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Interpret found kids ask their parents before they spend money in games.

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Interpret: 91% of kids ask parents for permission when spending in mobile games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 12, 2019
2 min

About 91 percent of children ages 3 to 12 ask for parental permission before making purchases in mobile games, according to a report from...

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A scene from the Fortnite/Epic booth at GDC 2019.

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GDC chief Katie Stern interview — What keeps game developers up at night?

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 11, 2019
11 min

Katie Stern took over as general manager of GDC Events in August 2017. Since then, she has learned more about what keeps game developers...

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Shards of Infinity goes into limited beta on mobile and Steam

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 11, 2019
2 min

Temple Gates Games and Stone Blade Entertainment are releasing a beta of the deck-building cyberpunk game Shards of Infinity for invited players today across...

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ESL and AT&T partner for new mobile esports league

Posted byby Mike Minotti
March 11, 2019
1 min

ESL announced today that it is teaming up with AT&T to create the ESL Mobile Open, a new year-round mobile esports league. ESL is...

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Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is the new location-based game from Niantic and Warner Bros.

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Harry Potter: Wizards Unite first look — Warner Bros. and Niantic show off long-awaited mobile game

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 11, 2019
8 min

Niantic and Warner Bros.’ WB Games studio showed off the first gameplay for Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, a mobile game that is based on...

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The ‘e’ in esports also stands for ‘engagement’

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 10, 2019
4 min

Who would have thought we’d live in a world where we’d even fathom video games worthy of consideration as an Olympic sport? Or where...

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The packaging for the Xbox Adaptive Controller.

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Xbox ousts PlayStation to dominate game industry TV spend in February

Posted byby Jason Wilson
March 10, 2019
2 min

Thanks to a big outlay during the Super Bowl, Microsoft’s Xbox has overtaken the gaming industry’s longtime spend leader PlayStation. Xbox accounted for over...