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Can Nexon make social games more engaging? (video)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 12, 2011
3 min

Nexon has proven to be one of the fastest-growing online game companies of the past decade. The Korean company pioneered the microtransactions/free-to-play business model,...

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Duke Nukem Forever: Reverse Excitement

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 12, 2011
2 min

Image courtesy of Wired I don’t normally write about the current events in gaming and when you’re done reading this you’ll probably understand why....

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How Uncharted 2 got gameplay right (and how Uncharted 1 got it wrong)

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 12, 2011
4 min

Having recently gotten my hands on a PlayStation 3, I immediately sought out the much-trumpeted Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. I also procured a copy of Uncharted:...

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Quality content matters: Why restricting press passes to E3 2011 is a good thing

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 12, 2011
3 min

Many consider E3 to be the Mecca for gaming, and the annual trip to Los Angeles is the Hajj. That’s not quite hyperbole when...

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How “Star Wars: The Old Republic” will reenergize multiplayer gaming (video)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 12, 2011
2 min

With 12 million paying subscribers, World of WarCraft is the juggernaut of the massively multiplayer online game business. But Star Wars: The Old Republic...

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Bing Gordon’s love poem to the game industry, and to me (video and poem text)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 11, 2011
4 min

Bing Gordon accepted one of the video game industry’s highest honors last night: He became the latest recipient of a lifetime achievement award from...

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New and exciting ways to play Passage!

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 11, 2011
1 min

Maybe you remember Passage, the indie game sensation from 2007 that provided a touching meditation on life, death, and marriage using limited graphics and...