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3DNES emulator turns your old 8-bit Nintendo games into 3D nightmares

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
March 9, 2016
1 min

Two-dimensional games are for old people. Thankfully, a new emulator will let you play aging games with a fresh coat of 3D paint. 3DNES is...

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Facebook’s Oculus adds new social games and video features to Samsung Gear VR

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 9, 2016
2 min

Oculus today announced a slew of new features for the Samsung Gear VR. The Facebook-owned company is unsurprisingly focusing on social, and in this...

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Nexon Korea’s mobile gaming boss wants to take on the world

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
March 9, 2016
4 min

Nexon Korea has established itself on the PC as a strong publisher of free-to-play games, now it’s trying to take that strategy to mobile....

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Beloved Super Nintendo hit Super Mario RPG turns 20 years old today

Posted byby Mike Minotti
March 9, 2016
2 min

Its success spawned two other Mario RPG series: Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi. The Mario franchise is the best-selling in gaming history, with sales exceeding 500 million, and the Mario RPGs have been a big part of that success.

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Otoy breakthrough lets game developers run the best graphics software across platforms

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 9, 2016
3 min

It may be very arcane to most of us, but graphics startup Otoy has come up with a breakthrough that should help game developers...

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Gordon Ramsay brings cursing and insults to his celebrity chef mobile game

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 9, 2016
4 min

Gordon Ramsay will be damned if his chef’s game isn’t the best mobile celebrity title on the market. He’s been working on it for the...

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Twitter woos game makers by integrating its Fabric development suite into Unity

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
March 9, 2016
2 min

Twitter is shifting toward mobile services, and now it’s teaming up with one of the most popular game-development engines to expedite that transition. The...