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Chinese game developer Kunlun invests $3 million in Silicon Valley AI company

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 12, 2016
2 min

Publicly traded Chinese gaming company Beijing Kunlun Technology Co. Ltd. announced on Wednesday a $3 million USD investment in Kunlun AI, a new company jointly established...

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Rethinking data pipeline dilemmas to boost speeds and decrease costs

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 10, 2016
4 min

It’s bad enough that the current ETL times for structured data is already a big data pipeline bottleneck. Now companies also need to contend with unstructured and semi-structured data streaming in from multiple sources simply because they have no choice.

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Twitter woos game makers by integrating its Fabric development suite into Unity

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
March 9, 2016
2 min

Twitter is shifting toward mobile services, and now it’s teaming up with one of the most popular game-development engines to expedite that transition. The...

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Xbox Live is down: Microsoft is investigating why users can’t sign in (Update: Fixed)

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 5, 2016
2 min

Microsoft’s Xbox Live service is once again experiencing issues. Users are unable to sign in, and Microsoft is investigating what the problem might be....

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GamesBeat weekly roundup: The future of Disney Infinity, and Zynga’s new CEO

Posted byby Mike Minotti
March 4, 2016
4 min

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we continue our celebration of Pokémon’s 20th anniversary, Nintendo announces some new games, and we get...

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Zynga was named after Mark Pincus' late dog.

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Analysts and investors react well to Zynga’s new CEO Frank Gibeau

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 2, 2016
3 min

Zynga’s stock price rose 4 percent to $2.25 a share in the first full day of trading on Wall Street after the company announced...

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Yahoo capitalizes on its well-regarded Yahoo Sports with new esports push

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 2, 2016
3 min

Yahoo has launched a new section on its network dedicated to covering esports. The company hopes that it will eventually become the “premiere destination...

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Zynga names ex-EA mobile exec Frank Gibeau as its CEO

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 1, 2016
4 min

Zynga has returned again to the Electronic Arts well of talent. The social mobile game company has named former EA executive Frank Gibeau as...

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Microsoft starts taking preorders for HoloLens Development Edition, shipping March 30

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 29, 2016
4 min

Microsoft today announced that it’s starting to send developers invitations to preorder the $3,000 HoloLens Development Edition version of its HoloLens augmented reality headset....

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mNectar’s new Spectra streaming network turns ads into playable games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 25, 2016
3 min

MNectar came up with unique way to get players to view ads on mobile by creating playable segments of games that could be streamed...

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