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News Blips: Skyrim most played game on Raptr, Vita allows multiple PSN accounts, and Dead Rising 3 rumors

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 9, 2011
2 min

I love how easily misconstrued developments such as Shigeru Miyamoto's "retirement" let the imagination run wild. I'm sure many of us pictured the guy...

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Red Robot Labs buys Supermono game studio

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 9, 2011
2 min

Red Robot Labs is a pretty young startup, founded earlier this. But the mobile game company raised $8.5 million in September and is using...

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Video Blips: Devil May Cry, Soul Calibur 5, Touch My Katamari, and more

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 9, 2011
1 min

I'd take more trips to Europe if I knew its surveillance systems included cameras borrowed from Jabba's palace. Video Blips: • Dante handles Devil...

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Halo Waypoint, ATLAS coming to mobile devices on Dec. 10

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 9, 2011
2 min

Right on the heels of the My Xbox LIVE release, Microsoft is bringing two Halo apps to smartphones. The first, Halo Waypoint, will function...

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Google nabs Square Enix and other game developers to do native client Chrome games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 9, 2011
2 min

Google announced today that its three-year effort to create a muscular browser technology that can run heavy duty apps such as console-like games is...

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Get the e-book of “Xbox: The Making of a Bad-Ass Machine”

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 9, 2011
1 min

To mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft’s Xbox, VentureBeat’s lead games writer Dean Takahashi wrote an epic two-part story on the history of the...

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Infinite Space And Its Infinite Inaccessibility

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 9, 2011
4 min

Take the customization for instance. The main draw of Infinite Space is acquiring starships and steadily upgrading them using the "Tetris" system. As in Valkyria Chronicles, there's only so much space on a given starship, and the parts tend to look like Tetris blocks.

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EA Sports Challenge launches on PS3, with $1 million prize fund up for grabs

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 8, 2011
2 min

Electronic Arts today launched its new e-sports video game tournament, exclusively on the Playstation 3. The EA Sports Challenge Series is designed to determine...

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Google Schemer is a deliciously diabolical attack against Foursquare

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 8, 2011
2 min

Oh Google, your aptly named new product Schemer doesn’t have us fooled. We know you’re calling it a new way to discover things to...

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Nintendo 3DS scores free Boingo wi-fi access in 42 airports

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 8, 2011
1 min

Nintendo and wireless service provider Boingo announced a new partnership today that gives 3DS owners free wi-fi access at 42 airports across North America....

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