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Star Wars: Battlefront’s $50 season pass features 16 multiplayer maps — four more than the base game

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 16, 2015
1 min

If you want the full Star Wars: Battlefront experience, you’ll need to spend $110. Electronic Arts’ new shooter launches on PlayStation 4, Xbox One,...

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Nintendo wants to dazzle us with Japanese role-playing games in early 2016

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 14, 2015
3 min

When we think of most Japanese role-playing games that come out today, austere affairs with limited budgets generally come to mind. Nintendo apparently wants to...

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Read+Watch+Listen: Bonus material for Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate fans

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 14, 2015
3 min

This article may contain spoilers for Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate. You spent years waiting for developers to hurry up and release a big game. You buy...

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Why one PC maker decided not to ship a Steam Machine this year

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 14, 2015
2 min

The Steam Machines PC gaming computers were pitched as a mighty alternative to Microsoft’s Windows when Valve announced them in January 2014. But when the company’s hardware partners...

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StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void sells 1M copies in 24 hours

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 13, 2015
1 min

Blizzard Entertainment said today that more than 1 million people have purchased StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void in its first 24 hours on sale....

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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Machine Zone gets Arnie, and Activision is making movies

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 13, 2015
6 min

It’s Friday, so let’s take a look back at the week. We’ve taken a break from some of the year’s biggest releases to write about...

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Fantasy sports sites sue to keep doors open in New York

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 13, 2015
3 min

Top daily fantasy sports companies DraftKings and FanDuel filed lawsuits on Friday to contest an order to shut down their online gaming operations in New York state, asking a state court to rule that the games are not illegal gambling.

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StarCraft II: Blizzard explains why Legacy of the Void isn’t the end of the series

Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes
November 13, 2015
5 min

Many StarCraft II players are still busy getting through Legacy of the Void. But developer Blizzard Entertainment is already looking toward the future. StarCraft...

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Today’s tiny World of Warcraft news: Gnome hunters

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 13, 2015
1 min

World of Warcraft creative director Alex Afrasiabi brought gnome lovers to their tiny little knees today with an announcement via Twitter: They could finally...

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Unity has democratized game development, but CEO John Riccitiello worries about too much VR hype

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 13, 2015
13 min

Unity Technologies has armed more than 2 million developers with the tools to make video games. And those developers have shown a lot of...

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