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Sony’s marketing chief: PlayStation Vita to be biggest marketing spend ever in U.S. (interview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 21, 2012
2 min

Sony is pulling out all the stops with tonight’s launch of the PlayStation Vita handheld gaming device. Guy Longworth, senior vice president of marketing...

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PlayStation Vita: THE hardware review

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 21, 2012
17 min

The conclusion When Sony announced the Vita, I was skeptical. Smartphones, to me, are the future. But numbers don’t lie, and people love portable...

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You’ll fall 70 stories if you lose in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Overwatch map

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 21, 2012
1 min

The third map in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s current content season is now available for Call of Duty Elite Premium members on...

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Disney Playdom launches Blackwood and Bell Mysteries to race ahead of Zynga

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 21, 2012
2 min

Disney-Playdom is announcing today a new hidden-object game, Blackwood and Bell Mysteries, on Facebook as it tries to stay one step ahead of Zynga...

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Peak Games acquires Saudi Arabia’s Kammelna as games go social in the Middle East

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 21, 2012
2 min

Peak Games, a maker of social games in Turkey, is acquiring Saudi Arabia’s Kammelna Games to expand its presence in the fast-growing social game...

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Uncharted: Golden Abyss is a flawed flagship for the PlayStation Vita (review)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 21, 2012
10 min

Where’s the wit and good humor? The simplistic levels and the not-so-witty dialogue in the early parts of Golden Abyss turned me off, and...

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Mobile ad startup Kiip hires Zynga’s advertising chief as COO

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 21, 2012
2 min

Kiip is announcing today that it has hired Zynga’s ad boss Manny Anekal as chief operating officer. San Francisco-based Kiip is a fast-growing startup...

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Double Fine’s Tim Schafer on Kickstarter success: It can happen again (interview)

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 21, 2012
4 min

Double Fine Production’s Tim Schafer misses point-and-click graphic adventures from the early days of video games. “I miss making them and I miss playing...

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Why I hate L.A. Noire’s protagonist, Cole Phelps

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 21, 2012
3 min

Note: Don’t read if you are sensitive to L.A. Noire spoilers, as I mercilessly discuss details of the plot. Cole Phelps is a dick…the...

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Reality Fighters: All style, no substance (review)

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 21, 2012
3 min

Reality Fighters is misleading from the start. I’ve yet to meet a Bavarian giant in the English countryside or stumble across a murderous ballerina...

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