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Tabula Digita raises round for educational games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 4, 2008
1 min

Tabula Digita has raised $6 million in a second round of funding to make educational games. The New York-based game company is the latest...

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Intel to Nvidia: It’s time for you to die, Mr. Bond

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 4, 2008
2 min

Intel is in that part of the James Bond movie where the bad guy talks about how he’s going to eliminate Bond, which in...

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Q&A: Microsoft game exec John Schappert talks about Xbox Live, Netflix deal, and Blu-ray

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 31, 2008
8 min

John Schappert is the corporate vice president who runs pieces of Microsoft’s game business such as its Xbox Live online gaming service. One of...

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Ngmoco raises Kleiner Perkins funding for iPhone games, puts Bing Gordon on board

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 31, 2008
2 min

iPhone games publisher Ngmoco has raised a first round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Kleiner Perkins partner Bing Gordon, the...

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Google testing “AdSense for Games” in bid to shake up in-game advertising

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 30, 2008
3 min

Google is the sleeping giant when it comes to advertising in video games. While the company dominates search advertising, it has yet to make...

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Placementspot.com creates matchmaking service for in-game ads

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 30, 2008
2 min

The market for in-game advertising — or piping ads into games via Internet connections on the fly — is nascent. But it’s starting to...

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Nintendo knocks it out of the park again in second quarter console battle

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 30, 2008
1 min

Nintendo reported a stellar second-quarter again. Now it is clearly running away with the console war in terms of units sold and profits made....

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Nintendo sales chief Cammie Dunaway on the quest for a broader game market

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 28, 2008
9 min

Hardcore gamers threw a fit when Nintendo didn’t talk much about hardcore games at its E3 press conference in Los Angeles. But the company...

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Heatwave Interactive raises round to become a games incubator

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 28, 2008
2 min

Heatwave Interactive has quietly built a studio to incubate video games and other media. It’s the brainchild of Antony Castoro, a seasoned game developer...