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The DeanBeat: Outsiders, insiders, and manufactured outrage

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 1, 2017
6 min

I felt a bit like a lab rat this week as I found that my career in game journalism — and my terribly unskilled...

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Google Play reveals 2017’s best apps and games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 1, 2017
2 min

Google Play announced today its list of the most popular mobile apps, games, and other content for 2017. Based on popularity alone, Nintendo’s Super...

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The IndieBeat: Obelus’s bleak future riffs off the familiar present

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 1, 2017
12 min

A game about an intergalactic insurance salesman could only go in a few different ways. One is the Douglas Adams route with wackiness in...

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Games on Demand game jam takes requests from ill children

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 30, 2017
5 min

Though most game jams have developers creating projects on a single theme, Games on Demand takes a different approach. Founder Lana Chircop and six...

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Wonderstorm is a new TV and game studio from League of Legends and Uncharted 3 vets

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 30, 2017
2 min

You could make a Netflix Original series, or you could make a video game — or if you’re newly minted studio Wonderstorm, you make...

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The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker’s FMV mystery will creep to Switch, PS4, and Xbox One

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 30, 2017
1 min

Full-motion video (FMV) once seemed like the peak of gaming technology in the early CD-rom days on systems like Sega CD. What could be...

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Jazz Jackrabbit hops back to life on GOG

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 30, 2017
1 min

The digital game store GOG announced today that Jazz Jackrabbit and Jazz Jackrabbit 2 are now available. They cost $10 each, but they are...

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Google launches Poly API for AR/VR assets in Unity and Unreal

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 30, 2017
1 min

Google launched Poly in early November as a way for developers to find 3D assets for their virtual reality and augmented reality projects. Today,...

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Video: Funomena’s quest to create magic

Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes
November 30, 2017
1 min

Presented by Intel The people who work at the San Francisco-based Funomena are more than just employees: They’re Funomenauts. According to cofounder Robin Hunicke,...

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Capcom is celebrating Mega Man’s 30th anniversary with some kind of live stream

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 30, 2017
2 min

Capcom is going to host a livestream celebrating Mega Man’s 30th anniversary on December 4. You’ll be able to watch it on Twitch at...

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