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HTC is working on a new kind of mobile VR headset

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 15, 2017
2 min

Smartphone maker HTC is working on a new kind of mobile virtual reality headset, according to a story from CNET. Chialin Chang, chief financial officer at Taiwan-based HTC,...

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Clash Royale, Clash of Clans push Supercell to $2.3 billion in 2016 revenue

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 15, 2017
2 min

Supercell, the maker of hit mobile games Clash of Clans and Clash Royale, said that sales growth was flat $2.3 billion in 2016. That’s flat...

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Overwatch with a GoldenEye 64 skin looks crazy fun

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 15, 2017
1 min

Torbjorn isn’t the strongest character in Overwatch, and I think that’s unfair. But for a buff, what if Blizzard looked back to an another...

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Twitch viewers watched 292 billion minutes of livestreams in 2016

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 15, 2017
1 min

Amazon’s Twitch livestreaming service had a big year in 2016, and the company celebrated it by creating an interactive retrospective of the year that...

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Ex-Sony Online chief John Smedley starts Amazon game studio after Kickstarter failure

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 15, 2017
2 min

John Smedley, the former chief of Sony’s online business, has joined Amazon to create a new game studio in San Diego, Calif. The move...

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Let It Die slashes its way past 2 million downloads on PlayStation 4

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 15, 2017
1 min

A free-to-play game is finding success on PlayStation 4. Publisher GungHo Online Entertainment America and developer Grasshopper Manufacture announced today that the free-to-play hack-and-slash...

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Plarium makes match-3 mobile game with Fox’s Rio animated characters

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 15, 2017
2 min

Mobile game publisher Plarium has partnered with Twentieth Century Fox to create Rio: Match 3 Party, a mobile game debuting this spring on iOS...

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Pokémon Go gets 80 Gen 2 monsters from Gold and Silver in massive update

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 15, 2017
2 min

Nothing gold can stay, Ponyboy … well, nothing Gold (or Silver) can stay away from Pokémon Go, that is. The Google Maps-powered monster-catching location game is...