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Twisted Metal is a budget experience at its best and a huge letdown the rest of the time (review)

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 14, 2012
10 min

Audio/Visual It’s no secret that Twisted Metal began life four years ago as a discounted download-only multiplayer game a la Warhawk. The difference is,...

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Love connection: 1 in 10 Words With Friends score in real life

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 14, 2012
1 min

Perhaps it’s time to start calling it Words With Friends With Benefits. Fans of Zynga‘s Words With Friends social game on Facebook are making...

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Bethesda: Over 2 million Skyrim mods downloaded in one week

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 14, 2012
1 min

Over 2 million PC players have downloaded mods for Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim since the launch of the Skyrim Workshop on digital download service Steam...

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History Channel launches Top Shot Facebook game to coincide with TV show premiere

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 14, 2012
1 min

If you’ve ever wanted to know how good a shot you are — without firing a real gun — the folks at the History...

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Can Zynga satisfy investors with its first-ever earnings report?

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 14, 2012
2 min

Zynga is expected to report a profit for the fourth-quarter in its first-ever quarter financial report after the market closes on Tuesday. The largest...

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Eat Sleep Play: “Sometimes you have to give them what they don’t know they want”

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 14, 2012
12 min

GamesBeat: How often do both of you play the game throughout the development cycle? Bradford: It kind of depends on the timing. Early stages,...

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Opinions, tears, and expletives: David Jaffe explains why games shouldn’t have stories

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 14, 2012
17 min

It’s like, you know what? I say that’s fuckin’ bullshit, and I’ll tell you why it’s bullshit. I have the front line… I worked...

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ZeptoLab cuts deals with toymakers on Cut the Rope characters

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 13, 2012
2 min

ZeptoLab is cashing in on its Cut the Rope smartphone game — which has been downloaded more than 100 million times — by announcing...

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Zynga launches iPhone game Dream Heights: Let the copycat wars begin

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 13, 2012
2 min

Zynga launched its Dream Heights mobile game for the iPhone and iPad today. The title enables players to build the “skyscraper of the century,” but...

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Making Fun joins the hidden-object game fray on Facebook with Hidden Haunts (exclusive)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 13, 2012
4 min

Making Fun, the social game division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., has launched a hidden object game called Hidden Haunts that will set itself...

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