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The 6 Most Valuable Games of All Time (Quantified by NBA Live 1995)

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 15, 2011
13 min

Do we really need a new sports game every single year? Do we really need an annual football game when EA (the developers) hold exclusivity rights with the NFL to ensure there is no competition within the market? The obvious answer here is no. No, we don’t need any more sports games now or ever.

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Summer funk continues, video game sales topple 10 percent

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 14, 2011
2 min

In June, video game sales fell once again as the U.S. retail game industry continues to suffer from a low rate of new game releases,...

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2 min

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Cloud-based video games will put pirates out of business

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 14, 2011
3 min

Ever wonder what the gaming world would be like without pirates? That future isn’t too far away, thanks to the advent of cloud-based gaming...

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3 min

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Japanese monster social network Kaiju’s got game at GamesBeat 2011

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 14, 2011
2 min

This year’s winner of VentureBeat’s “Who’s Got Game” startup competition is Kaiju Empire, a social games maker that creates games built around outlandish Godzilla-style...

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2 min

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Games creator Outfit7 hits 150M downloads, doesn’t want funding

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 13, 2011
1 min

Outfit7 announced at GamesBeat today that they have hit 150M downloads between their iOS and Android offerings. Additionally, they have no interest in receiving...

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1 min

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Here are GamesBeat’s 2011 startup standouts

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 13, 2011
3 min

VentureBeat’s GamesBeat conference features a competition for gaming companies that have some kind of innovative or disruptive technology. This year, the competition features a...

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3 min

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Sony’s network guru: PlayStation Network downtime was a ‘great experience’

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 13, 2011
2 min

Most companies would call a hacking attack that brings a critical service offline a disaster. Sony’s president of network entertainment Tim Schaaff thinks it’s...

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2 min

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Updated: Is Angry Birds maker Rovio in the process of raising more funding?

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 13, 2011
1 min

[Update: Another audience member also asked if Rovio was raising money, to which a representative of the company said it was serious about raising...

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1 min

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Games industry vet Jordan Weisman: game technology is at its peak

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 12, 2011
2 min

Video game consoles have reached a point where they are so powerful that companies no longer need to focus on adding more horsepower to...

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2 min

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Google Ventures partner: Venture capitalists are bad at picking games

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 12, 2011
2 min

Investors haven’t been very good at figuring out which gaming companies will be successful, said Google Ventures partner Joe Kraus. That’s not limited to...

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