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Crackdown 3 creative director interview — How Microsoft’s cloud makes the Wrecking Zone so destructible

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 1, 2019
9 min

GamesBeat: Is the customization more just choosing among the characters? Can you customize your character cosmetically? Staten: There isn’t any customization in that classic...

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Crackdown 3 hands-on preview — A long awaited game emerges from limbo

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 1, 2019
4 min

Microsoft is standing firm on its pledge that Crackdown 3, which was first shown to the public in 2014, is coming out for Xbox One and...

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Nintendo president: Switch and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate sales broke records

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 1, 2019
3 min

Shuntaro Furukawa, president of Nintendo, said during the company’s earnings call that Nintendo’s sales of Switch hardware and games during the holidays were “extremely...

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Dr. Mario World is Nintendo’s next mobile game

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 31, 2019
1 min

Nintendo announced Dr. Mario World today, a new mobile puzzle game coming to iOS and Android this summer. The app will be free-to-play with...

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Sensor Tower: Hearthstone made 5% more on mobile in 2018 than in 2017

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 31, 2019
1 min

Hearthstone made $165 million on iOS and Android in 2018, according to mobile research firm Sensor Tower. That is a 5 percent increase from 2017. This is...

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Hearthstone’s next nerfs target Hunter and overpowered launch day cards

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 31, 2019
3 min

Blizzard Entertainment announced a new wave of nerfs for Hearthstone, which will go into effect on February 5. These mostly target cards from the Classic...

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AI learns how to play Montezuma’s Revenge

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 31, 2019
2 min

In 2015, Google subsidiary DeepMind published a landmark paper describing a system that could, given enough time and computational horsepower, learn to play a collection...

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Skillz: Top 10 mobile esports players won $8 million in 2018

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 31, 2019
2 min

Mobile esports provider Skillz said that the top 10 mobile esports players earned more than $8 million in 2018, with seven of the 10...

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Tasty Town forks over food fun on Android and iOS

Posted byby Jason Wilson
January 31, 2019
2 min

Social Point has launched Tasty Town (because “Flavor Town” may already be under copyright), a free-to-play restaurant game for iOS and Android. This is the...

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Switch sales strong, but Nintendo pulls back forecast

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 31, 2019
2 min

Nintendo reported strong third fiscal quarter earnings for the three months ended December 31, with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fueling sales of the Switch...

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