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Heroes of Newerth heroically offers all heroes for free

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 20, 2012
1 min

S2 Games' popular multiplayer arena strategy title Heroes of Newerth unlocks its entire stable of playable heroes in a major patch update.

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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Tom Hanks, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD, game startups in Estonia, and more

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 20, 2012
3 min

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

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Playsino aims to publish third-party social casino games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 20, 2012
2 min

The newly launched Playsino Publishing Network will help attract new users for social casino games and monetize them on Facebook and mobile platforms.

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Minecraft for Xbox 360 sells 3 million

Posted byby Mike Minotti
July 20, 2012
1 min

Minecraft creator Marcus Persson (also known as Notch) Tweeted this morning, "I got told Minecraft for XBLA passed three million sales today!"

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John Spinale navigates Disney’s push into social gaming (interview)

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 20, 2012
12 min

A talk with John Spinale, Disney Interactive's head of social games, at GamesBeat 2012.

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DeNA’s Neil Young: You have to ‘iterate the f*** out of your products’ to win (interview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 20, 2012
8 min

Will DeNA's success in Japan, where mobile gaming has exploded, repeat itself in the U.S. as smartphone and tablet games come to the fore? And will DeNA-Ngmoco be able to outmaneuver rivals such as Zynga, Electronic Arts, and Gree?