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Bungie slams composer Marty O’Donnell in response to arbitrator ruling

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 12, 2015
4 min

Bungie and chief executive Harold Ryan haven’t quite let go of the Marty O’Donnell affair. A week after an arbitrator issued a ruling that Bungie had to restore lost pay, lost profits, and confiscated stock to the former Bungie composer, the company’s lawyers have filed a legal response to the award.

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Finland’s Futurefly raises $2.5M to reinvent mobile game and app messaging

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 11, 2015
2 min

Futurefly, a startup that includes former Remedy Entertainment game veteran Oskari “Ozz” Häkkinen, has raised $2.5 million in funding for a new mobile game and app-messaging...

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Super Mario Maker: every Amiibo and special costume

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 11, 2015
1 min

Playing a Mario game as Mario is so passé. I’m onto this whole new thing of playing as Isabelle from Animal Crossing. You’ve probably...

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Ex-EA exec leaves Kabam as two others get promotions

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 11, 2015
2 min

Nick Earl, a former Electronic Arts executive who joined mobile gaming company Kabam in November, announced today he is leaving his job as president...

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3 ways the original PlayStation changed gaming forever

Posted byby Mike Minotti
September 11, 2015
2 min

Twenty years ago, Sony released its first console and changed the industry forever. GamesBeat already talked about its rough launch line-up and its five most important games. Today, here are three ways the original PlayStation changed the gaming world.

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We say goodbye to Super Mario Maker’s now-defunct media server

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 11, 2015
1 min

Critics and livestreamers have all spent the last few weeks playing Super Mario Maker on a special media server, but the game is out...

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SteelSeries CEO on working with Apple on Nimbus controller and the possibilities of esports on Apple TV

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 11, 2015
7 min

SteelSeries CEO on game pad design and esports on the Apple TV

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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Pokémon goes mobile, Apple TV, and PlayStation turns 20

Posted byby Mike Minotti
September 11, 2015
4 min

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Halo composer Marty O’Donnell won a court case against Bungie, Apple TV showed off gaming support,...

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Microsoft will download Windows 10 even if you don’t want to upgrade — here’s how to stop it

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 11, 2015
4 min

After a concerned Windows user wrote in to the Inquirer, reports blew up this week that Microsoft is downloading Windows 10 installation files onto...

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Street Fighter V gets an Arabic character

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 11, 2015
1 min

Street Fighter V producer Yoshinori Ono has been teasing fans for the last few days with his usual style of showing only partial screenshots. This time, he was just showing small pieces of an image of a character doing tornado-like movements.

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