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Hip Venture abandons virtual world to pivot into social games (exclusive)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 11, 2010
2 min

There’s a stampede going on. Publishers of virtual worlds are moving on to better things, or they’re perishing. Usually, that means they’re pivoting into...

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News Blips: Black Ops Bans, Halo Waypoint App, Battle.net Dial-In Authenticator, and More

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 11, 2010
2 min

Everyone knows people cheated and hacked in Modern Warfare 2 to become famous, but Treyarch hates our obsession with celebrities. News Blips: Treyarch representatives...

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Social game company Summerlight comes out of stealth (exclusive)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 10, 2010
2 min

Social game companies such as Zynga owe much of their success to Facebook. But they’ve learned the lesson in recent months that they should...

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ARM promises mobile phone graphics that won’t stink

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 10, 2010
2 min

In the age of the iPhone, smartphones have beautiful touchscreens. But try to play a 3D game on these phones and the graphics suddenly...

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MocoSpace says its new social game platform already has its first hit

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 10, 2010
2 min

MocoSpace recently launched an effort to create mobile games that run on web browsers. The Boston-based company is announcing today that its first social...

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November 10, 2010
5 min

If you’re reading this, you love video games. There’s no other way to explain why you’d click on a link that led you to...

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How Flower Demonstrates “Game Feel”

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 10, 2010
7 min

Game theory strives to answer some illusive and nebulous questions, or at least suggest possible explanations. What makes a game compelling? What makes a...