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Aurora Feint can turn iPhone and Android users into gaming buddies

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 1, 2010
2 min

Just a step ahead of Apple’s press conference today, Aurora Feint is announcing that its PlayTime platform will allow iPhone and Android gamers to...

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Educational game company DreamBox Learning schools a new CEO

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 1, 2010
2 min

DreamBox Learning, an educational game company with a novel adaptive learning technology, said today it has hired Jessie Woolley-Wilson as its new chief executive....

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Micro$oft? (Xbox Live Price Hike)

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 1, 2010
2 min

As I’m sure many of you are aware, Microsoft recently announced that it will be upping the price of Xbox Live Gold from $49.99 a year to $59.99 a year. Anytime the price of a service increases like this, the masses are bound to get a little upset.

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Keith Lee’s location gaming firm Booyah launches InCrowd on the iPhone (video)

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 1, 2010
2 min

Booyah launched today its InCrowd mobile social app for the iPhone. The app, one of the first to utilize Facebook Places, is the latest...

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Electronic Arts goes to war with Zynga in Facebook games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 31, 2010
2 min

Electronic Arts is putting the blitz on rival Zynga today as it launched Madden NFL Superstars on Facebook. This joint production of EA Sports...

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New XBox 360 controller changes with the flick of a wrist

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 31, 2010
1 min

Microsoft is clearly not above the complaints of gamers, as it unveiled a new controller for its XBox 360 that does away with the...

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TuneWiki hopes to juice music discovery with Lyric Legend iPhone game

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 31, 2010
3 min

TuneWiki is taking on a tough task of trying to be an innovator in music games, which has been dominated by titles such as...

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English-language “free-to-play” online games will rake in $2B by 2015

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 31, 2010
1 min

With the growing popularity of free-to-play games on the PC, a new study from game market analyst DFC Intelligence reports that the English language...