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Mobile devices will be more powerful than PlayStation 4, Xbox One in 2017, ARM forecasts (update)

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 17, 2016
2 min

AMSTERDAM — That supercomputer in your pocket will soon make Sony’s and Microsoft’s latest home gaming consoles look old and crusty. ARM, the technology design...

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Sinclair ZX Spectrum targets retro fans — and U.S. gamers — with a new handheld console

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 16, 2016
2 min

A little over a year after reviving the ZX Spectrum brand with a microcontroller computer that plugs straight into your TV, Sir Clive Sinclair...

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Inside Amazon’s decision to make a video game engine

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 12, 2016
6 min

Amazon launched its Lumberyard video game engine this week, showing its intentions to become a much bigger platform company in the games business. To date,...

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VR’s a hog: How to get the most out of multicore CPUs for VR performance

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 11, 2016
5 min

This sponsored post is produced by MaxPlay. Virtual Reality is ushering in an era of amazing new experiences, but it also introduces a variety...

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Watch an iOS game get ported to Windows 10 in under 5 minutes

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 11, 2016
2 min

The classic game Canabalt was originally a Flash game, but it was successful enough that it ended up being ported to the iPhone (Apple’s...

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How Blizzard stayed laser-focused on quality games for 25 years

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 8, 2016
25 min

Blizzard Entertainment celebrates its 25th anniversary today, a milestone that very few video game companies achieve in a very Darwinian industry. It has survived this...

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Google reportedly plans to release a Cardboard successor like Samsung’s Gear VR this year

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 7, 2016
2 min

Google is planning to release a new virtual reality headset for smartphones this year, pegged as a successor to its Google Cardboard platform and...

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Games accounted for 32% of Windows Store downloads in Q4 2015, over 85% of in-app purchases

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 4, 2016
3 min

Every few months, Microsoft shares Windows Store numbers to help developers figure out what is worth investing their time and energy in. Today, the...

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Unreal Engine’s latest innovation is about building games while inside virtual reality

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 4, 2016
3 min

Epic Games is unveiling a new virtual reality edition of its Unreal Engine game-development tool today that enables you to create a video game from within...

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Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview for PCs and ninja monkey wallpapers

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 4, 2016
3 min

Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs, the fourth build of 2016. The release doesn’t include any new features, once again,...

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