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CityVille could surpass FarmVille’s 56M users in a few days

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 20, 2010
3 min

After just 18 days, Zynga’s CityVille social game has soared to more than 47.9 million monthly active users. At its current growth rate, CityVille...

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Reviews Spotlight: Epic Mickey, Unbound Saga, and the slippery slope of nostalgia

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 20, 2010
2 min

Developers beware: You won't receive any compliments in this week's edition of the Reviews Spotlight. After forcing themselves through uninspired remakes and reimaginings, Bitmob...

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Call of Duty Black Ops map pack hits Xbox Live on Feb. 1

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 20, 2010
2 min

There’s no Peace on Earth for this holiday season for hardcore gamers who are busy playing the multiplayer version of the Call of Duty...

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Microsoft says “Not!” to Kinect sex game

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 19, 2010
2 min

Microsoft got excited when hackers started coming up with novel uses for its Kinect motion control system which debuted for the Xbox 360 in...

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Making the Tython run in Star Wars: The Old Republic

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 19, 2010
3 min

Sure, being able to call upon the Force at will and twirl my lightsaber aplenty is always appealing, but brokering tenuous peace agreements – which always seem to break down during the negotiation phase – and fetching foolhardy novitiates isn't my idea of being a hardened warrior of the Jedi order.

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Week in review: The top 10 video games of the year

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 18, 2010
2 min

Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: VentureBeat’s top ten...

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Do in-game achievements abuse story and characterisation?

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 18, 2010
5 min

Virtually every game you can purchase on Steam has a bunch of Achievements you can unlock, and a large part of the Xbox Live infrastructure is built upon their completion. Gamers compare scores and focus on completely finishing a game up to the 1,000 point mark.

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What defines a games journalist?

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 18, 2010
5 min

Last week I profiled Gerard Williams, aka The HipHopGamer, a member of the amateur video-game media who has garnered an appreciable amount of press...