorldViz...

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This is now an old model, but it is getting something new.

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PlayStation 4 sales worldwide pass 40 million

Posted byby Mike Minotti
May 26, 2016
1 min

The PlayStation brand is as strong as it ever was. Sony announced today that its PlayStation 4 console has passed over 40 million systems...

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Cost of acquiring app users drops in April as the spring lull hits mobile

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 26, 2016
2 min

The cost of acquiring loyal mobile app users fell in April as the frenzied competition among app publishers subsided in the spring. Fiksu, a...

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The ‘.game’ domain extension officially opens for business

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 26, 2016
2 min

Good news for game developers around the world — the “.game” domain extension has officially launched for anyone to register. The Internet has seen...

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