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Video Blips: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Dead Island, Guild Wars 2, and more

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 10, 2011
1 min

If Deus Ex: Human Revolution teaches us anything, it's that the future brings rampant technological advances, corporate discord, and some foreign-sounding concept called "conversation."...

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When playing Heroes of Newerth, beware of trolls

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 10, 2011
2 min

What did I have to lose when I tried a newly free-to-play hybrid of real-time strategy and tower defense? My dignity, apparently. Let me...

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Video game rentals move online as GameFly follows Netflix

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 9, 2011
2 min

GameFly, the top video game rental subscription service, is following in the footsteps of movie service Netflix by launching a digital distribution business. Customers...

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With EA’s The Sims Social, has Zynga met its match? (hands on)

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 9, 2011
7 min

The Sims, a life simulation game, is one of Electronic Arts’ most successful franchises. The company has sold more than 140 million copies of...

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Organic Motion launches new platform to capture motion

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 9, 2011
2 min

Organic Motion is launching a new generation of its motion-capture system for getting an accurate 3D digital representation of a human body in motion,...

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Nanigans raises $3M for Facebook ad platform

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 9, 2011
1 min

Nanigans said it has raised $3 million in a first round of funding for its Facebook advertising platform. Boston-based Nanigans has created a real-time...

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Online game company Outspark appoints new CEO after founder departs (exclusive)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 8, 2011
2 min

Online gaming firm Outspark announced a new chief executive today, promoting its No. 2 executive to replace outgoing founder Susan Choe. The new CEO...

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Will Zynga still try to go public?

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 8, 2011
2 min

In the game industry, all eyes will fall to Zynga and whether or not it will still go public in the face of the...

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Power to the people: Why corporate branding is bad for games

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 8, 2011
4 min

I can remember a time when the famous 20th Century Fox logo and fanfare meant only one thing to me: Star Wars. I don’t...

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As games underwhelm, Take-Two Interactive misses Wall Street targets

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 8, 2011
3 min

Take-Two Interactive reported solid quarterly earnings and revenues, but fell short of Wall Street’s expectations. It was a tough day to report earnings, as...

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