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Why Berlin’s ad tech startup Applift grew to 200 employees in 3.5 years

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 22, 2016
13 min

You may have heard of the Berlin Airlift. But how about the Berlin Applift? It’s not easy to get a return on your investment...

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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Miitomo excels at gathering personal info, and the great crunch debate

Posted byby Mike Minotti
April 22, 2016
3 min

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! We hope that you had as interesting a week as we did. Former Microsoft employee Alex St. John...

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Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney will talk Windows openness and more at GamesBeat Summit

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 22, 2016
9 min

We’re happy to be adding Tim Sweeney as a mainstage speaker for the second annual GamesBeat Summit 2016, an event that’s set for May 3 and May...

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Battleborn’s open beta drew 2 million players

Posted byby Mike Minotti
April 22, 2016
1 min

If you’re wondering why open betas tests have become such an important part of blockbuster video game development, you just need to look at...

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The DeanBeat: Saying so long to the Xbox 360 after a decade

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 22, 2016
5 min

Microsoft said so long to production for the Xbox 360 video game console this week. Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, announced in a blog...

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3 powerful use cases in VR’s thrilling new frontier

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 22, 2016
5 min

When functional mainstream VR first emerged in the early 90s, the visual fidelity of the images was poor, the processing power driving the experience was inadequate and the magnetic head-tracking was lacking—and lagging —way behind what was required for a convincingly immersive experience.