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Despite a couple of bad moves, Activision Blizzard CEO says he runs a kindly mothership for game developers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 18, 2010
4 min

Bobby Kotick, chief executive of Activision Blizzard, runs the biggest independent video game development company in the world. Some people have taken potshots at...

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OnLive shows live demo of its games on demand service

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 18, 2010
2 min

Steve Perlman has been talking about OnLive, his potentially disruptive games on demand service for about a year. Today, at the Dice Summit in...

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Beyond Facebook: How social games terrify traditional game makers but will lead us to gaming everywhere

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 18, 2010
3 min

Facebook is truly shaking up the traditional video game market and the responses from the industry range from panic to visions of a new...

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FarmVille, Mafia Wars maker Zynga is worth $3 billion, says trading site SharesPost

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 18, 2010
1 min

Games company Zynga, developer of the runaway hits Farmville and Mafia Wars, hasn’t filed for an IPO yet. So we don’t know for sure...

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Latest GamesBeat@GDC speakers: Google Android, Crowdstar, Niko Partners

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 18, 2010
2 min

We’re moving right along lining up some cool speakers for our upcoming GamesBeat@GDC executive game conference. The event is set for March 10 in...

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Intergi lets advertisers target big game audiences on the web

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 18, 2010
1 min

Intergi has quietly grown its network of online game developers and publishers to 60 million unique monthly visitors. And today it is adding another...

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Moonshoot raises $6.6M to uses games to teach kids to learn English

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 18, 2010
2 min

Learning a foreign language doesn’t have to be dull. That’s the idea behind Moonshoot, a startup that is announcing today it has raised $6.6...

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HeroEngine automates the building of online worlds (video)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 18, 2010
2 min

Simutronics has been making games since 1987. But in 2004, one of the company’s teams embarked on an ambitious massively multiplayer game. But developers...

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Stephen King meets Xbox 360: a hands-on preview of psychological thriller game Alan Wake

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 18, 2010
7 min

How’s this for a psychological thriller? You work on a video game for six years. It’s a brand new story, with a plot that...

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Cherry Deals lets you buy real goods to get virtual ones

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 18, 2010
2 min

Virtual goods, whether you’re buying raspberries for your Farmville or any number of equivalent purchases, are a gigantic and growing source of revenue for...

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