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Twitch’s Kathy Astromoff will share developer success strategies at GamesBeat Summit 2016

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 13, 2016
8 min

We’re happy to be adding Kathy Astromoff as a lightning talk speaker for the second annual GamesBeat Summit 2016, an event that’s set for May 3 and May...

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Consortium: The Tower reaches Fig funding goal in 6 days

Posted byby Mike Minotti
April 13, 2016
1 min

Maybe Fig is onto something after all. The first-person, narrative-driven role-playing game Consortium: The Tower reached its $300,000 crowdfunding goal on Fig (which differs from...

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Bravely Second: End Layer shows Square Enix still has its old-school juice

Posted byby Mike Minotti
April 13, 2016
5 min

I was a fan of Bravely Default, so I was happy to go back for seconds (ha ha). Bravely Second: End Layer is the sequel...

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Quantum Break developer Remedy promises fixes for Windows 10 version

Posted byby Mike Minotti
April 13, 2016
1 min

Quantum broken. Quantum Break launched on the Xbox One and Windows 10 at the same time earlier this month, but many players have complained...

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Minecraft: Pocket Edition gets Mojang’s Realms online multiplayer service

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
April 13, 2016
2 min

Minecraft owes a lot of its popularity to its openness and depth. Players can do things like run their own servers or install all...

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Japan’s Gree creates a $12M virtual reality investment fund

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 13, 2016
2 min

Japanese developer Gree makes about billion dollars a year in revenue for mobile games. But the company is signaling a shift today as it is creating...

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Lucid VR raises $2.1M for 180-degree virtual reality camera

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 13, 2016
2 min

Lucid VR has raised $2.1 million and it has partnered with Taiwanese manufacturer Wistron to make its LucidCam 180-degree virtual reality camera. The pocket-sized...

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Virtual reality justifies those ludicrous 17-inch ‘portable desktops’

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
April 12, 2016
4 min

Gaming laptops are a consumer-electronics category that don’t make a whole lot of sense anymore. They’re expensive, bulky, and hot as hell. That’s why...