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Mario Kart 8 gets an esports show on Disney XD

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 30, 2015
1 min

Disney XD, a channel focused on content for kids, announced a new show today called Clash of Karts: Mario Kart 8, which will team up young gamers with popular YouTube personalities like Strawburry 17 and AtomicMari in a one-hour, multiround Mario Kart 8 competition.

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Mino Games’ Mino Monsters 2 generates $1.7 million in its first month

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 30, 2015
2 min

These are some monster-size revenues for a small mobile game company. Mino Games revealed to GamesBeat that its free-to-play mobile release Mino Monsters 2...

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Cards Against Humanity made $70,000 on Black Friday by selling nothing

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 30, 2015
1 min

It’s amazing what people will spend on during Black Friday. Fans of the popular party card game Cards Against Humanity willingly paid $5 (or...

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Diving into the Samsung app store: Sonic’s mobile retirement home, and a Doodle God who never doodles

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 29, 2015
4 min

Me and my Samsung squad once again assemble to take on the League of Android Apps. In today's episode: a farming simulator that actually likes farming, a rag-doll based car game cheaper than the tin buckets you're driving, and much more!

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Everything you need to know about the Fallout universe

Posted byby Jason Wilson
November 29, 2015
8 min

Fallout 3: Finding my father This time, the player finds himself in the East Coast in 2277, in what used to be Washington D.C.,...

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PlayStation Network is down and Sony is working to fix it (update)

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 29, 2015
2 min

Update on November 28 at 6:00 p.m.: PSN is down once again. It’s a long weekend in the United States, but gamers may have...

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Receipts data: 7-inch Amazon Fire tablet, not iPad, won Black Friday

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 28, 2015
1 min

The 7-inch Amazon Fire tablet was a Black Friday hit, according to receipts data collected by Info Scout. Info Scout makes a series of...

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The rise of clicker games

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 28, 2015
4 min

Codename Entertainment has seen significant success in the clicker game market with Crusaders of the Lost Idols. We sit down with CEO Eric Jordan to discuss the fan-lead initiatives the studio has made within this nascent genre.

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The art and legacy of the ’90s console war

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 28, 2015
6 min

Two rival machines with competing ad campaigns set much of the groundwork for gamer-to-gamer relations, both then and now.

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Nintendo’s Famicom still gets releases 33 years later, like this all-star chiptunes album

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 27, 2015
2 min

Collectors of the Famicom, the Japanese version of the Nintendo Entertainment System, just received a new cartridge to try and add to their collection....

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