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News Blips: Shigeru Miyamoto Not Retiring, Virtual Drug Smuggling, Hideo Kojima’s Mysterious New Projects, and More

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 21, 2010
2 min

Aside from his assurances of sticking around, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto still possesses enough quirk to feasibly lash his house onto a bunch of balloons...

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Pixel Revolt 22: Broken Consoles, Developers as Celebrities, and How PAX Can Improve

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 21, 2010
2 min

Pixel Revolt is Bitmob's community-driven podcast, in which Derek Lavigne, Jeff Grubb, Brett Bates, and a special guest dive into the Mobfeed to discuss...

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Video Blips: Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Debut, Dead Rising 2, Lost Planet 2, and More

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 21, 2010
1 min

If you enjoy stylized realism and an ample amount of cel-shading, then this fighting game might strike your fancy. Oh, and it's Marvel vs....

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Warner Bros. acquires Lord of the Rings Online game publisher Turbine

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 21, 2010
2 min

The world of Middle Earth is no longer divided, at least when it comes to video game and film property rights. Warner Bros. has...

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Reed Hastings puts money in startup that mixes learning and games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 21, 2010
2 min

Reed Hastings, chief executive of Netflix, said his passion for education led him to the acquisition today of DreamBox Learning, an education game startup...

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Zynga’s Mark Pincus: Time for Facebook to choose

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 20, 2010
3 min

Facebook’s biggest partner had a suggestion for the adolescent social network: figure out what it wants to be when it grows up. “Facebook is...

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Five ways to make great social games from Zynga’s Mark Pincus

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 20, 2010
2 min

Mark Pincus, chief executive of Zynga, runs the most successful social game company on Facebook, with more than 252 million monthly active users for...

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Boring website? Step on up to the Heyzap Social Games Bar

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 20, 2010
2 min

Heyzap is announcing today that it is launching a “social games bar” that companies can integrate into their websites to add 30,000 games available...

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EA Playfish exec: the billion-dollar social game is achievable

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 20, 2010
2 min

Someone is going to create a social game that pulls in a billion dollars a year in short order, said Sebastien DeHalleux, vice president...

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Will motion controls kill traditional game controllers?

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 20, 2010
3 min

Before 1983, video games controls were clunky. Instead of thumbs and fingers to play, palms and entire fists were used to push, pull, and...