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Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer dumps living for decorating

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 16, 2015
4 min

Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer takes Nintendo’s animal village sandbox and strips away some of the elements that make up its open-ended community gameplay (think mail checking, tree shaking), zeroing on one specific aspect: home design.

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Super Mario Maker turns anyone into Miyamoto

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 16, 2015
5 min

Nintendo wants user-generated content to fuel an endless Mario game.

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Microsoft is taking backward compatibility requests for Xbox One

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 16, 2015
1 min

If you have a 360 game you'd love to play on your Xbox One, Microsoft may be listening.

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Lara Croft gets new ‘Go’ mobile game

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 16, 2015
1 min

Lara Croft Go is a turn-based puzzle game similar to Square Enix's award-winning Hitman Go.

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Square Enix Collective is Square Enix’s effort to support indies

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 16, 2015
1 min

Square Enix debuted its company-wide effort to support independent development, Square Enix Collective, at the start of its E3 2015 press conference.

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Kingdom Hearts III has a ‘Tangled’ level and gets a new trailer

Posted byby Mike Minotti
June 16, 2015
1 min

Kingdom Hearts III made an appearance at E3.

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Platinum is making Star Fox Zero with Nintendo’s Miyamoto — it’s out this holiday

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
June 16, 2015
1 min

Bayonetta and Vanquish developer Platinum is working with Nintendo to develop Star Fox for the Wii U. This is one of the ways that the publisher is trying to make the latest entry in its long-running shooter franchise stand out.