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Blaster Master Zero surpassed 80,000 copies sold on Nintendo Switch

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
May 12, 2017
1 min

One of the earliest third-party developers to the Nintendo Switch party revealed some sales data today. Switch owners have downloaded developer Inti Creates Blaster Master...

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Remember Segata Sanshiro on the Sega Saturn’s 22nd anniversary

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
May 12, 2017
2 min

The Saturn did not succeed in United States because we did not have a frightening martial artist stalking us and demanding that we play Sega’s 32-bit...

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PC Gaming Weekly: Hearthstone’s mobile client is holding back the PC experience

Posted byby Jason Wilson
May 12, 2017
5 min

As the innkeeper says, “Busy night … but there’s always room for another.” In this case, that busy night could mean tens of millions...

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Watch part 5 of our Mario Kart 8 Deluxe quest for 200cc perfection

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
May 12, 2017
1 min

Last month, I (GamesBeat PC editor Jeffrey Grubb) started my quest to get a perfect first-place finish on every 200cc cup in Mario Kart...

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Improbable draws $502 million from SoftBank and others for dream of giant online game worlds

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 11, 2017
3 min

Online gaming world enabler Improbable has raised $502 million in a second round of investors, including SoftBank. Improbable has created an operating system, SpatialOS, that marshals the power of cloud computing and distributed platforms to enable even small studios to develop games with giant worlds.

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Tencent poured $90 million into Pocket Gems because of two shiny jewels

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 11, 2017
3 min

Mobile game publisher Pocket Gems announced today that it has raised $90 million in new funding from Chinese Internet company Tencent, which is also the...

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Watch Windows 10 running on ARM with full support for existing Win32 apps

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 11, 2017
2 min

During a session at Build 2017, Microsoft shared more details about Windows 10 on ARM. Not only will it support Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps...

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This Halo fan made his own Cortana hologram

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 11, 2017
1 min

This year at Microsoft’s developer conference Build in Seattle, mixed reality, Skype video bots, and the Cortana Skills Kit all made headlines, but the...