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Helsinki’s Futureplay Games attacks Hay Day with Farm Away mobile game

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 29, 2015
1 min

Look out, FarmVille and Hay Day. Futureplay Games, a mobile-game studio created by former Rovio executive vice president Jami Laes, has unveiled its debut title, Farm Away!. The new game from the Helsinki studio will debut on iOS on November 5.

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Halloween games for wimps like me

Posted byby Mike Minotti
October 29, 2015
3 min

I like Halloween fine. I enjoy the costumes and all that. However, I also have a big fear of being afraid, so I take...

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Pew: 68% of U.S. adults now own a smartphone, 45% have a tablet

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 29, 2015
2 min

More than two-thirds of Americans now own a smartphone, and almost half have a tablet. The latest findings come from American think tank Pew....

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PlayStation 4 sales continue to track ahead of PlayStation 2 with 29.3M sold

Posted byby Mike Minotti
October 29, 2015
1 min

The PlayStation 4 is still going strong. Sony revealed that it sold four million PlayStation 4s in its second financial quarter, a three-month period...

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Making realistic female characters, one motion-captured body at a time

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 29, 2015
16 min

GamesBeat: How much progress do you think can be made now, either by artists or people like your company or the vendors that are...

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Twitch Creative livestreaming finds new audiences for artists and musicians

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 29, 2015
3 min

Twitch draws more than 100 million people a month to view live broadcasts of video games. But the social video platform is also expanding...

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Paradox Interactive buys ‘Vampire: The Masquerade’ publisher White Wolf from CCP

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 29, 2015
2 min

Paradox Interactive doesn’t just make grand strategy games. It is now the parent company of a tabletop role-playing publisher. The Crusader Kings II developer...

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Titanfall games coming to mobile thanks to partnership between Nexon and Respawn

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 29, 2015
3 min

Triple-A gamemakers are seeking their fortunes on mobile, which has become the world’s biggest game market, with $30 billion in estimated 2015 revenue. The...

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Nintendo’s first mobile game is Miitomo, a smartphone take on Tomodachi

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 29, 2015
2 min

We finally know what to expect from Nintendo’s first mobile game. The new Nintendo Nintendo Account Nintendo delays first mobile game Publisher has more...

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Nintendo’s new online service is called Nintendo Account

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 29, 2015
2 min

It sounds like Nintendo is saving its creative juices for something other than naming its new online service. The new Nintendo More Wii U...

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