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Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata gets posthumous lifetime achievement award from gaming peers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 19, 2016
2 min

Former Nintendo president Satoru Iwata received a posthumous lifetime achievement award tonight at gaming’s equivalent of the Oscars. The Academy of Interactive Arts &...

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Hideo Kojima: ‘I feel extremely free right now. I’m doing exactly what I want to do’

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 18, 2016
3 min

LAS VEGAS — Two of the rock stars of entertainment, Metal Gear Solid video game creator Hideo Kojima and Pacific Rim film director Guillermo...

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Guillermo Del Toro: Games are ‘only limited by the bastards with money’

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 18, 2016
2 min

LAS VEGAS — Guillermo Del Toro, director of films such as Pacific Rim, took a big jab at the money people who rule the...

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Fallout 4 maker Bethesda is working on 3 new games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 18, 2016
4 min

LAS VEGAS — Todd Howard deserves a bit of a break. His Bethesda Game Studios and parent ZeniMax shipped 12 million copies so far...

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Tomb Raider’s writer shows the rise of storytelling’s importance in gaming

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 18, 2016
3 min

LAS VEGAS — In 33 years of playing video games, writer Rhianna Pratchett has seen the value of story go through its own creative arc. Back...

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InnoGames’ mobile stable sees 100% growth in 2015 thanks to Forge of Empires

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 18, 2016
1 min

Someone’s been striking the mobile forge for a nice profit. InnoGames announced today that it achieved revenues of $111.14 million in 2015, a growth...

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Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1 billion hours played, and 66 versions

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 18, 2016
3 min

LAS VEGAS — Civilization is one of the gods of strategy games, where you oversee the creation of a whole society in competition with other civilizations. It...

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Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview for PCs with Cortana, Edge, and Skype improvements

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 18, 2016
2 min

Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs with a slew of improvements. The latest build includes tweaks to Cortana’s music feature,...

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Google Play Games drops Google+ integration

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 18, 2016
2 min

You no longer need a Google+ account to enjoy the benefits of connected gaming on Android. Google is introducing Gamer IDs to its Google...

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Fire Emblem makes you feel like a monster for choosing Conquest over Birthright

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 18, 2016
2 min

You don’t usually see the plural version of the word “fate.” That’s because it is counterintuitive to claim one person’s life has multiple, inevitable...

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