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One Of The Best Games You Never Played… Startopia

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 30, 2010
10 min

Whilst it's true that the opening movie parodies 2001: A Space Odyssey and therefore only actually works as humour if you've seen the film (which, at the time, I had not… meaning the jokes sailed over my head), Startopia is a game that rewards the open mind.

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Investment banker predicts big investments, mergers in game market

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 29, 2010
5 min

Tim Merel sees lots of action coming in the video game industry as it expands to become one of the biggest entertainment industries in...

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Jambool hires marketing veteran from Electronic Arts for social app payments platform

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 29, 2010
2 min

Game veterans are following the gold, leaving traditional game companies for the many upstarts that have sprung up around the social networking economy. Today,...

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Brett Sperry’s Jet Set Games to launch Highborn game for iPhone, iPad

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 29, 2010
2 min

Jet Set Games, a new startup led by the co-creator of the original Command & Conquer game series, announced today its it will launch...

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Review: Battlefield Bad Company 2 almost stands up to Modern Warfare 2

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 29, 2010
7 min

I took a break from Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer combat to give Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for the Xbox 360 a...

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The Fantastic, Handmade Mother 3 Figurines from Fangamer (PAX East 2010)

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 29, 2010
2 min

I’m embarrassed to admit I almost overlooked the glass case brimming with videogame figurines. Besides, I had attended other games shows where cases containing mountains of game figurines would take up a sizable lot of the expo floor. I’d seen figurines before. Or at least I thought so.

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Hit or Miss Weekend Recap – Mar. 28, 2010

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 29, 2010
4 min

This week on Hit or Miss: Nintendo finds yet another way to baffle the industry with its latest hardware announcement; Sony disapproves of Nintendo’s...