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Game industry executives react to OnLive video games on demand announcement

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 31, 2009
6 min

Steve Perlman’s OnLive video games on demand service was the talk of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last week. Every person I...

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Intel’s Larrabee graphics processor draws a crowd at Game Developers Conference

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 27, 2009
3 min

Intel will be launching its Larrabee chip next year — a chip that will live or die depending on how popular it is with...

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Nvidia fires back at Intel with chip set countersuit

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 26, 2009
3 min

Nvidia filed a countersuit against Intel today, alleging that Intel broke contract when it refused to grant Nvidia a chip set license on future...

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Reconstructing the fall of game developer Flagship Studios

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 26, 2009
3 min

Flagship Studios was one of the most ambitious game development studios started in recent years. It launched a critically acclaimed game, Hellgate: London, in...

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Awards night at the Game Developers Conference

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 26, 2009
3 min

Thousands of people packed the giant auditorium at the Moscone Center’s Esplanade Ballroom in San Francisco tonight for the annual Independent Games Festival and...

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Thanks for coming to GamesBeat

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 26, 2009
1 min

We’d like to thank everyone for coming to GamesBeat 09, our inaugural games conference held Tuesday in San Francisco. The event drew hundreds of...

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How Nintendo succeeded in selling 50 million Wiis

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 25, 2009
2 min

Satoru Iwata, chief executive of Nintendo, said today that the Wii game console has now sold more than 50 million units, making it the...

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World Golf Tour scores deal with the USGA for virtual golf tour

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 25, 2009
1 min

World Golf Tour is announcing today it has struck a deal with the United States Golf Association to host the first Virtual U.S. Open...

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Razer CEO on the future of game user interfaces

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 25, 2009
1 min

Game hardware maker Razer has been around for more than a decade but has built a big gaming peripherals business in the past four...

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GamesBeat start-up competition winner: Exponential Entertainment seeks to combine games and movies on the web

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 25, 2009
3 min

Here’s some breaking news. The winner of the GamesBeat 09 Who’s Got Game? start-up competition is Exponential Entertainment. They won both the judges award...