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Ron Gilbert and Double Fine go adventuring in The Cave (preview)

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 25, 2012
2 min

Adventure game grandfathers Tim Schafer (Grim Fandango, Full Throttle) and Ron Gilbert (Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island) recently held a special media event at Double Fine Productions' San Francisco headquarters to unveil the developer's latest offering: The Cave.

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High noon: The confusing lack of spaghetti-western games

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 25, 2012
3 min

Back in the swinging sixties, you couldn't walk 10 feet through the American mid-West without tripping over an Italian film crew working on a spaghetti...

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The past, present, and future of video games at the DIY-focused Maker Faire 2012

Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes
May 25, 2012
4 min

Maker Faire is a do-it-yourself cultural celebration. In this year's fair, video games had a small, but remarkable presence that provided some insight into the history of the medium.

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GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 25, 2012
2 min

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

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Atlus prolongs the punishment and keeps North American Demon’s Souls servers online

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 25, 2012
1 min

You didn't think online support for Demon's Souls would die easily, did you? Guess again.

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Video game series contract will be tough for Bungie, easy for Activision

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 25, 2012
3 min

The contract between Bungie, the celebrated maker of the Halo series, and Activision Blizzard was unsealed this week in litigation related to Activision’s feud...

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Add your face to the wizarding crowd in Harry Potter for Kinect

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 25, 2012
1 min

Warner Bros. Interactive announces Harry Potter for the Kinect, which releases this fall. Time to bust out that robe and hat combo from the closet once more.

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Square Enix’s Mike Fischer says Activision was “crazy” to abandon True Crime: Hong Kong (interview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 25, 2012
9 min

GamesBeat's Dean Takahashi sits down with Mike Fischer, head of North American operations for Square Enix, who says that Activision was crazy to let True Crime: Hong Kong go. Square Enix is publishing that game as Sleeping Dogs

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Blizzard announces first Diablo III patches and delays the real-money auction house

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 25, 2012
1 min

Blizzard hopes to roll out client and stability patches for its game Diablo III in the coming week in effort to address ongoing bugs and performance issues.

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Indie developers slash prices with a purpose in the “Because We May” initiative

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 25, 2012
1 min

Starting today and continuing through June 1, a group of indie game makers is cutting prices in select digital distribution markets as part of the "Because We May" campaign.

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