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News Blips: Mock Violent-Game Trial Rules Against Industry, Bungie Hints at Potential Halo: Reach DLC, and More

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 28, 2010
2 min

The video-game industry will face some stiff competition in court later this year, but a law school decided it couldn't wait to see how...

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Final Reminder: Win one of three $100 Amazon.com gift cards

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 28, 2010
1 min

The countdown is on: This is your final reminder that our contest in conjunction with game-trading site Goozex ends tonight (Monday) at midnight! Three...

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The secrets behind Zynga’s success in social gaming (video)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 27, 2010
1 min

Zynga has become the biggest social gaming company with its Facebook-based games such as FarmVille. Yesterday, 33 million gamers logged into Zynga games. Overall,...

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Let Sleeping Spartans Lie

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 27, 2010
3 min

At the end of Halo 3, we sped on our trusty Warthogs through an imploding super structure and watched as the Master Chief made his typical, death-defying leap into a waiting escape ship. But this time something was different—this was the end of Master Chief’s saga.

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The ’50s Kitsch: How Fallout 3 and XCOM Provide Deep Thematic Meaning

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 27, 2010
2 min

As I traverse the Capitol Wasteland, I study my surroundings. My health bar is very low, and I need to carefully ration supplies in...

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Zynga’s data-junkie leaders aim to improve game design for hit social games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 27, 2010
3 min

Social game publisher Zynga has become the fastest-growing startup in the valley in part because it is run by “data junkies” who measure every...

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Unity Technologies to enable high-end games on web browsers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 27, 2010
2 min

Slowly but surely, the web is becoming a more hospitable place to host high-end games with sophisticated 3D graphics. That’s one of the reasons...

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Reviews Spotlight: Final Fantasy 13, NHL 10, and R.U.S.E.

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 27, 2010
3 min

Appearing in its usual Sunday slot, this week's Reviews Spotlight draws attention to Japanese melodrama, blue-collar employment, the Second World War, and the Bitmobbers...

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Smackdown Versus Raw – A Wrestler’s Perspective

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 26, 2010
4 min

Professional wrestling has its origins in late-19th- and early-20th-century American carnivals, where it initially resembled mixed martial arts more than a testosterone-fueled soap opera....

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Does the 360 have an edge over the PS3 in the final stretch?

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 26, 2010
2 min

I'm a computer science major at a research University, and last week one of my professors gave a lecture about graphics. He works and...