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How Google’s latest game gives a glimpse of our augmented-reality future

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 18, 2014
3 min

Google's Niantic Labs is doing a transmedia project with novelist and discredited memoirist James Frey. It's an intriguing partnership that, like Frey's books, plays fast and loose with notions of what the "truth" is.

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Pandora launches its first native game console app — and it’s for Xbox One

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 18, 2014
2 min

Digital radio service Pandora is finally showing some love to gamers today with the launch of a new application for Xbox One.

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CSI creator unveils ‘gamified narrative’ Mysteryopolis game-cartoon hybrid show

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 18, 2014
3 min

Mysteryopolis will debut on Fuhu's Nabi kids tablet.

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Khan Academy’s learning tools appear in an unlikely place … the Xbox One

Posted byby Jason Wilson
December 17, 2014
2 min

Online education company debuts app on Microsoft's flagship console -- something its rival, the PlayStation 4, does not have.

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Final episode of ‘Halo: Nightfall’ delivers its best acting … and worst effects

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 9, 2014
3 min

Halo: Nightfall, the live-action series produced to accompany the Halo Master Chief Collection, releases its final episode today.

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Twitch update lets you find the best livestreaming players on Xbox One

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 9, 2014
2 min

The new update lets you watch Twitch videos on demand as well.

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PewDiePie creates a generational divide between 4th graders and toddlers in ‘South Park’

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 4, 2014
1 min

The kids of South Park do not get why anyone would watch someone play video games.

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Steam Broadcasting: Watch out, Twitch — Valve’s getting into livestreaming

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 2, 2014
1 min

Valve, the creator of the seminal Half-Life shooter franchise and the Steam digital-distribution platform, introduced Steam Broadcasting today. When playing a game on the network, you can now livestream gameplay video to Web as well as the Steam client, and others can now watch you play as well.