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The DeanBeat: Should you bring up Trump’s travel ban politics at a video game award event?

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 24, 2017
6 min

Video games are a great form of escapism. And the game industry celebrated them last night at the DICE Awards, the equivalent of the...

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SuperData: VR Hardware will earn $3.6 billion in 2017

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 24, 2017
1 min

Virtual reality is ready to grow. Research firm SuperData released a new report predicting that VR hardware will earn $3.6 billion in 2017. That would be an increase of 142 percent over the previous year. It expects VR hardware to reach $17.8 billion by 2020.

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How Breath of the Wild is like the NES Zelda and unlike Twilight Princess

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 24, 2017
2 min

A common complaint against The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is that its early tutorial section takes hours to complete. Well, I’ve spent a...

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DICE Awards: Blizzard’s Overwatch takes Game of the Year

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 24, 2017
3 min

Blizzard’s Overwatch won Game of the Year at the DICE Awards, the equivalent of the Oscars for video games. The action shooter walked away...

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Bethesda’s Todd Howard inducted into game academy’s Hall of Fame

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 24, 2017
2 min

Todd Howard, executive producer and game director at Bethesda Game Studios, has made games like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout for decades, and tonight...

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Nintendo Switch’s alleged battery problems are an exaggeration

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 24, 2017
2 min

If you are thinking about buying the Nintendo Switch, I don’t think it’s battery life should play a big factor in your final determination....

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Netmarble completes acquisition of Kabam’s Marvel Contest of Champions studio

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 24, 2017
2 min

South Korea’s Netmarble Games said today that it has completed the acquisition of Kabam‘s high-value assets. As previously disclosed, the deal includes the Kabam...

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Skylanders is getting a mobile RPG

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 23, 2017
1 min

Activision Blizzard announced today that it is partnering with South Korean developer Com2us to create a mobile role-playing game based on the Skylanders franchise, which has earned over $3 billion. It did not specify which mobile platforms the game would release on or when it would come out.