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Mojang’s Cobalt gets delayed just days before release to February 2016

Posted byby Mike Minotti
October 26, 2015
1 min

We’re mining up some bad news for Mojang fans. The Minecraft publisher announced today that it’s delaying Cobalt, a side-scrolling action game for PC,...

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Kingdom is a little too simple for what it wants to be

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 26, 2015
5 min

Kingdom is a minimalist 2D strategy/resource-managing game. Developed by Noio (the Netherlands) and Licorice (Iceland) and published by Raw Fury, it starts with a brief intro explaining the basics.

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VCs favor putting their money into esports and virtual reality

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 26, 2015
11 min

Many venture capitalists are shy about investing in games. And for the first nine months of 2015, game investments were down about 35 percent from...

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Guitar Hero Live is the new standard for rhythm games

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 26, 2015
7 min

Rhythm games needed a comeback. After the genre fell off, both Activision and Harmonix/Mad Catz (the publishers for Guitar Hero and Rock Band, respectively) decided, around the same time, that it was due for a resurgence.

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Kangaroo is an amazing $99 Windows 10 portable PC

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 26, 2015
4 min

InFocus today debuted the Kangaroo, a $99 Windows 10 portable PC that “goes anywhere and works with any screen.” The term “mobile desktop” may...

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3 must-do’s to boost in-app ad monetization

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 26, 2015
3 min

This sponsored post is produced by Fyber. If you’re a gaming app developer, you’ve likely had concerns about ad monetization. Can ads negatively impact...

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Updated: Halo 5: Guardians takes Master Chief and his pursuer down a very strange path

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 26, 2015
12 min

Master Chief just isn’t himself in Halo 5: Guardians. And now that I’ve played the whole single-player campaign, I’m not really sure I like...

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Xbox Live is down for gamers on Xbox One, 360 (updated)

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 23, 2015
1 min

Microsoft’s Xbox Live service is not working for a number of gamers, according to complaints on social media. This outage is preventing players from signing into Xbox Live to play games and boot up apps.