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Minecraft Realms gets new maps with class-based brawling and a music light show

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 20, 2017
1 min

Minecraft isn’t all building houses and digging holes. Mojang has announced new content out today for Minecraft Realms, a subscription service for the block-building game...

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GamesBeat weekly roundup: We try Nintendo’s Switch, and game sales are up in 2016

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 20, 2017
3 min

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Nintendo reveals new Fire Emblem games, the PlayStation 4 wins December, and we look at the...

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3 min

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Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney to receive lifetime achievement award at GDC

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 20, 2017
3 min

As CEO of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney has been a graphics wizard and a leader of the game industry since the 1990s. And he...

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The DeanBeat: 10 predictions for games in 2017

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 20, 2017
8 min

Every year I make wildly inaccurate predictions about the future of games, and that time has come again. I go through this exercise not...

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8 min

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U.S. gaming industry earned $30.4 billion in 2016, up from 2015

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 20, 2017
1 min

2016 was a year of growth for the U.S. gaming industry. According to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group and the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the...

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2016 NPD: Call of Duty No. 1, Battlefield No. 2 on 2016’s list of best-selling games

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 20, 2017
2 min

2016 is over. Here are the games that made the most of the year. The NPD Group has released its list of the 10...

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Silicon Studio adapts Graphine’s texture software for console, PC, and VR development

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 19, 2017
1 min

The studio behind the cherished Bravely Default Japanese role-playing games are working with the makers of a high-end texture engine used for PC, console,...

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XCOM 2’s Long War 2 fan mod is now available for PC

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 19, 2017
1 min

XCOM fans are going to have a busy day. 2K announced today that the free Long War 2 mod is available for its strategy game XCOM 2 on PC via the Steam Wokshop. It gives player a longer campaign than the original game (about 100 to 120 missions), smarter enemies, and new soldier classes.

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Fig raises $7.8 million to expand game crowdfunding platform

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 19, 2017
4 min

Game crowdfunding platform Fig has raised $7.84 million in a funding round led by big name venture capitalists. That shows you have to raise...

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4 min

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DigiLens raises $22 million to make ‘eyeglass-thin’ augmented reality displays

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 19, 2017
3 min

Display technology maker DigiLens has raised $22 million to create better augmented reality and virtual reality products in which digital information lies on top...

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3 min