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The Elder Scrolls Online is giving its premium membership to all players for a week

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 3, 2017
1 min

The massively multiplayer role-playing game The Elder Scrolls Online is offering a free trial of its ESO Plus membership from July 5 to July...

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Why Pay Day 2 game publisher Starbreeze made its crazy dive into VR hardware

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 3, 2017
11 min

Sweden’s Starbreeze Studios made its name as the publisher of games such as Pay Day, Pay Day 2, Dead by Daylight, Brothers: A Tale...

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China’s Tencent to limit children’s time playing Honour of Kings to curb addiction

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 3, 2017
2 min

(Reuters) — Tencent Holdings, China’s biggest gaming and social media firm by revenue, said it will limit play time for some young users of...

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Game investor Phil Harrison sees the broader view of games beyond Sony and Microsoft

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 2, 2017
7 min

Phil Harrison was probably the tallest person at the Gamelab gaming event in Barcelona, Spain, this week. And that, along with his decades of...

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Clash of Clans maker Supercell is making investments so its core team can stay small

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 2, 2017
6 min

Supercell is generating a ton of cash from its ongoing successful games like Clash of Clans and Clash Royale. Most of the company is...

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Apple patent shows a controller-free way to interact with ARKit

Posted byby Jason Wilson
July 2, 2017
1 min

Apple’s new ARKit platform basically looks like HoloLens inside of an iPhone. All that’s missing is a controller-free interaction system. A new patent uncovered...

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Dogmented Reality is real, and it’s coming to Apple’s ARKit

Posted byby Jason Wilson
July 2, 2017
1 min

A very good, 11/10 app may soon be heading to an iPhone or iPad near you. The term Dogmented Reality was first coined for...

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Ubisoft teases two AR HoloLens game protoypes at Unite Europe

Posted byby Jason Wilson
July 1, 2017
2 min

During a talk at Unite Europe 2017 Ubisoft showed off two previously unrevealed HoloLens game prototypes: Toy Soldier and Rabbid Rockets. Whether or not...