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How Razer’s startup fund will serve its mission to reach all gamers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 16, 2016
13 min

Razer is for gamers, by gamers. The maker of gaming hardware is all about providing products for hardcore gamers, and it believes that the...

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Microsoft sold 79,000 Xbox One S controllers last month in the U.S.

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 16, 2016
1 min

The Xbox One lineup got a complete overhaul in August, and this led to some big sales for Microsoft’s products. Xbox One was the...

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Star Wars: Battlefront’s Death Star trailer shows the joys of playing as R2-D2 and Chewbacca

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 16, 2016
2 min

Everyone knows that the real hero in that galaxy far, far away is a stout droid with the designation R2-D2. Now, Electronic Arts is...

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Watch Pokémon Generations roam through 20 years of history on YouTube

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 16, 2016
1 min

The Pokémon Company has launched the first two videos in the new Pokémon Generations series of short cartoons on YouTube. It’s part of a celebration...

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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Pokémon Go gets buddies, and Warcraft’s loremaster retires

Posted byby Mike Minotti
September 16, 2016
3 min

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we look at an action role-playing game about burning books, Star Trek Online lets players 3D-print...

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Rigged mobile game lets you gerrymander political districts to steal elections

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 16, 2016
2 min

Game publisher Hitcents and media site Fusion have launched Rigged, a mobile game about gerrymandering political districts in order to steal elections. If anything, the...

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Opt-in advertisements are proving to be popular in virtual reality

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 16, 2016
2 min

In virtual reality apps, opt-in video ads work much better than pre-roll ads, according to a report by VR ad network Immersv. Emeryville-based Immersv...