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Star Wars: The Old Republic’s lead designer: Players want to do more in less time

Posted byby Mike Minotti
May 11, 2016
3 min

Massively mutliplayer online role-playing game fans used to love spending a majority of their time completing quests and grinding experience points. Those days might...

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Doom looks hella awesome running on Vulkan graphics

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 11, 2016
1 min

Whether you’re a Doom fan or not, you’ll probably agree that the 3D graphics in the video below look pretty sweet. Nvidia posted the...

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MZ appoints ex-Salesforce exec to run its real-time cloud platform

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 11, 2016
1 min

MZ, the mobile game company formerly known as Machine Zone, recently launched a new real-time cloud platform that it built for its Game of...

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Orcs Must Die: Unchained developer on making adjustments to keep players happy

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
May 11, 2016
9 min

Making free-to-play games isn’t always about getting players to spend money. A big challenge is ensuring you can keep the people who never spend...

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Oculus and Samsung have 1M Gear VR users

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
May 11, 2016
2 min

Oculus has already sold more than 1 million virtual reality head-mounted displays — although most of those are the Gear VR peripheral for Samsung...

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Perfect World is putting Xbox One multiplayer battler Gigantic on Windows beyond Microsoft’s app store

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
May 11, 2016
2 min

One of the Xbox One’s most interesting-looking free-to-play games is also coming to nearly every active version of Windows thanks to a new partnership....

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With Stellaris, Paradox finds the sweet spot between 4X and grand strategy

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 11, 2016
10 min

Stellaris’ biggest strength doesn’t appear to be its beautiful graphics, its expansive universe, its seemingly endless variety, or its fun pace of gameplay as you...

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Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Mandalore’s Revenge episode armors up for June 3 launch

Posted byby Jason Wilson
May 11, 2016
1 min

If you’re playing through Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion, prepare to see lots of blokes walking around in Mandalorian...

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Newzoo: A billion people will know about esports by the end of 2016

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
May 11, 2016
2 min

Esports is outgrowing its status as a niche industry for hardcore gamers, and it’s turning into global entertainment. More than a billion people will...

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Sid Meier’s Civilization VI debuts this fall with a new take on cities

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 11, 2016
4 min

Take-Two Interactive‘s 2K label and Firaxis Games are pulling out a nice surprise for gamers today. They’re announcing that Sid Meier’s Civilization VI is...

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