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Microsoft uses Minecraft to market Halo 5: Guardians

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 19, 2015
1 min

In a little over a week, Halo fans will have a chance to reenter that universe for some more first-person shooting action, but Halo...

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Game Insight’s Anatoly Ropotov explains how to build sustainable free-to-play mobile games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 19, 2015
8 min

Free-to-play monetization has helped turn mobile gaming into a $30 billion industry. But many tactics of the successful leaders reflect a “slash-and-burn” mentality. They...

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Oculus VR’s Jason Rubin says designing VR titles is the toughest learning curve in games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 19, 2015
13 min

Jason Rubin is a 30-year veteran of video games and the cofounder of Naughty Dog, the maker of the Crash Bandicoot series and many...

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How Arkadium survived when the Russians took over Crimea

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 19, 2015
10 min

Game companies deal with uncertainty all of the time. But it’s usually not the kind that Jessica Rovello, the chief executive of New York-based...

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13 predictions for the future of the $3.4B social casino games market

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 19, 2015
4 min

Social casino games have become a $3.4 billion market and are on their way to $4.4 billion by 2017, according to Eilers Research. It’s a...

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Syfy cancels Defiance TV show, but the game will live on

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 19, 2015
1 min

Defiance was an attempt to merge the worlds of TV and video games, but only the game remains. TV network Syfy has decided to...

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Mobile social casino game players are twice as likely to spend money as web players

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 19, 2015
1 min

Disclosure: The organizers of Casual Connect Tel Aviv paid my way to Israel. Our coverage remains objective. TEL AVIV — Mobile game players convert...