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Indie first-person shooter Receiver brings robots, mystery, and one complicated pistol

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 18, 2012
1 min

In seven days, developer Wolfire Games constructed a first-person shooter, titled Receiver, more interesting than most of the competition. How? By restoring the “power”...

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See live demos of Black Ops II, Halo 4, and more from Jimmy Fallon’s gaming week

Posted byby Mike Minotti
June 17, 2012
1 min

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon hosted a whole week of live demos for some of the biggest future releases in gaming. If you actually go to bed at a reasonable hour and missed all of these segments, you can watch them all online.

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Rocksmith or BandFuse? Which music game will you choose?

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 16, 2012
3 min

Learn guitar while playing video games. What's not to like? Turns out, it depends on how you like to play and learn.

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GamesBeat weekly roundup

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 16, 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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APB Reloaded: Turning a game that killed a studio into a 3-million-user success (interview)

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 15, 2012
6 min

APB Reloaded is proving that positive reviews and long-term success don't necessarily go hand-in-hand, as it flies in the face of criticism from the gaming press and continues to gain new users on a near day-to-day basis.

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Steam Workshop support added to Civilization V

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 15, 2012
1 min

Turn-based strategy game Civilization V heads into the Steam Workshop which enables authors and users of custom modifications to easily publish, browse, rate, and manage mods.

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Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition update fixes zombie pigmen, adds auto-save

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 15, 2012
2 min

Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition has gotten a solid patch fixing or adding a number of key features.

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Tony Hawk developer Neversoft answers the Call of Duty

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 15, 2012
1 min

The video game developer best known for its work on the Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero franchises is trading in its skateboards and Les Pauls for AK-47s.

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Our latest round of GamesBeat 2012 speakers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 15, 2012
3 min

VentureBeat is pleased to announce the latest speakers added to our roster for GamesBeat 2012 in San Francisco on July 10-11. We’re inviting 500 movers and...

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The9’s Chinese mobile game network reaches 10M users and 12M downloads (exclusive)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 15, 2012
2 min

Online game operator The9 has set up a mobile game publishing business in China. Today, the company is announcing it has had more than...

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