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Minecraft creator Notch moves on up — into the $70M megamansion that Jay-Z and Beyonce wanted

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 18, 2014
2 min

When you sell your life’s work for billions of dollars to Microsoft, you can only really celebrate one way: by getting in a bidding war for a huge mansion with music-industry royalty.

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Soccer star Lionel Messi is better than supermodel Kate Upton when it comes to advertising games (updated)

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 18, 2014
3 min

EA's FIFA ad is extremely popular online -- and more cost-efficient, too.

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How Google’s latest game gives a glimpse of our augmented-reality future

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 18, 2014
3 min

Google's Niantic Labs is doing a transmedia project with novelist and discredited memoirist James Frey. It's an intriguing partnership that, like Frey's books, plays fast and loose with notions of what the "truth" is.

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Princesses invade Disney Infinity 2.0

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 18, 2014
5 min

We playtest the new women of Disney Infinity 2.0, who help to offset a surprising gender imbalance in the original Marvel-themed sets.

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Developer claims Spintires publisher is ending support for the game

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 18, 2014
2 min

Developer Pavel Zagrebelny says that he can't even upload the latest update he made for the game.

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Cut the Rope maker ZeptoLab releases $5 mobile game My Om Nom

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 18, 2014
1 min

ZeptoLab's newest title with test the strength of its Cut the Rope brand with younger fans.

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A Street Fighter first: Capcom ditches in-house engines for Unreal Engine 4

Posted byby Mike Minotti
December 18, 2014
1 min

Street Fighter V is getting some help from Epic Games.

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GameAnalytics raises $5.5M and hires new CEO

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 18, 2014
1 min

The company provides analytics to developers with more than 500 million unique players.

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Two of gaming’s hottest brands combine: Telltale making an episodic Minecraft series

Posted byby Mike Minotti
December 18, 2014
1 min

Telltale is getting all of the big franchises, including Minecraft.

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Pandora launches its first native game console app — and it’s for Xbox One

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 18, 2014
2 min

Digital radio service Pandora is finally showing some love to gamers today with the launch of a new application for Xbox One.