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Games Doing Good (Again): Video Game Trains Nursing Students

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 19, 2010
4 min

Editor's note: Chas is really into games-as-training-sims, and so am I. Read more from him on the subject here and here. -Demian It's not...

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High Noon at the Co-op Corral: The Death of Local Multiplayer

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 19, 2010
3 min

Editor's note: Isaiah's account of the ongoing decline of local co-op is more mournful than cranky. What can I say? I really miss the...

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Booyah builds a new location app for Facebook Places in three weeks (video)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 19, 2010
1 min

Keith Lee, chief executive of location-based game company Booyah, said today that his team built its new Facebook Places location app — InCrowd —...

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Google’s Chrome Web Store likely coming in October, focusing on games

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 18, 2010
2 min

Back in May, we reported that Google was working on an app store for web applications, dubbed the Chrome Web Store. Now we have...

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The BioShock Backlash: Negative Responses to BioShock Infinite

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 18, 2010
3 min

Last week, after inviting speculation to a voicemail inbox and teasing us with a mysterious webpage, Irrational Games unveiled its next project: BioShock Infinite....

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Rounds debuts video chat for Facebook social gamers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 18, 2010
1 min

Israeli startup Rounds is launching a video chat platform for Facebook that will target social gamers and other heavy social network users. The idea...