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How Kabam is cracking the code for hardcore games like Glory of Rome on Facebook

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 2, 2011
10 min

I’ve been playing Kabam‘s Glory of Rome social game on Facebook for a few weeks. Based on that experience, I can see that Kabam...

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Reviews Spotlight: Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Dragon Age 2, and retro soccer

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 2, 2011
2 min

The Reviews Spotlight takes a look at a handful of reviews written by our community writers over the last week. Today, we start small...

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News Corp.’s IGN acquires UGO as it prepares for spin-off

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 2, 2011
1 min

News Corp. is acquiring Hearst’s UGO web site as it prepares to spin off its IGN.com game web site as a separate company. News...

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Did Sony do enough to satisfy angry PlayStation Network users? (poll)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 1, 2011
1 min

Sony executives have formally apologized to users who were affected by the hacker attack on the PlayStation Network, the online entertainment service that has...

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Sony says 10M credit card numbers may have been stolen

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 1, 2011
2 min

Sony executive Kaz Hirai said tonight that the number of exposed credit card numbers in the PlayStation Network hacker attack was about 10 million....

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Sony executive Kaz Hirai apologizes for PlayStation Network outage

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 1, 2011
5 min

Sony executive Kaz Hirai apologized to gamers around the world today in a press event in the wake of the 10-day outage of the...

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3 things I’d like to see in Battlefield 3

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 1, 2011
3 min

Battlefield 3, hailed as EA's next salvo against Activision's entrenched Call of Duty franchise, is a stark proclamation of taking things to the next...