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PAX East 2012: New business model changes development of PopCap Games (UPDATED)

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
April 6, 2012
2 min

GamesBeat sat down with PopCap's director of social media at PAX East to talk about how monetization will affect the studio's future. It may deeply alter two of the developer's biggest titles.

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Flurry releases new analytics features to improve monetization

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 6, 2012
1 min

Flurry launched new analytics features today that allows customers to take better control of how they measure and access the metrics for their apps....

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GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 6, 2012
2 min

Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly...

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Portal’s test chambers created to scale in Minecraft (video)

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 6, 2012
1 min

In the wake of yesterday’s report on the Minecraft Game of Thrones recreation, it’s only fitting that today we find this stunning one-to-one scale...

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The DeanBeat: How developers can avoid a bloodbath in fighting for new users

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 6, 2012
5 min

In the past month, what app makers have to spend to get the attention of Apple device users has risen out of control. That’s...

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Retro revival: PC games raise $6.7M and counting in Kickstarter campaigns

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 6, 2012
4 min

Kickstarter’s gone vogue. With a single, bold move by Double Fine’s Tim Schafer in early February, the crowdfunding web site propelled itself into the...

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Anomaly: Warzone Earth successfully reverses tower defense (review)

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 6, 2012
2 min

In the year 2018, an alien spaceship breaks in two and crashes on Earth. Terrible invading machines emerge from the wreckage and assemble treacherous gauntlets in the middle of Baghdad and Tokyo. Good thing they know how to implement gamification in their invasion....

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Pokémon Black and White 2 will hurt the Nintendo 3DS

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 6, 2012
3 min

I was a little confused when Pokémon Black and White 2 was announced last week for the Nintendo DS. Why isn’t the game coming to the...

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On Mass Effect, collaborative storytelling and the end. (SPOILERS)

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 6, 2012
4 min

Let's cut to the chase: there is no possible ending BioWare could have devised for Mass Effect 3 that would have pleased everyone. The beauty of that series — something that has been reaffirmed by the outrage surrounding the finale — is the unique narrative each player builds throughout their 90-hour experience.

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Game of Thrones painstakingly recreated in Minecraft (video)

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 5, 2012
1 min

Some of the modern world’s most iconic institutions can be found in Minecraft: the Empire State building, a 1000:1 scale Monopoly board, the U.S.S....

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