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News Blips: Kinect’s Trouble with Dark-Skinned Users, Battlefield: Play4Free, Glasses-Free 3D Phones, and More

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 6, 2010
2 min

Turns out Kinect isn't racist — it's just farsighted. News Blips: Consumer Reports debunks claims that Kinect can't identify the faces of darker-skinned players....

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What Violent Games Can Learn from The Walking Dead

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 5, 2010
4 min

I sat down to watch The Walking Dead on AMC last night with caution, because I read the comic. Robert Kirkman's Image Comics series...

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Limbo: Infernal Logic

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 5, 2010
5 min

Limbo is the arresting puzzle-platformer released in July for Xbox Live Arcade, and I wanted to talk a bit about this fascinating game through...

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Why I Keep Making Excuses for Fallout: New Vegas

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 5, 2010
3 min

Just like Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas is technically a terrible game. New Vegas' engine is incredibly buggy — enough that the game sometimes...

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Japan’s DeNA claims it makes 30 times more per user than Facebook, 15 times more than Zynga

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 5, 2010
1 min

Japan-based social game maker DeNA announced its earnings today and revealed some interesting comparisons. Revenue for the quarter was $336 million, up 216 percent...

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News Blips: Hybrid Xbox 360 Games, Raiden in Brotherhood, Gamers Herald e-Commerce, and More

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 5, 2010
2 min

While the just-released Kinect grabs the spotlight for its accurate motion controls, I'm happy to see Microsoft still respecting good old-fashioned joysticks and buttons....

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Social Game Universe launches cross-promotion tool on Facebook (exclusive)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 5, 2010
2 min

Social Game Universe is announcing today a new cross-promotion tool that will help indie developers drive traffic to their social games. The Toronto-based company...

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Video Blips: Sonic Free Riders, Dead Space 2, Need for Speed, and More

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 5, 2010
2 min

Intense rivalries, a cocksure protagonist, and hoverboard racing…yep, Sonic Free Riders may as well be called Back to the Future 2. Video Blips: •...

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The Geekbox – Episode 90

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 5, 2010
1 min

The Geekbox — Episode 90 (2010-11-03) Wherein we discuss the World Series, Futurama costumes, The Walking Dead, Star Trek Online, Rock Band 3, Red Dead...

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Gaming Content on TV Doesn’t Work

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 5, 2010
3 min

The Internet has destroyed the need for a game-centric TV network in America. The tech-head and the gamer are two concepts that go together...

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3 min