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News Blips: Battlefield 3 open beta, Crytek UK revives Homefront, and Batman: Arkham City delayed on PC

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 21, 2011
1 min

Why would the Russians target Paris for an invasion? I suppose a critical baguette shortage back in the motherland could've prompted the hostile action....

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Video Blips: Gears of War 3, Mafia Wars 2, Resident Evil 4 HD, and more

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 21, 2011
1 min

As a former Best Buy cashier, I've endured through my fair share of midnight launch events. After barely surviving with my sanity intact, I...

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Hi5 confirms 28 job cuts as it dumps open source for Windows servers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 20, 2011
2 min

Social network Hi5 has cut 28 jobs after completing a migration from open source servers to ones based on Microsoft’s .Net software. The move...

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Nvidia hides a fifth core in its Kal-El mobile processor

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 20, 2011
1 min

Nvidia revealed today that its quad-core next-generation Tegra mobile processor has a surprise in it: a fifth core, or computing brain. The processor, code-named...

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Zynga takes Hanging With Friends social game to Android

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 20, 2011
1 min

Zynga keeps spreading its bets around. It announced today that it is launching its Hanging With Friends game to Android mobile devices. The title...

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Review: Gears of War 3 is like Band of Brothers with lady warriors and real closure

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 20, 2011
13 min

The season for epic games has begun. Gamers worldwide start shooting and save the world. Epic Games‘ Gears of War 3 launches today, and it brings closure to a sci-fi shooting game series that has kept millions of fans loyal to the Xbox 360 video game console.

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Aeria Games hits 23M “power gamers” and acquires its first mobile game

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 19, 2011
2 min

Web gaming maker Aeria Games said today that its free-to-play online games have an audience of 23 million “power gamers.” The company is also moving...

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5 minutes with Inversion’s Hourglass mode

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 18, 2011
2 min

At first glance, Saber Interactive's Inversion seems like another entrant in the rapidly ballooning list of cover-based shooter titles routinely spit out by the...

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Bunchball hits 500M badges awarded for gamification service

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 16, 2011
2 min

Bunchball launched its gamification service four years ago, before the name for adding game-like features to non-game applications became popular. Now the company is disclosing...

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Gamification in the age of distraction

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 16, 2011
2 min

This post is sponsored by FunMobility. Real-time interaction with an audience has become the must-have foundation by which brands and companies market to and...

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