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The games that convinced my wife to give up her gym membership

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
March 18, 2014
6 min

We look at what's good and bad about Xbox Fitness, Wii Fit U, Zumba Fitness: World Party, and Just Dance 4 on the latest systems from Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft.

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China’s FunPlus raises a huge round of $74M to build a global gaming company

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 18, 2014
3 min

The round will fuel the company's plans to become a global mobile games publisher.

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Roadhouse Interactive offers digital publishing services to indie game developers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 18, 2014
2 min

Roadhouse also acquires digital marketing firm Chunky Pig.

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Analytics firm Flurry reveals how to best make money from the 70% of Android devices that engage in gaming

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
March 18, 2014
3 min

Flurry suggests a combination of in-app purchases and advertising for the different kinds of games on the Google Play app market.

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Mozilla and Unity partner to make the browser one of Unity’s many available platforms

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 18, 2014
2 min

"This was easily the most requested thing from developers when we started talking to them [about web-based gaming]," said Mozilla game platform strategist Martin Best about bring Unity to the browser.

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Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is a demo trying to sneak its way into your wallet (review)

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 18, 2014
5 min

Ground Zeroes is just as short, if not shorter, than you've heard. Does this playable prologue to The Phantom Pain make the best use of its limited run time?