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Pokemon the 3DS: The light after Black and White

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 16, 2010
3 min

I hate to break it to you, but Pokémon Black and White aren’t going to be anything that special. In fact, I'm not even...

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Dear Rare, What The F*#$ Happen? By Paul Mullin: Dictated but Not Read

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 16, 2010
1 min

This weekend I had the pleasure of completing 100% in Banjo-Kazooie on xbox live. This game was phenomenal!! Level design, fun factor, this thing...

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Fastest-growing game in history: Zynga’s CityVille hits 26M players in 12 days

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 15, 2010
4 min

Zynga‘s CityVille has become the fastest-growing game in history. And based on an interview with a key Zynga executive, that isn’t an accident. The...

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Pocket Gems fills its pockets with $5M from Sequoia for iPhone games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 15, 2010
2 min

Pocket Gems has raised $5 million in funding from Sequoia Capital and other Silicon Valley luminaries as it competes in the crowded iPhone game...

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Gaikai isn’t concerned about OnLive’s fundamental patent on cloud gaming

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 15, 2010
2 min

OnLive announced yesterday that it had received a fundamental patent on cloud gaming, where users can play high-end games on low-end computers by utilizing...

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DeNA and Ngmoco will launch global mobile social network, starting with Samsung phones

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 15, 2010
2 min

Japan’s DeNA and its Ngmoco subsidiary plan to launch a worldwide mobile social gaming network starting in April. As part of that effort, Samsung‘s...