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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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Com2us reports record growth as it moves into the U.S. mobile game sector

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 10, 2015
1 min

The spread of Summoners War to Western shores and China has help boost the studio's performance.

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The 8 mobile app analytics tools the most successful developers use

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 10, 2015
2 min

In our survey of 80 app analytics solutions, eight sleepers, or what we call ‘mighty mites’, stood out -- they have a very small market share but are used by the most successful developers.

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I’ve seen the future of the enterprise, and it is Oculus

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 10, 2015
4 min

An Oculus demo showing how utilities could use virtual reality may be a vision of how myriad enterprises integrate the technology.

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Open-Source Virtual Reality platform now has support from 38 members

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 10, 2015
1 min

Gaming hardware manufacturer Razer and pro-grade VR hardware maker Sensics will continue to support the growing OSVR collective with the partnership’s Hacker Dev Kit VR device and software, a $200 kit that launches this June.