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Lumosity sees brain games taking off as 20 million sign up for mental gymnastics

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 6, 2012
3 min

Lumosity released impressive growth numbers for its online brain training games. The company has added 6 million additional members since June 2011 for a...

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Meteor Games to publish high-end online game Hawken in December (exclusive)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 6, 2012
3 min

Hawken is one of the coolest online games in development for publication on the web. Adhesive Games, the startup studio that is making the...

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FIFA 12’s Impact engine: Slapstick foul-baiting simulator

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 5, 2012
1 min

Soccer is a thinking man’s game. Besides challenging players with finicky AI programming, it's a game of tactics, discipline, and knowing the exact opportunity...

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Gamer found dead in internet cafe…nine hours later

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 4, 2012
1 min

23-year-old Chen Jung-yu was found dead at an internet cafe in New Taipei, Taiwan on Tuesday night. Jung-yu was rigid in his chair with...

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European Playstation Network store broken following maintenance (updated)

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 4, 2012
2 min

Following scheduled maintenance last week, the Playstation Network store in Europe, Australia and New Zealand is no longer working for many users. The problem,...

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GamesBeat weekly news roundup

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 4, 2012
2 min

Here’s some of the stories that ran only on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more stories exclusively on the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat now,...

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Meet the Mob: Corey Motley

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 4, 2012
3 min

My name is Corey. Corey Motley. Yes, like the Mötley Crüe — not that many people pick up on that anymore. I’ve been writing on Bitmob since June of 2011, but my personal blog goes a little further back than that.

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Review: How Final Fantasy XIII-2 saves the franchise…for now

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 3, 2012
11 min

Capturing monsters doesn’t just factor into battles, but also pads the game with hours of exploration, experimentation, and monster-hunting. Often I didn’t even have...