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Comedian Pete Holmes takes a gentler approach to hosting the DICE Awards

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 11, 2015
4 min

Holmes picks the comedian host torch back up for the DICE Awards following last year’s departure — gaming personalities Felicia Day and Freddie Wong hosted, breaking a streak that had comedians such as Jay Mohr and Chris Hardwick onstage for a number of years.

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New Telltale CEO Kevin Bruner will craft more storytelling games with Minecraft and other secret projects (interview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 11, 2015
12 min

Telltale has honed its episodic story-based games with the "Game of Thrones," "The Walking Dead," and Borderlands properties.

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Playsimo online game portal hits Mexico, inviting international companies to enter the $1.2B market

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 11, 2015
1 min

The new free-to-play gaming portal makes localization and monetization a lot easier.

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Nvidia teases big gaming announcement at Game Developers Conference

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 11, 2015
1 min

Graphics chip maker chief says the announcement has been five years in the making.

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Minecraft is by far YouTube’s most popular game

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 10, 2015
1 min

Newzoo released a list of the top 20 most popular games according to views received on YouTube videos. Newzoo got the info by continuously tracking over 4 million gaming-related YouTube channels. As you can see in the chart below, Minecraft was way ahead with 2.395 billion views in January.

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Fifty Shades of Sony: PlayStation 4 owners dig BDSM more than Xbox One folk

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 10, 2015
1 min

And Android owners are a bit kinkier than iOS fans, too.

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‘Star Wars: Rebels’ gets its own Minecraft skin pack

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 10, 2015
1 min

Microsoft bought Mojang, the company behind Minecraft, for $2.5 billion last September. Although the game is available for other platforms, including rival Sony’s PlayStation 4, exclusive content like this for Microsoft’s consoles is a benefit of the acquisition.

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How sci-fi game maker Chris Roberts crowdfunded $72.3M from 750,913 supporters

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 10, 2015
12 min

Unbridled ambition for his new sci-fi universe helped. The more fans gave, the more he revealed.

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Arcade classic Asteroids returns as an open-world, multiplayer survival game for PC

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 10, 2015
1 min

The 1979 arcade shooter will return as Asteroids: Outpost on PC, coming to Valve’s Steam service as an Early Access title. Announced today, this marked departure from the original works in some of gaming’s most popular design approaches, adding an open-world sandbox and survival gameplay to the beloved classic.

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Awesome Games Done Quick sees incredible growth as charitable speedrunners outpace cancer

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 10, 2015
1 min

Awesome Games Done Quick had 9.4 million unique viewers.

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