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Gaikai scores a whopper of a game distribution deal with Walmart.com (exclusive)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 21, 2011
3 min

Game-streaming startup Gaikai has scored a major deal to stream high-quality video games for Walmart.com, the online division of the world’s biggest retailer, VentureBeat...

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Team Fortress 2 free to play for a week ahead of huge update

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 21, 2011
2 min

If you’re one of the four gamers out there who hasn’t yet played Team Fortress 2, now is the time to do so. Game...

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Console versions of Battlefield 3 feature weaker graphics (video)

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 21, 2011
2 min

Console versions of DICE’s first-person shooter (FPS) game, Battlefield 3, won’t look quite as shiny as their PC counterparts. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation...

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Classic Halo remake is next hardcore game to feature Kinect augmentation

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 20, 2011
2 min

The Halo Anniversary edition of Halo: Combat Evolved will use Microsoft’s motion-sensing controller, the Kinect, in some way, Microsoft Studios head Phil Spencer told GameSpot....

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Psych! LulzSec and Anonymous are "bros," hacker groups say

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 20, 2011
2 min

Hacker groups LulzSec and Anonymous are launching a carpet-bombing hacking operation on government agencies, marking the first time the two highly-publicized hacker groups have...

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Not bad: Zynga's Empires & Allies hits 30M users in 17 days

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 19, 2011
5 min

Zynga’s Empires & Allies social game has grown to more than 30 million users in just 17 days. The combat social strategy game added...

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Kinect software development kit is now live

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 16, 2011
2 min

Microsoft announced today that it is releasing a beta development kit that will let software developers tap into the company’s Xbox 360 motion controller,...

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The top 11 trends of E3, from bubble shields to evil helicopters

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 16, 2011
9 min

Every year, we get a glimpse of the video game industry’s future at E3. The trade show drew more than 45,000 attendees to Los...

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An interview with Journey co-creator Jenova Chen (video)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 15, 2011
2 min

We are still showing off all of the goodies we saw at the E3 trade show last week in Los Angeles, where 45,000 attendees...

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LulzSec hits U.S. Senate website, throws a “DDoS Party”

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 14, 2011
2 min

Hacker group Lulz Security is taking responsibility for breaking into the public website for the U.S. Senate, Senate.gov. Separately, the hacker group has launched...

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