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Zynga launches Words With Friends for Instant Games on Facebook Messenger

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 2, 2017
2 min

Zynga is starting to bet big on Instant Games, the instantly playable games on Facebook Messenger and iMessage. And today, the company is launching...

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Facebook rolls out Instant Games on Messenger to 1.2 billion people

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 2, 2017
2 min

Facebook is announcing today that it is rolling out Instant Games on Messenger more broadly to the 1.2 billion people who use the messaging system...

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Playful takes on Minecraft with open-world sandbox game Creativerse

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 2, 2017
2 min

Playful is launching its open-world sandbox game Creativerse on May 8 in a move that will bring it into market that Minecraft dominates. The...

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Séance: The Unquiet is a spooky ghost story in virtual reality

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 2, 2017
1 min

Holospark is working on a ghost story for virtual reality, Séance: The Unquiet, and the company has released a 5 minute VR demo for...

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Microsoft wants to teach students to code with Minecraft

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 2, 2017
1 min

Today Microsoft announced Code Builder, a tool that lets Minecraft players build structures inside the game with JavaScript. Microsoft announced the news at an education-themed event in...

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Microsoft unveils Windows 10 S, an education edition limited to Windows Store apps

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 2, 2017
3 min

At its education event in New York City today, Microsoft announced a new edition of its latest operating system: Windows 10 S. Available on...

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How Watch Dogs 2 stayed ahead of current events

Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes
May 2, 2017
2 min

For Watch Dogs 2, the truth turned out to be stranger than fiction. At the GamesBeat Summit today in Berkeley, California. (watch it here),...

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Nintendo ‘Switches’ up the console ad-spending charts

Posted byby Jason Wilson
May 2, 2017
2 min

This biggest winner during March Madness might be Nintendo. After a gangbusters February for industry spending, gaming brands took it down a notch during...