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Tower Madness HD: 3D Tower Defense for the iPad

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 1, 2010
3 min

Have you ever played a tower defense game? Yes? Great! I don't need to write that boring explanatory paragraph, and you don't need to buy this game because you can already download a hundred more just like it for free, right? Too harsh?

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Help Us Make Pixel Revolt Even Better

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 1, 2010
1 min

I've got good news and bad news this week for all of the Pixel Revolt listeners out there. First, the bad news: Episode 26...

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Christie vs. Zombies

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 1, 2010
4 min

Editor’s note: I’d imagine that most Bitmob readers take beating a game rather lightly. We start a game, and if we like it enough,...

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Image Metrics Acquires Character-FX to build realistic 3D game avatars

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 1, 2010
1 min

Image Metrics, a leading facial animation technology provider for video games and film (which recently animated over 100 characters in Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption),...

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Are We Gamers or Critics?

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 30, 2010
4 min

Editor's note: Dennis hits on a topic that I think our discussion lacks — a substantive conversation on the aesthetics of video games. While...

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Watch out for the impact of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm as beta test starts

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 30, 2010
2 min

An earthquake is coming for the video game business. Blizzard Entertainment is readying a new expansion pack for its market-dominating World of Warcraft online...

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Joystick Labs starts seed-stage venture fund for indie video games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 30, 2010
3 min

Joystick Labs has announced that it plans to boost the fortunes of indie game developers by starting a seed-stage venture fund and startup accelerator...

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Grand Theft Auto designer takes his mayhem online with All Points Bulletin

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 30, 2010
7 min

You can thank David Jones for all of the mayhem in video games. He is the father of the Grand Theft Auto series of...

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Oceanhouse Media bootstraps a sustainable business on the iPhone and iPad

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 30, 2010
4 min

Neophyte game developers have viewed the iPhone as a gold rush — an opportunity to get rich building games that don’t have to go...

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News Blips: Epic Mickey Tweaks, PS3 Profits, Microsoft on Slim Overheating, and More

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 30, 2010
2 min

Messing with childhood icons is one thing, but turning them into ferocious evildoers? That's actually pretty cool…. News Blips: Junction Studios axes the evil-looking...