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Super Nintendo classic Super Star Wars is coming to PS4 and Vita this week

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 16, 2015
1 min

Battlefront isn’t your only source for interactive Star Wars entertainment this week. The official PlayStation Blog revealed that the Super Nintendo classic side-scroller Super...

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Microsoft and Code.org launch Minecraft tutorial to teach kids how to code

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 16, 2015
2 min

Microsoft has announced a partnership with Code.org that will bring Minecraft into the education curriculum. Mojang, the Sweden-based game development studio that shot to...

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Dungeons & Dragons’ tabletop experience is now available for virtual reality

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 16, 2015
1 min

Now, dungeon masters won’t have to clean their house or purchase snacks for their friends in order to run a game of Dungeons &...

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Star Wars: Battlefront’s $50 season pass features 16 multiplayer maps — four more than the base game

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 16, 2015
1 min

If you want the full Star Wars: Battlefront experience, you’ll need to spend $110. Electronic Arts’ new shooter launches on PlayStation 4, Xbox One,...

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Nintendo wants to dazzle us with Japanese role-playing games in early 2016

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 14, 2015
3 min

When we think of most Japanese role-playing games that come out today, austere affairs with limited budgets generally come to mind. Nintendo apparently wants to...

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Read+Watch+Listen: Bonus material for Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate fans

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 14, 2015
3 min

This article may contain spoilers for Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate. You spent years waiting for developers to hurry up and release a big game. You buy...

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Why one PC maker decided not to ship a Steam Machine this year

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 14, 2015
2 min

The Steam Machines PC gaming computers were pitched as a mighty alternative to Microsoft’s Windows when Valve announced them in January 2014. But when the company’s hardware partners...

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StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void sells 1M copies in 24 hours

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 13, 2015
1 min

Blizzard Entertainment said today that more than 1 million people have purchased StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void in its first 24 hours on sale....

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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Machine Zone gets Arnie, and Activision is making movies

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 13, 2015
6 min

It’s Friday, so let’s take a look back at the week. We’ve taken a break from some of the year’s biggest releases to write about...

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Fantasy sports sites sue to keep doors open in New York

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 13, 2015
3 min

Top daily fantasy sports companies DraftKings and FanDuel filed lawsuits on Friday to contest an order to shut down their online gaming operations in New York state, asking a state court to rule that the games are not illegal gambling.

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