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News Blips: Activision Cans Infinity Ward Heads, New Halo: Reach Multiplayer Details Soon, King’s Quest Fan Project Shut Down, and More

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 3, 2010
2 min

If the recent events are any indication, it's not a good time to be Activision right now — corporate upheavals such as this tend...

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Pixel Revolt: Episode 19 Community Question Reminder

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 3, 2010
1 min

Hello again, Bitmobbers! After finally remembering to drop contact details during the podcast last week, we've gotten a few responses from you. But we're...

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Finish the Fight at Bitmob’s Halo 2 Game Night

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 3, 2010
1 min

In an attempt to "provide the greatest benefit to the Xbox LIVE community," Microsoft will pull the plug on XBL support for original Xbox...

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Video Blips: Bad Company 2, Australian Video Game Violence, Starcraft 2 Voice Banter, and More

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 3, 2010
1 min

Every battle-hardened soldier should have the option of piping strangely fitting orchestral music into their radio sets. Video Blips: • EA and DICE's launch...

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A Letter To Nintendo: “Quit Playing Games With My Heart”

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 3, 2010
3 min

I am very resistant to change. I don't start wearing sweaters and boots until the snow is melting. When I saw that Microsoft and Sony were soldiering on with this bigger, better and more bad-ass approach with their current consoles, Nintendo gave me hope.

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With studio in turmoil, Activision Blizzard forms new Call of Duty division

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 3, 2010
2 min

Activision Blizzard formed a new division to run its Call of Duty game franchise following the exit of two studio co-founders who pioneered what...

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Time spent playing video games keeps going up

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 2, 2010
1 min

While video game sales dropped 8 percent in 2009, the time spent playing online video games has risen 10 percent. Market researcher NPD Group...

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Nintendo isn’t worried about Apple, and you won’t see Mario on Facebook

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 2, 2010
7 min

Should Nintendo be afraid of Apple? Nah, says Nintendo’s top U.S. marketing and sales executive. Apple has seen phenomenal growth in sales of its...

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Our special sessions at GamesBeat@GDC

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 2, 2010
2 min

We’d like to thank our sponsors of GamesBeat@GDC. Here are some of the informative and engaging sessions that they will hold alongside our own...

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White House cyber security chief says cyber threat is biggest economic risk

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 2, 2010
2 min

At the RSA security conference in San Francisco today, White House cybersecurity chief Howard Schmidt said that the biggest economic threat facing the nation...