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Kids abandon PC gaming for mobile devices

Posted byby Mike Minotti
September 23, 2015
2 min

This makes it the gaming platform of choice for children and teens, a spot previously reserved for home computers — and part of the reason why the mobile market is worth an estimated $30 billion this year, according to the researchers at Newzoo.

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Green Man Gaming to sell Nintendo digital games in the U.K.

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 23, 2015
1 min

Green Man Gaming has announced that it has officially partnered with Nintendo UK to sell digital titles for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS consoles....

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Payday 2 producer apologizes to frustrated console players — promises fix for Xbox One matchmaking

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 23, 2015
2 min

Console gamers are second-class citizens when it comes to Overkill Software’s co-operative shooter Payday 2, but that’s going to change. Producer Almir Listo took...

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Halo 5: Guardians’ executive producer explains Master Chief’s arrival on Xbox One

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 23, 2015
10 min

Halo 4 was the end of the Master Chief and Cortana love story. But the iconic hero supersoldier is coming back in Halo 5:...

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Microsoft’s Phil Spencer on the importance of Halo 5 to the fate of the Xbox One

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 23, 2015
11 min

Microsoft has sold more than 60 million Halo games since 2001. But sales of the Xbox One game console have a long way to...

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Hands-on with Halo 5: Guardians: Campaign takes us in search of Master Chief

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 23, 2015
6 min

343 Industries hasn’t messed up the single-player campaign for Halo 5: Guardians. In fact, you could say the developer has been an excellent guardian of the Halo franchise since inheriting it from Bungie some years back.

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Mobile user acquisition: Ad networks teaming up in ‘Collective’ to share data on mobile gamers

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 23, 2015
3 min

Mobile ad attribution company Kochava is teaming up with agencies, networks, and advertisers to pool data on mobile gamers, share ways to target them, and...