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Game pioneer Will Wright’s personal gaming startup falls apart in litigation (exclusive)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 3, 2012
5 min

Game pioneer and SimCity creator Will Wright was enthusiastic about pioneering a new concept in games dubbed “personal gaming,” where developers use mobile and...

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EA’s cute The Act romance game exploits iPad’s touchscreen for unique gameplay

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 2, 2012
2 min

Electronic Arts is unveiling a cute romantic game today called The Act that has a unique emotion-driven gameplay that takes advantage of the iPad's touch controls.

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GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 1, 2012
2 min

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

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Battlefield 3 gets numerous tweaks and fixes, just in time for new $50 “Premium” service

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 31, 2012
5 min

Good news for ongoing Battlefield 3 players: a massive title update will be released on June 4. Like previous title updates, the changelog is quite extensive, and addresses a number of issues players have been debating lately.

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FIFA 13 makes key adjustments for a more-realistic soccer game

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 30, 2012
2 min

Developer EA Canada is making some subtle, yet key, gameplay changes to the FIFA formula to give its core fans a more-realistic soccer experience.

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4 celebrities (other than Curt Schilling) whose games failed

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
May 29, 2012
4 min

Former baseball pitcher Curt Schilling's 38 Studios may have just recently collapsed, but he isn't the first celebrity from another profession to have difficulty making video games. Here's a list that includes two world-class directors, a Hall of Fame NBA star, and Vin Diesel.

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BioWare lays off staff on Star Wars: The Old Republic, EA to shift employees [updated]

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 22, 2012
2 min

BioWare Austin, a division of Electronic Arts (EA), is cutting staff.

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Origin offers 90 days of free distribution to successful Kickstarter games

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 18, 2012
1 min

By taking advantage of EA's generosity, crowd-funded games will have a chance to reach Origin's growing audience of more than 12 million users worldwide.

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GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 18, 2012
2 min

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

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2 min

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The EA-Activision legal feud takes unexpected twists

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 18, 2012
3 min

The lawsuit over the breakup of Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard has been a proxy war between two industry giants. But this week, the legal case...

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