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Parting shot: A moment in Sniper Elite V2

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 1, 2012
3 min

Crouched low, Office of Strategic Services agent Karl Fairburne shifts his rifle's weight on his back. It’s an Eastern Front treasure — a Mosin-Nagant M91. A practical tool for practical uses, but Fairburne's mind focuses squarely on the mission.

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The 6 best game endings of all-time (and how BioWare would ruin them)

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 31, 2012
5 min

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGLBBE_edF0] The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Even after telling a 12-hour long tale of two midgets traveling countless miles on...

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Kid Icarus: Uprising only gets so far on wax wings (review)

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 31, 2012
6 min

WHAT YOU WON’T LIKE Control issues There’s no way around it: Uprising was designed for a controller with two thumbsticks and then painfully forced...

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Google fools with Maps 8-bit for NES and Game Boy

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 31, 2012
1 min

Legendary prankster Google is out with some early April Fools’ tomfoolery ahead of schedule, teasing nostalgic gamers with an 8-bit version of its near-ubiquitous...

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Batman: Arkham City – Elegance Lost

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 31, 2012
5 min

Batman: Arkham Asylum was an awesome game. Rocksteady did away with the need to tie-in with pre-existing Batman movies or comics and by doing so created an amazing game with a completely original story. It also helped that they got the feeling of being Batman himself so very right.

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After 17 years, Sony closes SOCOM studio Zipper Interactive — with a tweet

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 31, 2012
1 min

The studio that created the SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALS video games has shut down after 17 years. In a tweet, Zipper Interactive, a Redmond,...

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News Blips: Wasteland creator talks “abysmal” publisher treatment, Skyrim as free-to-play template, and Assassin’s Creed 3 sets preorder records

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 31, 2012
2 min

Alternative game funding sources such as Kickstarter stand at the crossroads of the gaming industry, but I'm starting out slow with my Broke Writer...

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The challenges of bringing triple-A to iOS

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 31, 2012
3 min

I was wondering the other day why I have completed every level of Angry Birds and Cut The Rope on my iPhone but only...

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Zynga confirms engineering head on Zynga.com has departed

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 31, 2012
1 min

Zynga has confirmed that one of its key technologists, Neil Roseman, has resigned from the company. Roseman served most recently as vice president of engineering...

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GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 30, 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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