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Mobile developer Storm8’s Bubble Mania iOS game reached a million downloads in three days (exclusive)

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 1, 2012
1 min

The developer's first-ever arcade title is its most successful.

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Oculus launches Kickstarter campaign for virtual reality gaming headset

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 1, 2012
2 min

A new stereoscopic, 3D headset could soon make virtual reality in video games a, well, reality.

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Pokémon Black and White 2 looks to the past for inspiration (preview)

Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes
August 1, 2012
4 min

Fresh details about Nintendo's upcoming western release of Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2 have arrived.

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13-foot 12,000-pound mechanized robot suit now for sale in Japan

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 1, 2012
2 min

Japan is the land of robots, right? But not just inoffensive little welding bots that make Toyota minivans and Honda Civics. Instead, Suidobashi Heavy Industry...

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Overwolf opens its in-game app store to publishers and code-savvy gamers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 1, 2012
3 min

Overwolf's in-game app store provides a novel way for publishers to retrofit existing games with new functionality. And even players can get involved by creating their own apps through a little coding know-how.

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Zynga stuck in real-life BadNewsVille: more lawsuits, COO demoted

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 1, 2012
1 min

Zynga’s bad day on July 25 when the company reported horrible earnings turned into a bad week when investors found out that insiders cashed out...

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Notch answers Q&A thread on Reddit, talks Minecraft, game development, and the gender of his beard

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 1, 2012
6 min

The creator and original lead developer of Minecraft, Markus "Notch" Persson, takes to Reddit to answer a host of questions from the social news site's users.

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Google Fiber will change gaming as we know it

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 1, 2012
1 min

Google is one of the newest competitors in the Internet-service-provider field. The online giant is beginning to roll out Google Fiber, a service that...