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How Pokémon Go will benefit from Niantic’s lessons from Ingress on location-based game design

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 16, 2015
22 min

Niantic Labs was an oddball startup within Google. Conceived by John Hanke to promote exercise and an appreciation of public art, Niantic created a...

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Spellgun launches big budget Clash of Gods mobile game as China moves to the West

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 16, 2015
3 min

Spellgun, a mobile-game publisher that is marrying the East and the West, has launched Clash of Gods, a fantasy role-playing game where massive armies...

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Dying Light: The Following’s map is twice the size of the original game

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 16, 2015
1 min

Thank goodness for dirt buggies. Free-running zombie game Dying Light (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC) gets a major expansion in February, and the new map sounds like it would be tough to traverse on foot alone.

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DICE, King, and Rovio vets form new studio to develop for the midcore market

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 16, 2015
3 min

I was recently reminded of a game industry marketing buzz word that I haven’t heard in a long time: midcore. Well, OK. I have...

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Virtuix delivers its first motion platform to Kickstarter supporters — way ahead of VR products

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 16, 2015
3 min

Virtuix was way ahead of the curve when it announced a year ago that it had finished the final version of its Omni treadmill,...

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Google’s top tech searches in 2015: iPhone 6s, Samsung Galaxy S6, and Apple Watch

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 16, 2015
2 min

Just like every other company on the planet, Google puts together end-of-year lists for its various properties. But there’s one that matters more than all...

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It’s official: Kojima Productions is working with Sony

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 16, 2015
1 min

What do you do when you’re the prettiest girl at the ball and the slob that brought you treats you like crap? You hook...

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We live in a world where Nintendo is making Cloud and Bayonetta Amiibo figures

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 15, 2015
1 min

Earlier today, Nintendo revealed the final set of characters coming to Smash Bros., and that means we’re getting some new Amiibo interactive toys. The...