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Uncharted 3 sold 3.8M copies on its first day

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 10, 2011
1 min

Sony’s Uncharted 3 Drakes Fortune shipped 3.8 million on its first day of sales on Nov. 1, the company announced today. That puts the...

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Review: Skyrim is far greater than the sum of its parts

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 10, 2011
15 min

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the latest blockbuster hopeful from developer/publisher Bethesda Softworks. Following in the footsteps of the studio’s previous award-winning open-world...

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News Blips: Battlefield 4 rumor, new Xbox might arrive by holiday 2012, and Skyrim has infinite quests

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 10, 2011
1 min

Wednesday News Blips writer Jeff Grubb is indisposed today due to a hazardous lack of balls insurance. Thank goodness for redundancy! News Blips: Be...

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Korean and Chinese online gaming giants join in an alliance

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 10, 2011
1 min

Two major Asian online game companies are forming an alliance. South Korea’s Nexon (recently relocated to Japan) and China’s Perfect World are teaming up...

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EA executive confirms Battlefield 4 is in the works

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 9, 2011
1 min

Electronic Arts executiveFrank Gibeau has confirmed that Battlefield 4 is in the works. Gibeau, the president of the EA Games label within EA, made...

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Call of Duty Elite team still tackling startup problems

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 9, 2011
3 min

Activision Blizzard‘s Beachhead Studios is still tackling problems related to an overflow of registrations for the new Call of Duty Elite social network. [Update:...

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Adobe’s mobile Flash crash could benefit game streaming startup iSwifter

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 9, 2011
3 min

Adobe’s announcement that it is giving up on mobile Flash development is good for one particular startup: iSwifter. iSwifter was founded last year to...

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Newzoo: Free-to-play MMO spending increases 24 percent in U.S.

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 9, 2011
2 min

Americans are spending 24 percent more on free-to-play massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) this year than they did in 2010, according to a new...